Chapter 22 Chopping Wood and Returning Home
Li Minhao carried the firewood basket on his back and the axe on his shoulder along the path up the hillside, followed closely by Jinnier and Xiao Hei. Li Minhao thought that it was snowing and the weather was cold, and he needed more firewood, and the old man was old and inconvenient, so he took advantage of the time to help chop some firewood.
"Brother, slow down, I can't keep up." Jinnier is small and short, where can Li Minhao and the big man come quickly, and the hillside is a little slippery, Jinnier doesn't dare to go too fast, so she can only walk faster in small steps, this is not to follow Li Minhao's tired panting, and her little nose is full of sweat beads.
"Nier, we have to rush back to Seoul after chopping firewood, and if we don't hurry up, we won't have time to rush back." Li Minhao put down the axe, and along the way, he was really tired, and he had to be careful when the mountain road was slippery, especially uphill.
"Brother, really, there are a lot of unwanted fruit trees in the mountains and forests behind the house, and Grandpa Li said that these fruit trees were given to my brother. Why go so far to chop wood? Nier asked several times along the way, but Li Minhao had his own idea, and he rented a lot of fruit tree seedlings in the mountain forest, of course, he couldn't bear a few fruits every year. Otherwise, how could the lieutenant minister give it to Li Minhao so easily.
Fruit tree saplings, Li Minhao already had the idea of planting fruit trees, watering with spring water may be able to grow more delicious fruits, especially apples and persimmons, renting hillside land has this plan, ready-made Li Minhao of course not far away to cut down at will, for this Li Minhao also begged the chief and the people in the village to warn everyone not to cut down the fruit trees in the mountains and forests that they rented and planted.
"Nier, Brother Fruit Tree is still useful, maybe next year it will be full of apples and persimmons." Li Minhao spoke with a little confident smile, Jinnier pouted, grandma and grandpa Li said that there are some varieties of fruit trees in the mountains and forests, which belong to the failed varieties, and the fruit bears very little. And it doesn't taste very good.
"Oh." Nier coped a little with it, Li Minhao hehe, maybe there will really be a miracle next year. "Alright, let's chop wood quickly."
This forest is a typical pine and cypress tree, and the chief explained that the trees cannot be cut down at will, except for the messy branches, of course, Li Minhao's axe is handy, and after a while, he cut down a lot of old branches, and Jinnier helped to saw them into more than a foot long and bundled them together. The mountains are so clean that not a single bird may be missing in winter.
Li Minhao chopped branches, and Jinnier packed up bundles of firewood and worked for an hour. Li Minhao tied up piles of firewood and carried them on his back, and the axe was carried by Jinelle. The two of them went down the mountain slowly, because the branches were dry branches, but they were not heavy, but the road was a little slippery downhill, and their clothes were very dirty.
The firewood was piled up, Li Minhao and Jinnier washed their hands, it would be more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the time was not early. Li Minhao was about to say goodbye, and his grandmother prepared a large jar of kimchi, pickled radish, miso, and a bag of cornmeal and sweet potatoes. Of course, Ginnier's favorite persimmon can't be missing.
"Thank you so much." Li Minhao has been a coolie in the past two days, repairing houses, cleaning chicken coops, chopping wood, making sauce, and doing a lot of physical work in two days.
"This is what I should do, you are too polite, we will go back and see you next time." Li Minhao and Jiniel, big bags and small bags come, big bags and small bags go.
Although kimchi and the like are not good things, this affection is the most important, especially Niel. The little girl sees these things as treasures, and carefully puts them away.
"Nier, what do you want to eat at night?" When it was getting dark, the car entered Seoul, and Li Minhao rubbed his eyes when he saw it, and Xiao Nier, who had just woken up, asked.
"Meat, fried rice cakes, ramen." Nier didn't think about it, she had eaten a lot of meat in the past two days, and she still had to eat meat. "Hehe, Nier, you really like to eat meat as much as Da Hei and Xiao Hei."
"Brother, don't call people black, otherwise, otherwise I won't talk to you." Jinnier snorted twice and rubbed the little black head vigorously, and the little black looked innocent and his dark eyes widened. Why, the little master often bullies himself, Xiao Hei is so innocent.
Li Minhao's face was full of sympathy, Xiao Hei's experience, shaking his head and sighing, Jinnier saw it, hummed and grinned and made a clicking sound and Xiao Hei seemed to open his mouth wide as if he really planned to bite Li Minhao.
"My brother was wrong, Nier helped my brother bring the phone, I really forgot to charge it." Li Minhao has been too busy in the past two days, and then he has discussed the matter of renting land with the chief, and he forgot to charge his mobile phone when he was out of power. More than a dozen missed calls, there are Xiao Budian, Huixian, Li Zhen, at most it turned out to be Alice, Li Minhao was a little puzzled, Alice and himself were just ordinary friends.
"Brother, did you want to invite them to dinner and barbecue at their own end?" Jinnier is texting with Xiao Budian, and a few little girls have done a lot of things in the past two days, and Li Minhao certainly repaid it. Please eat a buffet barbecue is considered a treat, the price of the buffet barbecue is not expensive, more than 20,000 won each.
"Yes, didn't my brother say it, Xiaobu, Huixian, Li Zhen helped my brother record the prices of vegetables and meat in the convenience store, which is considered remuneration." Li Minhao stopped the car while he was talking, and he arrived home.
After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Li Minhao looked at the appointment time with Xiao Bu for more than half an hour. Lee Min Ho dialed Park Hee-yeon's phone and didn't know what Park Hee-yeon was looking for.
"Alice, hello, yes, Lee Min Ho." Li Minhao sat up straight, and did not speak with Nier, a little bit casually. Park Hee-yeon was eating, and if it was usual, the phone might have to be put on the line, but as for Lee Min-ho calling, Park Hee-yeon, who wanted to know something, talked to his parents and connected Lee Min-ho's phone.
Park Xinxun didn't expect that his daughter and Lee Min-ho seemed to have known each other for a long time, and Park Xinxun's face changed a little. Lee Min-ho doesn't know how much he has discovered in Seoul in the past two days, especially his own fruit and cabbage report, which has affected many people's hearts. Li Minhao didn't know anything about this, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the news in the past two days.
"Hello Min Ho-kun, you're back in Seoul?" Park Hee-yeon's speech is still not much different from usual, but he is a little eager to listen carefully.
"Yes, I just came back, I'm really sorry, the phone hasn't been turned on, is there something wrong?" Li Minhao explained, a smile appeared on the corner of Park Hee-yan's mouth, Li Min-ho's mobile phone was not turned on, Park Hee-yan already knew, yesterday Park Hee-yan invited a few to eat barbecue.
"Something, I don't know if you're free?" Park Hee-yan has always wondered if the newspaper is talking about Lee Min-ho, you must know how Lee Min-ho's cabbage experiment seems to have just begun, how could he make such a big move.
Lee Min-ho didn't expect Park Hee-yeon to plan to come out at night, so he nodded. "I'll invite them to dinner later, if you don't suggest it, let's go together."
Park Hee-yeon frowned, this person is a little impolite, but thinking about Lee Min-ho's surname, this person is a little casual, is this American education, Park Hee-yeon doesn't like it a little.
"Yes." Park Hee-yeon hung up the phone and saw his father staring straight at him, his cheeks were a little hot. "Daddy, Mommy."
"Alice, have you met Min Ho?" Park Hee-yeon's mother took her daughter's hand and asked in a low voice, afraid that Park Hee-yeon would be shy, Park Xinxun had a hint of inquiry on his face, but he didn't have much of a good impression of Lee Min Ho Park Shin-hoon, especially Lee Min Ho had a scandal, as for today's cooperation intention, Park Hee-yan persuaded Park Shin-hoon to decide, is it because of Lee Min Ho's kid.
"Yes, Mom." Park Hee-yan did not hide it, and talked in detail about the process of getting to know Lee Min-ho, when he mentioned cabbage, Park Shin-hoon's eyes lit up, could it be that Park Hee-yeon persuaded him to release the information and ask Lee Min-ho to participate in the cooperation matter, so it is.
"Could it be that the fruit cabbage reformer mentioned in today's newspaper is Minhao, the kid?" Park Hee-yeon nodded, thinking of the fruit cabbage that Lee Min-ho gave him, got up and took it, and asked his parents to taste it.
"I didn't expect there to be such a magical cabbage, with a faint fragrance, really like fruit." Madame just tasted the taste, but Park Shin-hoon tasted huge profits and influence.
"Has the experiment been successful?" North Korea only said in the newspaper that it was experimenting and that it would take three to five years, but the cabbage in front of him.
Park Hee-yeon shook his head, how could Lee Min-ho talk to himself about such a thing. "Dad, I don't know much about this matter, Li Minhao doesn't seem to know my identity yet."
"That's right, Li Minhao doesn't seem to be useless as he says outside, just a rebellious and nonsense bastard, Xiyan, what do you think of Li Minhao." Park Shin-hoon had an idea in his heart, but now that he talks about it, it is not very suitable.
"Li Minhao gives the impression of being a little casual at first glance, doing things according to personal preferences, and he likes to be unrestrained." Lee Min-ho would definitely agree with Park Hee-yeon's comments if he heard this.
"Chairman Lee Jae-seok is a more traditional person, no wonder Min Ho ran away, American education is different from South Korea, maybe it is because of this that Min Ho can be so promising." Park Hee-yeon's mother said softly, but Park Hee-yeon didn't think so in his heart, and Lee Min-ho himself was a little incomprehensible.
Park Hee-yan thought about it and told his parents about Shin Min-ji, and Park Shin-hoon and his wife glanced at each other, revealing a hint of difference. Does his daughter-in-law really like Lee Min-ho, otherwise why would Shin Min-ji treat Park Hee-yeon like a daughter-in-law. Park Hee-yan saw that after he finished speaking, his parents changed their eyes, and they were a little shy for no reason.
"Alice, you call Madame, Madame must be very worried about Minho." Park Hee-yan nodded, dialed Shin Min-ji's phone, and sure enough, when he heard Park Hee-yan say that Min-ho was back, Shin Min-ji breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hee-yeon, I already know about Min-ho." Lee Min-ho's improvement of cabbage is this afternoon Lee Jae-seok told Shin Min-ji that after Shin Min-ji found out, he was busy sorting out a document for his son's experiment. Shin Minji asked for a farm on Jeju Island, and Lee Jae-seok didn't say much this time and immediately agreed.
"Auntie, don't you come here yourself?" Park Hee-yeon didn't expect it to be Lee Hee-min who came over instead of his wife, Lee Hee-min is Lee Jae-hyun's youngest daughter and Lee Min-ho's cousin, but the two haven't seen each other for many years. Li Ximin came back this time because of his father, but he didn't expect to meet Li Minhao.
Li Ximin was a little curious that his cousin with a strange surname would improve Chinese cabbage, which was really strange. It just so happened that Lee Jae-seok and Shin Min-ji were afraid that Lee Min-ho would make trouble again, you must know that when Lee Min-ho ran away, he said that he wanted to complete a big thing for Lee Jae-seok to see, otherwise he would never come back.
Quite a bit, Lee Jae-seok and Shin Min-ji both think that Lee Min-ho said that the big thing is to improve the Chinese cabbage. Li Minhao knew at this time, there has been a commotion in the past two days, and Park Mingxian's approach, Li Minhao had expected it, but he didn't expect it to be so intense. As for the Kim Tae-hee scandal, Lee Min-ho didn't expect that he would become a male pig's foot in an entertainment scandal one day, which is really a bit magical.