Hearing Xing'er's doubts, Chen Shuang and Yang Jin, who were also helping to weed and water at the moment, also looked at Gu Changning with curiosity.

"Hmm, it doesn't seem to be an official, it's a similar title." Gu Changning herself naturally knew what An Guogong was referring to, but she couldn't help but show her feet, she couldn't explain it too clearly, so she could only say vaguely.

"Salutation?" The three of them were confused.

"It's like...... The princess is almost like that, it is a title of noble status. ”

"Oh." Although they still couldn't understand, they still nodded very face-savingly.

"Hey, it seems that my hunch is really right, Uncle He is very problematic!" After a moment of silence, Xing'er opened the topic and said.

"When did you have this hunch?" Gu Changning looked at her suspiciously.

"Didn't I say it before, Uncle He looks kind, but I'm scared when I see him, isn't this a premonition?" Xing'er raised her head and snorted in disbelief.

Gu Changning remembered that they were chatting in the woods at the foot of Xishantou Mountain before, and when Xing'er saw Uncle He coming from the end of the village road, she did say such a sentence.

"Okay, okay, you're right." Gu Changning compromised and didn't fight with her for this.

"But why would Uncle Herb do such a thing?" Chen Shuang didn't understand, "They don't look like they are in urgent need of money." ”

"Well, I know that." When Gu Changning heard this, he quickly coughed twice, and said in the eyes of the three of them, "It was because his son died at an early age that he felt that the world was unfair, and he wanted everyone to taste the loss of his child like him, so he turned into a flower shooter." ”

"That's too much, isn't it?" Xing'er said with an angry face, "It's not someone else who killed his son, he really ignores him like this!" ”

"Well, that's what I said at the time, but once you get into the horns, it's hard to get out." Gu Changning also sighed when he heard this.

The atmosphere was a little heavy.

Chen Shuang looked at Gu Changning on the left, then at Xing'er and Yang Jin on the right, and said in a relaxed manner: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about something else." ”

"Say what?" Xing'er asked with a confused face.

"This ......" Chen Shuang was also stumped by her.

Often a topic is talked about as much as you want, and it is natural to talk about it anywhere at will.

But now that the topic has been interrupted, it is a bit difficult to renew it.

The air calmed down, but Gu Changning thought of a question at this time, and hurriedly looked at Xing'er, "Xing'er, when will you raise those roosters in your house?" ”

"It depends on the situation, if it hatches in early spring, it is generally raised for about eight or nine months and sold, if it is early summer, it is about half a year, why do you ask this?" Apricot said strangely.

Roosters don't lay eggs, they waste food after raising them for a long time, and the snow is covered in winter for thousands of miles, and no one wants to go outside to prepare food for chickens on a cold day.

Therefore, the average farmer will sell them all when they are almost raised, either slaughtered and eaten or sold, and few are kept until the next year.

At most, a few hens are left to lay eggs.

Gu Changning hatched fifteen chicks this time, plus big flowers and small flowers, that is seventeen chickens.

She originally planned to raise four or five hens to keep to lay eggs, and when the rest were older, they were all slaughtered to replenish A-Niang's body.

But now she has changed her mind, and only plans to keep four hens to lay eggs, and the rest will be taken care of when they are almost raised.

Anyway, there is no shortage of silver at home now, and when the winter is over, there will be another income.

So if you want to eat meat, you can go directly to the town to buy it, and take the time used to feed the chickens to learn embroidery with A-Niang, and after learning for a month, it is more cost-effective than raising chickens.

Gu Changning calculated the account in his heart, made a decision, and immediately snorted at the chicken coop behind him, and said: "Our family is now seventeen chickens, and we will definitely get rid of it at the end of the year, but the first time our family does this, I don't have any experience, so I'll ask." ”

"Oh, in this case, then you wait for me to go back and ask my aunt, my aunt is responsible for our chickens, and I don't know very well."

"Okay."

"But in that case, don't you keep laying eggs?" Apricot then asked.

She still remembered that A-Niang had guessed with her before, saying that most of the eggs hatched by Ning Ning's family were to raise hens and wait for eggs to be sold for money.

However, Ning Ning now said that there were only four left, and he wouldn't be able to save a few eggs that month.

And when she saw Ning Ning chopping wood and going up the mountain to pick fungus, she knew that she was in a hurry to make money, so she suddenly said that she wanted to sell the chickens.

Gu Changning was busy pulling weeds, and at the same time, he carefully separated the plants that had grown too densely, and prepared to move them to the empty soil ridge.

At this moment, she didn't raise her head and replied when she heard Xing'er's question, "I changed my mind, I thought about it, it's too wasteful of time to come out in winter to prepare food for these chickens, I am learning embroidery with my mother, I hope that in the future, like my mother, I can also receive embroidery work, so that I can make a living." ”

"That's right." Apricot nodded as if she didn't understand.

"Okay, let's leave this vegetable garden alone, while the sun is not drying now, let's go to the mountains to pick pigweed first." Gu Changning was also embarrassed to ask a few of them to be busy with their own vegetable gardens, and when he saw the basket they put in the corner, he stood up and clapped his hands.

"Hmm."

And they got up, and each of them took his basket and went up the hill together.

As a result, not long after they went up the mountain, they saw that many uncles and uncles in the village had gathered here, and the group of people in Wuyang did not know what they were doing.

"What's going on?" Chen Shuang looked at the group of people curiously.

"Let's take a look?" Apricot looked excited, looking like she wanted to join in the fun.

The four of them passed, and before they could get closer, someone had already seen them, and someone immediately shouted loudly.

"Gu Changning, Gu Changning is here!"

At the beginning, the back also called out.

"Is it the girl of the Gu family?"

"It's her, it's her."

"Which one, I'll see ......"

"It turned out to be her."

Gu Changning and his three friends looked at the uncles and uncles who suddenly became excited with a blank expression, puzzled by the warm gaze they cast, and the four of them stood in place, their feet like tree roots growing on this mountain, forgetting to move.

"Changning, come here."

While several people were at a loss, one of the uncles and uncles waved at her and called her over.

“…… Uncle Patriarch? Gu Changning looked at Gu Yuan in surprise, stepped forward slowly under the hot gaze of everyone, and asked, "Why did the patriarch uncle appear here?" ”

"Didn't you be kidnapped by Old Man He's group that day? That night, the people in the village searched the whole village, but they couldn't find your figure, so they went to the mountain to look for it the next day, and found a cave, and then as soon as the matter spread last night, everyone was very curious about this cave, and they rushed over before dawn...... "Gu Yuan explained with a smile.

Gu Changning suddenly realized.

No wonder now is the time to go to the fields and farm, how can these uncles and uncles appear here inexplicably, so it is.

"Come on, come on, come and see, this is the stronghold of Old Man He's group?" Gu Yuan asked, pointing to the end of the path in the middle of the forest.

Everyone thought that she was kidnapped by Uncle He when she was going up the mountain, so they all rushed to ask her.

Seeing this, Gu Changning could only explain: "I don't know if it's Uncle He's stronghold, because I was taken away on the official road in front of the village. ”

Everyone was stunned, Gu Yuan blinked before he said, "Ah, is it......"

Although there is no way to verify Gu Changning about this matter, everyone is still very active in discussing this matter: "In my opinion, there are eight achievements here, you see that there are still signs that people have lived in the cave, and the water in this clay pot and this water have not dried up yet." ”

"Yes, if it's not Old Man He, who else can there be?"

"That's right, that's right, I remember, Old Man He often runs this way, you said that if this cave is not his, then who else will it be?"

The villagers were talking nonsense, but Gu Yuan frowned after hearing this.

"What you say is not unreasonable, but this is just everyone's speculation, and no one can say for sure." Gu Yuan was the patriarch, and his speech and demeanor had a sense of prestige, and he soon became the one who gave orders in this group of people, "In this way, before the matter is determined, this part of the cave must be guarded." ”

"How do you guard it?" The big guys glanced at each other a few times, and said suspiciously at Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan was about to continue, but suddenly remembered that these people in front of him were not exactly Gu clansmen, and after a pause, he said: "This matter still needs Li Zheng to take an idea, so let's go and tell Li Zheng in person about this matter, it's not a matter for everyone to gather here now, why do you want to go." ”

So it was very strange that Gu Changning and the others watched this group of villagers come and go in the same wind, and everyone kept greeting them before leaving, Gu Changning only felt that the corners of his mouth were about to stiffen.

"Changning, it's good to be back, your aunt and your brother are about to die of worry, so they hurried to me that night, and everyone also searched the entire village, including the foot of Tianlong Mountain, hey, you have to be careful when you do things in the future." Gu Yuan walked at the end, and said earnestly when he passed Gu Changning.

"Yes, I know, I'll pay attention to it in the future, Uncle Patriarch walks slowly." Gu Changning responded very obediently, and then watched Gu Yuan leave.

When she turned around, she saw that the other three were all looking at her silently, and Chen Shuang looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, as if she was worried that she would be blamed by the villagers for this incident, or she took this matter to heart and was sad about it.

"Okay, I'm fine, don't worry about me." Gu Changning squinted at them and said in a cheerful tone, "I don't know you yet?" Now I have so many things to do that I don't have time to pay attention to what other people are saying. ”

"It's best if you don't take it seriously." Chen Shuang said with confidence when he heard this.

"Well, let's go, let's go, I haven't done my work for the past two days, and I have to make up for it quickly." Gu Changning changed the topic with a smile, deliberately urging everyone.