In the evening, Li Huan, Li Chenglin, Li Kun and Cheng Mu rushed back to the mountain. The four of them all carried a lot of things they had bought in the bazaar, and after entering the village, the four of them went home separately one after another, and met at Luoyunna after dinner.

Mu'er returned home and didn't mention it. At night, on the top of the moon, Li Jian and the three of them came to Luo Yun's house with torches. When he saw Luo Yun, he was sitting cross-legged on the couch, eating the pastries brought back by Mu'er in his mouth, and talking about the day's events in a colorful voice. And the protagonist of his story is lying on all fours on Mu'er's legs close together, letting the 'adoptive father' who has not seen him for a few days scratch his belly.

"What is Brother Yun talking about? What happened to those craftsmen? Li Jian sat down at the table, lifted the kettle and poured a glass for each of his cousins.

Luo Yun smiled, Zhenyue didn't hide it at this time, but the light of the oil lamp was too dim and he couldn't see it clearly. During the day, he asked the fourth uncle not to tell the two little guys about it, and as for the three craftsmen, let's talk about it when they calm down and frighten. If you keep it hidden, you will continue to hide it, and if you can't hide it, you will say it, and you will not be afraid of anything. But Luo Yun hesitated to take the initiative to explain this matter to several brothers.

Luo Yun and Mu Er didn't know how to speak, but they didn't expect Li Kun to look at Zhen Yue on Mu Er's lap with a curious look and said, "I'm afraid Brother Yun is talking about the three bullish craftsmen who were scared to the ground by this little guy during the day." ”

As soon as Luo Yun heard it, he knew that the fourth uncle didn't keep his mouth shut, at least this son didn't hide it, and he confessed as soon as he got home. However, Li Jian and Li Chenglin looked inexplicable, and looked at the little guy who was having fun: "Those three people were scared by this kitten?" What's going on? ”

Li Kun didn't speak, his eyes looked at Luo Yun, and the meaning in his eyes was revealed: It's all said that this is the point, you, who are younger brothers, are still going to hide these as elder brothers?

Look at what there is nothing to choose, since one knows, he is not afraid that others will know it again, and one more person in this village who can accept it will only be good for him, but he still pretended to be helpless on his face and said with a wry smile: "Okay, I confess." These two little ones I picked up...... Actually, it's a tiger......"

The room was quiet for a while......

"What!? This, this kitten is ...... This thing is, is it a tiger? Although Li Huan's voice was not so loud that it shook the sky, and immediately lowered the business after speaking. But the tea bowl that he fell to the ground still startled Luo Yun and the two little guys. Luo Yun couldn't help but roll his eyes, tomorrow he would replace all the cups with wood.

Compared with Li Huan's huge reaction, Li Chenglin was obviously very fatherly, he didn't say a word, only stared at Zhenyue on Mu'er's lap with his eyes, and the look was so frightened that Zhenyue turned over and shouted at him.

This is obviously not the whistling sound of a cat's meow, and it is a clear indication of the identity of the little one. This sound also brought everyone back to their senses, and the spirit trembled. In addition to Luo Yun, Mu'er also followed him into the mountains to hunt. The eldest Li Jian even shot a wolf with his own hands, and he was fortunate to see a tiger. The elders have taught them: don't mess with wolves, don't fight when trapped tigers, and hide from injured bears. The hunters in the mountains are most afraid of encountering these three beasts alone, you are a lot of people, and don't want to take them down easily if you don't fold a few. Except for those hunters who take field hunting as a pleasure to get rich and nobles, and really rely on hunting to eat, no matter how capable they are, they don't want to provoke these three beasts, it's a game of life.

Luo Yun still overestimated the receptivity of his relatives, raising a tiger is really not as simple as raising a cat. In this world, except for the tiger in the emperor's garden, who has nothing to do would raise this. And even if the emperor is looking through the cage, whoever dares to keep the tiger as a cat, even the little tiger, no one dares to do it. When Luo Yun was thinking about how to persuade the three of them, he saw the three brothers look at each other, with a tacit look, and did it again, Li Jian took another cup and poured himself a glass of water.

"Brother Yun is reckless, fortunately, everyone still thinks it's a cat, but now this and the cry can't be hidden, how are Brother Yun going to grow up in the future?" Li Huan's cousin's words made Luo Yun glance at his mouth, if only he knew what to do. However, from the reaction of the few of them just now, Luo Yun had a guess, it is estimated that the matter of raising tigers for him has really spread out, and the people of Li Jiazhai should not be embarrassed for him, this is an intuition.

Luo Yun smiled and said: "Let's take one step at a time, now we can feed the two of them by eating food, and if we are really older, we will have to eat meat." When the time comes, they will be put back in the mountains, and I just saw that they were too young to lose their mothers, and I felt pitiful and picked them up. ”

After listening to Luo Yun's words, although he felt that it was not appropriate to let the tiger return to the mountain, it was not good to say that he had killed the two little tigers in front of him, so he stopped talking about this topic, but the eyes of the three still looked at the two little guys from time to time.

"Brother Yun met the craftsman today? What do they say about the pool? Li Chenglin spoke in a tone like his father, and I heard that he had also read and read with Luo Yun's mother. Luo Yun felt that if his character was trained with the second uncle for a few more years, he should be able to inherit the position of the second uncle's patriarch in the future.

"In the morning, the fourth uncle took them to the valley to see the terrain, and then I told them about my requirements, and they said to go back and discuss the details, and come back to see me tomorrow. To put it simply, they meant that it could be built to the way we wanted, but it was a bit difficult to build the whole valley into it, mainly because the project was too big and they weren't sure. So I told them to take apart the valleys, pick the ones that are in a good position, and build a few small pools first. Then find a way to connect several pools together. They didn't know what we were going to do with the pool, so they didn't think it was a big deal. I told them that they just had to come up with a feasible construction plan as required, and that they didn't need to care if it was useful or not. Hehe, the three of them were still very unhappy when they said this, probably thinking that I ignored their kind reminders. Luo Yun said as he handed a sketch drawn by the three craftsmen in the afternoon to Li Huan.

Li Kun glanced at the picture, he didn't understand it at all, so he didn't look at it, and said to Luo Yun with a smile: "They don't know that we still have a cart to get water, and they think that there is a spring in the mountain, so why bother to build a water storage pond in the valley, so they naturally feel useless." ”

Luo Yun combed Xiao You's hair with a smile, and said, "Actually, the pool is repaired separately, and it doesn't matter if it's smaller." As long as it is connected by digging a canal, it is just a matter of how much water to store. I thought that the pond would be separated, and then it would be better to divide it among the families, and it would be good to raise fish and shrimp in the pond. In this way, there is no fear that the pool will be left unattended for a long time, and each family can eat a few more fish every year. ”

"Brother Yun's idea is good, but this pool is small, and there must still be a lake in the valley during the rainy season every year, isn't it ......" Li Jian raised his head and handed the drawing to Li Chenglin.

Luo Yun shook his head and said, "So I told those craftsmen to find a way to connect the pools." In fact, my cousin can understand when he thinks about it, if he really builds the entire valley into a reservoir, it is not up to the dozens of families in our village to complete it. The rainy season lasts only a few months each year, and it takes a particularly heavy amount of rain to flood the entire valley. In fact, as long as the drainage ditch is dug and a stone bridge is paved, it will not hinder our path. And I insisted on repairing the pond not only for irrigation by carts, but mainly to prevent the pond from being stored in the pond during the year of the drought. Even if the pool is small, just cover it with a straw mat to prevent the water from drying out in the sun. In a year of great drought, as long as the spring water on the mountain is not dry, the spring water is taken, and when the spring water is dry, the water stored in the pond is used. Saving money will always ensure a harvest in the field. ”

The second uncle thought of this as soon as they heard about repairing the pool, but Luo Yun's three cousins obviously didn't expect so much. Otherwise, just for the convenience of watering a tube cart, the patriarch will agree to let the whole village build this pool together? Otherwise, how could Luo Yun keep saying that the ancients were not stupid at all, that is, the people in this mountain were also very far-sighted. People who have worked hard all their lives for the land, and those who have experienced drought will never want to experience the tragic state of watching a year's hard work turn to dust, the land cracked, the grains not harvested, and people have no hunger.

The three of them all experienced the great drought in the second year of Zhenguan, and when they thought of the scene at this time, they couldn't help but sigh. Many of the elders in the village went there that year, and it was really important for the farmers to be able to prevent the drought.

Looking at the heavy atmosphere, Luo Yun smiled faintly, "There is always hope for the future, and the future will always get better and better." With the joint efforts of our brothers, everyone's life will be better and better, and Lijia Village will become more and more prosperous. Hehe, don't talk about that. Brothers, tell me, the poor man who stayed at home, about the city, what is the fun of today's assembly? ”

Hearing this, everyone laughed and laughed about what they saw and heard after entering the city, as well as the lively scene at the rally. It wasn't until the middle of the moon that the three of them said goodbye and left, saying that they would come tomorrow to listen to the craftsman's report, and then they went home.

Early the next morning, Luo Yun sat at his desk in a daze after breakfast. Flipping through the "Yunshan Chronicles" that I practiced writing a while ago, my brain was empty and uncomfortable. Listening to the sound of Mu'er teasing the two little ones with food in the yard outside the window, he suddenly felt that he should go to the back mountain to relax. After a while, the three old craftsmen should come back and tell him the specific construction plan, right? Is it necessary to listen to it yourself, since they all said yesterday that it can be built, so how to build it, do you still need the participation of him, a person who can't work? smiled self-deprecatingly, and put down a few pages of "Yunshan Zhi" in his hand. Luo Yun returned to the bed to change out of his complicated clothes, picked out a light short shirt, and put on his straw sandals.

Walking out the door, Mu'er was stunned when she saw him. Just as he was about to ask, he saw Luo Yun kick the two little tigers who were eating with their heads down, turned his head and shouted at Aunt Mei's house: "Aunt Mei, I'm going to play in the mountains, and the three of them will come after a while and let them talk to the fourth uncle and Uncle Wu, you don't need to ask me." After speaking, without waiting for Aunt Mei in the house to react, she bypassed Mu'er and ran out, and the two little guys didn't eat anymore, so they followed along. Mu'er looked at Luo Yun's back and was stunned, and when she saw her mother chasing her out of the house, she wanted to ask, so she quickly reacted and said, "I'll accompany Brother Yun up the mountain!" "I ran out too. Aunt Mei was left standing in the courtyard with a puzzled face.

Luo Yun's speed on the mountain road has always been very fast, not to mention that in the case of deliberate acceleration, at least in Mu'er's opinion, Luo Yun's speed up the mountain is running. The two four-legged little tigers chased after him with a bit of difficulty, not to mention him with only two legs. Fortunately, Luo Yun finally stopped after rushing to the grass pavilion on the mountain in one breath, and sat under a big tree for a long time to watch Mu'er catch up.

The two little ones soon came to Luo Yun's feet, and as soon as they left the house, the two little tigers were very excited, at least the cheerful appearance of them chasing and frolicking beside Luo Yun was not at all like they hadn't finished breakfast. In less than a cup of tea, Cheng Mu finally climbed to Luo Yun's side, sat next to Luo Yun, panting and raising his sleeves to wipe the sweat on his head. This is not Mu'er's poor physical strength, anyone who climbs a hillside hundreds of meters above sea level and no stone steps or other roads at the speed of running under the sun at seven or eight o'clock in the morning in the summer of June will sweat and get tired. Except, of course, Luo Yun, who climbs the mountain is a walk.

Luo Yun looked at Mu'er's tired appearance, knowing that this was a silent protest against himself not waiting for him. smiled with an innocent expression, he also had a whim, no wonder he came: "Why did you come with me, I thought you were interested in giving you the opportunity to learn some skills from those three masters." ”

Cheng Mu waved his hand when he heard this: "Pull it down, it's not like Daddy Zhang who does manual work directly, it's strange that I can learn if you let them draw drawings." These masters are all proficient, how can people easily learn their skills. It's you, why did you suddenly run out. My mother came out to see me, and I didn't know what to say, so I had to follow along. ”

"If you don't understand, I don't understand. Since you don't know how to follow there, listen to what the three of them say? Do you think of yourself as a cow and listen to them play the piano? I thought about it, one of the three had to be left as an overseer. We do the work ourselves, but if we really encounter something that can't be solved, we have to ask others. Let the fourth uncle and Uncle Wu listen to them, anyway, if you really start work, you have to wait for the second uncle to come back, and then let the second uncle take the lead, I still read and write at home honestly. Luo Yun said very calmly, but Luo Yun on the side was stunned. When Luo Yun told their brothers about the tube car, he really thought that Luo Yun knew everything.

Ignoring what Mu'er was thinking, Luo Yun stood up and patted the soil on his buttocks casually and said, "I'm going to go to the back mountain, and of course I won't go deep into the mountains." The scenery by the stream in the back mountain is good, and I want to follow the stream to the source to see. Are you still coming along? ”

Cheng Mu thought about climbing up, and just like Luo Yun said, it's useless to go back if he doesn't understand, and the work in the field will be busy again after a while. After the farm work is over, it is time to officially repair the pool, I am afraid that it will be idle at the end of this year, it is better to play with Zhenyue for a while now, and when it grows up, it is estimated that it will not be able to be raised like this. Thinking of this: "If you didn't say it earlier, if I had known earlier, I would have brought my guys, maybe I could get some meat for Zhenyue to eat." ”

Luo Yun knew that Mu'er wanted to hunt as soon as he heard it, and looked at the two little tigers who were also thinking about whether to hunt some hares for them by the way. As soon as he thought of the hare, Luo Yun couldn't help but think of the rabbit he encountered when he first entered the mountain. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a pleasant smile, if he met such a 'cute' rabbit again, he wouldn't do it, I'm afraid that the two little tigers who have been vegetarian will not let go of the delicious meal delivered to the door.

"Isn't there two tigers without bows and arrows, and they want to eat meat and let them catch it themselves. Keeping it in the yard every day is really a cat. After saying that, he walked along the mountain road first. Of course, Cheng Mu didn't think that the two tigers who were now the size of wild cats could hunt for food by themselves, but it was a pity that they couldn't hunt once in the mountains, and after thinking about it, they ran to the small cave where the tea set was put to find a bamboo basket and rope, and he was also a good hand at making traps.