Chapter 120 I picked it up
Brother Li laughed and said: "Last year I asked you to get on the boat and go to sea. You went to rest for two days at a time. My father scolded you every day for three days to spread shrimps and four days to dry nets."
Mother Li said cheerfully: "Now there is no need to scold or even shout. He can catch up with the low tide in the morning. It will take half a month. He has not rested for a day."
"Oh! Ah Le can do it!" Brother Li turned around and patted him on the shoulder, "Brother never dreamed that you could change things and change them so completely."
Li Changle said nonchalantly: "There is no way, as you said, the children are getting older day by day, and they need money to study and build new houses. If they don't work, they will become the poorest family in the village.
In fact, sometimes I want to be lazy and not go, thinking that if I go less for a day, I will earn less money for a day, so I grit my teeth and get up."
While they were talking, the three of them, mother and son, went to the edge of the mountain. Part of the land owned by the Li family was wasteland that they had reclaimed before, and part of it was allocated to them after they were divided into households. There were also a few tangerine and bayberry trees planted on the slopes next to them.
There are already small green oranges the size of quail eggs hanging on the orange trees, which will not be eaten until August or September.
The bayberries would have to wait until April or May next year to be eaten. He remembered that the bayberries produced by his own bayberry trees were quite delicious. He ate the big ones at home and used the small ones to make bayberry shochu.
The total mountain land of the four families is only over one acre but less than two acres, and they are all planted with sweet potatoes. The furrows in the sweet potato field have only been raised once, and the bottom of the ditch is full of new soil.
Going further, there are two mounds of land, in which there are melon racks built with moso bamboo and a bean rack. Various beans, melons and vegetables are planted below.
Below the rack hang green-skinned winter melons and disc-like pumpkins of different sizes. The largest winter melon is as big as a bucket.
The shrubs beside the vegetable field are also covered with pumpkin vines and winter melon vines.
Taro, potato, ginger, and green onions are also planted in the corners of the vegetable field.
These days, people in the countryside have always been self-sufficient in food. The Li family was worried about not having enough food to eat, so they planted every corner of the land.
There were too many rocks in the corner to grow vegetables, so some ramie was sprinkled on it. The hemp rope used to tie the crabs at home and the sack were made of ramie peeled ramie skin.
Several Castanopsis trees forty or fifty meters away from the vegetable field were blooming with clusters of white Castanopsis flowers.
"Auntie, what do you see Xiaoyang doing?" Brother Li suddenly pointed at the castanopsis tree in front and shouted.
Li Changle and Mother Li looked in the direction he pointed, and saw Li Xiaoyang hugging a half-sized castanopsis tree next to him and climbing up slowly. Under the tree stood Li Xiaotao and several children in the back alley.
Each of them had a piece of wood pinned to their waist and a wicker hat on their head, and they were mumbling something.
Brother Li was so angry that he said, "Look, his head hurts and his legs hurt when he studies. But when he runs outside in the bright sun, his head and legs don't hurt anymore."
He started looking for a stick as he said this, "If I don't hit the house for three days, I won't be able to punish him properly."
"Don't go yet!" Mother Li hurriedly grabbed Li Changping, "If you rush over suddenly, what if you scare him so much that he falls out of the tree?"
Brother Li quickly retracted his outgoing leg and said, "I'll go over after he comes down from the tree."
"I'll go over and take a look." Li Changle walked towards the castanopsis tree.
At this time, a child saw the three people here and pulled Li Xiaotao, "A Tao, your grandma, dad and third uncle are here."
"Ah!" Li Xiaotao screamed, turned around and shouted to Li Xiaoyang in the tree in fright, "Brother, come down quickly, dad is here."
"Don't lie to me, dad is sleeping at home!" Li Xiaoyang said as he reached for the bird's nest on the branch of the tree.
"Really, if you don't believe me, look over there at the vegetable field!" Li Xiaotao jumped to his feet with a look of anxiety on his face, "Come down quickly, Third Uncle is coming. When dad comes over and sees you in the tree, we will suffer."
After hearing this, Li Xiaoyang hugged the tree trunk and looked back. When he saw Li Changping standing there looking over, he was so frightened that he almost let go of his hands holding the tree trunk.
Subconsciously, I held the trunk of the tree and slid down a section. Then an idea came to my mind, and I climbed up again and sat on the branch.
"I can't go down anymore. It's so high that even if my father wants to hit me, he can't reach it."
"Ah!" Li Xiaotao was dumbfounded.
"Oh! The monkey can climb quite high!" Li Changle said, looking at Li Xiaoyang on the tree.
Li Xiaoyang looked at him proudly, "Third uncle, tell my father that if he promises not to hit me, I will go down. If he wants to hit me, I will not get down from the tree."
Li Changle gave him a few nods in a funny and angrily manner, "Li Xiaoyang, please come down here honestly. I can help you beg for mercy and save you two more blows!"
He looked at the tree branches that were at least one story high, and felt that the little monkeys today were very powerful. They were proficient in climbing mountains, climbing trees, and fishing in the water.
Li Xiaoyang shook his head like a rattle, "A few less times is not a beating!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Brother Li walking over with a piece of bamboo, "Li Xiaoyang, come down quickly and eat some firewood! What did I tell you when I left?"
You are the boss, and I asked you to be obedient at home and help your grandma take care of your younger siblings. Is this how you do it? No wonder your grandma is so angry!"
His voice frightened a group of children into scattering, and Li Xiaotao followed him without hesitation.
Li Changle stretched out his hand and grabbed the back of his neck, "Little guy, you're still running!"
Li Xiaotao struggled, "Third uncle, let me go, I won't be with you anymore!"
Brother Li stepped forward, grabbed his arm, and whipped his butt with the stick in his hand, "Look at your whole body, it's all covered with grass juice. Your mother-in-law can't wash herself after you every day."
"Ouch~ow...wow..." Li Xiaotao suddenly screamed so hard that his voice changed, "Grandma, help me! My dad is going to beat me to death..."
Li Xiaoyang, who was on the tree, watched the stick slap Li Xiaotao on his butt, feeling that the muscles on his butt were also tightening.
My buttocks that were sitting on the branch of the tree started to hurt. I couldn't help but hug the tree trunk tighter. I made up my mind not to go down. Even if I wanted to go down, I would wait until the popularity subsided.
If I had known that grandma would go up the mountain today, I wouldn't have come to the mountain to fight and dig out bird's nests.
Alas! Such bad luck.
"Let you run around every day, let you not do your homework, not study hard..."
"Ouch~Ouch~ Third uncle, help me!" Li Xiaotao suddenly remembered the last time his brother was beaten, grabbed Li Changle who was standing beside him, hugged his waist and held on, "Woo...ow...it hurts...
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Li Changle saw that his buttocks, which had a big circle patched up, were covered with grass juice, and the seams in his trouser pockets were also torn.
It looked like it was damaged while rolling on the ground while playing a war game and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
Looking at the little guy who was crying with tears and runny nose, Li Changle realized in his conscience that he felt quite pitiful, so he hurriedly protected him and diverted Brother Li's attention, "Brother, there is another one on the tree!"
Brother Li raised his head with the stick and pointed at Li Xiaoyang on the tree, "Are you going to come down with me today? Or are you going to wait for me to go up and pull you down?"
He looked at the branch of the tree where the child was sitting, and then at the tree trunk, which was not much thicker than the mouth of a bowl. He did not dare to climb up and pull him down, for fear that the child would really fall.
Li Xiaoyang shouted to the tree: "Abba, if you don't hit me, I will come down!"
"How dare you negotiate terms with me!" Li Changping pointed at him with a stick, "Come down!"
"I don't. I will be beaten every time you come back. You see, the third uncle never hits Xiaohai, Xiaozhou, and the second uncle doesn't hit anyone either. You are the only one who loves to beat others."
Li Xiaoyang remembered something, "Oh! I remembered it. You must have picked it up. I want to find my dear father!"
Li Xiaotao thought what his brother said was very reasonable. There was a child in his class who was picked up, and his parents often beat him.
Brother Li was angry and funny, "Okay, okay, go find your own father. Without you two debt collectors, I and your mother will live a few more years."
Mother Li walked under the tree and laughed angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? My grandmother watched your mother-in-law give birth to you. Your father is Li Changping. Where are you going to find your own father?"
Li Xiaoyang: "My grandma said last time that she picked me up when she went to the market. I went to Panzhen to look for it."
Li Changle laughed out loud, "Bad boy, did your mother-in-law tell you that when she spanked you last time?"
"..." Li Xiaoyang burst into tears, feeling that he must have picked it up, otherwise he wouldn't have been beaten every three days.
"Aniang, why are you telling him so much? Ask him to come down to Panzhen to kiss his father." Li Changping said and then said to Li Xiaotao, "Do you also want to go and kiss your father?"
Li Xiaotao shook his head subconsciously, "I won't go."
"If you don't want to go, follow me to work in the vegetable field!" Li Changping took his hand and said to Li's mother and Li Changle, "Let's go and let him find his father."
While speaking, he winked at the two of them.
Li Changle understood instantly and followed him towards the vegetable field below.
"Xiaoyang, come down quickly and admit your mistake to your father."
"I won't." Li Xiaoyang said with a smile on his face.
"Then hold on tight, don't fall down." Mother Li warned, thinking about leaving quickly and waiting for him to come down on his own.
Li Xiaoyang was dumbfounded when he saw a few people leaving without even stopping. He hesitated whether to go down or not.
After going down, should I go to Panzhen to find my biological father, or should I go home and be beaten?
Li Changle and others arrived at the vegetable field. Under the instruction of Mother Li, the brothers inserted the bamboo poles into the soil, hammered the bamboo poles into the ground with hoes, and then tied them with bamboo strips to reinforce them.
Mother Li glanced at Li Xiaoyang in the tree worriedly and said, "Aping, I'm going to call Xiaoyang down. I'm afraid he will fall asleep in the tree."
"Mom, don't go!" Brother Li hurriedly stopped her, "In less than two minutes, he won't be able to sit still. Look, he's stretching his neck to look here!"
Li Xiaoyang sat on a tree branch and looked at the people busy in the vegetable field. After waiting for a while, he saw that they didn't even look at him. He tried to slide down a section, hugged the tree trunk and looked at it, thinking
I thought I'd climb up anyway.
Brother Li, who had been paying attention to the other side, was so angry that he knocked the bamboo pole hard and said, "You bastard, if you don't beat his butt in half later, my surname will not be Li!"
Li Xiaotao touched his buttocks and said to himself: The buttocks are originally made of two halves, and it doesn't matter whether they are spanked or not.
Chapter completed!