Chapter 25: Growing Overnight
"You ask me what happened? It's because of that idiot Ma Lao San. He planted bamboo shoots in their backyard."
"No way, he even dares to disobey the words of the Mountain God?" Wu Zhuo was surprised.
In this whole village, who hasn’t had their life saved by the Mountain God?
How could Ma Laosan actually do such a thing?
The village chief Wumu said angrily: "The bamboo shoots are planted in their backyard. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."
He just felt that Ma Laosan was not honest, so he made a special effort to watch each household when they came to plant bamboo shoots. Sure enough, when it was almost dark, every household had come to plant bamboo shoots, but Ma Laosan's family was nowhere to be seen.
Only then did he arrive at the door.
Who would have thought that Ma Laosan's family was so brave.
Wu Zhuo also didn't expect that, after seeing that Yu Zhongdou was so "dissenting" and had been pestering Gao Guangliang all day long, he didn't expect that the other person would be "obedient" now, and this Ma Laosan would jump out again.
Is he confused?
He knew the power of Lord Mountain God, so how could he think his father was joking?
10 sweet potatoes, 10 potatoes, 20 corns, 2 chestnuts, 1 persimmon tree, and 1 bamboo shoot are not a large amount and can be finished in one afternoon. But thinking that this thing can grow overnight, many people can't sleep. They either move benches to stay in the backyard, or run to their own fields to watch, just to see how they grow overnight.
The same is true for Yu Zhongdou.
Last time he missed the growth of Mr. Kiwi, and this time he would definitely not miss the growth of Mr. Chestnut and Mr. Persimmon (the sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in the field were guarded by his parents and cousin, and the bamboo shoots were also guarded by other people in the village). He and his aunt, cousin, cousin-in-law and nephew were responsible for guarding the house.
My three-year-old niece Xu Huahua was yawning and couldn't hold it back. She fell asleep in her cousin's arms soon after the moon rose.
The cousin's wife didn't stay any longer and took her niece back to the room.
Cousin Xu Runiang poked Yu Zhongdou's arm, looked at the land that was completely motionless, and said, "Hey, when do you think it will grow?"
"How should I know? I haven't seen it."
Xu Runiang yawned.
Yu Zhongdou: "If you are sleepy, go back to your room and sleep. It can't run away anyway. It will be the same tomorrow."
Xu Runiang rolled her eyes at him and said, "Then why don't you go back to the house?"
“I just want to see how it grows.”
"You want to watch it, but I don't want to watch it?"
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The two of them were bickering in boredom, and when Xu's mother saw it, she couldn't help laughing in her heart.
Before, she was worried about the rampant monsters and she didn't know how long these two children could live. Unexpectedly, they grew up in the blink of an eye and were ready to meet each other.
In a few years, she will have grandchildren to hug.
She was happy for a short while before she started to worry about the man who had returned to the village alone. She didn't know how he was doing now.
Suddenly, Xu's mother heard the children exclaiming: "It's grown! It's grown!"
What's growing?
When Xu's mother came to her senses, she saw the soft ground shaking slightly, as if it was stretched open by something.
After a while, a tiny sprout popped out.
It has two tender green leaves on its head, trembling and trying to grow, four, five, six...
The rhizomes grow longer and thicker, and the leaves grow denser and denser, and more and more numerous.
In the blink of an eye, it was taller than a human.
The three people sitting on the bench looked up and watched two chestnut trees and a persimmon tree grow taller than them.
Compared with the chestnut tree, the persimmon tree was obviously able to grow faster. It had grown higher than the roof and its body had expanded, like a giant umbrella, propped up above their heads.
After a while, small and exquisite flower buds grew among the green leaves. They grew in clusters in the leaf axils. Each flower had petals as thin as cicada wings, delicate and soft.
The stamens extend from the center of the petals, and the slender filaments are topped with light yellow anthers. When the breeze blows, the anthers sway gently, as if showing the world the wonder of life.
There was also a faint sweet fragrance in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the petals fell again, leaving only the small green fruit embryos.
These young fruits are the size of mung beans, round and cute. Under the care of the calyx, they quietly begin their growth journey.
At first, they were so green and tender that they almost blended in with the surrounding branches and leaves. If they hadn't watched them grow, they would have almost missed them.
After a while, they gradually grew bigger, transitioning from light green to dark green, and then turned slightly yellow. The yellow gradually deepened and turned into a beautiful orange-red color.
The skin of the persimmon also becomes smooth and shiny, like a carefully polished jade.
Yu Zhongdou and the other two widened their eyes. They never expected that persimmons would look like this. !
Isn’t this so beautiful? !
The fragrance of flowers is still lingering in my nose, but the fruits are already in front of me. It's really a dream.
A gust of wind blew, and the fruits swaying on the branches also swayed slightly, like a group of naughty children.
Compared with it, the much shorter chestnut appears much more low-key.
Its sprouting flower buds are covered with brown scales, and only reveal a light yellow color when they gradually bloom. Countless male flowers hang down from the inflorescence axis like furry yellow silk threads, swaying gently in the breeze.
The female flowers grow at the base of the male flowers. They are green with fine hairs. The stigmas are slender and split into filaments, like delicate little brushes.
After pollination, the ovary of the female flower begins to develop, and the small green bumps are attached to the branches, which are inconspicuous.
Even as they grew larger over time, they faded into hard, thorny shells that were green at first, then dark green, and then brown.
Yu Zhongdou looked at it, then looked at the persimmon, and said: No matter how I look at it, persimmons seem more appetizing!
"Cousin, do you want to try it?"
Yu Zhongdou swallowed and asked Xu Runiang.
Xu Runiang hesitated: "Do you know how to eat this?"
"I don't know, but it looks like we can eat it after peeling it or washing it. If we pick it, we'll know," Yu Zhongdou said as a matter of course. "It was originally planted for us to eat."
Xu's mother glared at him, "Isn't that possible? Didn't your village chief say that the first batch of fruits should be used to offer sacrifices to the mountain god?"
Yu Zhongdou blinked: "The village chief said that we should use the first batch of the harvest and the best fruits to sacrifice to the mountain god. Can't we just not pick the best ones?"
Well, Xu's mother felt that this statement made sense and seemed irrefutable.
I could only curse the stupid kid in my heart, clasp my hands together, and mutter to the mountain god to forgive my sins, saying something like the child is ignorant.
As he was talking, Yu Zhongdou had already climbed up the tree and picked out three that were not the largest in size but looked very bright and red in color.
After he took them down, he handed two to his aunt and cousin, picked up the remaining one, wiped it on his clothes, brought it to his mouth, and took a tentative bite.
How to say it?
When you take a bite, you can taste a slight astringency, followed by the aroma of soft and juicy flesh. Yu Zhongdou's eyes lit up immediately: "It's sweet! I think it's better to eat it with the skin on, but the skin is a bit astringent. You can peel it before eating."
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