Ning Qingyuan took two steps with a smile on his face while holding the watermelon in his arms. He vaguely heard some sound. After taking a few more steps, the watermelon in his arms made a cracking sound and seemed to be about to break.
"Don't move, second brother."
Both the brother and sister heard the sound, the smiles on their faces froze, and they slowly moved their heads and shifted their eyes to the watermelon.
Ning Qingyuan accidentally stepped on the watermelon vine and hit his foot, causing his foot to slide down two steps. The watermelon in his hand shook, and suddenly there was another cracking sound, and the watermelon in his arms cracked with a bang.
"Bang——"
"Brother, be careful, hurry——"
Before Ning Xiyue could finish her words, there was another sound and she could only quickly step back a few steps.
At the same time, a look of shock appeared on her face, her pupils dilated, and her mouth opened wider than an egg. She looked at the watermelon in disbelief as it sprayed all over her second brother's body like diarrhea.
Except for most of the rind of the watermelon which was still in the second brother's hand, the rest was hanging on his body.
The black and numerous watermelon seeds and the watermelon juice that had become soup covered the second brother's entire face. Oh no, no part of his body was spared.
Then she saw a fat mouse with watermelon juice all over its body, holding a piece of watermelon in its hand and chewing it, looking blankly at the drastically changed environment around it. When it looked into Ning Xiyue's eyes, it seemed to know the environment it was in.
It jumped off Ning Qingyuan's head in a panic and ran away. While running, it did not forget to grab another piece of watermelon pulp from its second brother and held it in its mouth.
Before Ning Xiyue could take any action, the mouse had disappeared in a flash. No one knew how it managed to run so fast while twisting its fat body.
Reason prevented her from laughing. This was her second brother, and he looked so miserable. But after seeing the mouse's actions, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.
“Hahaha~”
"Little sister, don't laugh."
Ning Qingyuan threw the melon peel in his hand to the ground angrily, and had no energy to care about the mouse that ran away like a gust of wind.
He clenched his fists and shook his body, and the light pink watermelon juice and black watermelon seeds hanging on his body slid down to the ground as he shook.
"Sorry, I just couldn't help it, brother."
Ning Xiyue covered her mouth and tried her best not to laugh, suppressing the sound that was about to burst out of her throat, otherwise her second brother would turn against all relatives, and the friendly and harmonious brother-sister relationship would be torn apart like this watermelon.
Finally suppressing her smile, Ning Xiyue cleared her throat and offered a sincere suggestion from the bottom of her heart:
"Brother, why don't we go back to the bathing area and clean up? I'll fetch you the dried water, and then have Yu Zhiyu go to your room and pack a set of clean clothes and bring them over to you?"
"I'll go back later. I don't believe that I can't pick a good watermelon today. I have to go pick another one."
Ning Qingyuan turned around and went into the watermelon field to pick the watermelons again. He turned over the side of each watermelon that was close to the ground and looked at it. At the same time, he looked at the direction where the mouse had just escaped and kept muttering to himself.
"We can't let those big rats get away with it. We have to find something to trap the watermelon. They've stole the watermelon and it's on us. Look at their bodies, they must have grown from eating watermelons. The watermelon is as big as that one, so it must weigh more than ten pounds.
My goodness, there's a big hole underneath that a mouse has eaten, and they've even gone in to live and eat. I'm so pissed! Don't let me catch them, or I'll roast them and give them to Xiao Hui and his family to eat as meat."
"Calm down, calm down, second brother, calm down. This means that our watermelons should be ripe. The mice have all been eyeing them. That watermelon should be the most delicious one. Let's choose the biggest watermelon in the field this time. It is almost certain to be ripe. We can talk about the watermelon later. You have to go take a shower. It's really, um -" too sour and smelly.
A foul sour smell became stronger as it was exposed to the sun.
Ning Xiyue didn't say it out loud, but used the gesture of fanning herself with her hands and a wrinkled face to remind her second brother.
"Is it that obvious? Why can't I smell it?" Ning Qingyuan pulled the clothes and sniffed himself, then sniffed his arm, his nose wrinkled: "Oh no, I've been pickled."
Ning Xiyue couldn't help laughing and couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Pfft, hahaha~"
Is the second brother some kind of funny guy? Such a serious funny guy.
In the end, he didn't pick the watermelon, nor did he continue to check on the other watermelons. Ning Qingyuan ran quickly towards the bathroom with the stench of rotten watermelon on his body, shouting as he ran:
"Little sister, please ask Yu Zhiyu to get me some clean clothes. They're hanging on the kang. I'll fetch some water myself. Oh, and after I take a shower, we can pick out some watermelons together. I don't believe in anything today."
"Okay, got it. Go quickly. The stench is getting worse."
Ning Xiyue waved Erkang's hand, and without stopping in the field, he stood up and walked towards the row of houses for male educated youth in front of the educated youth compound.
He found Yu Zhiyu and conveyed his second brother's words to him, then went back to the kitchen and sat waiting for his second brother to come back.
Ning Qingyuan repeatedly applied soap to his body and rinsed it, especially the top of his head where rats had been. He even used soap nuts to wash it. After coming out of the shower, the sour smell on his body was finally gone.
He walked towards the kitchen with his clothes and pants in disgust.
Ning Xiyue, who was sitting in the kitchen drinking water, moved her nose slightly and smelled a sour odor. She knew that her second brother was back. She put down the cup of water and walked to the door, looking at Ning Qingyuan who was walking over with a playful smile.
"Brother, I'm afraid you need to soak your clothes in water for a few hours before washing them. The watermelon juice has soaked through them."
"Well, it does need to be soaked."
Ning Qingyuan nodded, thinking that everything made sense. He took the wooden basin for washing clothes and started soaking his clothes. He also took out the soap and scraped some soap foam into the basin.
Ning Xiyue wanted to laugh when she saw it. It was so funny that even she herself disliked the stench.
"Sister, why did the watermelon burst? Why is there so much water inside? The water is so smelly, it got all over me. And the damn rat even stood on my head and ate it. Humph."
Ning Qingyuan squatted beside the wooden basin, still thinking about the watermelon that was spilled all over him and the "little thief" who stole the watermelon.
Ning Xiyue thought about it and felt that it was most likely because of the heavy rain last night, and the main culprit was also to blame.
I guess the rainwater flowed into the watermelon through the holes gnawed by the mice, and when the watermelon juice accumulated in the holes gnawed by the mice mixed with the two, the water content became more. In addition, it was sunny today, so the water inside fermented and spoiled when exposed to the sun.
It was just a coincidence that she was chosen by her brother. The watermelon, which was on the verge of collapse, exploded on the spot after her second brother slapped it a few times, picked it up and shook it.
It was really unexpected that the mouse was squatting inside and stealing food.
To sum up, her second brother is "lucky".
She will laugh for the rest of her life about her second brother's accident and wants to share it with her parents.
I resisted the urge to laugh again and took a sip of water.
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