"Dad, let's go and look at the peaches." Mengmeng's attention was probably on eating.

She can't appreciate flowers.

Cao Shujie held her hand and continued walking up. As he was walking, he met an old lady holding the hand of a little boy coming down from the top.

When he saw her, Cao Shujie called grandma.

"Shujie, are you busy?" The old lady's name is Zheng Mei, and her husband's name is Cao Zhengyuan. They are the same generation as Cao Shujie's grandfather, but they are nearly 10 years younger than his grandfather Cao Zhenghu.

Cao Shujie pointed to his daughter: "Grandma, Mengmeng didn't sleep so early in the morning. Do you want me to take her to see if the kiwi fruit is ripe?"

"This little greedy cat can't wait to eat it."

"Haha, that's great." Zheng Mei looked at Mengmeng and felt that this child was really lucky.

"Grandma!" Mengmeng also shouted obediently and sensibly.

Zheng Mei looked at Mengmeng with a smile, responded, and then urged her grandson to call him uncle.

But the little guy kept hiding behind his grandma and didn't speak at all.

Zheng Mei was helpless. She said, "Shujie, this child is too shy and doesn't speak much when meeting other people."

"It's okay, just take him out to play more and meet more people." Cao Shujie said.

In the countryside, there are quite a few such introverted children.

The same is true for his brother-in-law Cheng Yunping's son.

This phenomenon is mainly caused by the fact that most young parents in the countryside go out to work to earn money and leave their children in their hometowns to follow their grandparents without the company of their parents. The children's mental development is not perfect.

Cao Shujie saw that he was not tall and asked, "Grandma, hasn't he gone to kindergarten yet?"

"Not yet. I'm not old enough. I won't be able to go to kindergarten until the second half of the year." Zheng Mei said.

Cao Shujie nodded and waved to the little guy: "Grandma, when the kiwi fruits in my orchard are ripe in a few days, you can bring him to pick some fruits to eat."

"No, there is food at home." Zheng Mei was embarrassed.

It's good enough that Shujie doesn't prohibit them from playing. If they pick fruits that others sell for money and eat them, they won't feel guilty in their conscience.

Cao Shujie didn't care, and said goodbye to the old lady Zheng Mei. Cao Shujie took his daughter's little hand and entered the orchard.

Mengmeng came here and ran around like a runaway donkey.

When she saw Cao Shu running out of time, she shouted loudly.

"Mengmeng, dear, Mengmeng, who made your braids? They are so beautiful." Cao Shuchao asked her with a smile.

Mengmeng raised her hand and touched the four braids on her head: "Uncle, my mother combed them for me. They look good."

"It looks good." Cao Shuchao nodded and said.

"Uncle, are the kiwi fruits ripe?" Mengmeng raised her little face with an expectant expression on her face.

But Cao Shuchao's answer disappointed her: "It's not possible now, we have to wait another half month."

Cao Shuchao said: "Just wait until next month."

"Ah... we have to wait until next month." Mengmeng wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.

While talking, Cao Shuchao followed the father and daughter towards the kiwi orchard.

After coming over, Cao Shujie saw that the kiwi fruit hanging on the tree was already about the size of a cute fist. It was already a grade A fruit, but it was not yet ripe!

"Shujie, you see these fruits are not small, but the maturity period is a little later than expected." Cao Shuchao pointed to these kiwis and said.

Continuing walking inside, there were a few fruits that had fallen on the ground due to diseases, insect pests or other reasons. Cao Shuchao picked them up and cut them in half with the knife he brought with him, revealing the white flesh inside. He could tell at a glance that they were not ripe.

Cao Shujie took half of it, and then used the knife in Cao Shuchao's hand to pull off a piece of pulp from the top, put it into his mouth, chewed it, and then spit it out.

There is still a bit of astringency in the mouth.

"It's really close. I was thinking that I could start planting trees for sale at the end of this month, but it seems I have to wait a little longer." Cao Shujie said.

Cao Shuchao said to him: "Shujie, don't be afraid of being late for a good meal. The fruit is not ripe yet, so there is no point in being anxious."

Hearing what Cao Shuchao said, Cao Shujie nodded subconsciously: "Brother Chao, you are right, I am too impatient."

Cao Shuchao pointed to the west and said: "I know what you are worried about. In the past, the orchards on those acres of land matured very quickly. Now they mature a little slower, but the varieties are different, so there will always be some differences."

"Besides, the yellow-heart kiwifruit and the red-heart kiwifruit are the first to bear fruit this year. They bear fruit relatively late, which is normal."

When Mengmeng heard the conversation between her father and Uncle Chao, she immediately understood that the kiwis were not yet ripe, and she felt very disappointed: "Dad, do you have to wait any longer?"

"Wait, let's just wait another half a month." Cao Shujie said.

Mengmeng said: "Well, we can only wait."

"You kid, our kiwis ripen early, and other kiwis have to wait until around the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th." Cao Shujie threw half of the kiwi in his hand into the root of the tree.

The three of them, an older one and a younger one, continued walking in. Looking at the fruits hanging on the fruit trees, Cao Shujie felt very happy. He felt that the most correct decision he had made in his life was to come back.

If you continue to hang out outside, you won't be able to experience this joy at all.

Arriving in front of the 20 acres of mountain land where strawberries were originally planted, Cao Shujie looked at the still empty land and was thinking about buying strawberry seedlings in a while and continuing to plant them.

This thing is not easy to take care of, but the profit is really high. One acre of land can earn a combined income of more than 100,000 yuan. Even if the investment is removed, the profit is still about 100,000 yuan. There are really few other fruits that can match it.

Another thing is that this kind of picking can bring unprecedented popularity to Caojiazhuang, which is something Cao Shujie values ​​​​very much.

Before they knew it, the father and daughter had been here for more than an hour, and Cao Shujie never went back. His wife called him anxiously and asked when they would go back for breakfast.

"We're going down the mountain right now." Cao Shujie said into the phone.

Not long after, Cao Shujie hung up the phone, said hello to Cao Shuchao, and took Mengmeng down the mountain.

On the way down the mountain, I also met a few people going up the mountain to play.

After meeting Cao Shujie, they would stop and call him Director Cao.

"Dad, why do they call you Director Cao?" Mengmeng asked out of curiosity.

Cao Shujie explained the reason to her.

After she finished speaking, Mengmeng seemed to understand, and she shouted to her father: "Hello, Director Cao."

After finishing speaking, before Cao Shujie could say anything to her, he burst into laughter.

When she got home, Cheng Xiaolin had already placed breakfast on the dining table. Mengmeng saw the big red dates floating in the millet porridge bowl, and she became happy.

"Dad, jujube, peel it for me." Mengmeng shouted.

After Cheng Xiaolin heard about it, she said to her husband: "Shujie, it's all your bad habits. She has to peel dates to eat, peel grapes to eat, and there is something left after cherry tomatoes are peeled, but she has to

I peeled it off and refused to eat anything nutritious. It really pissed me off."

When Cao Shujie heard his wife nagging, he blinked at his daughter and said nothing.

When Mengmeng saw her father like this, she smiled at her father, a bit gloating about his misfortune.

After a while, Mengmeng came back from washing her hands and yelled at her father to peel the dates quickly.

She also knew how to stay away from her mother to avoid being beaten. She sat next to her father and leaned close to him and whispered: "Dad, mommy dislikes you."

"It's not because of you." Cao Shujie said with a smile.

But the sweet look on his face couldn't deceive anyone.

Cao Shujie pinched both ends of the jujube with his hands, picked up the jujube skin with chopsticks, tore it off bit by bit and put it in his mouth to eat.

After being steamed at high temperature in the pressure cooker, the almost melted jujube meat began to drip with jujube red juice, dyeing the millet porridge deep red, and the rich jujube aroma also hit your nostrils.

"This jujube is really delicious." Cao Shujie also commented.

Cheng Xiaolin rolled her eyes at him and said, "I bought it for more than 30 yuan a pound. Unfortunately, we don't sell it here. When I go to the city in a while, I have to go to the supermarket again."

There is no market in towns and villages for jujubes that cost more than 30 yuan per pound.

"Aren't they sold online?" Cao Shujie asked.

Cheng Xiaolin shook her head: "There are some online, but they are too complicated and I can't tell which one is better. I can't just try them one by one, right?"

This is really a thing, Cao Shujie said: "When I went to the provincial capital some time ago, I would have bought some early."

Cheng Xiaolin was embarrassed and said, "I was so anxious at the time that I forgot about it."

Speaking of the provincial capital, Cheng Xiaolin asked him how the incident at the Dafa Fruit Wholesale Market was being handled.

Cao Shujie scraped all the peeled jujube flesh into a bowl with a spoon, put the core with almost no jujube flesh in his mouth, ate it clean and spat it out.

Mengmeng watched her father's operation the whole time. She even glanced into the trash can and asked her father if the date seeds were delicious.

"Mengmeng, do you want to eat?" Cao Shujie asked her.

But Mengmeng shook her head directly: "I'm not stupid, I can't bite that one."

Cao Shujie burst out laughing when her daughter said this.

Maybe it was because of the red dates. It usually took Mengmeng half an hour to drink a bowl of millet porridge, but today she finished it in less than 10 minutes.

After drinking this bowl, Mengmeng was still looking around for another bowl.

Cao Shujie knew in his heart that his daughter mainly wanted to find big red dates.
To be continued...