Yuan Mengge: "Okay, thank you, Brother Yao."
After taking a shower, Yuan Mengge got dressed and followed Hu Guangyao to the mountain hut with a flashlight.
Although she said she didn't need him to take her, Hu Guangyao insisted on taking her.
Yuan Mengge thought about it and then went with him without refusing.
Unlike the Yuan family's hut, which was just behind their house, the Hu family's hut was located in the mountains. It required walking about three kilometers through fields, across a small river, and over a small hill to reach it.
"Didn't you not go to the mountain hut last time you came? How do you know the way?" Hu Guangyao followed her, but found that Yuan Mengge seemed to know the direction.
When she came to a fork in the road, she would walk directly in the right direction, as if she knew that the road was the right one.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Mengge said, "Hmm... how should I put it, intuition? My intuition is very accurate... I just feel like we should go this way..."
Well, of course she knew it well; she had walked this road many times when she was a child.
Although Hu Yuanyuan had little contact with Li Xue'e after their marriage, Li Xue'e still shamelessly took Yuan Mengge to find her after Yuan Mengge was born.
She said she could ignore him, but she wanted to see the child.
After all, Hu Yuanyuan had said before the marriage that if Li Xue'e had a child, she would be the godmother.
Although Hu Yuanyuan resented her, she couldn't bring herself to hate the newborn baby.
So later on, Hu Yuanyuan will send things to Yuan Mengge, but she won't go to the Yuan family's house.
Li Xue'e also knew that Yuan Mengge didn't like coming to the Yuan family, so she often took young Yuan Mengge to the Hu family.
Because her goddaughter called her godmother, Hu Yuanyuan didn't say anything.
He was only warm towards his goddaughter, but he always ignored Li Xue'e.
Since that incident, the rest of the Yuan family also disliked Li Xue'e.
But the whole family treats the child very well.
Later, when Yuan Mengge grew up, she often came to visit her godmother's house.
So she knew how to get there.
After hearing her words, Hu Guangyao looked at her strangely and said suspiciously, "You haven't been to our village before, have you? Or to my hut? I don't believe your intuition is that accurate. Once or twice is one thing... but three or four times is not a coincidence, is it?"
Yuan Mengge shook her head: "No, I really haven't been here..."
Hu Guangyao continued to stare at her: "...Then why did you say you didn't need me to bring you? You said you came by yourself? You said you knew the way?"
Yuan Mengge: "...I know which direction it is. As long as I turn this way, I know which way to go. My intuition is very accurate. I will never get lost in the deep mountains. I can always find my way out of the mountains."
"Really?" Hu Guangyao stared at her eyes with a suspicious look.
Yuan Mengge winked at him and said, "Well, I guess this is one of my special abilities."
Everyone has some special abilities, right? This reason is a bit far-fetched, but it's still easier to accept than the reason that she was reborn.
Hu Guangyao: "..."
The two walked and talked. Yuan Mengge was afraid that he would rush to settle accounts with Yuan Dasheng and the others, so she advised him not to act rashly.
Wait a while, and they'll definitely dig their own graves. Then we can just kick them into those pits.
"You're talking as if you have a premonition that they'll do something bad soon," Hu Guangyao asked her, puzzled.
Yuan Mengge said, "I know their character. Once they've done that kind of thing and tasted the sweetness, they won't stop. Besides, they're always idle and always looking for ways to make quick money."
Hu Guangyao: "What you're talking about... what kind of quick money are they making?"
Yuan Mengge said, "The sesame oil trees, they go into the mountains every two months. Now that the weather is warming up, I estimate that today will be their first time going into the mountains soon."
Upon hearing this, Hu Guangyao looked at her in surprise: "Really? Are you sure?"
The sesame oil tree is a second-class protected plant in the mountains. The oil extracted from this tree is very valuable and can be sold at a high price.
However, because this tree is a protected plant, it is forbidden to cut it down.
Anyone caught will go to jail.
But the thing is valuable, and it's in the mountains, so as long as I don't get caught, it's fine.
Many people will still take the risk of going into the mountains to cut down these trees for money.
Moreover, if you want to refine more oil, you have to cut down old trees, and the bigger the tree, the longer you have to stay inside.
“Besides that, they also sell counterfeit alcohol, steal gasoline, and occasionally steal cattle and sheep. Oh, right… although they don’t use that kind of stuff, they like to gamble. Got it?” She smiled at Hu Guangyao as she said this.
Hu Guangyao looked at her, his eyes flashing slightly: "You're a scary girl! It's a good thing you're not my sister... no, it's a good thing I didn't provoke you. But why do you hate your family so much? To the point of wanting to register your own household?"
He had always been curious about what kind of conflict this girl had with her family that made her want to separate from them at such a young age.
Other girls of this age who want to separate from their families usually just run away from home. Who would make such a fuss with their family like this?
Yuan Mengge said, "I don't want my future to be bothered by a bunch of vampires all the time. I should cut ties now. They only ever treat Yuan Dasheng as their precious treasure and us three sisters as money-making tools. Someone like Yuan Dasheng will cause countless troubles in his life, and every time he causes trouble, he'll have to spend money."
"You're so young, how can you think so much..." Hu Guangyao looked at her strangely again.
I feel that her thinking is really out of step with girls of this era.
The two chatted as they walked, and soon arrived at the betel nut plantation in front of the hut.
"Woof woof woof—" A barking sound came from the betel nut plantation, and then several dogs rushed over.
Upon seeing that it was Hu Guangyao, they immediately stopped barking and wagged their tails at him.
But upon turning his head and seeing Yuan Mengge, he immediately became alert again: "Woof! Roar—"
"Quiet, don't make a sound, these are guests," Hu Guangyao shouted at them.
The dogs immediately fell silent.
As Yuan Mengge and her companion entered the betel nut plantation, they saw the dim yellow light emanating from the small wooden house ahead.
"Sister A'e, Sister Yuanyuan," Yuan Mengge called out as soon as she entered the courtyard.
Two faces immediately popped out of the window: "Oh~ you're here!"
Li Xue'e asked curiously, "Did you get it?"
Yuan Mengge nodded: "Mm."
Hu Yuanyuan asked curiously, "You didn't actually go digging up graves, did you?!"
Yuan Mengge nodded: "I dug a bit."
The three faces stared in disbelief: "You really dug it up??? Who did you dig up???"
Yuan Mengge: "I... Grandpa."
The three men exchanged glances: "You didn't break your legs?"
"He was so angry that he kicked me out of the house," Yuan Mengge said with a shrug.
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