Chapter 45 Going Down the Mountain
Lu Jinnian has been wandering around the nearby mountains for the past few days, and has been wandering around for several days, but has not found a suitable place.
If the house is built in the original place, it may not be safe. After all, the children have been found before, and there are also those men in black.
In fact, those men in black have always made her feel uneasy, but after such a long time, there is no problem, which makes her relax a lot.
But the house can't be built there anymore.
Seeing that spring is coming and the snow has melted, Lu Jinnian is still very happy.
She can't go into the mountains in the winter, which makes her have nothing to do.
Recently, the family has been stable. Lu Jincheng is studying and teaching his younger brothers and sisters from time to time. There is also enough food at home.
Lu Jinnian looked at the melting snow on the ground, which has turned into mud soup, and the yard has become a puddle.
She took a shovel to dig a drainage channel to divert the water in the yard to the fence, which will be better.
At least she won't go into the puddle when she comes out, and her shoes won't be wet forever.
After doing all this, Lu Jinnian carried the backpack, said hello and went down the mountain.
The nearby village was not bad. She wanted to settle down there, but she didn't know the situation in the village, so she wanted to go there first to understand the situation.
It was almost noon when she arrived at the place. It took almost two hours to walk there. It was really far.
After putting the things in the backpack, she went to Li Changhu's house at the head of the village first. The last time the two of them bartered, the transaction went smoothly. The other party was also a good person, so it was a good choice to ask him.
When she arrived at the place, she saw that there was no one in the yard, so she stood at the gate and shouted.
"Is anyone there?"
If she went in without asking, what would she say if something was lost?
And the gate was open, she thought there should be someone at home.
Sure enough, as soon as the voice fell, she saw the door of the hut opened and a woman walked out.
"Who are you looking for?" The woman looked at the other person warily, because she didn't know this person, which meant that this person was not from the village.
Hearing this, Lu Jinnian replied, "I exchanged cabbages for yours some time ago. I came here today to ask you something."
Cabbages?
Upon hearing this, the woman understood, "It's you. My head of the family is not at home. You can tell me if you have anything to say. If I can't solve it, you can wait for him to come back."
"Sister-in-law, I want to ask if this village accepts outsiders?" Lu Jinnian said without hiding anything, "I have three younger brothers and sisters at home. I am worried about living in the mountains all year round, so I came to disturb them."
These are not things that need to be concealed. Besides, even if she can't stay, she can choose another place.
But she often goes out and stays with her younger brothers and sisters for a long time, and she still feels uneasy.
Although they are not her own younger brothers and sisters, she has made up her mind to protect and take care of them.
Hearing this, Li was a little surprised. After thinking for a while, she said, "I don't know much about this, but people have come to the village before, but the head of the village did not agree to let them stay."
Those people were fleeing from famine, but they had no money or food, and staying was just a burden.
Lu Jinnian knew all about it and nodded, "Sister-in-law, can you help point out where the headman's house is?"
After saying goodbye to Li, she turned around and followed the instructions.
The houses in the village were sparsely populated, with each family having its own courtyard, and there was only one house every one or two hundred meters. The farthest was the Li family, with only one family about five hundred meters away.
Lu Jinnian walked for about half a quarter of an hour and finally arrived in front of a gate.
The courtyard wall of this family was made of bluestone and earth bricks on top. The heavy gate was closed tightly, and the situation in the courtyard could not be seen at all.
In the whole village, only this family had a tall courtyard wall and a very good gate.
Other houses were surrounded by fences and earthen walls, not as imposing as this one.
She walked up and knocked on the door, then stood by and waited.
Not long after, footsteps were heard in the yard, and then someone spoke.
"Who is it?"
The voice was deep, it was a man.
"I came to ask the head of the village something." Lu Jinnian stood at the door, his face calm.
The door was slowly opened, and a big man in his thirties walked out. He was strong and looked stronger than the men he had seen before.
It was also because men at that time were too thin. Generally, men weighing 110 to 120 kilograms were from good families, and there were also men weighing 80 to 90 kilograms.
This man was about 1.75 meters tall and weighed about 140 kilograms.
"I am a hunter from the nearby mountains. I came here today to ask if this village can take in outsiders." Lu Jinnian was neither humble nor arrogant, carrying a backpack on his back and an axe on his waist.
The man opposite glanced at him and asked, "Hunting? Can you hunt?"
His tone was full of distrust. After all, this kid looked thin, how could he hunt?
Do you think that trapping a rabbit is called hunting? How naive.
It's no wonder he thought so. Hunters are usually agile or tall and strong.
A boy like Lu Jinnian, who seems to have not developed, is really not convincing at all.
Hearing this, Lu Jinnian did not get angry, but said: "This is of course true. The meat here is the wild boar I shot. If you don't mind, you can take it to the head of the village. It doesn't matter whether this thing succeeds or not, just consider it a bond."
After saying this, the man didn't know how to respond.
But when he saw that the wild boar meat inside was indeed processed, he was a little surprised.
"Did you really shoot this?" The man asked again.
Lu Jinnian smiled, thinking that it might not be believed if he said it out loud, so he turned around and saw a big rock not far away, so he walked over.
The man looked at his actions and was a little confused, but didn't say anything.
Lu Jinnian walked to the big rock, then lifted it up with both hands.
This is not just lifting it up, but lifting it up, without any effort.
If she didn't want to keep some foundation, she could lift it with one hand.
This made the big man opposite look shocked!
Because he was the one who carried the stone out, and he had to rest twice before he could move the stone out.
But the boy opposite was able to lift it easily, and his strength was much greater than his.
"This..." The man was stunned and didn't know what to say.
Lu Jinnian put the stone back and asked with a smile: "Can I meet the head of the village? Don't worry, I just want to know if I can settle down in this village, nothing else."
It can be seen that this man should be the security guard of this family.
The man hesitated for a moment and said, "You wait here, I'll be back soon."
After that, he turned around and went into the yard, and did not forget to close the door.
But when he opened the door just now, Lu Jinnian noticed that there was a two-story yard in the yard, with a large house in the middle and another house in the back. This scale is indeed not small in the countryside.
(End of this chapter)
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