As soon as Liu Qingshan returned home, before she even sat down the stool, her mother first asked him if he had done what she had told him.

"Oh, I've sold it. Mom, even if you don't explain, I will do this." As he said that, Liu Qingshan took a bowl and wanted to pour oil tea from the thermos pot.

But my mother snatched it: "Dode, you are smart, then you, a smart person, go wash your hands quickly. If you don't wash your hands, don't touch the dishes. You are such a big person, and you still need people to teach you, just like your father."

Liu Qingshan smiled helplessly and quickly washed his hands. When he came back, a bowl of hot oil tea had already poured into the bowl, with fine chopped green onion and bright red peanuts floating on it.

"Have your big grandma seen you?" My mother asked while picking out the things Liu Qingshan bought one by one.

Liu Qingshan swallowed a mouthful of hot tea, but hurriedly covered his neck: This tea is so hot!

Then he shook his head with pain: "No, I haven't seen you."

"Oh." My mother sighed, "Then if you have money in the future, buy her more vegetables. She is alone and it doesn't matter if we eat less ourselves, don't you?"

"Yeah." Liu Qingshan nodded, "Mom, don't worry, I know. However, I haven't been to my second grandfather's house yet, I'll go there in a few days."

"The second grandfather has many children. When you go, you buy some snacks for the children. You know who your uncle is. If you have money, you would rather use it to bet than buy some food for the children. Last time I saw your cousins ​​picking up what others threw on the ground, licking the spicy strips bags, and it would be pitiful when you see it. When you go, it doesn't matter if you buy some less food. Remember to buy snacks for the children."

Hearing my mother's words, Liu Qingshan smiled: "Mom, when I was not at home, my second grandfather and my second uncle helped us a lot. If you go to his house for dinner, of course, you must not miss food, and children's snacks."

My mother was so relaxed when she heard what he said, she smiled and said, "Oh, I've been a boss for a day, and my tail is raised. Come and tell me how much money I made today."

Liu Qingshan swallowed the last bite of oil tea, put down the tea bowl and left: "Hey, I won't tell you."

"Tsk, just like you, I guess those people were scared away before they could ask the price of bamboo shoots." My mother said to her son's back.

Liu Qingshan just smiled proudly, just not telling her how much it sold today.

In fact, he himself doesn’t know how much he sold it. Now his family still has a lot of things to do, so he should wait until he has time to calculate his income today.

However, Liu Qingshan estimated that it should not be less than 1,000 yuan, because winter bamboo shoots are more than 100 kilograms.

After Liu Qingshan took a short rest, he began to clean his clothes.

There is no washing machine at home, and you can only wash everything such as clothes and bedding by hand.

Fortunately, there is a small stream at the junction between the yard and the foot of the east mountain.

The stream flows out from the valley to the north, which is cool and sweet. In the past, many people lived in the old village, and they drank the water from this stream.

Everyone dig a puddle in the place where water seeps in the valley to store water, and then use a water pipe to directly lead the water from the puddle back home.

Now the only one left in the old village is Liu Qingshan and his family, and all the water pipes that were originally crisscrossed have been removed.

When I returned to the stream and stopped and watched, there were only the clear stream water, the orange sand of the river, and a few old ducks in the house fluttering in the water, while a few were lying on the haystacks on the shore to bask in the sun.

As soon as Liu Qingshan arrived, the ducks shook their butts and ran away quackly.

My mother shouted from the gate: "Qingshan, I see that there are still some bamboo shoots in your bag, why don't you eat pork fried bamboo shoots tonight?"

Liu Qingshan smiled bitterly and said, "Mom, just make the decision on what you eat. Ask me what I'm doing."

My mother smiled and said, "I asked you, aren't you afraid that you don't like to eat?"

"As long as it is made by you, I like to eat it." Liu Qingshan responded loudly.

Although this was perfunctory, my mother suddenly smiled when she heard this: "Then you have washed your clothes later, and then go to the land where your second grandfather has exchanged it for our family to pick some wild leeks, and mom will stir-fry you an egg."

"I know."

Alas, it's so easy for women to coax.

After Liu Qingshan knocked on the clothes with a wooden stick, he walked towards the valley to the north as his mother told him.

The yard extends from the gate to the valley to the north, in a narrow shape.

The widest part of the yard is about twenty meters, but the length is more than one hundred meters.

When you reach the end of more than 100 meters, you will find two chicken coops made of large cement piles. The chickens and ducks at home usually stay overnight here.

At the door of the chicken coop was a large and steep stone slab. My father knocked several depressions on the stone slab with a hammer. Walking up the stone slab, passing through a collapsed fence door, and then coming to a very flat place.

This land was originally a piece of farmland, about one acre. This paddy field did not originally belong to Liu Qingshan's family, but to a man who had separated his wife and children in the village. This man's life was a bit more difficult than that of Liu Qingshan's family.

But Liu Qingshan's parents are kind-hearted people. Whenever this man comes to the house for free, both of them will treat him well.

Later, before the man died of illness, he gave more than acres of land to Liu Qingshan's family, saying that he wanted to repay their family.

Since then, this place has been returned to Liu Qingshan's house

That happened ten or twenty years ago

After getting this land, my father dug a pond in the land and raised some grass carp. However, because of negligence in management, the pond collapsed and gradually turned into dry land.

Go past the pond and walk up a few stone steps, and another piece of land.

This land is higher than that acre of land, but smaller, and the higher land is barely about one acre. These two lands belong to Liu Qingshan’s family.

And there is another piece of land on these two pieces of land...

The land is relatively small, about one cent. This land belongs to the second grandfather's house.

This piece of land is next to the stream. After passing through the stream, there are many pieces of land. These lands are also flat, but they are all very small, almost only about one part, and then they are stacked to the mountainside piece by piece to form a ladder.

These ladders have never been planted since the second grandfather changed to Liu Qingshan's house.

After all, Liu Qingshan either goes to school or works outside, and his father is the only labor force at home. He really has no time to take care of these small mountain areas.

Therefore, these ladders are already covered with weeds and shrubs.

And these lands are only less than one-tenth of all the lands of Liu Qingshan’s family.

So from this perspective, although Liu Qingshan's family is poor, he can be regarded as a small landlord.

The wild leeks that my mother mentioned grow in these ladders next to the stream.

Wild leeks can grow in dry land or by the water.

However, this guy obviously prefers wet environments, so they grow better by the water.

Without any damage, the swaying figure of the green leaves is no more elegant than the orchids that are loved by those literati and poets.

However, one is wild vegetables and the other is flowers and plants, and the value is instantly increased.

The wild leeks grow everywhere, and no one has ever seen them grow in the flower pot because they love their figure. Instead, they pull their leaves and chop them into dishes.

However, those pretentious orchids, because they cannot be eaten, will bloom, and they have changed from mountain men to pretending to be pretending.

Alas, it’s sad. Leek probably thinks this way.

Instead of cutting the leeks with a knife, Liu Qingshan still picked them one by one with his hands.

When he got home, he handed it to his mother. His mother told him to beat eggs, cut bamboo shoots, wash leeks, and chop leeks.

After all this, the dusk fell in a daze.

At this time, my father came back from the mountain and carried a large bundle of firewood on his shoulders.

Although my father is a big man, the firewood he tied up was so delicate that the girl tied her hair. The firewood was almost the same length, and was tightly tied together by two red vines, closely next to each other. It looked like a girl's hair, and like bundles of noodles.

As for my father, he was covered in stains, with dry fallen leaves, with ghost needles, sweat mud, and some small insects.

Seeing my father like this, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but think of the second grandfather he met in the mountains yesterday.

The second grandfather is older than his father, so he insists on going into the mountains to chop wood every day in order to let the family spend a warm winter.

In fact, it is not just my father, nor the second grandfather. Every old man in the mountain village, even in his seventies or eighties, as long as he still has the strength and can still walk around, he will not be willing to sit at home and enjoy the happiness.

Liu Qingshan said, "Dad, don't chop wood in the future. If you want to chop, just chop a little bit of it. There is no need to cut such a large bundle."

My father lifted up his clothes, wiped the sweat stains on his face, and smiled and said, "I don't chop wood, why are you burning?"

Liu Qingshan was a little unhappy when he saw that his father didn't take his words seriously: "I'll just chop wood in the future."

Not only wasn't moved when my father heard this, he asked, "Do you have to stay at home to chop wood all your life? After the Chinese New Year, don't you go out to work? Even if you can help your family chop some wood in the past few months, when you leave, will I still want to continue chop wood?"

Liu Qingshan stopped talking.
Chapter completed!