Su Tao, who was used as a comparison at this time, quickly picked half of the basket and slid down from the tree like a monkey.
"Lanlan, come here quickly. I picked some plums for you. They are sour and sweet, a little small, but they taste pretty good."
Upon hearing this, Song Tanglan hurried over, looked at the plums in Su Tao's backpack, took one and tasted it, and found that it was still a little sour for her.
She was so sad that she almost cried and her face was distorted. Seeing Song Tanglan like this, Su Tao burst into laughter.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see the gloating look on his face.
"This is too sour, it's not sweet or sour at all."
"Lanlan, all plums look like this. I don't know why there is such a large orchard on the mountain."
"I actually know this. I asked Aunt Li, and she said that the brigade used to be the private property of a wealthy family, and they planted this orchard. Later, when the landlord system was abolished, their house in the brigade was smashed to pieces. Aunt Li also heard that there was an orchard on the mountain, but they evacuated it very quickly. People at that time went up the mountain to look for it but couldn't find it, and no one reported it when they did. So no one mentioned it later. I didn't expect that I was so lucky and Xiaohu found it."
Su Tao suddenly understood. "So that's how it is. I was wondering why there are so many varieties of fruit trees here. If they were all wild, I wouldn't believe it. I didn't expect them to be planted in this valley."
After eating the fruit in his hand, he poured the fruit in the basket into Song Tanglan's basket.
"These are all for you. I'm going up to pick some more now."
"Thank you, Taotao."
"Don't be polite, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have this harvest!"
After saying that, she climbed up the tree again nimbly, but this time she chose a different variety of tree. Song Tanglan wandered under the trees of several children, helped them put the fruits in their baskets on the ground, and then returned the baskets to them so that they could continue picking.
"Fourth sister, this is so sweet, do you want it?"
Song Tanglan looked at the pear in his little hand, took it reluctantly, took a bite and found that it was indeed sweet.
“This is really sweet.”
"Do you like it, Fourth Sister? If you like, pick some more."
"Just watch over it. Fourth sister is not picky. They will all be made into dried fruits." After saying that, Song Tanglan took over his backpack and helped him put the fruits carefully on the ground.
It didn't take them long to fill up a backpack. With Song Tanglan's help, the children's backpacks were also full.
They were also very considerate and gave a portion to Song Tanglan. Only when they saw that her backpack was full did they feel satisfied.
Although Song Tanglan had been helping, she went to a peach tree not far away, picked a lot of peaches from the tree, and put a lot of them into the space.
Over this period of time, she continued to smuggle fruits into the space, and now there is already a small pile of fruits in the space. For the overall beauty, she also specially purchased a lot of baskets and placed them in the space, but she exchanged these in the town, so no one knew about it.
In addition, most of the trees here are peach trees, and she also got a lot of peach gum from the trees.
When they returned home with their full baskets, Xiaohu kept reminding his friends on the way that this was their secret and they couldn't tell anyone. He also said that if they told anyone, he wouldn't take them with him when he came across other good things in the future.
His good friends nodded and promised quickly. When they got home, no matter how their family asked, they didn't tell them. They just said that they found it in the mountains where they used to play often, but that's a story for later.
Song Tanglan didn't say much when he saw this. They all knew that if they told the team about such a large orchard, they would not get much in the future. What's more, others might not be grateful to them. Instead, they might think that they had picked enough and there was no need to compete with them for the food.
Originally, whoever found and picked the things on the mountain owned them. Moreover, the valley was not very big. If the whole team knew about it, they would not be able to pick much.
For this reason, Cheng Fangyuan told them not to tell anyone and even followed them to the area to take a look. After confirming that there was no danger, he felt at ease letting them pick fruit there.
The valley is very close to the deep mountains, and few people would run so far. After all, there are wolves and wild boars on the mountains. In addition, their Red Star Brigade is surrounded by mountains, and the mountain they are on is very close to where they live, so few people come here.
Because there had been a pack of wolves here before, but that was more than fifty years ago. Cheng Fangyuan had never heard of wolves howling here, otherwise he wouldn't have been so confident in letting them go up the mountain.
Fortunately, after a few days of picking, all the fruits were finally picked. Cheng Fangyuan took a few male comrades to trim the branches of the orchard and applied a lot of cow dung to the trees so that the fruits here would be bigger next year.
When Cheng Fangyuan first said he wanted to pick up cow dung to fertilize the orchard, he was afraid that these educated youth from the city would not be willing to do it, so he had already decided to do it himself. Unexpectedly, they did it very well and without a single complaint.
Even Jiang Shubai, who he thought was the least likely to help, did not complain at all. After work, he secretly followed them to transport cow dung to the orchard. Cheng Fangyuan was very surprised by this and his impression of him changed a lot. His attitude towards him was not as polite as before and he became more loyal.
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Just looking at such a huge harvest made the two sisters feel troubled. The jars they prepared were already full of canned goods, and now they would have to spend a lot of effort to peel and dry so many fruits.
The four men worked for three days, their hands almost worn out from peeling, before they finally finished peeling the skin, cut it into thin slices, and spread them out one by one on the winnowing basket in the yard.
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