Chapter 112： set fire

  Shu Wanniang glanced at the two rabbits and gave her daughter a strange look. She raised her since she was a child, and she was most familiar with her hunting techniques.

Mu Yangling stuck out his tongue and went up to hold his mother's hand intimately, "Mother, I'll take the rabbit to the county town to exchange for some eggs and come back to make up for you, so that my younger siblings will have milk to drink."

Shu Wanniang thought that the twins were so hungry and crying these few days, with an ugly smile on her face, she touched her daughter's head and said, "Okay, just change one, and you can keep the other one for dinner."

Ma Liu took the rabbit from Xiuhong's hand and said, "I'd better go, lest others see A Lingxiao bullying her."

Mu Yangling couldn't get what he wanted, and Ma Liu's bargaining skills were unparalleled.

That night, Mrs. Ma Liu brought back thirty-five eggs, and it was enough for Shu Wanniang to eat two a day for a while.

Mu Yangling went to bed early in the morning, got up before dawn the next day, called Xiuhong Xiulan up for the first time, put on thick clothes for them, and said, "Let's go to burn the grass later, I see It's over, there's no wind now."

Ma Liu has already got up and cooked porridge for them, and let everyone eat the porridge before leaving to warm up their bodies.

Xiao Bowen got up in a daze and wanted to go, Mu Yangling tucked him into the quilt and said, "Be honest and sleep with my mother, you are still young, if you are sick, there is no money to buy medicine for you at home, so keep an eye on your brother at home. Sister, we will be back in the morning."

Mu Yangling drank two bowls of porridge after three strokes, five divided by two, and went out with the fire book.

When they got to the ground, Mu Yangling handed them the folded branches with leaves, "Xiuhong, you and Xiulan guard one end, my aunt guards one end, and I guard the other end."

"What about this side?" Auntie asked.

"Don't worry, if you go in there is such a large area of ​​land that is our home, let the fire burn this way, don't burn the area too wide, slowly control the burning inside, and make sure that the fire is out when you leave. "

After Mu Yangling finished speaking, he walked to the side and lit the weeds with hay. The high-quality fields here are fine. The weeds are only seven or eight centimeters high. The weeds were no bigger than a person's calf, and the fire must have been very big when it burned there.

After Mu Yangling waited for the fire to burn for a distance, he put out a few small fire spots with branches, followed the fire in front, and said: "That's it, when you go forward, you must put out the fire at the back, now there are fires on the grass. Dew, it won't burn fast forward, we will go back when the dew is almost dry."

Xiuhong Xiulan and Ma Liushi understood, they nodded and used hay to ignite the fire to one side, and the four of them guarded the fire and walked in gradually.

When the sun came out and the dew on the hay gradually dried, the four of them had already burned nearly ten acres of land. Mu Yangling took them to put out the fire and walked again to make sure that the fire had been extinguished. He opened it and saw Mars lose the last bit of red light in the cold air before leaving.

Xiuhong and Xiulan followed Mu Yangling's instructions, and they quickly inspected the burned ground.

Ma Liu was very happy and said excitedly: "It really works with fire, you see, in a few days we will be able to burn all the grass in the field."

Mu Yangling looked up at the sky, "I wonder if it affects the air?"

"What?" Ma Liu looked up suspiciously.

"It's nothing, auntie, let's go back. After a break, let's mow the grass. The grass below is too tall and lush, so we have to cut a fire escape, or I won't dare to burn it."

Ma Liu didn't understand, but she knew what A Ling was listening to, so she nodded.

After dawn, the Hu family was the first to discover that the Mu family had burned weeds. Seeing the wild weeds swaying in the cold wind, the old man couldn't help but stunned, "That old sister-in-law is so courageous. Even if you dare to set fire, you can burn the whole place accidentally, and maybe it will also bring disaster to the mountains."

Hu Fangshi said: "You can get rid of your grass, you have too much control. I think their home is only short of grass in the front, and they have to be the same as us in the back."

Old man Hu straightened his waist to look at such a large piece of land, and sighed, "I used to want more land, but now I have it, but I'm worried. When will we get rid of so much grass."

Hu Fangshi worked silently. They had many family members. They left early and came back late. They could always finish their work.

In the afternoon, the Mu family brought the sickle over, Hu Fangshi looked up at them, and continued to squat down: "I'm right, I still have to cut it."

"Mum, that's not right, why don't they cut from the side, but from the inside?" Hu Fang's eldest daughter-in-law, Zhang, asked strangely.

Hu Fangshi and Hu old man looked up, but after a while they didn't see why.

Mu Yangling asked them to cut a one-meter-wide fire escape, and the grass was cut off by the roots. Afterwards, they only needed to **** the grass, and the workload was greatly reduced.

Xiaobowen also came this time. It was his first time doing farm work, and Mu Yangling was terrified when he saw it, for fear that he would get his hands on it.

Mu Yangling couldn't cut it out in one day. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Mu Yangling said, "Go back first, if you come back tomorrow, just cut according to the road I drew for you today, and tomorrow I will go to Xishan Village to see if I can find some. farm tools."

It takes a long time to walk from Chenggutun to Xishan Village. Mu Yangling got up early in the morning. When he reached the intersection of Linshan Village, Mu Yangling couldn't help but go in.

This is the place where she lived for nine years, was born here, grew up here, and now, it is full of burnt houses, including Mu's house. Searched and found nothing.

Not long after they escaped to the county seat, Liu He was concerned about the people in the village and asked Liu Dacang to bring twenty young men back to collect their bodies.

They are all villagers. They can’t die and smash the corpse into the wilderness. The yamen who checked the statistics will only throw people into big pits and sell them, not even a straw mat.

The villagers of Linshan Village buried at least one name and tombstone themselves, and even with them, the things in the village were cleaned up.

Mu Yangling stood in front of his house and sighed, turned and walked towards Xishan Village.

The situation in Xishan Village is not as good as that in Linshan Village. It can be seen that Xishan Village has not been cleaned up. Mu Yangling went into the house and rummaged through it. He really found some iron blocks in the ruins. Mu Yangling put it in the back basket and found A mother-in-law's eyes lit up when she saw that her house was still the same as when it collapsed.

Ma Liu's house collapsed in the first snow. Later, Mu Shi brought Liu Ting and a few over to repair it, but it was not fully repaired, and the next two heavy snows also crushed the kitchen. Mu Shi considered that Shu Wanniang had to take care of him and the weather was cold, so he left someone to live in Mu's house, and the house would be built when it was warm.

Who knew that because the house collapsed, the Hu people did not set fire to it, and it was the only surviving house in Xishan Village.

Mu Yangling cautiously got into the utility room to rummage, and saw the hoe, shovel and iron plow on the ground, and immediately became happy, "Auntie's house is good if it collapses, not only people are fine, but things are still preserved."

Mu Yangling put the things in the back basket, and picked them up again. Seeing that there was nothing left, he picked up the back basket, picked up the iron plow and hoe, and rushed to Chenggu Village.