Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 830 Frightened
In Lu Lu's memory, this was the second time Chen Xiuyu said such words.

"I remember that before you got married, you thought about hunting every day. You were not very courageous at that time. Why do you suddenly feel so timid now?"

Lu Lu smiled at her: "If I remember correctly, you taught your brother that men should go out and make a living..."

"Can it be the same? Our family was very poor at that time, and we couldn't see any hope in life. I couldn't find any other way out except to fight for my life. But the actual situation is that with this idea in my mind, I don’t even know how to break through or fight...

Brother Lu, do you know?Your appearance gave me hope, and I really wanted to follow you.In fact, it may also be a kind of escape. I don't want to live the kind of life where I always feel like I am stuck in a quagmire despite working hard every day, but nothing changes. "

Chen Xiuyu sighed slightly: "It's different now, especially after I have a child. I don't dare to think like that anymore. My heart is full of you and the children. I also start to worry, what if you are gone?" , what should I do, what should the children do. Now, I somewhat understand my mother’s thoughts.

Brother Lu, actually, I don’t really have high requirements. As long as we live a hopeful life, even if we are poorer or tired, our family will be fine. "

When Chen Xiuyu said this, she looked at Lu Lu seriously, with expectation on her face.

Lu Lu knew what she was looking forward to, and he began to blame himself inexplicably.

The idea I made from the beginning was to come back and stay with Chen Xiuyu and her children and give them a prosperous and stable life.

Now that she was wealthy, she had more worries.

While I have been busy with various things on the farm, thinking about hunting, carrying sticks, and trying to find ways to make money, I seem to have much less company for Chen Xiuyu, and I am always missing.

Being so focused on making money, even taking big risks... right?
"Am I too greedy?" Lu Lu looked up at Chen Xiuyu and asked in a low voice.

"There is endless money to be made! What I mean is that we no longer need to use risky methods to make money. If we manage the farm well, the income will be enough. I just hope that I can see you every morning and evening. Every day Our whole family of four is here at the dinner table!”

Chen Xiuyu said seriously: "Brother Lu, I am very satisfied!"

Lu Lu smiled: "Actually, after I entered the mountains this time, I also thought about similar issues. I also wanted to end this kind of traveling around hunting and carrying sticks, so that I can come back and accompany you and the children. Then Live the rest of your life safely and healthily."

When Chen Xiuyu heard this, she couldn't believe it: "Really?"

Lu Lu breathed a long sigh of relief: "Of course it's true... I told you at the beginning that I came to Xiushan Tun just because you were in Xiushan Tun. I came here for you!" "

Chen Xiuyu was as excited as a child. She jumped in front of Lu Lu, bent down and kissed him on the forehead: "This is what you said... I take it seriously!"

"Uh... it still doesn't work!" Lu Lu scratched his head.

"what……"

The smile on Chen Xiuyu's face disappeared immediately.

"At least, not this winter. We have to go into the mountains this winter." Lu Lu said, shaking his head.

"Why?"

"Because we went to carry the mallets this time, but there are still many that we haven't brought back!"

"Then just get the things back before it snows."

"I can't go there for the time being, and I can't get it back now..."

"How come you can't get it back? Is there a lot? You brought back so many mallets last year and it didn't scare me."

"There are a lot of mallets with four leaves and above, weighing hundreds of kilograms..."

Lu Lu pondered for a moment. He felt that with so many mallets hidden in the cave, Chen Xiuyu would definitely be unable to avoid them after they were brought back. After all, most of them had to be kept at home, and there was no way to keep the matter a secret.

He took a deep breath, looked at Chen Xiuyu, who was stunned from ear to ear, and then said: "I want to tell you something, but I'm afraid that I will scare you if I say it..."

"Why are there so many? A stick weighs tens of grams, a hundred grams, or two or three hundred grams, which is considered big. How many trees are there?"

Chen Xiuyu is a smart person. After a simple measurement, he has already realized the problem: "You have obtained so much in just over a month, unless you went to the ginseng garden to pull it! Otherwise, where can you find so much at once? What a mallet, mallets are not available everywhere! What on earth have you done..."

She was really frightened.

Even when Lu Lu and the others came back from Baoxinggou and brought back so much gold sand, she didn't find it so incredible.

There are so many sticks, and if they are wild ginseng, they are far beyond those of gold sand. After all, the price of gold sand is really not high these days.

She knew that there must be something happening here that Lu Lu didn't know about, and it wasn't a trivial matter.

"It must be wild ginseng. If it's garden ginseng, it's worth a few bucks. There must be more than 2000 ginseng in total..."

There were four round trips, and each trip weighed hundreds of kilograms. Lu Lu had not counted them specifically, but he knew that there must be a lot of these mallets, and there were also many high-quality ones.

He paused and then said: "Let me tell you directly, these mallets are not carried in the wilderness, but in the Xihot Mountains over Maozi, which is our former Laoye Ridge. They expelled 30 Chinese people ten years ago, and later established a protection period. They also bought several tons of ginseng seeds from Dahuang and scattered them on the mountains there. So there were a lot of sticks and big goods, and it was very easy. You can find a piece of it, and within a piece, if you pick a good harvest, you can lift out about twenty stick sticks in one place, which is still a small number. In places with many, there can be forty or fifty trees!
We crossed the river secretly at night, and we couldn't bring back so many things, so we found a cave and hid them, protecting them with river sand. We thought we would wait until winter when the river was frozen and horses and sledges could be used, and then we could go and get them back. . "

Chen Xiuyu was stunned for a moment.

After a while, she said, "Did you go hunting over the river last winter?"

This time, Lu Lu was stunned for a moment: "When did you know about it!"

"I just guessed it, because you kept all the foreign money at home!"

"Uh... I went on a trip!"

Chen Xiuyu suddenly became angry, suddenly grabbed the broom standing at the door and knocked it down at Lu Lu.

Lu Lu quickly protected the child in his arms, but saw that the broom raised by Chen Xiuyu froze and did not fall down.

In the end, she threw the broom aside bitterly, and then started crying: "Don't you know that we fought a war a few years ago? Don't you know that you can't cross the river without permission? If you are caught, you will be jailed or punished. Shot...why are you so confused?"

Chen Xiuyu was frightened!
Although she is a girl from Shanye Village, it does not mean that she has no knowledge.

She had heard a lot about this matter from Lu Lu, Zhang Shaofeng, Lei Meng and others, as well as from the older generation. Especially when she was trying to learn to read, she started to read books and newspapers, listen to the radio, and watch TV. She knows everything.

But it is precisely because of understanding that I know how serious the matter is.

Lu Lu smiled bitterly: "You said this, how could I not know. One is wanting to make money, and the other is because I am somewhat unhappy in my heart. Those places used to belong to our country, but now they have become the property of others. In his hand, Lao Maozi was quite bullying and wanted to get something back.

There is another reason. The wilderness is no longer suitable for hunting or carrying sticks, because there are really not many left. "

For the furs purchased at many buying stations, the number of furs purchased has dropped every year, and the prices have been raised, but they cannot be completed every year.

"We don't have to go to places like that to make money! Now even the wild vegetables that we didn't look down on before can now be sold for a few dollars a pound. So we don't do anything else but pick wild vegetables. , mushrooms, pine nuts and so on, you can live a living...Brother Lu, you are such a capable person, you don’t have to do these things for money, we can do anything, you must not go there again."

Chen Xiuyu's voice sounded pleading.

Hearing Chen Xiuyu's cry, even Xiao Zhengyang, who was immersed in the delicious snacks, came to the door and looked longingly at Chen Xiuyu and Lu Lu in the kitchen.

He suddenly ran back to the living room, climbed onto the big kang, took a piece of stove fruit from the kang table, ran back, took Chen Xiuyu's hand and shook it: "Mom, don't cry, eat the stove fruit!"

Lu Lu looked at his daughter in his arms, and saw that the little one had already fallen asleep in her swaddling clothes. He put her in the carriage hanging on the big kang, carefully covered her with the roe deer skin mattress, and gently She shook her head gently, then returned to the kitchen, hugged Chen Xiuyu in her arms, and held her tightly.

He knew deep in his heart that Chen Xiuyu was worried about him, and he also knew that there was nothing more important than the family being reunited and healthy.

In several years of marriage, this was the first time that Chen Xiuyu had such an outburst.

"No matter what, we worked so hard to carry those mallets out, so we can't just throw them away! We still have to go there once in winter... I promise you, after I go there once, I will never go there again."

Lu Lu said softly.

Chen Xiuyu struggled to lift her head from Lu Lu's arms and looked at him: "Just this once! Promise me..."

"I promise you!"

Lu Lu nodded affirmatively and took a deep breath: "Let's cook and eat. Brother Feng and the others will come over soon after the food is finished. I will talk to the brothers about this while taking a bath." !”

"Okay!" Chen Xiuyu nodded lightly.

Lu Lu kissed her on the forehead lovingly. Who knows, the little kid beside him giggled: "Shame..."

Lu Lu rolled his eyes at him, raised his foot and kicked his butt: "You little brat, you know nothing!"

The water on the stove was boiling, and Lu Lu helped fill it with a thermos and made himself a cup of tea.

Chen Xiuyu asked at this moment: "What do you want to eat?"

"How about... get me a bowl of pickled cabbage baskets?" Lu Lu didn't know why, but he suddenly wanted to eat this.

"Okay, by the way, Brother Lu... there are two letters in the kangqin drawer in the bedroom. One is from Liu Hao, and the other is from a man named Deng Yimin. They are both written to find you. Yes, I didn’t look at it, hurry up and take a look, I just received it two days ago!”

"understood!"

Lu Lu turned around and went to the bedroom and found the two letters.

Most of Liu Hao's letters were for Mrs. Duan, and they were often written to inquire about the home affairs. However, this was the first time I received Deng Yimin's letter, and I didn't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)