Chapter 154: Warm Up on the Kang

He changed into a police uniform, wore boots with turned fur, and put on a military coat.

He wore the rabbit fur leg guards that Hearing Da Lao wore when driving a horse carriage.

He put the cotton hat upside down, tied the strap, wore a white cotton mask and Old Biaozi's sunglasses, and went out.

Eldest brother Xuewen had already stacked two bags of cornmeal, one bag of white flour, and one bag of rice that Li Xuewu brought back into the sidecar.

These bags were not large, and Hearing Da Lao covered them with felt cloth.

It must be said that this sidecar's carrying capacity was really not low. Each of those four bags weighed more than 50 jin, and there was a bucket of gasoline and a jar of wine.

Li Xuewu put on the military coat inside out, put his sleeves into the handlebars, and tightened them with a rope, thus making a windproof quilt.

He got on the motorcycle, kicked it to life, and let his eldest brother get on.

Li Xuewu's eldest brother Xuewen was riding a sidecar motorcycle for the first time, a bit nervous. With Hearing Da Lao's help, he also put on the military coat inside out, straddled the cowhide saddle, and put his hands into Li Xuewu's pocket to hug his waist.

Hearing Da Lao put the eldest brother Xuewen's hat upside down and pressed it down. Although he couldn't see, the wind couldn't get in.

Li Xuewu twisted the throttle, and the motorcycle slowly went out the gate, walked onto the street, and sped up once on the street.

"Xuewu, ride slower."

"Li Xuewu, ride slower."

"Second brother..."

Regardless of his eldest brother shouting behind him, Li Xuewu's speed didn't slow down. With his eldest brother's slow personality, it would be better if the motorcycle's speed was slower than a bicycle. The feeling was that he wasn't cold in the back, but if he rode for a day, he would freeze to death on the motorcycle.

Besides, when did he ever listen to his eldest brother? He should shout if he wanted to; anyway, the more he shouted, the faster the speed.

Li Xuewu had a way to deal with his eldest brother.

At this time, there were no vehicles on the street. The throttle was tightened, and he rode along the street out of the city like the wind.

The road at this time was average, a bit bumpy. Fortunately, Li Xuewu rode for half an afternoon yesterday and was familiar with the rhythm, so he didn't feel it was difficult to ride.

Especially with the windproof quilt, except for his face being a bit frozen, other places were not very cold.

Because Li Xuewen couldn't see, he could only sit honestly in the back seat, his hands nervously clutching Li Xuewu's clothes, very afraid of being thrown off.

After riding for more than an hour, he entered the mountainous area, and the road was a bit difficult to walk.

The eldest brother also pushed his hat to reveal his eyes and pointed the way for Li Xuewu.

After stumbling for more than half an hour, he entered the village.

It was the cold winter month, and there were few people walking in the village. Only a few children with runny noses running around discovered Li Xuewu's motorcycle and ran out to see the novelty.

After entering the village, Li Xuewu didn't dare to ride fast. The road in the village was even worse, full of pits and bumps, and he was really afraid of overturning the car.

Followed by a group of children, the eldest brother pointed to a small courtyard leaning against the hillside with a low fence and earthen houses: "That's it."

Confirming the target, Li Xuewu slightly increased his speed and drove straight into the small courtyard with an open wooden gate.

It was called a wooden gate, but it was just a simple gate made of four wooden poles as a frame and tied with tree branches.

The courtyard wall was even lower, and Li Xuewu felt he could lift his leg and step over it.

Seeing a police officer riding a police motorcycle into the courtyard, an old farmer wearing a broken sheepskin coat came out of the door, standing in the courtyard and looking at Li Xuewu who got off the car with some fright.

Seeing Li Xuewen take off his hat and get off the car, he knew it was his son-in-law.

Li Xuewu parked the car, pulled out the key, and followed him off the car.

Seeing someone standing in the courtyard, he hurriedly took off his sunglasses and mask.

At this time, the old man who saw the son-in-law getting off the car and walking toward the car, and the police officer riding the car looked similar to the son-in-law, this must be the Li family's second son that the daughter and son-in-law mentioned when they came back last time.

Every time the son-in-law took the bus, then walked a distance, and last time he rode a bike and brought pork. This time he rode a police car up. It seems the son-in-law borrowed his second brother's light.

"Xuewen is here. This is Xuewu, right? Look at how frozen the child is, come into the house to warm up."

At this time, Li Xuewu looked like Santa Claus, with a layer of frost on his eyebrows, all frozen from the cold air he exhaled.

Seeing the father-in-law greeting the two of them, Li Xuewu hurriedly pulled his eldest brother.

Eldest brother Xuewen answered: "Dad, this is my second brother Xuewu. Today is a day off, so I helped me send the grain over. Xuewu, this is your sister-in-law's father, you call him Old Uncle."

Li Xuewu knew from his mother that the eldest sister-in-law's father was named Zhao Gen, one year younger than Li Shun, so he opened his mouth and called: "Old Uncle, hello."

"Good, good, come into the house."

As he spoke, he let the eldest, second, and third sons who had just come out to greet the two unload the car.

"Go help your brother-in-law unload the car, and let your brother-in-law and your second brother go into the house to rest."

Three half-grown boys wearing simple clothes walked toward the car.

Li Xuewu pointed to the gasoline bucket in the sidecar and said with a smile to the three who were a bit timid: "Unload this wine jar, don't unload this, this is gasoline."

Li Xuewu took out a cigarette from his pocket and offered it to Zhao Gen.

"Old Uncle, smoke."

"No, no, I have it here, I smoke dry tobacco."

"Just smoke this."

Zhao Gen then smiled and took the cigarette, covering it with both hands and letting Li Xuewu light it.

Li Xuewu lit his own with a match, and only then entered the earthen house under Zhao Gen's enthusiastic invitation.

The house was three earthen rooms, the front was built with brick blanks, looking quite regular, the house was a bit low, and Li Xuewu's height was a bit top-heavy when passing the door frame, so he lowered his head slightly before entering the house.

The middle was the kitchen, and both sides were bedrooms. Zhao Gen led them to the east room. It was a bit dark in this room, because the windows were small, and it was covered with plastic cloth, not very transparent.

Entering suddenly, two eyes were a bit dark. Zhao Gen lit the kerosene lamp, and only then did he see the people in the room clearly.

Zhao Gen placed the kerosene lamp on the kang table on the kang, smiled and pointed to the two old people at the head of the kang and said to Li Xuewu: "Dad, Mom, this is Xuewen's second brother Xuewu, who rode a motorcycle to send Xuewen over."

The old people on the kang, although looking thin, were very spirited, waving their hands to let the brothers get on the kang to warm up.

Zhao Gen pointed to the two old people and said: "Xuewu, you just call them Old Master, Old Lady."

Li Xuewu took out a cigarette, pulled out two and offered them, asking: "Old Master, Old Lady, you are in good health, smoke."

The old man saw Zhao Gen holding a cigarette, so he took it, and let Li Xuewu help light it.

Li Xuewu saw that the old lady had a cigarette bag by her hand, so he offered a cigarette in front, but the old lady said she wasn't used to smoking, so he put the cigarette back into the cigarette box.

The old man took a puff with great relish and pulled Li Xuewu and Li Xuewen onto the kang. ===== CHAPTER 155 =====