The dimly lit mountains fell silent, and the scorched sheep lying on the bamboo bed tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

"Dad, do you think the deal of wealth can be done?"

The old man on the bamboo bed in the inner room was holding his arms and legs crossed, looking at the dim butter lamp hanging on the roof beam, his brows were tightly locked, and he was deep in thought.

The sound of heavy horses' hooves stopped in front of the blacksmith shop, and Jia Fugui's hoarse voice sounded outside the door: "Yang'er, Dad, we're back!"

"Meat, here, here, here!" Jiao Yang'er jumped out of bed excitedly, and ran out of the door barefoot.

Jia Fugui, who couldn't move his steps, was lifted by Jiao Yang'er with one hand and came to the hall to sit down. Seeing the kettle on the table, Jia Fugui grabbed it like a hungry tiger and poured it up. Jia Fugui, who was relieved, cried and said: "Sheep, it's broken, let's fold!"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Jiao Yang'er was duplicitous and disappointed.

Jia Fugui took off his bag and poured a table of broken silver in an uproar, so startled that the old man who had just come out of the back room screamed and quipped: "Our mother, where is this broken, the arm is broken, or the leg is broken!"

Looking at the pile of broken silver on the table, Jiao Yang'er slapped Jia Fugui's head and scolded with a smile: "Meat, where did you break it!"

"It's really broken!"

Looking at Jia Fugui's serious appearance, Jiao Yang'er and the old man also felt that something was happening, and they all restrained their expressions and stopped joking.

"Dad, sheep, we are sandalwood as firewood, I don't know the goods!" Jia Fugui took out the only remaining firewood knife and gently placed it on the table, afraid of knocking, and said: "Guess how much silver our firewood knife is worth outside!"

Jiao Yang'er and the old man looked at each other, but they didn't speak, I don't know how many things are worth from this blacksmith shop!

"Five hundred taels!" Jia Fugui stretched out a hand and shook it, "There is no price!"

The old man and Jiao Yang'er both stretched their necks, swallowed saliva, and said in unison: "Really?"

Jia Fugui told everything about his trip in detail, and after listening to it, Jiao Yang'er and the old man were a little convinced, and nodded.

The old man poured a bowl of tea, but he was a little worried, "I'm afraid that it won't be too long for our Lianshan to be peaceful!"

"Fugui'er, let's go back and rest first!"

Jia Fugui saw the worry in his father's heart, answered, exchanged a few words with Jiao Yang'er, and got up to leave.

"Yang'er, do you want to hide in the mountains with Fugui'er!"

"Why!" Jiao Yang'er was puzzled.

"The people outside are all thieves, bandits, and their hearts and eyes are vicious!"

"Dad, then we shouldn't hide! If there is really a disaster, we will also break in, we have to bear it, and we can't harm the township. Jiao Yang'er made up her mind.

"The sheep is bigger!" the old man walked to the back room, and the figure of the twilight was scattered in the dim oil lamp.

The next day, at the beginning of the morning, a rush of footsteps woke up the sleeping old man, who was trembling and peeking out through the crack in the door, a round belly, and his clothes were about to break.

"Rejoice, open the door!"

The old man who heard this call breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped his withered hands on his buttocks, leaving two palm prints. opened the door, smiled, and said, "Who should we be, it turned out to be a meat father!"

"Daddy, uncle, meat!" Jiao Yang'er, who got up to pee, looked at the group of people standing at the door, sleepy-eyed, and said, "What are you doing!"

Jia Fugui, who had a blue nose and swollen face, found a savior, ran to Jiao Yang'er, and said aggrievedly: "Yang'er, we originally planned to call you to run away." Then, I was bumped into by our father. Our dad said that running away was a bastard's idea, and Lianshan had never produced a bad seed. And that's it!"

Jia Huanyu looked at Jiao Huanxi and said sarcastically: "Huanxi, are you planning to let them hide in the mountains!"

Jiao Huanxi didn't say anything, lowered his head and lowered his eyes, which was regarded as a default. Jia Huanyu angrily pointed at Jiao Huanxi's face, was about to go crazy, and seemed to remember something, put down his arm, sighed, softened a lot, and said: "Huanxi, I can hide from today, but I can't hide from Ming'er!"

Jiao Huanxi didn't say anything, just nodded!

Jia Huanyu turned around and yelled impassionedly at everyone outside the door: "Guys, there are a group of thieves who are worried about the blacksmith shop of the Huanxi family, and the matter of the guys in our hands, can we give it?"

"No, no, no!"

"If you can't give it, just do it!"

"Dry, dry, dry!" the tools clanked.

"Okay! From now on, Lianshan will be put on wartime alert, patrolling day and night. As soon as the bell rings, assemble all!"

After a period of greetings, the patrol of the patrol went, and the work of the work went.

Under the big tree not far from the blacksmith shop, Jia Huanyu was lying on a bamboo chair, Jiao Huanxi was leaning on the trunk, and the two had nothing to say!

Rejoice in the blacksmith's shop,

Ding Ding Dong even the mountains are rich.

terraced fields,

Rice is ripe,

Sheep are the blessing of our mountains!

A group of dolls shouted. Jia Huanyu looked at Jiao Huanxi, looked at the rusty iron bell hanging on the treetops, and then looked up at the sky, and whispered softly as if regretfully, "Brother, this iron bell has been quiet for eighteen years!"

Jiao Huanxi jaws are silent!

"Twenty years ago, what our father did was not authentic. Let's be fair, if you are conscripted into the army, most of them will go and never return, he shouldn't let you replace me!"

Jiao Huanxi was silent!

"Eighteen years ago, you came back with sheep, with the news of the emergency. You think that you have broken your appearance, and if you follow the surname of your eldest mother, no one will be able to recognize you in the mountains! Stuff a note in the crack of the door of the house, and you are the one who reveals the news. I can't recognize those crooked words?"

Jiao Huanxi was indifferent!

"Brother, what have you experienced in those two years!" Jia Huanyu couldn't stop wondering in her heart.

Jiao Huanxi buried his head and walked to the blacksmith shop, and it seemed that he was the only one under the big tree. Jia Huanyu looked at the distant back, shook his head helplessly, and sighed to himself, "It's been eighteen years, I'm so tired of pretending!"

A few days later, on the mountain road to Lianshan, the down-and-out scholar was sitting on a big stone in the shade of a tree on the side of the road, holding the remaining half of the lotus leaf rice ball, sticking it to his mouth one by one. Sometimes I close my eyes and shake my head, and the aftertaste is endless. Sometimes I want to cry without tears, and I can't stop talking to myself.

"Meng Tiance, Meng Tiance, you really plunged headlong into this lotus leaf rice ball and couldn't get out?"

Suddenly, a pair of black clay hands put on Meng Tiance's shoulders, and Meng Tiance jumped several feet away. After landing on the ground, Meng Tiance stared in horror at a black mud face exposed behind the big rock, and screamed, "Who are you?"

With a black mud face, the two blinking eyes stared at the small half of the lotus leaf rice ball held tightly in Meng Tiance's hand, swallowed his saliva, and said embarrassedly: "Sir,......"

A grunt sounded!

Meng Tiance slapped his palm forward, stopping the black mud face from continuing to speak. Then he took a big bite, and the remaining lotus leaf rice balls went down to his stomach, and he jumped for a while before he was relieved. Turning his face, he changed his serious appearance, bowed his hand, and said, "Girl, what happened, can you help you in the future?"

The black mud face was speechless and embarrassed for a while. The lotus leaf rice balls that I had the courage to ask for had been swallowed by this shameless person. The black mud face lowered his head, tugging at the corners of his clothes and torturing him, eager to press this shameless man to the ground and stomp him to death.

Meng Tiance took a closer look at the appearance of the black mud face, goose egg face, peach blossom eyes, cherry mouth, extremely exquisite. Meng Tiance's mind came alive, and it was also wonderful to ask this girl to be a personal maid for the shopkeeper!

The black mud face peeked at Meng Tiance, who was full of evil smiles, and sighed in his heart, and he was unladylike when he met someone. I haven't thought of a way to deal with it, but my stomach is screaming angrily.

"Girl, you're hungry!" Meng Tiance snickered. Looking up, he pointed to the mountain not far away, and said, "Girl, over that hill is our shopkeeper's house." Our shopkeeper has a good heart, and he will reward you with some food if he sees the poor suffering. The girl has nowhere to go, and it is not impossible to get a job for the girl. Girl, you want to go back with us!"

The black mud face looked at the direction pointed by the shameless man, which was where his trip was, so he made a plan and allowed to go on the road.

The black mud face who was about to go on the road was stopped by Meng Tiance. Meng Tiance pointed to the pool of water not far away and said, "Wash it and go on the road." Our shopkeeper, I can't see this look!"

The playful black clay face, seeing Meng Tiance's bad intentions, touched his waist, calmed down, and obediently freshened up.

Looking at the delicate appearance of the black mud face after grooming, Meng Tiance was stunned, and some were reluctant to give it to the shopkeeper. After hesitating for a while, Meng Tiance finally made a decision, muttering, "Eating is important, or is it important to eat." ”

Meng Tiance buried his head on the road, and the black mud face followed his side. After a short period of silence, the black mud face suddenly felt bored and opened the conversation.

"Sir, my name is Feng Nian, what is your name?"

"Meng Tiance!"

"Sir, where is the shopkeeper?"

"Lianshan!"

"Sir, isn't that the poorest place in the world!"

"It should be the richest place now!"

"Really, sir?"

"Really! Eighteen changes in the female university, eighteen years in the mountains!"