Ke Chu looked at Brother Mu, and both of them had a flash of surprise in their eyes.
They walked outside and sat down. Min's Ke Da and Ke Tuo were already eating with their bowls in their hands. They were eating deliciously. There was no food on the table, only two bowls of meager rice.
Smelling the meaty aroma that filled the air, Ke Chu laughed with unknown meaning.
"Brother Mu, pick up the food."
Brother Mu obediently picked up two bowls of rice, feeling secretly worried.
There is so little food, even if all the food is given to the husband, he may not be full.
"Wow!" Ke Chu lifted the dining table.
Brother Mu was so frightened that he trembled all over. Ke Chu didn't even look back. He raised his hand and pressed his head, silently comforting him.
Ke Tuo's face turned pale and he kept backing away to protect his job.
Ke Da roared, "What are you making a fuss about?!"
Min swallowed the rice and meat in the bowl into his stomach. After putting the bowl down, he looked at Ke Chu pretending to be puzzled and distressed, "A Chu, how did you become like this?"
Ke Chu didn't reveal the truth. He just looked at his hands with a confused look on his face, "Auntie, I always feel very irritable after I wake up from heat stroke. I want to hit people for no reason, and sometimes I even want to smash them uncontrollably. I don’t dare to tell the doctor, I’m afraid others will think me crazy.”
Looking at Min's stunned face, he begged: "Auntie, I'm your son. Please help me find a way. I don't want to get angry in the future and even beat you."
Min looked at Ke Chu dubiously.
If the former Ke Chu said this, she would definitely believe it.
But these days, Ke Chu has made up anything to stop working. Who knows if this is another excuse for not working.
Ke Da opened his eyes in shock, "You can't talk about this!"
If people in the village knew that he had a crazy son, how would he see anyone in the future.
He saw Ke Chu wanting to make a move anytime and anywhere, and shouted to Min, "What are you doing standing still? Go give them the rest of the meat!"
Someone was killing pigs in the village today. Taking advantage of Ke Chu's absence, Min fried the meat and put it in a bowl. He even cooked white rice just to cover the meat.
Naturally, there was no meat in the bowls of Brother Mu and Ke Chu. The meat was too fragrant and the rice was not enough. Ke Tuo dug out a lump of rice from Brother Mu's bowl.
Who would have thought that Ke Chu would go crazy at the slightest disagreement!
Mrs. Min walked to the kitchen with a face full of pain. As soon as she reached the kitchen, she heard Ke Chu's apologetic voice from behind, "Dad, you are so kind. I dropped the table. Not only did you not blame me, but you also asked Mom to fry me." Give us meat to eat, and I will definitely honor you in the future."
Ke Da's face softened, and he felt very comfortable.
"Okay, sit down and eat. I'll ask your mother to cook some food for you. Otherwise, there won't be enough food for you."
When Mrs. Min heard this in the kitchen, her eyes turned red with distress.
Why didn't she know that Ke Chu was so good at talking?
After Ke Da finished the meal, he warned before leaving: "Don't go out during this period. Recuperate before going out. I will ask your brother to help with the work in the fields."
Ke Tuo's eyes widened and he was about to refuse when he saw Ke Da looking at him coldly, "If you don't work, you won't be able to eat."
No matter how reluctant Ke Tuo was, he could only keep his mouth shut.
Mrs. Min threw the linen down on the stove, her face distorted.
Now she was sure that this crazy beating was definitely Ke Chu's excuse.
no! She must have a good talk with Ke Da at night.
The work in the fields is so hard, how can we let Ke Tuo go!
I don’t know how Min told Ke Da. Early the next morning, Ke Da knocked on Ke Chu’s door with an ugly expression.
Ke Chu was woken up. Brother Mu was sleeping soundly in his arms. He pulled up the quilt and blocked Brother Mu's ears before getting up, dressing and opening the door.
"I thought about it and realized that your illness doesn't happen all the time, so just go with me to work in the fields today." Ke Da directly put down his harsh words, "If you don't go, you and your husband will both be hungry for me today! You will be honest after being hungry for a few days."
Ke Chu lowered his eyes and responded, "Okay."
Ke Da was a little surprised. He thought Ke Chu would at least resist a few words, but he didn't expect him to agree so easily.
Min in the dark sneered triumphantly.
No matter how stubborn Ke Chu is, he still has to obey Ke Da's words?
"Bang bang bang!" There was a rude knock on the courtyard door, and Ke Da opened the door.
Liang Zong stood at the door with a bruised nose and a swollen face, followed by several men. He glanced over and saw that they were all relatives of the Liang family who were no longer in the fifth class.
When Ke Da saw that they all had sticks in their hands, he was horrified and asked, "My dear, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing?" Liang Zong was angry, "Your son came to my house yesterday and beat me like this. Today, I am here to seek justice for myself!"
Ke Da's face changed in shock.
Is what Ke Chu said true?
Min's face turned pale.
Ke Tuo rubbed his eyes and ran out of the house, shouting: "What are you doing? It's so early in the morning, why don't you let me sleep?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the sticks in the hands of Liang Zong and others.
When the morning wind blew, he broke into a cold sweat.
Mrs. Min pushed Ke Tuo into the house, shouting as he pushed, "Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its own owner. Ke Chu made the mistake in beating the person first. You can resolve this grudge as you see fit."
After pushing Ke Tuo back into the room, she said to Ke Chu: "Ke Chu, it's not that my mother doesn't protect you, it's that you have gone too far. How could you beat someone like that? He is you after all. My father-in-law."
Ke Chu lowered his head, and his hair on his temples hung down, making it difficult to see his face clearly.
"Auntie, you clearly know that I..."
"Shut up!" Ke shouted to stop him, "Go into the house and don't come out. I'll take care of this!"
Ke Chu's lips curled up slightly and he whispered, "Okay."
He walked back into the house, locked the door, leaned against the door and listened leisurely to how Ke Da bargained with the Liang family.
In the end, Ke Da paid fifty taels of medical expenses to the Liang family before the Liang family gave up.
Min's voice was trembling with distress, "You, why do you need to pay this money? It's obviously Ke Chu's fault, can't you let them solve it on their own? At most, Ke Chu will be beaten."
"Beat him?" Ke Da was also furious. "Didn't you hear what Ke Chu wanted to say just now? If I let him solve it, within half a day, the whole Xiaoyou Village will know that I have a crazy son!"
He said angrily, "It's all because of you! If you hadn't been telling me that Ke Chu was pretending to be sick, how could I have believed your lies? Fortunately, I didn't really let him work in the fields with me today, otherwise he would have Tian Li is going crazy, where do you want me to put this old face?"
Min was angry and aggrieved, "How did I know he was really here this time? He seems to have been possessed by an evil spirit recently."
"Are you possessed by evil? Otherwise, how could you get such a strange disease?" Ke Da waved Min away unluckily, "Call Ke Tuo out and ask him to work in the fields with us."
Min was not happy, so Ke yelled, "Go quickly!"
Mrs. Min was so frightened that she trembled and pulled Ke Tuo out of the door.
Brother Mu sat up from the bed sleepily, "Husband, what are we doing today?"
He was awakened by Koda's roar.
Ke Chu handed Brother Mu a glass of warm water and said, "Make grapefruit candies."
Brother Mu's eyes brightened slightly, "Are we going to start doing business?"
Ke Chu said with a smile in his eyes, "Sell secretly."
No matter what business they do now, they cannot let the Ke family know about it.
Brother Mu nodded vigorously and frowned in distress, "Husband, I can't eat so much grapefruit pulp."
If they were to sell grapefruit candies, there would be a lot of grapefruit pulp left.
Ke Chu rubbed his fluffy hair and said, "Don't worry, the pulp will not be wasted."
You can add honey to the grapefruit pulp to make honey grapefruit sauce. Add honey grapefruit paste to tea to make a delicious cup of honey grapefruit tea.
Brother Mu's brows widened and he stared directly at Ke Chu, his cheeks slightly red, "My husband is so awesome."
Ke Chu's eyes dimmed, he raised his hand to rub Brother Mu's slender chin, and after a while he sighed slightly, "You are too thin."
Brother Mu was so thin that he felt empty in his arms. He was afraid of breaking Brother Mu's bones even if he exerted a little force, so how could he dare to do anything to Brother Mu.
Brother Mu pursed his lips and stepped back, broke away from Ke Chu's hand, hugged his knees and turned his back to Ke Chu without saying a word.
Ke Chu looked at his obviously angry back, laughed and said, "I don't dislike you."
Brother Mu remained silent, and Ke Chu carried him out of bed like a child, "You know that I feel sorry for you, but you still want to get angry with me."
Brother Mu put his feet on the ground, his earlobes were slightly red, "It's what my husband is used to."
Two days ago, how would he have dared to lose his temper like this with Ke Chu.
Ke Chu pinched his earlobe and compromised, "Okay, okay, my fault."
After having breakfast, they went up the mountain with their backpacks on their backs. Ke Chu did not go straight to the grapefruit grove, but took many detours to a small stream.
The stream was cool, and Brother Mu gently rippled the water, reluctant to pull his hand back.
Ke Chu spread the linen cloth on the ground and put the water and eggs into Brother Mu's basket. "I'll leave for a while. Wait here for me. If you're hungry, just eat the eggs. You don't have to leave them for me."
Brother Mu sat cross-legged on the linen and looked up at him. Under the light, his little face was dazzlingly white, "Husband, be careful."
Ke Chu said with a smile in his eyes, "Okay."
Ke Chu came back soon. There was a piece of linen cloth draped on the basket on his back. Brother Mu curiously opened the linen cloth and saw a large group of beehives in the basket on his back.
His eyes widened, "Husband, did you go steal honey? Have you been stung?"
The bees in the mountains are very ferocious.
Ke Chu showed his hand to Brother Mu, "Don't worry, I haven't been stung."
In his last life, he accidentally discovered honey. In order to get this honey, he indeed suffered a lot.
He was fully prepared in this life, so naturally he was not injured.
Brother Mu breathed a sigh of relief, "Then let's go pick grapefruits now."
When picking grapefruit, Ke Chu still didn't let Brother Mu do it.
Brother Mu was bored and walked around with a backpack on his back, and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated thatched hut.
A few decades ago, the price of grapefruit was not so low. At that time, many families in the village relied on grapefruit to make money.
In order to prevent the grapefruit from being damaged by wild animals in the mountains, people will be specially arranged to guard the grapefruit forest.
This shabby thatched hut was where the forest guard lived at that time.
Nowadays, the price of grapefruit is so low that the villagers have no intention of planting grapefruit. However, after all, it is a legacy passed down from their ancestors, so they let the grapefruit grow. If businessmen from other places are willing to buy a large amount of grapefruit, the villagers will go to the mountains to pick it.
