Lin Zhi's ears were twisted and Lin Yuan's eyes were very sharp, so Lin Zhi was so scared that he didn't dare to disobey, "Go and go, can't I go? Sister, please let go, you're going to twist my ears off."

"Then go quickly!" Lin Yuan let go, picked up the basket from the ground and stuffed it into Lin Zhi's arms again.

"But I don't know the way? What if I get lost?" Lin Zhi began to find various excuses to be lazy again.

"I'll draw a picture for you. If you follow the picture, you'll get lost like this, I'll call you a fool."

"I'm not a fool!" Lin Zhi hummed and raised his chin proudly.

"It depends on your performance! It's useless to just talk."

Lin Yuan entered the house, found an old piece of paper, picked up a stroke and drew a simple picture and stuffed it into Lin Zhi's hand, "Follow the drawing on it, there is only one way from our house to the Lu family. As long as you don't close your eyes, you will never get lost."

"What if a bad person abducts me?" Lin Zhi's eyes rolled, and he gave another reason to refuse.

"On that road, people often walk around, with farmland on both sides. Now it is the spring sowing season, and there are people everywhere in the fields. Who dares to turn you on the road in broad daylight?" Lin Yuan pushed Lin Zhi out the door, "Go! The iron cow in the Zhang family next door is as big as you, and often takes her sister to their grandmother's Lujia Village. Are you timid than them?"

"I'm braver than them!" Lin Zhi stretched his neck and muttered.

"It's still the old saying, it's useless to just say nothing! You are brave, you have to prove it!" Lin Yuan opened the gate of the fence and pushed Lin Zhi onto the road.

She doesn't believe in the lazy little hairy child and can't control him.

Lin Zhi took two steps and turned around and asked Lin Yuan, "Sister, I returned the Niu Cart to Mr. Niu's house just now. Let's borrow another one? It's five or six miles away when you walk to Lujia Village."

"I have paid back all the money. What else can I borrow? Let's go and walk, didn't you just say, isn't it worse than the Tienniu brother and sister? They are walking too."

Lin Zhi: “…”

He reached out and scratched his head, held the basket in his arms, and walked reluctantly towards Lujia Village.

In order not to make Lin Zhi lonely, Lin Yuan called the dog Xiao Hei and asked Xiao Hei to follow Lin Zhi all the way.

Looking at the two short legs and walking away from the ground, Lin Yuan shook his head amusedly, closed the fence gate, and walked towards the kitchen in the backyard.

Lin Zhihui helped his family with his work, but Lin Cui didn't know where to go.

Lin Yuan frowned.

In the kitchen, the water was boiling.

Mrs. Lin was holding a gourd ladle, scooping water from a large iron pot, and pouring it into a small wooden barrel on the ground.

Mrs. Lin is medium-sized, but because of her thin figure, she looks very petite. She is wrapped in a white-washed crimson turban, wearing a brown double-breasted jacket, and a dark brown skirt inside.

The skirt is covered with patches.

In Lin Yuan’s memory, Mrs. Lin has been wearing this dress for many years.

In addition to Lin Cui and Lin Zhi occasionally wear new clothes, Lin Yuan and Lin Dazhu and his wife wear old clothes all year round.

Lin Yuan secretly swore in her heart that she must find ways to improve the situation at home.

"Have Zhi'er gone to Lujia Village?" Madam Lin asked Lin Garden while scooping water.

"Yeah." Lin Yuan nodded, "I'm going with Xiao Hei."

"Oh, I don't know if that child will be scared to tears..." Mrs. Lin put down the gourd and looked at a corner of the room, her eyes were scattered and her face was worried.

"Mom, it's okay. Tieniu, the grandson of Grandma Zhang's family, is as old as him. How many times have you walked back and forth to Lujia Village?"

Mrs. Lin still sighed, "Oh, when Tie Niu went there, she took her sister to accompany her."

What companion can a little girl of five or six years old be for her ten-year-old brother? The burden is almost the same, Lin Yuan was speechless.

"Oh, mom, where is Cui'er?" Lin Yuan changed the topic and asked again. She was afraid that when she talked about Lin Zhi, Aunt Lin would have to cry and chase after her.

Then how can I train me?

"I said I went to find Hongye to borrow embroidery thread."

It is fake to borrow embroidery thread, is it true to play with excuses? Lin Yuan pursed her lower lip and didn't say anything. She waited for her to find an opportunity to cure Lin Cui's laziness.

Linyuan mentioned the small wooden barrel containing hot water to the place where wild ducks were placed outside.

The wild duck had been bleeding from the eldest lady Lin, and Lin Garden carried hot water and soaked it.

When plucking duck feathers, you must be hot, otherwise the feathers will not be easily pulled out.

Once boiling water soaks, the pores of the duck skin loosen, and your fingers quickly pluck your hair. In a short moment, the hair can be plucked up.

Then, Lin Yuan broke the wild duck's belly again.

Compared with domestic ducks, the wild duck is half smaller, and there is no oil in its stomach.

Lin Yuan killed the wild ducks here, and Madam Lin had already found the dried mushrooms at home and soaked them.

Stewed with dried mushrooms in wild ducks and stir-fried with spinach in duck blood. This is today's dish. The staple food is still wild vegetable cakes.

Can wild duck eggs be eaten tomorrow?

Good things cannot be eaten in one day.

...

Lin Zhi had known Lu Ziyi's home for a long time. He often followed Mrs. Zhang's grandson to Lujia Village to play. He just told Lin Yuan that he didn't know the way and didn't want to go.

Lin Zhi ran to Lu Ziyi's home in one breath. The fence wall was not high, and the situation in the courtyard could be clearly seen.

Lu Ziyi's mother was drying shepherd's purse in the yard.

The eyebrows were furrowed, and there was some thought.

Lin Zhi pushed open the door of the wooden courtyard and walked in. According to Lin Yuan's words, "Auntie Lu, this was sent by my elder sister. Your family saved her yesterday."

Madam Lu looked at the basket, which contained a wild duck.

She took it over and smiled, "Oh, I've given such a heavy gift, I've spent a lot of money." She took out the wild duck and returned the basket to Lin Zhi.

Lin Zhi, who completed the task, took the dog home happily.

Madam Lu held back the smile on her face and walked into the house with a wild duck. She met Lu Ziyi coming towards her.

"Mom, what is this?"

"Thank you for the Lin family's big house in Xiushui Village." Mrs. Lu put the wild ducks in a basin in the backyard and walked into the kitchen to boil water.

"Go back, we can't accept gifts." Lu Ziyi snatched the wild duck and strided out.

"You're back!" Mrs. Lu grabbed her son, "I've accepted her thank-you gift and cut off contact with her family from now on. If we don't accept it, they will have to give it to you next time. Do you want to have a dispute with their family forever?"

Lu Ziyi pursed his lips and refused to speak.

Madam Lu sighed, "A Yi, it's not your fault that her brother disappeared back then, but her old woman's mouth was causing trouble, and the people she recruited. For this reason, she also got the benefits and made a small fortune."

“…”

"You were just a five-year-old child at that time. You didn't have the fault, so don't worry about the Lin family anymore."

Lu Ziyi glanced at the wild duck in his hand, then looked at his mother, and without saying a word, he turned around and went into the backyard.

But, his eyebrows and eyes were drooping, not knowing what he was thinking.

...

Lin Yuan put the washed wild ducks and dried mushrooms into a pot and simmered them, and walked towards his own rice fields, intending to call Lin Dazhu home for dinner.

She didn't walk far away, and saw a man coming from a distance in an ox cart.

Looking at that figure, it looks like - Dong Chengwen?

What is he here to do?
Chapter completed!