Chapter 84 - Going Up the Mountain to Pick Strawberries

The father-daughter pair talked the entire way home. When they reached home, the rain became heavier.

The old man and Xiao Hu were waiting at the entrance.

Xie Chaochao got out of the car and ran toward Xiao Hu.

“Grandpa, Xiao Hu, I missed you so much!”

At night, the old man cooked a table of food. It was all Xie Chaochao’s favorite food.

Xie Chaochao hugged the old man and said many nice things.

When she slept at night, Xie Chaochao was still feeling full.

The heavy rain lasted the entire night.

The next day, Xie Chaochao slept in. When she woke up, her father was no longer at home.

What surprised her even more was that Xu Shan had already arrived at her house and was eating breakfast made by the old man.

“Why are you at my house? Grandpa made me this breakfast!”

After Xu Shan finished the last mouth of porridge, he said to Xie Chaochao, “Grandpa said that you woke up late, so he gave me the food!”

Xie Chaochao was so angry she wanted to hit him. Her attitude toward him was cold. “Why are you here again? I didn’t leave you any homework this week!”

Xu Shan grinned and said, “I was bored at home alone, so I came to play with you! The last time we said we were going to pick strawberries, but we didn’t go in the end. Let’s go again today!”

Xie Chaochao did feel like eating strawberries. She then nodded reluctantly. “Alright, you’ve eaten my breakfast. You have to find strawberries to compensate me!”

Xu Shan happily said, “Alright, I’ll pick all the strawberries in the back of the mountain for you!”

Just as he was about to pull Xie Chaochao out of the house, Xie Chaochao said, “Let’s go find Fatty and Hei Wa first. We went together the last time.”

Xu Shan only wanted to go with Xie Chaochao alone and didn’t want anyone else to follow them. He was very unwilling to agree to Xie Chaochao’s suggestion.

“Let’s just go with the two of us. We’ll ask them next time. They might be sleeping in!”

Xie Chaochao thought about it and agreed. She didn’t insist further.

Before leaving, the old man who was painting in the study shouted, “Come back early. I heard that it will rain today. Don’t get drenched!”

Xu Shan recalled that the last time, it was also the old man who had said that it was going to rain. In the end, it really did rain halfway. All his efforts were in vain. Hearing this again this time, he was very unhappy.

He shouted into the house, “There’s no rain today, it won’t rain today!”

As soon as they reached the back of the village, they ran into Fatty and Hei Wa.

The two of them became four people.

Xu Shan’s face was dark the entire way. He was clearly very unhappy.

Xie Chaochao, on the other hand, was excited.

The back of the mountain they were going to wasn’t the back of the mountain behind Xie Chaochao’s house, but the slope near the coal mine.

She thought that she might even be able to see her father!

The four of them followed the transport team and climbed to the back of the mountain to look for strawberries.

As it had just rained, the road inside the mountain was difficult to walk on. It was full of mud. Before long, the children were covered in mud.

Fortunately, they finally found the wild strawberries.

It was just that all the areas that could be plucked had been plucked clean. The rest could only be seen and were out of reach.

Looking at the strawberries that had been rinsed by the rain, they were all red and plump. They were very tempting. Xie Chaochao subconsciously swallowed her saliva.

Xu Shan broke off a long tree branch. He hooked the strawberry root on top and pulled it down hard. Finally, he pulled it off.

As he had used too much strength, Xu Shan squatted on the ground. There was even more mud on his clothes.

A few children laughed out loud. They ignored Xu Shan and put the strawberries into their mouths.

A muffled sound suddenly came from the back of the mountain. The children were eating happily and did not care at all.