Chapter 302 Roasted Sweet Potatoes
The brother and sister had just taken a few steps when the little girl in their arms turned around and called out crisply:
"Fourth sister!"
Then Zhang Xingwang turned around and saw that his fourth sister suddenly appeared from not far behind him. She smiled awkwardly at him and his eldest sister, then gritted her teeth and looked at the little girl...
After a while, a few little ones came to play with the little girl. It seemed that the girl was quite popular, but now she stayed in his arms and didn't want to get off.
Zhang Xingwang thought about the things he had prepared, and asked the little girl to call her friends over. He waited under the big tree in front. Last time, he saw that the children all looked unhappy, and he probably had worms in their stomachs...
When the little girl came with the children of all ages, Zhang Xingwang had already lit the fire. He had matches, and the branches for lighting the fire were obtained by his eldest sister by climbing up a tree.
After learning that her younger brother wanted to have a barbecue, the eldest sister thought about it for a long time to no avail. She inadvertently looked up and saw the branches above her head, and then climbed up in two or three steps while Zhang Xingwang was staring at her in a daze.
By the time Zhang Xingwang reacted, the elder sister had already told him to stand aside. He watched as the elder sister casually broke off a large piece of dead tree trunk and threw it to where he had just stood. After getting down from the tree, she broke it a few more times.
Looking at the dead branches of suitable size on the ground, the elder sister nodded with satisfaction, patted the non-existent dust on her body, and signaled to the younger brother that he could start a fire...
Zhang Xingwang watched the elder sister's operation and exclaimed, "Wow!" He just couldn't understand why there was a large dead branch in front of him when the tree was so lush and dense. It was totally unreasonable...
The fourth sister's attention was originally on the sack, but she was unconsciously attracted by the eldest sister's skills. After watching her elder sister effortlessly break a branch as thick as her arm, she swallowed unnaturally.
His eyes skipped over his eldest sister and were attracted by the big tree behind her. He felt that the tree must have some secret, otherwise why would his brother be waiting for those children here? Maybe some of his brother's men were hiding in the dense branches!
Zhang Xingwang took out a handful of pagoda candies and bitter candies from his pocket and gave one to each of the children except the little girl. Then, he listened to the messy voices of thanks from the group of children and his face turned dark again.
The calls of uncle and brother were normal, but there was obviously a strange voice mixed in. There was actually a snotty little kid calling him "nephew". What was going on?
I originally wanted to snatch it back, but after the little guy was sensible and changed his name to "Brother Xingwang", I let him go. Later, when I asked, I found out that he was the old man's grandson, so normally it would be reasonable to call him nephew.
This little guy must have suffered in this regard, so he is quite cautious. Seeing Zhang Xingwang's unsuspecting expression, he immediately changed his words. It seems that he is either smart since he was young, or he is a child with a story...
Zhang Xingwang ignored the little ones as they tried to hide the candies in various ways. He just stopped a little boy from stuffing the candies into his ears, and then started taking things out of the bag.
After all, the girl next to him hid her hair in her braids, and although some of it leaked out, at least it wouldn't fall off. His card was not strong enough and could easily fall off, and it would be even more troublesome if it was stuck firmly!
With the fourth sister's eyes full of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he took out a bunch of sweet potatoes and distributed them to the little ones to roast and eat. He then took out two fish and handed them to the fourth sister who was studying the tree. He said casually:
"We've just been working. We don't want to keep idle people in our family. You can clean the fish and we'll grill it later."
After Zhang Xingwang finished speaking, he noticed that his fourth sister turned to look at him and smiled softly. Her clear and pleasant voice was like a spring breeze, and instantly drowned out the noise nearby:
"Brother, isn't it just washing fish? If I work, will you support me forever? As expected, brother is the best. How many people can hide in such a big tree? Such fresh fish must have been delivered by someone. After all, we have been together just now, and you didn't have the time to catch fish."
Zhang Xingwang was shocked when he heard this, and lamented that it was a pity that this girl didn't do the dubbing, and replied casually:
"The tree can... um... what are you thinking about all day? And why did you change the content but not the tone? Change your tone back to normal, or you can learn the craft from grandma during the summer vacation!"
He seriously rejected the unreasonable question from his fourth sister and asked her to clean the fish in the costume of the eldest brother.
Half an hour later, a group of children were eagerly watching Zhang Xingwang grilling fish. The sweet potatoes were already on the fire. A few of the little ones were a little smart but obviously not much. They even knew to wrap the sweet potatoes with mud and stew them until cooked. This way, the skin could be protected and at least they could eat more bites.
The only thing is that the water used to mix the mud was not very particular. Several little boys gathered around it for more than a minute and made a pile of mud. Zhang Xingwang couldn't stand it anymore and was ready to go over and say something, but after seeing several children fighting over the mud and getting themselves covered in it, he decisively gave up the idea of getting close.
I thought I would just stand at a distance and give them some language education, but when I saw a few children quarreling over making marks and attacking each other with mud, I immediately stopped the language education and started watching with great interest.
The eldest sister now felt that her younger sister was not as smart as she had imagined. Even though she had said that there was no one on the tree, she was still staring at the tree. After a while, she whispered to herself that she had found footprints, so she didn't need to hide it for her brother.
After a while, he tried to climb up the tree to have a look, and only after he fell down did he calm down completely. Now he is writing and drawing on the ground again, and even forgot to eat the fish...
When the sweet potatoes were cooked, another problem arose. It would have been fair for each person to have two sweet potatoes, but the sweet potatoes were not of the same size, and they were burned so black in the fire that they could not be recognized. Even the so-called numbers disappeared without a trace.
The children started arguing again, and finally the fourth sister acted as the referee and let them use rock-paper-scissors to determine the order. After getting the sweet potatoes, the little ones hurriedly started to eat them, while the older ones put a piece away and said embarrassedly that they would give it to their family members. They seemed very sensible.
I guess his father would not be able to swallow the mud even if he knew where it came from, after all, it was his own child’s not-so-clear filial piety…
Just after we divided the sweet potatoes, we saw the old man coming over on his bicycle. He looked exhausted, but he still smiled smugly before driving away the kids who were studying the bicycle. He then asked them to go home, saying that it was still early and asked the elder sister to help expand the cellar. After all, the elder sister had experience in this job...
Looking at the fourth sister who kept looking back every few steps, the old man smiled contemptuously, saying that this granddaughter had obviously become stupid from studying too much. What's the use of just being able to talk when she can't even climb a tree...
