Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 30
The rugged and winding mountain roads, the scent of night grass along the way, and the singing of nightingales sounded from time to time in the forest.

It didn't take long.

Feeling some moisture on his neck, Li Hongbing sighed silently in his heart.

"Brother, I was wrong." Shan Xing, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said.

Li Hongbing shook his body pretending to be relaxed, "It's good to know that you're wrong, and if you have something to do in the future, tell brother, even if the sky falls, brother will help you withstand it."

"Yeah!" Shan Xing agreed heavily, and her arms became tighter, "Brother, you carried me like this when you were young, and you sang to me, can you sing it again?"

"it is good!"

Li Hongbing thought for a moment, cleared his throat humming and haha, and howled ghostly into the night sky.

"When the sun shines,

Flowers smile at me,
The little bird said early morning,

Why do you carry a pack of dynamite on your back?

I'm going to bomb the school,
The teacher doesn't know,
Pull the string and I'll run,

With a bang, the school went to heaven. "

Ow!Ow!
Listening to the singing, the little wolf dogs couldn't help howling at the bright moon.

puff!
Shan Xing, lying on her back, laughed, "I remember this song. After you sang it at school, the teacher went to complain to the old man. The old man whipped you with a willow stick."

Forehead!
It seems there is such a thing.

Being reminded by Shan Xing brought back many childhood memories of Li Hongbing.

The two talked and laughed all the way, approaching the village unknowingly, and Shanxing's laughter gradually faded away.

Walking to Shan Xing's house, goosegrass grew vigorously on the earthen wall, and the wooden boards of the courtyard door cracked a palm-wide gap.

Pushing open the door, the environment is exactly the same as in memory, only more dilapidated, but the vegetable garden is quite tidy, and the rows of vegetables are neat and uniform.

Half of the house built with earthen walls collapsed, and the plastered walls peeled off, revealing a mud wall made of yellow mud and rice husks. The only side house that was still intact had two wooden poles supporting the somewhat inclined wall outside.

Living so hard?

There was no smile on Li Hongbing's face.

Shan Xing got off his back, limped open the door, groped a bit, a dim light bulb lit up in the side room, and said with inferiority in his tone, "Brother, come in for a drink, the house is a bit messy."

Li Hongbing walked into the room, frowning.

The environment is worse than expected.

A simple wooden bed, a square table with missing legs padded with stones, a Maza, a hearth in the corner, and a fertilizer bag as a curtain to separate the hearth from the wooden bed.

Although the house looks dilapidated from the outside, it is clean and orderly inside, which shows that the owner is a diligent person.

"Drink water, there are very few guests at home, and there is no tea." Shan Xing put an enamel cup on the table.

Li Hongbing was sitting in the Mazar, and there was a fence on the square table, and he reached out to pick it up curiously.

"Brother, don't..."

Before Shan Xing finished speaking, Li Hongbing had already picked up the strainer, his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot in an instant, and he asked bluntly.

"You eat this every day?"

A bowl of overcooked noodles, a bowl of boiled cabbage and potato slices, without any oily spots.

Shan Xing snatched the fence and put it back on again. The half-pale melon-seeded face showed stubbornness, and the clear and bright pupils showed unwillingness and sorrow, and tears slipped silently from the eye sockets.

"If you don't eat this, what will you eat?"

"Father is gone, mother and younger brother don't want me."

"You're getting married in the city, what's the use of me looking for you as a cripple."

"I only hate my own life, why does God torture me."

"It would have been better if I had been burned to death at the beginning, it wouldn't be so difficult."

Shan Xing talked about his misfortune almost indifferently. To Li Hongbing, he had become accustomed to pain, became numb, and had lost hope in life.

"Come home with me! I'll take care of you in the future."

Come back home!

take care of!

Shan Xing shook her head silently, and slowly opened the zipper of her clothes, revealing her burnt body. The red scars seemed to be crawled over by earthworms, and they looked particularly horrifying under the dim light

"You want me to be your mistress? If you like it after burning it, I can give it to you right now."

Li Hongbing stepped forward, facing Shanxing Banguo's body, stretched out his hand to zip up his clothes again, and hugged Shanxing tightly into his arms.

"Silly girl, go back with brother, be obedient."

Shan Xing put her arms around Li Hongbing, choked in his arms and shook her head.

"No, I won't go, I can be shameless, but you can't be famous."

Silly girl.

Still have to defend myself.

Li Hongbing's heart warmed, and he became more and more determined to take the mountain apricot back to the old house. He had to go to the old house and slowly take care of his body through medicinal diet, laying a solid foundation for the treatment of burns and broken legs.

These things, did not tell Shan Xing.

Her body is inherently weak, and she must not be overjoyed after being greatly sad.

"No, you have to go back with me tonight. You can't decide this matter."

Li Hongbing directly put his shoulders on his shoulders arrogantly, and strode out of the room.

"Let go of me, I won't go, let me go." Shan Xing kept struggling and yelling, which startled the little wolf dogs at the door and put on attacking postures one after another.

clap clap clap!
Li Hongbing got annoyed, and stretched out his hand to slap Shan Xing's fleshless butt several times.

"Scream harder, louder, and call out everyone in the village."

After the words fell, Shan Xing suddenly stopped struggling and shouting, and obediently lay on her shoulders without moving, as if resigned to her fate.

……

Along the way, Shan Xing and Li Hongbing got angry and didn't say a word.

Back to the old house.

Silly squatting at the gate of the courtyard, when he saw Li Hongbing appearing, he quickly stood up, as if he hadn't seen the apricot on his shoulder.

"Silly boy, go boil a pot of hot water, your Aunt Shan Xing needs to take a bath."

Generations in rural areas are relatively chaotic.

Grandpa lived to die at the age of 112. At that time, the family, the village, and the forest area believed that the real age of grandpa was definitely more than 112 years old. In the chaotic era of wars and disasters, there was no household registration system. After peace, grandpa did not want to publicize. Definitely misrepresented his age.

In addition, the father found a medical study book of Zhili Wubei School in the collection of grandfather's relics. The student's name is Li Ganwu, and the grandfather's name is Li Ganbin. There is only one character difference between the two. It doesn't matter if you check the location of the military training school. This school turned out to be a government-run elementary school established in 1900 by the Qing Dynasty.

Knowing this result, the father warned everyone in the family that no one should say anything about this matter, and if he was killed, he would rot in his stomach.

Even so, Grandpa spanned three dynasties at the age of 112. This qualification is a ceiling-level figure in Caogou Village and even in the forest area, which makes Li Hongbing's seniority rise with the tide, and he is as stable as an old dog.

San Pao called him brother.

Dakui and the others called him Uncle.

The silly boy called him grandfather.

Shan Xing called him elder brother, but in fact he should also call him grandfather.

Anyway, because of his appearance, the seniority in Caogou Village became messy, and Li Hongbing couldn't be bothered to deal with it.

Carrying the apricot into the bedroom, gently put it on the bed, looking at the dead apricot lying upright without saying a word, Li Hongbing couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Anyway, I'm here, so stay here with peace of mind. Don't you say you want to be my mistress? After that, you will be my mistress."

Shan Xing sat up abruptly, with anger in her clear eyes, she grabbed the pillow and threw it at Li Hongbing.

"go out."

Li Hongbing grabbed the pillow and threw it back with his backhand.

"That's it, I'll tell the villagers tomorrow."

"you dare!"

"See if I dare."

After fighting for a few words, seeing that Shan Xing's mood improved a lot, Li Hongbing dropped a harsh word and walked out of the bedroom gracefully.

Looking at Li Hongbing's back, Shan Xing hugged the pillow and muttered to herself in a raw voice that only she could hear.

"It's been 24 years for this sentence, but it's too late."

After finishing everything, it was late at night.

Shawa was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep when the door was suddenly pushed open.

Li Hongbing walked into the room with the quilt in his arms, looked at the bed that was occupied by the silly boy, and said helplessly.

"Go inside, Grandpa will sleep with you tonight."

……

(End of this chapter)