little son-in-law

It rained a little that night, and Mo Nanjin just came out of the warm room the next morning, and was shivered by the cold wind in the wind, "Add another piece of clothes, now the season is changing, you Don't get sick, don't get sick." Nangong Jingshen followed behind with the two little guys in her hands. Seeing that he was wearing thin clothes, she said worriedly, after all, Xiao Jin's current body could no longer be the same as it was six years ago. compared to.

"It's okay, I went to cut firewood in the mountains today, and my body became hot when I started working. Besides, I couldn't move around if I wore too much clothes. It was very awkward." Mo Nanjin turned around and tugged on the collars of the two little guys, and continued: "Fortunately, I gave you small cotton padded clothes today, isn't it warm?" The two little guys changed into a light purple close-fitting thin cotton padded jacket today. The collar and cuffs were trimmed with light yellow satin. A new layer of cotton, fluffy and soft, very light.

Xingzhi nodded and said, "It's very warm, but it's heavy."

Jing Zhi also twisted his body, feeling that something was wrong all over.

"This padded coat is of course more important than unlined ones. Just get used to it. Look at how cold it is outside today. If you are sick, everyone has to drink a big bowl of the bitterest medicinal soup." Mo Nanjin threatened with a frown on purpose .

Thinking of the black concoction, the two little guys wrinkled their little noses in disgust, waved their hands and said, "Don't take medicine, don't take medicine."

Mo Nanjin smiled and said: "Okay, if you don't take medicine, just get dressed obediently, and let's go to the backyard to wash up."

The two little guys nodded in unison, as if they were afraid of taking medicine too late, they ran out first.

"Look at the ground, don't slip and fall." Mo Nanjin yelled from behind.

"Why do you bother to scare them?" Nangong Jing looked deeply at Mo Nanjin, who was smiling and happy. This man spared no effort to play tricks on his son.

"Don't scare me, I don't remember anything. It was cold in autumn last year. I was tired from playing and felt hot. I took off my outer shirt secretly. At that time, there was a lot of work in the field. I didn't look at it. I'm sick, it's a lot of trouble. The child is sick, and I don't know where to feel comfortable, so I hold you and shout: Daddy, it hurts, Daddy, it hurts. Let me follow suit." Mo Nanjin thinks of it every time Talk to Nangong Jingshen about the little guy's past.

"These years have made you tired." Nangong Jing said, holding his shoulders deeply, he knew that Xiao Jin wanted to give him a little bit of the little guy's past that he hadn't been able to participate in.

"On the contrary, it's because of these two little guys that I don't feel hard all these years." Mo Nanjin turned around in his arms, smiled, and said half-seriously: "You should be grateful for having them. It's not for the children, maybe I'll kick you out the day you come."

Nangong Jingshen didn't care about Xiaojin's bluff, her eyes lit up, and she said in a low voice: "In this way, I think I should be most grateful to myself."

Mo Nanjin looked puzzled and asked, "How do you say that?"

A sly smile appeared on the corner of Nangong Jingshen's mouth and said: "Fortunately, I let them live in your stomach wisely and decisively back then." After finishing speaking, afraid of retaliation, she first tightened her arms as a rogue.

Mo Nanjin squinted his eyes and looked at his childish movements in amused manner. He couldn't move his upper body, so he raised his leg and gave him a kick, cursing, "I'm making you talk nonsense." What does this kind of thing have to do with being decisive?

Nangong Jingshen's smile deepened, and she discussed: "How about, Xiao Jin, let's have another one?"

Mo Nanjin remained silent. After all, he and Nangong Jingshen were related by blood. It is rare for Jingzhi and Xingzhi to be healthy. Who knows whether the heaven will always favor them.But it seems unnecessary to worry about these now. During these days, the two of them have not been together once or twice, and they already have it if they want to.

"Little Jin, what's the matter?" Seeing that he didn't speak, Nangong Jing thought it was because he didn't want it, so she said quickly: "If you don't like it, we don't want it. Two little guys are enough. I wanted to I want to be with you, we don’t have a child, so we will adopt Zhiyuan’s.” After all, it is reasonable to let Xiao Jin conceive an heir as a man.

Mo Nanjin glanced at him lightly and said, "Let's talk about this later." Although he didn't want to have another child, if he did, he would not refuse.But it's not a bad thing to make Nangong Jingshen anxious, anyway, it's not him who gave birth to the child, and it's all at his own disadvantage.

"Master, why haven't you..." Xiao Mo saw the posture of the two hugging each other, his eyes widened, and the sound was automatically muted.Unnecessary, he turned around and coughed, and couldn't help turning his head to take another peek. Facing Mo Nanjin's restless gaze, his fingers trembled, and he said loudly, "Master, it's time to eat."

Breakfast is eaten in the kitchen, the stove has not been extinguished, the room is warm, the porridge is warming in the pot, and it is eaten and served with freshly baked radish and cabbage pies, and it is everywhere in the stomach. appropriate.

After breakfast, a group of four took poles, ropes and machetes and prepared to go into the mountains. Just in case, he also brought a simple bow and arrow. Xiao Mo deliberately carried the big bamboo basket at home, just to pick some Mountain goods.

Because it had just rained, and it was still early, the fog in the mountains was heavy, and a layer of leaves fell on the path into the mountains. After walking for a short time, the trousers and shoes were wet, and it was very cold to stick to the body. Mo Nanjin regretted that Baba came so early.

But now that he has come, there is absolutely no reason to return.Fortunately, as the sun rose slowly, the fog on the mountain faded a lot, and the sunlight on the fallen leaves was very dazzling.

The road they are taking now is not the same as the one that Mo Nanjin usually goes into the mountain. The back mountain that Mo Nanjin often goes to has a lot of miscellaneous shrubs and wild fruit trees, but the forest is sparse. It is already considered part of the forest land, and there is no shortage of trees.

Before entering the woodland, they had to pass through a barren slope full of weeds. No one had walked here for a long time, and the grass was waist-high.

The snake was missing, but the wild rabbit and pheasant were quite startled. Nangong Jingshen and Ming Ting were good at their hands. They shot three pheasants and four wild rabbits along the way. The autumn pheasants and rabbits were all fat. of flowing oil.Xiao Mo was happy to be a little follower, happily ran over to pull out the arrows, and threw them all into his seemingly bottomless bamboo basket.

The trees here are not too thick, but the amount is incomparable in the back mountain. According to their experience in the past, the thickness of the charcoal is just right for the arm.

After choosing a place, the four of them split up and picked the thickest branches as much as possible. The small trees had to be left to grow. Nangong Jingshen and Ming Ting took the chopped firewood to the foot of the mountain, where there was a family named Yun in the town. The charcoal kiln dug by the family lived next to Yun Wu and his blind old lady.In fact, burning charcoal doesn’t seem to be difficult. It’s nothing more than cutting the wood into three-foot-long pieces of wood, putting them into the charcoal stove densely next to each other, and blocking the firewood gate with some small branches, and then you can light the fire and burn the charcoal. At first, the color of the smoke was very strong, but it gradually faded away. At this time, the fire can be turned off. After two days, the flue connecting the charcoal will also be blocked. After a few days, the fire can be completely turned off. out of the kiln.Mo Nanjin hadn't seen it once or twice. He was already very familiar with the process, but it was not easy to grasp the temperature of the fire. To be on the safe side, let others do the cooking, which means paying an extra [-] copper coins.

The charcoal from this kiln costs about seven or eight hundred catties. Many people are joint ventures. Mo’s family has a lot of them. Every year, they produce a kiln independently. The business is relatively light, and he has always known that Mo Nanjin is a decent person. He has never haggled over the price, and he has gone up the mountain to help choose a few times. Even so, they were still busy for four or five days. For example, five catties of wood is one catty of charcoal, so they cut more than 3000 catties of firewood.

All the firewood has gone into the kiln, and only waiting for the charcoal to come out, Mo Nanjin has nothing to worry about. Taking advantage of Nangong Jingshen and the time when he will go down the mountain tomorrow to deliver the last two loads of firewood, he and Xiao Mo are walking around in the mountains. The rain today is very special. There are many, the mushrooms in the mountains grow well, they are plump and juicy, and they can be seen everywhere under the roots of trees and in the grass. Of course, most of them don’t know the mushrooms, and they only focus on picking a few commonly eaten ones. Be careful if you eat poisonous mushrooms, you will lose more than you gain. In short, be careful.

The two were talking, picking mushrooms, and slowly climbed up the mountain. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the grass behind them. Mo Nanjin heard it first, and motioned Xiao Mo to keep quiet, and he took the machete to fight. After passing by, Xiao Mo wanted to come over with a nervous face, but was stopped by Mo Nanjin's hand.

Before Mo Nanjin could get close, a small black figure jumped out of the grass and jumped on Mo Nanjin.

Xiao Mo didn't see what it was, so he yelled "Ah" in fright.Looking intently again, I saw Mo Nanjin sitting on the ground, grabbing Xiao Maotou's ears, and said with a smile, "How did you get here, you little thing?"

Regardless of the ear that was still in his hand, Xiao Maotou approached affectionately to lick Mo Nanjin's hand.

Big Maotou also sprang out from behind, wagging his tail to compete for favor.

Xiao Mo came over angrily, slapped each head, and cursed: "I'm scared to death by you." The two little creatures opened their big moist eyes, and their ears drooped to the point of grievance.

Xiao Mo pinched his waist and wanted to continue to attack them. Mo Nanjin was laughed at by the big couple, squeezed the flesh on Xiao Mo's face, and said: "Okay, how old are you, what do you care about with them?" ?”

"Don't dare to scare people next time, go home and peel the dog meat." Xiao Mo threatened the two dogs bluffing.

The two little things didn't know if they understood, and they hid behind Mo Nanjin with two "owwow".

"You three brothers, let's make out here, I saw wild persimmons on the top of the mountain." Mo Nanjin threw the last handful of mushrooms in Xiao Mo's back basket, and ignored them.

"Master, do you think they are my brothers?" Xiao Mo wailed from behind and ran over.

They had seen the wild persimmon forest a few days ago, all the leaves had fallen, and from a distance, only red persimmons hung on the treetops like little lanterns.But at that time, I was busy chopping firewood, so I didn't care about these things. Today, I can pick enough.

It seemed that the persimmons were already very soft, and they didn't dare to hit them with branches. They fell to the ground and fell to pieces, so they had nothing to eat.Although Xiao Mo doesn't know martial arts, but his hands and feet are very nimble, so he handed over the basket behind him to Mo Nanjin.He took off his shirt and tied it casually around his waist. Using his hands and feet together, he rubbed a few times before flipping onto a lower branch of a big tree.

"Master, you eat first, and I'll pick it later." Xiao Mo plucked one and tasted it first, then touched a big and red one from the tree and threw it to Mo Nanjin.

Mo Nanjin raised his hand to grab it, and it was cold at the beginning. In fact, it was not as soft as expected, but the skin was very thin, and the flesh inside seemed to come out, which made them mistakenly think that it was cooked and soft.

Mo Nanjin rubbed it casually twice. The wild persimmons were at most stained with soil, and they were not dirty. When I bit them down, my teeth froze. It really is different.There are only four very thin cores inside.

Xiao Mo wrapped persimmons with his clothes on the tree, and Mo Nanjin found some Shanlihong on the mountain. In fact, he couldn't tell the difference between hawthorn and Shanlihong, but people here in Nanshan call this thing Shanlihong. From Mo Nanjin's point of view, it is bigger than ordinary hawthorn, with thicker flesh and a little sweeter, and the rest is almost the same. In winter, sugar is boiled and coated with a thick layer of sugar, which is a winter treat for children. The snacks are really good.

"Xiao Mo, it's almost enough, look down, don't step on the air." Mo Nanjin couldn't help shouting while watching Xiao Mo climb higher and higher while picking the reds in the mountains.

"Understood, young master, you keep this bag, it can't hold it anymore." The persimmons in Xiao Mo's clothes were tied down with a rope, Mo Nanjin untied them, picked up the persimmons in the basket, and Xiao Mo pulled the rope again. The clothes are pulled up.

When Nangong Jingshen and Ming Ting came back, they both took off half of the basket of Shanlihong and wild persimmons.

"Try it too, both of you, it's sweet." Mo Nanjin took two wild persimmons from the basket and handed them to them.

Nangong Jingshen hadn't eaten it, and thought it was very fresh, but Ming Ting didn't feel so comfortable eating it. While eating, he was distracted by staring at Xiao Mo who was jumping up and down on the tree like a monkey.

Over the top of this mountain, there is a gentle valley. The mountain in the valley is shrouded in mist, and it cannot be seen how deep it is, but they are not interested in going down to investigate, but Xiao Mo saw a small piece of corn growing on the mountainside with sharp eyes. Hey, it's this season, and the corn leaves are still as green as new.It may be due to the lack of sunlight, the corn is not full, the size is small, and many even have no particles at all.However, the pickers also found thirty or forty small corns, pinched them with their fingertips, and they were tender and watery, which is considered a new item in this season.

Not far from the corn field, there was a small stream of water seeping out from the mountains. Next to the stream, Mo Nanjin actually found a few taro plants. Taro plants can be seen everywhere in his hometown of Linyang, but he had never seen them in Nanshan Town. , Maybe this valley is humid and warm, so few trees grow. Xiao Mo and Ming Ting also recognize this thing. They were both very excited to see the familiar thing, so they dug it out with a machete, went to the mud, and found They are really big, the biggest one is as big as a small watermelon.

This time I went to the mountain to gain a lot, so I only carried a basket on my back, and I couldn’t take it anymore. Fortunately, every household has bamboo baskets. Ming Ting plans to borrow one from Yun Wu at the foot of the mountain. It’s not a big deal , the folks in the village must agree.

As soon as Ming Ting left, the three of them were about to dig out the remaining taro, when they heard the big and small ones left on the hill screaming loudly.