Best Son-in-law

It’s the golden autumn of October, and the long holiday hasn’t passed yet.

In the early morning, the first ray of dawn shone on the black soil of Laoshantun, bringing a lot of vitality to some flowers and plants.

As soon as the chief rooster crows in the village, a group of big roosters start crowing, one after another, echoing in the depths of the village and deep in Laoshan Village.

Everything has returned to its original state.

Li Fan gets up very early every day, almost as soon as the rooster crows.

But today, he got up earlier, before the rooster crowed.

Because Li Fan was going into the mountain today, and going deep, he couldn't do it without being careful.

Li Fan sat on a long bench with a whetstone tied to it. Li Fan sharpened his knife over and over again.

While sharpening the knife, he poured water on the whetstone, sweating profusely from exhaustion.

Finally, the edge of the knife became sharp, and Li Fan took out another long knife and continued to sharpen it.

This time Li Fan brought a lot of tools, each with its own use.

When he went back yesterday, he went to the back yam garden and planted all the remaining herbs. Today he will go to the back mountain to pick some more herbs and plant them.

Li Fan's life is busy and fulfilling.

Finally, when the rooster crows at dawn, Li Fan sharpens his knife, feeds the eels and water snakes, and pours fairy liquid on the vegetables in the vegetable garden. After doing this, Li Fan puts the medicine basket on his back and ties it around his waist. There were all kinds of tools, and he even held a long knife in his hand, which he used to chop weeds.

Li Fan also had a bag slung across his body to hold a kettle or something so that he could drink water in the mountains.

After doing this, he went to Xia Menglan's house to meet her.

It was already getting late.

Li Fan's workload every morning is not small.

Xia Menglan got up and combed her hair, brushed her teeth, washed her face, and ate another bowl of noodles.

At this time Li Fan came over.

"Have you eaten? How about I feed you something?" Xia Menglan looked at Li Fan and asked, thinking about cooking more noodles.

Li Fan was so busy with his work that he really didn't eat, but he was too embarrassed to eat noodles with Xia Menglan, but Li Fan's stomach betrayed him.

"Gurgling, gurgling." Li Fan's stomach gurgled.

Xia Menglan smiled: "I'll feed it to you. Just add more noodles. Come and try my cooking."

Li Fan couldn't refuse, so he could only sit in the yard and wait.

Xia Menglan lifted her hair, put on an apron, and was busy in the kitchen. After a while, white smoke billowed, and Xia Menglan cracked two more eggs and put them in.

Xia Menglan makes scallion noodles with pressed soup and adds salt, so it doesn't taste tasteless.

After the noodles were ready, Li Fan hurried over to help.

Xia Menglan handed a large bowl of noodles to Li Fan.

"Eat quickly and taste what I'm like down there." Xia Menglan chuckled twice and urged.

"Okay." Li Fan nodded and ate it in her yard. It was very fragrant, and Li Fan was already hungry, so he ate it quickly.

When Xia Menglan brought her portion of noodles, Li Fan had already eaten half the bowl.

"You are eating too fast." Xia Menglan said in surprise. She put it down and suddenly thought of something, so she said to Li Fan: "Yes, I also made pickles recently. I learned from Aunt Xu. Try it." Try it and eat it with the noodles."

"Village Chief Xia, your noodles are so delicious." Li Fan gave a thumbs up.

Xia Menglan smiled so hard that she narrowed her eyes. She was very happy when she heard such praise.

After a while, she also brought her own pickles to the table. Then she sat down, picked up the bowl, chopsticks, and ate the noodles.

Smelling the fragrance, Xia Menglan herself was very excited.

The village has its advantages. Although the environment is poor and some things are relatively backward, the dishes here are very fresh and natural, and the meals are delicious.

Moreover, it is green and pollution-free, so Xia Menglan feels very confident when eating it.

The morning air in the village was still very fresh, making Xia Menglan enjoy her current life very much.

"Try the pickles I made." Xia Menglan put a pickle in Li Fan's bowl.

Li Fan took a bite and ate faster: "It's delicious, it's delicious."

"Are you exaggerating? You're giving me too much face. You don't even have to eat. You just eat everything." Xia Menglan said with a smile.

"No, Village Chief Xia, your cooking skills are definitely good. This noodle is really delicious, the oil and salt taste just right. If you weren't the village chief, I would have hired you to be the chef in my restaurant." Li Fan sincerely praised.

In fact, part of the reason was that Li Fan got up too early today and his stomach was already empty, so he ate whatever was delicious.

Xia Menglan over there didn't think about this. When she heard Li Fan praise her like this, she was so happy that she suppressed a smile.

"I've never been to the back mountain, so I don't understand anything. You have to teach me later." Xia Menglan said while eating noodles.

"No problem, I have prepared these tools for you. When the time comes, we will bring a group of tourists in, and I will let you know the mystery of the back mountain." Li Fan said with a smile.

Xia Menglan felt a lot more relaxed when she saw Li Fan smiling all over her face. Originally, she was a little nervous. After all, she was going to the back mountain, a land that was rumored to be magical.

Xia Menglan heard the villagers talk about the mystery and danger of the back mountain more than once.

So she really wanted to see it and see what unknown secrets existed in this mountain.

Soon, the two of them finished their meal. Li Fan gave some knives to Xia Menglan: "Bring some clothes with you. The mountains are not as cold as here and there is a lot of dew. You can keep this knife for self-defense. I brought some herbs. We can deal with emergencies later. Oh, by the way..."

Li Fan seemed to remember something and ran out again.

Xia Menglan looked at the knife in her hand, with a little surprise on her face: "You don't have to be so heavily armed, do you?"

Soon, Li Fan came back with another travel bag. At this time, he was indeed fully armed.

"There is a tent in this travel bag. If we can't come back today, there will be a place to sleep at night. Take it with you just in case. There is also a mattress inside. But I can't take it. You can only take it. ." Li Fan handed the travel bag to Xia Menglan.

"Isn't it? Are we going on an adventure?" Xia Menglan chuckled, somewhat unacceptable.

"Yes, we are going on an adventure. We have to be fully prepared this time. I also really want to see the secrets told by the older generation." Li Fan replied with a smile.

In the end, Xia Menglan put on her travel bag and followed Li Fan out with a knife in her hand.

The two of them were waiting for tourists on the only way to the back mountain to see if anyone would ask them to be a tour guide.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, no tourists came. On the contrary, many villagers came.

"Fanzi, are you going to the mountains today?" These fellow villagers also wanted to come over and act as tour guides.

This is a nice job. You can earn a lot of money by taking people around the back mountains. Everyone is happy to do this kind of job.

"Yes." Li Fan smiled and nodded.

"Village Chief Xia, are you going in too?" The villager glanced at Xia Menglan again.

"Yes, I want to see what resources there are in the back mountain so that we can take advantage of them and bring some tourists into the mountain to make some money." Xia Menglan said sincerely without any cover-up.

The villager stopped asking any more questions. She smiled when she saw Li Fan and Xia Menglan together: "Okay, when tourists come, you go in first, we are not in a hurry."

"Yes, if you have trouble going into the mountain, we don't care. Anyway, you can only go into the mountain once a day." Other waiting villagers also agreed.

At this time, no one really wants to compete with them for business.

Everyone is very friendly when trying to attract tourists. Whoever needs the money in a hurry will earn it.

At this moment, a minivan drove over and stopped at the back mountain pass.

A total of three young people, one man and two women, got out of the car. The boy wore glasses and carried a large luggage bag. The two girls, one tall and one short, were carrying picture folders on their backs. It looked like they wanted to come over to sketch.

They looked at the lush green mountains behind, and a slight smile immediately appeared on their faces.

"Shall we go to the mountains to paint? Or go to the lake?" The boy wearing glasses looked at the mountains behind and looked very happy.

"What's good to draw by the lake? We've been there many times, and every time it's by the lake. I'm tired of those scenery. Let's go to the mountains. They're fun." The face of a short girl There are a lot of freckles on her face, but she is very lively and cute.

"I also think it's good to go to the mountains. There might be some caves or waterfalls in these mountains. It's so artistic. There are many places to take in the scenery. Let's go to the mountains." The tall girl looked very elegant, but She was too thin, and her legs showed through her entire body.

The boy wearing glasses nodded after listening to what the two of them said, but then he started to think: "I heard that you have to take a tour guide with you when going to the mountains, otherwise it's easy to get lost. Let's take a tour guide with us too?"

"Okay." The short girl with freckles cheered immediately after hearing this, but she frowned halfway through the dance: "Isn't it expensive to hire a tour guide?"

"Ask." the tall girl said.

So, the boy wearing glasses became the representative and came to ask Li Fan.

"Hello, I'm a student. I want to go sketching in the mountains. I just want to ask how much does it cost to hire a tour guide?" The boy wearing glasses looked a little shy.

"Eighty a day." Xia Menglan replied from the side.

"Oh." The boy wearing glasses scratched his head and looked back at the two girls.

The two girls, one tall and one short, immediately pushed their hands at him, asking him to agree quickly.

The boy wearing glasses understood and nodded: "We want to find a tour guide, but we don't know where to find it."

"Here we are, let's go in together and I will lead the way." Li Fan stood up and said.

At this time, the boy wearing glasses hesitated again and said coyly: "We only invite one tour guide."

"It's okay, I'm giving it as a gift, buy one, get one free." Xia Menglan thought that the boy wearing glasses was a coke, so she laughed and teased him.

"Buy one get one free?" The boy wearing glasses looked surprised.

"Hahaha, I'm kidding you, I'm a tourist too." Xia Menglan said with a smile.

The boy wearing glasses scratched his head, and when he thought about it, he felt something was wrong.