Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 274 - Chapter 274 274. Late Night Cherry Tree_1

Chapter 274: 274. Late Night Cherry Tree_1 Chapter 274: 274. Late Night Cherry Tree_1 The allure of tobacco is boundless.

Two old men were busy with firewood and coal, stoking the fire to make it roar, eager to dry out the room as quickly as possible before placing their precious tobacco leaves inside.

Before summer even started, they managed to get everyone in the courtyard drenched in sweat, creating quite a commotion.

Yet Seventh Uncle, always striving for perfection, would occasionally enter the room to feel, “Still a bit damp, let’s bake it a little more.”

To ensure the tobacco leaves achieved the best results, even the tender leaves picked from the top couldn’t be treated carelessly by Song Youde, who just added two more pieces of firewood.

Song Tan wandered back and forth, feeling that the empty house just didn’t seem right, and finally suggested:

“Why not… since that room is empty anyway, let’s smoke some sausages and hang some smoked meat. If that’s not enough, Seventh Uncle, perhaps hang a couple of roast ducks and a few strips of crispy pork belly?”

“We have some meat in the freezer, if we take it out now it should defrost in time.”

Holy moly!

Once these words were spoken, the eyes of everyone who didn’t smoke in the family lit up, only Seventh Uncle and Song Youde were stunned.

Then Song Youde jumped up, “No way! With so much meat hanging in that room, what would it smell like? Would anyone still want my tobacco leaves afterward?”

“Why wouldn’t they?”

Song Tan insisted, “After all, smoking is harmful to health as it is, a little more or less impurity doesn’t matter. Besides, imagine smoking while eating roast duck, sausages, smoked meat, and crispy pork belly – how delicious would that be!”

Clearly, his granddaughter was up to no good.

Song Youde immediately put on a thief-preventing look at her. Then he made an ambiguous move to stand at the doorway of the kiln:

“I’m telling you, none of what you said is to be put in there! Wait until my tobacco leaves are done, then you can smoke whatever you want in there.”

“Besides, things like roast duck and pork belly, that’s not how they’re done! You’re deliberately causing trouble. They won’t smoke properly just hanging in this room. Right, Seventh Uncle?”

Seventh Uncle nodded vehemently, “Qiaoqiao, do you think the temperature in this room is suitable for making those?”

However, his obedient apprentice Qiaoqiao was still upset – the dangers of smoking were clearly written in big letters on the box, yet no one listened to him!

He didn’t want to bother with them either!

He huffed and turned to go inside.

Tonight he had to write 10 big characters and do five sets of arithmetic operations; he was busy!

…

Meanwhile, at another end, the construction team leader came over to the excavator guy after dinner, under the cover of night.

He spoke earnestly, “Look, our meals aren’t bad, right? Stir-fried cucumber with pork, and that was pork belly! Delicious. Plus, there was tomato and egg soup and spicy stir-fried chicken cubes – you go and see, you won’t find another worksite in the whole city with food as good as ours. What are you still worrying about someone else’s home cooking for?”

“Let me ask you,” the team leader persuasively explained, “What’s the point of earning money?”

The young man was serious, “To eat delicious food.”

The team leader: …

You glutton!!!

“What delicious food? How can you be so picky! Let me tell you, you earn money to live!!!”

“Do you think it’s easy, working hard out here? It’s not simple to earn that bit of money in a year, and instead of saving it for living expenses, you only think about splurging on food. Why are you so extravagant? Aren’t you unmarried?”

He snorted, “I’ve seen plenty of big spenders like you. Let me tell you, when you get married and run out of money, that’s when you’ll start crying.”

Earning money is hard work, but…

The excavator operator still wasn’t satisfied, “But their food is really delicious…”

The foreman didn’t believe it.

Farmhouse dishes, no matter how tasty, can only be so good. Their big pot meals must be a bit inferior, but even so, that small difference wasn’t worth paying extra for.

However, before the construction had started, as per tradition, the household was supposed to invite him for a meal, but the person in charge had another construction site to wrap up and, in all haste, had firmly declined.

Thinking about it now and seeing the yearning look on the young worker’s face, he somehow felt a twinge of regret as well.

But this kind of picky attitude towards food must not be indulged!

With so many workers on the site, what if he grumbled a bit, and everyone started to become dissatisfied with their current meals?

“So…” the person in charge pondered for a moment: “You’re just feeling peckish. That won’t do, we’ll go to town tomorrow and buy something sweet to appease that craving.”

“Right, the cherry tree by the door, the family explicitly instructed to wait until the cherries ripen, then to dig it up and transplant it… Why don’t you check it out tomorrow and pick a bunch? I reckon these folks are generous; they definitely won’t say a word.”

The cherry tree by Song Tan’s doorway had been just a sapling when Song Sancheng bought it years ago, but it had grown quite a bit since then.

Not sure what variety it was, the tree was small, but each year it produced large, round cherries that were plump and juicy. With sweet, juicy flesh, small pits, and vibrant color, they were truly a unique and excellent cherry found nowhere else for miles around!

During this house construction, the cherries were still green, and the family couldn’t bear to pick them, so they specifically asked to wait until they were ripe before asking them to dig up the tree and transplant it elsewhere.

This request was reasonable, so the person in charge immediately agreed, as it wasn’t in the way of the main road.

As the cherries grew bigger and bigger, the chattering birds gathered in the branches every morning, circling around even though they weren’t ripe yet.

Song Sancheng saw that from a mile away; he quickly asked Song Tan to buy a green net and threw it over the tree!

Now, the birds couldn’t get a single bite.

Watching the cherries at the very top, basking in the best sunlight, start to show a hint of red, the person in charge couldn’t help but give them a lingering look whenever he passed by.

No other reason than that it’s rare to see such a vibrant fruit tree.

Speaking of which, Yunqiao Village might look remote, but it could very well be one of those remarkable places blessed with exceptional people and magical land.

Just look at the trees in front of and behind the houses, sturdy and glossy, each one bursting with vitality.

While they were demolishing the old house, the day after they cleared the debris, the ditch they dug out the next morning was lined with a row of gray squirrels with bushy tails.

Quite a sight, if not for their unmistakable color, he might have thought he’d stumbled upon the lair of a fabled immortal.

Of course, that group of squirrels scurried around on the ground then quickly disappeared back into the mountains, but this event made the person in charge feel a bit more cautious.

Those who build houses tend to harbor a little superstition in their hearts.

And now facing his young worker, he had quite a bit of persuading to do.

Yet, for some reason, recalling that ripe, red cherry he had seen during the day, hidden among the green leaves, he couldn’t help but salivate with temptation.

It was already dark, and he felt it was inappropriate to stare any longer, resolved to go have a look at those salivating cherries tomorrow.

But those cherries seemed to possess a Magic Power, causing an irresistible craving to surge in a flash, one that could not be stopped!

So–

After sending the dark-skinned young worker off to sleep in the nearby shed, the person in charge thought for a moment, then took a flashlight and sneaked over to the cherry tree.

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