Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 221 Chapter 223
Lin Lan grabbed a handful of fruit candies from her bag and distributed two to each of them. The children happily peeled off the wrappers and stuffed them into their mouths.

A member who knew Lin Guoliang looked at Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang curiously, and greeted with a smile: "Why did Guoliang leave and come again? Did you bring something to your aunt again?"

Lin Guoliang smiled and said: "Take my sister and brother-in-law to see, and identify the family."

The child who ate Linlan Tang ran down to Qiaohui's house, shouting loudly: "Aunt Wu, your family has 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 and said, "Big cousin, I'll take my sister and brother-in-law to see my aunt."

An old woman came up to meet her out of breath, looked at Lin Lan hesitantly and said, "Eh? You are...Xiao Lan!"

Lin Lan looked at an old woman with gray hair who looked like 70 to [-] years old, and thought she should be Wu Shufang. Just as she was about to greet her, Lin Guoliang said to her:
"Xiaolan, Xiangyang, this is my aunt! This is my cousin Shitou."

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang laughed and shouted: "Auntie! Big cousin."

Li Xiangyang took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhou Shitou, Zhou Shitou took it with both hands: "Hi cousin, cousin husband! Please, please go and sit at home." Then 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 held Lin Lan's hand with callused hands, her eyes were red: "Xiao Lan, my aunt met you when you were ten years old, it has been so many years."

"Last time when your mother said that your life was better, my aunt was also happy for you. Qiaohui went to your place and caused you trouble. If you don't obey me, you can be beaten or scolded. Auntie doesn't feel bad."

Lin Lan smiled: "No trouble, Qiaohui is sensible just looking at it."

Wu Shufang took out the handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said gratefully: "I know, your mother loves me, and you want to help my aunt. All these years, you have relied on your family and my aunt's family to help. The life of my aunt's house is not so good. Difficult, your two cousins ​​have also become a family."

When we arrived at Zhou's house while talking, Zhou Dashi stood at the gate of the courtyard with a smile on his face. He was hunched over, his hair was gray, his thin and sallow face was covered with wrinkles, and he rubbed his hands with exposed veins: "Guoliang, hurry up and Your brother-in-law comes in and sits down."

Wu Shufang led Lin Lan into the yard, followed by relatives watching the excitement.

The house of the Zhou family is also built of stones. The house still has a layout of three rooms and two turns. There is also a yard that is not too big. The slope is full of vegetables and radishes.

The depth of the main room is very low, the ground in the room has been tamped, and it is fairly flat. The main room is lit, and under the dim light, there is nothing in the room except an old square table and a few benches.

The three children ran in from the outside, stood at the door and called uncle, then stood aside and looked at Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang cautiously.

Lin Lan saw that the older boy was eleven or twelve years old, and had fewer patches on his clothes and pants. The younger grandson was about nine years old, and he was wearing old clothes and pants that were too big to wear. The patches were heavily patched. Until one point.

The youngest granddaughter is five or six years old, and the clothes she is wearing are also the same, and the original color can hardly be seen. The good thing is that although the clothes of the three brothers and sisters have been mended, they are also washed clean.

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

Wu Shufang pointed to Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang and said to the children, "Call me aunt, uncle."

"Call Aunt Biao, Uncle Biao." The three children blushed and shouted.

"Be good!" Lin Lan grabbed a handful of fruit candies from her bag and handed them to the three brothers and sisters. When she saw a few relatives' children, she looked at the children eagerly with her fingers in her mouth, and gave them to the other children.

"Oh oh oh! We have candy." The children took the candy and ran away cheering.

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

Wu Shufang said embarrassingly: "Xiaolan, Xiangyang, this is the local tea I picked in the mountains."

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang felt that they were too polite, and they were embarrassed: "Auntie, you are out of sight. The tea in the mountains is delicious."

The two of them picked up the tea bowl as they spoke, the tea in the bowl was very clear, with a bitter aftertaste and a clear and sweet aftertaste.

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

"Hmm! There are two springs on the mountain. In the past, people used stones to build pools around the springs, and used bamboo tubes to channel the water down through the bamboo joints. Dozens of families in Shishanling rely on these two springs for their daily food." Zhou Dashi said with a smile, "I'm used to drinking the water here, but 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 drank elsewhere."

Lin Lan drank it and felt that the water quality was a little better than that of the Nongshan spring. It was better at 01:30.

Wu Shufang went to the kitchen to ask the eldest daughter-in-law to kill the chicken, and asked Zhou Dashan to buy a hare from someone who knew how to hunt in the team. When the pheasant came back, she asked the eldest Zhou Shitou to get charcoal to light for Lin Lan and the others.She went in and scooped chestnuts out of the box and roasted them for them.

Zhou Shitou carried the clip back that Lin Guoliang gave him into the room: "Mother, my cousin said that these were bought by my cousin and her husband."

"What a shame! I bring so many things every time." Wu Shufang handed him chestnuts, "Cut a hole with a knife, and roast them for my cousin."

Zhou Shitou nodded, took the chestnut and went to the main room.

Wu Shufang took out the things in the folder and put them on the bed; salt, brown sugar, cloth, medicine, and rice noodles. When she looked at these things, she was moved to tears.

It seems that Qiaohui told her cousin that they were short of salt, how much did Xiao Lan spend in buying so much salt?There are also these white flour, ingredients and medicine, not to mention that they have no money, even if they have money in this mountain Kaka, they can't buy them!

Lin Lan, Li Xiangyang, Lin Guoliang and Zhou Shitou sat around an earthen pottery basin in the main room and ate roasted chestnuts.

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

"Thank you!"

Before Lin Lan picked up a chestnut and peeled it, Li Xiangyang put the peeled chestnut in her hand: "Try it, I think the chestnuts in the mountains are sweeter than those outside."

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

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

Lin Lan nodded and asked, "Big cousin, what kind of mountain products are there in the mountains? Are there many varieties?"

(End of this chapter)