"Yes, every time you slaughter dogs, the more you sweat and you reap, the more you know how to cherish and respect others." Mrs. Xiao's mother's family also had a low time, and it is estimated that she would have dealt with the lowest people at that time, otherwise, she would not have been so emotional.

The accompanying servants had already informed the Wei family who was helping to take care of the house, Wei Dahe didn't look like he had changed much from previous years, he hurriedly ran over, and saluted the carriage a little nervously: "Excuse me, but Brother Qian's family is back?" ”

"It's Wen Jin back."

"Oh, Xiao Xiucai-" He had already heard that Wen Jin was a woman, so it was a little difficult to say it at this time, so he just smiled honestly, "Come into the house, the insiders clean every day, and the house is not damp." ”

The women in the village are all showing their true faces, Wen Jin placed Mrs. Xiao to rest in the upper room, she changed into men's clothes, and took Xiao Yuchen around the small village.

The first stop was the medicinal herb shop just now, Ming Shan saw two young people dressed luxuriously, and they were still customers, so he greeted him with a smile: "But you came to purchase medicinal materials?" The quality of our products from Moling Mountain is first-class, you see how strong this pig Ling grows......"

Wen Jin looked at him with a smile and talked endlessly, just smiling, Mingshan felt that something was wrong, and he saluted embarrassedly: "The two of you are here to find someone?" Let me tell you, the boy who played here back then, I didn't see it, and the Qian family's big show also came back to look for it, and I looked for it for several days, but no one, alas, didn't see it. ”

One sentence brought Wen Jin to tears, she took a deep breath, suppressed her worries about Qian Jun, and greeted Mingshan: "Don't you recognize me at all?" Wen Jin's voice used the falsetto sound when she was dressed as a man, and she deliberately put her voice back to look rougher.

Mingshan was stunned, turned his head to look at Wen Jin again, and suddenly choked up: "Wen Jin, is it?" Do you still know to come back? Oh no, you're back? ”

"yes."

Mingshan was so excited that he spoke incoherently: "Come into the house and sit, come in and sit." ”

Seeing that Wen Jin was stunned, he rubbed his hands embarrassedly: "I built a wing room in the backyard, and now I live here all year round, our Moling Mountain is full of treasures, and this medicinal material alone is produced in all seasons......" He made an inviting gesture and said babblingly.

Wen Jin also saw it just now, there were many more varieties of dried medicinal herbs than the ones she bought here back then, and there were only a few of them she could recognize.

"Daddy-" A small radish head ran out of the house, and her appearance was a little similar to Mingshan, Wen Jin remembered that when she left, Mingshan's daughter-in-law was already pregnant with Liujia, and now, the little guy will run away.

"Shut down the damn, a guest is here." Mingshan shouted into the room, bent down and picked up his son, "Call-" He didn't know whether to say sister or brother, and his face turned red in embarrassment for a while.

Aunt Mingshan came out of the house, she completely retreated from the shyness of the bride back then, and looked like a neat and capable country woman.

"Come in and sit, hehe, the countryside is a bit messy."

"Okay, auntie, I'm Wen Jin."

"Ouch!" Aunt Mingshan was stunned, and stammered for a while, "Wen Jin, are you back?" , you, you, make people think so much. ”

"Wen Jin is sorry everyone-" I haven't heard from him for a few years, but his former friends are still so enthusiastic, Wen Jin is a little embarrassed.

At that time, the stone beach had been padded with good soil and flattened, and it became a large and neat courtyard, with many houses built on all sides, mainly warehouses.

Aunt Mingshan looked at Wen Jin and explained: "The price of this medicinal material is also high and low, Mingshan built a warehouse, and only sold it when the price was high, and when the price was flat, it was saved." ”

"Hehe, Uncle Mingshan is also a good businessman now, and his abacus is really good."

Wen Jin meant that the mountain was good at calculating, but Aunt Mingshan misunderstood, and replied proudly: "No, the abacus is beaten, and the fingers are like flying." ”

Mingshan gave his wife a look in embarrassment, but Aunt Mingshan thought of another meaning, she smiled gratefully at Wen Jin: "I heard that back then, his father learned to read and keep accounts, or your brothers, oh, no, the two brothers and sisters encouraged, otherwise, he still can't read a liter of big characters, where can he make such a big business?" ”

At the door of the west wing, there were a few kiwi trees, supporting a green shade, Wen Jin and Xiao Yuchen sat down, Aunt Mingshan quickly made a pot of tea and brought it up, and Mingshan took out a thick stack of account books.

Wen Jin waved his hand and didn't take the account book: "Uncle Mingshan, I don't look at this, my shares back then were given to Uncle Wei, how do you divide them, I don't care, hehe, I'm tired, I don't want to be busy with this as soon as I enter the door." ”

"I know you gave the shares to the Wei family, but it's so easy for you to come back, I have to give an explanation, right? The Wei family entered Beijing the year before last, and they never returned, and I asked people to bring the silver over at the end of the year, and I don't know if Brother Wei is satisfied. ”

"Didn't he write to you?"

"Yes, he said he was busy, thank me for keeping the pharmacy so prosperous."

"Isn't that right? He's already saying thank you. ”

"But he didn't say he was satisfied?"

"Then I'll say it for him, satisfied, very satisfied." Wen Jin changed the topic and said, "Uncle Wei is in the capital and helps my stepmother take care of a restaurant, and the monthly income of the store is seven or eight hundred taels of silver. ”

"Huh? It's true? Oh, Brother Wei is a capable person, I have long known that he will definitely make a career when he enters Beijing. "I think back then, Mingshan was also full of pride, Wen Jin also wanted to train him out and make a talent reserve for his own development in the city, ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the young teenagers of the past have grown up, and those unrealistic ideas have also been wasted.

But Mingshan is in this small mountain village, and he also fights for his own world.

"Uncle Mingshan, you don't collect the paint?"

"Accept, the shop is open in Donglin, Nuo, let your aunt's brother help take care of it, I'm a little too busy to do this pharmacy." Mingshan nodded in his wife's direction and smiled at Wen Jin.

Xiao Yuchen listened to Wen Jin with interest, and looked around, looking at the large piece of medicinal herbs drying in the yard, Mingshan still couldn't guess who this was, and glanced at it suspiciously from time to time.

"This is my own brother, oh, Uncle Mingshan, you probably have heard that I picked it up by the He family, and her biological child died of illness."

"No wonder he always beat you back then, and people can't stand it." Mingshan muttered, and then said curiously, "Then how did you find your biological parents?" ”

"It was my father who found me and sent a lot of people to inquire about us, I have now returned to the Xiao family, and the people who recognize the Qian family are godparents, and Brother Wen Han is now my brother-in-law."

Mingshan was surprised, but he didn't know what to say, Aunt Mingshan asked curiously on the side: "Your father-in-law's family, how are you now?" ”

"Okay, it's all good, the queen mother gave marriage to her father-in-law, her mother-in-law is a county lord, she gave birth to a son last year, Lixia was born that day, her nickname is Lixia, and now she will be gone, that little mouth is coincidental, she can say a lot of words, hehe, naturally it is not coherent, it is all a single word."

"Oh! That's good, that's good, Master Qian has suffered so much, and he should have a blessing in the future. ”

"Yes, Brother Wen Han also won the Jinshi three years ago, and now he is in the household department, he is a six-grade official, the second aunt has been named Mrs., and the sister-in-law also got an edict at the beginning of the year, that is, he has been named Mrs., oh, my sister-in-law also gave birth to a daughter, my second aunt stares at the little granddaughter every day when she opens her eyes, and she can't sneeze, hehe, my father-in-law's house, it's good to be lively now."

"Well, that's good, good people should be rewarded." Aunt Mingshan interjected.

"That's right, good people are rewarded, Uncle Mingshan, your family is prosperous, and it is also a good person who is rewarded."

Mingshan smiled: "Aren't they all stained with your light?" ”

"It's your family, back then, I didn't bother Uncle Shanbo."

Thinking of the good old days, a smile appeared on Mingshan's face: "My brother's current life is also very good, he has listened to your words, planted a lot of kiwifruit, in addition to selling fresh fruits, he can also dry and make wine, the latter two items are thousands of taels a year, his family now employs more than ten people, that is prosperous, my eldest nephew goes out, and it is also called the master." ”

"Master Xiucai?"

"Well, hey, hey, in the middle of last year, there was no Wen Han, yes smack, Uncle Qian's literary talent, he was in his twenties, and he was a farmer, it was not easy, and my father liked it so much that he took the whole family to sacrifice his ancestors."

"Uncle Wang is okay?"

"Well, the older he gets, the better he gets."

"The days are rushing, there is energy, but the more you live, the younger you get."

"That's it!" Mingshan looked proud, and then added, "My nephew has always remembered Uncle Qian's kindness, saying that he has won a few good books, otherwise, he may not be able to win at all." Wen Han later asked people to bring a set of "Four Books Collection Notes" to the Dashan family, and this is what Mingshan said.

At this moment, a greeting came from the door: "Is Brother Wang at home?" ”

"Yo, Uncle Wang Han is here!" Wen Jin stood up and greeted him.

Wang Han didn't see the old either, just a little fatter, and he was still holding a child in his arms, he bent down and put the child and Mingshan's boy together: "You two play, don't fight." Only then did he raise his head and take a closer look at Wen Jin.

"You, you-"

"Uncle Wang Han, hello wow!"

"Sure enough, Xiaoxiu came back, your aunt said I don't believe it yet, this is from the capital here, thousands of miles, how can you say that you can come back when you come back?"

"Passing by, take a detour home and have a look."

"Go home and see, yes, go home and see. When you leave, the people of our village can worry about it, and the whole village is entrusted with your blessing. ”

Wen Jin was embarrassed: "I didn't do anything, but I got a lot of light from the villagers." ”

"Don't say that, yo, you don't know, there was a flash flood last year, and you asked me to take people to clean up this flood ditch every spring and winter, and other villages have suffered, so we are fine here."

At this time, there were many people at the door of the medicinal herb shop, Wen Jin and Mingshan Wang Han walked out together, Aunt Wang was still so angry, she had to pull Wen Jin to her house for dinner, saying that her family's new rice had come down this year, everyone laughed, and said that she had just cut more than a dozen ears of rice from the ground......

"What's the matter, no one is close to me and Xiao Xiucai, today, Xiao Xiucai is back, it must be my treat."

Wen Jin was a little embarrassed, and explained with a red face: "I can't go anywhere, I don't come back alone, I am a big family." ”

"Then let's all come." Aunt Wang was even more excited.

"Aunt Wang, if it was my father-in-law's family, then I would definitely not say that this time except for me, none of them are the people who went out of our mountain nest, they will recognize it."

Aunt Wang pouted in disappointment, and said helplessly: "Then, I'll bring you the freshly cooked rice, the new seeds your uncle is looking for, but they are fragrant." ”

"Fragrant rice? What fragrant rice do you grow? ”

"Well, a family steamed rice, a village is fragrant, only six acres of land were planted last year, and they didn't dare to eat it, so they all made seeds." Aunt Wang's eyebrows danced again.

Wen Jin didn't think her words were exaggerated at all, the village is small, there is no pollution, the air is clear and clean, and the fragrance is large.

"Uncle Wang, the price of fragrant rice in the capital is very high, I will write you a letter of recommendation when I go back, you go to Minghu City to find the shopkeeper of the pomegranate flower, he will definitely give you a good price, next year, you can build a waterway from the back of the village, so that the east side of the village can also grow rice, and the people in our village will benefit."

"Look, this little show is still as enthusiastic as it was back then, and it hasn't changed at all."

"Good people, good people everywhere you go."

"The country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change!" ……

Wen Jin was really embarrassed to be praised, Xiao Yuchen followed her sister, she was very envious, and felt that although her sister was more bitter than him in the past, she was better than him, and the people in this small mountain village loved her so much, it seemed that her sister might not be as good as him in food and clothing that day, and her life should be very happy and fulfilling.

Coming out of the medicinal herb store, Wen Jin went to the feedlot, Su Tongde and his wife are still here, Su Tie Sickle has already become a family, and the daughter-in-law is a very stocky woman, with a little daughter on her back, her belly is still very high, and she is about to give birth again, she doesn't know Wen Jin, she just smiled kindly, and her subordinates don't stop chopping pigweed.

Su Tie Sickle walked over with a big bamboo broom, as if he had just finished cleaning the farm, and when he saw Wen Jin, he was stunned and narrowed his eyes, and then said in surprise: "But Xiao Xiucai?" Why didn't you come back without a letter? As he spoke, he pulled his daughter-in-law: "Hurry up, salute, the little proprietor is back." ”

The daughter-in-law of the cycad was startled, and knelt down as soon as her legs bent, Wen Jin hurriedly avoided it and called them to get up.

Su Tie kowtowed, turned around and ran out to call his parents in, Su Tongde and his wife also hurriedly saluted, but Wen Jin couldn't stop him.

"Are the second master and the second grandmother alright?" Su Tongde asked with concern, he even changed his name, Wen Jin wanted to correct it, but then stopped again, social customs are like this, it seems strange that she doesn't accept it, Su Tongde doesn't know that Wei Shi has an order, and Wen Jin doesn't correct it.

When he left, he gave this pond and the breeding farm to Su Tongde, as long as he paid enough rent, the rest was his, and there were no account books to check, Wen Jin could see that the family was all focused on here, and their lives were very prosperous.

"Someone sent a box of dim sum just now, saying that the young owner is back, I am digging lotus roots, and I am going to send it to the owner to kowtow, who wants the young owner to come over." Su Tongde's legs were covered with black mud, and when he came in, he was still carrying a big lotus vegetable in his hand, and his wife carried a rattan basket with a basket of duck eggs and a handful of fresh lotus pods on it, Wen Jin believed that he was telling the truth.

The Shi family's side has rebuilt the house of the tofu workshop back then, and there is an idea given by Wen Jin to let them not only make tofu, but also dried tofu, tofu skin, tofu rolls, etc., Shi Xiaofeng is now also married to a daughter-in-law, and has a child, Uncle Shi is old and can't hold the child, so he just watches the child play by himself. When Wen Jin passed, Xiaofeng had not come back from selling tofu, Xiaofeng's daughter-in-law had just returned from sending a gift to the Qian family's yard, and when she saw Wen Jin, she guessed who she was, looked surprised, and asked her to sit at home very warmly.

"No, I'm just looking."

"Second Master Qian, this waterwheel is what you made, right? Xiao Feng still often mentions you, saying that he almost can't survive. ”

"Aren't all the same? I was also embarrassed back then, and I borrowed Xiaofeng's light, and fed the pigs with the tofu residue and filtered water here. ”

"Hehe, it is said that Qian Ershao is a rare good person, and now seeing is believing. What do you mean by not trying to repay kindness, really, the people in the village are all stained with light......"

Wen Jin was sweating profusely, she really didn't want to leave, what could be more precious than such a kind person's heart?

On the way back, she was silently thinking about her thoughts, Xiao Yuchen didn't speak, he thought about Fan Yuanwai, the old man who regarded him as his own son, and he didn't know if he was doing well now......

Mrs. Xiao rested at home for a while, then asked the servants to send out the gifts that Wen Jin had brought back, and after a while, people began to return the gifts, nothing more than some fresh vegetables, eggs, duck eggs, and later fish, lotus roots, and even tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, etc., and soon the kitchen was full of them. Wang Erya, who was in charge of the stove, looked a little worried: "Madam, I can't finish this at all, and it will be bad tomorrow." ”

"Wait for the eldest lady to come back, she will take care of it." There are more than a dozen servants followed by the Xiao family, they went to deliver gifts, they all felt the enthusiasm and sincerity of the people in the small village, at first they were afraid that they would suffer if they lived here for a few days, but now they are smiling, they both like the beautiful scenery here, and they also like the abundance of products and the simplicity and warmth of the people here.

When Wen Jin and Xiao Yuchen returned home, they immediately felt the joyful atmosphere in the house, and she was also infected, so she rolled up her sleeves: "Come, I'll cook myself today." ”

In the past, Wen Jin also used to cook, and Erya hurriedly led a few maids to follow, ready to help her.

Wen Jin looked at the dishes and had an idea in his heart, lunch was simpler, made a cold noodle, loofah soup, all the dishes were washed and cut, and then, the verbal invitation was sent down, and the whole village ate hot pot together in the evening. At this time, it is almost mid-autumn, and in front of the mountain, it will cool down in the evening, and even mosquitoes can't fly, so it's completely acceptable to eat hot pot.

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