"Qiangqiang and the others left this place pretty clean." At Hot Spring Villa, Gu Xiaoxia smiled as she surveyed the courtyard.
The classmates Li Qiang had brought had not only cleared the accumulated fallen leaves, dry grass, and branches from the courtyard, but also pulled out the weeds running rampant in the vegetable plot.
Some had grown back over the past two months or so, but it still looked good.
Since Li Long had been fairly busy this year, he had not come to plant vegetables. What continued to grow in the plot were chives, celery, and some cilantro-cilantro generally went to seed within a year, and wherever the seeds fell, they grew.
These counted as volunteer plants, growing in little patches here and there, some dense and some sparse. Some had already gone to seed again, while others had withered.
Li Long and the others had brought mutton, intending to grill some and boil some. He had also brought vegetables to grill. Now that there was cilantro, it would come in handy with the boiled mutton and mutton broth.
October mornings and evenings were already a little chilly, so Li Long and the others had set out after noon, arriving during the warmest part of the day.
After Mingming and Haohao helped Li Long carry everything inside and asked whether there was anything else for them to do, they quickly stripped and climbed into the hot spring pools to play in the water.
Each boy took a pool, and they even had a water fight.
Gu Xiaoxia helped Li Long organize everything. After he lit the cooking stove, she scrubbed the pot clean, filled it with water, and started boiling the mutton.
They had not brought much mutton. Mainly, Li Long wanted some mutton broth.
Once that was done,