On the right side of the courtyard gate, against the wall, there were two bundles of ramie, which had just been fished out of the water—the rancid smell must have come from these two bundles of ramie. On a pair of clotheslines hangs the skin that has just been peeled from the ramie, and after this skin is dried, the rope can be rubbed, and the material of the old lady's rope is this dried hemp fiber.

Liu Dayu touched Ouyang Ping with his elbow, and then drew Ouyang Ping's gaze to the eaves.

On the wall under the eaves hung a large bundle of rope, the thickness of which was the same as the rope ladder that the comrades found in the crevices of the quarry. The rope is new and should have been kneaded not long ago.

Such a thick rope is rarely used in life. There are two functions of rope, one is used to tie objects, and the other is used to bear heavy objects, for example, people who go to the cliff to collect herbs and rock climbers need this kind of thick rope, and people who go to deep wells or deep pits also need this kind of rope. Of course, those who go under the thief cave also need this kind of rope.

Sitting in the courtyard, the comrades could hear the sound of rustling in a room, and there should be people in the room.

When it was nine o'clock, the old lady was probably a little careless, so she walked to the door of the hall and said in a low voice: "Aster, Dazhu should also come back, you can't let the police comrades do this, you go to the widow's house in Xima Village, let Dazhu come back quickly." ”

"Got it." A woman said lazily.

After a while, a woman of about forty years old came out of the hall, she looked fine-skinned and tender, and the clothes she wore were relatively bright, and at a glance she knew that she was the kind of woman who rarely worked in the fields and rarely saw the sun. Today, the women of Zouma Village are picking tea in the mountains, and at the age of Aster, she should be picking tea in the mountains.

Ma Dazhu is just a craftsman who plays cotton, and he can raise a woman at home, which shows that the economic conditions are really good, no wonder Ma Jiubao said that Ma Dazhu's family "has a much better life".

What Ma Jiubao said is true, and it can be seen from another aspect that the life of Ma Dazhu's family is much better: under the eaves of Ma Dazhu's house, there is a salted pork leg hanging - that is, the back seat of the pig, and some salted chicken, salted duck, salted goose, and salted fish. It should be normal to have salted chicken, salted duck, salted goose and salted fish, and at this time, there are also salted pork legs, which shows that Ma Dazhu's family is not living an ordinary life. We all know that the average person kills a pig once a year, and then pickles it, and has to eat it until the summer of the next year, and it is now December, and there is still a long time before the end of the year to kill the pig - the so-called end of the year refers to before the Spring Festival.

Aster went this time, it took at least half an hour to go back and forth, Ouyang Ping and Liu Dayu felt bored, so they walked around the courtyard casually. The yard of Ma Dazhu's house is worth wandering, because there are several kinds of fruit trees planted in the yard, and there are at least three that Ouyang Ping can recognize: persimmon trees, jujube trees, and peach trees. These three kinds of fruit trees are more common in life, and other kinds of fruit trees, everyone does not know, after all, it is not the season to hang fruits, so it is difficult to know what kind of fruit trees are based on the shape of the leaves alone.

When passing by the door of the hall, Ouyang Ping and Liu Dayu noticed that the furniture placed in the hall was all more elaborate furniture, whether it was a long table, a table of eight immortals, or a Taishi chair, including the partition between the hall and the east and west wings, they were all water chestnut color, and at a glance, they knew that it was old-fashioned furniture - this kind of old-fashioned furniture should be more valuable - at least it could show that Ma Dazhu's family was relatively solid in the past.