Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Blossoming, Bearing Fruit, and Maturing

That morning, as usual, Xu Shuhua first took Yu Nuannuan’s temperature before carrying her out of the house.

With the arrival of midsummer, the days were getting hotter and hotter. Only early in the morning, right after getting up, was it still a bit cool outside. Xu Shuhua would take Yu Nuannuan out for a little stroll.

Truth be told, Xu Shuhua wasn’t all that willing. In her opinion, even if it was a bit cooler in the morning, it was still unbearably hot.

But Xu Shuhua had noticed that Yu Nuannuan no longer liked staying indoors all day. She preferred going out to see new and unfamiliar things.

Xu Shuhua had discovered this when she took Yu Nuannuan to the department store.

Now that she knew, she couldn’t just ignore it.

She put a small, dainty sunhat on Yu Nuannuan and headed toward the mountains.

There wasn’t much to see in the village, but there were plenty of flowers and plants in the mountains. Plus, there weren’t many mosquitoes in the morning, so it was the perfect time to go.

Although there weren’t any towering trees in the mountains, there were still plenty of trees taller than a person.

Standing in the shade, with the occasional breeze, it actually felt cooler than in the village.

Lately, Yu Nuannuan especially enjoyed being taken to the mountains by Xu Shuhua.

Ever since the fields had been sown, the Yu family had more free time again; not everyone needed to work in the fields all day.

With more people at home, Chen Qiaoqin and Yu Hai became even more cautious and wouldn’t let her touch anything related to plants.

But now, with Xu Shuhua taking her to the mountains, she could touch whatever she wanted—after all, no one but Xu Shuhua would see.

Thinking this, Yu Nuannuan took advantage of a moment when Xu Shuhua stopped and reached out her little hand to grab a slender twig.

Yu Nuannuan recognized this tree—it was a jujube tree.

Of course, that was only because there were already small, green jujubes growing on it; otherwise, she wouldn’t have recognized it.

Xu Shuhua saw what Yu Nuannuan was doing but didn’t stop her. Instead, she smiled and said, “Nuannuan, do you want to eat the fruit? These aren’t ready yet—they’re really sour! When the jujubes are ripe in the fall, Grandma will go to the county town and buy you some sweet ones. By then, you’ll have more teeth and can chew on them…”

The last word trailed off and was carried away by the wind.

Xu Shuhua’s eyes went wide as she stared at the jujube tree, which was much taller than her but whose trunk was still no thicker than Nuannuan’s wrist. In an instant, the tree underwent a dramatic transformation.

The green jujubes, originally only the size of peanuts, suddenly swelled up like sponges soaking in water, growing larger in a flash. They turned from green to red, and then one by one, they dropped from the branches.

Before all the jujubes had even fallen, new jujube blossoms appeared, which then bore fruit, grew, ripened, and fell again.

With this cycle repeating over and over, the jujube tree grew taller and its trunk thicker.

Yu Nuannuan stared, dumbfounded, at the whole scene. After hesitating for a moment, she finally withdrew her hand.

She had wanted to see if her ability would be temporarily exhausted from overuse, but it seemed that wasn’t going to happen.

She had just turned a two- or three-year-old jujube tree into one that looked seven or eight years old in a matter of moments, and her body still felt perfectly fine. Yu Nuannuan realized just how much stronger her power had become.

Being powerful was great, but if only she could control it better!

Yu Nuannuan had already withdrawn her hand for quite a while before Xu Shuhua finally came back to her senses and closed her mouth, which was starting to feel sore.

She’d had her mouth open for so long, her cheeks were getting tired!"

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