In the faint morning light, Du Juan had already gotten up early and prepared breakfast.
Perhaps she realized that Luo Xuan was not the one to stay with Xiao Laojun after all. At this time, Du Juan's eyes were red and she acted in a daze.
But Du Juan, who was restless, was still very careful in cooking.
Not only did she prepare a sumptuous breakfast, but she also specially cooked 10 eggs for Luo Xuan, which served as dry food for Luo Xuan on the road.
Eucommia ulmoides, who had also stayed up all night, was sitting next to the stove with his big pottery vat, pretending that he was very cold and needed to stay by the stove to warm himself up.
But the look in his eyes that glanced at Du Juan from time to time revealed his true purpose of sitting here.
"Dad, go ahead and don't get in the way here."
Dujuan stretched out her hand and pushed her father, "Do you think I will seek death and survive? Or are you afraid that I will steal the eggs?"
Du Zhong chuckled: "How can any of my old Du family have the kind of chicken belly? Our cuckoo'er won't be able to think about it even if the mountain collapses! Dad doesn't worry about this.
And what’s so rare about the eggs our cuckoo’er mentioned? We people in the mountains are too poor to take eggs and go to the market to exchange them for salt. You can eat as much as you want!”
Du Juan asked him with a cold face, "If you're not worried about me being unable to think straight, dad, jumping into the pot and boiling yourself. If you're not worried about me stealing the eggs, then what are you doing sitting here?"
Eucommia ulmoides chuckled and lowered her voice: "Juan'er, is that thing flying in the sky...what kind of roc is it?"
Du Juan said with a straight face: "Kunpeng."
"Yes, yes, Kunpeng! I will fly high in the future, you..."
When Du Zhong said this, he suddenly ran out of words and didn't know what to say next.
As a father, you can't belittle your daughter, right?
Never thought about it.
At this time, Du Juan spoke up, "He is like a roc in the sky that flies high, and I am a hen on the ground running all over the place. We will never be able to pee in a pot in our lifetime, okay?"
"Cough cough cough——"
As soon as Du Juan said these words, Du Zhong took a sip of strong tea into his throat, but got distracted and almost choked him!
"I, I'm going to help Luo Xuan pack up."
Eucommia ulmoides calmed down and stood up to help Luo Xuan sort out the prey.
"Well, when you first entered the mountains, I wished you could have brought back some valuable and good things."
While picking up things, Eucommia ulmoides sighed: "Now it seems that Luo Xuan got too many good things this time, which is not a good thing!
No wonder our ancestors in the mountains guarded so many treasures and were unwilling to exchange them for money outside the mountains.
I used to think that the older generation were stupid and lazy. Now that I think about it, that was the survival wisdom of our ancestors!
Luo Xuan is so lucky this time, he actually got so many good things back... Sigh, I just don't know what kind of trick that stick named Tian will do to make things difficult for Luo Xuan..."
Du Juan in front of the stove heard this and chopped the kitchen knife in his hand heavily on the vegetable pile, "How dare he!"
Seeing this, Du Zhong quickly came over and pushed Du Juan, "Keep your voice down! Don't talk about castration or castration. Luo Xuan is a scholar, maybe he really has a way to deal with that mallet?"
Cuckoo'er, don't just raise the knife! What kind of society is it now? How can we fight and kill like before?
That guy named Tian is also a militia captain after all! Is this a problem that can be solved with a kitchen knife?"
Du Juan heard this and continued busy cooking angrily, while Du Zhong sat there in a daze with a sigh.
For a while, both father and daughter were worried in front of the stove.
Luo Xuan, who had a good sleep last night, got up refreshed at this time.
When he came to the main room, he took the salt water and wicker branches that Du Juan had prepared for him, brushed his teeth briefly and rinsed his mouth.
Luo Xuan then began to eat breakfast peacefully.
This trip into the mountains was fruitful, which put Luo Xuan in a good mood.
The only thing that makes me feel very regretful is that Du Juan and his daughter are determined not to charge their room and board fees, and they are not willing to share the prey equally with Luo Xuan.
This made Luo Xuan feel an extra layer of burden in his heart.
As the old saying goes, the hardest debt to repay is a debt of gratitude.
Luo Xuan made up his mind: he must repay this debt of gratitude.
The road ahead is long, and you can only go further if you travel lightly.
By the time we finished breakfast, it was still dark and there was heavy dew in the mountains, so it was not a good time to go on a journey.
So Luo Xuan, who was free, briefly asked Du Zhong about the situation of Tian Dabang, and then secretly evaluated in his mind, how and what aspects would that guy use to find excuses to make things difficult for him?
Think about it.
Luo Xuan said to Eucommia ulmoides: "Uncle Zhong, please go to your neighbor's house and invite some people to come over and set up a dragon gate formation."
Eucommia ulmoides has always had an inexplicable trust in Luo Xuan. Hearing this, he didn’t say much and got up to invite the neighbors to his house for tea.
In the mountains, people live far apart from each other.
Although they are in the same production team, "the land in the mountains is not even three feet flat", and the villagers' cultivated land is fragmented, which is not suitable for gathering together.
Wait until Eucommia ulmoides goes out.
Du Juan asked curiously, "Luo Xuan, you have a lot of bad water in your stomach. Please tell me, what are you going to do next? What can I do?"
When Luo Xuan heard this, he was choked up and almost lost his breath!
"Ahem! Sister Dujuan, you don't have to do anything for a while. You just need to go to the field ridge and apply a piece of mud."
Luo Xuan calmed down and whispered to Du Juan: "When I go back later, you just need to follow me and Tian Dabang from a distance and wait to watch the excitement."
Go to the field ridge and apply mud?
Du Juan looked at Luo Xuan with a puzzled face, but in the end she suppressed her confusion and went out to dig mud in the fields.
The mud in the rice fields is easy to dig out, just bend down, and there is no need for the cuckoo to brave the cold morning water to go to the fields.
Wait until the cuckoo also goes out.
Luo Xuan stood up and walked to the stove, picked up a hatchet and whittled a small bamboo tube only as big as a finger.
Then, he took out a medium-sized scorpion from the large bamboo tube containing the scorpions, stuffed it into the small bamboo tube, plugged the opening of the bamboo tube with a piece of bamboo strip, and kept it for later use.
Scorpions are very poisonous, and most people really can't bear the kind of burning, bone-gnawing pain.
By the time Luo Xuan had settled everything, the sky was already bright.
Du Juan goes out very close, so she is the earliest to come back.
It took a lot of time for Eucommia ulmoides to invite those neighbors to come over and chat about home affairs.
It wasn't until he left for more than an hour that he invited a dozen neighbors over.
When these mountain people saw Luo Xuan for the first time, they naturally felt very friendly.
At this time, the mountain people did not have the shyness they had when meeting strangers outside the mountains.
Among these mountain people, many of them were people who met Luo Xuan once at the public sales company last time.
When they saw Luo Xuan, they became even more affectionate and gathered around to greet Luo Xuan.
Then they praised Luo Xuan's good luck. He actually caught so many good prey for the first time in the mountains.
Faced with the enthusiastic compliments of these mountain people, Luo Xuan naturally responded to them one by one and chatted with them with a smile on his face.
While chatting with others, Luo Xuan packed his bags and prepared to get up and leave.
As for Eucommia ulmoides and his daughter, they were leaning against the door, chatting with the neighbors, eagerly waiting for the guy named Tian to come and cause trouble.
They all wanted to know: How would Luo Xuan deal with that mallet?
