Chapter 5: Inexplicable Sadness
The sun shadow is slanting to the west, in front of Changlin Village is a large green farmland, behind the village is a large green mountain, the village is surrounded by bamboo forests, as if it is a small kingdom hiding in the bamboo forest.
A solid dirt road runs from the entrance of the village to the farmland, passes the hole-shaped stone bridge, and then disappears into the hillside, the only way the village passes through the outside world.
Lin Haoran walked from the field stalk to the village archway, stood under the village archway for a while, looked at the hillside over there and was slightly distracted, and an inexplicable sense of worry surged in his heart.
After a long time, he sighed, turned and walked through the bamboo forest, back to the village.
His home was at the west end of the village, and he was soon there through the two threshing floors, but he went into the village.
There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death!
He wanted to do something to take the sheep in, but he could only wander among the huts in the village. People in Jiangcun are all blue brick houses, and Jiangfu is full of attics, but Changlin Village is all thatched houses, even if it is the old patriarch's family.
After walking around the village, he saw families in distress, and even patients with salt deficiency and edema, and almost none of the families here were doing well.
In the end, he could only return empty-handed, depressed, and even more certain that this was a poor mountain village. Even if the villagers allow him to scrape the ground in the village, I am afraid that he may not be able to find a few valuable things.
"Brother, you're back!"
The tiger girl saw him return through the courtyard gate, and immediately ran out happily, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone from the west, illuminating half of her face red, and she looked very good.
Lin Haoran's depression was immediately swept away, looking at this red face, there were still beads of sweat on her forehead, knowing that she was sitting in front of the door and waiting for a long time, she couldn't help touching her head, her eyes were full of tenderness.
If I would have complained about this poor country before, but the moment I saw my sister, everything had disappeared.
The relationship between the two is getting deeper and deeper, and there are more topics.
He gradually discovered that the tiger girl was actually a little gossip, and she couldn't hide words in her mouth. Before she had even entered the door, she chattered about the wild duck eggs she had picked up, and that they did not believe in the stones, and how they were envious of her when she gave them the duck eggs.
The tiger girl said with her eyebrows fluttering, spitting stars flying, and her face looked even redder.
In fact, there is also a comparison in the world of children, and today she finally has a little sense of superiority, she has wild duck eggs, and others do not.
It smells so good!
As soon as Lin Haoran entered the house, he smelled a strong fragrance, and couldn't help but drool and said.
Tiger Girl's eyes lit up slightly, and she immediately trotted to the table of the Eight Immortals, opened the hole in the pottery lid, and neatly filled two bowls of delicious chicken soup from the pottery pot, and the chicken soup also had a few mushrooms, which made him even more puzzled.
Although some families in the village raise chickens, they are undoubtedly the lifeblood of each family. And he has inquired, the villagers are reluctant to eat chicken, and they usually take it to the town to sell, but where does his family get the chicken soup?
When the tiger girl saw his confused appearance, she suddenly realized, and immediately made an excited comparison.
It turned out that today's bird trap was successful, and a prey was really caught, which was this one-and-a-half-pound golden pheasant. The tiger girl found out that she had caught a golden chicken, but she was very happy, and immediately brought the golden chicken back secretly.
When she returned home, she began to boil water, cooked the pot of chicken soup by herself, and then sat at the door and waited for him to come back.
I see!
Lin Haoran suddenly realized that he thought that the prey had broken free from the rope and escaped, but he didn't know that it was the tiger girl who took it back. The thought of the trap working immediately brightened his mood.
Multiply......
The long-lost fresh chicken soup entered the stomach, with the aroma of wild mountain mushrooms, Lin Haoran felt that the whole person came to life, and the fatigue of the day was swept away, and he never felt that the chicken soup would be so delicious.
Let's go!
The tiger girl dealt with the chicken leg that Lin Haoran sandwiched into her bowl, first licked the soup on it, and then went to the chicken into her teeth, directly ripped off a large piece, and chewed with her mouth, the fragrant smell almost made her bite her tongue.
When she swallowed the smooth chicken in her mouth, her eyes were wet unconsciously, not because she was sad, but because she felt like she was in a dream.
She didn't forget that last year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner only had a little bit of meat, which was not enough for the two to stuff their teeth, and she gave it all to her brother at that time, and her stomach had not touched the oil for a long time.
But at this very moment, they were sharing a whole chicken, and she also ate the chicken leg of her dreams, albeit a little thinner.
"It's going to be better!"
Lin Haoran saw her reaction in his eyes, and secretly made a determination in his heart to set a higher goal.
It was this small golden chicken that made the two seem to be intoxicated into the ocean of happiness.
That night on the broken bed in the thatched hut, Lin Haoran planned to use fairy tales to capture his sister, and chose a fairy tale that was once popular all over the world - "Cinderella".
"A long time ago, in a certain town......" Lin Haoran was full of confidence and said slowly.
"How long? Decades or centuries? In which town? Tiger Girl interrupted him and asked seriously.
Belch......
Lin Haoran didn't want to be disadvantaged, so he was immediately difficult, but his nonsense skills were his strength: "Five hundred years ago, a small town called Dongguan!" ”
Dongguan, this is a blurted out name, when he first said it, he actually regretted it a little, and glanced at the tiger girl with a weak heart, but he quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Five hundred years ago!" Tiger Girl's tone was disappointed, feeling that the story was too old, and she preferred freshly baked gossip.
Lin Haoran felt that this little girl would definitely be unable to stop after learning the power of fairy tales, so she didn't pay attention to her disappointment, but continued to speak: "There is a very cute girl, she is not only smart and beautiful, but also kind-hearted......"
"How old is she, is she as old as me? What else is cute? Tiger Niu interrupted him again and asked curiously.
Belch......
Lin Haoran was stuck again, the problem in front was easy to solve, but in the back he could only be a little dizzy: "Cute is ...... Stop asking this question, you didn't ask that! ”
Hu Niu nodded obediently, but then there were new problems, and when it came to the two sisters of the stepmother, the problems became even more numerous, just endless, like a police baby who checked the household registration.
Although his ability to make up is good, a lie often needs countless lies to make up, and the end result is often speechless, and he has to pick up the majesty of his brother, and he says "You didn't ask that", blaming her for not asking like this.
Every time at this time, the tiger girl will obediently shut up, but within two seconds, there will definitely be a new problem.
The bright moon is not a branch to frighten magpies, and the breeze chirps cicadas in the middle of the night.
It was late at night, a bright moon was hanging high, and the sound of a certain thatched hut finally stopped, and a little girl with a fleshy mound crawled on the bed, snoring slightly, and saliva overflowed from the corners of her mouth.
The story of "Cinderella" is finally finished, why use "finally"? Because the process was arduous and tortuous, he almost wanted to carry a knife up the mountain to chop firewood, thinking that it would be easier to chop firewood.
Before Lin Haoran closed his eyes, he secretly swore in his heart that he decided never to tell fairy tales again, the charm of fairy tales is all deceitful, and he had to cross the ocean to kill Hans Christian Andersen another day!
Look at the water flowing eastward, and watch the sun fall in the west at dusk.
In the following days, there will always be some small surprises, especially when Lin Haoran went to Jiangfu to sell firewood, because the old lady of Jiangfu was about to celebrate her birthday, each load of firewood rose to four yuan.
The difference between four and three cents is actually just one penny, but this penny can be used for many things, such as saving up to buy oil, so that you can light oil lamps at night.
The news that Lin Haoran would make bird traps soon spread throughout the village, and even became a topic of conversation among the villagers. When I saw the tiger girl coming back with a fat rabbit one day, it was like a bombshell.
In fact, the initiator of this incident is still the tiger girl, this is a small chatter, and now I am afraid that others will not know that she has a capable brother, so whether in the field or in the village, she likes to publicize her brother's deeds everywhere.
Of course, there were some things she wouldn't say, such as stealing star fruit and citrus, and getting two strange pots of flowers from nowhere.
"This nerd has gotten his way!"
Many people sighed after confirming the truth of the matter.
Lin Haoran's tranquility was naturally broken, and some people came to ask him for advice one after another, but more of them came to watch, as if they wanted to reacquaint themselves with this second nerd.
In fact, Lin Haoran's sets are the same thing, mainly because of a clever word. It's just that there are no hunters in Changlin Village, and now the information is really blocked, so it is sought after by ordinary people.
However, in order to catch more game, Lin Haoran upgraded the sleeve to make it more diverse and complex, and it is more difficult for some people to steal the master.
In addition to herding cattle every day, Tiger Girl has one more job and fun, that is, inspecting the situation of each set. And she was indeed a little clever, and learned to make a condom, and she actually caught a turtledove, which made her very excited.
The condom has brought back some wild ambience to their family one after another, and with the income from chopping firewood, life has improved slightly.
It's just that Lin Haoran's right eyelid has been jumping recently, and there is a faint sense of crisis, and there is always an inexplicable sadness.
Every time I walked under the village archway, I couldn't help but stand there for a long time, staring at the end of the road, as if there was something very important to do.