Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 189 Mosquitoes and Rats
It can only be said that different eras have different pains.

Looking at his younger brother, Li Muyang actually had mixed feelings in his heart.

A person who likes gambling.He actually didn't believe that it could simply get better like this.

It's just that sometimes things get to this point and there's nothing anyone can do.

He can certainly be a cold and heartless person.

Just let your brother fend for himself.

But he felt that this was not the choice he should make in this life.

People who have experienced life and death often take life more seriously.

"Mu Yun, I have said before that I can only help you this time. If you really want to live a good life, then my brother will definitely help you find a way. At least we will go. Try our best.

Having said that, I believe Xiaoyu is the same.As long as you are a good person, she doesn't want her children to be without a father, right? "

"Does she think so? She's not just after money. She only cares about money whenever she encounters it."

"Look what nonsense you are saying?
Who has a man like you who doesn't think about saving some money and doesn't have an emergency measure? You say?

If you don't worry about it, what will happen to his children at the critical moment? Don't blame others. You should really reflect on yourself more. "

Li Muyun wanted to say something, but his lips moved and finally he didn't say anything and lowered his head.

"Then let's do it. You go back with me first and work conscientiously for a while. If you perform well, my eldest and second brothers will find a way for you to deal with your wife and children.

But if you are still like this, then I, the elder brother, will be completely benevolent and righteous.

After all, you are you and I am me. We are the same mother, but we are two people.If you continue to fall, no one can stop you.

So what are your thoughts?Do you want to follow me or continue like this? "

Li Muyang said nothing more after asking the question, and Li Muyun was silent at first.

The three brothers sat like this for a long time.

"Okay, Fifth Brother, I will listen to you and I will go back with you, but you promised me..."

Li Muyun sighed, and finally chose to follow Li Muyang's arrangement.

Li Muyang didn't know what he had to complain about. He acted like he was right and reluctantly agreed to others.

"I will never go back on the things I said. You know this. But you are not allowed to go back on the things you promised me.

Xiaofeng is here to bear witness, if I know that you will do this again in the future.Then our brotherhood is over.

You know your fifth brother, I don’t like people who go back on their word and have no integrity, whether it’s my brother or anyone else.

can you accept? "

Li Muyun nodded again and his speed increased significantly.

He also felt that Li Muyang had been suppressing his anger.

"I listened to you."

Then he said: "But Fifth Brother, you have to supervise me more. If I see any signs of making mistakes, you have to remind me. You can't let me fend for myself."

Li Muyang originally wanted to say.Since you want to repent in your heart, you should honestly take care of yourself. How can you keep expecting others to take care of you?

On second thought, maybe this is just his personality.People have different personalities.

If Li Muyun was really the kind of person who could exercise strict self-discipline, he wouldn't be where he is today, so he nodded.

"Okay, I will watch you and hope you can do what you say. After you go back, you can work in the orchard with a man I hired."

Now that the three of them have reached a consensus.So he helped Li Muyun tidy up the house and took back what he could. He said goodbye to Li Mufeng at the street entrance, and Li Muyang took Li Muyun back home.

Li Xiangqin was worried at home when she saw that Li Muyang was so dark and hadn't come back, so she, Mi Dama, Nuan Nuan and the two puppies were waiting at the door. Unexpectedly, she saw that Li Muyang had brought back Li Muyun, and Li Mu Yun was very surprised that there was a lot of luggage on the back of his bicycle.

"Ah, why is Sixth Brother here too?"

"Qinqin."

Li Muyun said hello awkwardly, and when he saw Nuan Nuan staring at him with curious eyes, he suddenly thought of his child, and suddenly felt a sense of shame in his heart.

Li Muyang didn't say much.

"Ah, why don't we have a lot of work in the orchard now? Well, your sixth brother has less work there and can't make much money, so come here and work with us."

Then he called Da Ma over, "Da Ma, his name is Mu Yun, and he will work with you from now on. You teach him how to graft, weep branches, and fertilize."

Mi Dama was a little afraid of Li Muyun, because Li Muyun was relatively tall, about 1.8 meters tall, and he was very strong because he had been a cook for a long time.Strangers must be a little scared when they see the flesh on his face.

Moreover, everyone in the Li family was like this, with a fierceness on their faces, but Mi Dama was very sensitive to this kind of fierceness. He hid half of his body behind Li Muyang and just whispered.

Li Muyun saw that he had to learn from Aunt Mi.Can't help but be a little dismissive.

He had met Mitama before.

I know there's something wrong with his brain.Come to think of it, I have worked as a chef in a hotel. Even though I am in decline, I am not working with a fool.

He originally thought that Li Muyang was taking him personally.

Li Muyun's expression.Naturally, Li Muyang noticed it.

He had thought about it before, after all, not everyone could be as kind to someone as intellectually deficient as Aunt Mi.

Most people have natural discrimination against disabled people, especially people with such intellectual deficiencies. Some people even do not regard them as human beings at all, but as objects that can be teased at any time.

He knows best what kind of character his younger brother is.

It is possible to get him to change his ways and stop gambling, but it is very difficult to directly change the way he behaves.

In fact, Li Muyang himself knew that there was no way for people to change.It's just that as I get older and experience more hardships, I slowly learn to hide myself.

"Mu Yun, don't underestimate Da Ma. His ability to grow fruit trees is much better than mine. He has been working in a serious nursery for a long time. If you really want to work here Work hard, and then Da Ma will be your master from now on, do you understand?"

"I know, I just listen to him."

Of course Li Muyun was still unconvinced, but he did not refuse.

Li Muyang saw this and didn't say anything more.He knows that there is no rush for this kind of thing, he just needs to get used to it slowly. "Then let's do it. It's getting late today. Go to bed early and get up early tomorrow morning. There aren't many houses at home now. Well, let's do it. Muyun, you and Da Ma will sleep together, and I'll sleep in the kitchen. That’s it.”

When Li Muyun was packing his things, Li Muyang asked Mi Dama to help him move together, thereby enhancing the relationship between the two of them.

Li Xiangqin pulled him into his room and asked in a low voice

"Brother, what's wrong with my sixth brother? Did you and my sister-in-law quarrel again? Where's the child? Why is he such a good cook that he comes here to plant trees? This is not what he is good at, just like him , can he go down to work in the fields with peace of mind?"

Li Muyang hesitated for a moment, thinking that Li Muyun couldn't hide things like this from everyone, so he told Li Xiangqing what happened.

Li Xiangqin was furious when he heard this.

"I don't understand. What is going on with these men? Why can't they control their own hands so much? Liu Xiaogang, Liu Xiaogang is like this, and my sixth brother is like this too. I really can't stand these people."

"Yeah, you can't figure it out, and I can't figure it out either. But Liu Xiaogang, we can draw a clear line between us and him. With your sixth brother like this, well, we can't just say we don't care about him, right?"

Li Xiangqin nodded helplessly.

"Bringing them back, of course, has the advantage of bringing them back. At least he won't meet those people often again. After all, we can see them every day at home.

Besides, if he really wanted to work in the fields, he wouldn't have time to find someone to play with.

I've heard people say, well, as long as you don't play gambling for a long time, you will gradually lose interest.The biggest fear is that if you do it intermittently, you will never be able to quit. "

"Well, that's the truth. Anyway, let's do this for now."

While the two were talking, Nuannuan ran in from outside, took Li Muyang's hand and asked: "Uncle, uncle, why did my sixth uncle come to our house?"

"What? You are not welcome?"

Li Muyang put on a smile and asked with a smile.

"It's not unwelcome, Nuan Nuan is just curious that if he lives with us, what about his brother and sister? Don't they miss dad?"

Tong Yan Wuji asked this question, and the two adults didn't know how to answer it.

"I haven't seen my brother and my dad for a long time. I miss them very much. I also want to be with my brother."

Nuannuan didn't notice the adult's embarrassment and continued: "My dad made a mistake and is not with us. Did the sixth uncle also make a mistake? That's why my aunt and younger brothers and sisters don't want him."

"Nuan Nuan, don't talk nonsense."

Li Xiangqin hurriedly stopped the child from talking nonsense. The rooms were so close and there was basically no sound insulation. Li Muyun could hear what he said here.

Sure enough, Li Muyun just walked out of the door. When he heard the child say this, he stiffened for a moment, then turned back and entered the house again.

"Nuan Nuan, listen to your uncle. Don't talk about your sixth uncle casually at home in the future. Your sixth uncle is your mother's brother just like your uncle, and we are all a family.

If you want to get close to your uncle, go and get close to your sixth uncle like this, you know.Also, a polite child should not talk about adult matters easily. You will understand when you grow up.

Of course, there are some things that you can’t help, just like there are some things that you can’t do, right? "

Nuannuan looked at her very close uncle in confusion, feeling that she didn't understand some of what he said at all.Moreover, her uncle rarely said such difficult words to her.

But she was smart enough to know that these were good words.

Just like my uncle said, the reason why I can't understand is purely because I am still too young. Maybe I will understand after I go to school.

On this night, everyone had their own thoughts, but in the end they all disappeared into the night.

Li Muyang slept very restlessly that night.

Because he sleeps in the kitchen.

There are two types of kitchens in rural Qingcheng. One is just for cooking like Li Muyang's. The advantage is that it can save space and does not need to be very large, but the heat utilization efficiency becomes much worse.

The other kind of kitchen is actually similar to an ordinary room.One side is used for cooking, while the other side is actually a kang. In this case, the heat under the pot will be removed by the chimney along the kang.

Since there is no kang in Li Muyang's kitchen, there is a small space here. It was originally used to store some food and other things, but their family didn't have much food, so it was temporarily vacant, which happened to be two or three square meters.

Fortunately it was summer, so he found a mat on the ground, spread a quilt on top, and managed to sleep.

Unexpectedly, maybe there was something to eat in here. In the middle of the night, I could hear the sound of mice running here and there. There were even mice that jumped directly over him, but they made him hairy.

I thought to myself, it seems that I need to get two cats at home soon. I didn’t know that I didn’t sleep in the kitchen before.

It is basically impossible to catch mice in this environment.

Kerosene lamps are not like electric lamps, which light up instantly.

By the time he heard the sound and got up to light the kerosene lamp, the mouse had already hidden somewhere.

Besides, even if you turn it over and over, you may not be able to find it.

Houses like this usually have hidden holes for mice, unless you plug all the holes completely and with bricks.Otherwise, after blocking it, the mouse will open it again, and maybe even bigger.

In addition to rats, there are also mosquitoes.

The kitchen is more humid than other rooms, and now that summer is approaching autumn, there are particularly many mosquitoes.

He didn't notice it at first, but he didn't realize he was bitten until midnight.

In this era, people here don’t have mosquito repellent incense, let alone toilet water and other things. The only way to repel mosquitoes is to twist the white mugwort and other grass into a rope, and then light the smoke at night to smoke out the mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes often don't know how smokey they are. When you wake up one night, your throat is filled with smoke from mugwort.

Fortunately, Artemisia annua is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and the smoke produced by it is not poisonous, so it is still acceptable.

Of course, some people use mugwort. They will pull it out when there is more mugwort, twist it into a rope and hang it under the eaves. When the mosquitoes come up, they can light it at night.

Anyway, it just acts as a smoker, as long as the smoke from the lit grass is not poisonous.

Since there were no defensive measures, Li Muyang hardly slept at all. He finally waited until dawn, opened the door and went out, only to find that there were many large mosquito bites on his body.

Looking at it, I feel helpless and extremely depressed.

When he was about to wash up, he saw that Mi Dama and Li Muyun were both up.

This made him somewhat relieved.

Being able to get up earlier is a better start.

(End of this chapter)