Qin Rou really planted bitter melons at home, but not in the yard, but on the second floor. For safety reasons, crops like bitter melons should be kept away from other plants to avoid passing the bitter taste to other fruits and vegetables.
Although many people say that bitter melons affect other plants is pseudoscience, but... cucumbers and loofahs planted with bitter melons are often likely to taste bitter. Qin Rou once bought loofahs that tasted as bitter as bitter melons in the vegetable market.
"I hope these two thriving bitter melon seedlings can bear fruit successfully." Qin Rou left the two strongest bitter melon seedlings, waiting for them to grow and bear fruit.
"Auntie, are you really going to plant bitter melons?" Xia Mingxi looked at Qin Rou with a bitter face, and he didn't understand Qin Rou's behavior of planting bitter melons.
Xixi is very afraid of bitterness, and he doesn't like to eat radishes. Last time when there was a bitter melon feast, he went to Chen Jingyi's house to avoid the disaster.
After the Chen family built a new house, Xia Mingxi often went to live in the Chen family. He mainly wanted to play with Chen Jingyi, who was the same age as him. In addition, there were many children in the village, and it was too happy to go to the mountains to play together. Secondly, it was to escape from the two annoying little cousins.
"Well, take Zhou Zhou and Dumpling to plant bitter melon." Qin Rou nodded. The bitter melon seedlings at home were honestly raised by her and the two little kids, and then transplanted into pots. Maybe because they were still thin and fragile seedlings, Zhou Zhou and Dumpling brothers did not think that these little seedlings were any threat.
Mom said that if we grow bitter melons at home, we don't have to exchange radishes with Uncle Zhang next door.
In fact, bitter melon with meat is quite delicious. The kids can only eat the meat inside the bitter melon and give the bitter melon skin to their brother and dad.
Little Dumpling said, "Brother Xixi, are you afraid of bitter melon?"
Brother Zhouzhou said, "Mom said that when you grow up, you won't be afraid of bitter melon and radish."
Dumpling said, "Brother Xixi should eat more bitter melon."
Zhouzhou said, "Give all the bitter melon to your brother. Mom said that we should give up the pear."
Dumpling nodded, Zhouzhou went to hug his brother, and said, "Brother eats bitter melon, and brother eats meat..."
Dumpling held his face and said happily, "It's great to have a brother."
Qin Rou was speechless and choked, thinking that only at this time would their little Dumpling be happy to be a younger brother.
A silly and innocent brother.
"The teacher said that this is what a good brother should do. He should love his younger brother, brother Xixi, don't you agree?" Brother Zhouzhou couldn't do the innocent gesture of holding his face. Although he was as short and stout as his younger brother, he would reach out to touch his head, looking like a good brother who loved his younger brother.
Brothers are really friendly
and respectful to each other. However, Zhouzhou had his own calculations in his mind. Dumpling had a brother, and he also had an older cousin. Moreover, Dumpling wanted to be a brother. When necessary, Zhouzhou could also become a younger brother. With two brothers, he could bend and stretch.
"Brother Zhouzhou is so nice. Brother Xixi, you are also a good brother, right?"
At a young age, these two kids have already learned moral kidnapping.
Like their father, they can burst out with different wisdom and eloquence under the threat of bitter melon.
Xia Mingxi: "..."
His face wrinkled like a bitter melon.
"Your brother Jingyi is also a good brother, let him come and eat the bitter melons you planted." It is better to have a good friend than to be poor. Pulling one more person into the water will bring more joy.
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling nodded.
They began to look forward to the bitter melon seedlings growing up at home.
As the bitter melon seedlings grew, their small lawn began to grow a lot of grass. Qin Rou asked the soldiers in the family compound to help mow the grass. Mowing the grass was a skill that was easy for the soldiers. After mowing the grass, the two little kids played on the lawn again.
"Mom, play ball."
There is a basketball court and table tennis table in the family yard. Zhou Zhou and Dumpling saw other older kids playing ball, and they were jealous. Lu Yan bought them a football and a basketball. They didn't like football, but they liked basketball.
So when they were at home, Qin Rou saw these two little kids playing basketball on the lawn.
Qin Rou: "... Be careful in the yard, don't break the flowers and plants that mom planted."
Fortunately, basketball is not suitable for kicking, and the two little guys playing basketball in the yard is still a gentle scene.
When Lu Yan came home, he would take the two kids to play basketball on the walkway outside the yard. If the weather was good or cloudy, he would just take the two kids to the basketball court.
The three of them would always come back sweaty after playing.
"Don't walk behind adults when they are playing table tennis or badminton. Remember to walk around them and be careful not to get bumped by them..." Qin Rou would always give them a warning when they went to play on the court.
It is usually the most dangerous when you see people playing table tennis or badminton. You are afraid that they will step back to catch the ball, and if they bump into a passing child, it is easy to cause an accident.
A while ago, a five-year-old child in the family compound was bumped by a table tennis player. His chin hit the ground, and his mouth was full of blood, which scared everyone around him.
"Lu Yan, watch the kids."
"Don't worry."
Xia Mingxi didn't play ball with them. First of all, Xixi, a primary school student, didn't coordinate his hands and feet well and couldn't shoot into the basket. In addition, it was boring to play ball with his two short cousins. In addition, as a child of his age, he liked hide-and-seek and tag more.
Recently, he played a sandbag throwing game with some children. The rules of the sandbag throwing game are that two people stand facing each other and throw sandbags at each other. The other group of children stand between the two people to avoid the sandbags. If anyone is hit, they are out. If they catch the sandbag, they have another chance to save their lives.
The game of throwing sandbags is very popular in schools and at home. You can often see sandbags flying in the sky. Some children aged seven or eight, whose parents don't make sandbags for them, find ways to get scraps of cloth and sew sandbags by themselves.
Some who don't have the conditions to make sandbags get waste paper, crumple it into a big ball, and then stick it with tape to make a simple "sandbag".
Children's games are like fashion trends, which are repeated over and over again. When they get tired of playing hide-and-seek, they play sandbag throwing. When they get tired of sandbag throwing, they play stone throwing. Especially when stone throwing became popular, all kinds of children gathered in the corner to "play with stones."
Qin Rou also played stone throwing games with others when she was a child. When she saw other children playing, she secretly got a set of "stones" over. There were five stones in a set, and there were many ways to play. But it was not fun to play at home alone.
When Huahua's mother came to her house to pick green onions, she said to Qin Rou: "Our Liu Yue has been practicing his skills at home recently, and I am practicing with him."
Captain Zhang from next door heard them talking and was particularly curious. He came over and asked, "What skills is your Liu Yue practicing?"
"The skill of throwing stones. Zhang Tuan, didn't you play it when you were a child?"
Zhang Chengbei: "..."
How the hell can this be called practicing skills?
He boasted, "When I was in elementary school, no one in our class could beat me in the skill of throwing stones."
"Look at my big hands, right? Big hands have advantages. Our Yichao is also good."
"Really? Throw it for us to see?"
Qin Rou contributed a set of stones she had collected. Li Qinghua, Qin Rou and Zhang Chengbei squatted in the corner of the wall and played with stones together.
Maybe Zhang was really an expert at throwing stones when he was young, but now he is not very good at it. He throws one, misses one, and can't catch it...
Li Qinghua: "... You are not as good as me as a leader!"
Huahua's mother was very proud. She had recently practiced playing stone throwing with her son and had practiced some skills.
She showed it to Zhang Chengbei on the spot.
"Look, I can throw five and catch them with the back of my hand, and then throw them up again and catch them with the palm of my hand--"
Li Qinghua showed Zhang Chengbei her chubby hands. Her hands were short and chubby, which were particularly cute, but also very flexible.
Zhang Chengbei: "..."
Zhang was very competitive and refused to admit defeat. "I haven't played for a long time. I am not very good at it. I will practice for a while. I guarantee that I will be much better than you."
Qin Rou found it very interesting to watch the two of them competing with each other. She simply made a small stool and the three of them played stones together at the door.
When Teacher Huang returned home, she saw the three of them playing with stones together. She almost vomited blood. It was fine to see students playing with stones on the table and the floor after class, but she also saw three big and small children playing with stones when she returned home, one of whom was her own old Zhang?
Old Lu from the neighboring family took his two children to the basketball court to play ball, and this one of theirs was playing with stones?
"You three are not good enough, let me do it!!" Huang Xinying really couldn't stand it. In school, she was very ethical. As a teacher, she would never play such children's games. Seeing three losers now, she remembered that she was also a master of throwing stones when she was in elementary school, so she simply went over to show off.
Qin Rou: "..."
Originally, she thought she just wanted to play with stones for a while, but she didn't expect the couple next door to be even more obsessed.
When Lu Yan brought the two children back from the basketball court, he saw the four of them throwing stones together.
Lu Yan: "..."
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling, like two little squirrels, popped their heads out from their father's legs: "Mom, what are you playing?"
Qin Rou coughed, which seemed a bit disrespectful to the elderly, "Nothing to play, look at yourselves, the three of you are all sweaty, take the children to take a shower and change clothes."
Qin Rou took off her pony and dragged her husband and children home, leaving Zhang and his wife to play with stones with Li Qinghua.
Zhang Chengbei: "..." Belatedly, he remembered what he was doing.
Huang Xinying: "..."
Li Qinghua: "... I'm going to the canteen to get food."
Teacher Huang said, "I'll go with you."
Zhang Chengbei sighed, "I'll go home to take care of the kids."
Life in the family compound was so plain with a few small twists and turns.
In mid-June 1975, the lychee tree that was transplanted to the yard the year Zhou Zhou and Dumpling were born began to bear fruit. Last year, the tree had no fruit, but this year it unexpectedly grew fruit.
Since the small fruits appeared on the fruit tree, Qin Rou often took the two little kids at home to count the fruits on the tree, "One, two, three, four..."
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling brothers counted together, waiting for the red lychees on the lychee tree to ripen.
"Mom, eat the fruit!"
"When they grow a little bigger, we'll pick them and eat them."
The two children cheered.
When Lu Yan came back, the two of them threw themselves into their father's arms, "Dad, these are the fruits we planted."
"Mom said they are our fruits."
"Grow bigger and redder for mom and dad to eat!"
...
The two children spoke in baby voices, which made Lu Yan very happy. He held them and counted the fruits together.
"These are the fruit trees that mom planted after you were born."
"These are Zhou Zhou and Jiaozi's fruits."
The family was looking forward to the fruits ripening. The Zhang family next door saw the Lu family wandering around the fruit trees every day, but they didn't have any, so it was too late to plant trees now.
So Zhang Chengbei went to buy a sack of lychees and came back, "It's just lychees, cheap stuff, only one dime for a bag like this? Why grow them yourself?"
"There are so many lychee trees on the roadside that people can't eat them all."
"The lychees on this tree are only four or five cents, why bother growing lychees?"
Huang Xinying peeled a lychee and couldn't help but sighed, "A red dust concubine smiled, no one knew it was lychees."
"Look at how expensive it was for the ancients to eat these lychees, ours are not worth a few cents."
"Enjoy the treatment of an emperor."
"This fruit is so sweet."
Except for Zhang Dundun, the three people in the Zhang family who enjoyed the treatment of an emperor all had nosebleeds, especially little Zhang Yichao, who ate too many lychees and had a nosebleed.
His nose was burning and he couldn't stop it.
Teacher Huang blamed Zhang Chengbei: "Who told you to buy so many lychees?"
"I only bought 10 cents, who knew 10 cents could mean so many."
"Can't you buy a few cents to try?"
"It's not worth it, I thought if I wanted to buy more, I would just buy more."
"Who told you to be so generous."
...
The Zhang family next door had a premature nosebleed and was seen by several people from the Lu family.
Lu Yan and Qin Rou: "..."
Their lychees were not yet ripe, but they were already eating lychees and had nosebleeds.
Qin Rou sighed. In the future, lychees, mangoes and coconuts, which were once so valuable, would not be worth much on the island. Or, they would not be worth anything at all.
Of course, because they were not worth much, no one would cultivate good varieties, and they would be planted randomly. But on this island, because of the climate, even if they were planted randomly, the fruits grown would be very sweet.
There were not so many fancy names.
Now the most important and economically valuable plants on the island are not these fruit trees, but rubber trees. Nowadays, few people care about these fruit trees.
"Children, let's pick lychees!" Qin Rou prepared the scissors and asked the three children to come out and pick lychees together.
The lychee tree was planted next to the coconut tree, in the outermost corner. Because it had only been planted for a few years, the tree had not grown very big, and in fact, it did not produce many fruits.
But it was the first time that the fruit tree at home produced fruits, so it had to be a ceremonial event!
After the family gathered together, they all put on straw hats and prepared scissors. Qin Rou and Lu Yan each held a child, and let their two little kids use the scissors to work hard to cut the lychees.
After Xia Mingxi cut a few lychees with the scissors, he ate bananas alone. Yes, he was too lazy to eat lychees.
Classmate Xixi looked disgusted.
Because he often went to Chen's house, there were more lychee trees on the roadside in the village. The lychee trees planted by various friends were not enough to eat all the lychee trees. Xia Mingxi was popular everywhere. The uncles and aunts in the village and other children gave him lychees, and he was afraid of eating them.
No matter how sweet they were, he didn't want them! !
He had nosebleeds several times.
Xia Mingxi touched his nose in fear and felt that bananas were the most delicious fruit on this island! !
The only problem was that you had to be careful when eating bananas in the mountains, because monkeys would come and snatch the bananas.
The monkeys in the mountains were stingy. They would not eat bananas themselves, but liked to snatch bananas from other people's hands and chirp and mock people.
Lu Yan and his wife picked lychees with their baby in their arms.
"Jiangzi, hurry up. Mommy's hands are getting tired of holding you."
"Let's eat lychees. Daddy and Mommy will pick them."
...
Before picking lychees, Qin Rou prepared a large basket. Lychees need to be cut with the branches and leaves, so it's very fast to cut them carefully. There are seven or eight lychees on a branch. With just one pair of scissors, she can cut them all and throw them into the basket.
Qin Rou tasted one. Although the lychees she grew at home were not very big, they were still sweet and delicious.
Daddy and Mommy picked lychees carefully, the eldest cousin ate bananas, and the two little kids Zhou Zhou and Jianzi squatted by the basket to eat lychees. The family was in a particularly harmonious state.
After picking all the red lychees from the trees, Qin Rou looked at the lychees in the basket. She estimated and guessed that she had gotten... 20 cents worth of lychees.
—— Really not worth the money.
"There are so many lychees. We can't finish them at home. I'll go to the neighbors and give some away."
Qin Rou went to the doors of several families in her family's courtyard to give out lychees, saying that they were lychees from their own fruit trees, but no one accepted the lychees she gave away.
"Xiao Qin, I don't want to eat them anymore. Eating too many lychees will make you get angry."
"No, no, no."
"Xiao Qin, we have another pineapple honey at home. Take it back."
...
In this way, Qin Rou only forcibly left the lychees at Huahua's mother's house and brought back a pineapple honey from her family, which was considered to be a little bit of a gift.
"No one wants such beautiful lychees."
In the 1970s and 1980s, when transportation was underdeveloped and cold chain preservation technology was incomplete, not only were lychees worthless, but even abalone and sea cucumbers were worthless.
Qin Rou washed her hands, took out her enamel pot, peeled the lychee shells, and squeezed the dry lychee flesh into the enamel pot without touching the lychee flesh with her fingers.
She first filled half a cup of lychee flesh and froze them in the freezer. She found that the frozen lychees that had been frozen for two hours were just right. At this time, they were not completely frozen hard. They had the softness of fresh flesh and a bit of smoothie taste. They were very delicious.
It tastes sweet, like eating lychee smoothie, icy and cool, very refreshing.
"Have some frozen lychees."
This kind of frozen lychee, which is like ice cream smoothie, is simply the most natural temptation for children. Even Xia Mingxi, who is tired of eating lychees, ate seven or eight.
"Auntie, it's delicious!"
"Ice, ice!" Zhou Zhou and Dumpling scooped the moist and milky white ice lychees with a spoon. The fragrance of lychees was accompanied by a hint of ice. Zhou Zhou widened his eyes and took a bite of the ice lychee. It was icy at first, and the sweetness of the lychee melted in his mouth. It was a little bit of freezing, but it was very delicious!!!
"What a great time!"
Because the two brothers were still young, Qin Rou didn't let them eat too much. They only had two frozen lychees each. No more.
"Zhou Zhou and Dumpling, eat two frozen lychees."
"Why can Brother Xixi and Dad eat so many?"
"Because Zhou Zhou and Dumpling's stomachs are not well developed yet, they can't eat too many cold things. Eating too much will make them sick."
"Okay, eat two today, and I'll let you eat two more tomorrow."
"Mom, give you one more."
"No, you can only eat two!"
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling stomped their feet like little pigs to express their dissatisfaction.
Thinking that her sister and brother-in-law didn't have a freezer at home and couldn't eat frozen lychees, Qin Rou froze a lot of lychees. It happened that Lu Yan had a day off after returning from a business trip, so Lu Yan said he would take some frozen lychees and drive her and the kids to Dajiao Village.
Zhao Jianghong heard about this and found a way to take a day off and also took a ride to Dajiao Village to meet his date.
Ye Mingxiu was an educated youth here, and his family situation needed to be reviewed. In addition, there was an incident with enemy spies on Qiongzhou Island, so the review was extremely strict recently. It would take another half a month for their marriage application report to be approved. Zhao Jianghong couldn't wait to meet the person.
In a borrowed jeep, Lu Yan sat in the driver's seat and Zhao Jianghong sat in the co-driver's seat. Seeing Lu Yan driving, Zhao Jianghong was surprised and suspicious: "Old Lu, can you drive?"
"Simple skill."
"Aren't officers not allowed to drive?" Military vehicles are generally driven by special soldiers who have been trained. When driving a military vehicle, there must be an officer following the car, one officer for one vehicle. Many technical officers are special vehicle-following tools.
"Just because you don't drive doesn't mean you can't drive. Why do you talk so much? I, your brother Lu, am very talented. I used to give driving training to other people."
Zhao Jianghong: "..."
Lu Yan drove the car steadily forward. Zhao Jianghong was very envious when he saw this. There is no man who doesn't want to control the steering wheel. Zhao Jianghong watched him driving carefully from the side.
"It looks pretty simple to me. How about letting me drive when we come back?"
Lu Yan: "No."
"I have to be responsible for my wife and children."
Zhao Jianghong: "..."
Qin Rou: "..."
"How about you teach me how to drive in the car? Stay away from your wife and children?"
Lu Yan smiled contemptuously: "Your brother Lu's vacation is very precious. How can I use it to accompany you to practice driving? What a pipe dream."
Zhao Jianghong: "Forget it, I'll go find my partner."
Qin Rou looked left and right at the roadside. Driving in this era is very safe, because there are basically no other vehicles on the road, and there is no need to worry about two cars colliding. It's just that many roads are bumpy and not easy to drive.
Only tractor cars can be proud and unrestrained in these places. Tractors can be modified into tanks.
This road is so safe that Qin Rou, who once dared not drive after getting a driver's license, now dares to drive on this small road. After all, there is no danger to life. It is not easy to drive fast. At most, it will hit a tree.
When they arrived at Dajiao Village, as soon as their car appeared, it attracted many villagers to watch. Lu Yan moved a large box of frozen lychees into Chen's house. The villagers were particularly warm and hospitable. They all knew Qin Rou and came over to chat happily.
Qin Rou took out some frozen lychees for the villagers to taste. Some of these frozen lychees were shelled, and some were not shelled. Qin Rou distributed the shelled ones to the villagers.
"Oh, lychees. We have a lot of them. If you want to eat some, I'll go to the mountain to pick some for you..."
"Try it. They're frozen lychees."
"Frozen lychees? Oh, they're so cold."
"Give one or two to the children at home to taste. They're too cold. Taste them and don't eat too much."
When Qin Rou and others arrived at Chen's house, there were several educated youth visiting and reading books. Among them was an educated youth named Wang, who was sitting on a long bench, flipping through a book called "One Hundred Thousand Whys" attentively.
Zhou Yuanfang, another male educated youth next to him, was holding a picture book in his hand. He looked at him and smiled: "What's the point of reading these books? Are they just math problems? What's the point of learning them now? We can't go to college."
Wang Zhiqing said: "The content in the book is very interesting. I want to read it."
"You are just a nerd!"
"It's good to read it. In the future, you, Wang Zhiqing, will stay in the village and be a primary school teacher, just like Teacher Chen."
Qin Mian invited her sister and brother-in-law into the house, and also carried a box of frozen lychees in. Qin Rou saw the two male educated youths sitting in the house and said in surprise: "Are there guests?"
Qin Rou noticed that a male educated youth wearing glasses was holding a copy of "One Hundred Thousand Whys".
The two male educated youths stood up and greeted them.
"We are here to borrow books. Sorry to bother you." Wang Zhiqing said.
"The book in your hand is the one I gave to my two nephews. There are many contents in the book. If you like it, you can read more."
Zhou Yuanfang said with a smile: "He likes to read this set of books very much. He is doing farm work every day, but he still has the mind to do math problems. Students in other schools don't do problems now, they have a lot of other things to do."
"If you want to be recommended by the commune to go to college, you might as well do a better job in farm work and make good connections. You may get a place in college. Oh, I forgot, your background seems not good..."
"You have made your eyes so bad, be careful that monkeys will snatch your glasses away again."
...
After hearing his words, Wang Zhiqing just smiled, obviously not taking his words seriously. Many people who went to the countryside as educated youth began to degenerate, and they didn't want to study every day. They only thought about how to avoid labor and how to return to the city as soon as possible.
Wang Zhiqing looked at Qin Rou and said seriously: "The book is a good book, let the children read it more."
Qin Rou nodded. She paid attention to Wang Zhiqing and felt that educated youth like him who went to the countryside must be the first batch of college students who could be admitted to universities after the resumption of the college entrance examination.
"If other educated youth want to read it, you can also invite them to read it."
These books are not very expensive things, but they are very rare scientific books in this era. They can also lay a foundation for people's scientific culture. When the college entrance examination is resumed in two years, they will be useful.
Qin Rou asked them to borrow books from her sister and brother-in-law's house, which was also a way to help them make good connections. If they could seize the opportunity and take the college entrance examination in the future, they would be able to change their fate.
Zhao Jianghong went to the educated youth site to find Ye Mingxiu. After Lu Yan and Qin Rou put down the frozen lychees, they took the two little kids to play in the mountains.
Qin Rou took his arm and looked at the natural scenery on the mountain, thinking that this was a rare opportunity for a parent-child outing.
"The children said they wanted to see monkeys, and they brought bananas..."
The old father Lu Yan took the bananas that the two children insisted on bringing, and the family went into the mountains. Qin Rou brought a camera, and the four of them walked and stopped on the mountain and took a lot of photos.
They also met several leisurely macaques.
Their fur is light gold with a bit of gray-brown, and their belly is gray-white. Because they are macaques, they are pretty little monkeys compared to other monkeys.
The little macaque is not afraid of people. It lies lazily on the big rock. When it sees Qin Rou and her family coming, it doesn't even bother to lift its tail. It raises its paw to scratch its nose, feeling comfortable and at ease.
Qin Rou: "..."
Aren't monkeys lying too flat in this era? ! ! !
Seeing the little macaque, Zhou Zhou and Dumpling frightenedly clung to their father Lu Yan's thighs and popped their heads out to look at the monkey.
The little salted fish macaque turned over on the rock, showing them a large piece of snow-white belly.
The monkey's belly also looked fluffy.
Qin Rou: "???!!!"
She actually wanted to reach out and pet the monkey.
"Lu Yan, if I go up and rub the fur on its belly, will it scratch me?"
Lu Yan was speechless, "As a mother, can you set a good example for your children?"
You are flirting with monkeys in the mountains, so why don’t your sons follow suit?
“This monkey is really cute, don’t you think so, kids?” The point is that it looks very good-tempered, the kind of monkey that lies down and does nothing.
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling nodded.
Qin Rou gave them some scientific knowledge: “The aunties in the village said that those who act alone are usually male monkeys. If they fail in the election for the monkey king, the male monkeys will be driven out to wander...”
Male monkeys don’t work hard, like the little macaque lying down in front of them, who is a male monkey that has been driven out of the tribe.
If the election for the monkey king fails, the male monkeys in the tribe will be driven away, and all the female monkeys will stay to be the monkey king’s companions.
Doesn’t it sound great? Not entirely, because the female monkeys will have private dealings with stray monkeys outside, and cuckold the monkey king.
"Stray monkeys?"
"Mom, they are so pitiful, they have no home."
"Give it a banana."
Qin Rou brought the two children and asked Lu Yan to go forward with a banana to feed the monkey. "Brother Lu, you are more clever, do you want to take the opportunity to touch its belly?"
She wanted to know how it felt.
Lu Yan: "..."
Lu Yan handed the banana to the little macaque, and the little macaque lazily took the banana offered by humans, peeled the banana and started to eat it. Lu Yan took the opportunity to pinch its belly.
Qin Rou took pictures and took pictures -
she actually touched the monkey! ! !
Lu Yan: "..."
What's good about this?
The little macaque made a "chi chi hum" sound, signaling Lu Yan to rub the monkey's chin. Lu Yan: "..."
He stretched out his hand to rub the monkey's chin. The little macaque rubbed its belly very comfortably with its legs, and seemed to be enjoying it very much.
Qin Rou did not dare to speak loudly, and could only whisper softly: "Lu Yan, you and your brother have an affinity for animals."
"Mom, I want to touch the monkey too."
"Your father, as the family representative, has already had close contact with Mr. Monkey. We are still young, so we won't play with monkeys for now."
Qin Rou was afraid that these people with the surname Lu really had an affinity for animals. What if the little macaque felt comfortable with being rubbed and forced to follow them home like the little squirrel? ? ? ? ! !
She didn't want to keep a macaque in her family yard.
Aren't two real and fake Sun Wukongs enough at home? !!!
"Chijizhizhi..."
Fortunately, the little macaque had enjoyed enough, threw down the banana peel, and walked away with its tail swung.
"Why don't we leave here quickly, in case the monkey runs back to ask for help."
Lu Yan smiled: "You should watch less Journey to the West."
"Okay, Zhou Zhou and Dumpling, we have seen enough monkeys today, let's go back."
Zhou Zhou and Dumpling nodded reluctantly. At this time, Qin Rou suddenly found that there was a tree not far from where the monkey was lying just now. There was a vine wrapped around the tree, and there were fruits on it.
Take a closer look, why do these small fruits look a bit like... passion fruit?
Qin Rou went to pick a fruit, tried to hammer it open, and found that it was passion fruit.
The flesh inside was light yellow with black seeds. Once it was opened, it smelled the strange sour aroma. No need to think too much, it must be passion fruit.
"Mom, it smells so good."
"So sour."
You don't need to taste this fruit, just smelling it can feel the strong sour taste.
Although passion fruit is very sour, passion fruit juice made with water and rock sugar is very delicious, not to mention passion fruit jam.
——This is a wild passion fruit!!
Going up the mountain to find a treasure.
Qin Rou immediately decided to dig up this passion fruit seedling and plant it at home. She found several more nearby, as well as some small passion fruit seedlings, and she dug them all out.
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows: "Do you want to take it back to plant? This wild fruit?"
"Don't you think it smells nice?"
Lu Yan: "Plant it if you want. Don't eat anything on the mountain. Be careful of poisoning. Ask the people in their village after you go down the mountain."
Qin Rou and Lu Yan took the two children down the mountain. By the time they got down the mountain, Zhou Zhou and Jiaozi were already sleepy. Lu Yan held one in each hand and let them sleep in his arms.
Qin Rou held her passion fruit vine seedling and asked him, "Are you tired? Do you want me to pick one for you?"
"No, you can just pick your wild fruit."
When she returned to Dajiao Village, Qin Rou looked for the enthusiastic auntie Fu Yulan and asked her, "Auntie Fu, do you recognize this fruit?"
When Auntie Fu saw the passion fruit in her hand, she immediately replied, "I have seen it before. How come you picked so many? It's sour and not delicious."
Qin Rou smiled and said, "The fruit smells good. I want to plant it at home. It looks pretty when the fruit is hanging."
"It should be sour and sweet when ripe, right? Auntie, have you eaten it before?"
"You young girls, you really only care about the beauty. When I was young, I was the same as you. I went up the mountain to dig up a few plants and now I'm planting them at the door of my pigpen... Sister, seriously, you'd better not eat them. The fruit is very sour. No matter how you plant them, they are sour. Pigs don't like to eat them."
"There are quite a few growing next to my pigpen. How about I give you a few seedlings?"
Qin Rou: "...Okay, okay...but I still want to try them. Auntie, are yours bearing fruit?"
"They are growing fruit? But auntie, I advise you not to eat them. Pigs don't like to eat them." Auntie Fu looked at Qin Rou with a weird look in her eyes, wondering why this girl is so stubborn. You want to try the fruit that even pigs don't like to eat?
Qin Rou: "..."
It turned out that the passion fruit she thought she had found was planted next to the pig pen, and the fruit was fed to the pigs, and the pigs even rejected it.
——It's too sour.
Not to mention the pigs, the children who go up the mountain don't pick this kind of wild fruit. Children only like to pick sweet wild fruits. This sour fruit is on the black list of wild fruits.
"There are a lot of fruits growing here at my house. If you like it, I'll pick them and give them to you..."
Qin Rou was given a lot of passion fruit by the enthusiastic Aunt Fu. She had to admit that the passion fruit growing near the pig pen was bigger and more nutritious than the wild passion fruit on the mountain.
She wanted to take it back to make passion fruit juice!
In this era, passion fruit juice and passion fruit sauce have not been developed yet.
On this island, when the economy is opened up in the future, it is better to sell fruit tea.