Chapter 644 The Peaches Are Ripe
Huang Dazhi explained to Huang Xiaoan what carving is, but he himself didn't know much about it. He thought carving was probably similar to carpentry, except that the work was more delicate.
Huang Xiaoan was silent for a moment, but under his brother's expectant gaze, he slowly nodded.
After he agreed, Huang Dazhi also breathed a sigh of relief and decided to find time to look for the carving master first. After the deal was settled, he would take Huang Xiaoan to visit him to become his apprentice.
Gao Mingcheng did not ask much about the Huang family's affairs. The next morning, he took Xiao Xuxu to participate in the beam-raising and tile-laying ceremony at Maozi's place.
Maozi specially bought a string of firecrackers, and also bought a lot of peanuts, melon seeds and candies to entertain the crowd. When the ceremony was over, Maozi held a basin of candies in one hand and grabbed a handful with the other hand and threw them to the crowd below from the second floor.
The people standing below watching immediately started scrambling for the billiards with smiles on their faces. Among them were quite a few young men, all of whom were Maozi's former friends. Although Maozi's character was average, he had been in society and was quite good at making friends. These friends would become the first customers of the billiard room after it opened. With their influence, more people would be attracted to play billiards.
Gao Mingcheng also took two candies for Xiao Xuxu. The candies that Maozi bought were of average quality, but the children who got the candies had happy smiles on their faces. They carefully hid the extra candies in their trouser pockets, then peeled a candy and enjoyed it happily.
A group of children gathered together. One of them asked, "How many candies did you grab?" and the other one answered, "I grabbed four candies."
This immediately attracted a lot of envious sighs. Some people said that they only got one candy. As they spoke, they pouted and almost cried out of grievance.
Fortunately, in addition to candy, Maozi's younger brother Yangyang also had a plate of peanuts and melon seeds scattered downstairs. It was not easy to throw them from upstairs, otherwise they would easily fall to the ground, so people could grab them and eat them.
When Yangyang came over with the plate, all the children crowded over, grabbing peanuts in one hand and melon seeds in the other, leaving both hands empty.
Little Xuxu was held in Gao Mingcheng's arms. When he saw the group of children fighting over food, he also cried out and stretched out his hand anxiously, as if he also wanted to grab it.
But at this time, the plate that Yangyang was holding was almost empty.
Fortunately, Monkey’s sister was smart. When she saw that Xiao Xuxu also wanted some, she immediately ran home and grabbed a handful of peanuts and melon seeds and handed them to Xiao Xuxu.
Xiao Xuxu finally got what he wanted. He grinned instantly and did not forget to say thank you.
He doesn't say much, but simple thank you, goodbye and the like are already very good.
Gao Mingcheng left after attending the beam-raising and tile-laying ceremony. Maozi originally wanted to keep him here for lunch, but Gao Mingcheng refused.
He refused, but at lunchtime, He Dayou rushed over from the police station and had a meal with his old friends. Maozi had a good future, and He Dayou was very happy for him. At the same time, he also hoped that other friends could also have a good future.
During the dinner, some people talked about what they were doing now, and some said they were planning to work in other places. These young people who had nothing to do and gathered together to steal and cheat people in the past gradually turned over a new leaf as they grew older.
Of course, there are still some people who still have evil intentions, but those people are no longer on the same path as He Dayou, so they don’t interact with each other much.
Gao Mingcheng took Xiao Xuxu back to his home. Seeing that everyone in the store was busy, he decided to have a bowl of rice noodles at noon as he was too lazy to cook.
New styles have been launched in the store these two days. Customers who heard the news have come over to choose clothes. In terms of quality and grade, Xinxin Clothing Store is second to none in the county.
Many Americans have no objection to eating rice noodles for lunch. In the hot summer, cooking is a chore, and buying rice at a restaurant is much more expensive than rice noodles.
So at noon that day, everyone in the store ate a bowl of meat pie noodles and bought a bowl of pig lungs. The pig lungs were cooked with a lot of chili peppers. One bite of it was so spicy that it made people sweat at the tip of their noses.
After drinking a bowl of soup, Gao Mingcheng lay comfortably on the recliner in the backyard to rest.
Little Xuxu also ate half a bowl of meat pie noodles, and now he still refused to go upstairs to sleep, so he climbed on Gao Mingcheng's body and climbed his father as if he were a mountain.
No wonder the ancients said: Father’s love is like a mountain!
After the new models were launched, the store's business was booming for a few days. When the business gradually returned to normal, Xuanyuemei suggested that she wanted to go visit her elder sister Xuanyuejin.
Manyu Jin suffered a great misfortune during this pregnancy, which made Manyu Mei extremely worried.
But I was always busy, so I never mentioned it.
Gao Mingcheng agreed immediately and asked if Xuanyuemei had bought the plastic sandals for the two children.
Xuanyimei was of course very concerned about her two nephews. She hurriedly said that she had already bought them and took out the clothes she had prepared for her two nephews. In addition to the children's clothes, there were also several old styles from two years ago. Because they had been kept at the bottom, when she took them out, she found some mottled marks on the fabric of the clothes.
Naturally, this kind of clothes is not easy to sell, so Xuanmei decided to give them to her eldest sister's family.
In addition to these, Xuanyue also bought some health supplements for her elder sister, hoping that her elder sister can recover as soon as possible.
Gao Mingcheng took a look at the things that Mei had prepared and felt that there was nothing wrong with them, so he went out and bought two recliners, which he planned to take to his home in Niuweiling.
There are only benches and long benches at home in Niuweiling. They can be sat on, but they are not as comfortable as recliners.
These two lounge chairs are made of bamboo. It would be so cool to lie on them in the summer. Even in winter, you can still lie comfortably if you put a mattress on the lounge chair.
After everything was prepared, Gao Mingcheng took his wife and children back to Gaojia Village early the next morning. As for his eldest sister's house, he planned to go there in the afternoon.
After returning to Niuweiling, Xuanyuemei found her second sister Xuanyueyu and told her about her eldest sister's situation.
After hearing this, many people were also sighing.
She calculated the date and felt that her eldest sister should have given birth a long time ago, but no one came to report the news.
It turned out that my eldest sister had health problems, and her brother-in-law's family was very busy during this period, so she had no time to come and report the news.
While the two sisters were talking, Gao Mingcheng went to Xiaofushan.
It’s already the end of June, and the peaches in the mountains are about to ripen!
The last time he came back, he picked a peach to eat, but the peach was still very green at that time. Now he stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up at the peach forest, he could see the trees full of bright red peaches.
As the peaches ripen, the birds in the mountains are about to have a feast. They have long been eyeing the fruits in the mountains, and will come to peck at them as soon as they are ripe.
In order to drive away these birds, the simple working people also came up with a clever idea, which is to make scarecrows.
Gao Mingcheng saw that the scarecrows in the orchard had all been refurbished and looked very lifelike. When the wind blew, the piece of tattered cloth tied to the branch in the scarecrow's hand fluttered in the wind, serving to drive away birds.
Gao Mingcheng picked a peach, wiped it casually on his clothes, and began to eat it in big mouthfuls. The peach at this time was just ripe, but not yet soft, and the taste was just right!
Next to the peach forest is a pear forest. The emerald crowns and huanghuali pears are hanging on the treetops and are almost ripe. They taste sweet when you take a bite. If they hang on the trees for a while longer, they will be even sweeter.
For these fruit trees, we fertilize in spring and thin out the fruits in early summer. After ensuring sufficient water and fertilizer, we finally have a good harvest!
Because Gao Mingcheng was willing to thin out the fruits, the fruits left on the treetops are all high-quality, good-looking and juicy.
After tasting the peaches, Gao Mingcheng decided to pick a basket of peaches to take back. He first went down the mountain and came to the shed at the foot of the mountain.
There were some fertilizers, bamboo baskets and farm tools piled up here. Gao Mingcheng picked up a bamboo basket and went into the mountain again. He walked along the gentle slope covered with green grass and came to the peach forest step by step.
The fruits on the sunny side are already ripe, but the fruits on the shady side are not yet ripe, so you can wait a few days before picking them.
He was quick and picked a basket of peaches by himself without asking Chen Dasong and others for help.
When I was going down the mountain, I met Chen Dasong.
Chen Dasong said hurriedly, "I was planning to pick some peaches and send them over with the eggs when I go to the county tomorrow!"
After the tractor stayed in Niuweiling, Chen Dasong would run to the county town every three or four days to deliver eggs and vegetables from the fields to Gao Mingcheng.
There are so many vegetables that we can't finish them all. We can pick a batch of peppers, eggplants, cowpeas, loofahs, etc. every day. With the vegetables sent from the village, the clothing store only needs to buy some meat when buying vegetables every day.
Gao Mingcheng nodded to show that he understood, and then asked if the bayberries were ripe.
Chen Dasong said, "Some of them are ripe. If you want to pick them, I'll pick a basket for you later."
The fruits on a tree do not ripen at the same time; some ripen earlier and some later, which is normal.
Gao Mingcheng asked Chen Dasong to help him pick some ripe bayberries. Having not eaten bayberries this year, he planned to try some at home first.
Chen Dasong took a basket and went to the bayberry forest to pick bayberries, while Gao Mingcheng went to the chicken coop to pick eggs.
When he came back today, he naturally took the eggs with him.
Just as they sent all the things back home, Xuanyuemei came over and said to Gao Mingcheng, "Mom came over just now and said that Dad accidentally sprained his waist while building the house a few days ago, and asked us to come over to take a look."
Luo Xiaohua was working in the fields. When he saw Gao Mingcheng's car from a distance, he knew that Gao Mingcheng had returned, so he came over to inform him.
Since she has come to notify us, I must go back.
Xuanyuemei said thankfully, "Take two of the supplements I bought for my elder sister and bring them to Dad later!"
Because she felt sorry for her elder sister, she bought a lot of supplements, and now she can spare two of them.
Gao Mingcheng had no objection. He took a basket, filled it with some peaches and eggs, and took a lot of supplements that Mei had brought, and prepared to go visit Gao Yuanjian.
When they arrived at the old village, Gao Mingcheng first went to his grandmother's house. Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman were working in the fields, while his grandmother was drying eggplants at home with Xiao Yuanyuan.
Her family grew a lot of eggplants, but they didn't plan to sell them at the market, so when they had extra eggplants, they would cut them into slices and dry them.
Grandma Xi is a very foresighted person. She believes that living in the county town in the future will definitely not be as convenient as eating in the village, where she has to spend money to buy vegetables every day.
Therefore, she decided to make more dried vegetables so that she could save some money on buying groceries.
Gao Mingcheng gave her some peaches and said that the peaches in Xiaofushan were ripe. He asked her to ask Gao Zhuang to go to Xiaofushan and pick some for herself.
Gao Mingcheng said, "Some of the peaches, pears, and bayberries are ripe. Grandma, ask Gao Zhuang to pick some for us to eat tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
The grandmother smiled and refused, saying, "You are going to sell those fruits for money, and making money is more important."
She always considered Gao Mingcheng, and Gao Mingcheng had no choice but to wait until he saw Gao Zhuang and then ask him to come over to pick them.
After talking to his grandmother for a few words and hugging Xiao Yuanyuan and kissing her twice, Gao Mingcheng took his wife and children to his eldest brother Gao Mingpeng's home.
When I passed by my grandmother's house, I took a look at the newly built house. The second floor has been built and all that's left is the laying of the beams and the tiles.
This speed is not slow. Now the weather is hot, and the house dries quickly. After putting up the beams and covering the tiles, we can immediately make the doors and windows and paint the walls.
When we arrived at Gao Mingpeng's house, Gao Mingpeng and his family were not at home. Some were working in the new house, while others were working in the fields.
Gao Yuanjian, who had sprained his waist, was at home, but he couldn't sit idle. He was sitting under the eaves, sharpening bamboo chopsticks with an axe.
The villagers naturally don’t buy bamboo chopsticks, but make them themselves.
You can make a lot of chopsticks by cutting a bamboo.
Next to him, in addition to some chopped bamboos and some broken wood, there was also a small stool with a slightly crooked shape. It was obvious that this small stool was made by Gao Yuanjian himself with the broken wood left over from building the house.
"Dad." Gao Mingcheng shouted, and Xuanyuemei followed suit, and then coaxed little Xuxu to call him grandpa.
Xiao Xuxu and Gao Yuanjian seldom meet each other, but he is well-behaved and obedient. Whenever Xuxu asked Gao Yuanjian to call him grandpa, he did so obediently.
Gao Yuanjian looked up and saw them coming, so he put down the machete in his hand and smiled at Xiao Xuxu.
Gao Yuanjian said, "Are you thirsty? If so, go get some water for yourself."
Gao Mingcheng handed the things he brought to Gao Yuanjian and said, "I heard from mom that you sprained your waist. Are you feeling better now?"
Gao Yuanjian took the things, looked down, and said with a smile: "It's better now. It happened a few days ago. Although I can't use my strength now, I can still do some light work. I'll just use these woods to make a few small stools in the next two days."
A small stool is easy to make. Take a wider wooden board and find four pieces of wood of similar size to make the stool legs. Finally, nail them in and you're done!
The nails have to be driven in a little deeper, otherwise they will easily scratch your butt.
Gao Mingcheng brought a few stools from the side and let Xuanyuemei and Xiaoxuxu sit on them. Then he chatted with Gao Yuanjian, mainly asking about the family situation, how the construction of the new house was going, how much money it cost in total, and how Grandma Gao was doing.
Speaking of Grandma Gao, Gao Yuanjian said, "You said you wanted her to talk to people more. I asked her to go out for a walk every day. Now she is in good spirits, but she has no appetite due to the heat during the day."
(End of this chapter)
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