"This is it!"
Bob pointed to a tree lined area in front of us.
Looking at the tree-lined, jade-lined mountain in front of him, Rosemary looked at Bob and said, "Is this where you said the wild fruit was?"
"Yes! I also came here a few days ago to cut firewood and found it, let's go up and take a look!" With those words, Bob took the knife in his hand and cut off all the branches that were in the way in front of him.
After about twenty minutes of walking, Rosemary smelled a fruity aroma, which became stronger the further she walked inside.
Bob led them to a very large date palm tree and said to Karen, "I'll go up and pick it, and you guys will be responsible for picking it up from below!"
"Okay!" Putting the basket down in his hands, he responded with a smile.
"There really seems to be a lot of wild fruits here, look there seems to be apricots over there is it?" Rosemary asked, pointing to a tree not far away.
Looking in the direction Rosemary pointed, he nodded, "Yes, that's an apricot, and they're the best thing about them right now, they're not sour at all!"
Rosemary felt her mouth watering when she thought of the sweet and sour taste.
"Karen, proceed!"
Rosemary, who was still indulging in the deliciousness, had not yet reacted when she saw Bob standing high up in the tree, grabbing several sour dates in his hand and was about to throw them down?
"Karen, catch!"
With a clink, Rosemary saw a few dates lying inside Karen's basket.
Karen picked the biggest one and handed it to Rosemary, "Rosemary, try it!"
Taking the date from Karen's hand, Rosemary took a bite, "So sweet!"
"Really?"
Take out a date from inside the basket and throw it into your mouth, "En, it's really sweet, let's pick some more back and let everyone try it later."
"Good!" After eating the one in her hand, Rosemary took another one from inside the basket, followed Karen's example and wiped it on her clothes before putting it in her mouth again.
"Karen, how was it? Was it good?" Bob asked as he sat on a branch, eating dates while looking at them.
Rosemary looked up at Bob's languid demeanor, and if she weren't pregnant right now, I'm afraid she would have climbed up there too.
"Bob, stop eating and hurry up and shake the dates off the tree while Rosemary and I pick them up!" Karen tilted her head and shouted to Bob who was sitting in the tree.
"Good!"
The words just fell, Rosemary and Karen did not have time to walk away, then by the sudden rain of red dates in the air hit the head, so that Rosemary and Karen clutch their heads and scurry to the side.
"Bob, we have not yet gone away, why do you start shaking the tree!" Karen stood not far from the Lee tree, arms crossed, pointing at Bob in the tree and yelling.
"You told me to shake it, now why blame me?"
"You, I think you're doing it on purpose!" Glaring at Bob in the tree, Karen said with a huff.
Bob is now sitting on a branch, looking down at Karen, who is stomping her feet in anger, and said jokingly, "How about you come up and beat me?" After saying that, and deep down fingers, hooked fingers towards Karen.
Rosemary, standing aside, watched the interaction between the two of them, which reminded her of the time she used to play with Sidney and Alick, when she was also the same as Karen, carefree and innocent.
Karen glared at him and squatted down and started to see the dates, picking them up while whispering to Rosemary, "Rosemary, the two of us pick up dates together!"
"Yes!"
Glancing at Bob in the tree, Karen's eyes flashed a glint, though quickly, for Rosemary to catch.
Looks like Bob is in for a treat.
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