Miss Star, spoiled by her father and brother

Chapter 177 Orchard Self-help

We passed one orchard after another that belonged to other people, and walked along the mountain road to the top, where the car finally stopped on a relatively gentle slope.

"We're here. This is our territory." Sifos said, pointing to the area in front of him.

Xu Weiwei looked around excitedly, and just thought that it made sense for her grandfather to leave this place.

Unlike the forests planted in groups at the bottom of the hill, this area seemed like a fruit tree meeting. There was everything, but not much of anything, and the planting locations were also random. This caused some fruits to hybridize with other varieties of fruit trees around, making them familiar yet strange.

It feels like there is no more room to plant below, so the extra ones are planted here randomly. Compared with the neat sense of scale, there is a more wild interest here. And maybe because of the high position, the fruit trees here receive more sunlight for a longer time, so they grow much taller.

Sifos clapped his hands, "Be careful not to climb too high! Watch your step, if you can't reach something, call me and Uncle Qiu."

"Sister, here, use this basket." Kane took an exquisite and cute little bamboo basket from the car for Xu Weiwei, and took a large one for himself, then ran towards an orange tree.

Other members also found their favorite fruit trees and went to pick fruits.

Xu was overwhelmed by the choices, so she simply started from the edge. The fist-sized loquats had thin skins and were juicy and very sweet. The same was true for the grapes, which hung there in bunches like amethysts. She ate one at a time, and her mouth was filled with refreshing juice...

After one round, Xu Weiwei's small bamboo basket was empty, all the food had gone into her stomach.

After tasting them, Xu Weiwei felt that she still liked cherries the best. They were delicious and would not dirty her hands. Other fruits required peeling, which made her fingers sticky.

But the cherries were too tall and she couldn't reach many of them, so she called her father for help.

Sifos came over, hugged the branch, and jumped up with all her strength. In a short while, she picked a lot of fruits and poured them all into her small bamboo basket.

She took off her coat and spread it at the roots of a shady tree so that she could sit there and use it as a cushion to avoid getting her skirt dirty.

Xu Weiwei leaned against the big tree, enjoying the breeze and eating cherries one by one.

Mrs. Seaforth picked the flowers for a while, then stopped when the frame was full and ran over to take a photo of her daughter. Xu Weiwei didn't know how to pose, so she directed the whole process.

"Okay~ Pick up the cherries~ Don't look at mommy, look at the sky, smile... Okay~ Perfect! One more--"

"Put the cherry in your mouth, push it aside with your tongue and puff up your cheeks~ Okay, don't move!"

"Grab two and hand them to mom with your palm facing up...Yes! That's it!"

After taking pictures for a while, Mrs. Sivers and Xu Weiwei sat together to check the results: "Look, isn't it super cute? Oh my ~ Mommy is such a good photographer!"

"Oh my God, my daughter has grown up so well. She looks good in any photo. This photo can definitely be the cover of a magazine! It'll also be suitable for the cover of a fairy tale book!" Mrs. Seaforth said intoxicatedly.

Xu Weiwei also thought it was pretty. To be narcissistic, she was often struck by her own beauty in the mirror and couldn't help but admire it.

There is no way, everyone loves beauty. Her parents' genes are really superior. She often sighs, how come these eyes, nose, and face are so beautiful...

"Wow! You are so beautiful, sister. Do you want to take pictures again? Do you want oranges? How about peaches?" Kane enthusiastically handed over his fruit basket.

"Mom will take some photos of you and your sister."

"Yeah!"

Kane immediately moved next to Xu Weiwei, imitating the pose in her photo, and held out a big peach.

Ryan saw it and stood aside watching silently.

Mrs. Seaforth: "... Ryan, can you come too? Let's take one side each with Big Brother, okay?"

Ryan walked over.

Mrs. Seaforth wanted to laugh but held it back: This child is so weird, I don’t know who he looks like.

As time went by, fewer and fewer people were picking fruits, and more and more people were taking photos. Even Adjutant Qiu took a lot of photos under everyone's enthusiastic invitation. Standing, sitting, lying, and even on the trees...

Everything around you can be used as a prop.

When the group was having fun, a loud rebuke suddenly came from behind.

"Who are you?! What are you doing?!"

Xu Weiwei was riding on her father's neck, and was startled, hugging Sifos's head tightly. Sifos's eyes suddenly went dark, and he patted his daughter's arm soothingly and put her down.

The man who came was an old man in his seventies or eighties, skinny, wearing a sweatshirt and a straw hat, dark-skinned, with a layer of gray stubble on his chin. He was staring at them with a puff of his beard, as if he was ready to drive them away with the shovel in his hand at any time.

Being yelled at for no apparent reason, Meilin asked back in dissatisfaction: "Who are you?! Is this place yours? You are meddling in other people's affairs."

"You are trespassing into someone else's orchard! This is stealing! And you brought children with you. Don't you set a good example for them? Look at you, you picked so many!" The old man was so angry that he hit the ground with a shovel.

"You must pay! These fruits must be weighed one by one according to the market price. You can only leave after paying! As for the ones you ate, I will not pursue the matter."

Meilin was about to retort, but Mrs. Seaforth embraced her and said in a friendly manner, "Old man, do you have any misunderstanding? We can't have remembered it wrongly. This is our fruit tree, planted by my father-in-law in his early years."

The old man looked suspicious: "Your father-in-law? Who are you...?"

As if he suddenly remembered something, the old man pointed at them with trembling fingers and stammered, "You, you are... your father-in-law is General Sifos?"

Everyone immediately realized that the "General Sifos" who was a contemporary of the old man was definitely the old man.

Mrs. Seaforth nodded. "Yes."

The old man was immediately at a loss, looking both happy and flustered: "Oh, you are the general's family, then these are the general's grandchildren?... That's great, that's great..."

The old man threw the shovel aside, took two steps closer, rubbed his dry hands together, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I thought you were here to steal the fruit. The fruit has been ripe recently, and there are always people stealing. I was just walking around here, and I didn't expect to run into you."

"It's okay, it's all a misunderstanding." Sifos said, then looked at the land behind him: "Are you helping to clean up here?"

"We haven't been back for a few years, so we thought the grass would be very tall, so we brought a lawn mower. But we didn't expect it to be so well maintained."

The old man smiled naively: "This place is next to my forest, so I'll clean it up on the way. It's not a big deal. Besides, the old general has done us a favor. I'm happy to do something to help him."

"If it weren't for him, we wouldn't know what life would be like for the people in this village. By the way, wait for me here! Wait!"

A few people looked at the old man running away in a panic, not knowing what was going on. Then they did as he said and found a shady place to wait obediently.