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After picking pomegranates, the mother and son went to hunt dates again. The fruit trees in the backyard, including peaches and apricots, were already out of season, and the grapes were also turned into wine. Now, the only ones left are two date trees and two papayas, the kind from the north. Papayas are generally not eaten directly. They don’t taste good. The flesh is tough, less juicy, and sour. However, it has a strong fragrance. If you put it in the house, it is a natural aromatherapy. It can last for several months. There are very few grown locally. Because in the eyes of the common people, it was of little use. In later generations, it was cultivated in large quantities in some places and became a specialty industry. Papaya wine, papaya tea, and papaya slices can also be viewed. They mature in late autumn and early winter, when the leaves have fallen and The golden papayas are still hanging all over the branches, and the fragrance is astonishing, which creates a unique artistic conception.

But now, we are still far away from the beautiful scenery, but the dates are all red. When autumn comes, they cannot be hidden behind the gradually sparse leaves, and they are densely packed and hanging on the treetops.

Song Hongguo held a long pole and patted it with a little force, and the dates fell one after another like rain. The two children were not afraid of being hit on the head, and they were very happy carrying the basket.

When Huo Minglou came, the dates were all finished. He just had time to dry them. He moved the baskets to the flat roof and spread them on the reed mats. They would be dry in three to five days, and then they could be bagged and stored.

He came with Li He, and with the two of them helping with the work, Song Hongguo went to the kitchen to cook. They and their children went to pick pears. Pears were the most troublesome. The tree was too tall to hit with a pole. It is easy to break if dropped on the ground, leaving scratches on it, and it is not easy to preserve, so you have to climb a tree to pick it.

The two adults climbed up the tree to pick, picked up a full basket, and sent it down with a rope. The two children were waiting on the ground to pick it up. When the basket touched the ground, they picked it up one by one without stopping, and the cycle continued.

Song Hongguo had finished making breakfast and had only picked half of the pear trees. She shouted to a few people to eat first, not in a hurry, and to work after eating.

I had braised noodles for breakfast. The fragrant braised noodles were poured on the hand-rolled noodles. No one said a word while eating. After putting down the bowl, Huo Minglou said, "Even if my sister-in-law's cooking skills are only half as good as yours, my eldest brother and several If she is a nephew and niece, she would rather eat in the cafeteria every day than let her cook."

Song Hongguo asked with a smile, "Is it that exaggerated? Your sister-in-law seems to be a model of a good wife and mother, but the food she cooks cannot be eaten? Are you all picky?"

Huo Minglou said in a nutshell, "It's not an exaggeration. You will know after you eat it. The same ingredients will become a disaster in her hands. For dinner last night, my sister-in-law scrambled an egg. That dish is simple enough, right?" ? But the taste was so weird that some of the children were humbled. I tasted it and said it was sweet or not, salty or not, and it also had a bit of burnt bitterness. In short, I couldn't swallow it even if I wasn't extremely hungry."

Song Hongguo heard this and joked, "Does your sister-in-law know that you are complaining about her like this behind her back? Aren't you afraid that I will sue you in the future?"

Huo Minglou smiled and said, "I said the same thing to my face, and so did everyone else."

"Your sister-in-law won't take care of you?"

"Take care of it. She will cook for us even harder. The more we complain about the bad food, the harder she will cook until we don't dare to say a word."

Song Hongguo couldn't help but laugh.

After a short break after the meal, a few people continued to climb the tree to pick pears. Although it was just one pear tree, it had grown for hundreds of years, had a large crown, luxuriant branches, and produced a lot of fruits. It was still very difficult to pick. Of course, it took a lot of work, but the harvest was also gratifying. After moving five baskets, Song Hongguo picked out the ones with different quality. She planned to boil pear paste syrup in the afternoon, make some cans, and pick out some of good quality to give away.

After picking pears, he went to pick pumpkins and winter melons outside the courtyard wall. The yields of these two products were also high. Song Hongguo just scattered some seeds casually at first, and his later management was rough, but he couldn't stop them from being spicy and hard-skinned, and he gave him heavy rewards. , each pumpkin must weigh more than ten kilograms. The local snake-shaped pumpkin is more than one meter long. There is also a golden round pumpkin, which is thick and has a slightly flattened large lantern. The two children want to help. They couldn't even lift it up, it was too heavy and it was difficult for them to hold it. They were afraid of falling and it would be difficult to store it, so they could only stare.

There was also a giant pumpkin, weighing more than 100 kilograms, which was like a stone block. Huo Minglou and Li He just carried it onto the cart.

Li He marveled again and again, "Doctor Song, how did you grow this? It has grown so big? This is the first time I have seen such a big pumpkin, good guy..."

Huo Minglou also pondered around the pumpkin, and even looked at the pumpkin seedlings, but he didn't see anything special. He asked curiously, "Is it a problem with the variety?"

It has to be said that Huo Minglou immediately pointed out the essence of the problem. This is a giant pumpkin variety. There are even 500-pound pumpkins grown online. Song Hongguo used to watch videos and saw many people trying to grow them. They wanted to grow them. It was a little difficult to plant a plant of five hundred pounds, but one or two hundred pounds was still easy. She bought seeds from the mall even though she didn't have enough money. She didn't dare to plant more, so she only had two plants. She pinched off the excess, leaving only two in the end. , it was no different from other pumpkins at first, but it only expanded in the later stages.

But of course she can't explain it like this now, "I don't know. When I planted it, I didn't see any difference in the seeds, and there was no difference in the later management. Could it be that it has mutated?"

Li He didn't understand what mutation was. Huo Minglou was knowledgeable and naturally understood that when seeds mutate, new varieties will be born, which may be better or worse. The comrades of the Agricultural Research Institute have been studying these things all their lives. , just so that the same large land can produce more food.

With this in mind, he said seriously, "Hongguo, can you give me some seeds of this pumpkin? I'll send it to the comrades at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and let them think about it to see if it will be helpful to their research."

Song Hongguo nodded happily, "Okay, I'll cut it open later and collect the seeds. You can take as many as you want, just leave some for me."

In fact, not only were the pumpkins she planted big, but the winter melons were also not small. Thirty or forty pounds were normal. There was a big one. Li He picked it up and bumped it, sighing, "This one weighs at least fifty pounds. Song The doctor is amazing."

What can Song Hongguo say? But he smiled without saying a word.

The pumpkins were pushed back on a trolley, filling up the storage room and stacking them one by one like a hill.

The biggest one was placed in the yard. Song Hongguo held the machete in her hand and with a lot of effort, she split the pumpkin in half, revealing the flesh inside. There was nothing unusual about it, but the seeds were obvious. Much bigger.

Li He couldn't help but break off a piece of pumpkin and taste it first, and murmured, "It tastes just like ordinary..."

Huo Minglou didn't care about the taste. What he was thinking about was the pumpkin seeds. He picked them out one by one, and there was actually a big bowl. He put it in the water and cleaned it, and finally spread it on a round dustpan to dry, so that when he left, it would be ready. Can be taken away directly.