However, the little monkey refused to escape from the lid of the basket.

Hongdou said to Mi Houjun: "Don't scare it away, I'll take it to that hairy chestnut forest." ”

Mi Houjun smiled: "I'm afraid it's not Sister Sun, you can't throw it away." ”

Sure enough, as Mi Houjun said, he arrived at the hairy chestnut forest.

No matter how coercive and tempting the red beans are, how to coax.

The little monkey just recognized the back basket of red beans and refused to come down.

Mi Houjun smiled: "We can still raise this little thing, so let's take it down the mountain." ”

The red bean was helpless, so he could only pick up some hairy chestnuts again.

Let's not talk about being hungry, I can't be hungry for this little thing that already treats her as a mother.

Walking on the road, the red beans chirped and gave the little monkey a fluffy name.

Afraid that they would not be able to return to the bottom of the mountain that night, the two of them unconsciously accelerated their pace.

The promise of the pioneer Mi Houjun to go to Orion's Jin Laojiu's house to drink wild wine cannot be counted.

Fortunately, he didn't meet Jin Laojiu again.

At dusk, two people went down the mountain with velvet.

When they arrived at Linglong Pond, Hongdou and Mi Houjun both walked to the edge of the pond together.

After a whole day of walking on the mountain road, washing my face and getting tired.

In the clear water, the fish with black backs are clearly visible.

Mi Houjun said: "I see that there are many fish in this pool, why don't you people in the village come to catch and eat?" ”

Hongdou, who was washing his face, replied casually: "Except for the gluttonous second-rate son, who has lard to eat it?" ”

"There's no oil, it's fishy."

"I caught the fish and wet my clothes and shoes, and I didn't have to change them."

Mi Houjun smiled: "I see, it's a pity." ”

Pointing to the waterhole with water splashes under the morning glow, "Red beans, look at those fish, they are fat and beautiful." ”

"When I'm free, I'll grab a few beating tooth sacrifices."

Hongdou first returned to the leather shop with Mi Houjun, and Wang Carpenter and Dahuzi greeted him.

Hongdou unloaded the tea saplings in the bamboo basket, carried the velvet in the empty bamboo basket, and was about to go home.

Mi Houjun hurriedly shouted: "Red Bean, you wait." ”

Red Beans stopped.

Mi Houjun took out a heavy bag.

said to Hongdou: "You accompanied me into the mountain, I can't work you in vain." ”

Red Bean thought about it and reached out to take it.

smiled: "Shaodong will have such a good thing in the future, remember to call me again." ”

She and he were in an employment relationship.

This must not be confused.

I don't have a bag of gold fairy flowers, and my father and her food, drink, and Lazar all get money.

Pretending to be high, you have to have the immortal art of drinking the northwest wind to live.

With the money in hand and the velvet on his back, the red bean went home happily.

No matter what Mi Houjun said, Shan Xiang liked her, but he didn't pay her now.

Hongdou has been thinking about those golden and plump chestnuts in his heart.

When I got home, I grabbed a handful of chestnuts and settled down the fluff.

grabbed two more handfuls and went to Aunt Fang's house first.

Aunt Fang was drying hemp.

Xiaocao can already run out and play.

Xiaohuzi is not at home, and may have gone to chop wood again.

When Aunt Fang saw the red beans, she seemed to like something.

Xiaocao bit her fingers and looked at the red beans in a daze, very afraid of life.

The red bean held the hairy chestnut in his hand to the grass.

When Xiaocao saw it, her little face showed a happy look.

His eyes looked at his mother, and he didn't dare to reach out to pick it up immediately.

Aunt Fang smiled: "If a timid leaf falls on the ground, you have to point it and cry." ”

"When I saw what I was eating, I smiled."

Hongdou saw that Xiaocao's little hand couldn't hold a few, so he stuffed all the hairy chestnuts he was holding into the hands of Aunt Fang, who couldn't refuse.

As soon as Xiaocao saw that the chestnuts were in her mother's hands, she hurriedly grabbed a few and gnawed them.

Aunt Fang said gratefully to Hongdou: "Thank you, Sister Hongdou." ”

"You took Xiaohuzi to chop firewood and earned hundreds of dollars for my family."

"Mi Shaodong gave that silver again, and my mother and son were able to survive, all thanks to Sister Hongdou."

Hongdou smiled: "Auntie, don't talk to me about these extraneous words." ”

"It's not easy for everyone, which family doesn't earn all the money for their own lives?"

"If Da Huzi doesn't go to help in the shop, Mi Shaodong may not be willing to take the silver out to his aunt."

"Xiaohuzi doesn't go to chop wood, even I don't have those hundreds of dollars to make money."

"Aunt Fang, someone will be rich."

Aunt Fang smiled bitterly: "Silly Nizi, how can money be so easy to make?" ”

"Xiaocao's father has been tired and tired all his life, but he still can't take care of the family's food and clothing......"

As he spoke, he began to wipe his tears with his sleeves again.

Hongdou hurriedly diverted the conversation: "Aunt Fang, look at these hairy chestnuts, I accompanied Mi Shaodong into the mountains to pick them up." ”

"It's not too far from the bottom of this mountain, why don't you want to pick up some of them?"

"Not to mention selling for money, even if you are hungry, you can also live."

Aunt Fang heard Hongdou say this, and the color on her face changed slightly.

said to the red bean: "We all know that Shaodong of the leather shop is a capable person. ”

"You have a lot of strength, that's why he called you."

"I dared to go into the mountains together, and I came back well."

"We are not stupid, we don't know that there are chestnuts on the mountain, and there is food for the hungry and immortal."

"Just because there was a famine that year, people from several nearby villages ran to the mountains."

"Later, all the nearby hills were scavenged."

"A few men were so hungry that they went into the mountains together."

"But unexpectedly, in broad daylight, the wolves and jackals were wrapped......"

"Later, it was the soldiers sent by Qinglong Town, together with the hunters on the mountain, that the bones were recovered."

"It's a pity that there are no bones, there are only some gnawed blood-red bones left."

"I don't know who's who......"

"After that, the people at the foot of the mountain will starve to death, and they will not want to enter the mountain."

The scalp of the red bean listens to the straight hairs.

couldn't help but say: "Why did we walk back and forth on the mountain road for a few days and didn't see a wolf or a jackal?" ”

"And the hunter named Jin Laojiu, I also saw him placing a clamp in the bamboo forest alone."

Aunt Fang said: "Those wild things are also very ghostly. ”

"Orion has a bow and arrows in his hand, and a hunting knife at his waist."

"It's grown up again, and I know how to deal with them."

"You and Shaodong must be very angry, and they are very powerful when you look at them."

Hongdou was amused by Aunt Fang's words: "How can there be such a thing." ”

Aunt Fang said: "This is not my aunt's nonsense, it was all said by the official master of Qinglong Town." ”

Red Beans immediately understood.

"The weak eat the strong, it must be that those hungry people are too weak."

Aunt Fang had never heard of what the weak and the strong eat, but she knew the meaning of red beans.

Nodding his head, "That's it." ”

Hongdou still said: "I originally wanted to ask my aunt to go up the mountain with me and pick up some hairy chestnuts and come back." ”

Aunt Fang thought for a while and asked, "Just the two of me?" ”

She has a lot of children, and she is willing to take risks if she can go into the mountains to get some food.

Anyway, it's not too deep in the mountains and forests.

Hongdou said: "I'll find a few more people to ask, if there are those who are willing to go, let's go together." ”

Aunt Fang immediately nodded and said, "Then I'll go." ”

Hongdou ran back to the leather shop and quietly asked Carpenter Wang.

Carpenter Wang immediately said that he was going.

Seeing that Mi Shaodong had already changed his clothes, Hongdou had to go and wash his clothes first.

Mi Houjun thought that Hongdou came to wash his clothes for him, and wanted to say something to Hongdou.

Think about it, forget it again.

His current ability is really limited.

If he wants to really raise red beans, he has to think of a way to make money.

He had already entrusted Carpenter Wang to ask the people nearby if there were anyone willing to sell the land.

Even if you don't want to sell, you can lease it.

The tea saplings that he and the red beans had to plant immediately.

Mi Houjun thought in his heart that he had to get a large sum of principal first.

The next day, the red beans are cooked for breakfast.

told Mi Houjun that she was going to take the villagers of Longshan Pass into the mountains to pick up hairy chestnuts.

Invite him to have a meal at noon.

Mi Houjun is anxious about his tea sapling.

Carpenter Wang asked him yesterday, and no one was willing to sell his land.

No one is willing to lease their own land to plant trees for this unknown Shaodong.

They also laughed, and the wild trees that covered the mountains and fields could not be cut down.

How can you take good land and plant trees? It's either fooling around, or you're a fool.

Listening to the red bean say that he was going to enter the mountain again, he was very worried.

But he knew that Longshan Pass was the time to get food at this moment, and it was not easy to stop it.

Besides, those hairy chestnuts are not picked up now.

Once it snows, if you don't talk about it on the mountain road, it's all rotten.

He took off the short knife at his waist and handed it to the red bean.

Said: "Hongdou, this short knife has been following me, and it will bring you for self-defense." ”

Red Bean shook his head and patted the woodcutter in the cloth bag again.

"I'll just use this."

Mi Houjun still stuffed the short knife into the cloth bag of red beans.

Because there was a real shortage of food in the family, I saw someone taking the lead.

In addition to Aunt Fang and Wang Carpenter, there are more than a dozen people in the village who are willing to go up the mountain together in a group.

I was afraid that there were wolves and jackals on the mountain, and everyone had knives and sticks in their hands.

Aunt Chen seemed to have forgotten about the quarrel with Hongdou first, and carried a big back basket.

Trot all the way to Hongdou's house, and follow up the mountain.

He also held a scythe in his hand to defend himself.

Seeing the red bean carrying the back basket, the velvet immediately climbed on the back basket cover on the back of the red bean.

Red Bean knew that there was no way to drive it down, so he had to carry it up the mountain on his back.

Red Beans walked a trip and became familiar with the path.

Before noon, he led everyone to the chestnut grove.

When everyone saw the hairy chestnuts all over the mountains, they cheered and squatted down to pick them up.

Soon, everyone's back baskets and pockets were full.

Velvet also kept jumping and running in the woods, picking up this chestnut and nibbling on it, picking it up and nibbling on it.

I really can't fit it, so the red bean beckons everyone to gather.

As soon as I saw the red bean carrying the back basket, the fluff that I didn't know where to run to play suddenly came out.

Regardless of whether the red bean agrees or not, he 'swish' and climbs on the back basket cover.

It's even tighter than a slug.

Although the trail is calm when you come, it is better to get down the mountain before dark.

It's also early winter, and the night on the mountain is still dangerous.

Everyone almost reluctantly left the chestnut forest, which was still a place of hairy chestnuts.

When I walked to Maozhupo, I unexpectedly saw Jin Laojiu waiting there.

Jin Laojiu saw the red bean and took out a wine bag.

said to Hongdou: "How can Mi Shaodong not count when he speaks?" Hurt me to wait at home. ”

Hongdou smiled: "I really couldn't catch up that day, Uncle Tijin waited for a long time." ”

Jin Laojiu said: "It's been cold recently, and wild things are not easy to catch." ”

"It is estimated that I will not be able to go down the mountain for ten days and a half months, and the tired girl will give this bag of wine to Mi Shaodong."

Hongdou knows that these mountain people are the most sincere, and they must fulfill their promises when they promise other people's things.

took the wine bag: "I'll bring it to Mi Shaodong for you, and when you go down the mountain, ask him to thank you himself." ”

Before the bamboo forest came to an end, Hongdou suddenly found that Aunt Chen's face was painful and fell behind everyone.

Gradually, Aunt Chen moved almost step by step, and became more and more unable to walk.

Hongdou hurriedly took a few steps back, and supported Aunt Chen, who was staggering and staggering.

"Aunt Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Mrs. Chen blushed, and said with tears in her eyes: "I have two legs...... Grinding, it hurts me to death. ”

"Red Bean, I can't walk this mountain road......"

As he spoke, his legs weakened and he sat down.

Hongdou said anxiously: "How can that work?" The hour cannot be delayed at all. ”

"Aunt Chen, you just grit your teeth and hold on."

Carpenter Wang and Aunt Fang were anxious when they saw Hongdou and Aunt Chen delaying behind.

Because Carpenter Wang is a man, it is not good to come and ask.

Aunt Fang hated Aunt Chen very much in her heart, but she didn't want Hongdou to be dragged down by her.

Hurry back and come back.

Seeing Aunt Chen's painful face, she asked, "Old Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?" ”

Aunt Chen heard the unhappiness in Aunt Fang's words, and saw that the people in front of her were a little far away.

I gritted my teeth and opened the skirt and loosened the waistband of my trousers.

When Aunt Fang and Hongdou saw it, they immediately took a breath of cold air.

I saw that Aunt Chen's two thighs were bright red, and she was almost bleeding.

Aunt Fang was also silent.

Hongdou hurriedly unloaded Aunt Chen's back basket, and also removed the back basket on his shoulder.

Velvet also jumped down after him.

She stacked the two baskets together, picked up a few dried bamboo shoot leaves, and twisted them tightly.

and tied Aunt Chen's sickle to the bamboo basket.

Aunt Fang looked at Hongdou's thin shoulders and said hurriedly: "Hongdou, how can you carry two baskets of chestnuts alone?" ”

Aunt Chen said guiltily: "Red Bean, it's all me who dragged you down." ”

Hongdou said: "Aunt Chen, it's okay, I have a lot of strength." ”

As he spoke, he squatted down and vigorously lifted the two back baskets.

The velvet immediately climbed up the skirt of the red bean, and actually sat high on top of the red bean's head.

Hongdou bent down again to support Aunt Chen.

Aunt Fang was already carrying a heavy bamboo basket on her back, and it was difficult for her to walk by herself.

There's really no way to help the red beans.

The people in front of them didn't see that Aunt Chen was walking hard.

It's just that everyone is carrying heavy loads and walking on difficult mountain roads.

If you want to help Aunt Chen, unless you leave your own things.

Everyone hates Aunt Chen Qiang Liang in their hearts, a woman who knows that the mountain road is difficult.

It's picking up something as solid as chestnuts, but I have to carry a big bamboo basket on my back.

Now that he is dragging people down like this, he is reluctant to pour out some of the chestnuts in the bamboo basket.

dragging others down alive.

Everyone was angry, but it was not good to speak openly to their faces.

Only without looking back, they walked separately.

The red bean carried two baskets full of chestnuts on her back, and supported Aunt Chen, who was unable to walk an inch.