Chapter 136

The next day, Ye Yaodong got up and went to offer incense as usual. After returning, he happened to run into Ye's father carrying a hoe, holding a spray can in his hand, and also holding a bag of things like seeds, and a sack, not knowing what was inside.

"Dad, where are you going?"

"Going to dig some potatoes back to cook salted vegetable soup at noon, the little ones all like to eat potatoes, so they won't complain that it's all vegetables when eating, and by the way, sprinkle some radish and mustard seeds."

"I'll go with you, if you have any left after planting the seeds, share some with me to plant, the land I reclaimed yesterday hasn't been planted yet."

"There's plenty, let's go then."

He hurriedly followed.

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang climbed up early in the morning, and when they heard their dad say they were going to the field, they hurriedly hugged one of his legs each to indicate they wanted to follow.

"What are you going for? You'll come back covered in dirt later, and your mother will scold you again."

"Want to follow, want to follow!"

Other children stood on the side with their schoolbags, envious, they also wanted to go to the field to play, and didn't want to go to school...

"Still dawdling there, hurry up and go to school, every day you either can't get up, or you only want to leave when someone urges you, every day you wait until it's dark and you've played enough to rush the homework, I spent money for you to go to school, not for you to..."

Several children hurriedly covered their ears and slipped away as soon as they heard the nagging...

Ye Yaodong's feet felt like they were hanging with two weights, unable to lift them, and two pairs of eyes were still looking at him expectantly, tugging at his pants.

He could only tighten his belt. "Stop pulling, my pants are about to fall off, go, go, all go, all go, if you get beaten by your mother when you come back, I don't care."

"Oh oh~ let's go, let's go~"

The two ran away happily immediately, chasing Ye's father, not caring whether their mother would beat them or not.

And Ye Yaodong went back to the house and told his wife, he took the two children to the field, so she wouldn't be unable to find the children later. Taking the two children away, she could also relax a bit.

These two days, the couple hadn't talked about the issue of having children, because she herself wasn't very sure, she didn't remember her menstrual period very clearly, she had pregnancy symptoms, but didn't dare to check, for fear that if it was checked out, she wouldn't even have a chance to consider it.

Ye Yaodong didn't dare to ask either, seeing that her tone when she spoke at the time was more inclined to give birth, now the two could only temporarily pretend that this didn't happen, or could it be said to be tacit? Let nature take its course? Anyway, let's just do it like this for now.

Lin Xiuqing came out upon hearing this, the two children had already run far away, she hurriedly shouted loudly: "You are not allowed to run around and make trouble, you are not allowed to get your clothes dirty, be obedient..."

Neither of the two responded, just jumping and running far away.

Their family's vegetable plot was also reclaimed by Ye's father on the mountain when he was idle, like terraced fields, this small piece was planted with potatoes ridge by ridge, about less than 30 square meters.

There were several plots of land above, originally planted with other vegetables, but they were all picked and eaten when building the house, the seeds sprinkled only grew a little bit of green seedlings, and it couldn't be seen what they were for the time being.

Ye Chenghu looked east and west but didn't see any that could be picked. "Where are they?"

"Right next to you, move aside, wait until I dig them open, then you guys pick them."

Ye Yaodong took the hoe from Ye's father's hand and hoed under the soil, and suddenly the round potatoes popped out, hanging on the roots, the big ones were about the size of a woman's fist, the small ones were only the size of a coin, the two little ones immediately squatted down and picked them up happily.

In order to find something for them to do so they wouldn't make trouble, he hoed the whole ridge of potatoes, and Ye's father was also helping them pick potatoes together.

Ye Yaodong followed closely to turn the soil, then used a hoe to dig small pits, sprinkled a handful of plant ash in each pit, sprayed it with the spray can filled with water that Ye's father had prepared, and then put the radish seeds in the pits, and covered them with a thin layer of soil.

As for the mustard seeds, he scanned the vegetable plot and didn't seem to have any extra empty land to plant.

"Dad, there's no place to sprinkle these mustard seeds?"

"Plant this in the small plot of land of your Grandma's, you go over and turn the soil first, sprinkle them all, wait until they sprout, then separate and move them to your new house to plant."

"Oh."

Ye's father stopped him again. "Leave the hoe to me, you go and dismantle the frame first, the bean frame below hasn't been dismantled."

"Oh."

He left the two children there to continue picking potatoes, and went to the old lady's small plot of land first, the two plots of land were separated by a small distance.

After the old lady's land was planted with corn, she immediately planted beans, and they were all picked a few days ago, but the frame set up hadn't been dismantled.

Thinking that there was a lot of work in the field, and it wasn't easy to live well, he dismantled it slowly by himself.

By the time everything was planted, the sun was hanging high, and the two children were also playing happily on the ground, throwing things at each other, Ye Chengyang's body was covered with soil by his brother, and his head was full of it.

Seeing this, Ye Yaodong had a headache, and took the two of them up in big strides. "Are your skins itchy, are they?"

After speaking, he looked at Ye's father again. "I'll take these two home first."

"Dad, are we going home to eat potato soup?"

"Eat the whip!"

"I don't want to eat the whip..."

"That's not up to you!"

Ye Chenghu was carried in his hand, his whole person suddenly withered, but Ye Chengyang was still laughing happily. "Fly, fly~ Dad, fly, fly~"

Ye Yaodong glanced at him helplessly, and hurriedly carried the two back, sons or something are really too naughty, if the child in the stomach is born, it seems quite good to be a daughter.

When she grows up, she won't be like the two sons who make him angry, right? Should... be filial... right?

Wait until March next year, don't let his wife go up the mountain to pick tea, she should be able to escape a disaster, and safely give birth secretly... right?

Pondering things in his heart, and thinking about the beautiful fantasies after having a daughter, he walked back all the way.

When Lin Xiuqing saw the appearance of the two children, her face suddenly turned black. "How many sets of clothes do you want to change in a day? Are your skins itchy, do you want to eat the whip?"

"Don't..." Ye Chenghu saw that the situation was not good and wanted to hide behind the old lady, but was grabbed by the back collar by Lin Xiuqing. "The younger brother's head is full of soil, was it you who did it?"

"It wasn't me..."

"Ang~ here's the whip for you..." Ye Yaodong handed over a thin bamboo strip tied with a red rope at the right time.

"Ah~ Dad~ you have such a cruel heart~ Grandma save me~ save me~"

"Haven't hit you yet, what are you howling about?"

"Going to hit me immediately... ouch~ so painful~" He grabbed wildly in the air with both hands, his body leaning forward desperately, wanting to escape, but the collar was grabbed tightly, unable to escape, he could only jump on the spot, shouting wildly in his mouth.

The old lady smiled and watched from the side, only saving him after he was beaten enough, boys have to be beaten!

Ye Chenghu felt the burning pain in his calves, looked at the old lady with teary eyes. "Grandma, why did you save me just now?"

"Boys have thick skin and have to be beaten, go, I'll take you to wash your hands and eat persimmons, they are sweet, you won't feel pain after eating them. Dongzi come quickly, the persimmons you brought back the day before yesterday, most of them are ripe, you can eat them."

Ye Chenghu pouted and followed.

Ye Yaodong responded but looked at Lin Xiuqing. "Are you tired?"

She glared at him. "Haven't talked about you yet? You took two out and they played like this, and you didn't watch them well."

"Then do you want to beat me too?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuqing really hit his thigh with the whip.

"Damn, I was just saying, you really hit me?"

"You said that, and I'm still polite to you?"

"Hurry up and wash the children's bodies and hair."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he hurriedly followed the old lady.

The persimmons brought back the day before yesterday were still green, Ye Mu wiped a circle on their stems with white vinegar, then wrapped them in old newspapers, and they had only been put there for two days, and most of them were ripe this morning. This is their local method, it ripens fast this way.

The children in the family asked all day long if they were ripe? If they didn't ripen them quickly, the adults couldn't resist either.

All the half-bag of persimmons brought back were taken to ripen, they didn't peel them to dry into persimmon cakes, that was too much trouble.

He picked one up casually, picked it gently, the stem fell off, broke it into two halves, and handed half to the old lady.

The old lady smiled until her eyes narrowed and took it.

Having something to eat, Ye Chenghu immediately put away his tears, and ate several in a row before stopping.

"Finished eating? If you're finished, go find your mother, let her wipe your body and change your clothes."

Ye Chenghu tilted his head, turned his head away, and even snorted from his nose, he still held a grudge, just now it was his dad who handed the whip to his mother!

"Stinky boy!"

Ye Yaodong didn't care about him anymore, looked at the bananas picked back yesterday on the side, they were all still green, not ripe yet, so he picked two beautiful persimmons and went into the house to give them to his wife.