Chapter 29
"There are so many. Pick more."
Lin Nanxuan picked one and put it in her mouth before starting to work. Lin Nanzhi was not idle either, he carried a basket and started to work.
Grandpa Lin made this basket when he had nothing to do these two days.
He is old and has been busy all his life. Now he doesn't have to do anything here. Even Grandma Lin's legs have gotten much better, and he doesn't need to go out to look for herbs or complain all day long.
Suddenly one day he saw a bamboo forest by the river. After asking around, he learned that it belonged to his family. He immediately took a sickle and cut down a lot of bamboo. Then he split it up bit by bit and began to weave.
He made a lot of baskets and storage boxes, and even made a swing for Lin Nanzhi and others.
There are big and small baskets, but most of them are small. Grandpa Lin is fast and can weave 20 to 30 baskets a day. They are all stored in the warehouse. He said that when the time comes to pick cherries, we can use bamboo baskets to pick them. If we sell them one basket at a time, there will definitely be people who will buy them.
That's true.
Grandpa Lin is very skillful, and the basket he made is a bit like the one that Guanyin Bodhisattva holds to catch fish in Journey to the West, with a tray at the bottom and a big bowl on top. Grandma Lin also made silk flowers out of cloth and hung them on the basket, which is so beautiful.
However, Mother Lin didn't want Grandpa Lin to be too busy, and since there were only a few baskets, only about a hundred, she didn't plan to sell them. Instead, she kept them at home so that they could be used when someone came to pick fruit.
Although the basket is small, it can still hold a lot of things.
The two of them ate and picked fruits at the same time. After they had finished picking fruits from a tree, they were very satisfied and went home with the basket. As they reached the door, their cell phone rang, so they had to stop to answer it.
The person who called was Lin's father.
Lin Nanzhi clicked to connect.
"Hey, Dad... OK, I got it." After hanging up the phone, Lin Nanxuan asked, "What's wrong? What did Dad say?"
Lin Nanzhi put away his phone and walked inside, saying as he walked: "Dad said that little master wants to talk to me about something, I'll go check it out."
"So you're still going home?"
"I'm carrying cherries. If I carry them over there, they'll be gone in a minute."
It’s not that Lin Nanzhi is stingy. He has grown so much himself that he is reluctant to let his neighbors have a taste of it. He just really doesn’t want to be the one who is taken advantage of.
Since the fruits in the orchard were ready to be eaten, Father Lin sent some strawberries and vegetables to almost every household so that everyone could taste them and build good relationships in the village.
But some people always have the mentality of being greedy and taking advantage of others. As long as they see the Lin family picking fruits and vegetables, they will definitely wait outside the garden and shamelessly ask for vegetables and fruits.
It would be fine if it happened once or twice, but it has happened more than ten times now. Lin's father is also a good man. He said nothing and let them come to his house and eat and take things. Even a landlord cannot stand this.
It would be fine if you said that these people are a little grateful after eating your things, and you would feel good in your heart, but some people are just impossible to feed. They talk nonsense behind your back all day long, and if you don’t give them something, it’s like you owe them something.
As a child, Lin Nanzhi could only complain about this in his heart.
Therefore, she now wishes to stay away from the people in the village.
Lin Nanxuan thought about it and realized that this made sense, so she didn't say anything.
Uncle Lin and his wife were very kind to the three siblings. Every time they came back from work, they would bring them some food. She originally wanted Lin Nanzhi to take it over and share it with them, but since Lin Nanzhi said so, she could imagine that this little bit of fruit would probably be snatched away by someone before it even reached Uncle Lin and his friends.
It would be better to pick a few baskets of apples at home and send them to Uncle Lin's house afterwards, so that they can have enough to eat. At the very least, it would be better to let the siblings pick them themselves than to carry them over like this.
And there was something going on at home today. Yesterday, she saw that when Lin's father prepared the menu, he wrote a fruit platter. The fruits that could be eaten in the next few days were picked early this morning and taken to the next door. It was almost done.
Thinking of this, she didn't say anything else.
Lin Nanzhi put down the fruit and turned to go next door.
There were indeed a lot of people in the yard, sitting or standing, all chatting in groups, and I didn't know who had been disgraced again in their mouths. The melon seeds, peanuts and candies on the table were basically untouched, but the fruit platter was completely empty. Everyone was holding a big, red strawberry in their hands, and their clothes were bulging, and it was obvious that they had been well stuffed.
They were all neighbors and it was their own business, so Lin Nanzhi pretended not to see anything. When he saw people looking at him, he smiled and greeted them and started looking for them. When he saw his uncle and his family in the greenhouse, he went straight upstairs.
There are five people upstairs, including Lin's father and Uncle Lin's family.
Uncle Lin is a few years older than Nanxuan Lin. He is only in his twenties this year. He and Aunt Lin are in the same group. They were classmates in elementary school and fell in love from school uniforms to wedding dresses. Now they have a son and a daughter and are very happy.
Although one of them only had primary school education and the other only had junior high school education, they were quite capable and younger than many people in the village, but they made a lot of money. They were the first family in the village to build a brick house, but after building the first floor, they didn't have enough money, so they went to work in other places.
Uncle Lin was tall and thin, with the same eyes as his father. Aunt Lin had a round face and a nice body, with single eyelids, but was very pretty. The two daughters were also very pretty, and they greeted Lin Nanzhi and then quietly ate fist-sized strawberries.
Lin Nanzhi had seen these two children when they were born, but they moved to other places and had not seen them until this year. The siblings had never seen them before, and they did not feel particularly familiar with them when they saw her.
Lin Nanzhi didn't care.
The relationship between the two families is the best. The two children from my uncle's family will be the closest to them in the future, but they have not seen them much so they are not familiar with each other.
"My dear, my dear."
"Yeah, Zhizhi is here."
"What do you want me to do?"
"It's like this. Your grandfather and I have made some money and are planning to renovate our house and build a second floor. We think your house is pretty nice, so we wanted to make it look like this. So we came to your father to ask for the blueprints. Your father said he didn't have the blueprints, but you had some, so we asked."
"Yes, take a look. Besides the ones like mine, we have other kinds. You can choose. I'll find the drawings for you after you've chosen them." Lin Nanzhi handed over his phone, which contained many pictures. Every one of them looked very nice.
"But if you want to do this, I'm afraid you'll have to rebuild the first floor of your house. I think it would be more appropriate to ask my eldest brother to do it."
Uncle Lin's house is a standard brick house with two large main rooms and two bedrooms. Not only is it ugly, it is also not comfortable to live in.
The pictures she took were all directly edited, so it might not be easy to modify them. However, Lin Nanye studied design, so she could definitely modify them.
The couple looked at each other and shook their heads.
It’s not that they don’t trust Lin Nanye, but they don’t want Lin Nanye to be too tired.
They didn't dare to use the money at first, but Lin's father repeatedly told them that he didn't need their money. It just so happened that the family was about to return home, so they thought about fixing up the house. The first floor had been unoccupied for a long time and it was damp, so if they wanted to live in it, they had to repair the second floor.
Lin Nanye's illness was not suitable for hard work, so he thought of asking Lin Nanzhi for help.
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