Those children couldn't drive Xu Ling away, and they couldn't defeat him either. In the end, Li Dayuan reluctantly agreed.
They gathered together to discuss for a long time and decided to join forces with Xu Ling to pick all the ripe dates on the tree. Picking more or less depends on their ability.
Xu Ling agreed.
A hint of cunning flashed in Li Dayuan's eyes, and he assigned one child to stare at Xu Ling. The other children took off their clothes and spread them on the ground. He and another taller child used bamboo poles to beat dates on the trees.
The jujube tree has thorns, not only on the branches, but also on the trunk, making it impossible to climb up.
They brought long bamboo poles and came prepared. Xu Ling was empty-handed and wanted to see what he would do.
Xu Ling really didn't know about this. He didn't know until he was pricked by a thorn when he was holding the tree and preparing to climb up.
Li Dayuan and several children laughed loudly, and the speed of beating dates accelerated a lot.
Xu Ling cursed in her heart and couldn't help but feel troubled when she looked up at the dates on the tree. These dates were early red and attractive in length. If they could be exchanged for money, they would definitely be sold for a lot of money.
He is short of money now.
Thinking of this, Xu Ling gritted his teeth, took off his shoes and put them on his hands. He used the soles of his shoes to rub off the thorns on the tree before continuing to climb up.
The original owner was good at climbing trees and descending rivers. Xu Ling also climbed trees when she was a child, and it was not difficult at all.
It just stings people.
No matter how careful she was, she would inevitably get pricked. Xu Ling gritted her teeth and endured the pain, climbing up the tree like a monkey.
Now, it was the children's turn to be dumbfounded.
Li Dayuan yelled: "No, I let him take the lead now!"
Having said that, he wanted to follow Xu Ling's example and climb up, but after being stabbed a few times, he was taught by the unbearable pain that he did not dare to climb up again.
Climbing up the jujube tree is not the end of pain, it is just the beginning. Those red and attractive jujubes grow under the branches, and there are many thorns growing on the jujube tree branches.
When Xu Ling picked it, he was stung. Seeing that he was being stung from time to time, he took back his hand. After picking for a long time, he didn't seem to see more dates in his arms. Li Dayuan felt relieved again, did not want to climb the tree, and started busy again. Beat dates.
Seeing that Xu Ling had deceived him, he snickered in his heart. He didn't put the dates on him at all, but picked them off and threw them into the space.
No matter how hard these kids tried, they couldn't imagine that he was dead! Ah ha ha!
The jujube trees were tall, and the children used bamboo poles to knock the ones below, but she endured the pain and picked the ones above. The two groups of people seemed to be competing, picking dates with all their strength.
Until Li Dayuan's neck and hands were sore and tired, Xu Ling also suffered a lot from sitting on the jujube tree.
"Xu Ling, how many did you pick?" Li Dayuan asked under the tree.
Xu Ling sat on a horizontal branch, pulled out a thorn from under his buttocks and threw it down. He showed them the jujube juice in his clothes and said, "I picked so many."
"Haha, he was pricked like that, and he only picked those few!" The children laughed happily.
Li Dayuan also felt that Xu Ling was a little pitiful, so he became even less defensive about him, "Forget it, just throw the dates you picked over there, we won't pick them up from you."
Xu Ling smiled, threw the dates in his pocket onto the empty grass elsewhere, put on his clothes, rubbed them on his clothes, and ate the dates.
They seemed to have reconciled. Now the sun was setting, and a whole morning had passed. The children had no intention of leaving yet. They sat beside the jujube pile on the grass, jumping for joy, and began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. .
When you are hungry, you eat dates. When you are thirsty, you go to the river not far away to drink water.
Xu Ling asked them: "If you don't go back, won't your parents look for you?"
"What are you doing with us? We're here to pick dates!"
The adults in their family have to go to the fields all day long, so who would send someone to look after the children? As soon as these children can run around, they start doing various jobs for the family.
Xu Ling sat on a tall jujube tree. From here, she could see the village and the river like a silver ribbon. There were people walking around in the village, chickens crowing and dogs barking, it was very lively. Some people's chimneys were filled with smoke rising up. When we got up, the sky was endless and there was no wind at all.
She quietly looked at this beautiful scenery like a picture scroll, and felt that all her worries and worries were gone.
However, the small, aching wounds on her body were densely scattered, reminding her that no matter how beautiful the scenery was, everyone had to eat.
After eating more than a dozen dates in a row, Xu Ling was not so hungry anymore. The children continued to work under the tree, and Xu Ling also started to pick dates.
Gradually, he picked all the dates that could be picked, leaving only the hard-to-climb places on the treetops. Xu Ling won the sympathy of the children by selling miserably, and was able to successfully borrow bamboo poles to pick up the red dates on the treetops. It was beaten down and dropped to the ground for the children to pick up.
After doing this, Xu Ling endured the pain and climbed down from the jujube tree.
Those dates were mixed with the children's dates and regarded as compensation for this shameless and despicable adult.
Xu Ling returned the bamboo pole, thanked them, and bent down to pick up his own dates.
It was already around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and he was thinking about going home. Daya, Xu Ping, Xu An and the others would definitely be very happy to see Zao.
He would leave some for his family and give some to his father-in-law. If there was more left over, Xu Ling planned to go a little further tomorrow to sell dates in the town or other villages.
While he was making plans, Li Dayuan suddenly came over, threw a handful of dates on his clothes, and said awkwardly: "We picked a lot, so we will give you some, but you have to help us protect the secret, and you are not allowed to tell others that there are dates here. "
They only harvested one-third of the dates today, and there were still many red dates on the trees.
Xu Ling grinned. As expected, children are very innocent and so cute.
He did not refuse Li Dayuan's kindness, and the other children also gave him some dates.
In this way, Xu Ling finally made friends in the village - a group of children whose oldest were only ten years old.
Xu Ling and the children went home, said goodbye at the fork in the road, and went back to their homes.
Xu Ling thought about today's events. The more he thought about it, the more interesting it became. Suddenly he felt that time travel was not all a bad thing.
But when he arrived at the door of his house and saw two unfamiliar but angry faces, his heart skipped a beat again.
As soon as a bloated woman saw Xu Ling, she immediately rushed over and grabbed his arm, as if she was afraid that Xu Ling would run away. Her facial features wrinkled up, and when she opened her mouth, Xu Ling's face was sprayed with a stench, and she yelled. He shouted: "Xu Ling! When will you pay back the money you owe our family! If you don't give me a guarantee today, we will stay at your house and not leave!"
Xu's mother was usually arrogant and could be unreasonable as long as Xu Ling was around, but now she was like a quail. She only dared to hold the woman, for fear that she would hurt Xu Ling, and advised her: "Speak carefully. Tell it carefully, even if you beat him, he won’t have any money to pay you back!”
In the room, Da Ya's crying could be heard, as well as Gu You's soft persuasion.
Xu Ling looked through her memory and recognized that this woman was one of the original owner's biggest creditors, Liu Wang, the daughter-in-law of Uncle Zhao Zhen.
The original owner owed her... thirty-three taels of silver! ! !
Xu Ling's eyes suddenly darkened.
