MDMP Chapter 26.2

The back hill of the family compound had been cleared by the troops a long time ago, so there were no dangerous animals.

Children from the family compound usually came here to play, and they all came to pick some wild vegetables and fruits. This was the first time for them to hunt pigweed and catch bugs.

Several children from Zhang Taohua’s family also came together.

A few children were used to doing this in the countryside and had already experienced it. They immediately divided up the tasks. Those who hunted pigweed and those who caught insects rushed to different places.

“You guys should follow along.” Feng He gave each of the three children a small backpack and a small hoe.

Although it was a small backpack, it was more than half the size of Zhao Suisui.

However, Zhao Suisui was still a little excited with the small backpack on her back. She grabbed the straps of the backpack and jumped up and down twice.

After she finished jumping, she looked at Feng He who didn’t have any tools and asked curiously: “What about you, Mom?”

“I’ll be watching you from the side.” Feng He smiled.

Zhao Suisui: “???”

“Be careful when using the hoe, otherwise, you will get hurt.” Feng He reminded them.

Zhao Suisui said that she understood. She decided to perform well later and strive for the opportunity to drop out of school.

She still didn’t know what pigweed was, but she thought any green grass would be fine, so she squatted on the spot and pulled up the grass, pulling out one plant and throwing the other into the basket on her back.

Lu Zhou and Zhao Jingcheng were the first to realize something was wrong because the children of the Zhang family seemed to be cutting the same kind of grass.

Sure enough, Niu Niu, who was catching bugs nearby, saw what Zhao Suisui was pulling out and immediately jumped up, and then he said, “No, no, this is not pigweed!”

Zhao Suisui raised her head when she heard this and asked curiously: “Ah? Which one is it?”

Niu Niu searched around with his eyes, ran to a place, pulled out a piece of grass, and handed it to her: “Did you see it? This is it!”

Zhao Suisui took it carefully and wrote it down carefully.

While she was watching, someone suddenly pulled her backpack. Zhao Suisui turned around and looked over. It was Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou, who was also carrying a small backpack, pointed to a certain place and said, “I see there are a lot of them over there, let’s go there.”

“Oh, okay!” Zhao Suisui went happily.

When she arrived at the place, she saw a large piece of grass that looked exactly like the one in her hand.

Zhao Suisui poured the weeds out of the basket on her back, squatted down, and started pulling weeds again.

She threw the small hoe aside because she didn’t know how to use it. She was afraid of hurting herself.

The pigweed growing on the ground was not easy to pull out at all. Zhao Suisui used a lot of force to pull out one or two plants.

The juice of the pigweed dyed Zhao Suisui’s little hands green. The initial freshness passed, and she gradually began to feel a little tired.

But, Feng He said that they had to fill an entire small backpack to complete the task.

The more Zhao Suisui pulled out, the less strength she lost…

At first, Lu Zhou and Zhao Jingcheng also pulled out the pigweed by hand like Zhao Suisui, but they soon found that this method was too inefficient, so they followed the example of several children from the Zhang family and used small hoes to cut off the roots of pigweed.

They were stumbling at first, but as they continued to use it, their speed became faster.

Zhao Suisui originally wanted to use a small hoe, but because it took too much effort to pull the weeds, in the end, she couldn’t lift the small hoe at all.

The three children of the Zhang family got used to this kind of work, and soon, they filled three small backpacks with pigweed, and each of them even caught a bagful of bugs.

When they saw Zhao Suisui and the others moving so slowly, they couldn’t help but say, “Why are you so slow?”

The three children of the Zhang family did not leave after finishing their work. They played here for a while, which made Zhao Suisui, who was struggling to pull out pigweeds, extremely envious.

 

 

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