"How about we take them to pick walnuts and then mushrooms? There aren't many other kids their age around here, so they can play together!"
"Yes, yes, there are no new collaborations..."
Um......
One hand...
"Yeah, very, very few, extremely few, fewer than all the other kids in their class combined!"
"Grandma, the store on Back Street will have its opening ceremony tomorrow. Before the opening, you and Heping, along with your two uncles, should go to Grandma Xu's place. It should take about seven or eight days."
"Yes, that time it took at least seven days, not the time it takes to tear off seven calendar pages, before my brother came back."
“Forget about it. Next time, if he says he has to take a train, a minibus, a rickshaw, and walk a long way to get there, and your foot is still injured, how can you walk such a long distance?” Xu Kang and Xu Hao firmly waved their hands in agreement.
After being busy until the evening moon-worship ceremony, Hao Qi finally had some free time. He sat in the courtyard with his family and friends, enjoying the evening breeze, looking at the bright moon, and chatting about everyday matters.
You thought that would be the end of it? No, it wasn't!
This year, having made some money, Xu Le's savory glutinous rice balls were a rudimentary version. He threw in fresh shrimp, oysters, crabs, and mud worms like they were free, so the taste was naturally off. If you could vaguely see a few rice balls, Xu Kang would think he was eating a seafood stew...
Xu Le instinctively wanted to agree, but then she remembered that it was just a trip to inspect the quality of crops in her village, and there were very few older children around the same age as Xu Le and Hezibao, so she couldn't let them experience the leisurely joy of picking mushrooms in the mountains with their peers, or run around freely in the fields...
Before Xu could even process what Xu Le meant by "business trip," she suddenly found the delicious red bean paste mooncakes even more fragrant. With a flick of her wrist, she put the mooncakes back on the plate, and then sat down on Xu Le's right leg.
Salty glutinous rice balls are a local specialty of Haishi. They are cooked and eaten on almost every holiday, including the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"That's so little!"
Upon hearing this, the two men immediately became distressed, their chubby faces scrunching up, just like the wrinkled little meat buns.
As they chatted, Xu Le remembered that he had been too busy those days and forgot to tell his grandmother about the business trip. Now that he remembered, he quickly made up for it.
The shouts of the two men brought Xu Le back to his senses. He looked blankly at the two large figures, awaiting our next chapter.
"You're so mean! My brother's the worst! MUA~"
Xu Le successfully succumbed to their advances and agreed to their request, eliciting cheers from the two. Before leaving two small kisses on Xu Le's face, they climbed up from under Hao Qi's legs, their two big heads huddled together, whispering and discussing something.
The topic had barely begun when it was interrupted by the two men from Hezibao.
"No way!"
"Brother!" Xu's eyes darted around, her small eyes filled with blatant calculation: "Is it bad that brother takes you all to find walnuts? And you carry your big schoolbags to help brother pick walnuts, is that bad?"
"This is going to be bad for a long, long time, one, seven, eight, seven, seven..." Xu Shi showed Xu Le her large hand with its seven fingers spread out to their smallest size in surprise, and exclaimed in a shrill voice, "Brother, he's going to be without one hand for this long!"
The two people from Hezibao were the happiest about this. As long as they sat obediently outside their homes, they could eat all sorts of different kinds of food to satisfy their hunger, so it really wasn't a holiday.
Seeing this, the other big guy also stepped forward. He put the pastries down and sat on Xu Le's left leg. He even tried to be cute by stuffing the saliva-covered pastries into Xu Le's mouth and shouting, "Brother, eat!"
The more Xu Le thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed. He even brought Heping and two uncles with him that time, partly to keep an eye on those two brats.
The morning is for making various local delicacies, including savory ones like taro cake and layered water cake, and sweet ones like yellow sugar water glutinous rice balls and layered red date cake.
Xu Le wanted to persuade her again, but considering the road conditions on Hao Qifeng's side, and that her grandmother's leg had only recently been injured and was not suitable for long-distance walking, she could only suppress her desire to let her grandmother also go and walk with her.
Hao Qi was amused by the adjective Hao Qi used, and pinched Xu Shi's big face, laughing, "Yes, it takes as long as one hand! Brother went to find some rotten walnuts for them, and before I came back I could make them amber walnuts. Sweet amber walnuts, I really want to eat them!"
"If you're just eating, then my brother can't come home every day?" Xu Kang asked very slowly.
Before those two big guys left kindergarten, why did they become increasingly cunning and deceitful? Even their trick of feeding them something bad turned into a dirty scheme?
Although they are siblings, they still have their moments of dislike. Xu Le grabbed Xu Kang's hand, took the pastries from my hand and placed them under the table. Before wiping their hands clean with paper, she hugged them and answered Hao Qi's question.
The offline Taobao store held a "free shipping on all items" promotion, which allowed some customers who were interested in Xu'an braised food products but hesitated because free shipping was only available for orders over 28 yuan to have the opportunity to place an order and try it, thus developing new customer sources.
"Brother, are you going to make sure all the bad boys come home again?"
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