Shen Yunzhao was full of energy and picked up the machete to start chopping down the tree.
First, cut down all the trees within a one-meter radius, pull out the grass, and clean up.
Then spread the mat on the open space and put Yaoyao and the things she brought on the mat.
After finishing all this, Shen Yunzhao's hands were sore and painful. He sat down on the mat and threw the machete aside.
“It’s useless!”
Zhou Xiuqin curled her lips in disdain, stuffed Yaoyao to Shen Yunzhao, picked up the machete, and started chopping trees.
Zhou Xiuqin is tall, strong and powerful. She spent decades in the countryside and is a good farm worker.
Although I hadn't held a hatchet for more than ten years, once I picked it up, except for the first few strokes that were a bit unfamiliar, I became extremely skilled. In just a few strokes, I chopped down a tree, and then the second, the third...
Shen Yunzhao felt extremely embarrassed. Compared to her mother, she was such a waste!
Alas, when will her physical strength be improved?
"Hey, Yaoyao, where are you going?"
After I hadn't looked at Yaoyao for a while, the little guy started crawling forward very fast.
The little guy Shen Yunzhao was playing with her, giggling and crawling faster.
“Don’t run!”
Shen Yunzhao hugged Yaoyao and patted her little butt gently.
"I told you not to run away, but you kept running! You're such a naughty little baby."
The only response she got was Yaoyao's sweet laughter.
Shen Yunzhao helplessly patted her little butt again.
"Yaoyao, what are you holding in your hand?"
Shen Yunzhao grabbed Yaoyao's little hand. The chubby hand was clenched into a fist, and the palm of the hand was holding a round green fruit.
Bayberry!
Shen Yunzhao pried open Yaoyao's hands, took out the fruit and looked at it carefully. It was really bayberry!
"Where did you get the bayberries?"
“Ahhhhh…” The little guy babbled a lot, but Shen Yunzhao didn’t understand a word.
She went back along the path where Yaoyao had crawled and actually found two bayberries.
Then, we found a bayberry tree full of fruits.
The branches are full of red fruits, which are so heavy that the branches are drooping. Countless bayberries have fallen under the tree, and from a distance it looks like a red carpet.
Shen Yunzhao shouted to Zhou Xiuqin, "Mom, come here quickly! There is a bayberry tree here!"
When Zhou Xiuqin heard the voice, she looked towards Shen Yunzhao and immediately saw the particularly eye-catching bayberry tree with green and red.
“Hey, there’s a bayberry tree!”
She put down the machete, wiped the sweat from her face with her sleeve, and strode over.
Shen Yunzhao had already stood on tiptoe to pick the nearest bayberry. The flesh was purple-red and about the size of a baby's fist.
"It's so big!" Zhou Xiuqin came over to take a look, a little surprised.
"The fruits on this bayberry tree are quite large, and many are ripe."
Shen Yunzhao started eating as he spoke.
Take a bite and you will find the flesh is thick and soft, very juicy, and sweet without any sourness.
"Mmm, it's so delicious! Mom, pick one and eat it."
Zhou Xiuqin also picked a large, dark-colored bayberry and exclaimed, "So sweet!" after eating it.
Shen Yunzhao was about to pick the second one when he heard Yaoyao's cry.
Shen Yunzhao looked down and saw Yaoyao twisting her little body with her short hands stretched high, as if she was going to pick bayberries.
Shen Yunzhao chuckled, "Baby, do you want to eat too?"
"Ahhh!" Little Yaoyao, who couldn't speak yet, became even more anxious. She grabbed her mother's clothes with one hand and pointed at Yangmei with the other.
"Haha, Yaoyao, you little foodie! Grandma gives this to you!"
Zhou Xiuqin gave the freshly picked bayberries to Yaoyao, but unfortunately the bayberries were too big for Yaoyao to hold with one hand, so she used her other hand to help.
The little guy held a bayberry in his two little hands, opened his little mouth, and took a bite, filling his mouth with red juice.
"Yaoyao, you can't eat the hard core!"
Shen Yunzhao stopped picking bayberries and stared at Yaoyao, fearing that she would swallow the core as well.
Yaoyao was not stupid either. She ate the whole bayberry and spit out the core.
"Well, really smart! That's it!" Shen Yunzhao finally felt relieved.
Shen Yunzhao was taking care of Yaoyao while picking bayberries at an extremely slow pace.
Fortunately, Zhou Xiuqin was very capable and picked half a bag in a short time.
"What a pity! Many bayberries were eaten by birds, especially the ripe ones."
Zhou Xiuqin climbed down from the tree, and Shen Yunzhao looked a little worried, "Mom, be careful!"
"I'm not as useless as you!"
Zhou Xiuqin rolled her eyes and simply jumped down from the tree.
Shen Yunzhao handed Yaoyao to Zhou Xiuqin and climbed up the tree to pick bayberries.
Her hands and feet were not as nimble as Zhou Xiuqin's, and she was slow, but she soon picked half a bag.
After picking a bag, the two decided not to pick any more and continued to cut trees.
"Mom, take a rest."
Zhou Xiuqin had been chopping trees for half an hour and didn't show any signs of fatigue, but Shen Yunzhao didn't want her to be too tired. After all, the main purpose of coming to the space today was not to work, but to play.
"I'm not tired. I'll chop down a few more trees."
Zhou Xiuqin pushed away the water handed to her by Shen Yunzhao, picked up the hatchet, and chopped it down with a few clicks. Another tree fell down.
After another ten minutes or so, Zhou Xiuqin finally stopped.
He took a sip of water and said, "If we pile these trees aside and let them bask in the sun, they'll be ready to burn as firewood in a few months. The same goes for the grass; when it dries up, it can also be used as firewood."
Because Yaoyao needed someone to watch over her, otherwise who knows where the little guy would crawl to, Shen Yunzhao and Zhou Xiuqin took turns chopping trees and pulling weeds.
In one morning, the two of them cleaned up about five square meters of space.
This efficiency really made Shen Yunzhao want to cry.
It seems that manual land reclamation is really unrealistic. Not only is it inefficient, but it is also very tiring. They may have to wait until next year to complete these four or five acres of land.
We still need to use modern tools.
Shen Yunzhao had already decided to go to Taobao to buy tools such as plows, lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc.
Zhou Xiuqin agreed with this.
…
Shen Yunzhao was unable to enter the space in the afternoon because there were guests at home.
"Yun Zhao, the red mushrooms you picked a few days ago were so delicious! We ate a whole pound of them in one meal..."
Aunt Zhou Xiuying started praising Shen Quzhao as soon as she entered the room, and she made Shen Quzhao feel embarrassed.
"Auntie, sit down."
After pouring a glass of water for Zhou Xiuying, Shen Yunzhao brought out a plate of bayberries picked that morning.
"Is this bayberry?" Zhou Xiuying was shocked. It's not like she had never seen large bayberries before, but this was the first time she had seen a plate of bayberries this big!
"Haha, it's a new variety of bayberry my friend sent me. It's very sweet and almost not sour." This was the excuse Shen Yunzhao and Zhou Xiuqin came up with.
"Oh, it's a new variety! I must try it."
Zhou Xiuying took one and started eating it. It was sweet, not sour at all, and tasted really good.
Originally, she almost never ate bayberries because she couldn't eat sour food, but now she had forgotten that she didn't like bayberries. She ate one after another, and soon she had eaten more than ten of them.
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