Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 15 Talking bad about people behind their backs (Tuesday, please read it)

Faced with such complaints from Milan Lan, Li Muyang in his previous life would have blushed and run away in shame.

But now, he just smiled gently and said: "Sister-in-law, thank you for your hard work. If you need help with anything at home, just call me and I will help you."

Milan Lan was very surprised again. She looked at Li Muyang carefully for a few times, and after confirming that it was him, she said angrily: "I don't want your help, just don't bother me."

After saying that, he huffed and left.

"Sister-in-law, please walk slowly."

Li Muyang watched his sister-in-law leave, then turned and returned home.

When I arrived at the door of my house, I saw many washed diapers and clothes hanging on the clothesline from a distance, dripping with water.

It must have just been hung up after washing.

When he opened the door and went in, he found that the sheets and quilts on the kang were neatly folded and tidied away.

The mother was facing inside, and when she heard the sound of the door opening, she asked again: "Lan, you will go back when you are done with your work. You are waiting for your family affairs. I guess the fifth child will be back soon."

"Mom, it's me."

Li Muyang took off the bag and put it on the Eight Immortals table, walked over and sat on the edge of the Kang, "I just saw my sister-in-law at the door."

"You're back. Your sister-in-law has been busy here all day. Mom is really useless. I don't know why she can't control her stomach today. She wants to go to the toilet after a while, which makes her busy and has no time to wash things."

"I saw that everything was hanging out to dry."

Li Muyang thought about the complaining look on his sister-in-law's face just now. It was true that she had such a temperament, and she was unforgiving even after things were done, so she couldn't do well inside or out.

In his previous life, he couldn't understand the complexity of human nature and thought there was something wrong with his sister-in-law. Now it seems that she is just an ordinary woman, and a good woman among ordinary women.

Except for some nonsense, in fact, I have been worthy of my husband, children and elderly people throughout my life, and I have not essentially mistreated anyone.

"Didn't you go to Xishan to look for Cordyceps sinensis? What was the result?"

When his mother asked about Cordyceps, Li Muyang became interested. He jumped on the kang and showed his mother the cans and bottles in his bag.

"Look, I dug up 19 pieces. Judging from the quality, 3 cents for one piece is more than enough, and 19 pieces is more than 5 yuan."

Yuan Rufeng was also very surprised when she saw Cordyceps, with a bit of unbelievable surprise in her eyes.

"You really found it. I was thinking this morning that you must have misunderstood and mistook something else for Cordyceps. In that case, I can indeed get some money, just enough to save you a wife."

"Mom, I heard from the doctor that your disease is just hemiplegia caused by high blood pressure. It can still be cured. When I save enough money, we will go to the city to see a doctor in a big hospital..."

"Don't look at it. I know that my illness is hopeless. I'll freeze just lying on the kang. You brothers can roll me up in a torn mat and bury me next to your dad..."

Mother started again.

"You don't want to buy a coffin. People are dead. Why do you need a coffin? The coffin won't rot. It's a waste of money. When you were alive, you didn't enjoy happiness. Why do you do so many flowers and tricks after you die? !”

Li Muyang smiled and listened to his mother's nagging.

When you can nag, it's good to listen more. But after she passed away, there was no place to listen to nagging.

When my mother was alive, everything was just thoughts, and I seemed to still have hope.

Once you die, the world seems to have ended, and you can no longer see the way back.

"Mom, are you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry. Your sister-in-law has fed me, and I'm very full now."

"Then you lie down first and I'll go work in the fields."

"Ah, you just came back. Why don't you take a break? Why are you in such a hurry to go to the fields?"

"I'm not tired." Li Muyang put his mother's hand under the quilt and touched the kang under his mother's body. It was quite hot. He squatted down and opened the kang door and found that there was fire inside.

"Your sister-in-law burned me on the kang. She has a bit of a bad mouth, but otherwise she's pretty good." "Mom, don't keep talking about people like this behind their backs. How uncomfortable will they feel if they are heard?"

Yuan Rufeng was stunned and said: "What you said makes sense, just don't say anything anymore."

"Well, it's not easy for everyone. Don't look at what she says, but look at how she does it. Some people talk brightly and have a lot of good things to say, but when it comes to things, they just can't find the person. This kind of talent is not good."

"My son is right."

"That's not much to say. I'm going to plow the ground first. Didn't it snow just now? I'll plow the ground while there's a little moisture (that is, moisture). It won't take more than two days for the sun to dry it out and it will rain. Don’t know where it is yet?”

"It's too hard for you." Mother felt sad again.

Li Muyang quickly "escaped" from the room.

He didn't mind his mother talking, but once she started nagging him, he couldn't farm.

When he went out, it was getting dark, so he picked up a hoe and a round-headed shovel and went to the fields.

There was still Liang Liang, whom he had just touched from the kitchen, in his mouth.

When they reached the ground, Liang Liang was devoured.

Although his stomach was not completely full, he didn't care about being reserved and immediately started working.

When Li Muyang split up his family, there were three pieces of land in total.

The two mountain fields add up to about one and a half acres.

There is also a contracted thirty-acre peach orchard.

The Taoyuan is located on Taoshan Mountain. It was originally contracted by the team to the villagers, but because the Taoyuan also did not bear peaches, it gradually became a wasteland. Later, the villagers returned the contracted Taoyuan together, and Li Muyang followed suit.

I received a subsidy of 30 yuan.

For one acre of peach orchard, the subsidy is just one yuan.

The idea that he could rent an acre of peach grove for one dollar in the morning also came from this. Since the refund was a subsidy of one dollar, then the re-renting should be one dollar per acre.

Both fields are very small.

Of course, other families in the village don’t have much land either.

Since it is a mountain field, it certainly cannot be considered on the same scale as flat land. Most of it is less than an acre.

It is also very troublesome to cultivate.

The tractor is a no-brainer, it’s impossible.

It is possible to use livestock for farming, but it is too expensive.

Nowadays, food is expensive, so livestock are very precious. Whether they are cattle or mules, they are quite rare.

There are hundreds of households in the entire village, but only two or three cows and one mule.

It's very expensive to ask those guys to farm. When the money for farming is spent, there will be no point in farming. It is better to just leave it uncultivated.

Since there are no animals, we can only resist by force.

Li Muyang threw the hoe to the ground, grabbed the round-headed shovel and started digging the ground.

The sky was getting darker and darker, the moon was getting brighter and brighter, and the bats in the sky began to float around, like big moths.

The shrill cries of night owls could be heard in the distant mountains and forests, and many unknown little insects began to dig their heads out of the soil, chirping non-stop.

Li Muyang hummed a song and worked very energetically.

(End of this chapter)