Chapter 7: Liu Shi

Happy times always fly by, and the shyness of embracing spring is coming, and the warm summer is quietly coming.

Longbei Village is surrounded by mountains and rarely cultivates land, so the villagers plant some coarse grains and vegetables in a small area of land on the slope of the mountain or beath away, Zhaoyu's land is only about two acres, and the land is hard rocks underneath, so Zhaowenwu led Zhaoyu to plant some beans and peanuts.

The farm work is done in a few days, Zhao Wenwu began to lead everyone to go to the mountain, the team of ten people in the mountain are the strong laborers of each family, this year's second Zhuang has reached the age of fifteen, Gu Yongquan also plans to take him into the mountain to experience, but his main task is not to put the mountain to find a mallet, but to take care of Liu Shi, Liu Shi is Xiaoshuang's father, originally a clever person, the year before last followed Zhao Wenwu and Gu Yongquan to go to the mountain to dig ginseng when he broke his head, injured his head, the most important thing is to be frightened by the big snake in the mountain, From there, he became a little stupid and stupid, and it could have been cured, but since Liu Shi went down the mountain, Mrs. Liu and his wife saw that their son had become like this, so they began to trouble the Zhao family every day, looking for evil fire every day to beat and scold Gu Jing and Xiaoshuang, Liu Shi was frightened from time to time in his illness, and the disease became more and more serious, fortunately, Zhao Wenwu and Gu Yongquan valued brotherhood the most, no matter how noisy the old couple of the Liu family were, they were always helping the Liu family, and took out the money from the family to buy medicine outside the mountain to treat Liu Shi.

"This year, you should take away the eldest brother of the Liu family, so that Sister Gu and Xiaoshuang will have a better life, and you have a lot of herbs on the mountain, I will teach you what to collect, and boil it for him at that time, and everyone will take care of him together, maybe the condition will take a turn for the better." This is Liu Shiyue's idea, she really wants to help this family of four get out of the control of the old couple of the Liu family, but there is no good way.

Zhao Wenwu has always been obedient to his wife, and Liu Shi fell off the cliff that day, although he had nothing to do with everyone, it was his own greed to pick the piece of Ganoderma lucidum to make up for his daughter-in-law's body, who would have thought that Lingzhi was guarded by a snake, which caused him to be frightened and fell down the mountain, and his head was broken is a traumatic injury, but he was really frightened, but fortunately, Zhao Wenwu and everyone were strong and strong, and the rescue was timely, and it took a lot of trouble to save Liu Shi back, and his life was back, but his soul was left in the mountain, Zhao Wenwu and others were very guilty in their hearts, That's why Liu Shi will never give up.

This year, Zhao Wenwu wants to take Liu Shi into the mountain, naturally to discuss with everyone, a total of dozens of households in Longbei Village, all the income of the year is to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, especially Zhao Wenwu digging ginseng team harvest a lot every year, in the autumn, he led everyone to go to the mountain to sell ginseng for money and then buy the things needed by the old and young and transport them back to the mountain, that is the happiest few days of the year in the whole village, more lively than the New Year.

The people in the village are all related relatives, ten families are rich, the whole village is stained, and there are a few families to see Zhao Wenwu's team put the mountain to make money, or a single person, or a husband and wife to put the mountain themselves, this is also called a single stick in the industry, every time they meet on the mountain, Zhao Wenwu is not stingy to teach all the skills of digging ginseng, in this way, Longbei Village gradually became rich, even Zhao Er, a businessman from outside the mountain, took a fancy to this place, not only opened a grocery store in Longbei Village, but also married a girl from this village, and settled in Longbei Village.

The meeting was held in the backyard of the Zhao family, and five of the ten people were not very willing, they did not care about the past, but when the mountains were released, everyone was scattered in all directions, deep in the mountains and old forests, and wild beasts often haunted, which must be separated from one person to take care of Liu Shi at all times, which is tantamount to a burden for everyone.

"Boss, we can give Brother Liu some silver taels, why do you have to take him into the mountain? There are many beasts in the mountains, so what if you really encounter danger again? You don't know about the Liu family, if something happens again this time, I'm afraid she will be able to eat us all alive. Fan Zhaohu smoked a dry cigarette and said his thoughts, and several people echoed it.

"Brother Zhaohu, I know this, but you have also seen it, since Brother Liu was injured and went down the mountain, the original not very serious condition is now getting worse and worse, especially the environment of his family, you can also see it, I want to take him away this year, let Erzhuang help take care of it, it will not affect everyone, and everyone can rest assured, Brother Liu's share of the money is from me and Yongquan, and the decision is that I should naturally bear it, and it will not be a burden to everyone, I am thinking, maybe Brother Liu can get better after entering the mountain, This is also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, let's do our part, if this year is still not good, we are also down-to-earth, and then think of other ways in the future, so hard, the three of them are not happy. After Zhao Wenwu finished speaking, he also smoked a dry cigarette.

"Since the head has been said, let's do this, in case Brother Liu enters the mountain, it's really good, let's have one more helper next year, and we can be regarded as doing our best for his family, it's really too difficult to look at this family of four."

"Well, okay, then do as you say." After Fan Zhaohu agreed, the few hesitants no longer dwelled on this matter, and then everyone began to plan what to bring this year, after all, they had to stay in the mountain for half a year, and there were still a lot of things to prepare.

"Daddy, I'm going too!"

When the family was having dinner in the evening, Zhaoyu begged Zhao Wenwu again.

"It's inconvenient for girls to go into the mountains, and besides, your mother's health is not good, stay at home and take good care of your mother." Zhao Wang resolutely disagreed.

"My mother has my grandmother as a companion, and the aunt of the Wang family, I don't need me, I have to go up the mountain, there are birds and sparrows on the mountain, I can practice my slingshot, and my grandfather said, the second aunt was with my grandfather to put the mountain together, and the second aunt's eyesight is much better than my father, my aunt can, why can't I? Grandmother eccentricity. Zhaoyu whispered.

"Yu'er, be good, you enter the mountain, your mother will have no one to take care of you, the mountain is not as good as home, there is no food for your mother to cook for you, you will become thin in a few days, and then you will be ugly and not beautiful."

"Okay!" Zhaoyu saw that everyone agreed on the same opinion, and knew that no matter how much he grinded, he couldn't change the result, so he reluctantly pulled the food in the bowl, but he made up his mind in his heart.

"Zhaoyu, do you really want to go into the mountain?" Xiaoshuang sat under the tree, there was a smoothed stone under the tree, and the stone was next to the stream, the water in the mountain was cool, and it could be drunk directly, the two of them took off their shoes and put their feet in the stream, the stream was brisk and there were many small fish, and Zhaoyu was engrossed in catching fish in the stream.

"Go, I'll bring you good things when I come back, don't miss me!"

"I really envy you, I don't know when I can follow my father to release the mountain, there must be many strange flowers and plants in the mountain, it must be a very wonderful world." Xiaoshuang's eyes were closed, and she looked up and imagined the world that was within reach but could not enter.

"What is in the mountains? Another day, let my mother tell you about the world beyond the mountain, where there are all kinds of people, and there are all kinds of strange things that we have never seen before. ”

"It's so good, I don't know if I will go out of this Longbei Village one day in my life to take a look outside." Xiaoshuang still muttered to herself with her eyes closed.

"Naturally, when I learn the skills, I'll take you out, you just have to wait." After Zhaoyu finished speaking, he suddenly threw his hands into the water.

"Look, look, Xiaoshuang, I caught a big fish!"