Chapter 369 A Small Harvest from the Orchard
In the end, Luo Xiaohua still took away three bracelets.
She looked at the beautiful bracelet and felt excited. Which woman doesn’t love jewelry?
Last time, Gao Mingcheng gave Grandma Gao a silver hairpin. Luo Xiaohua was very greedy for it, but he didn't have the courage to ask for it directly.
When she saw that her grandmother was also wearing the same silver hairpin, she cursed Gao Mingcheng in her heart.
She felt that Gao Ming and Cheng Xin favored outsiders and did not love her as a mother.
This time, Gao Mingcheng gave the family a black and white TV and also gave her a bracelet. She felt relieved. She thought, even if Gao Mingcheng would give his grandmother a bracelet, could she have a TV?
This biological son is indeed his biological son!
Luo Xiaohua was right. Gao Mingcheng turned around and went to his grandmother's house.
He went to see how Xiao Yuanyuan was doing, and also gave two bracelets to Xi Nainai and He Xiuman.
Xi Nainai and He Xiuman were at home, feeding Xiao Yuanyuan some porridge.
When the two parties met, Gao Mingcheng first asked about Xiao Yuanyuan's situation, and then took out the bracelet.
As a result, Xiao Yuanyuan's eyes also looked towards the bracelet. Her black eyeballs were shining with a lively brilliance, and she seemed to be very interested in the bracelet.
"Ha, Xiao Yuanyuan, do you want it too? Uncle has some here!" Gao Mingcheng took out a string of conch bracelets from the bag and handed it to Xiao Yuanyuan, who immediately reached out to take it.
But Gao Mingcheng took it away with a wicked smile, washed it with water, and then gave it back to Xiao Yuanyuan.
This conch is quite large, so even if the string breaks while children are playing with it, it is not easy for them to swallow it.
Children as old as Xiao Yuanyuan are at the age when they like to suck their fingers, and they will even put things in their hands into their mouths to bite.
"Is this a conch? It's so beautiful!" The grandmother smiled as she watched her little granddaughter playing with the conch bracelet, and called Gao Mingcheng to have lunch at home at noon.
Gao Mingcheng naturally agreed. He had just returned to the village, and his home was empty and he was too lazy to prepare food.
"Okay, I'll go to the fields first and come back after dinner." Gao Mingcheng said.
"Okay, okay." Grandma responded and watched him leave.
Gao Mingcheng followed the path and came to the field.
The fields in Gaojia Village are all gathered together and the terrain is flat. Now everything depends on manpower, but in the future, when harvesting every year, they will hire a harvester, which will save a lot of physical strength and time.
At the end of June, the weather is hot, and this is the time when the early rice is filling and about to mature.
Gao Mingcheng walked along, looking at the rice fields on both sides of the field to see whose rice ears were growing well and whose were growing averagely.
Soon, he arrived at his field.
Standing on the edge of the field, the wind blows, the seedlings sway, making a rustling sound, and at the same time a fresh fragrance comes to your nose.
Among the dense seedlings, there was a man bending over, pulling out weeds.
"Dad." Gao Mingcheng called out, took off his shoes, and walked into the field barefoot.
The person who pulled out the weeds for him was Gao Yuanjian.
Gao Yuanjian heard his voice and looked up.
Seeing that it was Gao Mingcheng who came back, he immediately said, "Why are you back? I saw that there are a lot of weeds growing in your field, so I pulled them out for you. If you don't pull out the weeds, the rice won't grow well."
"Oh, thanks, Dad." Gao Mingcheng thanked him politely.
He hired Zhang Chengyuan to look after the orchard, vegetable plots and feed the livestock, but Zhang Chengyuan was too busy to handle the whole field by himself.
Because he only had one acre of land, he didn't take it very seriously.
This field was originally separated from the family's fields and they were all connected, so when Gao Yuanjian managed his own fields, he would more or less lend a hand to look after Gao Mingcheng's fields. If Gao Mingcheng was in the village, Gao Yuanjian would tell him when to apply fertilizer, when to weed, and when to prepare for harvest.
The older generation in the village attaches great importance to food.
Gao Mingcheng also lowered his head to pull out weeds, and at the same time pinched the grains on the rice ears with his hands. The rice had just been filled with grains, and after pinching the grains, milky white juice flowed out.
The skin of the rice is still green. When it turns golden, the rice inside will become very hard. At this time, it is time to harvest.
If the rice is harvested early, it will easily break when it is husked and milled, and its shape will be bad, which will not only affect the selling price but also the taste.
"Why do you have so many hands? Just pinch it, why do you break it!" Gao Yuanjian scolded with heartache when he saw Gao Mingcheng's actions.
This grain of rice is just a grain of rice!
It would be a waste if you pinch it.
Gao Mingcheng didn't pinch it on purpose, he just had too much strength and broke it accidentally. Even after being scolded, he just smiled embarrassedly.
When the father and son work together, they can work very quickly.
Soon, all the grass in the acre of field was pulled out.
Gao Yuanjian said with a hint of regret: "You are always running around. This year, the rice in your field is not growing well."
Gao Mingcheng just smiled. If he didn't run around, what would it matter even if he made the field bloom?
Not to mention one acre of land, even ten acres of land would not be enough for the family's food and clothing.
"Dad, I bought you a second-hand black and white TV. It's now placed at home. You should go back and watch TV." Gao Mingcheng said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Yuanjian hurriedly walked up the ridge of the field. His feet were covered in mud and he didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He just held the shoes in his hands and walked towards the old village, complaining, "Such a big thing, why didn't you tell me earlier!"
What could Gao Mingcheng say? He couldn't say that he wanted his dad to help him, so he didn't say it at the first time!
After coming out of the field, Gao Mingcheng went to the ditch to wash his feet, put on his shoes again, and then drove the tractor back to Niuweiling.
There is a cluster of bamboo forest on the side of the road. In the middle of the bamboo forest, there are several tung trees. The tung trees were originally here first, otherwise it would be difficult to have other trees in the bamboo forest.
Because bamboo is a very domineering plant, people often see single vegetation bamboo forests, bamboo mountains, etc.
Before the tractor stopped, Black Tiger and Elf jumped out from somewhere, shouting happily and running towards Gao Mingcheng.
The man and his two dogs hadn't seen each other for a few days, so they started playing together immediately.
After ruffling the two dogs' fur until it was a mess, Gao Mingcheng stood up contentedly.
"Okay, it's time to work." Gao Mingcheng said, striding towards the vegetable garden.
Every time I return to the village, the first thing I do is to patrol my territory.
Well, the vegetable garden is well managed.
There's nothing wrong with the pond.
Wow! The Cassia seeds on this hillside are growing so lush!
We went up the mountain again and checked the condition of various fruit trees. There were a few fruits on the peach tree, and the fruits were still hanging on the treetop. After counting carefully, there were actually fifteen peaches!
These peaches are of the nectarine variety, but they are not very big. The tips of the peaches are a little red, but the bottoms are still green.
Gao Mingcheng picked the reddest one and was too lazy to go down the mountain to wash it, so he just wiped it with his clothes and put it in his mouth to eat.
Well, apart from some fine hairs on the skin, the taste is pretty good, sour and sweet, with a strong peach flavor!
Some peaches in later generations contain only water, no honey!
Those peaches looked big and red, so beautiful, but the price was prohibitive. I made up my mind to buy them and eat them, but in the end I ate them in vain!
Gao Mingcheng finished eating the peach in no time and threw the peach pits on the ground. He looked at the remaining peaches and decided to pick more when he returned to the county and bring them back for Duomei and the others to taste.
In addition to peaches, the largest bayberry tree also bore fruit.
As expected of the Dongkui bayberry variety, the bayberries on the tree are very big, much bigger than the local wild bayberries!
However, this type of bayberry tree is a relatively late-maturing variety, and the bayberries on the tree have not yet turned completely red.
Gao Mingcheng walked around the tree for a few times, feeling quite satisfied. He planned to pick the bayberries after they were ripe. He would not sell them or not. There was only one tree that grew the fruits, and if he picked them all, there would probably be only about twenty pounds, so he might as well eat them himself.
Share some with your relatives and friends. If there are any left, use them to make bayberry wine. In short, nothing will be wasted.
So the bayberry has not yet ripened, but its fate has already been planned.
(End of this chapter)
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