Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

After crying for a while, Mu Yan remembered her children and hurriedly introduced them to Old Man Zhou, "Mother, eldest brother, this is our eldest daughter Wu Zihan, she's seventeen this year, and this is our third son Wu Zixuan, he's thirteen this year;"

The fourth child, Wu Zitong, is ten years old; the fifth, Wu Zihao, is eight; the youngest, Ziyuan, is four; and then there's the second child. Mu Yan then remembered that the second child wasn't in the yard and asked the other children, "Where's your second brother?"

"Mother, Second Brother is watching the cows outside. I'll go call him." Wu Zixuan said, and then ran out of the yard in a flash.

“This child is always so energetic.” Mu Yan then said to the children, “Quick, quick, this is your grandma, and this is your uncle.”

"Grandma, Uncle."

"Grandma, Uncle."

……

The children greeted them politely.

Zhou and Old Man Mu kept saying things like, "Good, good, good boy."

After Wu Zihao came in from outside, Mu Yan briefly explained the situation to him and introduced him to the Mu family.

After everyone had been introduced, Old Man Mu pointed to Mu Nan and said, "This is my eldest son, Mu Nan, and this is his wife, Qing'er. The second son, Mu Xiao, the third son, Mu Qin, and the fourth son, Mu Lin, haven't come back yet, but we'll all meet them later."

Mu Nan and Wang Qing'er politely called her "Little Aunt".

"It's fortunate that Mu Nan and her husband met you and brought you back. It's truly a blessing from heaven that our family can be reunited," Zhou said, holding Mu Yan's hand.

Wang Qing'er secretly rejoiced that she hadn't made the mother and son kneel down to express their gratitude this morning, otherwise it would have been quite... something else!

Seeing that Mu Yan was somewhat exhausted and Zhou Shi kept talking to her, Wang Qing'er had no choice but to remind her, "Grandma, Auntie is still recovering and shouldn't overexert herself. Please take Auntie to your room to rest."

"Alright, alright, I forgot because I was so happy." She hurriedly said to her daughter, "Yan'er, go and rest in my room first. When your sister-in-law comes back, she'll have her prepare a few more rooms. You can just stay here comfortably."

"Okay, Mother, then we'll trouble you, eldest brother and sister-in-law." Mu Yan instructed the children, "You all help your cousin and sister-in-law tidy up."

Then, she spoke softly to her younger daughter, "Ziyuan, would you like to come with me to Grandma's room?"

"Okay, I'll stay with Grandma and Grandpa," Xiao Ziyuan said obediently in her childish voice.

After Zhou and her daughter left, Old Man Mu asked, "What's going on with those cows outside? Why are they spotted?"

"Dad, don't ask now. I'll explain everything to everyone when we're all here tonight. Let's figure out how to settle them first." Mu Nan didn't want to explain everything in detail. The family suddenly had more than a dozen cows and a horse, and they needed to find a place to put them as soon as possible.

"There's one cowshed behind the house with rabbits, another with sheep, and the last one can only hold four cows. I see you have twelve cows outside. How am I going to manage so many cows?" Old Man Mu was having a headache. Seeing the extra carriage in the yard, he asked, "Did you buy that carriage too?"

"Mm." Mu Nan nodded.

"There's another stable that can hold four cows." Old Man Mu only remembered that there was a stable at home after seeing the carriage, but there was still four cows and a horse with nowhere to put them. There was no time to build a cowshed now!

Mu Nan thought for a moment and said, "Dad, how about we put the horse under the eaves tonight and put the rest of the cows in the stable, squeeze them in, and build a cowshed tomorrow?"

"Dad, Brother Mu Nan, yellow cows can't be kept with spotted cows, they have to be separated." Wang Qing'er didn't want her cows to give birth to mixed-breed cowboys.

Mu Nan said, "Then let the ox stay under the eaves tonight too."

"Alright, I'll go bring the cow in." Old Man Mu said, getting up and walking out of the yard.

"Uncle, I'll go with you." Wu Zihao hurriedly followed behind Old Man Mu.

“I’m going too.” Wu Zixuan followed behind.

"Alright, Zihao, the three of us will go together." Old Man Mu put his arm around each of the two brothers, and they walked away chatting and laughing, as if they had known each other for a long time.

Wang Qing'er "..."

It seems that in all the time she's been married into the family, she's never seen her father-in-law be so close to any of his sons.

And now that the people who were originally intended to be bought to work have become relatives, how can they still be allowed to work? And their indentures... Wang Qing'er suddenly felt that those indentures were a bit too hot to handle.

While Wang Qing'er was in a daze, Mu Nan had already moved most of the things off the carriage.

The grains and soybean oil have been put into the kitchen, the potato and pepper seeds are all placed under the eaves, the meat is placed in a wooden basin by the well, the pastries are placed on the table in the main room, and the clothes and fabrics are placed in a hollow bamboo sieve under the eaves.

The Wu family's belongings were all placed in Wang Cuiying's room. The so-called belongings were actually just a change of clothes for Wu and his mother, as well as Wu the hunter's memorial tablet. Any other possessions that could be sold had already been sold.

Seeing his wife standing in the yard in a daze, Mu Nan went over and gently called to her, "Qing'er, what's wrong?"

"Huh? Oh? I'm fine. Let's hurry up and move our things! We still need to return the carriage to Third Uncle's house." Wang Qing'er came to her senses and realized that there were still many things to move.

"Qing'er, we've finished unloading everything from the carriage."

Wang Qing'er "..."

Good heavens! How long has she been spacing out? Sigh!

Seeing his wife's absent-minded look, Mu Nan asked with concern, "Qing'er, are you tired? Why don't you go back to your room and rest for a while?"

"Brother Mu Nan, I'm not tired. It's just that a lot happened today, and I haven't quite processed it all yet. I'll go check what kind of seeds we have." Wang Qing'er perked up; the first important thing was the seeds.

"Brother Mu Nan, where did you put the seeds?"

When Mu Nan heard Wang Qing'er ask him a question, he quickly took the bag of seeds from under the eaves and handed it to her.

Wang Qing'er loosened the bag and looked inside. Inside, there were many small bags containing different seeds.

She gently poured the seeds onto the ground, opening each bag to check. They were the same seeds as last time, but with the addition of tea seeds, weighing about six or seven pounds.

There was another package wrapped in oil paper. When she opened it, she found strawberry seeds. Strawberries are a good thing, and she loves to eat them, but she didn't know if she had the ability to grow them.

We still have several pounds of rapeseed seeds, and this time we also have about five pounds of sesame seeds, which are white sesame seeds. Last time we had black sesame seeds, so now we have both kinds.

She plans to plant two pounds of white sesame seeds, and save the rest to make chili oil. With sesame seeds, the chili oil will be even more fragrant.

There was another packet of seeds that looked a bit like the seeds inside an orange, or maybe an tangerine, she wasn't sure.

Wang Qing'er glanced at the sky; it was time to cook dinner. There were many people today, so she needed to cook several dishes. She hurriedly gathered the seeds and prepared to cook.

Thinking that her mother-in-law was worried about taking the two little girls up the mountain alone, she just saw Old Man Mu leading the cow into the yard. "Dad, do you know where Mom and Yao'er are in the back mountain? Why haven't they come back yet?"

"Don't worry, Mu Xiao is with them too, and Mu Lin is also off today. They're all together, so they should be back soon."