You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 134 Picking Pomegranates

Many people were going up the mountain, men, women, old and young, walking in groups towards the back of the mountain. Along the way, they greeted each other and chatted.

The children were running in front, jumping and calling their friends with laughter.

The mountain road was not easy to walk on. Wei Xinyi, carrying her small backpack, kept rushing forward. Wei Qinglang shouted from behind, "Wei Xinyi, run slower. Don't cry if you fall. No one is going to snatch it from you."

Then Wei Nanxing quickly caught up with her and walked slowly.

When we got to the woods, we saw trees full of pomegranates hanging heavily on the branches, bending them down.

Some of the early comers have already climbed up the tree and picked a basket of pomegranates. At this time, not all the pomegranates on the tree are ripe, and the villagers need to take the time to pick the ones with bright and plump colors, and leave the ones that are not ripe for a few more days.

"Let's walk over there." Cheng Shuang suggested as they saw people everywhere.

The fruit-bearing pomegranate trees are all more than ten or twenty years old, and they are tall and the fruits are scattered. She wants to find one with fewer people.

There are also many pomegranate trees in the forest that have been planted for four or five years and have grown quite tall. However, the growth cycle of pomegranate is very long. It usually takes seven or eight years to start bearing fruit, and it is also difficult to grow the seeds. It has taken decades for the village to have such a forest.

After walking forward for a while, I actually met Hu Chunhua's family. Cheng Caizhi was picking pomegranates from the tree, and his wife was catching them below. Hu Chunhua and her two grandsons were sitting under the tree opening pomegranates and eating them. There were already a lot of peels on the ground.

Other families also opened one or two to share with the children, but people like Hu Chunhua would not stop eating until they were full and took their own share home.

Cheng Shuang didn't want to be touched by the weirdo, so she continued walking forward with the basket.

When Hu Chunhua looked up, Cheng Shuang had already walked away. She looked at Qiuyan and Dongyun following behind her, and felt as if she had seen them somewhere, but she couldn't remember where.

Qiuyan and Dongyun also saw Hu Chunhua, but lowered their heads and pretended not to see her. Their aunt was very scary. When they went to their uncle's house when they were young, she looked at them with a particularly fierce look, especially when they were eating. As long as they picked up the meat or vegetables with their chopsticks, she would glare at them as if she wanted to eat them.

"This is it."

Cheng Shuang walked straight to the end and found an empty pomegranate tree. The tree was about five or six meters tall. The pomegranates were of different colors. Most of them were not fully ripe, but many of them had already turned red.

There was a branch on one side that was relatively low and could be pulled down by just reaching out from the ground. Cheng Shuang jumped and pulled down a branch with four or five pomegranates on it, two of which had already turned red. She pressed the peel and found it was quite elastic, so she picked it directly. Wei Xinyi immediately ran over with a basket.

Cheng Pan and his two cousins ​​also came over and reached out to grab the lower branches.

Wei Nanxing climbed up the tree holding the trunk. He moved very agilely and stood firmly on the thick branches. He began to pick the pomegranates with the most eye-catching and fullest colors.

Each family could only get about twenty kilograms, so there wasn't a need for so many people picking. Wei Qinglang had nothing better to do, so he came to join in the fun. Seeing more and more people in the forest, he said, "You guys pick, I'll go ahead."

Cheng Shuang hummed casually and ignored him, reaching out to Wei Nanxing in the tree and said, "Throw it, it's okay, I can catch it."

Wei Nanxing was afraid of hitting her head, so he tried several times before finally letting go. Cheng Shuang caught it nimbly and steadily, saying proudly, "Don't worry, throw it."

Seeing this, Wei Xinyi also ran over and stretched out her hand. Wei Nanxing picked a small one and threw it down, and she actually caught it and jumped for joy.

Only a dozen or so were picked from the tree, and the rest were not at their best, so Cheng Shuang took her brother and sister-in-law back and picked another one.

Then she gave the rest to her brothers and sisters to pick, and she sat under the tree to rest.

"Qinglang's wife, come pick pomegranates too."

Suddenly someone called from behind, Cheng Shuang turned around and saw that it was Li coming over.

Li was the person in the village who got along the most with Hu Chunhua, but ever since Wei Qinglang led a team into the mountains to find his son, this woman had not targeted her again and had always been very polite to her.

Cheng Shuang nodded, "Aunt, is there anything wrong?"

Li ran over and whispered, "Cheng Caijun came back yesterday and was very angry, did you know that?"

Cheng Shuang held her chin and said, "Oh, I'm not interested in knowing."

Mrs. Li didn't care whether Cheng Shuang wanted to hear it or not, and gossiped, "They smashed the room and burned the books. Hu Chunhua was so distressed that she cried and howled. Cheng Caijun threatened that if he didn't let them burn the books, he would stop studying."

Cheng Shuang sneered, "Isn't it because they spoiled Cheng Caijun's dandyism? Just bear with it. Burn it and buy a new one. If you don't have money, you can sell your daughter and suck her blood."

Li's face was filled with a gloating smile. When she mentioned selling her daughter, she plopped down next to Cheng Shuang. "Feng Tiegen's family has been building a house these days, and they've invited villagers to help. Hu Chunhua also went there when they were laying the foundation. In front of everyone, she acted pitifully, saying that their house was shabby and asked Tiegen to build them a new one. Tiegen's parents were furious."

Cheng Shuang became a bystander, "Is Tiegen going to agree?"

"No." Li shook her head. "How could a son-in-law pay for his mother-in-law to build a house? She's shameless. Feng Tiegen is not a fool."

Cheng Shuang thought to herself, fortunately Feng Tiegen wasn't that stupid, but now that he had married Cheng Xiaomei, Cheng Caijun's travel expenses for the imperial examinations would definitely fall on his shoulders, and it would cost at least three or four hundred taels.

While having nothing to do, Cheng Shuang listened to Li's vivid description of how Hu Chunhua took advantage of the Feng family and asked Cheng Xiaomei to bring her husband's family's things to her parents' home time and time again. This gave him a new understanding of the shamelessness of the first and second wives' families.

After Li finished gossiping, she saw Qiuyan and Dongyun packing pomegranates. After observing them for a while, she asked curiously, "Wife Qinglang, those two girls are from your aunt's family, right?"

"Yes, my cousin."

"Didn't Guqiu come yesterday? Why didn't he go back?" Li knew Cheng Guqiu. When she married into Chengjia Village, Cheng Guqiu was still single. Her eyes rolled around. "Could it be that since your family is rich now, she brought the child back to rely on you?"

"Auntie, you must be thirsty after talking for so long. Go back and have some water."

Seeing that Li had fallen into her old bad habit of being sarcastic, Cheng Shuang didn't bother to pay attention to her anymore, but she still refuted her, "By the way, my aunt didn't come back to beg for money. She will live with me from now on. We are a family."

Anyway, if Cheng Guqiu stayed for a few more days, the villagers would know about this sooner or later, so there was no need to hide it.

Li's mouth opened in surprise. "Live with you? What about her husband?"

Cheng Shuang didn't explain much, she stood up and patted her clothes, "Nanxing, go find out where your brother is, we should go back."

Seeing that Cheng Shuang ignored her, Li went back angrily. When she returned, she found that Hu Chunhua and her family had also come here.

The two of them didn't get along and gave each other a cold look when they met. Li remembered what Cheng Shuang said and immediately ran to Aunt Xinghua.

She deliberately shouted at the top of her lungs, "Aunt Xinghua, I have something to tell you. I just saw Cheng Guqiu's two daughters going up the mountain with Cheng Shuang's family, so I asked out of curiosity, do you know what Cheng Shuang said?"

Aunt Xinghua pricked up her ears. "You came back yesterday to beg for money and haven't left yet?"

"Cheng Shuang said her aunt didn't come back to beg for money." Li glanced at Hu Chunhua, "She said her aunt will live with me from now on. We are a family."

"What do you mean?" Aunt Xinghua didn't understand. "What do you mean by living together from now on? Didn't Gu Qiu marry into Baijia Village?"

"I don't know about that. Anyway, that's what Cheng Shuang said."

Li looked at Hu Chunhua and said deliberately, "Cheng Shuang is a person who knows how to repay kindness. Gu Qiu was so kind to her siblings in the past, so now that she's rich, she knows how to repay the favor. Unlike some vicious women who would torture people to death, it's no wonder that she's ignoring her now."

Hu Chunhua was so angry that she put her hands on her hips and yelled, "Who are you calling a vicious woman?"