I smiled lightly, looked up at him, squatting for too long, feet a little numb, shoulders a little sore, laughed, “this is my job, not all said it? In the workplace is not divided into men and women.”
Everyone laughed for a while, Dennis was going to take Anthony to see the base construction in the afternoon, listening to the meaning, should be intended to let the Ouyang family also come to this project in a share of the pie.
Sheila followed by the two, from time to time to explain some of the more professional engineering, the two so look, but indeed quite a match!
Seeing a few people coming in my direction, I bowed my head and concentrated on my own business.
Originally thought that a few people will look at the end and leave, did not expect Sheila suddenly spoke, “Grandpa Anthony, walked so long, you should also be tired, this side of the rest place, we first go to rest, a while you can also happen to taste this side of the pear!”
The old man seemed to have a special fondness for fruit, especially the kind that had just been picked from the tree.
As soon as Sheila said so, the old man was naturally happy to stay.
So Sheila helped Anthony go to the lounge, and Dennis turned his gaze to me.
I originally thought he was simply looking at me, but I didn’t expect him to suddenly say, “Secretary Shen, we need to trouble you to help us go behind the base to pick some fruit.”
I froze and instinctively said, “I’m not very familiar with this side of the road!”
He raised an eyebrow and said, “Mr. White seems to have said that he needs you to cooperate with us as much as possible.”
The words sounded irrelevant, but the implication was that if I didn’t go, then I wasn’t cooperating with him.
Seeing this, I nodded, put down my hands, spoke, “Okay, then you wait a moment!”
In the base to find a few plastic bags, I went out of the base, Lanxi Village, most of the land is an orchard, so it is not difficult to pick fruit.
Just because it is mud, and because of the heavy rain last night, some mud, orchards are surrounded by a fence, on the one hand, fear of livestock in trouble, on the other hand, is also convenient for this side of the farmers to distinguish the land of each family.
The fences are surrounded by thorny canes, if you can’t find the entrance to go in, it is easy to be pricked.
I turned around in the orchard and saw Rudolph following me, he smiled, “The entrance is on the other side, you have to turn around to get there, but it rained last night, and this side is all construction sites, the road is not very good, you have to be careful!”
I nodded and walked in the direction he pointed, but did find the way into the orchard.
August season, most of the pears in the yard are ready to eat, but there are some ripe a little slower, not yet ripe.
Eat some sour, pick to the old man to eat, naturally, is to find the riper, a little sweeter.
The good thing is that it was noon, there was no water droplets among the fruits, I heard someone chatting, I couldn’t help but stop and listen carefully.
It seemed to be Dennis and Sheila.
Sheila’s voice was delicate and she said, “Dennis, it’s true that you don’t have to follow, the orchard is not far, I can come by myself, Grandpa Anthony is bored to stay alone, you can accompany him to talk.”
Dennis’ voice was light, saying, “It’s okay, the road is slippery, it’s not safe for you to come alone!”
Probably his words are a little warm, Sheila light smile, eyes are overflowing with light.
I was going to leave, after all, so stay, more or less have a few light bulb meaning.
But Dennis suddenly called out, “Secretary Shen, the fruit picked?”
I froze, looked at the empty bag and laughed, “Not yet, you and Miss Torres are picking them, right? Old Mr. Ouyang shouldn’t want many either, so I’ll leave first!”
“Since we are here, the weather is so hot, pick a few more to take back, we can eat together, Secretary Shen, isn’t it?” Sheila opened her mouth and deliberately moved closer to Dennis as she spoke, afraid I wouldn’t be able to see how close the two of them were.
I nodded my head and said blandly, “Okay, then pick it!”
So I turned around in the orchard and found a pear tree that looked like it was growing well and was just right for me to pick.
Sheila followed me like a ghost, saw me pick a few and put them in the bag, she also picked them, then took them in her hand and rubbed them for half a day, took a bite, screwed up her face and looked at me and said, “So sour, Miss Kennedy, you pick this back who eat ah, waste of fruit ah!”
I was speechless, looked at her and said, “You do not eat someone will eat, too sour to find their own fruit to eat!”
Ignoring her, I picked from the tree first, unlike her loudly spoke, “This fruit must be good, Secretary Shen, you want to climb up to pick!”
Raised my eyes to look at the fruit tree she pointed to, I pursed my lips, some speechless, a few meters high tree, natural fruit to the sun more, but so high tree, where is so easy, said picking.
“I can’t climb a tree!” I opened my mouth, and did not intend to talk to her more.
“No way!” She looked at me with a surprised face and said, “Dennis said you grew up in the countryside when you were a kid, you can’t be unable to climb such a small tree, can you?”
Dennis seemed to have gone somewhere, I frowned and looked at her, “Dennis said that to you?”
She nodded, with a matter-of-fact look on her face, “Yeah, he told me a lot of things he used to do!”
I nodded, oh, and had no intention of answering.
Seeing that I was going to leave, she blocked me and said, “The fruit of this tree must be especially sweet, what would you do if you climbed up and picked a few, why are you so selfish, picking so many sour fruits back, who would eat them?”
I exhaled, a little annoyed, looked at her, “So you are no hands and no feet? You can’t go up and pick them yourself? Since you think it’s so easy to climb the tree, you can climb it yourself, I’m not stopping you!”
Nuts!
“Clara, you … are really selfish!” She was so angry that she couldn’t find other words to dislike me, so she just cursed in anger.
I was not interested in talking to her and was ready to pick some fruit to go back.
When Dennis came over with a bag of fruit, he looked at us and said, “What’s up?”
“Dennis, you’re back!” Sheila opened her mouth, like a flower peacock, walked up to Dennis and said, “Look at the fruit on this pear tree, it looks big and tender from afar, it looks especially delicious.”
Dennis nodded and said lightly, “The tree is a little high, it’s not easy to climb up.”
Sheila nodded her head and said with some pity, “I heard that Miss Kennedy seems to like climbing trees, so I want Miss Kennedy to try.”
I am speechless, always feel that these two people are a bit crazy.
I did not intend to pay attention to the two, just ready to go, Dennis looked at me, handsome slightly picked, spoke, “HL Area yard that pear tree is higher than this, Clariana said every year is you climb up to pick, try it!”