The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 9 Return
Before dawn the next day, the village's food delivery team, led by the village leader, set off with torches, taking away most of the village's strong labor force.

Xiahe Village is more than 40 miles away from Luoshui City. Those who push carts and carry grain can't walk very fast. It takes at least two and a half hours to get to the city gate. There are so many grain deliveries in the past two days, and there will definitely be a queue to enter the city. , coupled with the time spent waiting in line to hand over food, if it’s fast, I can make it back before this evening, if it’s slow, I guess I won’t be able to come back until tomorrow.

Father Li always thinks about his sons very much on this day. He can't sit still at home and has no intention of doing anything else. He either goes to the Li family's big house to talk to his elder brother Li Yishan, or he goes to the entrance of the village to hang out with the old men.

Today it was the second room's turn to be busy at home and outside. Shiliu and Li Rongzong took this opportunity to go up the back mountain and went straight to their secret hideout, using the reputation of going up the mountain to collect firewood.

There is only one big mountain behind the village, but there are several rolling hills behind the highest mountain. There are all kinds of trees, including pine, cypress, camphor, and palm, which are used by the entire Xiahe Village to collect firewood. There is no problem at all with that.

There are no big ones in the mountains, just small ones. The villagers can't help but catch pheasants, rabbits and so on. Now it's like a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, which is a rare encounter.

Therefore, when Pomegranate is walking in the mountains, he is not afraid that tigers, bears, blind wild boars, etc. will suddenly come out, and he is very confident.

As they walked toward the hilltop with the chestnut trees, the brother and sister picked up the dead branches they saw. They gathered them together, handful by handful, and quickly tied them into a small bundle, which was swung by Li Rongzong. Carry it on your back.

Soon, we arrived at the top of the mountain.

The brother and sister were about to go straight to the chestnut tree, but they didn't expect there were footsteps in the thorns. They looked up and saw someone on the other side collecting firewood.

"It's Brother Brown and Pomegranate. You two brothers are also here to collect firewood?"

"Yes, Uncle Ge, you have been here for a while, right? You have already burned so much firewood!"

It turned out to be the uncle of the Ge family who lived at the east end of the village. The brother and sister greeted each other and pretended to come here to collect firewood and were not in a hurry to go there.

Pomegranate carried a basket on her back. Seeing that the leaves on the ground were very dry, she quickly picked them up with the bamboo rake she brought, gathered them into a pile, and put them into the basket one by one.

The dried leaves are the best for igniting fires and burn vigorously. Every autumn and winter, many villagers go to the mountains with burdens to hug the leaves.

The brother and sister were busy for a while and unknowingly picked up a lot of firewood. Seeing that Uncle Ge at the other end had already picked up firewood and left, the two hurriedly walked to the other side.

When they finally arrived at the chestnut tree, looking at the thorn shells hanging on the chestnut tree that was covered by the twigs of the pine trees, they both breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, no one had discovered them yet.

The chestnuts were also overripe, their shells cracked, and some fell to the ground.

Li Rongzong spit in the palm of his hand, rubbed it, then stepped up the tree like a monkey, took a wooden stick and started to beat the chestnut shells on the tree.

On the side of the cliff, he put more effort into it and beat it with a wooden stick, then stretched out the basket with one hand to pick it up. Otherwise, if it fell to the bottom of the cliff, he would have to go all the way around to pick it up.

This cliff is not high, only one or two feet high, but if it falls, it will be serious.

I looked up at the pomegranates on the tree with fear. I was afraid that my third brother would lose his balance and fall down, so I didn't dare to let out any anger, so as not to disturb my third brother and distract him.

Fortunately, Li Rongzong was born like a monkey, he could climb trees steadily, and he had previous experience of playing chestnuts. He quickly hit all the chestnut balls on the other side into the basket without any danger.

During this period, when the basket is full, it is first hooked down to catch the pomegranates under the tree, and then poured into a sack.

It would be much easier to hit the chestnut ball on this side. Let the pomegranate stand away, and Li Rongzong swings the stick and hits it accurately, or holds the trunk and shakes the tree hard, and the chestnut leaves will fall down. Lose.

After all the pomegranates on the tree were shaken, the pomegranates ran back, picked up the basket and started picking them up. Li Rongzong also came down from the tree to help pick them up.

The brother and sister were so busy that they were sweating profusely. They spent a lot of time picking up all the chestnut balls and putting them in sacks. Then they carried them to the secret base of previous years - a soil hidden in the thorn bushes. Hole.

After wasting so much time today, they had to go home quickly, so they could only hide the chestnut ball here until tomorrow when they went up the mountain to get the thorn shells, and then they would find an opportunity to take action on the strong wind.

After hiding the sack, the brother and sister carefully plucked the thorn bushes to make sure nothing strange could be seen, and then they left with peace of mind.

Naturally, they continued to collect firewood while walking down the mountain. When they got down the mountain, one brother and sister carried a load of firewood, the other carried a basket of leaves, and held a bundle of firewood in their hands. They also gained a lot. Father Li was so occupied that day that in the afternoon, he just sat motionless at the entrance of the village, looking in the direction of the entrance of the village, his eyes almost turning green.

Not only him, his eldest brother Li Yishan, but also many people from the Li clan and the village were also waiting at the entrance of the village.

If the family members haven't come back, how can they feel at ease here?

But until it got dark, no one came back, and everyone was a little disappointed and worried.

The wind was blowing at this point, and it was quite cold. Everyone said something to each other, and they were all getting ready to go home.

Father Li responded to his elder brother. He just stood up and looked into the distance reluctantly. At this sight, he became excited, "It's time for them to come back!"

When the others heard this, they quickly looked around and saw the torch in the distance, and they were suddenly excited.

It's back!

Sure enough, after a while, many footsteps were heard, the torch was getting closer and closer, and a large group of people were heading towards the village.

Everyone at the entrance of the village hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Li Chang!"

"Iron egg!"

"Step ancestor!"

"father!"

"mother!"

The two sides met, and the torches shone on everyone's face. The people waiting at the entrance of the village found their children one by one, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

When Father Li saw his children and grandchildren, his face that had been depressed all day finally showed a smile, "Let's go home and talk about it later!"

The oil lamps were lit at home, and dinner was already cooked on the stove to warm with the remaining fire, waiting for them to come back.

Unless the farming was busy, except for the relatively well-off families in the village, they only had two meals that day. They should have had dinner before dark, and they were waiting for them to enter the city today, so they were delayed to this point.

The children had been hungry for a long time and followed them from afar to see the person. When they saw someone coming back, they jumped back to report the news.

As soon as Old Yuan heard this, he asked Mrs. Song to bring someone to put the food on the table.

As soon as Father Li and others entered the house, they washed their hands and started eating.

Once the sweet potatoes are harvested from the five acres of land, sweet potatoes will naturally be included in every meal. A big pot full of them will be boiled with the skins on, and one person will eat three or five of them, which will make him full!
This stuff is sweet, soft and glutinous. It's okay to eat it as a snack, but if you really eat it as a meal, you'll choke on the dried pomegranates.

She ate half of it, and ate the remaining half slowly. She was not in a hurry. She would have to put away the bowl later, and she couldn't leave after finishing the meal. Just in time, she was listening to the conversation of Father Li and the others at the next table.

When I went to the city today, in addition to paying taxes and grain, I also had to find part-time workers. I don't know how they were found.

　Signed, please collect it! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)