After glancing at Li Yuyan, Ye Yiheng turned his head and raised his lips slightly, then followed the old man towards the mountainside.

"Old man, why is the woodshed on the mountainside?"

"Firstly, it's for the convenience of chopping firewood. If you chop a lot of firewood, leave it there if you can't take it out. Secondly, I don't want to pile it up in the room you live in now. It's piled in the yard for fear of getting wet by the rain. Also, if someone comes, you can hide."

Behind the pyre..."

The old man put the carrying pole on his shoulders and pointed to the snow-covered mountain road: "Besides, this road is easy to walk. Even if it snows today, it will be more difficult to walk."

Ye Yiheng nodded and followed the old man with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Along the way, the old man seemed to have started chatting: "You and your wife got married not long ago, right?"

Ye Yiheng followed his words and said, "Did you see it?"

"Yes, you guys, you are sweet but not intimate enough, and you are restrained. You can tell at a glance that you have just been married." The old man smiled shyly again, and the wrinkles at the end of his eyes became deeper. "I think back when I got married to that old woman in my family,

I don’t understand anything either. Speaking of which, I’m ten years older than her, but I don’t know how to take care of others, so I made a lot of jokes.”

Ye Yiheng asked in surprise: "Uncle, are you ten years older than my aunt?"

"Isn't that right? So when we got married, I thought that since I was so much older than her, I should be nice to her, but sometimes I did the wrong thing."

While he was talking, the old man hit the tree branch blocking the road with a pole.

The snow piled on the branches fell softly, hitting the snowdrifts on the ground, creating a crater.

Ye Yiheng pursed her lips and thought about whether she should ask someone for some advice, but she hadn't spoken yet...

The old man said it himself: "That boy in my family doesn't know how to hurt others. He grabbed his wife and ran away on a boat together. He doesn't know how to come back in this cold winter."

"The Chinese New Year is almost here, why don't you come back?" Ye Yiheng asked again.

Today is the second day of December, less than a month before the Chinese New Year.

"My son and daughter-in-law couldn't have children after several years of marriage, so they left here because they didn't want to face me and his mother." After a pause, he added, "Speaking of which, how can a husband take his daughter-in-law to go sailing? No.

It hurts!"

Ye Yiheng heard this and thought of himself.

Now that he is on the run, and Li Yuyan is accompanying him like this, does it mean that he can't hurt others?

However, I couldn't ask this question.

The issue of escape is even harder to bring up.

The old man recalled: "I remember that not long after I got married to my old lady, she told me that she was not feeling well, so I asked her to lie down on the kang in the house."

"She said she wanted to drink water, and I specially cooled it for her to drink. Who would have thought that after she took a sip, she immediately felt extremely aggrieved and said that I didn't know how to take care of others."

"We had just gotten married at that time. To be honest, we were not familiar with each other yet. I also have a bad temper and got angry on the spot."

"Later I found out that she was menstruating, and she couldn't drink cold water during menstruation. She thought I was old enough to understand this, but I didn't understand. So I yelled at her, and she clamored to go back to her parents' home."

"Originally, she was not willing to marry someone who is ten years older than me. This means that I cannot love others. I admit that I cannot love others."

Ye Yiheng asked in a timely manner in front of a good listener: "What happened next?"

"Then I sent her back to her parents' home."

Ye Yiheng was surprised: "Really sent back?"

"Yeah!" The old man nodded, "After I sent her back, I found out that she was menstruating at that time, so I tried to persuade her to come back."

"From then on, I asked people for advice, and then I realized that women are very easy to get angry during menstruation, and some even get stomachaches."

"If your little lady is in unbearable pain these days, rub your palms to warm them up, then place them on her lower abdomen and rub them gently. This trick is very effective."

"I was in the yard just now. I, the old man, am embarrassed to say this. Now you come out with me. I see that even though you are married, you are still like a young boy who doesn't understand anything, so I am shamelessly telling you this.

"

Hearing this, Ye Yiheng humbly accepted the teaching and said, "Please give me more advice!"

Seeing that this young man was handsome and polite, the old man nodded repeatedly.

Then he pointed to the mountainside: "We'll be there soon."

In the yard.

The aunt pointed to two figures, one tall and one short, walking towards the mountainside, and said to Li Yuyan: "The woodshed is at the back of the mountain. Although there is only a little way to see it, it takes quite a while to walk. Let's go inside."

"Okay." Li Yuyan followed the aunt to their house.

The old couple's house was filled with a lot of stuff, but it was also kept very clean.

The aunt took out a lot of fabrics from the closet and laid them out one by one on the kang.

"You take your pick, young people like brighter colors."

Li Yuyan looked at the cloth on the kang: "Why are there so many?"

There are many in red tones, which are obviously prepared by people in the mountains for new wives. There are also many navy blue and azure blue ones, suitable for men.

"My son and daughter-in-law used the leftover fabrics when they got married. The old man and I only have one son. At that time, I thought I would not wrong my daughter-in-law, so I bought a lot of fabrics."

"Mom, you can keep these fabrics for your son and daughter-in-law."

"They can't wear it either."

"Why?"

"They are older than you, and have been married for many years." The aunt said with a smile, a touch of sadness flashed in her eyes, "Besides, I don't know when they will come back."

Hearing this, Li Yuyan fell silent. Parents always want their children to be by their side, and aunt is no exception.

On the mountainside.

The old man talked a lot, so the two of them walked and talked, and soon arrived at the woodshed.

The snow was thick, and there was a lot of snow blocking the door. The old man used a pole to dig some of it, and then he successfully opened the door.

Ye Yiheng carried a bundle of firewood on the left and right, and the old man picked up a bundle on the front and back, closed the door of the firewood shed, and the two of them walked down the mountain along the original footprints.

"I am getting old and my son and daughter-in-law are no longer around. What if I leave one day and I am left alone? How will I survive?"

"At that time, I decided that if I really had to leave, I would come to this woodshed and never die at home."

"If you die in the house at home, the old lady will be too scared to sleep alone."

It was rare for a young man to hear him talk so much, so the old man expressed his thoughts that he had never told anyone: "This is the main reason why I built the woodshed here."

He put one hand on the pole and pointed to the yard at the foot of the mountain with the other: "Halfway up the mountain, you can see our home when you look down."

"If I leave, my soul will be here. I can see our home and protect her!"

Ye Yiheng fell silent, and he was deeply moved by how ordinary people treated their feelings surprisingly delicately.

In this courtyard, in the house.

The aunt took out two more pieces of sheepskin and said, "This can be used to make two waistcoats."

Li Yuyan quickly declined: "Madam, you should keep the sheepskin for yourself!"

Shearling is a good thing for ordinary farmers to keep out the cold. It is valuable and keeps warm. How can she have the nerve to accept it?

The aunt spread out the sheepskin and murmured: "You and your husband are dressed in unusual ways. I guess you don't like it and are not used to our clothes."


Chapter completed!