Chapter 31
Although he felt that Lao Si might be deceiving him, his eyes did not follow his heart. Bi Weiguo raised his eyes and looked forward, but saw nothing. Damn it, he was actually deceived again. "Bi Qiuguo, what good things are you talking about?"
Pointing both hands forward, Bi Qiuguo shouted excitedly: "Look, is that a locust flower? Ahhhhh - I'm going to make a lot of money now!" Then he ran forward wildly.
Although Bi Chunliu didn't see the sophora japonica that made Bi Qiuguo so excited, Qiuguo had already run away, and the three of them could only catch up, "This girl! Let's catch up with her quickly, otherwise we won't be able to find her later."
Bi Qiuguo ran quite fast. When the three of them caught up with her, she was already jumping up and down excitedly under the tree. "Big sister! Big sister! Look!"
Looking at the densely packed locust flowers on the tree, Bi Chunliu couldn't help but sigh: After all, although he is young, he has sharp eyes. It turns out that new things are the best!
"Weiguo, can't you climb trees? Climb up and pick all the locust flowers, and then the three of us will pick them up below!" Bi Chunliu commanded. No one knew how this tree was hidden and no one had discovered it. With so many locust flowers, we could eat so many meals of locust flower buns and locust flower rice.
Bi Weiguo rolled up his sleeves, hugged the tree and went up. Bi Chunliu said worriedly: "Watch your step. If the branches are too thin, don't step on them. Don't take the ones that are left. We can come back next year!"
"Okay!" Bi Weiguo said, and started throwing it down.
The four of them only brought two baskets and a sack, which were not enough to hold all the locust flowers on the tree. Bi Chunliu estimated that it was almost enough, so she quickly called Bi Weiguo down. The boy was also jumping up and down on the tree. Seeing him standing on tiptoe to reach the locust flowers on the edge was as exciting as if she had hung herself on the tree, which scared her to death.
After packing the locust flowers, Bi Chunliu counted them and found that the whole sack was full of locust flowers. It didn't take three people to pick the locust flowers. Bi Xiahe went to find a basket of wild vegetables. The rabbit that was hammered to death was at the bottom of the basket. There was also another basket of locust flowers. This was simply a great harvest!
Glancing at the sun, it must be past four o'clock now. Bi Xiahe asked, "Sister, shall we go home?"
"Ah? Going home now?" Bi Qiuguo felt that it was really fun to come to the mountain with her elder sister. She hadn't played enough and wanted to stay a little longer.
Bi Chunliu nodded. "We have to go home. If we don't go back now, it will be dark. Don't you and your second brother have to do your homework? We still have to eat dinner. These things..." Bi Chunliu was a little hesitant. If there were not enough things, she would not be able to eat enough, and if there were too many things, it would be difficult to carry them. She didn't expect to get so much. When she came here, she thought two baskets would be enough. If she went home directly like this, how many people would see her along the way? She still wanted to make a fortune quietly.
"How about? You guys go first? I'll wait until dark before leaving?" Bi Weiguo scratched his head and came up with an idea. He felt that his sisters were all girls and would definitely be scared to walk at night. As a grown man, he could go alone without any problem.
Bi Chunliu: "Goodbye, let's go together. At worst, we can separate after we get back to the city, but we can't separate now. So, Xia He, you and Qiu Guo take the bus home first, and Wei Guo and I will go back on foot. You two put the things in the baskets at home first, and then when there are fewer people in the compound, you come out and tell me, and we'll transport them back. If your second brother and I arrive early, we can hide in that old factory building. There won't be many people there anyway."
Bi Xiahe nodded and said, "Okay." She took the money handed to her by her elder sister and prepared to go back with Qiuguo.
"By the way, if you meet someone on the road, be smart and don't tell the truth. Also, you two must stay together and don't run around. Qiuguo, listen to your third sister." Bi Chunliu grumbled a few more words.
Bi Chunliu and Bi Weiguo watched Bi Xiahe and her sister get on the car, and then they left with peace of mind. A sack of locust flowers wasn't very heavy, so Bi Weiguo could carry it all by himself. Bi Chunliu took the opportunity to find some wild vegetables, but this time, she could only bundle them up with some wild grass from the roadside.
Bi Weiguo was carrying a sack of locust flowers. The faint fragrance of the flowers kept coming from behind him. He was greedy and said, "Sister, if we were in the countryside, we would be closer to the mountains and wouldn't starve."
Bi Chunliu: "It's the same. Supplies are limited in the city, and in the countryside, it depends even more on the weather. Think about it, if you want fabric or something in the countryside, it's hard to even find tickets. The city and the countryside each have their own difficulties."
"Okay. Sister, how do we eat rabbits?" Bi Weiguo suddenly changed the subject.
Bi Chunliu was startled by the sudden change of topic. "...What do you want? Spicy or spiced? Stewed or stir-fried?"
Bi Weiguo looked up in surprise, unable to believe it: "Can you really let me choose for myself?"
Bi Chunliu: "That depends on whether I can make it happen. If you order a full banquet, I definitely can't do it."
"Hehehe...Sister, let's eat spicy food. I want spicy food, stewed or fried is fine." Bi Weiguo said.
Bi Chunliu: "Okay, then I'll listen to you. I'll stir-fry it first and then stew it. I'll also stick a circle of pancakes on the edge of the pot. I guarantee it will smell so good that you won't be able to tell the directions." Patting his brother's head, Bi Chunliu felt that this kid's wish could be easily realized.
Bi Weiguo's eyes were all smiling, "Okay!" The elder sister was so nice to him! "Elder sister, there is a big silly boy in our class..." Bi Weiguo happily shared his class stories with the elder sister. This was the first time he walked alone with the elder sister.
It started as an embarrassing incident in class, then turned into a love-hate relationship between a young man and a young woman in the third grade. Bi Chunliu wasn't idle either, already holding two bundles of wild vegetables. He casually glanced over. Huh?! There's actually some weed that looks like chicken feathers? How bizarre! Hmm? No! That looks like a pheasant!
"Big sister! Do you still remember..." Bi Weiguo was still talking non-stop. I really didn't expect my second brother to be so talkative.
"Shh - Weiguo, do you think that's a pheasant?" Bi Chunliu lowered his voice.
Bi Weiguo nodded heavily, also excited, "Yes, sister, do you want more stones?"
"No, I have it in my hand."
The stones in his hand were thrown out one after another, and he would always hit the target if he hit the main one.
"Clack, clack, clack—" The pheasant took two steps and fell to the ground. Bi Chunliu hurried over.
"Ah, click, click--" Bi Chunliu watched the pheasant that had just fallen to the ground stand up, look at her with its head tilted, and then fly away, calling as it flew, as if mocking her.
Bi Chunliu: ??? You're pretending to be dead? Are you trying to kill yourself? How dare you become a spirit!
Run over without giving up.
Haha! Luckily, I didn't catch any pheasants, but I did find a clutch of six pheasant eggs! It turns out it wasn't a pheasant, but a hen.
After putting the pheasant eggs in his pocket and packing them carefully, Bi Chunliu turned around and walked back.
"Sister, what did you just pick up when you bent down?" Bi Weiguo had already seen that the elder sister had not caught the pheasant, and he also saw that the elder sister looked confused and angry. He wanted to laugh, but was afraid that the elder sister would beat him.
Bi Chunliu took out pheasant eggs and said, "Here, six. We'll each cook one and eat them tomorrow. This chicken actually pretended to be dead. Never mind. Let it fly away. We've found a lot of good things today." Bi Chunliu explained and comforted himself.
Bi Weiguo: "Sister, let's go quickly. I guess my third sister and the others are almost home."
"Okay! We don't have any hands to hold extra things." Bi Chunliu agreed straightforwardly.
At the same time, Bi Xiahe and Bi Qiuguo had indeed gotten off the car and returned to the compound, but they didn't rush to wait at the old factory building. Instead, they...
Watch the fun.
Bi Xiahe and Bi Qiuguo arrived home just as Aunt Liu was calling Aunt Zhang and Aunt Wang out. The two sisters greeted the three of them, and Aunt Zhang, so anxious she didn't even bother to see what the Bi sisters had in their baskets, left the house. Even Chen Dali, who always had a problem with Aunt Lei, left the house while chatting with her. The only difference in the courtyard was the water by the pool, which indicated someone had been using it. To anyone who didn't know, you'd think the compound was deserted.
Bi Qiuguo turned to look at her third sister, and Bi Xiahe shook her head at her. The first task now was to put the things away and then go to meet the eldest sister. When she reached the second courtyard, Bi Qiuguo saw Grandma Zhang collecting clothes.
"Grandma Zhang, what are they doing in such a hurry?" Bi Qiuguo helped Grandma Zhang take off her clothes.
Grandma Zhang: "The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were arguing a few days ago are arguing again today. The young wife's husband came home today and caught a man in their room."
"Oh my god!" Bi Qiuguo thought to herself. Next time, I'd better listen to Aunt Liu and the others. Grandma Zhang had this way of making whatever she said, no matter how gossipy or fantastic, sound so... bland. It was like having a perfectly delicious dish before your eyes, and then, upon tasting it, realizing, hey, not enough salt.
"Third sister~~~" Bi Qiuguo acted coquettishly, she also wanted to go and see.
Bi Xiahe firmly refused: "No! Go and help Grandma Zhang put the clothes away. We both need to go out."
When Grandma Zhang heard that the two children were going out, she thought they were going to see it together, so she took the clothes from Bi Qiuguo's hand and said, "Xia He, you take your sister to see it. Just don't get squeezed."
Bi Xiahe smiled with her eyes crooked. "Grandma Zhang, let's not go and see. My eldest sister is behind us. My sister and I will go and pick her up."
"Oh, that's even more serious. Go quickly! How long will Chunliu take? Do you need grandma to lend you a flashlight?" Grandma Zhang knew something. She thought that the children of the Bi family might have found something that was hard to get.
After declining Grandma Zhang's kindness, Bi Xiahe took Bi Bagua Qiuguo, who walked very quickly, to pick up her elder sister and her two companions.
"Qiuguo, wait a minute, why are you walking so fast?" Bi Xiahe is the one with the weakest physique among the four people in the Bi family. Normally, she can do fine when she walks and stops, but this time she can't keep up with Bi Qiuguo who is jogging.
Bi Qiuguo hurried to pick up her elder sister and go to Cai Xiaorong's compound to see what was going on. "Third sister, you wait here for me, I'll run to find my elder sister, okay? You'll be the backup and see when the people in the compound go home." Bi Qiuguo rarely used his brain.
"Okay... go ahead." Bi Xiahe responded. She didn't feel very tired when she went there...
Bi Xiahe felt like she had been waiting there for who knows how long before she saw her elder sister and the others, and hurried over to greet them.
Bi Chunliu handed the sack on his back to Bi Weiguo again, "Hey, here it comes."
Bi Xiahe: "Sister, I just checked, there's still no one in the compound. It seems everyone has gone to watch the fun."
"That's perfect. Let's put our things down quickly and go too. It's just about integrating in. Weiguo, let's run faster."
"Okay!"
The four of them quietly put their things back home. Bi Chunliu planned to clean up after dinner, but now it was better to go and join in the fun. No one should pay attention to how much they had harvested today.
I had just arrived at the compound in question and hadn't yet squeezed in when I heard roars.
"Why? Why? Huh? I told you I forgive you, but you won't stay?"
Although Bi Chunliu didn't see what the person looked like, he could guess from the voice that he must be heartbroken, in pain, and in tears.
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