Chapter 4 Uninvited Guest
Xie Yuan was carrying a pheasant, and was a little surprised when he was seen by familiar villagers along the way.
"Yuanzi, have you caught a pheasant?"
"Oh! Or should you ask Zhu Dongming to exchange it yourself?"
"Okay, okay, we can open meat, hey, I haven’t seen oil and water in a long time.”
"You have a big chick..."
After hearing these words, Xie Yuan pretended not to understand, just smiled politely and walked away, unmoved.
In the days after Xie Lun's death, except Wang Lei and Li Lan, no one else helped him, distribute food, borrow clothes, no one.
The eldest brother was not bad in popularity during his lifetime. He had a kind heart and a strong body, and he helped a lot. But once he left...
Xie Yuan did not blame anyone, and others did not owe him anything. , not to mention that life is difficult for the people in the village. They are worried about eating one meal and worrying about the next, maybe because they are powerless.
But if you expect him to share the meat, there is no way for him to eat enough.
It is not easy to eat meat in a mountain village. In the envious eyes of others, Xie Yuan returned home first, packed up all the remaining iron Yangchai, and then went to the next door.
"Yuanzi is here? The meal is not ready yet, wait a minute...what did you get?"
Li Lan's voice was fast and urgent. After he finished speaking, he saw Xie What is carried on Yuan's hand and what is carried on the back.
“Why is there a chicken?”
"Sister Lanhua, I cut down an iron poplar tree and asked Zhu Dongming to exchange it for a chicken. There is still some firewood here. You can use it to burn it. Don't freeze the tiger baby."
Xie Yuan said as he put the chicken He handed it to Li Lan and took off the firewood on his back.
Li Lan took the pheasant in a daze, then looked at the firewood on the ground, and unconsciously raised his voice:
"Tieyang? Yuanzi, can you still chop down Tieyang? ”
Xie Yuan chuckled:
"I can't be the one who picked it up, right? Tie Yang won't drop so many dead branches."
Li Lan smiled:
"Oh, I knew you were following your brother, if you have Don't worry! Just wait, I'll get the chicken right now. , add a big dish for lunch!”
While waiting for Li Lan to cook, Wang Lei came back from outside with a hoe and wondered:
“It smells so good. I could smell it from afar.”
"The pheasant that Yuanzi brought back! You wash your hands and you'll be fine soon."
"What? Pheasant?"
Wait for the four people to sit around the table and look at the pot The fragrant fried chicken made Huwa salivate. Just as he was about to reach out, he was hit with chopsticks.
Li Lan's eyes widened:
"How did you teach it? If the adults move the chopsticks, then you move them again!
"Yuanzi, eat quickly."
She gave the chicken legs to Xie Yuan, and Xie Yuan smiled and said:
"I can just pick it myself."
A few people They were all a bit impatient, stopped talking for a while, and started eating hard.
To be honest, there is no spices, soy sauce, cumin and chili, not even much salt. The woody and dry meat of this little pheasant, in his previous life, Xie Yuan would not even want to look at it.
But now, Xie Yuan's mouth was full and he almost cried.
It smells so good! Even this brown rice tastes delicious!
How could I have imagined before that it would take how many days to eat meat?
Unfortunately, the pheasant was too small, so the four of us ate it in one sitting, and both of them were still a little bit unsatisfied.
“There’s not much to gain... After a while, I’ll save some money and buy a fat chicken!”
Xie Yuan smacked his lips.
Li Lan pursed her lips and said:
"Yuanzi, you should save some money and don't waste it. Well, next time you have meat to eat, just make it yourself. If you don't , let my sister do it for you. Thank you today!”
Wang Lei also nodded.
Seeing this, Xie Yuan’s face fell:
"Sister Lanhua, why are you being polite to me?"
"No, but meat is expensive..."
"No matter how expensive meat is, it is not as valuable as my life. Without you, I would have been there long ago." I'm starving. How much have I eaten here? Don't say that again, I don't want to hear it."
Xie Yuan said with a straight face.
“Oh, you...”
Li Lan wiped her hands on her apron, feeling moved but didn't know what to say.
"I can chop iron poplars now, so eating meat occasionally is not a problem. The tiger baby is small, so he should eat more so that he can grow taller and stronger." Xie Yuan smiled again.
Wang Lei sighed with emotion:
"Yuanzi has grown up. Is the ax okay?"
"No problem, Brother Shitou, don't worry, I know it."
"That's good."
Wang Lei nodded:
"It's good now, you won't be hungry. I can still eat meat, but I still have to tell you.
"Zhang Laoer said before that he wanted to take you to the county to beg for your stuttering. With his elder brother taking care of you, your life is not bad. What do you think? ”
Xie Yuan frowned slightly, Zhang brothers?
He suddenly remembered that when his eldest brother left, Zhang Laoer found him and expressed a similar intention, but he was confused and did not agree, which seemed to make Zhang Laoer a little unhappy.
What do they want from me?
To be honest, the eldest brother didn't deal with the two Zhang brothers. If something good happened, it would be his turn.
Something is wrong.
Xie Yuan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said:
“I don’t know what their plan is, but it’s definitely not a good thing, so forget it.”
Li Lan and Wang Lei both nodded:
“We think so too, but we also feel that going to the county is always an opportunity.”
The prosperous county town is much better than the poverty in the mountain village. If there is a chance to make a living, many people are willing to .
Xie Yuan couldn't help but shook his head and said categorically:
"It's good to go to the county town, but are the two brothers of the Zhang family such good people? It's such a good thing. They don't take advantage of their relatives and friends, so why would they come to me? I'm afraid that's not the case. Opportunities are traps. "
Xie Yuan knew too much about things like blind mountains and blind wells that specialize in trapping fellow villagers.
Li Lan and his wife nodded repeatedly. They thought vaguely in their hearts, but they felt that they could not give up the opportunity to enter the county town.
They are uneducated and have not experienced the information explosion. Unlike Xie Yuan who understands the Tao so clearly, they are always a little hesitant.
Wang Lei smashed his mouth and sighed:
"Yuanzi seems to have grown up suddenly."
In the next few days, Xie Yuan chopped all the iron poplars into fine firewood, and then Went to Zhu Dongming's place to exchange for a rabbit.
Zhu Dongming piled firewood on the fire, nodded and said:
"Yuanzi, your iron poplar has a strong firewood, so my son can have a warm winter."
Although his conditions are relatively good in the village, if he really wants to buy Tie Yang Chai, he might not be able to part with it.
Two small pheasants and hares were exchanged for such a large basket. He didn’t say anything, but he knew in his heart that he was taking advantage.
"What are you talking about? Brother Zhu, this game is very fragrant."
Xie Yuan sighed in his heart, eating meat is really not cheap. After a few days of getting this iron poplar, he ended up eating two meals. Eaten meat.
But the benefits were immediate. After eating the meat, he was obviously in better physical condition and had more strength to swing the axe.
"By the way, Yuanzi, it's best not to run too deep into the woods recently. Our people seem to have spotted a big insect."
Zhu Dongming suddenly reminded.
"Ah? OK, I understand, thank you, Brother Zhu."
Xie Yuan was startled and nodded.
He was a little surprised. Zhu Dongming, who had always had a black face and rude words to others, took the initiative to remind him? Not easy.
Big bug?
Xie Yuan kept this in mind, but he would not run into the mountains.
A few more days passed.
Xie Yuan was chopping firewood in his yard when he felled another iron poplar tree in the forest.
【Chopping firewood: (168/1000)】
"The progress is not slow. In about a month, I will be able to advance to the next level. I wonder what I will be able to do then?"
Xie Yuan chopped down the firewood with an axe, breaking the firewood into two pieces.
Just as I was looking forward to the future, the door of the small courtyard was suddenly pushed open.
A ruthless voice came in:
"Yuanzi, how have you considered what I told you before?"
(End of this chapter)