Joe's Farming

Li Xin screamed. He had been crying to Qiao Yu this summer that a summer without ice jelly and watermelon was not a complete summer.

But at that time, Qiao Yu was busy with her own business and had no time to find ice jelly for him.

I didn't expect it to be on this mountain. I must have missed it when I came here a few times before because the vegetation was too dense. But it's also possible that I was at home when it bloomed and didn't see it. If it doesn't bloom and bear fruit, this plant looks inconspicuous.

The children and Gu Feng set up the trap and came over to help. Soon all the ice jelly plants were picked.

Gu Xiaoyan looked at the small basket of ice jelly fruit and asked worriedly, "Little Daddy, are these enough to make the ice jelly you mentioned?"

Li Xin also showed the same worry: "Is it not enough?"

Qiao Yu said confidently: "These are enough to make several pots. But since we are here, let's pick more. Look at how dry they are. If we don't pick them, they will break and fall to the ground."

Gu Xiaoyan: "Oh, let's look for it quickly, otherwise we can't eat it if it falls on the ground."

"Hahaha, good. Let's take a look around here. They usually grow in one place. There should be more in this area."

As soon as Qiao Yu finished speaking, the sharp-eyed Gu Feng saw a small piece.

"Qiao'er, it's over there." Gu Feng pointed.

The children rushed over in a swarm.

"Slow down, slow down, let Li Xin explore the way first! You guys go over later!"

Li Xin: …

Fortunately, there are no snakes, caterpillars and the like in this season. The hillside in this place is relatively flat and there is no dangerous place.

In order to go up the mountain this time, Xie Tianyu specially wore clothes and shoes that were convenient for movement.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he is always silent and serious like a little adult.

He was quite quick in picking the ice fruit.

After a while, he had finished picking the fruits where he was standing.

Xie Tianyu felt a little unsatisfied, so he went to pick the fruits next to Gu Xiaoyan, who was slower.

"Brother Tianyu, you are so fast! So awesome!" Gu Xiaoyan praised.

Xie Tianyu pursed his lips and said "hmm", then picked the fruits even harder.

Finally, after picking a whole basket of ice fruit, everyone headed towards the direction where the chestnuts were.

When they arrived, Xie Tianyu looked at the chestnuts covered with thorns on the tree with some curiosity and asked, "Is this really a chestnut?"

Qiao Xing: "Really? I'll break it for you to see after I beat it down."

"You want to fight?"

"Yes, how else can we pick it up?"

Gu Feng found a relatively thick and long branch nearby and used it as a pole to hit the chestnuts.

Qiao Yu quickly called the children away from the tree.

Some chestnuts grow quite high.

Gu Feng climbed up the tree easily and swung a long pole to knock the chestnuts off the tree.

"Wow, it's like a rain of chestnuts!"

Gu Xiaoxue said.

Wow, our Xiaoxue has learned to use metaphors. Not bad, not bad, Qiao Yu thought.

"Yeah, Brother Gu, let the chestnut rain fall heavier." Qiao Yu shouted.

Gu Feng: "Okay!"

So more chestnuts were knocked off the branches.

Gu Feng jumped down from the tree only after he had smashed all the chestnuts on it.

At this time, the ground was covered with prickly chestnuts.

Qiao Xing stepped forward and stomped on one of them to crack it, then picked it up, pried open the crack and took out the chestnut inside to show Xie Tianyu.

"Look, isn't it a chestnut?"

Xie Tianyu nodded: "It turns out that chestnuts have a layer of thorny shell outside."

Xie Tianyu touched it with his hand and it hurt a little, but fortunately there was no bleeding.

Qiao Xing apologized, "I forgot to tell you that these thorns are very prickly. Just use your feet to crush the thorns and I'll pick the chestnuts inside."

Qiao Xing has been working a lot, so at a young age he has a thick layer of calluses on his fingers, so he is not afraid of being pricked by burrs.

But Qiao Yu didn't let them do that.

"Here, each of you has a glove, don't get pricked by the burrs."

Qiao Yu took out the thick cotton gloves that Bai Lan had made. Although they were a bit clumsy to put on, they did not cause any prickles from the burrs.

Xie Tianyu showed an understanding expression, happily took a glove, put it on his hand, and began to imitate Qiao Xing to first crack the thorns to reveal the chestnuts inside, and then use his gloved hands to pry them open to get the chestnuts out.

The peeled chestnuts are then put into one's backpack.

As the chestnuts in the basket increased, Xie Tianyu felt extremely satisfied.

He glanced at the others and found that everyone's mouth corners were involuntarily raised.

Probably everyone feels the same as him, full of joy of harvest.

After picking chestnuts for a while, Li Xin got tired and just sat down on the ground, biting open the fresh chestnuts and eating them.

When you bite open the chestnut skin, you will find a thin layer of brown skin with fuzz inside.

Li Xin continued to bite it with his teeth and spit it out, revealing the bright yellow flesh inside. It tasted crispy and sweet.

"Mmm~ Delicious! Brother, you should try it too."

Qiao Yu was also tired, so he sat down to rest.

"Children, take a break too. We are not in a hurry."

After saying that, he took out a water bag and asked everyone if they wanted some water.

"Yes! Little daddy, I was so thirsty just now." Gu Xiaoxue said.

Qiao Yu said distressedly: "Why didn't you say it just now? Are you thirsty?"

Gu Xiaoxue shook her head, took the water bag and held it high, keeping the mouth of the water bag away from her mouth, opened her mouth upwards and drank several gulps.

Xie Tianyu also felt very thirsty when he saw this.

Qiao Yu saw that he was also given a water bag.

Xie Tianyu followed Gu Xiaoxue's example and drank several sips. Others also came over to drink water, and soon the water in the two water bags was empty.

"I'll go find some water." said Gu Feng.

Qiao Yu nodded.

Gu Xiaoyan immediately followed Gu Feng: "Dad, I want to go too."

Gu Feng smiled and said yes.

An adult and a child held hands and went looking for water.

Qiao Yu looked at the chestnuts on the ground and suddenly asked, "Tianyu, do you want to eat roasted chestnuts?"

Xie Tianyu was stunned for a moment, then asked uncertainly: "Burn it now?"

Qiao Yu nodded, took out the tinder from the basket and shook it: "Do you want to eat it?"

Xie Tianyu was a little hesitant, he had never played like this before.

And now there is dead grass everywhere. Isn’t Uncle Joe afraid of causing a forest fire?

Qiao Yu seemed to see through his thoughts and said with a smile: "We can clear a site first, then make an isolation zone and then we can start a fire."

Xie Tianyu nodded when he heard this: "Then let's burn it."

When Li Xin heard that they were going to roast chestnuts, he quickly joined in, cleaning the place and collecting firewood, and was busy having a lot of fun.

When Gu Feng came back with the children, in addition to the water bag, there were a dozen large washed mountain pears in the basket.

"The last few."

Gu Feng said.

"Brother Gu is really amazing. He knows everything there is to eat on this mountain. But all the pears in our garden have fallen. How come there are still some in the mountain?"

Gu Xiaoyan immediately raised her hands: "I know, I know. Daddy said that this pear tree grows next to a mountain spring, so it blooms late, so it also bears fruit late."

Qiao Yu smiled and nodded: "I see."

But what he thought in his heart was that this pear was either a late-ripening variety, or the temperature in the mountain was lower than that at the foot of the mountain, which caused such a difference.

But none of this matters. What matters is that everyone is here and they can roast chestnuts and eat them.