noffsinger Chapter 137 Tug of War
Chapter 137 Tug of War
After lunch, Lan Xin took a short break and fished out a big watermelon from the well, cut it in pieces and ate it as fruit.
My stomach was originally full, but after seeing the sweet watermelon, I suddenly felt not so full.
Especially children like Yingying, Yueyue and Zhao Yueling, who were holding a piece of watermelon that was bigger than their little faces and chewing it hard. Their tender little faces were covered with watermelon juice and a few shiny black watermelon seeds.
I don't know what made these kids laugh, they pointed at each other and laughed, and soon it turned into a watermelon seeds spitting battle.
There were only three little girls, but they were causing such a commotion in the whole yard.
After eating the watermelon, Zhao Qingfeng and his friends did not stay long. They also had their own things to do and did not want to waste the whole day in this small mountain village.
and……
Lan Xin looked around the small courtyard of her own home. There was really no place to entertain guests in her small courtyard. There was only a brick house with both eating and sleeping. Zhao Qingfeng and the others were not very familiar with them, so they didn't feel comfortable entering their room. Therefore, they could only entertain them in the courtyard or in the thatched house next door.
At lunch time, Lan Xin and the others brought the dishes to Lao Lan's house as a treat.
Lan Xin stroked her chin and thought, it seemed that she had to hurry up and build this big house. Apart from anything else, Lan Xin herself was not willing to entertain anyone so she could only stay in her room.
We have to make money quickly.
I just heard Old Man Lan muttering that in a few days it would be the busy farming season again and it would be time to harvest rice.
After harvesting rice, we have to pick corn, and then there are other big and small farm chores to do. We are busy until November and December.
Every household is so busy, I don’t know if it will be easy to find someone to build a house.
Lan Xin kept this matter in mind, thinking of asking Lan Qing about it later, asking him whether he had found someone to build the house as he had promised last time.
Several children were playing around. Lan Xin and her friends, along with Zhao Qingfeng, Zhao Yuxia and others, wore big straw hats and picked up the vegetables in Lan Xin's small yard. Only then did they stop, feeling unsatisfied.
Looking at the basket of vegetables in her hand, Zhao Yuxia couldn't hide the smile on her face. She squinted her eyes and said, "There are so many vegetables, enough for me to eat for many meals."
In addition to the vegetables grown in Lan Xin's small yard, there are also some vegetables grown in the large vegetable garden of Old Lan's family. In the morning when it was not yet hot, Old Mrs. Lan took Zhao Yuxia to the field to pick those vegetables.
As for the vegetables in Lanxin's yard, they were not picked until now because they were close and there were not many of them.
Zhao Yuxia looked at the full basket with a sense of accomplishment in her eyes. She didn't care at all that she had picked them in such a hot day, as if she was not the one who didn't want to bask in the sun before.
Lan Xin touched her chin and thought, is this the gene of Chinese people? It’s not okay to go out and play on a hot day, but it’s okay to pick vegetables?
A Qing on the side followed suit and pointed. The basket in Zhao Qingfeng's hand had the least vegetables. There were probably few people in his family, so most of the vegetables he picked were tomatoes and cucumbers that could be eaten raw.
"Oh, how come the vegetables I picked this morning became wilted after a while?" A Qing said with heartache in his eyes.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have picked so many, so that they wouldn’t be wasted if we couldn’t finish them.
"Haha, Aqing, you don't understand. After you take these vegetables back, you can rinse them with water and dry them. When you want to eat them, just take them out and soak them."
Zhao Yuxia spoke with the tone of someone who had experienced this.
Alas, this grown man just doesn’t understand these things. He only knows how to eat and pick, without any ideas in his mind.
Unlike her, once she arrived at the vegetable garden, she could already think of hundreds of ways to cook any vegetable.
Lan Xin nodded: "Yes, in addition to making dried vegetables, you can also pickle sauerkraut to make pickles."
Ah Qing felt dizzy after hearing this. He could only cook some dishes and eat them. He couldn't understand such complicated things.
Zhao Yuxia sighed and said, "Okay, just take these dishes back and let your family take care of them."
Ah Qing sighed in frustration. This was the only way to deal with it.
Seeing that it was getting late, Zhao Qingfeng called out, "Zhao Yueling, get ready. It's time for us to go home."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Yueling's little mouth pouted so hard that a bottle of oil could be hung on it, and she looked at Yingying and Yueyue reluctantly.
"Dad, I don't want to go home yet. It's still early. Let's play some more."
"It will take us several hours to drive back to the city, and it will be dark if we get home any later." Zhao Qingfeng shook his head mercilessly in refusal.
"But I don't want to leave yet, I still want to play with Yingying and Yueyue~" Zhao Yueling shouted coquettishly, her sharp voice made Zhao Qingfeng frown.
"Let's play next time."
"No, no, no, no..."
The father and daughter were pulling each other to the limit. Lan Xin couldn't help but stare in a daze and turned to look at the well-behaved Yingying and Yueyue standing beside them.
She said something seemed to be wrong.
In her interactions with Yingying and Yueyue, she had never seen Yingying and Yueyue act like a spoiled child with her like Zhao Yueling did. The two children had always been sensible and well-behaved. They would do whatever Lan Xin said and were very obedient.
But they are obviously only five or eight years old, about the same age as Zhao Yueling. How could they be so sensible that it makes people feel distressed?
Even for Yueyue, behind her seemingly naughty actions, she was cautious. She would secretly look at her expression before daring to stretch out her little claws. She was never the kind of person who was spoiled to the point of being unscrupulous. In her heart, she did not trust that she could receive the loving pampering.
Chen Baoni and Lan Qing's twelve-year-old eldest child would act like a spoiled child in front of them and was so naughty that it made people want to bite him, but he was never afraid of Chen Baoni and Lan Qing.
The difference between them may be that one is a well-behaved and sensible stray cat who dares not throw a temper for fear of not being loved, while the other is a child who grew up in pampering and is not afraid of his parents' temper because he knows that no matter what, his parents are there and will not abandon them.
Lan thought to herself that she was not a competent mother and had not even noticed this.
Lan Xin reached out and touched their heads with loving care. Yingying and Yueyue closed their eyes and felt Lan Xin's touch, tilting their little faces with a little flesh on them. They looked obedient and pitiful.
On the other side, Zhao Qingfeng finally coaxed Zhao Yueling. Even though she had already agreed, Zhao Yueling turned her head away angrily, expressing her disgust for Zhao Qingfeng, and then pulled Yingying and Yueyue to say goodbye.
Old Man Lan and Old Lady Lan mentioned the gifts that Zhao Qingfeng and his friends had brought, and asked them to take them back as long as the gift showed.
Zhao Qingfeng, Zhao Yuxia and the others also started to push and resist, the two sides were fighting back and forth, which made Lan Xin, who was standing aside, very happy. This extreme tug of war was really an eye-opener.
In the end, Old Lady Lan, who was defeated in the fight of rejection, reached out her hand and knocked her head, saying angrily, "Why are you still laughing so foolishly? You are so grown up and still don't know what to do. It's unreasonable to let the guests go back empty-handed. Why don't you pack the tea eggs quickly?"
"Oh oh oh."