It may be because he was too tired last night. When Zhang Wuliang woke up in the morning, Chen Xiaonian was still soundly asleep. He crept up from the bed, put on his clothes and went out. He went to the well, rubbed his face with cold water, and took The hatchet and pole went up the mountain.

The mountain that Taohe Village is backed by is called Crouching Tiger Mountain. It got its name because it looks like a big tiger lying down and sleeping soundly from a distance.Even the most experienced hunters dare not go into the mountains alone. Every year when the medicine is needed, the herb collectors and hunters form a small team of more than a dozen people to go together. The most careful walking in the deep mountains.Otherwise, you may die if you are not careful.

However, Zhang Wuliang collects firewood only at the outskirts of the mountain. There are many kinds of trees in the outskirts of the mountain, such as pine, cypress, and various fruit trees: peaches, apricots, pears, kiwis, grapes, and chestnuts, as well as many shrubs.

However, except for some evergreen trees, the leaves of other trees have fallen off, and a layer of dead leaves is spread on the ground, and the eyes are bare.

Zhang Wuliang walked in along the usual mountain road, he would take a breath, exhale, refresh his mind.

People in the village have their own method of dividing the mountains and forests on the outskirts. It is clear which piece is yours and which piece is his. No one cares whether you collect firewood to open up wasteland or plant trees in your own land boundary.As long as you don't run into other people's territory, of course you're going inside.That's public. Zhang Wuliang spent most of the incense burning time walking to the top of the hill of his home, and started to work with a hatchet.

Zhang Wuliang worked hard and the time passed quickly, the sky gradually became brighter, and the village gradually became lively. Zhang Wuliang was walking home with two bundles of newly cut firewood. On the way, he met someone who was tidying up in the yard. The villagers greeted him: "Daniu went up the mountain so early?"

Zhang Wuliang smiled at him: "That's right, Aunt Cuihua also got up quite early."

"I can't sleep when I'm old, unlike those brats in my family who can sleep until half the morning and don't know how to get up and help me with work."

"My aunt is not old, she is young. Brother Da Zhuang and the others are lucky to have a mother like you."

"You child, you will say something nice to coax me, an old woman."

"Where? I'm telling the truth. Who doesn't know that Aunt Cuihua is a flower in our Taohe Village."

Zhang Wuliang saw that although she spoke dislike but had a smile on her face, she obviously loved to listen, so she kept saying good things, and couldn't hide the smile on Aunt Cuihua's face.

Sure enough, no matter what era or age women like to hear others praise themselves.

"Okay, okay, glib, hurry up, your husband is still waiting for you at home."

Zhang Wuliang chuckled: "That's fine, Aunt Cuihua, I'll go first."

"Let's go." Aunt Cuihua waved at him pretending to be disgusted.

When Zhang Wuliang got home, it turned out that Chen Xiaonian had already cooked breakfast and was stuffed in the pot. The whole family waited for him without eating. They took it out of the pot and put it on the table when he came back, "Brother Zhang, you are hungry, hurry up." Come and eat."

"Here we come." Zhang Wuliang put the firewood in the yard, washed his hands, sat on the stool, and began to eat.

Halfway through eating, I heard Chen Xiaonian say: "Brother Zhang, shall I give you a piece to go up the mountain later?"

"Huh?" Zhang Wuliang swallowed the corn lumps in his mouth and said, "No, I can do it by myself. You can help mother prepare winter shoes and jackets at home."

"No." Chen Xiaonian insisted: "The weather is good these few days, so let's go and collect more firewood together. This year's firewood, when you have to collect firewood by yourself, I will help you, and you can relax a bit. When the weather stops going up the mountain, I will be in a hurry to prepare shoes and jackets."

When he said this, he glanced at Aunt Zhao who was eating next to him, and felt relieved to see that she had no objection.

Then he stared at Zhang Wuliang stubbornly, other people's families were from the same family, and he was the only one in his own family, how could his body that was so greedy from morning to night bear it.

Zhang Wuliang thinks about it, it makes sense, and Chen Xiaonian is also a man, it's not good to stay in the house all day: "Okay then, let's go together later."

Zhang Zhenyong was listening, looked up at Zhang Wuliang and said, "Brother, I'm going too."

"Okay, let's go together." Anyway, it's okay to bring one, and it's okay to bring two.

Zhang Wuliang took the two of them into the mountain together, and didn't ask them to do heavy work. He just took a rake to collect some dead pine needles from pine trees to light the fire, and helped him tie up the firewood he cut.

Aunt Zhao sent the lunch to the woods, and the food was a bit cold with the cold wind.

But no matter how cold the food is, it can't hide Zhang Zhenyong's passion. It is the first time for a child to eat a meal given by others. In Zhang Zhenyong's limited cognition, this is the treatment that only adults who work at home have. Just thinking about how to show off to my friends tomorrow.

A group of people have been busy all day, Zhang Wuliang has moved up and down the mountain several times, and there are more and more firewood in the yard, and several people feel a little tired.Especially Zhang Zhenyong, in the end he was so tired that he didn't even want to talk, and he refused to go back first, insisting on helping them, the little child showed great resilience, Zhang Wuliang felt distressed and relieved, and finally There was no other choice but to call it a day and take them back.

Zhang Zhenyong fell asleep while eating at night, and almost fell into the bowl. Fortunately, Zhang Wuliang was watching and protecting him.

Zhang Wuliang carried him into the room, took off his coat and put him on the bed. Here Chen Xiaonian brought in a basin of hot water and said softly, "Wash him, he's sweating a lot today, and it's hard to fall asleep if he doesn't wipe it off."

Zhang Wuliang nodded, and was about to pick it up, but was stopped by Mrs. Zhao who came in from behind. She lowered her voice and said, "Come on, I've finished my meal. You've been tired all day, hurry up and eat your meal. Wait." It should be cold. Then wash up and go to bed early, put the bowl there, and I will wash it later."

Zhang Wu nodded brightly.

Aunt Zhao took the basin, put it beside the bed, sat on the side of the bed, and drove them out with a wave.

Although Mrs. Zhao said so, Zhang Wuliang accompanied Chen Xiaonian to wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen before going to bed.

A young body is always easy to recover. After Zhang Wuliang had a good night's sleep, he woke up the next day and forgot how tired he was from yesterday.

But after breakfast, he didn't go to the mountain again, but just collected the dead leaves and stems around his yard.Then he took out the manure collected before and spread it in the yard. After Zhang Wuliang finished these things, he turned around and went out after thinking about it: "Mother, brother Nian, I'm going to visit uncle's house."

Aunt Zhang didn't ask why, she just said: "Understood, pay attention to safety on the road."

"Got it..." The voice that came from this meeting was already far away, and I saw that the person had already left the courtyard.

Uncle Zhang’s house is not far away, and it takes only a few minutes. When Zhang Wuliang arrived, everyone in the uncle’s family was weaving bamboo baskets in the yard.

When Uncle Zhang went out to do part-time jobs in his early years, he learned a little about weaving bamboo baskets.Then I came back and fumbled by myself, but I found some ways, and now the compilation is pretty good.

During the slack season, I made some and sold them.Although I don't earn much, it is already a good income in the countryside where everything depends on the fields and there is no extra money all year round.

So Uncle Zhang’s family is doing well. Uncle Zhang misses the orphans and widows left behind by his cousin. He always thinks about taking care of Zhang Daniu’s family when there is nothing to do. Sometimes he asked his two sons to help Zhang Daniu.

Zhang Daniu has always remembered this kindness, and Zhang Wuliang can feel Zhang Daniu's closeness to his uncle's family from the residual emotions in his body, which is why he came here today.

People don't want to do anything, but I have to be grateful. Zhang Wuliang sighed, pushed open the courtyard door, looked at Uncle Zhang who was sitting in the courtyard weaving bamboo baskets, and called: "Uncle", and then said to the man standing next to him. Zhang Zhenzong, who split the bamboo, called out: "Brother". Looking at the absence of Zhang Erge and Zhang Ergou, he must have gone to town.

"Huh?" As soon as Uncle Zhang looked up and saw him, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he said, "Daniu is here, come here, come and sit quickly, my son, Da Niu is here, pour him a glass of water quickly .”

Brother Zhang smiled at him as a response, then put down the scimitar in his hand, and prepared to pull a stool from the side for him to sit on.

Zhang Wuliang waved his hands again and again: "No, no, I just have something to ask my elder brother for help."

Brother Zhang didn't stop when he heard the words, he knocked the crumbs on the small bench, handed it to him, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Wuliang had no choice but to take it and sit down: "I'm going to burn compost in the afternoon, and I want to ask my elder brother to help me."

"Huh?" Brother Zhang also sat down beside him, and asked with some doubts after hearing this: "What kind of fat are you burning at this time?"

Zhang Wuliang explained: "Isn't there a lot of family members this year? In addition, the stone has grown up, so I thought about reorganizing the land at the end of my village. It may not be well cleaned up in the past few years, and I am a little poor. Thinking about burning some fat for him."

This is not an excuse, Zhang Wuliang is not an old-fashioned farmer before adding it, and he can't take care of the land at home. Plant some crops such as corn and soybeans that don't require much effort. If you don't clean them up, the fertility will naturally decrease.

Brother Zhang nodded, obviously understanding what he said.

At this time, Uncle Zhang, who was sitting next to him, said: "This land must be rectified, but the fertilizer produced is for burning seedlings. I'm afraid it won't work in dry land. If your house doesn't have so much fertilizer, you can wait until spring comes. Come get some at my house."

Zhang Wuliang lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "I found a method not long ago, which can kill the fire in burning fertilizer, but I don't know if it will work. .”

Although he knew that there was no problem with this method, he was not full of words.

When Uncle Zhang heard what he said, he was relieved that Zhang Wuliang's family did not lack those few pieces of land.Even if there is no harvest this year, wait until next year. At worst, if I help with this, it will be regarded as giving the child some experience.

Zhang Wuliang didn't know that Uncle Zhang was already planning to use this incident to increase his experience, so he looked at Brother Zhang when he agreed.

Brother Zhang saw that Uncle Zhang didn't object anymore, so he didn't say anything. He nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go there in the afternoon."

"Okay, then I will wait for you at home in the afternoon." Seeing that he agreed, Zhang Wuliang got up and said goodbye: "Then uncle, I will leave first."

At this moment, Brother Zhang's daughter-in-law, Zhang Lin, came out with a bowl of water. Seeing that he was about to leave, she was taken aback for a moment: "Is Daniel leaving soon? Why don't you sit down?"

"No, sister-in-law, I have something to do at home, so I'll go back first."

Zhang Wuliang greeted her, then turned and left.

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