Chapter 134

Pulling weeds along the way, they walked onto the small path of the back mountain. This area was also one they frequented often because there were wild fruits on the mountain, and villagers planted fruit trees. Everyone stole and picked them on the mountain when they were young, and now it was the next generation's turn to steal and pick them on the mountain.

Along the way, there was also some sheep dung, and on the distant mountain, one could still see a row of small wooden houses set up, and occasionally one could hear a few sheep bleats, as well as the calls of other wild animals.

However, after walking a short distance, they saw one growing not far away, and then several others growing in other locations, scattered and separated.

"Those few trees growing messily by the road are yours." Ye Yaodong said affirmatively.

"Yeah, they were only planted a few years ago, and haven't been fertilized much, but they grew quite well, maybe they had that sheep dung as fertilizer, you guys chop whatever you want, my family can't eat that much either."

"Can't eat that much, why didn't you call us over to pick them last year or the year before? We can help you eat!" After Hearing Xiao Xiao finished speaking, he held up the bamboo pole and immediately rushed towards the nearest tree.

"You guys didn't say you wanted them? My dad isn't home, there are so many, I'm too lazy to go through the trouble of picking them, and can't eat much, I just told my uncle to come and pick them, I only kept a little for myself, enough to eat is fine."

Ye Yaodong patted his shoulder. "Call me in the future, I don't mind having more, and I have many people in my family."

"As long as you don't mind the trouble."

"I'll plant two trees at the back door of my house tomorrow too."

He said while walking towards Hearing Xiao Xiao, Hearing Xiao Xiao was shouting at him to come over and help chop.

A Guang said with his mouth that he didn't want to do it anymore, but still helped pick several bunches.

Ye Yaodong looked at the dozen or so bunches of bananas at his feet and hurriedly stopped Hearing Xiao Xiao, who still wanted to continue. "It's enough to share, don't pick anymore, they will go bad if not finished in two or three days after ripening, just come again later if you want to eat."

Hearing Xiao Xiao looked up at the banana tree with unfinished interest. "Then let's come again in a few days."

The three of them shared a little, A Guang actually took the least, according to him, the whole mountain was his back garden, and he could come to pick them whenever he wanted.

After dividing them, they took two sacks from A Guang, and Ye Yaodong and Hearing Xiao Xiao each carried a sack of bananas and walked back.

When they reached the fork in the road in the village, the two parted ways, each returning to their own home, but before they had walked a few steps...

"Damn, I haven't chopped firewood yet, Dongzi, Dongzi, don't leave, I haven't chopped firewood yet..."

Ye Yaodong heard the shouting behind him and immediately ran away, since he was already back, who would go back to the mountain to chop firewood with him?

"Don't run, damn you!"

"Take the bananas home, and just go pick up some dead branches later..."

"Let's go together... don't run~ damn~"

Ye Yaodong kept running while carrying the sack, and only stopped to catch his breath when there was no movement behind him. The sack of bananas on his back was not light, he definitely had to take it home first.

A grown man chopping firewood on the mountain, what company?

As for him chopping firewood and ending up chopping bananas to take back, without a single branch, I don't know if he will be scolded or beaten? Hehe~

Ye Yaodong returned fully loaded, carrying a sack of bananas, walking slowly towards home in a very good mood.

The old lady was idle and sat at the door chatting with the neighbor's old lady, while watching the group of children playing at the door. She saw him from afar, and only said after he walked closer: "Where did you go? What did you carry a whole sack of?"

Other children also gathered around after seeing him. "Ah, Third Uncle, what did you bring back again?"

"What is in the bag?"

"Let me see, let me see."

The smaller ones weren't tall enough, so they stood there on tiptoe, stretching their necks to look.

"Go, go, go, don't get in the way here, you can only eat them after they ripen, you can't eat them now."

Ye Chenghai took a look inside the sack. "It's wild bananas, your mouth will be numb if they aren't ripe."

"Good to know, lead them to the side to play."

After saying this to the children, Ye Yaodong said to the old lady: "Wild bananas picked from A Guang's place, I'll give them to you to eat after they ripen."

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The old lady smiled until her eyes narrowed. "Hey, good, good."

The old lady next to her said with a smile: "This little grandson of yours is quite filial, he got you dentures, and even specially picked bananas for you to eat."

"Yeah, Dongzi is the most filial..."

Ye Yaodong felt a bit awkward listening to the old lady praising him tirelessly, so he hurriedly carried the sack into the house, handed these bananas to his mother to wrap them up with old newspapers, and put them together with the persimmons to ripen.

At noon, the family just cooked some noodles and ate a little, and didn't officially start the meal until four or five in the evening.

When the children in the family heard that the meal had started, they all shouted and ran into the house, climbed directly onto the stools, and reached out to grab things to eat.

Ye Yaodong hurriedly stopped them. "Stretch out your hands and let me see first?"

Everyone didn't understand, but still obediently spread out their hands, and the result was more frightening than the last.

Without opening them to look, they didn't even know how dirty their hands were.

"You've been playing on the ground the whole time, and you dare to grab things to eat with hands like this, it's terrifying."

"Don't you adults always say that if it's not clean, you won't get sick if you eat it?"

"That's talking about things, look at your own hands, do you still dare to grab things to eat?"

Ye Chenghai stuck out his tongue and consciously went to wash his hands, and the others followed closely behind.

The sound of Ye Mu's voice suddenly came from the back door. "Why are you willing to wash your hands today? And all of you came to wash."

"Third Uncle thinks we're dirty!"

"He wasn't any cleaner than you when he was little."

"That's what I said, he still has the nerve to laugh at us..."

Ye Mu washed their hands clean one by one before urging them to the table, and only then did the whole family sit around a large table neatly.

After building the house, their family returned to eating porridge three times a day, and started living a calculating life again. Today, they were finally able to eat freely again.

The children were all very excited, and after sitting at the table, they directly picked up their chopsticks and reached for the dishes they liked.

The bowl of prawns that Ye Yaodong brought back yesterday was the most popular. He just reached out his chopsticks a bit slowly, and half of the whole bowl of prawns had been picked by Ye Chenghai into his bowl, piled up to a point, and the rest were also divided by several children.

He raised his eyebrows and was just about to scold him a few times, but Ye Dasao scolded first. "You're the only one eating, everyone else doesn't need to eat, right?"

Only then did he aggrievedly pick out all the prawns, and the other children also honestly didn't dare to pick too many, and all returned them. Only then did Ye Yaodong satisfy himself by picking one for his wife, children, and the old lady each.

It's a good thing they are about to separate the family, when the time comes, each family will eat their own, otherwise, his wife and children wouldn't even get a bite of the good things he brought back.

The children were quiet for a while, but after eating a few mouthfuls, they started making noise again, and those who couldn't reach were shouting there...

After eating a lively meal, before the adults had finished eating and left the table, they were already shouting about wanting to worship the moon.

In this era, they have the custom of worshipping the moon on the 15th of the eighth month, and after the year 2000, not many people worship it, and many customs have disappeared into the ocean of time.

"It's not dark yet, what are you worshipping the moon for? Go out and play first, wait until it's dark to worship the moon."

Everyone heard this and had no choice but to wait at the door. After waiting until it was dark and the moon came out, they ran into the house again at the first opportunity, shouting that they wanted to worship the moon.

Mother Ye had a headache and could only go take out the mooncakes that Dongzi and the others' eldest aunt had sent over a few days ago.

This mooncake was quite large, with a diameter of about 20 centimeters. Ye Eldest Aunt considered it very thoughtfully; if it were too small, there wouldn't be enough for so many children in the family to share.

Ye Mu took a wooden stool and placed it at the door, put the round big cake on a plate, inserted three sticks of incense on it, and set it up facing the moon. After the incense burned out, it could be brought in and divided among the children to eat.

The children were all very expectant, squatting in two rows half-surrounding the mooncake, looking at the moon for a while, then looking at where the incense had burned to, and then shouting at the neighbor's children, asking how big their family's mooncake was, and if it was bigger than theirs?

After eating, Ye Yaodong leaned against the pillar by the door, watching the group of little radishes squatting there expectantly, with the corners of his mouth raised. It was quite ritualistic at this moment.

After these children grow up, the next generation won't even care to eat them, let alone expectation, they won't even have such a simple sense of ritual.

"Why is this incense burning so slowly?"

"Shall we blow on it? Let it burn a little faster?"

"Hoo ha~ hoo ha~ hoo ha~"

A bunch of mouths were puckered there blowing...

The children of several neighboring families also followed suit, all blowing there, hoping the incense would burn faster.

"Ah, don't spray your saliva out, isn't it disgusting, how are we supposed to eat this..." The second niece Ye Tingting patted Ye Chenghai with disgust.

"Then I'll eat it alone!" Ye Chenghai said triumphantly.

"Shameless!"

"In your dreams!"

"You're not allowed to blow anymore..."

Several children puffed their cheeks and blew hard, and the incense really burned fast. After the last bit of fire was gone, they hurriedly brought the mooncake into the house.

"Can eat it, can eat it."

"Mom, Grandma, hurry up and cut the mooncake~"

After the whole mooncake was evenly divided into everyone's hands, everyone walked to the door contentedly to eat, to tempt the little friends in the neighbor's house who hadn't eaten mooncake yet.

After eating, they didn't forget to lick their fingers, eat the crumbs and sesame seeds on their hands, and then lick their lips, with unfinished interest. Mooncakes were too delicious for them, and too rare to eat.

Ye Yaodong looked at their sense of satisfaction, turned his head in a good mood and asked Lin Xiuqing who had just walked out, "Do you want to eat mooncake? Shall we buy a small one tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow the Mid-Autumn Festival will be over, what mooncake to eat? It's enough that the children have some to eat, and this kind of big mooncake uses lard, we have to eat vegetarian tomorrow."

"Alright."

Lin Xiuqing thought for a moment. "Taking advantage of the free time in the next few days, shall we move the clothing cabinet over first?"

"That's fine, after Mazu inspects the sea surface, we'll go to town to take a look, and add some pots, bowls, and ladles to the house, so that when people move over, it will be ready."

"That's what I was thinking, I've organized the clothes, quilts, and bed sheets, you push them to the new house with Dad and the others on the flatbed cart tomorrow."

"Okay."

"And you don't need to call those friends of yours, it was quite troublesome for them when building the house, it just so happens that everyone hasn't gone out to sea in the next few days, we can just help each other as family."

"Hmm."