Chapter 51 Watermelon

  Ji Zhao swallowed nervously, "What...what's wrong?"

   "It's okay," Shen Yao realized that his movements were too abrupt, and he let go of his hand quickly, "I just think your handwriting is beautiful."

  The character Ji Zhao engraved on the sand table is vigorous and beautiful, with an elegant shape, which is very beautiful.

   Facing his smiling phoenix eyes, Ji Zhao suddenly felt his heartbeat suddenly slow down by a beat.

   "Dinner is ready!" Zhao Lanhua poked her head out of the kitchen and yelled angrily.

  Ji Zhao hurriedly responded, and then took Ji Chen to the kitchen to clean his hands.

  Shen Yao pursed her lips and smiled slightly, lowering her eyes to engrave the two words on the sand table in her mind.

   Hot summer, long days and short nights.

  Even though the Shen family has finished their dinner, night has not yet fallen.

  Ji Zhao took Ji Chen's hand and walked to the Earth Temple in the back mountain.

  In the pastry shop today, she asked Mrs. Shen to buy a candlestick, a red candle and a handful of sandalwood for her.

   "Grandfather of the Land, Ji Zhao, the believer, is here to visit you." Ji Zhao took Ji Chen together, knelt down devoutly in front of the statue of the Lord of the Land and kowtowed three times.

  She placed the candlesticks on both sides of the altar, and put a stick of incense into the cleaned three-legged incense burner.

"Father-in-law of the land, Xinnv once promised you that when you earn money, Xinnv will help you reshape your golden body. Don't worry, Xinnv will be a person who keeps her word! Now Xinnv and younger brother I have no one to rely on, and I hope the Lord of the Land can protect me a lot!"

  Before leaving, Ji Zhao took Ji Chen to clean the entire Earth Temple again.

  After night falls, the black sky seems to be covered with a layer of black velvet, and the twinkling stars are like brilliant diamonds.

  Shen Yao handed the peeled melon to Ji Zhao who was leaning on the rattan chair to enjoy the night.

   "Thank you!" Ji Zhao quickly picked it up with a sweet smile.

  She couldn't wait to take a bite of the vegetable melon. The flesh of the melon was crispy, juicy and refreshing.

   "I don't know if there are watermelons in the county. After all, summer is the exclusive season for watermelons!"

   "Watermelon?" Shen Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, then shook his head lightly, "I've never heard of it."

   "Have you never eaten watermelon?" Ji Zhao was surprised, "Watermelons are usually round or oval, about this big~"

Ji Zhao explained while gesturing, "Watermelon's peel is green with black stripes on it. The peel is relatively smooth. After being cut open, there is pink or red pulp inside, and the pulp is covered with black seeds. , Have you really never seen it?"

   "Are you referring to water melon?" Shen Yao thought carefully, and then waved to her, "Follow me."

  Ji Zhao hurriedly followed in his footsteps, and the two of them stepped on the moonlight to the Shen Family Vegetable Garden at the end of Shanghe Village.

   "Shen Yao, where are you taking me?" After eating all the melons in his hands, Ji Zhao couldn't hold back his curiosity anymore.

   "You will know later." Shen Yao looked back and smiled, and then stretched out his hand towards her, "The road on the ridge is relatively narrow, you grab my sleeve and follow my footprints."

   "Okay." Although he didn't know why, Ji Zhao obediently grabbed his sleeve.

  The two walked for a while, and Shen Yao suddenly stopped.

   "Look, is that the watermelon you mentioned?"

  Following the direction of Shen Yao's finger, Ji Zhao caught a glimpse of the big watermelon lying quietly among the vines, and his eyes lit up instantly, "There is actually a watermelon here?"

  She hurriedly wanted to go forward to see what happened, but in the end she staggered and fell down—

  (end of this chapter)