Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 7
Li Mutian's home is in the south of the village, further away than Li Muti's home.

When Li Muyang arrived at the door of his eldest brother's house, the eastern sky had completely lit up, and the village began to wake up in the morning.

Some old people who got up early were leaning on crutches at the door and looking into the distance silently, like dried stone sculptures.

The door of Li Mutian's house was ajar. Li Muyang stuck his head in and saw his eldest brother sitting on a small horse, making a small bench in the yard.

The eldest brother gets along well with the many brothers and sisters in the clan and the neighbors in the village. Because he has this skill, if anyone needs to build a small bench or table, they will ask him for help and give him a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of wine. That’s it.

Milanlan was very dissatisfied about this and felt that he should not waste his time on something with almost no return.

If you have this time, you might as well make a few more shovels and sell them for a few dollars at the market.

Every time Milan Lan warned him, Li Mutian nodded in agreement. When others came to the door, he immediately forgot about what his wife had told him, and still enthusiastically agreed to help.

But this made Milan Lan very angry.

At the moment, judging from his appearance, he must be helping others make small benches. Three have been made beside him, and there is another one in his hand that is being made.

"Big brother."

Li Muyang shouted and grinned at his elder brother.

Li Mutian looked up and greeted honestly: "Lao Wu is here. Come in. Why are you hiding at the door?"

"I'm coming."

Li Muyang opened the door and walked into the yard of his eldest brother's house.

After returning from rebirth, he had been to the second brother's house several times, but this was the first time he came to the eldest brother's house.

Once I'm far away, I don't have anything to do with my eldest brother.

Secondly, he really didn't want to face Milan Lan, and he was especially worried that his sister-in-law would get angry. Most people couldn't stand the roar of the lion from Hedong.

"You can find a stool to sit on." Because he was his younger brother, Li Mutian was not too polite and casually pointed to the bench next to him.

"Very good."

Just as Li Muyang sat down, he noticed that the kitchen chimney was steaming, and heard the sound of the bellows. Knowing that it was Milan Lan who was boiling water, he stood up again and said, "Let me say hello to my sister-in-law."

Li Mutian was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "It's very smokey inside, so don't choke."

"fine."

Li Muyang opened the kitchen door curtain, and it was indeed foggy inside. With the smoke, it was impossible to see what was going on inside.

In this era, people in rural areas of Qingyang basically burned firewood and used bellows, and large charcoal was not yet used on a large scale.

Charcoal is too expensive to use.

Even the fine coal used to burn the kang is not affordable for ordinary people. Li Muyang uses leaves to burn the kang, instead of fine coal that lasts longer and has a higher burning value.

Fortunately, Lijiacun is located in a mountainous area. Apart from anything else, there are enough leaves and firewood, but it only takes a lot of effort to collect them.

"Sister-in-law..."

"Sister-in-law..."

Li Muyang shouted twice before hearing his sister-in-law's voice in the smoke, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Shepherd!"

"Ah, Lao Wu, why are you here?"

The sister-in-law walked to the door from the smoke, holding a half-meter-long fire stick in her hand. She looked ash-headed and her face was covered with plant ashes.

Sister-in-law Milan Lan is not tall, probably just over 1.6 meters tall. She is chubby and looks even shorter.

But don't underestimate her like this. She is the most fierce in the village. The village chief doesn't dare to talk nonsense in front of her. If she is unhappy, she dares to scratch the village chief's face.She was secretly rated as the number one shrew in Lijia Village by the people of Lijia Village.

Li Muyang was a little afraid of Milan Lan in his previous life.

He thought he would be afraid now, but when he actually stood in front of Milan Lan, he remembered that she was actually a bad person in small things, but could distinguish right from wrong in big things, so he didn't hate her so much.

She doesn't know a word of Chinese characters. It's easy to develop a certain personality depending on the family environment she grew up in. You can't blame her for this.

Take Hu Duzi as an example. Even though she usually belittles her brothers-in-law as useless, if other people scold them in front of her, she will scold them back immediately.

She really grasped the identity of the eldest sister-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, I have something to do today and I want to ask you to help me visit our mother... It doesn't have to be too frequent, just go once every few hours!" Li Muyang kept the request to a minimum. He didn't expect his sister-in-law to go all the time. Guard.

"You asked me to go and see it. How can I have the free time? Besides, why didn't you find your second wife when you had something to do? Why did you come to me instead of looking for a distance?"

As soon as she heard that she was going to take care of her mother-in-law, Milan Lan was immediately furious.

Li Muyang knew his sister-in-law's temper and was not angry. He smiled and said, "Second sister-in-law's family has something to do. She is not at home today, so I can only trouble my sister-in-law. Thank you for your hard work."

"I'm not going. I want to find you to find your brother."

Milanlan snorted coldly and ran back into the smoke with a fire stick.

Li Muyang smiled, knowing that she had obtained the consent of her sister-in-law. If she really disagreed, she would hold her back for a long time.

He has already memorized the personalities and habits of these people in his family and has spent a lifetime observing them. No one can pretend to be someone else all the time.

He walked back to the yard and squatted next to his elder brother, "Brother, I want to go to Xishan today to see Cordyceps. Oh, it is a very precious herb. If I can dig some back, I can sell them and keep them for my mother's medical treatment. use……"

"You also need to save yourself a wife," Li Mutian didn't know what Cordyceps was. He looked warily in the direction of the kitchen, quickly took out something from the small hole in the machete handle, and instantly stuffed it into Li Muyang's jacket pocket. .

"You are such an old man, if you continue to be single, who girl will be willing to live with you?" When he continued to speak, his voice became much louder.

"I know, when I save enough money, I'll find someone to match me." This kind of thing has happened countless times. Li Muyang was not surprised and did not show any surprise, and his tone of voice did not change.

"Then go ahead and let me talk to your sister-in-law." Li Mutian was still a little nervous and hoped that Li Muyang would get out of the yard soon.

"Okay, please, brother, I'll leave first." Li Muyang understood.

"let's go."

Li Muyang stood in the yard and shouted to the kitchen, "Sister-in-law, I'm leaving!"

There was no movement in the kitchen, and I don't know if I didn't hear it.

Li Muyang walked out of his eldest brother's house, walked a long way, and took out the things that his eldest brother had stuffed into his pocket.

It was Zhang's crumpled fifty cents.

I don’t know how he got it out of his wages bit by bit.

He smiled and put the money in his pocket.
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After Li Muyang completed a circle, the sun had already risen when he returned home. It took him more time than originally thought.

There was no way to delay it any longer.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with her mother, she packed up the luggage she had prepared last night and walked out of the house.

The house was basically bare, and there was nothing that could be taken, so his door was never locked, just left ajar.

"Lao Wu, be careful when entering the mountains. It's getting warmer today. I'm afraid there may be snakes and wild animals in the mountains."

"I know, mother, just rest."

Li Muyang bid farewell to his mother, and the sun, half smiling face faintly showing in the east, turned around and started running towards the west.

(End of this chapter)