Listening to Li Xiaoning's poems, Lin Xi couldn't help blushing, but she was secretly happy in her heart, although Li Xiaoning was just praising her beauty, but how could she not hear the liking in her tone?

Lin Xi was excited, coupled with the feeling of "seeing all the mountains at a glance, and seeing Chu Tianshu" that naturally gave birth to standing on the top of the mountain, so that he couldn't help but open his arms, close his beautiful eyes, and spin to his heart's content.

Li Xiaoning couldn't help but look straight, until Lin Xi stopped, he was still staring at the people without moving. Lin Xi was a little embarrassed by him, and lowered his head and said coquettishly: "Hey, what are you looking at?" It's like a **. "The beautiful breasts that fluctuate because of the breath and the eyes that are ecstatic are really amorous.

"The most is the gentleness of the bowed head, like a water lotus flower that is not able to withstand the s......hyness of the cool breeze," Li Xiaoning couldn't help but read out the love poem again.

"Alright, alright. Knowing that you are a great talent in the Chinese department, shouldn't these poems be read to your girlfriend Lu Xiaomei? Lin Xi said shyly.

"Divided. Lu Xiaomei and I have broken up. Li Xiaoning rushed out, but subconsciously concealed the matter between himself and Cheng Xiaoxi.

Hearing that Li Xiaoning had broken up with Lu Xiaomei, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly flashed with joy. At this moment, Li Xiaoning suddenly had an urge to rush forward and hug Lin Xi into his arms, but as soon as his footsteps moved, Cheng Xiaoxi's figure flashed in his mind. He suddenly calmed down and said gloomily, "It's dark, let's go back." ”

As the saying goes, it's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, plus this mountain Li Xiaoning is also coming up for the first time, and after it gets dark, he can't tell the direction. The two of them walked and walked and got lost.

At the bottom of the mountain, the night was already deep, the autumn wind was blowing, and the woods were whimpering.

Lin Xi had never seen such a scene, but felt that the forest was like a sea, it was really unfathomable, and he couldn't help but be afraid of how many robbers, beasts or ghosts were hidden. Coupled with the cold wind at night, she involuntarily hugged her arms and trembled.

Li Xiaoning walked into Lin Xi, and just as he wanted to take off his coat, Lin Xi's body had already leaned over, his arm was uncontrollably wrapped around her shoulder, and their hearts involuntarily accelerated and beat......

In this way, Li Xiaoning hugged Lin Xi and walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and suddenly Lin Xi pointed to a little light in front of him and said, "There are people over there." ”

At that moment, the two of them quickened their pace, and when they got closer, they realized that it was a dilapidated cabin. The siding of the wooden house is woven from thin branches, and the light coming from it is a little dim, presumably an oil lamp.

Li Xiaoning just wanted to let go of his arm and step forward to knock on the door, but his right hand was grabbed by Lin Xi. He had no choice but to continue to walk to the door with Lin Xi in his arms, stretching out his left hand to knock on the door.

"Who?" An old voice rang out.

"Auntie, we got lost in the mountain and wanted to spend the night." Li Xiaoning opened his mouth and said.

With a "squeak", the wooden door made of pine boards opened, and an old woman with white hair appeared in front of her, "Come in, child, it's cold outside, don't freeze." ”

Li Xiaoning and Lin Xi walked into the house and found that there were actually two huts, but they could be seen at a glance, and the inside was a bedroom, with a simple wooden bed, no quilt on the bed, only two tattered clothes. The two children were lying on the bed, staring at Li Xiaoning and Lin Xi with big eyes, one was four or five years old, and the other was three or four years old. Lin Xi smiled and beckoned to the two children, the children were shy and immediately hid in the robe, but then lifted the corner of the coat and secretly looked out.

There was only one large barrel in the room, except for a bed. Lin Xi's eyes suddenly showed a wave of pity, she had grown so big, she had never seen such a poor family.

The old lady opened the barrel, took out two sweet potatoes from it, walked to the iron pot on the fire pit, and said, "If you haven't eaten yet, I'll cook some sweet potatoes for you to eat." ”

Li Xiaoning couldn't help but be moved, he walked to the wooden barrel, lifted the lid and looked at it, and found that there were half wooden barrels of sweet potatoes and corn cobs inside, and then looked around, and found that there was nothing else to eat in the house except for a few unrecognizable green plants thrown next to the iron pot.

Looking at the two thin and weak children on the bed, Li Xiaoning's eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, and he choked and asked, "Auntie, that's what you usually eat?" ”

"What do you eat without these?" The old lady said as she added water to the pot, without raising her head.

Li Xiaoning asked again, "Is there anyone else at home?" What about the child's parents? ”

The old lady replied while washing the sweet potatoes with water: "My son fell to his death when he went up the mountain to reclaim the land, and my daughter-in-law went out to do something." ”

"Still doing things so late?" Lin Xi asked in surprise.

The old lady didn't answer Lin Xi, picked up the rusty kitchen knife and clattered the sweet potatoes into the pot.

"Haven't peeled it yet!" Lin Xi said subconsciously. Li Xiaoning hurriedly dragged her and didn't let her continue. He knew that the old lady's refusal to peel the skin was not because she was unhygienic, but because she was reluctant to peel off the skin at all, and the sweet potato skin could also satisfy her hunger.

The old lady obviously saw that Lin Xi must be a girl from a big city, and she didn't bother with her, but continued to pick up firewood and matches to make a fire.

"It's the 21st century now, how can there be such a poor family?" Lin Xi also had tears in his eyes, and whispered in Li Xiaoning's ear.

Li Xiaoning didn't speak, he only felt a burst of sadness at this time. As the mayor of Pingshan Town, the people under his rule live so hard, but he was still thinking about the mess with Lin Xi just now, which is really undeserved.

When the old lady was done, she came to her and said, "Sit down." We'll have to wait a while. ”

Li Xiaoning and Lin Xi sat down on the simple wooden bench, and couldn't help but ask, "How much grain can you harvest in a year, is it enough to eat?" ”

The old lady's wrinkled face was full of sorrow, and she didn't look at Li Xiaoning, but cursed as if talking to herself: "What can you do if you don't have enough to eat?" We who are farmers are pigs and livestock. After a year of exhaustion, the grain collected is not counted as the national tax of the imperial grain, but also the town government. It's really skinning us and squeezing our blood. ”

Lin Xi is ****, and the man he likes is the mayor of this town, and he subconsciously resisted the old lady's "big rebellion", so he said: "Although your son is gone, your daughter-in-law is still there, and she is also a young laborer, and the town government charges a lot more, and the family shouldn't be like this." ”

"If it's not like this, what can you say it looks like?" The old lady looked at Lin Xi coldly.

"Can't you do a side hustle to make some money?" Lin Xi said according to his own train of thought.

"Why do you think my daughter-in-law went out so late?" The old lady said angrily, and then cried again, "My wife has no ability, let my daughter-in-law do that kind of embarrassing thing." ”

"Didn't your daughter-in-law go to earn money? How embarrassing again. Lin Xi asked puzzled.

Li Xiaoning thought of what was going on, so she pulled Lin Xi and didn't let her ask any more.

Then the room fell silent again, except for the sizzling of water in the iron pot.

After a while, the water in the pot boiled, and the old lady went over again, picked up the green plants on the ground, picked them briefly, soaked them in the water, and threw them into the pot. Only then did Li Xiaoning know that it was a wild vegetable.

When eating, Lin Xi looked at the dirty white porcelain bowl and stewed sweet potatoes with no oil and salt at first, and was reluctant to move the chopsticks, but symbolically picked up the wild vegetables that looked quite pleasing to the eye and slowly put them in his mouth, but found that they were extremely delicious.

"Xiaoning, this wild vegetable is delicious. I have never eaten such fresh wild vegetables. Lin Xi said with a smile.

"It's an all-natural green food, and of course it's delicious." Li Xiaoning said with a smile while gobbling it up.

The old lady showed a smile on her face like tree bark and said, "You people in the city are used to eating big fish and meat, and your intestines are all oily, so you think these things are delicious." We can't eat it. ”

"Mother-in-law, are there a lot of such wild vegetables in the mountains?" Lin Xi asked with big eyes flashing.

"Much, why not more? This is all picked by my wife herself. The old lady said with a match.

"Then when I go back, I must take some with me. My dad is definitely willing to eat it, and my friends should let them taste it. Lin Xi said happily.

Li Xiaoning pretended to have something in his heart, so he couldn't be as carefree as Lin Xi, he asked the old lady again: "The town government raised funds to build the road, did it collect your money?" ”

"Those bastards usually can't think of my wife, but when they collect money, they won't be left behind." The old lady began to curse again.

A cold light flashed in Li Xiaoning's eyes, he originally planned to dismiss He Dongliang and forget it, but now it seems that it is really too cheap that grandson, he asked again: "How much did you receive from your family?" ”

The old lady said expressionlessly: "He Dongliang, that bastard, said that there are four people in our family, one person is two thousand, and four people are eight thousand. ”

"Eight thousand?" Lin Xi's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "Mother-in-law, do you have eight thousand friends in your family?" ”

"He Dongliang, that bastard, also knows that my family doesn't have it, he just wants to bully my hard-working daughter-in-law!" The old lady began to cry again as she spoke.

At this time, even Lin Xi could hear what was going on, her face was full of disbelief, and she frowned and said, "Is there such a thing now?" Isn't this what those landlords and old rich people did in the past? Like Huang Shiren! ”

"Huang Shiren is a thousand times stronger than them!" The old lady cried and cursed, "Why don't you open your eyes, why don't you strike a thunderbolt and chop these bastards to death?" ”