Lin Lan grabbed a handful of fruit candy from her bag, and each person gave two of them, and the children happily peeled off the candy paper and stuffed it into their mouths.

Some members who knew Lin Guoliang looked at Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang curiously, and greeted with a smile: "Why did Guoliang leave and come again?" Bringing something to your aunt again? ”

Lin Guoliang said with a smile: "Take my sister and brother-in-law to take a look and recognize the door." ”

The child who ate Lin Lantang ran towards Qiaohui's house below, shouting loudly: "Aunt Wu, your family has come to relatives." ”

A tall and thin middle-aged man from Wu Shufang's house came out of the house, and saw Lin Guoliang walking up happily: "Guoliang, why are you here again." ”

Lin Guoliang smiled: "Big cousin, I'll take my sister and brother-in-law to see my aunt." ”

An old woman also came up panting, looked at Lin Lan and said hesitantly, "Huh? Yes...... Xiaolan! ”

Lin Lan looked at an old woman with gray hair like a sixty or seventy-year-old woman, and felt that she should be Wu Shufang, and just wanted to say hello, Lin Guoliang said to her:

"Xiaolan, Xiangyang, this is Auntie! This is the big cousin stone. ”

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang shouted with a smile: "Auntie! Big cousin. ”

Li Xiangyang took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhou Shishi, Zhou Shishi took it with both hands: "Good cousin, good cousin-in-law!" Please、Please go and sit at home。 As he spoke, he took the reins of the mule led by Li Xiangyang and warmly invited the three of them home.

The three men walked in front, Wu Shufang's calloused hand grabbed Lin Lan's hand, and her eyes were red: "Xiaolan, my aunt has seen you when you were a teenager, and it has been so many years." ”

"Your mother said last time you were doing better, and your aunt was happy for you. Qiaohui went to you to make trouble for you, if you are disobedient, you will be beaten and scolded, and your aunt is not distressed. ”

Lin Lan smiled: "It's not troublesome, Qiaohui looks at it and is sensible." ”

Wu Shufang said and took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said gratefully: "I know, your mother feels sorry for me, you want to help your aunt, all these years have relied on your family and your aunt's family to help, and the life of your aunt's family is not so difficult, and your two cousins have also become a family." ”

When he arrived at Zhou's house while speaking, Zhou Dashi stood at the gate of the courtyard with a smile on his face, only to see that his back was hunched, his hair was gray, his thin and sallow face was wrinkled, and he rubbed his hands with exposed green tendons: "Guoliang, go into the house and sit with your brother-in-law." ”

Wu Shufang took Lin Lan into the courtyard, followed by relatives watching the excitement.

The Zhou family's house is also made of stone, the house is still a three-room two-end layout, and there is a small yard with green vegetables and radishes planted under the slope.

The depth of the hall was very low, the floor in the house was compacted, and it was quite flat, and the hall was lit with lights, and in the dim light, I saw that there was nothing in the room except for an old square table, and a few benches.

The three children ran in from outside, stood at the door and shouted Uncle Cousin, and stood aside and looked at Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang stiffly.

Lin Lan saw that the eldest boy was eleven or twelve years old, and he had fewer patches on his clothes, and the younger grandson was about nine years old, and he was probably wearing old clothes and pants that he couldn't wear.

The youngest granddaughter is five or six years old, and the clothes and pants she wears are the same, and the original color can hardly be seen.

Lin Lan didn't expect Wu Shufang's family to be so difficult, so she thought about handing over the matter of receiving the goods here to Wu Shufang's family, so that they could help collect pumpkins and beans like Li Guizhi and send them to Shilian to the Lin family, so that they could also make some money and subsidize the family.

Wu Shufang pointed to Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang and said to a few children: "Call cousin, cousin-in-law." ”

"Call my cousin, my cousin." The three children shouted with red faces.

"Good!" Lin Lan grabbed a handful of fruit candy from the bag and handed it to the three brothers and sisters, saw a few children from relatives, looked at a few children with fingers in his eyes, and gave a few more.

"Oooh! We've got sugar. The children took the candy and ran away cheering.

The eldest cousin-in-law, Xu Hongju, came out of a room with a large black clay pot in one hand and a few clay bowls in the other: "Cousin, cousin-in-law, cousin drink tea." ”

Wu Shufang said badly: "Xiaolan, Xiangyang, this is the soil tea picked by myself in the mountains." ”

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang felt that they were too polite, and they were embarrassed: "Auntie, you have seen outside, the tea in the mountains is delicious." ”

The two of them said and picked up the tea bowl, the tea in the bowl was very clear, and it was a little bitter and sweet in the mouth.

Li Xiangyang said with a smile: "Auntie's tea is brewed with mountain spring water!" ”

"Hmmm! There are two springs on the mountain, the people used stones to build pools around the springs, opened the bamboo joints and used the bamboo tubes to lead the water down, dozens of families in the stone mountain ridge, usually rely on these two springs for food. Zhou Dashi said with a smile, "I'm used to eating our water, and wherever I go, I feel that the water in other places is not as good as ours." ”

Li Xiangyang nodded in agreement: "This water is indeed better than the mountain spring water I have drunk elsewhere." ”

Lin Lan drank it and felt that the water quality was a little more suspenseful than that agricultural spring, and it was not a little better.

Wu Shufang went to the stove room to let the eldest daughter-in-law kill the chicken, and asked Zhou Dashan to go to the team to buy a hare who can hunt, and when the pheasant came back, he asked the eldest Zhou Shi to take charcoal and light it for Lin Lan and them. She went into the house and scooped chestnuts from the frame and roasted them to eat.

Zhou Shishi carried the jacket back that Lin Guoliang gave him into the room: "Mother, my cousin said that these were bought by my cousin and cousin-in-law." ”

"What's embarrassing! Take so many things every time. Wu Shufang handed him the chestnut, "Take a knife and cut it, and roast it for my cousin to eat." ”

Zhou Shishi nodded, took the chestnut and went to the hall.

Wu Shufang took out the contents of her back and put them on the bed; Salt, brown sugar, cloth, medicine, and rice and noodles, she looked at these things, and tears of emotion flowed out.

It seems that Qiaohui told her cousin that they were short of salt, Xiaolan bought so much salt, I don't know how much it cost? There are also these white noodles, ingredients and medicines, not to mention that they have no money, and they can't buy them with money in this Shankaka!

Lin Lan, Li Xiangyang, Lin Guoliang and Zhou Shishi roasted chestnuts in a clay pot in the hall to eat.

Zhou Shishi pulled the hot chestnuts out of the fire and put them in front of Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang: "Cousin, cousin-in-law, eat chestnuts." ”

"Thank you!"

Lin Lan picked up a chestnut and before she peeled it, Li Xiangyang put the peeled chestnut in her hand: "Taste it, I think the chestnuts in the mountains are sweeter and glutinous than the ones outside." ”

Lin Guoliang smiled and nodded: "The chestnuts here are indeed sweeter and glutinous than our outside." ”

Zhou Shi said with a smile: "The captain said that Shishanling is colder than the outside, and the chestnuts and fruits have a longer ripening period, and the taste is better than the outside." ”

Lin Lan nodded and asked, "Big cousin, what are the mountain goods in the mountains, and are there many varieties?" ”

(End of chapter)