Knowing that his memory stopped when he was eight or nine years old, Su Ziling finally understood why he spoke like that.

The ox cart swayed all the way and stopped at the entrance of the village half an hour later. Erwazi jumped out of the cart first and ran home. Just when he was in the car, he was sure that Bingfenguo was the one he knew. They were all muttering to each other on the way, and they were going to pick them when they got back.

He was not talking to anyone else, but was whispering to himself, the words were right on his lips, and his voice was extremely low.

Su Ziling followed Old Man Li into their yard. Aunt Li was not at home, and tomatoes were still drying in the yard.

While Old Man Li went to corral the cattle, Su Ziling carried a bucket and went to pick plums with Li Zelan. The yellow plums were particularly large and had an alluring sour aroma. Just smelling them made people salivate like crazy.

Li Zelan swallowed, "Cousin, these plums are so fragrant!"

Su Ziling raised her eyebrows, had a bad idea, and handed him a green one, "Try one."

Li Zelan stared at the plums in his hand and hesitated to take them. He said: "The green ones are not yet ripe. If you want to eat them, you should eat the yellow ones."

Thinking of what Uncle Li had just said about plums being sour, he said: "Did you eat green or yellow in the morning?"

Su Ziling: "Green."

Li Zelan nodded, with an expression as if he had solved the case, "The green ones are not yet ripe, so they must be sour, and the yellow ones are definitely not sour if they are ripe."

Su Ziling: "..."

"You've never eaten plums?"

Li Zelan shook his head, "No, we don't have it over there."

The corners of Su Ziling's mouth curled up slightly.

The green one is crisp and tastes better, while the yellow soft one just smells fresh, but is actually more sour.

"Yes, yes, yes," Su Ziling agreed, "You're right, try the yellow ones. The sour ones I ate in the morning must be because they were undercooked."

Li Zelan really believed her words. He raised his hand and picked a big yellow one, with a faint red color on one side. He wiped the dust off and stuffed the whole one into his mouth without any hesitation.

He only bit it once, and the expression on his face froze instantly.

"How's it going? Isn't it sweet?"

Li Zelan nodded slowly and said one word with great force, "Sweet."

Then he ran out the door and spit out the plums in his mouth.

"Hahahahaha!"

Su Ziling couldn't hold it in any longer and burst into laughter.

When Li Zelan came back again, his facial features were wrinkled.

"Isn't it sweet? Why did you vomit?"

"Did you already know this?" Li Zelan looked resentful.

"You know what?" Su Ziling asked knowingly.

Li Zelan gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Plums are sour even when they are ripe."

Su Ziling shook her head and refused to admit it. She said she didn't know.

"What are you laughing at? You are so happy?"

The two of them were still picking plums when they heard the voice and looked back, "Auntie, are you back?"

"Hey, I'm back." Aunt Li carried a basket of mushrooms on her back, her waist bent under the pressure.

When Old Man Li heard the sound, he trotted over and took her basket, "Why didn't you listen when I told you not to go up the mountain alone? What if you get bumped like this? What if your foot slips and rolls downhill? manage?"

"You are already old, and your bones will fall apart if you bump into them. If you really roll down the hillside, where can I find you?"

After he finished speaking, Aunt Li dared to answer. She laughed and scolded: "Can't you expect me to do well? You expect me to roll down the hill every day."

She said: "I didn't go to the steep place, I just picked up some nearby. It's okay. Are you hungry? I'm going to cook."

Old Man Li: "Stop working so hard and pick up the fungi first. I'll send them over with them later."

Aunt Li nodded, "That's okay," she looked at the sky, "Let's go early and come back early, so we don't have to wait for the villagers."

Mr. Li said while pretending to be ice powder fruit: "What are you waiting for? They are a bunch of big guys with fast feet. I probably can't outrun them with them."

The frozen fruits and nuts were put in sacks, and the fungi were put in the backpack. Old man Li took a pole and picked the sacks at one end and the fungi at the other.

Before setting off, Mr. Li did not forget to tell Aunt Li, "Keep the door closed. If you are hungry, eat first without waiting for me."

"Okay, I understand, I'm not a child, let's go quickly." Aunt Li looked helpless, but after Su Ziling and the others left, she picked up the sickle, carried the basket on her back, closed the door, and went out again.

The cow grass at home is almost gone. I have been busy picking mushrooms and ice powder fruits for the past few days, and I have no time to mow the grass.

The things that have been thrown away these past few nights are all saved up in the past. If the grass is not cut, the little stock at home will probably not last a few days.

It happened that Old Man Li wouldn't be back for a while, so he was idle at home, so she went out with a basket on her back.

The three of them carried a lot of things, so they didn't walk very fast along the way. It was already the beginning of Youshi (17:00) when they got home.

The sun was setting in the west, and the orange sunlight fell through the gaps in the leaves with a touch of heat. The sky above the village was silent, with only the smoke rising from the cooking pots.

Old Man Li wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Su Ziling's village. "Your village is really far away. There's no digging a road or anything."

Su Ziling smiled and said, "You know how to dig. I used to be hungry and couldn't finish digging my own land. How can I have time to think about this? Let's just wait. I guess I will start digging next year. It won't work if I don't dig." , all roads are open.”

She thought that when everyone's life improved and they had enough money, they could work together as voluntary workers and dig for two months. A road would eventually be dug out. By then, only oxcarts would be able to go in and out, which would be much more convenient. .

When I was still at the door of my house, I heard the sound of kitchen knives chopping on the cutting board in the yard.

In front of the workshop, a yard of vermicelli is dried, and a drying rack is set up on the roadside, where ice vermicelli fruits and tomatoes are dried.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw ice-pink fruits drying in half of the yard, and five or six women sitting in the other half.

There are three people cutting mushrooms, all of them have superb knife skills, fast and rhythmic.

At their feet were several large pots of chopped black mushrooms.

The other two people were picking mushrooms, and there were several men standing beside them. It was obvious that they were here to sell mushrooms.

As soon as they entered the yard, those people noticed them. The women all had smiles on their faces, "Xiaoqing is back?"

"How is business today?"

"How do you think our mushroom is chopped? Is it too thick? If it is thick, we will pour it out and chop it."

"Hey, I'm back. It's okay. Let me take a look, fungus."

Su Ziling responded one by one. She placed the backpack at the door of the hall, squatted down and looked at the broken mushrooms, "That's it, but it would be fine if it was a little thicker."

"Hey, okay, let's cut it thicker."

Su Ziling straightened up and looked around, "Aunt Liu, where is my grandma?"

"Your grandma?" Liu Guilan also looked up and said, "You were here just now, but now I don't know where you are."

A Xiu was already feeding the pigs. After she finished feeding the pigs, she closed the door and said, "Ah Nai went to the field and said she was going to water the vegetables."

The last time I made dried vegetables, I harvested all the vegetables in the vegetable field. Later, Su A'nai went to plant some more. There was no rain during this period, and she was afraid that the vegetables would die in the sun. She thought that the sun had set, so she just went to plant them. The water was poured.

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