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Tao Ran’s family had a new batch of “child laborers”. After Er Tangbo’s grandson came to help and exchanged a big watermelon for a few days, other children in the village knew about it and clamored to help. The kid in my life is no exception.

However, Tao Ran assigned them a very easy job, sitting on a small stool and cleaning up the dead branches and leaves that hadn't been cleaned up.Later, when Li Tingzhou was about to dry some dried peaches, the group of children helped wash the peaches and dry them, and they were very active.

Their parents are also happy to see the results. The children will not hold their mobile phones and computers to watch every day, so they don't have to worry about their eyes being damaged.I get help from Tao Ran's family every day, so I don't have to worry about them getting hurt playing around outside, and I can also feel the hardships of adults working a little bit. After working for a day, I am much more sensible than before.

The only bad thing was that it was too troublesome for Tao Ran and the others, especially after finishing the prescribed work, these children could receive a big watermelon, the price of which was far higher than the work they did.

Families in the village with children who used to work are unwilling to take advantage of this. Every family pays the children watermelon and childcare money without their knowledge.

Tao Ran didn't accept it. He couldn't go back when he promised the children at the beginning. Anyway, there are not many children, and there is not much work that needs them to do. Correspondingly, he can still afford watermelons.

"That's a big debt to you. These children can't do much work. It's a waste of help to you. You have to watch over them." The villagers who came to pay but couldn't pay the money shook their heads helplessly. good.

"These children are pretty good. It doesn't take too much trouble to just take a few glances at us when we are working." Tao Ran smiled amiably but had a firm attitude, which made the parents who came to pay the money return in vain.

"Why did you refuse all of them? The villagers will feel better if you take less money." Tian Yuxia was puzzled. These children were indeed quite obedient under the discipline of Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou. Work hard, Tian Yuxia welcomes these children to come and play.

She can fully understand that the villagers are embarrassed, and she must be the same if her own child is in the same situation. In fact, it is not a big deal if they charge a little money.

"Mom, I first proposed this matter. It was a good deed. I still feel sorry for these watermelons. Besides, these children will only work for half a month at most before they start school, so it won't be too much trouble. Finally, I want the people in the village to have a better impression of us. Some people will definitely not accept what happened with Ting Zhou. If I do something good, they won’t say anything bad even if they have something in their heart.” Tao Ran said Ideas come out one by one.

"You! When did you start thinking so much?" Tian Yuxia stared at her son for a long time, and sure enough, she grew up after finding someone she liked, "Then let you go."

After persuading Tian Yuxia, the child's parents couldn't afford it, so they discussed other ideas.The old man in the family is also getting older, so he should take good care of himself, so he can find a place to hang out together.

On the second day after the parents failed, an old man came to the door.

"Tao Ran, you know it's hot these days, even under the peach king tree, you can't stay for a few hours a day." The old man sighed.

Tao Ran didn't understand what the old man wanted to say, and it wasn't the first day that it was so hot, so he responded first when he couldn't figure it out: "Yes, old man, the weather is indeed hot."

"When I was wandering around the village just now, I saw that the honeysuckle trees in your old house were growing very well. The yard was covered for a large area, and it looked cool." The old man directly said a series of plans in his heart, "I The meaning is to let us old guys play in your old house, of course it is not for nothing. You arrange peaches and dry peaches every day. Now there is no place to set foot in the yard. You can move to the old yard to dry. We These old guys will take care of you for you, and you can turn around from time to time."

Now that I understood, Tao Ran continued, "Move the work to the old house, and these children will probably need to change places."

As soon as the old man patted his thigh, he waited for him to say this, and immediately responded: "Then move these children over, and leave the care of the children to us, you don't have to worry about keeping them, you can go to other things. "

After finishing talking, the old man didn't give Tao Ran a chance to speak, and continued: "We will never mess around in your house, and we can also take care of the flowers and trees in the yard by the way. If you want to steam peaches in the old house instead, we can give you Help."

"There are so many benefits, so I have no reason to refuse?" Tao Ran said with a smile.

The old man saw that Tao Ran didn't seem to be objecting, so he left without saying a few words: "Tomorrow we will go to your old house and wait, don't forget to open the door. I will inform the children to change the place when I go back. Don’t come here anymore. It’s also troublesome for you to move your things, and I’ll ask those boys from my family to come over and help later.”

As soon as the words fell, the old man walked outside the door.Tao Ran saw that the bamboo basket couldn't hold back, so he gave up trying to stop it. The old man's idea was pretty good, but he had to make some preparations.

On the same day, some villagers received news to come to Tao Ran's house to help. The kitchen of the old house has not been used for a long time, and the work of steaming peaches is still done here, so there are not many things.There are many people and strength, and the things to be moved were moved by the villagers who helped.After the move, all the people who came to help went home in a hurry.

After breakfast the next day, the old people brought their children to Tao Ran's old house.Half of the yard is under the sunshine, and Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou who have come here already spread bamboo mats to dry dried peaches, and the other half is covered by honeysuckle vines, it is a good place to escape the heat and enjoy the cool.

Seeing Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou busy, these old but healthy old people stepped up to help.

"This batch of dried peaches is enough to dry for another two days."

"Looking at the color, you can tell that the quality is definitely not bad."

"Tao Ran, leave the dried peaches in the sun and babysitting today to us. If you have other tasks to do, go and do them."

"Okay, I'll take care of you guys." Tao Ran got up and said.

The old people put away the fruit and snacks they brought, and sat down on the tables, chairs and benches that had been tidied up by the villagers yesterday, and asked the children to tidy up and start working, when they saw Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou coming over with things.

"Why did you prepare something for us? It's too much trouble for you." The old lady regretted it when she saw it. Wouldn't it be more troublesome for Tao Ran and the others.

Everyone took a closer look, Tao Ran was carrying tea leaves and teacups on the tray, and Li Tingzhou was carrying several kinds of snacks and fruits, including melon seeds.

The old people couldn't sit still, and they were a little angry: "Tao Ran, why are you being polite to us, you have to collect the money for these tea and snacks, otherwise don't blame us for being angry."

"Oh, you guys are thinking too well of me. These things are not free." Tao Ran blinked mischievously, and put the things on the table, "After everyone hides these snacks, my family will sell them if they want to buy them." It’s easy to sell, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to earn the money back.”

"Are you going to sell these snacks?" Someone asked curiously. At this time, the children were already attracted by the fragrance of the snacks, and they were staring intently.

When Tao Ran finally arranged everything and was about to leave, Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou had already been stuffed with all kinds of snacks by the old people, all of which were brought here today.

There are freshly boiled tender corn this morning, steamed dumplings that are still hot in bowls, and homemade rolling sugar, all of which are common snacks in the farm.If it wasn't for the bamboo basket brought over, the two of them would definitely not be able to take it.

The group of children finally didn't need to worry about them, Tao Ran changed his mind, and prepared to go to the back hillside with Li Tingzhou to continue the unfinished journey last time.

I just ate the things in my arms on the way, and the bamboo basket can also be used to hold things.

The last thing to keep is steamed dumplings. Seeing a box full of steamed dumplings in a bamboo box, Tao Ran squeezed one and fed it to Li Tingzhou.

"How about it, the taste shouldn't be bad, right?" Tao Ran pinched one and put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully and commented: "Three delicacies stuffed with tender corn kernels in it, the taste is quite good, Of course it’s a little worse than your craft.”

"I'll make it for you another day." Li Tingzhou smiled, and picked out a steamed dumpling for Tao Ran, "I tried celery and pork stuffing, and it tastes okay."

There are two kinds of fillings for this steamed dumpling, each of which is thin and full of fillings, which made Tao Ran happy to eat, but he was still not satisfied after eating them all.In the past, large-sized steamed dumplings stuffed with chives, eggs and vermicelli were made at home, and refined lard residue was added inside, which tasted very fragrant.Thinking of this delicious Tao Ran, he immediately discussed with Li Tingzhou that he would make it once in a few days, so that he could eat enough at one time.

There is a lot of corn planted in Taoyuan Village, and the yield of corn is high, and the villagers will basically plant a few acres.Tao Ran still remembers the scene of helping his parents poke corn kernels when he was a child. It was very tiring to break the corn kernels by himself.Now that the technology is advanced and there is a machine for threshing corn, Tao Ran has not seen villagers manually threshing grain in the past few years, and several companies have joined forces to rent out the machine.

Most of the corn in the village is not yet mature, and only a small number of early-maturing varieties can be tasted first.The four corns stuffed to Tao Ran were full and crystal clear, exuding a sweet smell.

When the corn was almost eaten, Tao Ran brought out the sweet pumpkin pie, baked oil buns, and handmade rolling sugar.Before going up the mountain, the two people who had had breakfast ate a lot.

"Hey, it takes physical strength to go up the mountain in a while, so how can we do it without eating more." Knowing that he had eaten a little too much, Tao Ran with a guilty conscience smiled flatteringly at Li Tingzhou.

"Are you tired of my craftsmanship?" Li Tingzhou asked.

"How is that possible!" Tao Ran was taken aback, and firmly denied, "This is the wish of the old man, I don't want to let them down, so I ate too much, and I only ate a little of each kind, because these things are too filling It's..."

Before Tao Ran finished speaking, he was blocked by the finger on his lips.He looked carefully at Li Tingzhou, and only saw the smile in his eyes, so he knew it was a joke.

"I care about your body." Li Tingzhou explained, "Eating too much is bad for your stomach, so you can't do this in the future."

The two went up the mountain with a smile, and walked in the same way last time.After walking tens of meters, Tao Ran realized something was wrong.He turned his head to look at Li Tingzhou behind him, only to see Li Tingzhou nodded, and readily admitted: "I changed the content of my morning exercise these days, and just cleaned up this road casually, so you can move forward with confidence."

"However, only the way to the wild grape vine has been cleared. The other mysterious places you want to take me to can't be cleared because I don't know the way. I can go ahead on those routes."