When the grass and trees are thick, we know that autumn has come when the leaves fall.
Wei Ci, held by Wei Yang's hand, once again climbed up a low slope with difficulty, her little face flushed with tiredness.
“Why is this mountain so difficult to climb?”
When stopping to rest, Wei Ci wiped the sweat from her face and felt so hot that she was about to smoke.
"There's a chestnut forest in front of us. It's quite high up here, so not many people come here usually. Just hold on a little longer."
Wei Yang pulled her up and continued walking forward, not forgetting to introduce the surrounding vegetation.
"This is a birch tree, this is a pine tree, hey... bro! There are pine cones!"
Wei Yang used his feet to dig out several pine cones, and happily broke them open to reveal the pine nuts inside that were the size of a little fingernail.
Wei Qiang glanced at it and waved his hand nonchalantly:
"It's obvious that these are leftovers from the village. There aren't many left, barely enough to fill a gap in our teeth."
Not long after the autumn harvest every year, it is time for everyone to go up the mountain to pick up mountain products. The areas outside the forest are all cleared out, and ordinary people in the deep forest dare not go in easily. After all, the big guys in the forest are trying their best to store fat for the winter. If you go in, you will be delivering food to them.
"No matter how few mosquitoes there are, it's still meat. The team leader sent all the mountain products he hunted to the supply and marketing cooperative. If I want to eat them, I have to pick them up myself."
Wei Yang pouted, saying that everything was public property and they had to eat it secretly if they wanted to.
Suddenly, he was hit on the back of his head and fell forward, almost falling flat on his face. Wei Yang roared angrily: "Wei Qiang!"
Wei Qiang rolled his eyes at her and continued pulling the cart forward. "You're so ungrateful! That was earned through collective labor. You didn't get any work points for turning it in? Besides, it's just for collective labor. I didn't say you're forbidden to come in and look for it yourself. When did the team leader ever tell you to turn something you found in to the government? If Grandma hears you say that, I wonder if she'll spank you."
His grandmother was extremely protective of her son, who was the team leader. No one could say a word about him, not even her own grandson.
There are two major surnames in Magouzi Village, Wei and Li. The Wei family is basically a large family.
Wei Ci's father has three brothers, and the father of the three brothers is Wei Ci's grandfather, who has four brothers.
Wei Ci's grandfather is the eldest son, Wei Qiang's grandfather is the second son, and the third son is my aunt. I heard that she married far away, so the younger generations in the family have never seen her. Wei Man's grandfather is the fourth son. Now, only Wei Qiang's grandfather, the second son, is still alive from that generation. Only the old ladies of the other three families are still alive.
Not to mention the many other scattered cousins, whether they were within the fifth degree or not, adding up to at least 49 households, and all of them had children and grandchildren, with naked children running around the yard.
Therefore, Wei Ci still hasn't figured out who her relatives with the surname Wei are. Basically, as soon as someone introduces them to her, she forgets them all the time. When she meets someone again, she has no idea whether to call the woman opposite her "sister-in-law" or "Auntie". When someone greets her with a smile, she is either confused or racking her brains to figure out who this person is.
The topic went off track, Wei Yang came to his senses, kicked Wei Qiang, and said angrily:
"What are you talking about? Is that what I meant?" Can you please not think of her as being so ungrateful?
The brother and sister were noisily walking while paying attention to their surroundings, and from time to time they would pull Wei Ci, who had difficulty climbing mountains.
"That chestnut tree we were looking for last time is right up ahead. No one's picking chestnuts yet, so there must be a lot of chestnuts left underneath?"
Wei Qingfeng, who had just returned from exploring the area, grabbed Wei Ci and, while talking to a few people, used his hands to help her climb up.
"Are you tired? Hold on a little longer. I'll pick some wild persimmons for you later. They're very sweet... Don't look back."
Wei Ci raised her rosy little face and tilted her head in confusion. After getting a look from him, she understood. She glanced behind her out of the corner of her eye, sighed and nodded, letting Wei Qingfeng pull her up, constantly wondering in her heart what her cousin was going to do next.
Wei Qingmiao followed the five people stealthily and hid carefully, his eyes fixed on Wei Ci's every move, fearing that she would dig out the ginseng in the next second.
There are about a dozen chestnut trees, which can be considered a small chestnut forest. The ground is covered with thorny chestnut balls, some of which are even ripe and open, revealing two round brown chestnuts inside.
"Aci, you pick it up, I'll separate the skin and the fruit. Wear gloves and be careful, use this."
As he spoke, Wei Yang handed her a pair of long chopsticks made of two wooden sticks and taught her how to use them step by step.
"You three step aside first. Goudan and I will knock down the remaining ones from the tree!"
Wei Qiang was eager to try, waving a long wooden stick, and he didn't realize that he was jumping on someone's sore spot again.
Seeing Wei Qingfeng's face darken, Wei Yang chuckled, pulled Wei Ci and Wei Man aside to rest, and took out two tomatoes from his pocket and handed them to them.
"Here! These are the last few tomatoes in my house. My mother saved them for making sauce, and I stole three of them."
Wei Ci looked at the red fruit in her hand, and a question mark slowly emerged in her head. She remembered that this seemed to be a tomato? She already had it in her space, so why was it called a tomato?
"Eat quickly! Don't let that bastard Wei Qiang see you, or he'll go and complain to my mom again. It's so annoying that a grown man keeps complaining to his parents all day long!"
Wei Ci and Wei Man looked at each other, then silently lowered their heads to eat tomatoes, pretending to be busy.
As Wei Ci looked around at the surrounding environment, his eyes suddenly fixed on a corner in the shadows not far away.
Ginseng?
Not sure, let's see...
“Oh my god, it’s really ginseng!”
Now, Wei Ci was happy. She finished the tomato in a few bites and turned to walk aside.
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