A few little kids are picking mulberries from the tree.
The mulberry tree with lush branches and leaves has a large crown, almost eight meters in diameter. There are so many mulberries hidden inside that birds will fly down to peck at them.
The mulberries were about two finger joints long, already purple to black, and obviously ripe. There were still hundreds of them fallen on the ground, which made the children very greedy, so they sneaked up the tree to pick them.
Suddenly, a child looked down and saw a fair-skinned little girl inside the courtyard wall watching them pick fruits with a smile.
"Hey, remember to pick some for me too." Xiang Mianmian looked up at them. No wonder everyone called them naughty monkeys. These guys' ability to climb trees was no different from that of monkeys.
The child was startled for a moment, but when he saw her smiling, he said embarrassedly, "Okay, let's pick seven bags of apples to taste. How many do you want?"
Handed two bamboo baskets to Mianmian.
They were quick and nimble, quickly folding mulberry leaves into bowl shapes, picking seven bags, and then filling Xiang Mianmian's basket: "Sorry, we saw no one was picking these, so we wanted to avoid wasting them, so..."
Xiang Mianmian smiled and said, "It's okay. My fourth brother picked a round last time, and it's ripe again this time. He went fishing today and didn't have time to pick them."
After eating mulberries, your mouth will turn black, including your tongue and teeth.
So adults just taste it, this is a carnival for children.
The adults in the family were all at work. Sisters Xiang Lili and Xiang Mianmian couldn't climb trees. Xiang Lihua, who could climb trees, heard that there were fish in the river, so he ran happily with his friends, carrying buckets.
This mulberry tree is planted in the backyard of Xiang Mianmian's house. It provides shade and coolness. The mulberry leaves can be picked and exchanged for small items, and the mulberries can be eaten. How wonderful!
The mulberry leaves were tender in early spring. A peddler walked by the back door and exchanged three pieces of candy and a few red hairbands with Xiang Lihua in exchange for nearly ten pounds of tender leaves from the mulberry tree.
Xiang Lihua was so happy that he immediately jumped up the tree and plucked all the mulberry leaves. The peddler told him to leave 20% of the leaves, otherwise the mulberry tree would not bear fruit.
Xiang Mianmian touched the red hairband on her head, and found it funny that Xiang Lihua had tricked her into thinking that there was no candy, but in the end it was discovered that he had kept it all for himself, and Xiang Lili had given him a good beating.
After I finished thinking about it, I saw the child carrying mulberries to his friend under the tree with a rope and preparing to go down.
The children actually jumped down from the tree directly from the wall of her house. When Xiang Mianmian heard the thud, she felt sorry for their painful feet.
The courtyard wall is two meters high. I don’t know how these kids got up there, and they even dared to jump down. They’re amazing.
He shook his head at Mianmian and took out two handfuls from the basket for his family to taste.
Then he carried the basket to the steel plant and handed it to Xiang Liguo and Xiang Meimei who were working.
This little gadget is not worth much, so it's just right to give it to your in-laws as a favor and let them try something new.
We have many children and are burdened with heavy responsibilities. We cannot afford to give expensive gifts and don’t know what to give in return. It would be nice for the whole family to try this new thing.
That night, Xiang Liguo came back with half a bucket of river shrimps. "Chunting's nephew caught them in the river. Give us a bucket to try."
Xiang Meimei also brought a return gift from Chen Wei: "It was some fashionable clam oil that a colleague brought from Shanghai. One for each of us to use to prevent frostbite in the winter."
People ate the river shrimp, but no one dared to touch the clam oil because they were afraid it was too expensive.
"Don't worry, it's not expensive. It's 5 cents each in Shanghai, and with the ticket price it's less than 8 cents."
Xiang Meimei stuffed the plump clam oil into everyone's hands.
This clam oil is packaged in clam shells picked up from the seashore, so if you look closely you'll see that the patterns on each one are different. One side has an eye-shaped trademark with a hand drawn on it, and the words "clam oil" and "for frostbite" written on it.
Everyone looked at this new gadget in amazement.
I picked and chose the clam patterns I liked and chose a clam with a hint of purple from Mianmian because it looked pretty.
"By the way, mother, the third sister of the Chen family is proposing marriage tomorrow afternoon. I will go to his house and won't be back for dinner." Xiang Meimei said with a smile.
Zhang Jidi knew about it on the day of the engagement announcement and waved his hand: "Go ahead, and come back early after dinner."
If you are not married, you cannot stay overnight at the man’s house. It is okay to have a meal alone for a while, but it is not okay to stay out all night.
"Okay, I'll go there by bike and come back as early as possible. Then you don't have to prepare my meal at home."
Although the bicycle was a dowry, Xiang Meimei had already mastered riding it and was good at using it as soon as she bought it.
The day before your wedding, wash and dry your bicycle, add some oil, and tie a big red flower on it. Wouldn’t it be as good as new?
The next afternoon, Xiang Meimei cleaned herself up, put the lotus earrings in her arms, and rode her bicycle to Chen's house.
The journey took only a dozen minutes. When we got off the bus, we looked at our watch. It was 4:32.
She was familiar with the route to Chen's house, and the neighbors in the hallway teased her in a friendly manner: "Xiaomei, why are you here at Chen's?"
"Hello, aunts, come to the Chen family to see uncle and aunt."
"I think you're thinking about that kid from the Chen family, right? Okay, go up, Dawei's at home."
Smile shyly at Meimei.
She entered the Chen family, greeted Chen's father and mother, and then pulled the carefully dressed Chen Sanni into the room.
"Third sister, this is my wedding gift to you. Auntie said that you will get married earlier than us, and I won't be able to give you any makeup then, so I'm giving you this gift in advance."
Hand the earrings in your pocket to Meimei.
The white and tender hands were slender and beautiful, and in the palms of their hands was a small dark red gift box, two inches square.
Chen Sanni looked at her sister-in-law in surprise. She knew that everyone praised Xiang Meimei for being very good at dealing with people and that there had never been any problems in her interpersonal relationships, but she never expected that Xiang Meimei would be so generous.
Since she hasn't married in yet, there's actually no need to buy her anything. Which family has such a rule that a daughter-in-law who hasn't married in yet would buy gifts for her elder sister-in-law when proposing marriage?
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