Zhang Lingling left without saying a few words. When she passed by Li Yuezhu, she smelled a strange smell, which was a bit familiar. Li Yuezhu frowned and looked at Zhang Lingling's enchanting back, but she had no idea what Zhang Lingling's purpose was.

what exactly is it?

After lunch, Li Yuezhu picked up the embroidery and started embroidering. Xiao An went out to play, and her mother was busy drying the wheat. But she was preoccupied. Seeing that the fruits in the orchard were about to mature, she didn't have a complete plan yet.

In the evening, the wheat spread out will be collected to prevent it from getting damp at night.

Li Yuezhu put down the embroidery in her hands. She really couldn't sit down anymore, so she packed up, picked up two bags of snacks and went straight to the old village chief's house.

The sun was already setting in the west, and when Li Yuezhu knocked on the door of the old village chief's house, the smoke from their house was already rising.

"Grandpa Village Chief, Grandpa Village Chief, are you at home?" Li Yuezhu stood at the door and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was Lan Xin, the daughter-in-law of the old village chief's family. Lan Xin was a gentle woman. Although she had never met Li Yuezhu, she warmly welcomed her in.

"Aunt, is the village chief grandpa at home?" When Li Yuezhu asked, he handed the snack in his hand to Lan Xin's hand.

Lan Xin pushed it away and asked Li Yuezhu to forcefully push the snack into her hand.

The old village chief was feeding the birds in the yard and picked up a small branch to tease the birds. Lan Xin quickly walked over and said, "Dad, we have a guest at home."

When the old village chief heard his daughter-in-law's words, he put down the branch in his hand, turned around and saw that it was Li Yuezhu.

"Ouch, Lan Xin, look at you, you don't even recognize Xiaoyuan's savior. This little girl is Yuezhu!"

The old village chief smiled so hard when he saw Li Yuezhu coming over that he quickly welcomed Li Yuezhu in.

"My daughter-in-law here is honest and good at working at home, but she doesn't like to see people. Don't blame Zhu'er!"

"How could it be? This is the first time I saw my aunt. I didn't expect her to be so beautiful."

"Hey, our Zhuer's mouth is so sweet." Grandma Zhao, the wife of the old village chief, walked out of the house and happened to hear Li Yuezhu say this and quickly praised her.

"It turns out to be Yuezhu. We haven't had time to thank you yet. If you hadn't saved Xiaoyuan, our Xiaoyuan might have suffered a lot. Just stay at home for dinner today and I'll prepare something delicious for you."

When Lan Xin heard that this was the brave girl who saved her Xiaoyuan family, she immediately became enthusiastic.

After chatting for a while, Grandma Zhao and Lan Xin also went out, and then Li Yuezhu got down to business.

"Grandpa Village Chief, I won't beat you around the bush here. I'm here today to ask you about the orchard." Li Yuezhu took a sip of the tea at hand and then said to the old village chief seriously.

The old village chief frowned hard after hearing Li Yuezhu's words.

"Why, Zhu'er is also interested in that orchard?"

Li Yuezhu did not shy away from the old village chief, and nodded directly to acknowledge what the old village chief said.

The old village chief quickly stood up and said to Li Yuezhu: "My son, grandpa advises you not to wade in this muddy water. Just look at Li Cuihua's attitude. Whoever takes over this orchard now will suffer!"

Li Yuezhu listened to the old village chief's sincere words and nodded in agreement. She didn't know it.

"Grandpa, village chief, I know this orchard is a hot potato. I just want to find out how many people in our village want to contract this land."

The old village chief frowned, picked up his pipe and took a puff: "If you ask how many people care about this orchard, then I can tell you clearly that there are no less than ten families in our village alone who care about this orchard."

The old village chief took another puff of cigarette and continued:

"However, those people just thought about it and didn't dare to speak out at all. Just look at Li Dahu and his family a while ago. I don't know who leaked the news. The Wang family was troubled by Li Cuihua before they even came to me.

The chickens and dogs are restless.”

Li Yuezhu's eyes lit up, "That is to say, until now, apart from Li Cuihua, no one has come to tell you clearly that they want to contract this orchard?"

As soon as he mentioned this matter, the old village chief frowned, frowned and nodded.

"Why!"

The hut was filled with smoke, and the old village chief sighed deeply. It was really their family's rat shit that had stirred up a pot of good soup in the village.

"Did Zhu'er also fall in love with that orchard? Is this your mother's intention or your brother's intention?" The old village chief looked at Li Yuezhu's every move.

Li Yuezhu took a sip of water to cover up her embarrassment: "Of course it's what our whole family means."

The old village chief smiled knowingly: "Little girl, this orchard is not that easy to take care of. Don't shave your head yet. Go home and discuss it with your mother. Then come to grandpa's place."

Li Yuezhu looked at the old village chief's insightful eyes and scratched his hair helplessly. Was her expression so obvious?

"Grandpa, the village chief, I really want to contract the orchard. If anyone else wants to contract it, please let me know, and I will..."

"It's on fire, it's on fire, go put out the fire!"

Before Li Yuezhu finished speaking, he heard someone outside shouting at the top of his voice.

When the old village chief heard this, he quickly put down the pipe in his hand and stopped talking to Li Yuezhu. He picked up the walking stick and walked out.

Li Yuezhu saw that the old village chief's legs and feet were not flexible, so he quickly helped him out.

"There's a fire somewhere, hurry up, Lan Xin, hurry up and find someone to put out the fire."

During this wheat harvest season, the most fearful thing is catching fire, fearing that the wheat harvested through hard work this year will be burned to ashes, which will really cost the lives of farmers.

Li Yuezhu helped the old village chief out. Lan Xin put down the spoon in her hand and ran out. When she walked into the yard, she could smell a burning smell. Li Yuezhu followed the smoke in the air and saw that the direction of the fire seemed to be there.

It's near her home.

Li Yuezhu suddenly felt cold and looked in the direction of her home with a frown.

"Grandpa, village chief, please wait a minute, I'll go take a look too."

Li Yuezhu ran out as he spoke. After running out the door, he almost collided with Li Dayong who went to put out the fire.

Li Yuezhu ran home in a hurry. The more she ran, the more she felt cold. Many pictures flashed through her mind. Who is it? Who is it?

When she ran to the door of her house, there were already many people gathered in front of her yard. They all brought basins and buckets from home, and they all fetched water from the well and poured it on the wall of her yard.

Li Yuezhu grabbed the basin from the man next to her and ran towards the door of her house. The fire was so strong that half of her courtyard wall had been burned down.

The fire burned continuously for half an hour and was finally put out. The villagers were relatively simple. They put out the fire and left with their belongings.

But not a single grain of grain piled in the yard of Li Yuezhu's house was burned, and even the courtyard wall made of adobe was burned to less than half a meter. Fortunately, the fire did not spread, and her adobe house

Although it looks dark, it is not burned out.

The farmer has worked hard for a year and relied on these lands to make money to support his family. Who is so crazy and wants to destroy her family and cut off her family's livelihood?

Mrs. Zhou was sitting on the ground and sobbing. She was completely covered in darkness, her hair was messy, and she was very embarrassed.

"Mom, what happened?"

Li Yuezhu knelt down next to Mrs. Zhou, wiped the black ash on Mrs. Zhou's face with her sleeve, and asked quickly.

"I heard that your Uncle Tiezhu was back, so I wanted to give him something. Before I left, I locked the courtyard door. Unexpectedly..."
Chapter completed!