A stunning mermaid dressed in the 1980s, the whole family lined up to pamper her endlessly.

Chapter 102 August Melon

She jogged over with the basket in her hand.

Sure enough, I spotted a chestnut tree.

Wild chestnuts are not very big, and are covered with a spiky shell.

Those spiky balls look just like sea urchins, and they're quite prickly.

It's chestnut season now, and many spiky chestnuts have fallen to the ground.

You don't even need to climb the tree; just pick one up from the ground and you'll see two or three small chestnuts huddled together inside the crack.

These chestnuts are small, but they look very plump.

Some chestnuts have larger cracks in their spiky shells, and some chestnuts have fallen out; you just need to pick them up.

Yun Jiao squatted down and, imitating her Ninth Brother, stomped on the spiky ball twice with the sole of her shoe, squeezing out the chestnuts inside.

Yun Jiao picked up the small chestnut with a big smile and put it in her basket.

While picking chestnuts, Yun Xiaojiu reminded her, "Jiaojiao, be careful, it hurts a lot if you get hit by a chestnut falling from above."

Not satisfied with what he had said, he used a twig to pick up a lot of the fluffy balls that had fallen to the ground and put them in a basket, and then patiently carried them to the ground some distance away from the chestnut tree.

"Jiaojiao, come here."

Yun Jiao walked over and pointed to the spiky ball on the ground.

"You take what's here, and I'll go pick some more over there."

Yun Jiao grumbled unhappily, "I'm not that stupid, okay? I won't get hit."

Yun Xiaojiu patted her hair: "Good girl."

Yun Jiao: Okay.

She's clearly fierce and can catch a lot of prey, so why do her brothers always treat her like a child?

Yun Xiaojiu ran to the chestnut tree by herself, and before she had picked any chestnuts for long, a scream was heard.

Yun Jiao immediately looked up.

"Ninth Brother!"

Yun Xiaojiu, who had just given Yun Jiao some serious instructions, was hit by a chestnut thorn ball from a tree.

Fortunately, it hit his arm.

But it hurt a lot, and it even drew blood.

Yun Xiaojiu hissed and endured the pain.

"I'm fine as long as Jiaojiao doesn't come over."

She was clearly in so much pain that she was almost crying.

Yun Jiao ignored him, went over to look at his arm, and blew on it.

Yun Xiaojiu said in a tearful voice, "Waaah...it hurts so much."

He's still just a child. He only pretended to be an adult because he thought he was the older brother and needed to take care of Yun Jiao.

"Brother is so clumsy, he didn't even notice."

Yun Xiaojiu sniffed, her eyes still brimming with tears, and stubbornly said, "I'll be more careful next time."

"Then I'll go with my brother, and you're not allowed to argue."

Yun Jiao stood with her hands on her hips, looking quite domineering.

Yun Xiaojiu: ...Okay.

The two children picked up all the spiky chestnut balls from the ground and moved them aside.

They opened them one by one after they had all been picked up.

The basket looked huge, but once opened, it only held about half of the chestnuts.

The two stared at the spiky chestnuts on the tree.

Yun Xiaojiu mustered her courage: "I'll go shake the tree."

Yun Jiao: "Brother, with your little strength, you can't even shake a tree."

That chestnut tree is quite big.

Yun Xiaojiu immediately felt deflated; he was the weakest person in the family.

"You are not allowed to go."

That thing hurts when it hits you.

Yun Jiao: "I'm not going."

She took out her slingshot and smiled smugly: "I'll use this."

She is strong and has good eyesight. After playing with a slingshot for a while, her accuracy became exceptionally good. According to her older brother, she is a born sharpshooter!
Yun Xiaojiu: "I brought it too."

Yun Chennan treated his younger brothers equally, and made slingshots for all the younger ones, starting with Yun Xiaowu.

The two of them picked up a bunch of small stones, then pulled the slingshot and released it in one smooth motion.

call out……

Yun Jiao hit her target on her first shot; she aimed at a tree branch, which shook violently, causing several spiky chestnuts to fall. In contrast, Yun Xiao Jiu missed her first shot.

He pursed his lips, still unwilling to give up.

The second one, the third one... and several more missed.

Yun Xiaojiu's expression gradually turned to one of utter despair.

Waaah... My sister is way more amazing than him.

Yun Jiao comforted him, "Brother, do you want me to teach you?"

Yun Xiaojiu's eyes were brimming with tears: "No, I can do it."

This time, he casually shot as if he was just giving up, and he hit the target.

Yun Xiaojiu: …………

I feel like I've been bullied terribly.

Yun Jiao: (OvO)
Didn't it hit? Why does it seem like Little Nine is even more heartbroken?

Little Nine Brother cries a lot, but he doesn't let anyone say it, or he'll get angry.

Third Brother said that Ninth Brother was just angry out of embarrassment.

The two of them were like busy ants, picking up the fallen spiky balls and moving them aside, then continuing to open the chestnut box.

They worked so hard, filling a basket with chestnuts before they finally stopped.

Both of them were quite dirty, and their originally fair faces were covered in dust, with obvious gray streaks of sweat.

"Little sister, have some water."

Yun Xiaojiu handed her the water jug.

Yun Jiao was indeed thirsty, and she gulped down water from the kettle for a long time.

"There's not much water left."

Yun Xiaojiu: "I know there's a spring here, let's go get some water."

"Keep the chestnuts here, hide them well."

There's also an empty basket; take it with you, just in case you stumble upon something good.

Yun Xiaojiu carried a basket in one hand and held Yun Jiao's small hand with the other as they walked forward.

"Ninth Brother, there are melons over there."

After walking for a while, Yun Jiao saw a kind of melon hanging on the vines.

"It looks like an August melon, let's go take a look."

The two walked over and found that it was true; he was quite tall.

There's a nursery rhyme about the August melon: "August melon, bursts in September, picked in October to coax the baby."

The skin of the August melon is light purple. The August melon in this month is not fully ripe and still has some green color.

When the August melon is fully ripe, its skin will crack open to reveal a long strip of white flesh inside, but there are many seeds inside the flesh.

This stuff is delicious, but it's a bit of a hassle to eat.

"They don't seem to be ripe yet."

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Yun Xiaojiu couldn't bear to see the disappointment in his sister's eyes, so he widened his eyes and said, "Let me look for it."

Yun Jiao suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "I found it! There's a small crack over there!"

Yun Xiaojiu: ...I've only just started looking.

"where?"

Even more tragically, Yun Xiaojiu still couldn't see it in the direction she was pointing.

My eyesight isn't as good as my sister's.

The August melon grows on a vine, which is wrapped around two large trees, making it impossible to climb up even if you wanted to.

Yun Jiao's slingshot didn't work either; the vines hanging with the akebia melons were too thin and a bit tough.

Only a long branch can be used to twist the ripe August melon.

pat...

The melon fell down.

Yun Jiao picked it up and saw that it was a little bigger than her palm. The crack in the middle wasn't too big, but it was still edible.

Then, with her keen eye, she spotted five more.

And then it was over.

Yun Xiaojiu comforted her, "Come back in a while, the akebia melons here will definitely be ripe."

Yun Jiao: "Mmm!"

The two sat under the tree. Yun Jiao was about to open a melon to eat when she suddenly heard the flapping of wings and the call of a pheasant.

(End of this chapter)