"Huaxi comes out of Huajia Village, and then flows into the mountain from our village, I don't know where to go out of the mountain again, and what is the name of it over there." Lan Yi hugged Wen Xuan and sat in the carriage, the curtain was opened, and she chatted with Zhou Weiji, who was driving the car.

Zhou Weiji smiled, "After the Huaxi flows into the mountain, it bypasses a few mountains and joins the river in the north, and then goes east, and when it comes out of the mountain, it should no longer be in Huang County, and I haven't been there." ”

"Dad hasn't been there, and Xuan'er hasn't been either." Wen Xuan snapped his fingers and counted them one by one, "My mother hasn't been there, my brother hasn't been there, and my grandmother hasn't been there, so let's go and have a look?" ”

The last time the family went into the mountains to pick red fruits, they fell in love with this kind of group outing, especially Yu'er and Wenxuan, and from time to time it was like looking for an opportunity for their father and mother to take them into the mountains again.

This is a good proposal, Lan Yi nodded, "Okay, but you have to wait until you can climb the mountain by yourself without being held by your father." ”

Wen Xuan puffed up his little bun face, "Xuan'er can run faster than her mother and grandma now." ”

"Really? Then let's go together next spring when the spring flowers bloom, walk along the flower stream, and see where we can go. Lan Yi pinched his little fleshy face.

Wen Xuan grinned, "Dad, let's go down Huaxi together, okay?" ”

Zhou Weiji nodded in response, the mountain road over there was not easy to walk, but their purpose was not to go anywhere, just to go into the mountain to see.

"The fruit tree you said last time you could find along Huaxi, the third brother and they went in three times to pick it, it seems that it is not small. Can we get there? Lan Yi asked curiously.

"The road is not easy to walk, and the waterway is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow. Nor can they sail. "Zhou Weiji pulled the reins and asked the sunspot to pull over and miss an ox cart." With our family's footsteps, I'm afraid it will take two days to go. ”

"Third brother, it's really not easy." Lan Yi said with emotion that after Zhou Suyi's accident, Zhao Lizheng convened a meeting of the people in the village, talking about the danger of going into the mountains to pick wild fruits, and asked everyone not to compete with others for a while, and try to go in groups of more than five or six people. And don't go too deep into the mountains.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the mountains near Beigou Village have been turned over by everyone, so the number of people entering the mountains has decreased significantly in the past two days. The number of people gathered in the village to chat and kick the bow gradually increased.

Lan Yi looked at Zhou Weiji's back, thought of his flexible posture of kicking the juju, and decided to make a few more balls this year and let him take his two children to play. She went to cheer them on.

"Head south at the junction ahead. We'll be there later. Lan Yi saw that Huajia Village was already ahead, and pointed to the fork in the road in front of the village.

Zhou Weiji parked the carriage in front of the cemetery, Lan Yi jumped out of the carriage, and saw a large pile of paper ashes that had been burned in front of her grandmother's grave, and knew that the people of the Hua family had come.

"Come, Xuan'er, come and kowtow to the old lady and burn paper." Lan Yi put away the paper money and called Wen Xuan to come forward and pay tribute according to the rules. After the memorial service. Zhou Weiji picked Wen Xuan into the carriage and stretched out his hand to help Lan Yi into the carriage. "Let's go."

Lan Yi nodded, glanced at the direction of Huajia Village, and saw two figures appear at the entrance of the village, waving to him and walking quickly.

"Wei Ji, and wait, it is Hua Changye and Hua Changhe." Lan Yi looked at the two of them who were getting closer and closer, "They went to sea with the merchant ships heading south this spring, and they don't know when they will come back." ”

Rushing to the side of the carriage, Hua Changye and Hua Changhe put down the heavy sack in their hands and gasped a little. Hua Changye smiled, "I knew you were coming over today, I asked Chang He to wait at the edge of the village, and I finally caught up." ”

The four of them stood in the carriage, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. After breaking off their relatives, they no longer moved, and Lan Yi has now remarried someone else, and she doesn't know what to call these two brothers.

Zhou Weiji broke the deadlock, "I heard that you went to the South Seas with the merchant ships, when did you come back?" ”

"Early October." Hua Changye hurriedly accosted, he stepped forward and touched Wen Xuan's head, "I haven't seen you for a year, Xuan'er has grown a lot taller." ”

Wen Xuan had just been taught by his mother, so he raised his little head and shouted sweetly, "Uncle, uncle." ”

The two hurriedly responded, and the atmosphere eased a lot. Lan Yi looked at the two brothers, it should be very hard to go to sea, Hua Changye has lost a lot of weight compared to before leaving, and the person is also tanned, "Cousin, going to sea is going well, right?" ”

The merchant ships that went to the South Seas were mostly merchants of the southern Guangzhou generation, the dialect accent was difficult to distinguish, and it was very difficult for them to communicate with people when they first arrived, but fortunately, they had many years of experience in sailing, and they worked as shipwrights on sea ships, and after arriving at the destination, they exchanged the materials they brought for local specialties and then brought them back to the Great Zhou for sale, which was bitter and bitter. When the three of them went out this year, they were determined to make a last-ditch fight, ready to endure hardships, and pointed to going to sea this year to turn over, so that their families could live a peaceful life again.

This is these, it is not suitable to talk about it at this time, Hua Changye replied, "Tossing back and forth a few times, and finally came back smoothly." ”

Lan Yi smiled, "It's better to come back safely than anything else." ”

Looking at her warm smile, Hua Changye's heart softened. The two books sent by Lan Yi have accompanied him through countless boring times, and this smile has also reminded him countless times, and this is what it feels like to be at home.

"These two bags are a kind of grain in Nanyang, called sweet potatoes, I heard that they were just planted over there, and I didn't taste bad when I ate them, so I brought some back." After saying that, Hua Changye and Hua Changhe lifted the sack and put it on the carriage. Hua Changhe explained embarrassedly, "It's too far to take anything else, this thing is quite rare, Brother Tuesday...... Second sister-in-law, you take it back and cook it for the children. ”

Lan Yi's eyes lit up when she heard the word "sweet potato", and she couldn't wait to open the bag now and take a look, showing a happy smile, "Thank you cousin, thank you Changhe." ”

Hua Changye and Hua Changhe saw that she really liked her, and they felt comfortable in their hearts, and they didn't want to get it all the way back.

This stupid girl, everyone calls her second sister-in-law, and she still opens her mouth to call her cousin, which is really messy. Zhou Weiji looked at her happy smile, and then looked at the smirking brothers opposite, feeling uncomfortable, "Chang Ye, will you still go to sea after the year?" ”

"My third uncle and I plan to make two more trips to earn enough money for the boat. Thanks to Tuesday's sister-in-law's suggestion, we didn't go to Dongying, and several merchant ships out of Dongying were folded in the sea and didn't come back. "Hua Changye was a little scared when he said it, before going to sea, they planned to follow the Cheng family's merchant ship to go to sea via Goguryeo to Dongying, but it was Lan Yi who told Hua Changye that it was less risky to go to Nanyang, and a few people discussed that there were few people who wanted to go there, maybe it was an opportunity to run away.

Zhou Weiji responded, "Well, it is safer to buy a ship to transport goods between states and counties, and this year's waterways are quite stable." If you have any problems, you can come to the yamen to find me. ”

Hua Changye nodded in surprise, Zhou Weiji has always been cold-faced, in his opinion, it is extremely difficult to deal with, I didn't expect him to take the initiative to say this. Looking at Lan Yi next to him, Hua Changye thought to himself that the only one who could make him do this was this gentle and petite woman. (To be continued.) )