Hearing Ah Zhu say that there was a snake, Mu Fushu couldn't help but pull him back a few steps, although she was not afraid of snakes, but it was also troublesome in case she was bitten by a poisonous snake, she had serum, if she was really bitten, should she take it out or not?

Lin and Mu Zhongjun moved down their luggage, there were not many things, and each person was done with one trip. The city gates are closed, and the coachman will not be able to leave the city, so he will have to stay for one night. It's just this house...... He might as well go back to the car and sleep. Mu Zhongjun gave him the money for the car, he drove the carriage aside, tied the horse to the tree, and after eating something, he saw that Mu Zhongjun and the Lin family were cutting the weeds in the yard, and they were embarrassed to help cut them up when they were idle. The grass in this yard is very lush, and you really have to cut it. Mu Fushu really wanted to say that it would be a fire, let's take a look at those rooms, forget it, don't even involve these two half-habitable houses and make trouble if they are lit.

A path was cut in the courtyard, and Mu Zhongjun held a thick stick in his left hand and a torch in his right hand to open the way in front, knocking all the way to open a good door. The door just opened, and a few small gray-black things quickly popped out of it, Mu Zhongjun quickly knocked on one, and Lin said happily: "It's a hare." Mu Fushu leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, it was a fat hare, already dead on all fours. It seems that the house has become a hare nest.

Lin was afraid that there were still things inside, so he said to the coachman apologetically: "This house is too messy, please let the two children spend the night in the car tonight." ”

The coachman was easy to talk, and Lin took Mu Fushu and Ah Zhu to the car, and advised: "Sleep well in the car, Daddy and Auntie are in the house, don't come down if you have nothing to do." ”

Mu Fushu knew that they were afraid that they would have to tidy up the house overnight, so he nodded and took Ah Zhu to sleep. The pig was so tired that he fell asleep after eating two eggs. After Mu Fushu lay down, he listened to the faint noise outside, remembered the mountain he had just seen, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: There are many ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum in the space, just like in the novels that have been read with space travel, just take one out and sell it is enough for them to live. Away from the best, life began to be better.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Lin woke up Mu Fushu and Ah Zhu. The coachman was about to hurry, and Lin gave him the remaining nests, and the two sides said goodbye.

The grass in the yard was cleared and piled up on the west side of the yard. It used to be probably a barn, but it has now collapsed. The two half-intact rooms were also cleaned, and they were empty, with no furniture, only a simple earthen stove was set up in the half, and something was boiling in the clay pot brought by the Lin family.

Mu Fushu and Ah Zhu washed their hands and faces with warm water, Lin scooped out two bowls of hare meat from the clay pot, and Ah Zhu took it and devoured it. Mu Fushu barely ate half a bowl, there is no other seasoning except salt, how good can it be?

Mu Zhongjun was still tidying up the house with red eyes, and Mu Fushu couldn't help but say: "Don't get it, this house is so broken, it's better to build a new one." ”

The Lin family and Mu Zhongjun were stunned, and after a while, the Lin family said in a low voice: "It costs at least twenty or thirty taels of silver to build a few new houses. ”

Mu Fushu's eyes rolled: "There is game and herbs on this mountain, right?" I've heard that ginseng and reishi are worth a lot of money. ”

"How can ginseng and reishi be so easy to get?" Lin couldn't help but be amused, and took the bowl that Mu Fushu had left. Mu Zhongjun lowered his head and thought seriously. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense, and I couldn't help but say with confidence: "After dinner, I will go to the mountains to have a look, maybe it will be as good luck as the eldest mother said." ”

"I'll go too." Mu Fushu hurriedly agreed. Just kidding, if she doesn't go, where does the ginseng lingzhi come from.

Ah Zhu also cried out: "I'll go too, I'll go." ”

Lin was anxious: "Don't go." There are great insects in this mountain. ”

The big worm is the tiger. Mu Fushu was a little puzzled, there are tigers in such a low mountain? But thinking that this mountain stretches and you can't see the end on either side, it is very likely that there are tigers.

In the morning, Mu Zhongjun went to cut down trees to make furniture, Lin went to collect firewood, and Ah Zhu and Mu Fushu helped move the grass out of the gap in the wall. Busy feet don't touch the ground. Mu Fushu has never done heavy work since she was a child, at most she is just cooking a snack in the next kitchen, and now she is asked to do hard work, this eight-year-old little body is really difficult, even a pig is not as good.

Lin felt sorry for his children, but he came back after cutting a bundle of firewood, and the rest of the grass was moved outside, and when it was dried, it was burned. This grass burns with a lot of smoke, otherwise it can be used as firewood. was busy, several women wearing short jackets and plain skirts walked over outside the wall, and one of them, a woman about forty years old, looked at Lin with a puzzled face: "Which one are you?" How do you casually live in someone else's house? ”

Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I am the daughter of this family, and my mother is Lin Mingyue." ”

"You're Ayu?" In the back, a woman in a green jacket stepped forward to take a closer look at her face.

Lin Shi was slightly stunned, and his smile was much more sincere: "Siniang." ”

This Siniang used to live next door to the Lin family, and the two have known each other since childhood.

Seeing that Siniang recognized Lin, several other women who had seen Lin before also greeted her and asked about her father. Lin's heart ached, and he said in a low voice: "It's all gone, I just took Lang Jun and his children back to live." ”

Siniang was stunned, and looked back at the woman who spoke at the beginning: "Sister-in-law, do you see if we are talking to the village chief, Ayu's family still has five acres of paddy fields." ”

The eldest sister-in-law is the daughter-in-law of the village chief, and when she heard this, she nodded and said, "I'll go back and tell Daddy, you guys will live first." The five acres of paddy fields are now planted together, and the share is used as the cost of the ancestral hall, and you will naturally return it to you when you come back. ”

Lin nodded, his eyes slightly red: "Thank you sister-in-law." ”

The eldest sister-in-law took the lead and left, and Siniang and the other two women stayed behind to help. One of the Lin family also knows, also from this village, these days just went back to his parents' house, married a surname Hu, now known as Hu's sister-in-law. There is another one who married in from another village, and Siniang is a concubine. Siniang is married in this village, which is also close to here. When he saw that the ground in the house was full of potholes, he went home and brought a shovel to help level the ground. When Mu Zhongjun came back, the land of the two rooms was leveled.

The eldest grandmother went back and told the Lin family about Ayu's return, and the village chief led his two sons and daughters-in-law and came over with a bag of brown rice. Lin solemnly greeted him. The village chief is over sixty years old, with white hair, not tall but very energetic, and his two sons are also small but strong.

Everyone saw that the Lin family didn't have much belongings, and they also knew that she was not doing well, so they didn't say anything. The village chief gave them brown rice and said, "We have been planting your family's five acres of paddy fields for fifteen years. I've done the math, it's about twenty taels of silver, and I'll send it to you tomorrow. This crop of winter wheat will be harvested by yourself next year. ”

The people here grow double-cropping rice, and winter wheat is sown in autumn, which is somewhat different from the original crops on the Mujia side.

Lin didn't expect to not only get the land back, but also get the silver, and he couldn't feel excited with tears. Mu Fushu watched from the sidelines and found that the best of the Mu family turned out to be a special case, and these people were the ancient farmers who were truly pure, simple and noble.

One after another, some neighbors who learned the news came to visit, and you have a handful of vegetables and I have two eggs, but the half of the kitchen floor is full. By the time Mu Zhongjun came back with a large tree trunk, the village chief had already gathered people to help repair the house.

With the twenty taels of silver promised by the village chief and the ten taels of silver brought out as the foundation, the Lin family and Mu Zhongjun planned to rebuild the house. A large area of homestead here belongs to the Lin family, and there is no zài occupation theory. Moreover, it is more troublesome to repair the old house than to rebuild it, so it is better to build a new one first, and then demolish the old one.

As soon as the Lin family said the results of the discussion, the village chief made a decision, and first asked the youngest son to go door-to-door to talk, and then all the strong laborers came to help build the house. He also asked the eldest son to go back to Huang Li to pick a day, and when everyone was gone, he followed Lin back to the house and sat on a low stool that he didn't know who brought it. asked about Lin's father. Lin's tears kept sliding, and he sobbed and choked.

Mu Fushu listened on the side, and the whole body was weak by thunder, and it turned out that the best products were really everywhere.

Lin's father is a wealthy son-in-law. At that time, Lin's grandparents only gave birth to a daughter, Lin Mingyue, and Lin's grandfather opened a small shop in Mengyang City, and took a fancy to Chen Chun, a young man in the shop, so he recruited a son-in-law. Later, Lin Mingyue never got pregnant after giving birth to the Lin family, and the second elder of the Lin family was not in good health, Chen Chun was filial, rented out the shop, and went back to the countryside with Lin Mingyue to take care of the two elders.

When Lin was seven years old, his grandmother died, and his grandfather was also terminally ill, worried that his daughter would be helpless after he left, so he kept an eye on it, and handed over the shop contract to his daughter in front of Chen Chun and the clan elders, and said that if Chen Chun wanted to take his daughter away, the five acres of paddy fields would be given to the clan, and they would be divided into three or seven, and they would be handed over to them when they or their descendants returned. Sure enough, less than a year after his grandfather's death, Chen Chun took Lin Mingyue and the Lin family back to his hometown.

After returning to Chen's house, Chen Chun treated Lin Mingyue's mother and daughter well at first. Later, the old lady of the Chen family disliked Lin Mingyue and would not give birth to a son, so she wanted to give Chen Chun a concubine. How can a countryman take a concubine? The law also does not allow it, you can have one wife and one concubine if you have a meritorious name, and ordinary people will be sentenced to prison if they take a concubine! She actually wanted to force Lin Mingyue away.

Lin Mingyue refused to give in for the sake of her daughter. As a result, one day, Mrs. Chen took advantage of Lin Mingyue's absence to sell the Lin family to traffickers. In this way, the ten-year-old Lin became a slave. Fortunately, the main family was benevolent, and Lin was matched by the main family at the age of sixteen, and later gave birth to children. Five years ago, the master was gracious, eliminated their family slavery, and let them go back to their hometown.

Lin followed Mu Zhongjun back to his hometown, and only after many inquiries did he know that her mother went crazy after learning that she was sold, and soon disappeared, his father married a ** and gave birth to five daughters, even the three daughters brought by **, but they could make a table of mahjong. Lin cried after inquiring clearly, and did not go back to recognize his relatives, but only thought that his father's family was dead.

The village chief sighed again and again when he heard this, and then remembered the shop, and asked, Lin pulled out the wooden hairpin on his head, and the carved end could be unscrewed, and there was a thin piece of yellow paper inside. The village chief sighed: "It's hard for you to still keep the shop." ”

Lin cried: "If it weren't for A-Niang hiding the shop deed paper on me, they would have taken it away sooner or later." ”

The village chief said in a sullen voice: "You have been gone for fifteen years, and the rent has not risen, but the shop has never changed owners. The rent can be collected for more than two hundred taels, and there is no worry that the house cannot be built. Tomorrow, tomorrow I will ask the eldest and second of my family to accompany your Langjun, and you can't remember where the shop is for so long. ”

Lin knew that the village chief was afraid that he would not come to the rent, so he asked his eldest man Erlang to accompany him, and he couldn't help but be grateful again. Mu Zhongjun was also moved, and he didn't know what to do.

Before, he and his wife knew that the foreign family had a field shop to stay, but more than ten years have passed, and they don't know whether they recognize it or not, but they didn't expect the village chief to think about them everywhere, not only did not say a word to repay the land rent, but also helped them to ask for the rent of the shop.

The village chief left after discussing the matter with them, and the family was so poor that they couldn't even make tea. The Lin family can only remember his goodness in their hearts, and they will definitely be filial to him in the future, speaking of which, the village chief is still her uncle.

Mu Fushu looked at the village chief's style on the side, and felt that there were still good people besides the best. If you have the opportunity, you must thank this kind-hearted village chief, it is impossible to lead the people of this village to the peak of life, but it is possible to get rich.

The feeding was a big pot of multigrain vegetable porridge, and Mu Fushu ate a big bowl. In the evening, Lin spread a thick layer of straw on the ground, and covered it with an old quilt brought by a neighbor. None of them are rich, no matter how many patches on the quilt are better than their own bed, and other people's quilts are still clean. This time, Mu Zhongjun didn't share a room with them, and slept on the floor in another room.

Early the next morning, the Lin family cooked the morning food, and asked Mu Fushu to take a pig at home, don't run around, she and Mu Zhongjun want to follow the village chief's family Dalang Erlang to the shop in the city to ask for rent. The village chief's house is in good condition, and there is actually an ox cart. Mu Fushu saw the four of them swaying and drove the ox cart away, turned to Ah Zhu and said, "Ah Zhu, will my sister take you to the mountains to play?" ”

Mu Fushu was going to the mountain to "pick" a ginseng. In fact, it is to take one out of the space, but in order to deceive Daddy and Auntie, Ah Zhu also needs to take a cover, so that Ah Zhu can see the process of picking ginseng with his own eyes. Although the family has thirty taels in the account, and may get more back today, Mu Fushu is used to it, the house is either not built, if you want to build it, you have to build a brick house, the ground is all paved with green bricks, and the bathroom is also very important, she doesn't want to go to the kind of thatched pit with a big vat on the ground and two planks on it, she always feels that she will fall, and it is disgusting to think about it.

Ah Zhu has always listened to his sister's words, and he has never seen what the mountain is like, and when he heard that his sister was going to take him up the mountain, he happily rushed all the way to the front.

The two walked down the mountain for only about 20 minutes, Mu Fushu took a closer look, and the trail at the bottom of the mountain was quite wide, indicating that there were quite a lot of people going up the mountain. As long as you are careful not to go deep into the mountains, there should be no large beasts, and even if there are, you are not afraid, there are guns in the space, as well as bows and arrows and crossbows. She is a wilderness enthusiast and a fellow member of the shooting club. In addition to shooting, my favorite thing is archery. Her highest record is seventeen moving bullseyes and ninety rings in one minute** with eighteen crossbows. It's just that...... She touched her little arms and legs worriedly, and felt worried about her small body.

Mu Fushu took a small basket and pulled Ah Zhu along the path that was stepped on. Because the sun had just come out, the dew on the trees was dripping like rain, Mu Fushu regretted it a little, and knew that it would come out when the dew dried.

Ah Zhu shrunk his neck, obviously also a little uncomfortable with the dew dripping into his neck. He still wore the same clothes that were obviously too long, and his pants were replaced with longer ones. Mu Fushu helped him tie his trouser leg tightly, and his trouser leg was also tightened to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants from biting.

The path was lined with tall trees and bushes, the ground was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, and the air was mixed with the smell of decay, which was not a terrible smell. Mu Fushu observed carefully, and actually saw mushrooms and fungus. The path gradually became smaller and smaller, and the forest became darker and darker, and Ah Zhu was reluctant to go forward. Mu Fushu looked around for a while, and said to Ah Zhu: "Ah Zhu, shall we go pick mushrooms?" ”

Ah Zhu squatted down and watched Mu Fushu pick mushrooms, Mu Fushu taught him while picking: "This gray mushroom is the edible mushroom, don't pick other colors." She was afraid of picking poisonous mushrooms, so she simply taught Ah Zhu to pick straw mushrooms. Seeing that Ah Zhu was getting more and more energetic, she took out the smallest ginseng from the space, quickly dug a hole in the ground and buried it, and whispered: "Ah Zhu!" Come and help! ”

Ah Zhu looked back and saw Sister Ah staring nervously at a few grasses on the ground, looked at her suspiciously, and said, "What help?" ”

Mu Fushu then remembered that Ah Zhu didn't know ginseng, and for a farmer's child, he shouldn't know ginseng either, right? Thinking about it this way, I still don't think about it. But thinking of the blue brick and tile house, he still quickly picked up the soil with both hands, and after a while, a fat ginseng that had grown limbs and the soil was held in the palm of Mu Fushu's hand.

Ah Zhu stared at the ginseng with big eyes and spit out four words: "Mallet doll." ”