Xiaozheng and his sister were talking and laughing as they came back from school. As a result, they saw from afar that the persimmon tree in their yard seemed to have fewer persimmons on it.

When I got closer, I saw a person standing on it, picking persimmons.

He let go of his sister's hand and ran home.

“You can’t pick persimmons!”

This is the persimmon tree that Aunt Fu Yu planted in their yard. My mother said that Aunt Fu Yu said that people in their family can pick them and eat them, but they have to wait until the persimmons are ripe.

Aunt Fu Yu didn't say that others could eat them, so he had to stop the "persimmon thief"!

Yan Ziyuan climbed up the tree and was picking the fruits happily, while Uncle Wu was receiving them from below.

Suddenly, they heard a voice of stopping from a distance, and they both stopped at the same time.

Wu Xingmin glanced at the bucket of persimmons beside him and said to Yan Ziyuan on the tree, "Ziyuan, come down. We have picked almost all the persimmons. Leave some for later eating when they are ripe."

Yan Ziyuan stopped what he was doing, holding the scissors, and jumped down from the tree in no time.

Song Fuyu, who was peeling persimmons, also heard Xiaozheng's voice.

"The little guy came back and must have thought Ziyuan and the others were stealing persimmons, haha."

Xiaozheng doesn't even allow people to pick the fruits in their yard, let alone those grown in their own yard.

"Xiao Zheng, don't run away. Be careful not to fall. That's your Uncle Yan!"

Song Fuyu put down the knife, walked to the gate of the yard, and saw Xiaozheng running wildly with his eyes red with anxiety, so he hurried over to greet him.

"I was so scared, I thought someone was stealing persimmons."

Only after seeing Yan Ziyuan clearly in his yard did he stop with relief.

"With a housekeeper like you watching over it, no one dares to steal."

"Aunt Fu Yu, I missed you so much. You're finally back."

"I miss you too, and I miss Tiantian too."

She waved at Tiantian who was approaching.

"Play at our house first, and then go home when your parents come back."

The two looked at the strange "grandparents" in the yard and hesitated to go in.

"These are my grandparents. You can call them great-grandparents. They will live here with us from today. When I go to work, you can come and play with them."

"Hello, great grandfather, hello, great grandmother."

"Oh, that's good."

"Don't stand outside, come in."

Song Fuyu went into the room and brought out a glass of water for each of the siblings. He also took a piece of paper and helped Xiaozheng wipe the sweat that had formed from running too fast.

"Grandma, what are you doing?"

"I peeled the persimmons with your great grandfather and made persimmon cakes."

"But this persimmon is not ripe, right? Mom said that unripe persimmons are too astringent and can't be eaten."

"To make dried persimmon cakes, you have to use unripe persimmons. Overripe persimmons can't be made and will spoil easily."

"So that's how it is. I understand."

"Sister, do you want to eat dried persimmons?"

"think."

"Why don't we wait for Mom and Dad to come back and let them pick some to make dried persimmon cakes?"

"I picked a bucket for your family, but you yelled and scared me so much that I didn't dare to pick any more."

Yan Ziyuan was carrying a bucket full of persimmons and teasing Xiaozheng.

"I'm sorry Uncle Yan, I didn't know it was you in the tree. I thought you guys hadn't come back yet. If I knew it was you picking the fruits, I definitely wouldn't have shouted."

Seeing that Xiao Zheng was serious and looked a little apologetic, Grandma Yan quickly explained with a smile: "Your Uncle Yan was just kidding you. The bucket of persimmons he was carrying was picked for your family."

"After we finish sitting, we can eat sweet persimmon cakes in more than ten days."

"Great, thank you Uncle Yan, you've worked hard."

"You are welcome."

He imitated the adults and said words of thanks in a serious manner, which made the adults present laugh.

"Xiao Zheng, to thank you for taking such good care of the yard for me, I brought you a lot of snacks."

"Really?"

"real."

"Yeah! That's great! Thank you Aunt Yan."

Song Fuyu went back to the room and took out the snacks for the siblings. The bag was filled with the snacks she had made in Beijing this time.

"I heard from your mother that you protected my dates and hawthorns, so in addition to the snacks I brought for you, you can also pick some dates to eat at home."

She handed over the bag.

Xiaozheng saw that there was a big bag with so many and didn’t dare to take it.

"Come on, take it back and eat with your sister later."

"Aunt Yan, there are too many. Just give us a little to try."

Tiantian also helped Xiaozheng to refuse. They could accept rewards, but they could not be greedy.

"Take it. I've already told your mother about it. This is a deal between us. She won't tell anyone."

After they took the snacks, she gave the siblings a basin and asked them to pick the dates themselves.

"Grandpa and grandma, you take a rest. Uncle Wu and I will peel it."

The two elders were not polite in front of their younger generations. They handed the peeling knife in their hands to them and stood up to stretch their bodies.

"Grandpa and grandma, do you want to eat anything tonight?"

"I can eat rice or noodles. I want to wash some fresh vegetables and dip them in sauce later. I've been looking at these vegetables all afternoon and I'm craving them."

In the past, Grandma Yan would definitely choose rice without hesitation. But after eating the noodles made by Xiao Yu, she suddenly realized that the reason she didn’t like it before was just because it wasn’t cooked well.

"There are not many vegetables here. Tomorrow I will take you to the private plot to have a look. There are more than ten kinds of vegetables planted there. I can't even eat them all. I plan to pick some and dry them to eat in the winter."

"Ziyuan, is there anyone here who can make a sieve? A drying mat would also be fine. I want to make a few to put at home to dry things."

Before, she always took it into the space for processing, but now that her grandparents are here, it is obviously not possible to take it into the space.

"After dinner, I'll go ask Xiao Bai. He knows best who will do what."

"By the way, tell him to ask the three of them to come over for dinner tomorrow."

"Wife, you really don't feel tired~"

"It's just adding three more dishes and chopsticks. It's not that tiring. I'm already so familiar with Xiaobai. I don't need to prepare a full banquet for them. It's fine to just order a bowl of noodles."

"Okay, I'll talk to him later."

..........

Liu Aihua came back before Li Hu.

She was also the first to notice that there were fewer persimmons on the persimmon tree in her yard. However, she was not as excited as Xiaozheng, because she knew without hesitation that Fu Yu and the others had picked them.

"Mrs. Liu, come over here and wash your hands and get to work!"

When Song Fuyu saw her, he called her over without any hesitation.

"Why don't you let people rest?"

"Look, these unpeeled persimmons on the ground are all picked for your family."

“Our family can’t eat that much.”

She glanced at the pile of persimmons on the ground. There were at least hundreds of them.

If all of these were made into dried persimmon cakes, they would sell for at least 20 or 30 yuan at the supply and marketing cooperative.

“We pick more at home!”

"Don't worry about not being able to finish it. If you store it well, it won't be a problem to keep it for half a year."

"Xiao Zheng just told us not to help and to wait until his parents come back."

"This brat keeps assigning us tasks."

After washing her hands, Liu Aihua took the knife from Song Fuyu with a smile, sat on a low stool and began to peel the persimmons.

"Let me make it clear first, I don't know how to make dried persimmons. You have to teach me everything from start to finish."

"You just need to prepare a large vat that can hold hundreds of dried persimmons to cover the frost, and everything else is very simple."

When Li Hu came back, he was also called to work in the Yan family yard.

Knowing that it was a job assigned by his own boy, he pulled Xiaozheng over and said to him: "When the persimmon cakes are ready, if you want to eat them, just spend one cent to buy them from your mother."

"ah?"

"Do I have to pay for dried persimmons?"

"Of course, it's you who has to do it, but your mother and I will do the work."

"Okay, buy it, I have money!"

Liu Aihua is very busy now, so she divides some housework into different levels according to the difficulty and lets her two children take on the tasks. After they complete the tasks, she will give them the corresponding salary.

This makes her feel relieved, and the children don't have to feel embarrassed to ask her for pocket money when they want to buy something.