The moonlight is getting thicker, and the front of the hut is as bright as frost.

A bowl of ordinary white porridge that could not be more ordinary, but Lin Haoran ate it with a bright sweetness, realized the preciousness of food, and expressed deep condemnation to those who wasted food in later generations.

Hu Niu lowered her head and drank the porridge, blowing the hot air very carefully, looking very satisfied, especially this bowl of porridge has a lot of rice grains, she doesn't have to eat them one by one, she can pick it up willfully.

Halfway through eating, she took out her usual style of a female man, and suddenly raised her head freely and said, "Brother, why don't you sell me to Jiangfu to be a maid!" ”

This sentence has actually been brewing for a long time, and since she took the first bite of porridge, she had been thinking about how to say it, what tone to use, and what operation to cooperate with. It's just that when it comes to actual operation, her tone still can't be as natural as usual.

Although she was very resistant during the day today and was reluctant to go to the wicked man's house to be a maid, she knew the situation at home. Now that the family wants to live well, it is obviously not enough to rely on the little harvest she has from herding cattle, and the best way is to sell her.

Whether it was for the sake of the family, or for the last shred of her dignity, she felt that it was best for her to take the initiative.

"What do you call me?" Lin Haoran raised his head in astonishment and looked directly at the tiger girl.

"Brother!" Tiger Girl didn't expect this reaction, but she still said crisply naturally.

Lin Haoran looked at this immature face with a little strength, as well as these clear and firm eyes, the softness in his heart seemed to have been hit by something, and he suddenly felt the urge to cry.

Tiger Girl's eyes blinked, and she found that something was wrong with her brother, and she couldn't help but be a little worried.

Lin Haoran hugged her, hugged this warm little body tightly, tears couldn't help overflowing, and said in a choked voice: "Don't worry, with me, I will definitely let you live a good life, and I will never let you be a maid for others!" ”

After two lifetimes, this is the first time he has felt family affection. I don't know if it's his desire for family affection, or if there is still the emotion of the original owner in his body, and he really regards this little girl as his own sister.

Yes, it was given to him by God, a living relative!

Whining......

Tiger Girl's strong disguise was torn apart, and she couldn't help but cry bitterly in his arms.

She didn't want to be a maid for that wicked family, but reality forced her to reverse this fate. Now that she has received a guarantee, her hanging heart has settled down, and the grievances in her heart can be vented.

She doesn't want to be a maid, she doesn't want to leave this home!

Even if she would be hungry in this family a lot, even if she could only drink a bowl of rice at each meal, she still wanted to stay here.

Crying and crying, she suddenly asked crisply, "What, why is it so hard!" ”

Lin Haoran let go of her at this time, and then took out a few angular things from his arms with some smugness and said, "I almost forgot, do you see what good things I found for you?" ”

"Star fruit? Who's giving it? The tiger girl happily took the star fruit, which was verdant and dripping, and she smelled a fragrance between her noses, which surprised her.

"Eat it for you, don't care who gives it!" Lin Haoran reached out and touched his nose, and said perfunctorily.

The tiger girl has a mouthful of snow-white good teeth, bites a big bite, and then glances at him, the crystal on the long eyelashes looks a little naughty, and she looks up a little proudly and says: "It's so sweet, I know whose family it is, hehe......"

"Who's from it?" Lin Haoran glanced at her suspiciously.

Hu Niu sat on the bench and shook her little short legs proudly, and analyzed seriously: "There are only three star fruit trees in our village, the little girl's family is sour, and the seventh aunt's family is still very small, so this must be the stone family." ”

Lin Haoran was about to nod her head and admit that it was given by the Shi family, but Hu Niu's words were not finished, her eyebrows raised slightly, she glanced at him with a smile, and added, "I still know this star fruit...... It must have been stolen! ”

Ahem......

Lin Haoran was choked by star fruit juice, and never thought of how to easily recognize it for the tiger girl. Now that his family has fallen to this point, he is not so noble, since he can't borrow it, he can only steal it.

This hungry tiger girl is a small thing, and hungry him is a big thing!

Of course, now he feels that the tiger girl is also very important, and he can't let her go hungry either.

Cluck......

The tiger girl looked at Lin Haoran's nervous reaction, holding the big star fruit in her hand, sitting on the wooden bench and laughing, shaking the pair of little short legs, a cute girl with no heart and no lungs.

"Don't say it!" Lin Haoran relieved himself and said with a straight face.

"Well, I don't say, it's our secret!" The tiger girl nodded cheerfully, but her big bright eyes were still full of smiles, as if she had discovered a new world.

She found that this brother had really changed, not only was he willing to share the food with her, but he was not so pedantic. She vividly remembers one time when she picked up star fruit under a tree and was beaten up.

Now that my brother is stealing other people's things for her, it means that he already has this family in his heart, and may even have her in his heart.

On the night of the first lunar month, there is still a bone-chilling coolness.

Lin Haoran and Hu Niu originally shared the same room and different beds, but under the pretext of the cold, he moved the mattress to Hu Niu's bed, and then the two slept together.

The tiger girl did not resist, but was faintly happy. At first, he lay on the other side in a serious manner, but soon kicked the quilt and entangled him like an octopus.

It's just that Lin Haoran lost sleep, and his eyes kept staring at the roof. The moonlight shone in through the holes in the roof and the walls, and the whole room was a little too bright, and the house was 100% leaky.

Si is a leaky room, only Wu Dexin.

This is the realm of a saint, but he has never been just an ordinary man.

How to survive?

Lin Haoran lay on the bed, seriously thinking about the most realistic problems. It's just that this problem is a headache for him, not to mention that there is no land at home now, and even if there is a land, it can't solve the urgent need.

And if you rely on borrowing or stealing, it seems that in such a poor mountain village, it is not a long-term way.

There was a slight snoring, and the girl in her arms was warm all over her body, and there was a fragrance on her body, which made people very comfortable, as if she was a priceless treasure.

Be sure to let ...... My sister is doing well!

Lin Haoran slowly closed his eyes, and there was an extremely firm obsession in his heart.

The next morning, the white mist filled the fields, and the bright morning sun was rising from the top of the hill, and the pine branches on the hill were spraying a magnificent morning light.

Lin Haoran found a firewood knife from the firewood house, and then followed a few woodcutters up a hill on the edge of the village, which was a way for him to make a living all night.

Chopping wood is not an easy job, not to mention that he is not hard-working, this body is really weak. Someone else chopped a bundle of firewood, and he was still struggling with a few pine branches.

Is this really a knife?

Lin Haoran waved the firewood knife in his hand vigorously, and as a result, a dead branch only the size of an egg was cut more than a dozen times before it was cut, but the blade was finally rolled up.

An unusually strong black man observed him for a long time, and when he saw that his blade was curled, he immediately ran over to ask for a firewood knife, poured a little water from the bamboo tube, and sharpened the stone beside it.

Cut like this!

The big black man raised the sharpened wood knife, made a demonstration, and slashed at a dead branch at an angle, and cut it off in just a few strokes. Then he showed his white teeth full of kindness, and shoved the wood knife back into him.

After some attempts, Lin Haoran gradually mastered the essentials, although he still couldn't keep up with the speed of others, especially the speed of the big black man, but he was already able to easily control this firewood knife and deal with one dead branch after another.

After all, his speed is still too slow, and kindness seems to be integrated into the bone marrow of these villagers, or maybe it is the friendship of the same clan that is more than golden. Big Black came with three other lads to help chop the wood and help him tie it up.

The noon has passed quietly, everyone eats separately, and then they will go to sell firewood together.

Lin Haoran walked to the bottom of the mountain, first washed his face and neck, and then took a sip of the mountain spring water in both hands.

He didn't prepare lunch today, and he didn't plan to go back to cook and eat. He is a living poor man in this era, and in order to survive, he can only choose to open up sources and reduce expenditures.

When he returned to the mountain, the others were gathered in a ball, grilling something. When I stepped forward, I saw that they were roasting meaty insects, which were as big as an index finger, and their appearance was a little disgusting.

It turned out that they cut down the pineapple next to the mountain and got these eggs of different sizes from the trunk.

Mountain pineapple, named because the fruit resembles a pineapple, is an evergreen branched shrub with leaves clustered at the top of the branch, the apex gradually narrows into a long tail tip, and the leaf margin and the dorsal midrib have thick sharp thorns.

A local flying insect likes to lay its eggs in the trunk of this tree, and the eggs grow on the juice of the trunk, but the humans at the top of the food chain become the upper link of the eggs.

The big black man stuffed him with a string of good bugs, which was the largest and fattest, and everyone else was very envious.

Lin Haoran smiled bitterly, but he did not live up to this kindness, and his current situation did not allow him to be picky. To his great surprise, this kind of insect egg bite in the mouth, it is very sweet and delicious, definitely no worse than chicken.

After eating this insect feast, everyone carried firewood to sell, and lined up to go down the mountain along the sheep intestine path.

Lin Haoran's disadvantage reappeared and fell to the back of the crowd, but the people in front were deliberately waiting for him, and the big black man even ran back to help him pick a section, and his kind character seemed to be integrated into his bone marrow.

The mountains here are beautiful, and the water is even more beautiful.

Coming down from the mountain, I soon saw a clear river, there was a solid wooden bridge on the river, the clear water under the bridge flowed slowly, you could hear the sound of the water, and several carp chased each other in the lotus leaf under the bridge, like a natural ink painting.

If you don't pick up heavy objects, the scenery along the way is worth admiring.

The place where the firewood is sold is very close, just next door to the village of Jiang, the two villages drink the same river water, but the rich and the poor are very different.

The history of Gangcun is only ten years, it is said that it migrated from Jiangnan, there are only a dozen families, but the financial resources are extremely strong, and now they are doing business such as silk and pottery.

It is not a good thing to be next to such a wealthy village.

Gangchon was willing to put down roots here, and not only hired people to open up the land, but also planned to buy land in the area. There is no change in this family, and there are some lazy men, Jiangcun has gradually become the largest landlord in the local area from a barren village.

Changlin Village is a little better, because the old patriarch tried his best to curb this kind of land trade, and even hung up the lazy man who wanted to sell the land and whipped him wildly. It's just that after all, I can't bear this kind of encroachment, and now half of the land in the village has been classified under the name of Jiangcun Jiangfu, including Lin Haoran's family's land.

Now many villagers in the vicinity are tenants, helping the Chen family farm the land and paying the rent on time every year.

Lin Haoran walked into the landlord's village and was immediately dumbfounded.

There are all antique-style brick houses, the roads are paved with strict green bricks, there are a lot of flowers and plants planted around, and there is no dung of cattle and sheep on the roadside, which is simply a model of civilized villages.

What is even more shocking is the extraordinary mansion - Jiang Mansion.

Who would have thought that in this remote mountain village, there would be a building covering an area of nearly twenty acres. The vermilion gate, the red lanterns hanging high, the walls are delicately carved, the white walls are gray tiles, and the attic inside is stacked like a shadow.

The transaction went very smoothly, and the firewood was sent into the backyard of the Jiang mansion, and the family settled the money neatly. However, compared with the town, each load of firewood here is only three cents, so many villagers would rather pick it up and sell it in the town.

Lin Haoran didn't complain, and took the hard-earned three pennies, and felt infinite emotion in his heart. For these three copper coins, his hand holding the firewood knife was blistered, and the shoulder of the firewood was worn out, and he paid a whole day's hard work.

It's just that he understands that life is never easy, especially when he comes from a humble background.

In his previous life, he also started from nothing, and slowly became a human being, and the right to start over.