There is still ten miles to go, which is not too far for Liu Dazhu who is used to walking on mountain roads.
He kept moving forward along the mountain road, and not long after, he finally saw a small village appearing in the mountains. The houses in this village were very scattered, scattered in the mountains.
This should be Damiao Village. Although the place is relatively poor, it is definitely a good place. A small stream gurgling down from the mountain, surrounded by evergreen trees, has a feeling of beautiful mountains and clear waters, but it is a bit remote and there is not much to see.
Ways to make money.
"Hey, old man, where is Xu Laobao's family?"
When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Liu Dazhu met an old man carrying a burden.
"Oh, old treasure, here it is, that house halfway up the mountain. You just go over there..."
"Okay, thank you, old man..."
Liu Dazhu nodded and walked towards the house halfway up the mountain.
There is only one house there, and there is no other house dozens of meters to the left and right. The house is a completely wooden house, all made of whole big trees. Such a house is no longer possible in the city.
I have seen that even in Stone Village, there are very few houses with walls made entirely of whole wood.
But this house is very old, at least several decades old. Outside the house, there is a wooden fence surrounding it. The fence is covered with lentil vines, and there are green leaves between them.
It's full of flowers and some lentils are growing.
Liu Dazhu walked over and saw a girl standing in the wooden fence yard, feeding chickens there. He was immediately stunned.
Isn't this the girl I met in the mountains? Although she has changed into clothes made of floral cloth, her eyes, slender face, and round butt are absolutely unmistakable.
I didn't expect that she was faster than him. No way, there must be a shortcut. This girl was so bad that she didn't take a shortcut with me.
"Hey, why are you here?"
Liu Dazhu walked to the door of the courtyard and asked.
"You, who are you?"
The girl feeding the chickens raised her head and looked at him, a little shy, and asked strangely.
"Wow, no way, I'm just pretending not to know you..."
Liu Dazhu walked in while talking: "I think you are too bad. You didn't tell me a shortcut and asked me to take a long way back. It's really bad."
"Dad, Dad, someone is coming..."
Seeing Liu Dazhu walking towards the inside, the girl in the floral shirt was so frightened that she turned around and walked towards the house, calling her father.
At this time, a man walked out of the wooden house. Liu Dazhu recognized him at a glance.
"Haha, brother, I'm here..."
Seeing that it was Xu Laobao, he laughed and walked up.
Xu Laobao opposite was also very excited. This boy was indeed a man of his word. Although he was a day late, he still came over alone as promised.
"Brother Liu Dazhu, you are indeed here. I am really grateful to you. It is really difficult for you to come all the way to our small place..."
Xu Laobao ran over and immediately held Liu Dazhu's hand. His calloused hand trembled slightly when holding Liu Dazhu's hand, looking very excited.
"Of course I'm coming. How can it be ignored if I say I'm coming..." Liu Dazhu laughed and let him hold his hand and shake it.
At this time, Xu Laobao took Liu Dazhu to the middle of the fenced yard. There was a wooden table and a few chairs. These chairs and tables were the simplest seats. You could tell at a glance that they were put together by yourself.
Rough furniture.
"Brother Dazhu, sit down. Don't be polite when you come here. Hurry up and sit down..."
"Okay, okay, brother, don't be polite..."
At this time, the two of them sat down on the seats in the middle of the yard. A gust of mountain breeze blew by, feeling extremely comfortable.
"Zimai, go and pour a bowl of tea for the distinguished guests to drink..."
After sitting down, Xu Laobao said to the girl who was feeding the chickens just now.
"Hey..." the girl agreed, turned around and walked towards the house.
"Brother, this girl is your daughter, right..." Liu Dazhu took out a cigarette and handed one to Xu Laobao, who took it with trembling hands.
"Yes, it's my youngest daughter. The eldest daughter is out..."
As he spoke, he tremblingly took out a match to light a cigarette. Liu Dazhu quickly took out a lighter and lit it for him.
"Brother, I am so lucky. I have two daughters. Where is the other one?"
"Oh, I went hunting in the mountains and I haven't come back yet. Why is this girl so disobedient? How long has it been and I haven't seen anyone yet..."
After hearing these words, Liu Dazhu finally understood a little bit. It turned out that the girl in the mountain was the sister of this girl. No wonder she didn't recognize him just now and almost caused another misunderstanding.
"These two daughters of yours are twins, they look exactly the same..." Liu Dazhu couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, they are twins, it's just a pity, alas..." After a moment of joy, Xu Laobao suddenly sighed.
At this time, the girl named Zimai brought a bowl of tea and placed it in front of Liu Dazhu. Then she blushed, turned around and left again, very shyly.
At this time, Liu Dazhu discovered that this girl was no different from the girl in the forest. Although the two looked very similar, this Zimai had long hair with a small ponytail on the back of his head, and he looked older.
The girl in the forest is more gentle, unlike the girl with the gun, who is a little wild.
"Brother, why are you sighing? What happened?" Liu Dazhu asked again after Zimai left.
"Her mother died in childbirth just to give birth to these two girls..." At this point, Xu Laobao's cloudy eyes were obviously moist.
At this time, Liu Dazhu suddenly did not dare to ask any more questions and quickly changed the topic.
"Brother, your place is a good place. The boss I know is definitely willing to invest, but I don't know if the people in your village are willing to rent the mountain land to him..."
"Don't worry about this, the village chief will listen to me..."
Hearing Liu Dazhu's words, Xu Laobao immediately became energetic again and nodded energetically.
At this moment, a wild boy carrying a shotgun walked in from outside. Liu Dazhu turned his head and looked, only to realize that it was the girl in the forest disguised as a man who had returned.
"Yingying, why have you been away for so long? Where are the hares and pheasants that I asked you to hunt?"
Xu Laobao stood up and said something dissatisfied, and then looked at Xu Ying's hands. There was no prey, only two wild bamboo shoots.
"I didn't hit it, so I just dug this..."
Xu Ying put the bamboo shoots on the ground, then carried the gun into the house, pretending not to recognize Liu Dazhu.
Looking at her like that, Liu Dazhu just wanted to laugh. It turned out that her name was Yingying, and the girl just now was her twin sister named Zimai.
These two girls are really opposite in their personalities and names. The somewhat wild tomboy is called Yingying, who is very feminine, while the gentle and shy little girl is called Zimai, a more neutral name.
"Well, I have two girls. The eldest girl is called Xu Ying. She has been like a boy since she was a child and has a personality like me. The younger one is named Zhao Zimai. She takes her mother's surname and has a personality like her mother. She is softer.
She is a nineteen-year-old girl, but she still doesn’t like to meet people, and she blushes when she talks.”
"Oh, it's good. Both sisters are very good..."
Liu Dazhu nodded.
Only then did I realize that the little girl was not named Xu, but took her mother's surname in memory of her mother. Perhaps it was Xu Laobao who wanted his wife to die so much that he gave the little girl the same surname as her mother. This is very strange.
Worth understanding.
Xu Laobao continued to drink tea and chat with Liu Dazhu. At this time, Zhao Zimai walked out of the house, squatted there and peeled the bamboo shoots, then fetched some water from the water tank and washed them there.
"Zimai, call your sister out, catch and kill the hen, and stew it for the distinguished guests at noon..."
Because he didn't catch any prey, Xu Laobao thought of killing the hen at home to entertain the guests.
"Dad, chicken, chicken is laying eggs..."
Zhao Zimai stood up, blushing, and whispered. Her voice was very low, and she did not dare to look directly into Liu Dazhu's eyes.
"Just kill them, even if they lay eggs..."
"Can't kill..." At this time, Xu Ying heard the words outside and suddenly ran out of the house.
She just didn't want Liu Dazhu to eat good food, so she returned empty-handed. But she didn't expect that her father would kill the chicken, which was even more impossible. The eggs laid by the chicken would have to be replaced with oil and salt. If he killed
Yes, what can I exchange for money in the future?
"Yingying, why are you so ignorant? Do you know that Liu Dazhu is a distinguished guest? He wants to bring people to invest in our village. What a good thing this is. What's wrong with eating a chicken?"
At this time, Xu Laobao stood up and seemed a little angry.
"Investment, who knows if he is here to deceive people like that person last time. Last time, that person came to our mountains and packed away a truckload of mountain goods. What happened?"
Xu Ying stared at Liu Dazhu, not believing this guy at all, feeling that he was more hateful than the last time. Although Mr. Chen deceived a car of all kinds of sluts last time, at least he didn't do anything to her, but this one
The ruffian actually deliberately imitated her when he was in the mountains. How could such a person trust him?
"He is different. Brother Dazhu is a good man. If you don't want to kill me, you will do it yourself..."
As Xu Laobao spoke, he walked over to take action, but Liu Dazhu quickly stopped him.
Although he wanted to eat stewed hens from the mountains, he couldn't watch the father and daughter quarreling. He quickly said: "Brother, no, no, no, there is really no need to kill the chicken. I don't eat meat. Bamboo shoots are good, very good."
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"Don't eat meat? No way?" Xu Laobao stopped and looked at him, feeling that he was so young, why didn't he eat meat?
"Really, I really don't eat meat. I believe in Buddhism. This month is my fasting month. I can't eat meat, I can only eat vegetarian food..."
"Oh...that's it. That's ok. How about eating bamboo shoots and a whole bowl of fried green lentils?"
Xu Laobao actually believed it because there was also a Buddhist in his village who was vegetarian from time to time.
"Okay, very good. The lentils are good. The lentils taste crisp and fresh..." Liu Dazhu nodded quickly, finally resolving the conflict between father and daughter.
At this time, Xu Ying glared at Liu Dazhu again, and her impression of him became even worse. This guy almost caused conflicts in their family when he came. It was really a disaster.
But Xu Ying didn't dare to say anything, she was just determined to keep an eye on him. If this guy dared to lie to her father, she would never be polite and would make him suffer.
Xu Ying walked back to the room angrily, took out a bamboo basket, walked to the wooden fence, and picked up the lentils hard, obviously still angry. These lentils were planted along the wooden fence, and the lentils were grown along the wooden fence.
The vines covered the fence, which was very beautiful.
"Dad, I'm going to cook..." Zhao Zimai washed the bamboo shoots, stood up and said to Xu Laobao.
"Well, go ahead and cook more so that your guests don't get hungry..."
"Okay." Zhao Zimai replied sweetly and softly.
At this time Liu Dazhu smiled at her, and she was so frightened that she quickly lowered her head. (To be continued)