Chapter 83: Chapter 83: No One Gets Up Early Without a Reason

Just now, Xu Shuhua mentioned that it happened ten years ago.

Yu Hai is only twenty-two this year, so ten years ago... he was just twelve, right?!

Was he really that tough at twelve?

No wonder Zhao Jianlan looked so terrified of Yu Hai earlier.

You really can’t judge a book by its cover!

Yu Hai had no idea that his image in Yu Nuannuan’s mind had already changed.

Listening with a smile as Xu Shuhua recounted his glorious deeds from his youth, Yu Hai flicked his hair proudly. “If she dares to come again, I’ll dump another bucket of manure on her!”

Xu Shuhua glared at him when she heard this. “What nonsense are you spouting!”

Yu Hai’s smile froze on his face as he looked at Xu Shuhua in confusion.

What did his mom mean by that?

Had she gone soft in her old age?

Just as he was wondering, Xu Shuhua said coolly, “Crops grow well only with good fertilizer. We don’t even have enough manure for our own fields—where would we get extra to waste on her? You think it’s like the old days when you could use the team’s manure?”

Yu Hai was dumbfounded by Xu Shuhua’s words.

Yu Nuannuan also looked at Xu Shuhua with admiration—no wonder she was her grandmother; she really knew how to do the math!

One wonders how Zhao Jianlan would feel if she knew she wasn’t even as important as a bucket of manure.

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Yu Nuannuan thought the whole sour jujube tree incident was over, but to her surprise, this was just the beginning.

The next morning, when Xu Shuhua went out for her usual stroll with Yu Nuannuan in her arms, she noticed that not only were the villagers up early, but they were all heading into the mountains.

Normally, some people would get up early to dig wild vegetables, pick mushrooms, or cut branches for firewood, but there had never been this many people before.

Before Xu Shuhua could even ask what they were up to, someone came over to her.

“Auntie Yu, where else in the mountains are there sour jujube trees? Tell us, will you? We won’t fight over the one in your yard, but at least let us pick some from the mountains. It’d be nice to earn a little money for the kids to buy some candy!”

“Exactly! We’re all from the same village—we should help each other out!”

Hearing this, Xu Shuhua finally understood why everyone was up so early!

Yu Nuannuan couldn’t help but sigh inwardly: If you want to know what ‘no one gets up early without a reason’ really means, this is it!

Even though most people in Sanliqiao hadn’t gone to school, their actions were textbook examples!

After marveling at the crowd, Yu Nuannuan looked at Xu Shuhua.

Xu Shuhua said, “Hasn’t everyone here been up the mountain before? You all know where the sour jujube trees are. You’re carrying shovels—aren’t you planning to dig up the trees and take them home? I can’t tell you anything else, but if you keep standing around here, the trees you’ve got your eye on will be dug up by someone else.”

You had to admit, Xu Shuhua really hit the nail on the head.

The group that had been crowding around her immediately forgot about her, shouldered their shovels, and hurried into the mountains.

Xu Shuhua watched them go, humming smugly to herself: You little rascals, trying to outsmart me!

Sour jujube trees were common in their area—the deeper into the mountains, the more there were.

There were all sizes, and every tree was loaded with fruit.

Sour jujube trees were especially hardy and productive.

But all the fruit on those trees was still green—the biggest ones were only about the size of a peanut. It would be a while before they were ripe!"

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