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Chapter 162 Help Auntie Dig Potatoes (Potatoes)

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    "Old cousin, are the pants affordable?"

    "It's a little big, but it's okay, I can wear it." I replied.

    "Let's go, eat, I'm starving to death." The old cousin walked out the door first.

    I hurried to follow!

    In the kitchen, the aunt is already cooking.

    "Ren Tao, you are here!" the aunt greeted.

    "Auntie! I came here early in the morning. I accompanied my cousin to Qinggang River to help fish, and I just came back."

    "Are there any fish?" The aunt didn't seem to care much about how many fish we caught, but simply asked.

    "I caught a big catfish, and the rest are small crucian carp." I made a rough gesture with my hand.

    "Are you hungry? You have to wait for a while. I just came back and started cooking."

    Looking at the open back door, I finally understood.

    No wonder no one found my old cousin and me when we first came back.

    It turned out that the aunt had just come in through the back door.

    "Why did you come back so late today?" the old cousin asked.

    "There are too many yams, and your old man has gone to work again. I dig slowly by myself, so I have to dig quickly. That's why I came back late." The aunt explained.

    "Mom, let me tell you something!"

    It seems that the old cousin is going to confess to the aunt that we lost our clothes and pants.

    Seeing that the aunt didn't have any special reaction, the old cousin told the aunt about today's events from robbing fish to losing clothes, and then borrowing Ren Lei's clothes to come back.

    "Did you take off all your clothes? Hey! Did you lose yourself? You really are! It's very annoying!" Originally, I thought that the aunt's calm appearance should not have any reaction.

    As a result, after she heard it, she was so angry that she got angry. I regretted telling him so early.

    "Then what should Ren Tao do? When he goes back, his grandparents know that he lost his pants, so they beat him up in anger!"

    Auntie's words reminded me, yes!  I'm the one who gets beaten when I go home!

    These few of them are used to being naughty, and the family members should be used to it, right?

    I am a complete novice, this is my first time!  Alas~

    "Why don't you put your pants back on and pretend it never happened, so that your grandparents don't know about it." The aunt continued.

    "That's definitely not going to work! I don't have any clothes anymore. And my cousin's trousers are different in color and size from mine, so you can tell at a glance." I rejected the aunt's proposal.

    Amidst the entanglement, the conversation gradually reached a deadlock.

    After lunch, I still haven't thought of a perfect solution.

    "I went out to dig potatoes, do you think I'm going out with me, or just playing on the roof? Anyway, I'm not allowed to help the fish anymore!" said the aunt.

    "Old cousin, what do you think?" Lao Miao asked for my opinion.

    "Let's go, go and help the aunt dig potatoes."

    Since I haven't thought of a good solution, I'm not in the mood to play other things.

    Besides, the aunt is so busy, and the eldest uncle is not here. I am already a young man, and I can no longer hang out with me. I have to help the adults to do what I can.

    "Then take a small pry." The aunt handed the hoe in her hand to the old watch, and took a small pry from behind the door to me.

    Set off!  Conquer the potato fields!

    The three of them, a hoe, a small round pry, and a sling, walked to the potato field 300 meters away.

    This potato field is a medium-sized field nearby, about one acre.

    I roughly counted them. There are ten rows in total, each row is about two meters wide and twenty meters long.

    Near the field ridge on the left, two and a half rows of potato seedlings have been torn clean. It seems that it should be the hard work of the aunt all morning.

    In other words, this afternoon, the three of us will finish the remaining 7 and a half lines!

    "Ren Tao, you and Zhang Jun are helping to dig potatoes. I'll pull and shake the vines first." After the aunt finished speaking, she continued to pull the potato vines from the morning.

    Potato vines have lived up to their original emerald greenness and look yellow.  This also shows that the yams are already ripe, and if you don't dig them up, they will completely rot in the soil when the rain comes.

    After tearing off the yam vines and pulling off the rotten grass layer on the ground, most of the yams were directly exposed to the air.

    What we have to do is to pick up the potatoesóûÀï.

    When encountering yams with deep roots and most of them growing in the soil, I need a small round pry in my hand to handle them.

    Poke the round pry into the ground next to the potato with one hand, and lift it up slightly, the potato that has grown into the soil is easily pried up.

    After digging out all the potatoes on the surface, you need a hoe to turn the soil next to each other!

    Don't underestimate this digging, although there are no potatoes anywhere you can see with the naked eye.

    And by digging the soil, many potatoes buried in the soil can also be dug out.

    The aunt was alone, and those who came to the meeting were pulling the potato vines.

    Pulling the potato vines covering the soil one by one and throwing them in the ditch, just this swift action proves the professionalism of the aunt from the side.

    Potato vines don't grow long, and a large part has already been lost, so it's quite difficult to pull.

    When you are strong enough, the vines will be broken directly, and you have to grab a handful again.

    If the strength is weak, the problem cannot be solved at all.

    The exposed potatoes were thrown into the back sling one by one by my old cousin.

    Although two of us are responsible for picking up potatoes, we can't keep up with the speed of my aunt alone.

    Potatoes are thrown into the sack one by one, and the number of rows we need to dig is getting smaller and smaller.

    "How is it? It's much better after picking it up?" About forty minutes later, the aunt pulled out all the potato vines and returned to us.

    "Look, I just picked up a row, and the back is almost full!" said the old watch.

    Indeed, this year's potato harvest is relatively good. The nests of potatoes are not only large in number, but also not small in size.

    "Pick it up slowly, don't panic, it will make you tired." The aunt said with concern.

    "I'll take back the ones in the sack first, and throw the yams you picked up aside first, and put them in a pile. When I come, I'll put them in the sack." After giving instructions, the aunt carried most of the yams on her back.  went home.

    "Old cousin, you have planted so many yams, you can eat them all?" After digging a row or so, it is almost full, and there are so many yams left, how many yams do you get?  Finished eating?

    "The yams I picked up are big. My mother wants to sell them at Chongniang Temple. How can I eat so many yams? You're overthinking it!"

    "Oh? There are also people selling potatoes in Chongniang Temple?" I asked puzzled.

    After all, Chongniang Temple is such a big place, how can so many yams be consumed?

    "It must be sold out. There were so many yams last year, and they were sold out in a few days." The old watch also compared the situation last year for me.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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