The kang (heated brick bed) for left-behind women

Lin Dachun was also dizzy from drinking too much, so he washed his feet, turned off the lights, and got onto the kang (a heated brick bed).

"It's warm, isn't it? I put in a lot of firewood, it should be fine until tomorrow morning. Are you alright?" Lin Dachun asked Li Ruoxue with concern.

"It's nothing, it's just..." Li Ruoxue hummed in agreement, then reached out and grabbed Lin Dachun's hand.

In the darkness, we could feel each other's breath and heartbeat.

"Sister-in-law Guihua's wine is really not to be drunk carelessly, it's really strong. Isn't it?" Li Ruoxue opened her eyes and looked at Lin Dachun in the darkness.

"Hmm, hmm, it's a very strong liquor," Lin Dachun replied.

They seemed to know what that energy was, as Ma Guihua had explained.

The next day.

The next day, just as the sky began to lighten, Lin Dachun opened the sheep pen.

After a night's rest, a dozen or so lambs were full of energy, crowding around the doorway and bleating, their tender voices waking up the mountain village in the early morning.

Lin Dachun waved a slender branch, uttering long shouts, and slowly led the flock of sheep to the gentle slope behind the house that led to Yehuling.

Instead of cultivating the sea buckthorn patch, he detoured to a sunny slope where the grass was more lush and tender. The sea buckthorn seedlings were still small and couldn't withstand the trampling of the sheep.

The morning dew had not yet dried, and glistening dewdrops clung to the blades of grass.

As soon as the lambs saw the lush green hillside, they immediately became excited, lowered their heads, and skillfully nibbled on the tenderest grass tips with their small mouths, making a satisfied "rustling" sound.

Lin Dachun found a rock with a wide view and sat down. Herding sheep, compared to clearing land and hunting, offered a rare sense of leisure.

He can watch over the sheep, tend to his own sea buckthorn seedlings on the distant slope, and patrol the forest at the same time, achieving multiple goals at once.

"You guys, eat quickly, eat well, grow up quickly, and give me new lambs!" Lin Dachun lay there, basking in the sun, feeling very comfortable.

The people in the village began their day's work.

Village women on their way to work in the fields or wash clothes by the river would involuntarily stop and shade their eyes as they looked up at the hillside.

"Look! Lin Dachun really put the sheep on the ground!"

"Wow! About ten! They've only been here a few days, and they've already bought them all!"

"Look at those lambs, their fur is so shiny, and they're eating so happily. That grassy slope is a great place."

"They traded real deer for that money; they're really capable!"

"Lin Dachun is a bachelor, go visit him sometime."

As she was speaking, a village woman walked towards Lin Dachun with a hoe in her hand.

"Brother Da Chun?"

Lin Dachun opened his eyes and looked up at the village woman.

The village woman had an enviable figure; looking up from there, she could only see two hills.

"Yihua, are you loosening the soil?" Lin Dachun asked.

"Did you just buy the sheep?"

Wu Yihua sat down.

"Yes, I bought it yesterday. How is it?" Lin Dachun joked.

"That's great, unlike my husband, who's incredibly lazy. If he were even half as diligent as Da Chun, life would be so much easier," Wu Yihua complained.

"Your kid's all grown up now, right? You still have Xiaohu, haven't you? I heard Xiaohu found a girlfriend. When are you going to bring her home so I can meet her?" Lin Dachun asked.

"They just went out, and we don't know when they'll be back," Wu Yihua explained.

At this time.

Wu Yihua turned to Lin Dachun and asked, "Brother Dachun, could you please do me a favor?"

"Sister Yihua, what do you say?"

Wu Yihua's husband is named Lin Dalong, who is a relative of Lin Dachun.

Lin Dachun's grandfather and Lin Dalong's grandfather were brothers.

The two families have a very good relationship.

"I went to town yesterday to get a check-up at the hospital," Wu Yihua said earnestly.

Upon hearing that he was going to the hospital for a check-up, Lin Dachun stopped lying down and immediately sat up, asking with concern, "Are you alright? You seem perfectly healthy."

"The doctor said I have breast nodules, and they're already in stage three, which is very serious," Wu Yihua said.