Chapter 186

Su Muling asked to go back to her hometown in the countryside to live for a while, but Su Haoran couldn't stop her, so she had to agree.

Su Haoran asked Liu's mother and Sifeng to go over first and clean up the old house that had been empty for decades. and ordered Wufu, who grew up in the Su family since he was a child and knew how to fight and kick, to protect Su Muling's safety.

Su Muling didn't want to bring so many people, but looking at Su Haoran's worried eyes, she still nodded and accepted.

Su Muling stayed at home for one night, and on the second day, he took Pomegranate and Xichun to Yaohu Village, Xiangjiang Town.

Yaohu Village is a small village with only a dozen households, surrounded by mountains and beautiful scenery. There is also a dammed lake in the village, Yao Lake, which is also rich in various kinds of fish.

The houses of the villagers are all built by the lake, facing the lake and facing the mountains on their backs, which is a rare and good place.

It's just that the traffic in Yaohu Village is blocked, and the people in the village rarely deal with the outside, and they only live by guarding the lake and the mountains but only to maintain food and clothing.

The richest man in the village only owns a cow, and he depends on it to plow the land. As soon as Su Muling's carriage appeared in the village, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole village.

After inquiring all the way, Su Muling finally came to a house.

When Pomegranate stepped forward to knock on the door, Su Muling noticed that the courtyard doors of several nearby houses had secretly opened a crack, and several pairs of eyes were quietly looking at them.

It's an old house with mottled paint on the door.

"Squeak!" Wufu, who came in response, opened the door and happily let Su Muling in: "The eldest lady is here." ”

As he spoke, he shouted into the courtyard: "Mother Liu, the eldest lady is here." ”

Liushun, who followed out, took the horsewhip in Pomegranate's hand and led the carriage to the backyard.

Su Muling entered the door and inquired about the old mansion. This is an ordinary courtyard with two tall apricot trees in the yard. The yard was cleaned by Liu's mother and Sifeng, and it was clean and neat.

Mother Liu and Sifeng came out and let Su Muling into the main room.

In the bedroom of the east house, the two charcoal stoves are blazing. Charcoal is silver charcoal pulled from the Su family. The quilts, mattresses and all the utensils were also brought from the Su family.

The house of the old house is not as good as Songjiang, but it can be carefully cleaned and carefully arranged by Liu's mother and Sifeng, and it is also warm and comfortable.

Mother Liu took off the big hat for Su Muling, Su Muling stretched out her cold hand to the charcoal stove, and her two big eyes looked at this small house with a very compact layout.

Opposite the door was an ordinary wooden bed, on which hung a moon-white curtain brought from Matsue. Under the bedside window is a square table in wood with candles and a tea set. There was nothing left in the hall except for a few chairs and a somewhat lame table.

"This house has been uninhabited for a long time, and it looks somewhat dilapidated. Fortunately, everything is taken from home, and it is easy to use. ”

"At noon today, the village chief came to take a look, and heard that the young lady was going to come back to live for a while, and the village chief said that if there is anything to do, go to him."

"Here, wipe your face." Mother Liu wrung the hot towel and handed it to Su Muling as she spoke.

Si Feng walked in with the food box and the heavy door curtain.

"Miss, you're hungry. The slave maid made the young lady's favorite roasted deer tendon and cherry meat. ”

Dozens of miles from Songjiang to Yaohu Village, Su Muling dangled in the car for a few hours, she was indeed hungry, and when she saw Sifeng setting up the dishes, she sat down at the table with great interest.

"Deer tendon is also sold here?"

Si Feng smiled: "Where is there deer tendon in this poor place." They were all brought from home at the orders of the master. ”

Su Muling's heart is warm, Su Haoran knows what she likes best, and she has prepared everything for her from eating to using.

"I didn't know my dad had brought me food."

"Miss doesn't know, we came by cart, the car is full of food, the master also said let us eat tightly, in a few days he sent someone to send a batch, and said that we can't lose Miss." Si Feng set the meal and handed the chopsticks to Su Muling. Su Muling didn't say much, and ate with his head bored.

After the meal, Su Muling, accompanied by Liu's mother and Pomegranate, brought gifts to the village chief's house to visit. The village chief is in his fifties, with a kind face, his surname is Zheng and his seventh uncle, and the village chief's wife is also honest, and everyone calls her Seventh Aunt.

Su Muling said a few polite words to them and asked Mother Liu to present the gift. The village chief and his wife held the cloth wrapped in red paper and two boxes of Pu'er tea, and they were excited and didn't know what to say.

"This ...... That's too expensive, isn't it? This ...... "The village chief was a little afraid to accept it.

"Uncle Seventh doesn't have to be polite, although my father has only lived in the village for a few years, he is still a person from Yaohu Village. Daddy said that Uncle Seven is good, let me discuss something with Uncle Seven. ”

Su Muling's politeness flattered Uncle Seven, and after putting the things down, he hurriedly said, "Certainly, definitely." ”

After Su Muling said politely, he got up and said goodbye. When I arrived at the door, a man of about thirty years old, with a dry grass in his mouth and a red cheek, walked in with the smell of alcohol.

Seeing Su Muling, the man was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up and came towards Su Muling.

Seeing this, Mother Liu hurriedly stepped forward and blocked Su Muling behind her.

"Tiangui, come, Dad will introduce you. This is the young lady of your Uncle Su's family who went out of our village. This time I came to stay in the village for a few days. ”

"Miss Sue? Well, it's good, are you married? ”

The corners of Zheng Tiangui's mouth drooled, shaking his body that was already unstable, and he reached out to touch Su Muling's face.

As soon as Uncle Zheng Qi wanted to stop drinking, he saw the pomegranate next to Su Muling and shouted: "Bold!" Then he reached out and grabbed Zheng Tiangui's outstretched hand, and as soon as his fingertips were forced, Zheng Tiangui screamed wolf-crying.

"It hurts, it hurts...... It hurts me to death......"

"The girl is angry, the girl is angry. Tiangui drank too much and lost his manners, and Uncle Seven was here to make amends to Miss Su. begged Miss Su to let him go. Uncle Zheng Qi was so frightened that he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

Su Muling glanced at Pomegranate, and Pomegranate let go. warned in his mouth: "This is to look at Uncle Zheng Qi's face and let you go." If there is a next time, don't blame me for breaking your hands and feet. ”

Where did Zheng Tiangui dare to fight back, retreated to the corner and hugged his painful hand, cold sweat flowing.

"Uncle Seven, farewell!"

Su Muling left without looking back.

can't raise a godfather, Uncle Zheng Qi and his wife are honest, but they raised a rude, bold and lustful person. Su Muling's affection for them decreased a little.

Out of the village chief's house, Su Muling and the others followed the path to the lake.

On the edge of the lake, a small boat is docked on the shore, and not far away, an old mother in a cloth dress and patches is sitting in front of a courtyard to bask in the sun.

Su Muling stepped forward to greet her.

"Hello, old mother!"

The old mother saw that Su Muling was sweet and well-dressed, and knew that she was a foreigner.

"Okay, the girl is a foreigner, right? How did you come to the borders of our poor country? ”

"My old mother doesn't know me, she should know my father Su Haoran, my father grew up in this village when he was young."

"Su Haoran? The Su family with two apricot trees in the courtyard at the east end of the village? The old mother struggled to remember.

"Yes, that's it." Su Muling smiled.

"It turned out to be a kid from the Su family. I still remember that the Su family was such a kid, when he was four or five years old, his parents were gone, and the Su family boy followed a foreigner, and then there was no news, I didn't expect him to have such a peugeot girl. Is your dad okay? ”

"Okay."

"Hey, people move the living tree and move the dead, and when they go out, they will no longer be poor, and people like me can only die here in poverty." The old mother said sadly, shook her head, and sighed.

"Yao Lake is guarded here, how can you be poor? Are there no fish in the lake? ”

Su Muling was strange, all the people she saw along the way were patched coarse old clothes, and it was obvious that the people here were not wealthy.

"The girl is really joking, how can there be no fish in the lake. There are not only fish in this Yao Lake, but also a lot of them. It's just that this fish can only be eaten by the people in the village, but it cannot be exchanged for money and other things. ”

"Why? You can sell the fish in the lake for money. ”

"Girl, don't you know, we are more than thirty miles away from Xiangjiang Town, and it takes a day to go to the town to drive the ox cart. Went to town and came back for another day. Even if you catch fish and sell it, when you get to the town, it will die and stink, and no one wants it. Besides, there are only two oxen in the village, and they have to plow the land and cultivate the fields. Therefore, only on the first day and the fifteenth day of the new year, people in the village can be sent out to buy some important things. ”