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

Chapter 227 229

The members who came to sell goods in the afternoon were gone. Everyone sat around the brazier and sorted the dried mushrooms into different categories, such as Sagittarius mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, morel mushrooms...

The three children of the Zhou family also came to help. Lin Lan saw that a few children could tell which ones were Sagittarius mushrooms and which ones were boletus, and said with a smile, "I'm not as good as a few children."

Xu Hongju said: "Cousin, when the children in the mountains can walk, they are taken up by the older children to pick up fungi. They know where there are fungus, and they go there early every year to pick up fungi."

Lin Lan said to Wu Shufang: "Auntie, with so many things, I have to borrow a dozen big sacks and hire a few mules to pull them out. We have two mules, please help us."

Wu Shufang smiled and said: "What's the trouble, only the sack brigade has it. I'll let your uncle go right away."

Her family collected more than 1000 catties of old pumpkins this time, and when the boss sends them out, they will earn dozens of yuan. If they make an extra trip before the closure of the mountain, they can pay back Xiaolan's money. With the capital, next year I can pay back the money owed to the brigade...

After a while, several families with mules called by Zhou Dashan came. They negotiated wages with Lin Lan and made an appointment to leave for Shilian early tomorrow morning.

Before dark, Zhou Xiangui came to Zhou Dashan's house and asked Lin Lan about the distribution of land to households.

Lin Lan told him all the policies that the working group said that day, as long as they were written down.

Zhou Dashan looked at Zhou Xiangui: "Uncle, when will Shishanling be divided into households?" After the households are divided, they can find mountain land to open up wasteland and grow what they want.

"Alas!" Zhou Xiangui sighed after hearing this: "When the members of the Lexing brigade pay the public rations next year, if the situation is good, the surrounding brigades will start to divide the fields and households. It may take two years for our turn."

Wu Shufang said: "I have survived for so many years, two years is two years."

"That's right! At least there is something to look forward to, right?" Zhou Xiangui said to Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang, "The people in the deep mountains are miserable! Young people don't even want wives. There are girls in the family who would rather marry a disabled person outside than I would like to marry in the mountains. You have flexible minds, help us to find a way out in the future!"

His family can be regarded as a well-off family in Shishanling, and the grandsons are not easy to find wives.

Lin Lan knew that in another 30 to 80 years, the deep mountains would be the most backward place. Looking at Zhou Xiangui, who was only in her [-]s, but looked like Zhou Xiangui, who was [-] or [-] years old, she nodded cheerfully: "Grandpa Zhou, don't worry, we will pay attention."

Zhou Xiangui smiled and said: "I'm sorry to bother you, I'll leave first as you are busy."

"Uncle, I'll see you off." Zhou Dashan sent him to the slope.

After dinner, Lin Lan and the others put some of the selected mountain products into sacks, and they packed more than ten sacks in total.

Early the next morning, Wu Shufang and Xu Hongju got up to boil eggs and fried pancakes for them to eat on the way.

After dinner, Li Xiangyang and Lin Guoliang carried the sack out of the main room and put it on the eaves of the steps, and then three men drove the mules. They tied the sack with ropes, hung it on the rack, and were ready to go.

Wu Shufang also took out the air-dried hare and pheasant that she bought at some time, put them in bamboo baskets, and asked Lin Lan to take them back for Lao Li to taste.

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang had no choice but to accept it.

Wu Shufang and her grandson led Lin Lan and Zhou Shitou to the slope and said to Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang, "Be careful on the road, and come to my aunt's house to play when you have time."

Li Xiangyang nodded cheerfully: "Okay, next year you and your uncle will come to Dongshi for a wedding."

"Okay, we'll definitely go." Wu Shufang and her husband also agreed with a smile.

Lin Lan bid farewell to Wu Shufang and the others, and everyone walked towards the foot of the mountain together.

As soon as I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I saw Aunt Zhou Zhou Qiaoyan, who was carrying a small clip on her back, standing at the foot of the mountain by the trail going up the mountain and looking at them with a smile.

As soon as Zhou Qiaoyan saw Li Xiangyang, her eyes fell on him.

Li Xiangyang gave her a cold look, took Lin Lan's hand and walked forward.

"Cousin Shitou, cousin Shitou," Auntie Zhou chased up to Lin Lan and smiled obsequiously, "Please take my Qiaoyan to Dongshi for a while! When you arrive in Dongshi, don't worry about her. My natal family has a distant relative in Dongshi." City, when she arrives, she will go to my natal relatives."

Lin Lan looked at her: "Where your daughter is going is her business, it has nothing to do with me."

She felt that she might be too ignorant, anyway, in two lifetimes, this was the first time she had seen someone who could talk to herself like this.

Zhou Shitou caught up and looked at her with a frown: "Aunt San, why have I never heard Uncle Three mention that your natal family has relatives in Dongshi?" come out.

"There are relatives in Dongshi, you can fool yourself!" The three men looked at the mother and daughter with contempt and mocked.

Aunt Wednesday ignored their cynicism and looked at Zhou Shitou: "Yes, you can reassure your cousin that Qiaoyan will leave her alone!"

Lin Guoliang yelled in front: "Brother Shitou, don't pay attention to her, let's hurry up, otherwise we won't be able to arrive after dark."

On Wednesday, Auntie grabbed Zhou Shitou: "If you don't take my Qiaoyan with you, I won't let you go."

Seeing this, Zhou Qiaoyan ran to Lin Lan, knelt down with a plop, and looked at Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang pitifully: "Cousin, please, please take me with you! I will always remember your great kindness! In the next life, I will be a cow and a horse to repay you."

Lin Lan smiled angrily, and looked at her coldly: "You..."

"Xiao Lan, let me talk to her!" Li Xiangyang interrupted Lin Lan, stepped forward, looked at Zhou Qiaoyan who was looking at him shyly with murderous eyes, and said softly: "As long as you dare to follow us, next year's Today is your memorial day."

Zhou Qiaoyan's face turned pale with fright, and she slumped on the ground.

After seeing her on Wednesday, my aunt rushed over: "Qiaoyan, what did they do to you?"

"Mother, let's go." Zhou Qiaoyan grabbed Aunt Wednesday's hand and stood up, then turned around and left.

Lin Guoliang watched the mother and daughter leave, and waved to Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang: "Let's go."

Li Xiangyang returned to Lin Lan, tied a scarf for her, took her with one hand and the mule with the other, and climbed up the mountain.

Everyone walked around the winding mountain road, climbed to the top of the mountain, tied the mule to a tree, and fed the mule with the forage they brought.

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang sat on the big rock to rest and eat the dry food they brought.

Lin Guoliang looked at Li Xiangyang curiously: "Xiangyang, what did you say to that woman?"

Li Xiangyang smiled: "I didn't say anything, I just scared her."

Zhou Shitou looked at Lin Lan embarrassedly: "After my third uncle left, my third aunt has become more and more outrageous."

Lin Lan smiled and shook her head: "It's okay, every family has two such relatives."

When the people were full and the mules were full, everyone started to descend the mountain.

It was almost dark when the group walked, they went down the hill to the outside of Lin's house, and Lin Lan walked in first.

(End of this chapter)