Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Mu Nan scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "Mom added some sugar to the water bag."

Actually, he secretly added a little sugar to the water before he set off. Although he had never met his new wife, for some reason he just didn't want to mistreat her.

"Oh!" Wang Qing'er thought to herself, this mother-in-law is actually quite nice!

After drinking a few sips of water and resting for a while, Wang Qing'er felt her energy return, so she said, "I'm rested enough, let's continue."

"Okay." Before dark, Wang Qing'er finally saw a courtyard surrounded by high walls, with blue brick and tile houses that looked very impressive from the outside.

Mu Nan pointed to the house and told her that was his home. Wang Qing'er was immediately curious, "Didn't you say you were very poor? How come your house is so big?"

The two arrived at the courtyard. Mu Nan pushed open the gate, and Wang Cuiying, who was cooking in the kitchen, ran out to check when she heard the noise. "Mu Nan is back! Oh, is this Qing'er?"

When Wang Cuiying saw the pretty girl next to her son, she assumed she must be her daughter-in-law. She came over, took Wang Qing'er's hand, and greeted her with a big smile, "This girl is really beautiful."

Just as Wang Qing'er was thinking about what to call the woman in front of her, an old woman and two little girls came out of the kitchen.

The old lady was Zhou, Mu Nan's grandmother. The two girls were Mu Nan's younger sister, Mu Qin, and his daughter from his previous marriage, Mu Yao.

Mu Nan then remembered to introduce Wang Qing'er, pointing to Zhou Shi standing at the door and saying, "This is Grandma."

Wang Qing'er obediently called out, "Grandma."

"Yes, my dear." Zhou replied with a smile.

Mu Nan then introduced her mother-in-law, Wang Cuiying, who sweetly called her "Mother."

Wang Cuiying held her hand tightly ever since she entered the room, her face stiff with smiles. The more she looked at her, the more she liked this daughter-in-law.

Before her brother could even introduce her, Mu Qin sweetly called her "sister-in-law," making Wang Qing'er a little embarrassed.

When Mu Nan introduced Mu Yao, she was clearly at a loss for words, "This is Yao'er, my daughter."

Wang Qing'er looked the little girl up and down. She was quite pretty, with big eyes, a straight little nose, and cherry lips, but her skin was a bit tanned.

Wang Qing'er thought about how this body was only sixteen years old, and she was going to be the stepmother of a four-year-old child. She felt really wronged, so she awkwardly greeted, "Hello, Yao'er!"

Yao'er timidly responded and hid behind Zhou Shi, thinking, "The other kids in the village all told her that her stepmother is very fierce and bad. Erdan's stepmother often beats and scolds him."

"How come this woman in front of me is so beautiful?"

At this moment, Zhou spoke up, "The children must be tired from walking so far, let them go back to their rooms and rest!"

"Alright, Mu Nan, quickly take your wife back to her room," Wang Cuiying said to her son with a beaming smile.

Wang Qing'er followed Mu Nan into a room. She carefully looked around the room, which was clean and spacious.

Inside, there was a bed, a bedside table, a wooden cabinet, a wooden box, a small table, and two stools.

There were a few books on the bedside table. The bed looked newly made, with patches all over the bed canopy and several patches on the quilt.

Wang Qing'er couldn't help but think to herself, "The furnishings in this room are so out of place with the house! What kind of family is this?"

Mu Nan carefully put away Wang Qing'er's dowry, then touched her head apologetically and said, "You rest for a while, I'll go see if Mother has finished making dinner." With that, she dashed out of the room.

When Wang Cuiying saw her son walk into the kitchen, she shooed him out, saying, "You silly boy, hurry back to your room and keep your wife company. I'll call you when the food is ready."

Mu Nan had no choice but to return to her room, standing there like a fool, without saying a word.

Wang Qing'er thought that since she was a person who came from the new society, she could be more proactive. The key point was that her personality was naturally lively and active.

So he spoke first, saying, "Before it gets completely dark, why don't you take me for a walk around the yard to familiarize myself with it?"

"it is good."

Mu Nan led Wang Qing'er around the house and explained the layout of the house to her; there were quite a few houses in the family.

The Mu family's house is a two-courtyard house, with the kitchen and storeroom in the front.

The rooms belonging to Zhou Shi and Mu Nan's parents, as well as several other rooms, are empty.

The Mu siblings lived in the back, and each person in the family had their own room.

Wang Qing'er also noticed that several rooms were locked. Although she was curious, she didn't ask what was locked inside.

The house is surrounded by high walls, and there is a back gate leading directly to a mountain path behind it. There are several plots of land on both sides of the path, which Mu Nan said were wastelands that her family had cleared two years ago.

There are several plots of land inside the backyard wall, and a row of small houses along the wall, which are pigsties, cattle pens, horse sheds, and some chickens and ducks are also kept in the back.

There are four pigs in the pigpen, and one of the sows is pregnant, as her belly is very big.

The other three animals only weigh a few dozen kilograms each, and there are also several empty small houses, which must have been used to raise cattle.

Wang Qing'er only learned later that the family originally had a three-courtyard house, but they demolished the last courtyard and sold the bricks and tiles to raise money, and the backyard became a vegetable garden.

There were several fruit trees along the wall, but Wang Qing'er didn't go closer and it was getting dark, so she couldn't tell what kind of fruit they were.

Beside the wall is a stone-built pond, with water drawn from a mountain stream using bamboo pipes. It is used for washing clothes and irrigating the vegetable garden.

Her room was actually a separate little courtyard with several trees and a deck chair under the trees.

A swing was hanging on a tree branch, probably for the children to play on.

There is a gate on the left side of the small courtyard. Passing through this gate leads to a large courtyard where the other children of the Mu family live.

The courtyard was large, with some vegetables planted in the open space, a small pavilion with a stone table and several stone benches inside, and a well in the corner of the courtyard.

There was also a lot of open space in the front yard of the house, which was also filled with vegetables.

The layout is similar to the middle section, with pavilions, wells, and fruit trees.

However, the well in the front yard is next to the kitchen, and there is a thatched shed above the well, so you can wash vegetables inside even when it rains.

Looking at the house before her, Wang Qing'er was momentarily stunned. "Wasn't it said to be very poor? How poor could a family living in such a big courtyard be? Could it be that the original owner received incorrect information?"

Just then, Old Man Mu, who had gone to work in the fields, returned with his two youngest sons, Mu Xiao and Mu Lin. Mu Xiao was holding a live pheasant in his hand.