boyutpedia Chapter 3379 The Fruits Are Ripe
Chapter 3379 The Fruits Are Ripe
Chapter 3379 The Fruits Are Ripe
Here's what happened, it goes back a week.
It was Saturday morning, and the morning dew still clung to the tips of the mulberry leaves, while the sunlight slanted through the branches.
Xiaobai was still sleeping in at home when suddenly Xier ran into her room to announce the good news, shouting and yelling:
"The fruit is ripe! The fruit is ripe!!!"
This happy doll, like a joyful little bird, hopped and jumped around by Xiaobai's bed, shouting and yelling, making Xiaobai so angry that she wanted to punch it.
But when I saw it was my own baby doll, I thought better of it and couldn't bring myself to do it.
Robin followed closely behind and ran into the room, shouting and jumping around to announce the good news.
"Okay, okay!!" Xiaobai replied irritably, scratching her messy hair, and asked, "What did you just say about 'fruit'?"
Xi'er exclaimed excitedly, "The cherry tomatoes have fruited!!!"
Robin's face flushed with excitement as he nodded eagerly, "Yes, yes, yes! The cherry tomatoes are bearing fruit!"
Xiao Bai's sleepiness vanished instantly. A few minutes later, the three of them squatted by the edge of the field. On a cherry tomato plant in the vegetable garden, several green fruits the size of fingernails had appeared, glistening with an oily sheen in the morning light.
"The results are in!"
Xiaobai was overjoyed. She squatted down in front of the tomato seedlings and carefully touched the unripe little fruits with her fingers. The cherry tomatoes were still very small and hard, like little green jade stones, but they were indeed fruits.
"And this too!"
Xi'er also made a new discovery in the chili pepper field. Among the branches of several bell pepper plants, a few small pepper buds quietly emerged, like upside-down green bells, with withered petals still remaining at the top.
Robin inspected the watermelon vines. Although he hadn't seen any small watermelons yet, the ovaries behind the female flowers had begun to swell, forming small spheres.
"Watermelon is pregnant too!" Xiaobai excitedly announced after seeing the news.
Robin squatted under the cucumber trellis and made a new discovery: a small cucumber, about the thickness of a finger, was growing on a thin vine, with fine thorns on its surface.
"We have cucumbers too!" she exclaimed.
Robin was already daydreaming: "When the tomatoes turn red, we can make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, tomato and egg noodles, and even a cold tomato salad with a big spoonful of sugar..."
Xiao Bai chimed in, "When the chilies turn red, we can make chili sauce and mix it with noodles!"
Xi'er imagined, "When the watermelon is ripe, we'll cut it into lots of pieces, one for each of us, and sit under the big mulberry tree to eat it, hehe~"
"And cucumbers too! You can smash them or eat them directly with sauce!" Xiaobai added.
The three of them chatted away, as if they could already see the garden full of abundant fruit.
The news spread like wildfire throughout the school.
As evening approached, the vegetable garden was already surrounded by children.
Xiao Mi carefully recorded the growth of each plant in her little notebook: "6 tomatoes, 4 peppers, 1 cucumber, and the watermelon is growing..."
Chengcheng said softly, "From seed to fruit, we have witnessed the complete life process."
Xiaomi nodded: "Just like us, we grow up slowly from being little kids."
Xiao Meng squatted in front of the eggplant row and pointed to a few newly formed eggplants, saying, "They will grow into big purple eggplants, and then we can make braised eggplant with pork."
Xiao Du held Xiao Zhou's hand and let him touch the rough stem of the tomato plant, describing it as: "The stem is green with tiny hairs on it. The leaves are like palms. The fruit is hidden under the leaves. It's green now, but it will turn red later."
Xiao Zhou's fingers gently brushed across the leaves, a tender smile on her face: "I can feel it growing."
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In the days that followed, the vegetable garden became the liveliest place in Little Red Horse Academy.
Every morning, Xiaobai leads the management team to inspect the fields and record the changes in each fruit. The cherry tomatoes slowly turn from green to a light yellow tinge, the peppers grow from small bells into plump green lanterns, and the cucumbers change every day, soon reaching the length of a hand.
Little Weiwei set up a small blackboard by the vegetable garden, on which she drew the growth progress bars of various vegetables with colored chalk: tomatoes 60%, peppers 50%, cucumbers 80%, watermelons 30%...
Every day, Liuliu comes to count the number of fruits, then counts on her fingers: "There are 12 tomatoes, 8 peppers, and 5 cucumbers now... How will we divide them when they ripen?"
A week later, one afternoon after school, Xiaobai and Xier had just returned to Little Red Horse when Robin, who had gotten home earlier from kindergarten, came running up breathlessly, shouting anxiously, "Oh no! Oh no! Auntie, oh no!"
"What's wrong? Don't rush, catch your breath first. Don't panic when something happens, stay calm. Tell me, what's wrong?" Xiaobai said.
"Dundun is gone! Dundun is gone!!"
Xiaobai was completely confused, but Xier understood and asked, "You mean the one called 'A Little Tomato Gone'? The one called Dundun?"
Robin nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes, it's Dundun gone!! Someone picked it!!! I'm so angry!!"
Robin named all the fruits and vegetables. Today, after returning to her little red horse farm from kindergarten, she went to check the vegetable garden as usual, only to find that the cherry tomato named Dun Dun was gone!
The three rushed to the vegetable garden and found that a cherry tomato was indeed missing, and the stem was bare!
Not only was Xiaobai furious, but even Xier had a stern face.
"You little brat!!! Which little brat picked my cherry tomatoes again!!!"
She then remembered the other fruits and vegetables and quickly checked them carefully. Fortunately, all the other fruits and vegetables were still there, except for the missing cherry tomatoes!
Xiao Bai declared that she would find the rascal who stole the cherry tomatoes that night! She was going to check the security footage.
However, Xi'er had a different opinion.
She advised Xiaobai not to watch the surveillance footage: "You can tell the kids tonight that it's not her fault for secretly picking the cherry tomatoes this time, but please don't do it again next time."
Xiaobai was furious, but after being persuaded by Xi'er, she gradually calmed down and finally adopted Xi'er's suggestion.
"But this isn't a solution. What if some other fools come along and steal the fruit?" Xiaobai said worriedly.
Xi'er said, "Let's hold a harvesting ceremony, just like a sowing ceremony, so that everyone can witness the harvest."
Xiao Bai's eyes lit up: "That's right!! Harvest is more important than sowing, and we should celebrate it even more!"
Robin also suggested, "We can cook the harvested vegetables and invite everyone to eat together."
Xi'er clapped her hands: "Great idea! Vegetables we grow ourselves will taste especially delicious!"
The harvesting ceremony was held on the very evening of the event; no preparation was needed, and the performances could be staged at any time.
Xiaobai was the host, and the venue was right next to the vegetable garden. She first asked Xiao Mi to recite a modern poem called "The Joy of Harvest".
Then Xi'er stepped forward and sang a song together, called "The Little Tomato Song".
Then there's Liu Liu. Well, she coerced Shi Bao Bao into singing a duet with her, and the song was "Melon Fragrance".