Chapter 22

Anyone who can move in the village wants to gather more firewood and go home.

At this time, the advantage of having an old scooter came out.

The three of them got a car of firewood to pull back in the morning, and went down to get another car for the mountain official to pull back. Taking advantage of the early weather, Liu Datie and Gou Sheng can still cut more than half of the car of firewood. If they are lucky, they will find a dead tree It's just a big truck of firewood!

"Slow down, don't fall..."

Before Da Rong finished speaking, the little guy who was dragging a branch to ride a horse tripped over a tree root and fell a long way.

Grandma Sun is now the "good life" that everyone in the village envies and envies. After Li Qingyuan came, she first refurbished the house, four big houses with blue bricks and red tiles. Then, he brought a strong donkey back from the town, and asked a carpenter to make a brand new cart with a shelf...

An old woman, half a child, and a baby, collected firewood every day in a leisurely manner, and then drove the donkey back slowly after a cart full, which made many people jealous with envy.

The little guy sat up halfway on the withered and yellow weeds at first, a little bit helpless, and only after a while did he realize that he was about to cry or not.

"Oh, come and show my mother-in-law, are you hurt?" Grandma Sun hurriedly walked over, hugged him in her arms, and checked him up and down.

It would be better if no one paid any attention to him. Someone went to coax him, and the little guy started crying as if he had been wronged by the sky.

"Uncle Liu, Gousheng, here is a big root, let's cut points together." Darong raised his voice and called.

Liu Datie responded happily, and walked over quickly. With more and more people cutting firewood up the mountain, it is very difficult to find dead trees now!

In the past few days, Darong and Mrs. Sun have been collecting firewood near Liu Datie. They are all reasonable, even if they bump into each other occasionally, there is no dispute...

Li Qingyuan was lying in Grandma Sun's arms sobbing and choking, but his eyes were looking straight at Darong. Seeing that Darong didn't even look this way, his crying became louder.

All the children in the village were tanned after a hot summer, and many children even had light gray dots on their faces because of their playfulness, but Li Qingyuan was still as white as when he came to the village. , Even the red envelopes bitten by mosquitoes rarely appear.

"Wow - I want my brother - I want my brother..." Li Qingyuan shouted at the top of his voice.

Grandma Sun coaxed him helplessly a few times, and hugged him tremblingly on tiptoe, "My little darling..."

"Brother Darong!" Li Qingyuan stretched out his hand towards Darong, stretching out most of his body.

"Hey—" Grandma Sun almost didn't hug her, and cried out anxiously.

Dayong took the man over without any hassle.

Li Qingyuan sniffed and hugged Darong's neck tightly.

"Two brats!" Grandma Sun cursed, and quickly started to help cut off the branches.

Liu Datie dug out the roots bit by bit.

The tree had probably just died, and the roots hadn't rotted, so it was worth digging out.

"Brother, my shoulders hurt, my legs..." Li Qingyuan grabbed Darong's clothes with all his strength, and murmured.

Darong opened his sleeves and trousers and looked, only a spot was rubbed red, but against the white and tender skin around him, he still looked quite miserable.

"Pain, pain..." Li Qingyuan twisted his body coquettishly.

"How many times did Big Brother tell you to walk carefully, don't you remember?" Darong put the man down, took out the ointment and wiped it on him - since the first time he took him out to play, he was itchy from the tip of the grass After the red dots can only be painted with saliva, I always carry a special small medicine bag with me.

"I fell down, what can I say!" Grandma Sun said holding a small bundle of branches.

Darong ignored it, and continued to scold with a straight face, "Every time I walk, I have to fall, how can you remember..."

Li Qingyuan answered with his head down, he didn't smile again until Darong patted his little head after he finished speaking...

Liu Datie spent some time sawing this small dead tree into three pieces, which can be regarded as one section of the family.

"That's enough for us today, let's go back first!" Darong packed the firewood, first helped Mrs. Sun to sit on it, then put Li Qingyuan on the driving place, and drove the donkey slowly towards the village.

Gou Sheng looked enviously at the half-big donkey shaking his head—when his family harvested grain in the past few years, they had all been carried back in baskets by people.

"What are you looking at? Pick up firewood!" Shanguan kicked Gousheng with a large bundle of twigs on his back, "A few days ago, they bought several carts of charcoal, enough for a winter!"

When burning fires on weekdays, of course Gousheng will deliberately take out those strong and large pieces of charcoal, put them in a jar with a lid first, and then carefully store them in sacks or old baskets after cooling. When the brazier is lit in winter, It’s not as good as the charcoal sold outside, at least it’s slightly less smoke than burning wood directly—except for Landlord Yang’s family, no family in the village was willing to buy charcoal to bring back!

"Have you saved any charcoal?" Gousheng bent down and began to carefully search for scattered branches among the miscellaneous bushes. From time to time, he would get up and break off a branch to see if it was a dead tree. He didn't care about the tone and small movements of the mountain official.

It's been a while since Shanguan and the others moved to the village. Except for Gousheng, Shanguan doesn't even know a single person of the same age who can talk to him. Apart from being busy all day long, the most important thing is his life. I saw everyone's gloomy expression, and if it wasn't necessary, I didn't want to utter a single word...

"It's only started in the past few days."

The mountain official's face became even more gloomy - in the past in Jiaxing City, firewood was bought with money, and he always wanted to burn it so that there would be no ashes left, so he would not be willing to bring out charcoal!

"It's okay, just pick up some more firewood and go back, thank you for the winter smoke at most!" Gou Sheng comforted.

"It's just you who are squeamish. When you were young, your mother and I were so busy that we didn't touch the ground. We didn't have time to spend in the charcoal fire. These years have passed!" Liu Datie interjected not far away.

Mrs. Liu Datie left early, and the couple didn't even have a helper to help look after the baby. Before Gou Sheng was sensible, he suffered a lot.

Gou Sheng rolled his eyes, "Hurry up, Dad, we are going to burn two kangs this year!"

……

When every household was busy collecting firewood on the mountain, Yadan was accompanying Yang Lingyi to learn how to read with the old scholar who had just been invited back. He only came out to play with the children in the village every afternoon.

The old lady meant to wait for the two eldest grandsons to come back and teach the baby Pidao to read a few words casually. At any rate, Landlord Yang persuaded the eldest son and second son to stop studying for fear of delaying their studies...

When the muddy road started to harden, the number of woodcutters going up the mountain gradually decreased, and those who grew vegetables early began to harvest vegetables in the cellar.

After several snowfalls in succession, the village was completely quiet.

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