Chapter 70 Negotiating Relocation
"Brother Haoran, Ziyi, if Ziyi hadn't discovered that passage today, my Yue'er would have... I'm not good at talking, but I will remember your kindness today for the rest of my life. If you need anything from me in the future, just let me know. Brother Youcai, Brother Du, the same goes for you. I won't say thank you. Anyway, if you have anything to do, just let me know. I may not have other skills, but I still have a lot of strength." At the dinner table, Chen Shengli said to everyone with gratitude.
"Victory, there's no need to express gratitude. When we brothers first got to know each other, we said we would help each other. No matter which family has problems, we will help. I came here today because I had something to talk to you about, and I just happened to catch up. Fortunately, Yue'er was rescued in time, which shows that she is blessed with a good life. She is a kind and good girl. If she hadn't dug the passage early, it would take at least tomorrow for us to dig there from the front. By then, even the immortal God couldn't save her. So this is also her saving herself," said Li Haoran.
"Yes! Brother Haoran is right. It's because Yue'er and her brother have a good relationship. She wanted to give her brother a surprise, but she didn't expect that she would save herself instead." Du Qingcang said.
"Fortunately, Yue'er is fine, otherwise my Dashan would go crazy. He has been looking forward to marrying Yue'er every day." Li Youcai also said.
"Dad!" Li Dashan called him dad shyly.
"What? Don't you want to marry?" Li Youcai asked back.
"No! That's not what I meant. Dad, please don't say that to me." Li Dashan said shyly.
"If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. Who am I doing this for? You're just a jerk. I don't know how to appreciate a good person." Li Youcai glared at his son.
Chen Shengli looked at Li Dashan with a simple smile. He was very satisfied with this son-in-law. However, he has never been good at speaking. After saying thank you, he didn't know what to say anymore. Instead, his Da Wang was eloquent: "Dear uncles, I am grateful for your kindness! I, Chen Da Wang, would like to offer a glass to all the uncles!" After that, he drank the wine in the glass.
"Good! Da Wang is great!" Du Qingcang praised.
"Uncle Haoran, when will Yue'er wake up?" Li Dashan was thinking intently about Chen Yue'er.
"He should be able to wake up soon, mainly because you have all the medicinal materials at home. How did you collect so many herbs?" Li Haoran asked curiously, thinking of the bags of herbs.
"Dashan said he needed money for his wedding, so I thought of picking some herbs to sell. I didn't expect that I would need them." said Li Youcai.
"That's really a coincidence. Yue'er is really lucky and blessed." Li Haoran said.
"Dad, don't you have something to say?" Ziyi reminded them hurriedly when he saw that they were talking more and more about something else and had forgotten about the important matter.
After hearing Ziyi's words, everyone looked at Li Haoran.
"It's like this. I found a good place with thousands of acres of arable land. Our family can't cultivate all of it, so I wanted to ask you if you want to move there," said Li Haoran.
Li Youcai and Chen Shengli both fell into deep thought.
"I was going to move there today. I have already packed my things. I came here with Brother Haoran to tell you about it. If it weren't for the Shengli incident, I would have moved there today." Du Qingcang said.
"What! You are about to move there, why didn't I tell you about it before. And has your family's health illness recovered? I was so busy today that I forgot to ask you." Hu Haohan said.
"Okay! Thank you both for your help in sending us off that day. Cuihua and I didn't dare to go look for our brother in the middle of the night." Du Qingcang said gratefully.
"Brother just said that we don't need to thank each other. It's only natural for us to help each other. Have you made up your mind?" Hu Haohan felt it was too sudden.
"Brother Haoran and Ziyi are here to help me move things. The child is sick and Cuihua has to take care of the child, so Brother Haoran and Ziyi are here to help. With arable land, we can grow rice, wheat, etc., and we don't have to go out of the mountains to exchange for food, and we won't be hungry in the winter. I don't have Brother Haoran's hunting skills, so having land to cultivate is the best. Anyway, I'll just follow Brother." Du Qingcang said.
"Then I'll move over too. My family won't be lively anymore without you. Besides, I haven't been used to it since Big Brother Haoran moved out. In the past, I always went to Big Brother Haoran for advice, but now it's too far for me to find Big Brother. I'll move over and feel more at ease being closer to Big Brother." Hu Haohan said.
"Brother Youcai, do you want to move? If you move, we will move too. It's not good for our children and in-laws to be too far apart." Chen Shengli said.
"Let's move! We are brothers, so don't be too far apart. Like what happened today, if we are too far apart, we can't help even if we want to. If big brother Haoran thinks it is a good thing, then it must be a good thing. We will all follow big brother Haoran." Li Youcai said.
"If you want to move, I'll tell you in detail. There's an open-air stone cave over there, which is bigger than my house. There's a lake in the middle of the cave with more than a dozen geese in the lake. Yi Keke likes to eat goose meat very much, so Ziyi caught one for her a few days ago. We can build a wooden house in the cave, or a bamboo house. You can decide by yourselves when the time comes. We'll also build one there."
"Don't you want that cave anymore?" Li Dashan asked.
"Yes, of course. We need the cave, and we also need to build a house. Because outside the open-air cave I just mentioned is the land that can be cultivated. However, there are a lot of shrubs and weeds growing on those lands, so they need to be cleared before they can be cultivated. There is a stream next to it, so it is very convenient to use water. We have cleared more than 50 acres of land to make paddy fields and planted seedlings. A lot of them were knocked into the mud by the heavy rain this time. If Brother Du hadn't gone there, we would still be busy working in the fields." Li Haoran said.
Before everyone could recover from the beautiful scene of building houses in open-air caves, they were startled by the fifty acres of rice fields.
"Fifty acres of rice fields! Oh my God! How much rice will we be able to harvest?" Chen Dawang shouted in shock. The women at the other table had been listening to the men talking, and they came over and asked, "Brother Haoran, do you really have so much arable land? We only need a dozen or twenty acres of land to farm."
"Yes, yes, Brother Haoran, even if it's only a few acres, it's fine."
"Don't worry, as long as you have the strength, we can take over not only dozens of acres but hundreds of acres." Li Haoran said loudly.
"Aunts, what my father said is true. There is a basin over there, at least several thousand acres in size. So, you can cultivate as much land as you want." Ziyi said.
"That's great! We will finally have land to farm. We won't have to rely on hunting for a living anymore," Hu Haohan's wife couldn't help sobbing.
"Every time Youcai and his son went out hunting, I was worried to death. Now that we have land to farm, we don't have to hunt and we can still have food to eat." Li Youcai's wife also cried with joy.
"If you want to till the land, go eat quickly. After eating, let's go help Brother Shengli dig out the things in the cave, and then we can move together. The sooner we move, the sooner we can clean up the land."
"I have a lot of sweet potato seedlings. I can plant sweet potatoes when the time comes. Then I can go out of the mountains to buy some corn to plant, and other things. In short, I will be very busy." Li Haoran said.
"Be busy, so you can have food to eat."
"Victory, victory, Yue'er has woken up." Chen Shengli's wife ran out happily and said. As soon as he finished speaking, Li Dashan ran in.
"This child is so anxious..." said Li Youcai.
"Brother Haoran, please go and take another look." Chen Shengli said.
"Okay, I'll go take your pulse." Li Haoran walked in. The others were too embarrassed to go in, so they just waited in silence. After a while, Li Haoran and Chen Shengli came out.
"How is it? Is there any problem?" Li Youcai asked.
"It's okay, just take a few days to rest."
"That's good! That's really scary."
"Ziyi and I have to go back first. We don't know what's going on at home." Li Haoran told them about the wolf he encountered on the way here, and then he dealt with it next to the spring under the cliff. There was a strong smell of blood, and he was afraid that other beasts would smell the scent and come over. There are only women at home, so I’ll feel at ease if I go back early to check on them.
"You can move slowly. Everyone should act together. Do you know what happened in the forest? Wolves usually don't leave the outskirts of the forest." Li Haoran said.
"Is it possible that the territory of that pack of wolves was taken away by other wolves, and they are out looking for territory?" said Chen Dawang. If the leader wolf were here, he would definitely tell him the truth.
Indeed, a group of wolves migrated into the forest from somewhere. There were more than thirty of them, but there were only a dozen silver wolves. They had no choice but to give up their territory. They can only find new territory, haha! He didn't find the territory, but instead became a meal. "I don't know about that," Li Haoran said, "Anyway, we killed them all."
"You don't know, the wolf meat stewed by Yi Ke is so delicious. Yi Ke, what's the name of the dish? Oh, spicy wolf meat. Hehe! It's really fragrant and spicy." Du Qingcang said, and couldn't help licking his tongue, as if the taste was still in his mouth.
What they didn't know was that the one being praised was actually in danger.
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Yi Ke, who was eager to catch the tiger with a wild boar, was on guard at the watchtower early in the morning. Although the tiger was not there for the time being, he enjoyed the beautiful view of the rising sun. All I saw was a dazzling sun like a bright red gem. The sun was held up by the dark green mountains and leaped onto the treetops. Thousands of golden threads were entangled in the vast sea of forests.
In an instant, the world was quiet and everything was silent. It seemed as if everything was intoxicated by the bright life; it also seemed as if all the ministers were welcoming the arrival of the king. The sun stood high in the treetops. I stared at the ruby-like sun without blinking, deeply attracted by its beauty.
The sun emitted thousands of golden rays, so dazzling that Yi Ke no longer dared to stare at it. He turned his eyes away and looked towards the bamboo forest. In the bamboo forest, the daring chicken ladies, wearing the rosy robes woven by the sun, paced back and forth in the bamboo forest, completely ignoring the big wild boar lying beside them, and also forgetting the danger of yesterday;
A big rooster in colorful clothes is singing with its head held high and neck bent. The chickens were full of energy, their bright red combs looked like a ball of fire from a distance. Some chickens opened their bright eyes and pecked at the little wild boars lying on the ground with their sharp beaks, occasionally making a "cuckoo" sound, as if shouting "Come on! Come and take revenge!"
Yike looked back at the cave, then looked back at the bamboo forest.
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