Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 86: Maoer Mountain Relying on Help
As Qu Shaoyang expected, there was no Hu Zi ambushing at the Huang Sentry Post, and the raft passed the post smoothly.

Li Yongfu finally put his heart at ease and quickly called for people to lower the person hanging on the pole.

After passing Qiaobohuang, the raft went forward and passed through the Hamachuan, Erlongdou, Hulutao and other checkpoints, and finally arrived at Maoer Mountain.

"Second Cabinet, let's rest for two days in Maoer Mountain. We have been traveling so hard lately."

When the raft was leaning against the wall at Maoer Mountain, Qu Shaoyang went to discuss with Li Yongfu.

"Okay, what else? Just take a few days off."

How could Li Yongfu not understand Qu Shaoyang's thoughts? He was speaking up for Shui Laowu.

Lin Ruolan has been pregnant for nine months and no one knows when she will give birth. It is estimated that Shui Laowu will not be able to catch up with his wife in time for the birth.

Now that I'm already at my doorstep, I have to go back and take a look.

The river water was high this year, so the raft had a very smooth journey. It took more than half a month to get from Kalami River Bay to Maoer Mountain.

Ever since the old queue started, everyone has been queuing all day long.

Surrounded by water on all sides and facing the sky on one side, life is indeed hard. It's time for everyone to relax and ease their fatigue.

"My fellow brothers, you have all worked hard these days.

Well, I have discussed with the leader, we should rest for a few more days in Maoer Mountain."

The raft had docked, and before everyone got ashore, Li Yongfu made a loud announcement.

When the trees heard this, they became excited.

Maoer Mountain is a good place, much better than Tadian. Don’t you see those women dressed in red and green waving at them?
I've been a vegetarian for quite some time, it's time to relax and unwind.

"Hey, Touzhao, you and Bianzhao live in Maoer Mountain, right? You got married, but we haven't even had a drink to celebrate your wedding yet.

Come on, no matter what, we have to go to your house today. We have to go and pay our respects to my sister-in-law."

Wang Changliang put his arm around Shui Laowu's shoulders and said with a smile.

"Sure, let's all go. My house is big, and Shaoyang's house can accommodate people, so we can squeeze in and make room for him."

Once we are in the row, we are all brothers. If someone wants to visit my home, how can Shui Laowu refuse to let them go?
"Everyone, have you been to Touzhao's house? If so, come with us.

If you don’t want to go to Touzhao’s house, you can just wander around by yourself. There are many inns in Maoer Mountain anyway.” Wang Changliang called out.

Among this year's group of guys, more than ten are the same people as last year, such as Cui Fugui, Dalin, Dazhuzi and others.

They were familiar with Shui Laoya and Qu Shaoyang, and immediately expressed their desire to visit Shui Laoya's home.

The others were not that familiar with Shui Laowu and felt embarrassed to disturb him.

So these people either stayed in the dormitory or went to the inn.

Qu Shaoyang thought that since they came back unexpectedly and their families had no news, they might have nothing to entertain them.

So, he found an excuse to leave first and went to the market town to buy some chicken, fish, meat and other things to entertain the guests.

On the other side, Li Yongfu whispered something to Wang Changliang and the others.

While waiting to pass by the grocery store, everyone ignored Shui Laowu's objection and bought some snacks, brown sugar, wine, tea and other things, and walked towards Liu's house together.

As soon as I arrived at the door, before I pushed it open, the two dogs in the house started barking.

"Dahuang, Qinglong, stop barking. Can't you see it's me?" Shui Laowu led everyone into the house and scolded the two dogs.

Shui Laowu had lived at home for about a month before, feeding the dogs all day long and had become familiar with the two dogs.

When they saw that it was the Water Crow coming back, the two dogs immediately changed their behavior, wagging their tails and sobbing, and pounced on the Water Crow.

The water crow had no choice but to go forward and rub the two dogs' heads to coax them.

Sure enough, the dog calmed down and stopped biting the people behind it.

Shui Lao Ya led everyone into the house and happened to meet Xiao Zhi who had heard the noise and came out to check. "Dad? Why are you back? Mom, it's my dad who's back." Xiao Zhi was so happy that he went forward and hugged Shui Lao Ya.

"Come, meet your uncles and brothers first."

Shui Laowu touched Xiaozhi's head with satisfaction and motioned Xiaozhi to greet everyone.

Xiao Zhi greeted everyone obediently. Wang Changliang was so happy that he grabbed a handful of candies and stuffed them into Xiao Zhi's hands.

"Xiaozhi, who did you say is back?"

Lin Ruolan heard the noise, held her waist, and slowly walked out of the east room, asking as she walked.

Lin Ruolan was nine months pregnant and her belly was very big, like a pot. This made it very inconvenient for her to move and she had to be extremely careful when walking.

"Wife, I am the one who brought the brothers from the Pai Gang back." When Shui Laowu saw his wife like this, he took two steps forward to support her and spoke softly.

"It just so happened that the raft passed by our Maoer Mountain, so I came home to see you and Xiaozhi."

Lin Ruolan was surprised and happy to see her husband coming back, but she didn't want to get too excited in front of so many people.

So he smiled and greeted Wang Changliang, Li Yongfu and others, turned around and called Xiaozhi, and hurried to buy some meat to cook a few dishes for everyone in the evening.

"Sister-in-law, please stop busying yourself, we are just here to sit down.

You should take a rest. We can prepare what you want to eat later."

Lin Ruolan is in this situation, who would dare to let her take care of things? Li Yongfu and others hurriedly said.

"It's okay. I just look scary. It doesn't affect me normally. The doctor said I have to move around more now.

Come, come, everyone come in and sit down." Lin Ruolan smiled and waved her hand, asking Xiaozhi to go buy things according to her instructions.

Xiao Zhi took the money and had just walked out of the house not far when he ran into Qu Shaoyang.

Qu Shaoyang bought two chickens, four fish, a large piece of meat, as well as some cooked food such as elbows and pork heads, and he was carrying a lot of them.

When Xiao Zhi saw it, he hurried forward to take some, and the two brothers walked back while chatting.

When she got home, Lin Ruolan was very happy to see that she had bought so much food, and she hurriedly started to prepare dinner.

At this time of year, the vegetables in most people’s vegetable gardens are leeks and onions.

The Liu family only built the house last year and has not had time to grow vegetables yet, so there is nothing in the vegetable garden.

Fortunately, Xiaozhi and his neighbor’s friends went to the woods and picked a lot of wild vegetables.

Lin Ruolan thought the piece of meat was good, so she suggested making dumplings with celery and pork filling, and adding a few other dishes so that everyone could have a good meal as a reward.

Lin Ruolan is pregnant with such a big belly, how could everyone let her do everything alone?

So everyone who could help offered their hands, some chopped meat, some picked vegetables, and Lin Ruolan only had to knead the dough and mix the stuffing.

All the ingredients for making dumplings have been prepared, and a panel has been placed on the kang in the east room.

Lin Ruolan and Shui Laowu led a few people who knew how to make dumplings to start making dumplings together.

Qu Shaoyang was in the kitchen, stewing chicken and fish, slicing pork elbows, pig tongues and pig hearts and putting them on a plate, stir-frying some shredded potatoes and frying some peanuts.

Six dishes, with dumplings, is quite good.

"River fish and laying hens are the most delicious. Oh, I'm in for a treat today.

Sister-in-law, I'm sorry for the trouble. Come on, come to the kang and eat together." When the food was served, everyone thanked Lin Ruolan in unison.

I will update two chapters first, and then I will update two more chapters during the day.

By the way, Gou Zi has changed his name, and can no longer be called Hu Zi. I just remembered that the male protagonist’s nickname is Hu Zi, hahahaha.



(End of this chapter)