"Grandma, don't always use your wife to talk about things. Come, take a look at the fabrics in the box." Li Wen saw that the old lady was trying to pull on his wife again and hurriedly stopped her.

"Hey! Grandma, my brother brought you the cloth last month. Didn't my mother make clothes for you? You have worn this outfit for many years and it is full of patches." Li Wen took out the cloth and said.

"I did it. I didn't wear it. I kept it in the cupboard." The old lady looked at the flowers in her hand and couldn't put them down.

"Then you have to wear something! From now on, we will all get dressed, but your clothes are full of patches. People still don't laugh at us when we go out." Li Wen said with a straight face.

"The fabrics I got this time are for my second aunt, my second sister, and Taozi. You can measure the size with your second aunt when the time comes. These fabrics are enough for four or five people."

"There are also two sets of military uniforms and rubber shoes here. They were bought from the labor insurance store and will be given to my father and second uncle when the time comes." Li Wenwen took out the military green clothes and military green rubber shoes like a treasure.

"This is a good thing!" the old lady said happily as she took the clothes and shoes.

Li Wen finally took out two packages of sugar and five pounds of pork from under the box.

"Grandma, when the time comes, you can give my second aunt a pack of these sugars, and the meat will be left here for you to keep." Li Wen handed the things to the old lady with a smile.ωωw..net

"Okay, you have the final say!" The old lady stood up with a smile and put the things in the kangtou cabinet.

"Grandma, when I came back, I saw that the pumpkin vine at the door had a lot of melons. How are the pumpkins in the backyard? Why are you the only one with pumpkin vines on your roof?" Li Wen asked doubtfully.

"This year, the pumpkins at the door were indeed very pleasing to the eye. There were also three nests of pumpkins in the backyard, but one of them was trampled to death."

"There are still two vines left in the backyard, and they are growing pretty well. A lot of them have climbed on the wall of the backyard and on the roof of my house. I estimate that I can pick dozens of pumpkins in August, which is considered a bumper harvest." The old lady grinned.

"Awen, the pears and melons you planted are already ripe. Recently, children from the village have been stealing them every day, and at night there are pots and hares stealing them. It's very annoying." The old lady thought about it and said.

"Didn't you let the second sister and the others see it? This pear melon should be quite valuable." Li Wen jumped down from the edge of the bed and said.

"Why not? In the past few days, A Ping and Xiao Min have been watching in the fields during the day. At night, your father and your second uncle even slept in the field under the shed they built."

"These pear melons are very fragrant when ripe, and the price is also very high. Your dad picked two cages the day before yesterday and took them to the purchasing station. They paid 30 cents per pound. What grows in the ground is not melons. They are all money. Don't look at it.

Don’t worry!” the old lady said happily.

"Three cents per pound is really a lot. I'll go and have a look in the fields." Li Wen was very happy to hear that the melon was ripe.

"Your father and your second uncle opened a door on the back wall, and you can just go out from the backyard." The old lady reminded Li Wen looking at his excited look.

"I know!" Before the old lady could speak, Li Wen had already ran out of the room.

In the yard, Steamed Bun has finished eating and is lying in the corner. His belly is round and cute.

"This pastoral dog was really the king of beauty when he was a child. He might become the king of hell when he grows up." Li Wen sighed in his heart.

After teasing the little guy with a smile, Li Wen walked towards the backyard. Unexpectedly, the little guy staggered towards him and ran towards him. Li Wen picked up the little guy.

I heard footsteps in the backyard, and several pigs thought they were coming to feed, so they all started to grunt.

Steamed Bun stood at the gate and kept barking at the pigs, making Li Wen laugh.

"Have you ever beaten them so fiercely?" Li Wen smiled and kicked the little guy.

The little guy stopped barking now. Thinking that Li Wen was playing with it, he hugged Li Wen's rubber shoes and started chewing them.

The two little pigs in the pig pen weigh about 60 kilograms, which is still half a big pig. The little black pig Li Wen caught last year is already almost 200 kilograms, and it seems that it is almost time to ascend to heaven.

Li Wen took out a few kilograms of corn from the space and poured it into the pig trough. These guys had a good meal today.

On the wall of the backyard, a small wooden door more than one meter high and several dozen centimeters wide was ajar. Li Wen opened the door and got through.

Arriving at the private plot, Li Wen saw his third sister, Li Ping, pulling weeds in the field from afar.

"This girl is so hard-working!" Li Wen shouted towards the ground. When Li Ping saw that it was Li Wen who was back, she also showed a happy smile. But she just hummed and said nothing.

"Xiao Ping, I got you a toy." Li Wen handed the puppy he was holding to Li Ping.

When Li Ping saw the cute puppy, she instantly lost her resistance and picked up the puppy to play with it.

Looking at this somewhat autistic sister, he was in a good mood at this time. Li Wen didn't ask any more questions and said very little. He would enlighten him slowly in the future.

Suddenly, the steamed bun screamed in Li Ping's arms, struggled, jumped out of Li Ping's arms, and ran towards the ground.

Li Wen's mental energy swept away, and it turned out that a hedgehog was eating a melon, and was discovered by the steamed bun.

"Xiao Ping, don't go over there, just watch first." Li Wen looked at Li Ping who was about to chase the buns and said with a smile.

The steamed bun stumbled across the ground, tripping over melon vines from time to time, and then struggled to stand up again.

When he ran to the little hedgehog, the steamed bun surrounded the hedgehog and started barking. Seeing that the hedgehog was cowering in fear, the little guy bit into it.

"Woo!" The little guy's mouth was directly pierced by the hedgehog's spikes, and Li Wen and Li Ping laughed loudly.

Li Wen walked forward quickly, gently picked up the hedgehog with his hands and threw it into the grass aside.

I picked up the steamed bun and touched the little guy's dog head, and praised him a few times, which made the little guy bark with joy.

"A Ping, hold the little guy." Li Wen smiled and handed the steamed bun to Li Ping, who was watching eagerly.

"A Ping, are there any children coming to the field today to steal melons?" Li Wen picked the melon from the vine that had been chewed by the hedgehog, wiped the soil, and broke off the part that had been chewed by the hedgehog.

"Yes, I beat him away." Li Ping blushed and whispered, her voice as quiet as a mosquito.

"Haha, you are so awesome!" Li Wen broke off half of the melon and handed it to Li Ping.

The little guy, the steamed bun, had never seen a melon before. He smelled the sweetness and kept tilting his head towards the half-cut melon in Li Ping's hand, humming and wanting to eat it.

"Put down the steamed bun, and I'll feed it some melon." Li Wen picked up the part that he broke off just now and fed it to the little guy.

"I didn't expect this little guy to eat with gusto. This dog will be easy to feed in the future." Li Wen praised.

After eating the melons, Li Wen picked up all the white melons in the field with a cage in his hand. The cage was just full.

"Awen, you're back!" Li Wen had just walked to the end of the field carrying the cage when he saw his father coming out of the back door and calling him.

"Dad, you are doing a good job with these melons. The yield is good." Li Wen said with a smile, putting down the picked melons.

"This is how effective our pig manure is!" Li Deyou laughed loudly as he looked at a cage full of melons and listened to his son's compliments.

"Dad, I heard from my grandma that the purchase price of this melon in town is 30 cents per catty. The price is very good. How many times have you sold it?"

"I sold it once. After the first crop of melons was ripe, I took it to the town and asked about the price. I had never seen many of the buyers in town."

"Fortunately, I know Director Zhou from the purchasing station. He recognized our melons at a glance. After tasting the texture of our melons, he immediately decided to accept the three cents per pound." Li Deyou said happily.

"Assuming that Director Zhou knows the goods, this melon can be sold for 50 or 60 cents per pound in a big city. Melons are a rarity these days!" Li Wen smiled and nodded.

"Yes! Director Zhou even told me specifically that as long as the melons are in good shape and not bad, he will accept them all."

"It's just that our family grows too little. If the quantity is large, Director Zhou said that we can come to buy it." Li Deyou looked at the two rows of melon vines and said with a smile.

"What did the village say? I heard from grandma that there are always children stealing melons these days. Didn't the adults steal melons?"

"It's not like adults, they're just some half-grown children who are greedy. The family has been taking turns looking at them these days. These melons are worth a lot of money!" Li Deyou said, his eyes full of enthusiasm.

"Does anyone in the village want to plant melons? We don't have any melons left, right?" Li Wen asked suspiciously, seeing that there were no melons left in the field.

"I haven't saved it yet! We can still pick two or three crops of this melon. I plan to keep the melons for planting after picking this crop." Li Deyou scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Dad, the melon root is the best on the vine. When I picked the melon just now, I didn't pick the root melon. You go back and tell my mother that you won't pick the root melon anymore and save it as melon seeds."

"Our melons have been sold for a lot of money this year. After people in the village know the price in a few days, there will definitely be a lot of people asking for melon seeds." Li Wen said with a smile.

"I just sold the melons the day before yesterday. I don't know who the fool got the news from the town's purchasing station. When I went to work in the fields today, people who wanted melon seeds surrounded me." His father Li Deyou said with a bitter smile.

"Dad, we can't give it to anyone in the village. Even if we don't sell these two melons, we won't be able to share all the seeds. It's not appropriate for you to give them to anyone."

"You can discuss with the brigade in the afternoon and leave dozens of melons for the village. Let the village plant them uniformly next year, and then every household can receive the seeds." Li Wen came up with an idea.

"You are still a smart kid. No one can give you these melon seeds. You can exchange the melon seeds with the team for some money and food." Li Deyou smiled happily.

"Don't kick it randomly. What if you break it? How many cents does a melon cost?" Li Deyou saw Li Wen kicking the melon cage a few times and quickly lifted the melon aside.

"Xiao Ping, where did you get this dog?" Li Deyou looked at the dog in Li Ping's arms and asked with a smile.

"Dad, I bought this in the town," Li Wen said and touched the dog's head.

"This dog is not bad. When I was a child, our family also had a yellow dog, but unfortunately it was beaten to death by a white dog." Li Deyou touched the little guy, but he didn't expect that the little guy didn't buy it and kept biting Li Deyou's fingers.

"Don't bite the steamed buns." Li Wen shouted, but the little guy actually understood and started to moan.

"Awen, you and Xiaoping go home for dinner. Dad will come and watch now."

"Dad, you and Xiaoping go back to eat! You have to work in the afternoon, I'm free." Li Wen waved his hand and said.

"Okay, let's go back first. If there are children who steal melons, don't beat them, just scare them and run away." Li Deyou raised the melon cage and warned.

After Li Deyou and Li Ping left, Li Wen continued to dig up the melons in the field, and spread some dry soil on the bottom layer to prevent the melons from rotting.

Some Li Wen that looked crooked and cracked with jujubes were picked and thrown away. These things did not grow long and kept absorbing nutrients, so the father and the others were reluctant to pick them.
Chapter completed!