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Boss Xiao got a monkey grandson, so he didn't have to worry about household registration and other issues. As soon as he sobered up the next day, he went to Yongqing to find a relationship.

It is best not to let people know the origin of Houwazi, so it is not said that this child was picked. Instead, he was first settled in a farmer's home in a ravine, and then he went through the adoption procedures and changed his surname to Xiao. , the household registration was moved to Xiao Shulin's name, and as for the age, I estimated it to be three years old.

Old man Luo didn't give up easily either. Houwazi's surname will be Xiao from now on. Now he wants to live in Niuwangzhuang, and it's not certain who he will marry when he grows up.

So the next day he and Liu Chunlan also went to Evergreen, bought an oven, hired a car and transported it all the way to Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin's hut, put the oven in their kitchen, and after that, they used it every day. Just over there to make cookies.

Of course, Luo Meng also agreed with the decision of the two old men. He also heard Liu Chunlan talk about the drawing of lots that afternoon, and knew that the old man Luo still had some knots in his heart, but since the two old men had reached a conclusion on this matter, he would not It’s good to mix it again, and it won’t produce any results if you mix it again, it will only make things more and more messy.

For the old man Luo, Luo Meng was still quite guilty. He had already tolerated the matter of the wedding before, and this time about his grandson, Boss Xiao made a bargain. He would definitely not feel too comfortable.

In fact, Luo Meng also knows that the old man Luo just hopes that he can stand out and spread his branches. When he was admitted to a prestigious school, the old man Luo was still very proud. In those years, he had a lot of smiles on his face. In the past two years, his bull king Zhuang made a sound, and Luo's waist straightened a lot.

There is no other way for Luo Meng to spread branches and leaves. What he can do now is to manage his own business well, so that old man Luo can be proud of his son, live happily and enjoy his old age.If you really want a grandson, look at it later, maybe you still have a chance, after all, it is your own heir, and Luo Meng doesn't want to be too sloppy, he must have a good eye for it.

Luo Meihui and Luo Meiling have gone to study, so they don't go home for dinner at noon. Luo Hongfeng is either busy in the store or in Niuwangzhuang, and rarely stays at home. While ordering food, he went back to eat with Xiao Shulin Houwazi and the others.

Luo Meng has to be busy with the affairs of the town and Niuwangzhuang. Sometimes he eats with them, and sometimes he eats a little in the courtyard.

"Hey, boss, don't rush to go." Romon came back from the town at noon that day, parked his pickup truck in the courtyard, and rode a tricycle to go back to his hut for dinner. He was stopped by Chen Jianhua.

"What are you doing?" Romon asked him.

"Don't go up the mountain after dinner, come to the yard, and I'll tell you what happened on the mountain recently." Chen Jianhua said.Recently, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin are both gods and dragons, and he is in charge, so he can't make up his own mind about everything.

"Okay, I got it." Luo Meng admitted that he really didn't spend much time on the matter of Niuwangzhuang recently.

Back home, Liu Chunlan had already set the dining table, and there was still a strong smell of milk-flavored biscuits in the room. Ever since the old couple made biscuits here, Luo Meng and Xiao Shulin could smell it day and night. Houwazi seems to like this fragrance quite a bit.

Houwazi has been washed more and more white by Luo Meng and the others these days, although compared with ordinary children, he is still a little darker.It turned out that the hair of different lengths was also cut shoulder-length by Liu Chunlan with scissors, and it looked much cleaner and fresher. In addition, his facial features were already handsome, probably because he was too thin and his face was not as baby as other children. The fat relationship, coupled with this hairstyle, really has a bit of aristocratic temperament.

"Son." Romeng picked up the boy as soon as he entered the room, and kissed him: "Call me Dad."

"Huh..." Houwazi put his soft arms around Luo Meng's neck. He seemed to like being hugged. After getting acquainted with Liu Chunlan and Luo Meng in the past two days, he also hugged him. When Luo Meng was working, He can also climb on his body with hands and feet, and the old man is not too tired, so he happily carries it on his back.

"Shulin, come down to eat." Liu Chunlan called Xiao Shulin upstairs.

"Here we come." Xiao Shulin hurried downstairs. In the morning, he handed the monkey boy to Liu Chunlan and the others to take care of him. He went to the crab field to see it by himself. He just took a shower when Romon came back.

"I caught a few crabs in the woods just now, and I baked them for you to eat." Liu Chunlan said while cooking for everyone.

"You know how to bake?" Luo Meng laughed.

"What the fat man taught me is to bury crabs in coarse salt and burn them on a low fire." Liu Chunlan laughed as she spoke.

They are mountain people, and they rarely eat fresh seafood from the river. In the past, they would occasionally buy a few crabs during the Chinese New Year. They would be fried and eaten, and occasionally steamed. , the fat man said that it is better to bake it with salt, the original flavor is not fishy, ​​so Liu Chunlan tried it.

In a blink of an eye, it is late September, and according to the lunar calendar, it is almost August. People in the Yangtze River Valley say that crabs are round on August [-]th, which is the time to eat crabs. They also say that September is round and October is sharp. That is to say, eat female crabs in September and eat male crabs in October.

The hairy crabs in Luo Meng's family are very edible. I don't know how many loaches and snails have been fed in the past few months. Probably because the season is not right, there is not much crab paste at this time, but the crab meat is pretty good, one bite, tender and sweet, very delicious.

"This season, the female crabs haven't turned yellow enough, so I didn't catch the female crabs." Xiao Shulin explained.

"It's good to eat male crabs. Male crabs are crab meat to eat." Old man Luo broke open a crab, saw Hou Wazi staring at him, and handed him half of the crab.

"Have you picked the crab's mouth?" Liu Chunlan asked hurriedly.

"Tick everything that needs to be picked." This monkey boy lived on the mountain before, so he should have never eaten crabs. The adults didn't dare to tell him to eat more, so they ate half of one.

In the afternoon, when Luo Meng went to Niuwang Village, Chen Jianhua really mentioned crabs to him, and asked him if they would be sold during the Mid-Autumn Festival?After thinking about it for a while, Romon decided to wait until the weather was cooler and the crab fat was full before catching and selling them.

"And the thorn rose fruit you picked these days can't be sold." Chen Jianhua said.

"Can't sell it?" This is the first time that Luo Meng heard that the things on his mountain can't be sold, and he couldn't turn his mind for a while, why can't he sell it?Thinking about it again, this thing is a medicine, it can neither be eaten as a meal nor a snack, and it is normal that it cannot be sold.

"Is everything about the moon cakes arranged?" Luo Meng thought for a while, then asked Chen Jianhua again.

"The first batch of mooncakes has been made, and they are returning to oil. The lotus paste and chestnut paste have not been made yet." Chen Jianhua replied.

"Let's make [-] pieces of lotus paste and chestnut paste first, and stop making them when they are sold out online. I'll ask first at Jiweilou, and I'll give you the quantity when the time comes." Luo Meng's fresh lotus seeds The dried ones are very easy to sell, and if they are used to make mooncakes, they are really extravagant.

"Then I'll arrange for people to prepare chestnuts and lotus seeds." Chen Jianhua said.

"Well, I will collect some chestnuts from outside these two days and store them separately from the chestnuts in Niuwangzhuang." Last year they collected chestnuts from other people's homes, and the mooncakes filled with chestnut paste were also sold well. , Romon plans to continue this year.

"Understood." Now, where are the things on their mountain stored, and how much is in stock, Chen Jianhua knows better than Luo Meng.

"That's fine, I'll go and see the rose fruit."

This rose fruit can’t be sold, it’s okay. Luo Meng squatted next to the bamboo boards in the courtyard where the rose fruit was drying. These fruits have been picked by the old people, and the branches and sepals have been removed. Pick up a bright red fruit, break it in half, there are a few fluffy seeds inside, these seeds are inedible, the throat will be very itchy after eating, the whole fruit is dried and soaked in water is not harmful.

"Old Zhou, when will you give me the pair of stone frogs you told me about last time?" Fatty Hou woke up after lunch and found that Luo Meng was actually staying in the yard that day, so he seized the opportunity to start debt collection.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to give it this year." Romon picked out the seeds from the thorn rose fruit, put the pulp in his mouth and chewed slowly.

"What's wrong?" Fatty Hou couldn't accept this cruel reality.

"The growth cycle of stone frogs takes at least two years, and I didn't know until later." Luo Meng tasted the sweet and sour taste in his mouth, and said to Fatty Hou with a smile. You can eat stone frogs, and you will be happy in the end.

"Aren't there big stone frogs on the mountain?" Lin Kuo bought all the big frogs back then.

"Those stone frogs have gone through the winter once. It's not easy. If they go through the winter again this year, the survival rate will be very high. It's a pity to eat them now. I hope they will continue to breed next year." There is also the task of protecting the small stone frogs. He has to continue to take on the responsibility, how can Romon be willing to kill him at this moment?

"You are dishonest!" Fatty Hou had been waiting for this pair of stone frogs since last year.

"In this way, if you catch a little rooster later and cook it with Master Bu, it will be regarded as interest." Luo Meng was very talkative this time.

"Make another plate of grouper." Fatty Hou hit the snake with a stick. The grouper in the ditches in Niuwangzhuang have grown well in the past few months, and Fatty Hou didn't think about them for a day or two. It's a pity that Lao Zhou just refuses to let go, and today is his chance.

"Sure, catch it yourself, but it can't exceed one catty." Romon set an upper limit for him.

"Don't worry." Fatty Hou rolled up his sleeves and planned to catch fish.

"Come back, why worry? It's not good to save those things for the night? A plate of chicken, a plate of fish, and two more dishes, and have a few glasses of wine with Master Bu." shouted back.

"Give me back the wine?" The fat man frowned, secretly vigilant, Lao Zhou never traded at a loss.

"Two catties of red bayberry wine, don't you want it?" Luo Meng shook two fingers at Fatty Hou.

"Yes!" Knowing that there was a pit in front of him, Fatty Hou still wanted to jump into it recklessly.He has only drank the bayberry wine from Niuwangzhuang twice in total. It tastes... It's a pity that Luo Meng, the key to the wine store, is tightly covered.

"But fat man, brother, I have something to do right now, and I need your help." Is it so easy to eat the old Zhou's little rooster grouper bayberry wine?

"What's the matter?" Fatty Hou was already ready to serve his master as a cow or a horse for those delicious bites.

"It's our fruit, let's see if you can make some tricks for us." Romon said, pointing to the thorn rose fruit that was drying on the bamboo board.

"Hey, this one?" Fatty Hou scratched his head, but also had troubles: "I grew up in the city since I was a child. I have never seen this thing before, and I have never seen the master play with it."

"So, now is the time to test you." Luo Meng solemnly patted Hou Fatty on the shoulder.

"Why do you take the exam if you have nothing to do? What's the benefit of passing the exam?" Fatty Hou is not so easy to fool.

"Why is it no good? Have you seen those crabs in our field? If you help me make something good, you can catch two pairs of crabs in the field at random." A little bit of money can't arouse the energy of this foodie.

"That's what you said! Let me watch and catch it!" Fatty Hou immediately became passionate.

"When did I lie to you?"

"Then you have to prepare some more pulp first. The seeds of this thing have hairs on them, so they need to be cleaned before they can be eaten." These days, Luo Meng and the others picked a lot of rose fruits, and Fatty Hou had tasted them a long time ago by virtue of their freshness. Yes, the taste is not bad, but the pulp is too little, and it is difficult to eat.

"There will be tomorrow." Luo Meng just remembered, these old people don't have any work in winter, if Hou Fatty can figure out the way to process thorn roses, then Luo Meng will pick them back every day The fresh fruits are stored in the cold storage first, and then taken out in winter leisure time for the old people to clean up slowly.

After Hou Fatty left, Luo Meng took out his mobile phone and called Xiao Shulin, asking him if he could ask someone from their transportation company to help collect the chestnuts. Call the company.

Not long after eating at noon today, Liu Chunlan and Old Man Luo baked biscuits in their hut again. After smelling the fragrance of the biscuits, Houwazi didn't want to go up the mountain so much, so Xiao Shulin left him at home and went up by himself. up the mountain.

Because they left empty baskets on the mountain before, the monkeys would pick up the rose fruit first when they were free, and the back mountain was so close, he went up the mountain alone to roast corn to harvest the rose fruit, and the front and back were at most A matter of two hours.

When Old Man Luo and Liu Chunlan got busy, they would bake biscuits in the kitchen, so they took a few freshly baked biscuits and let Hou Wazi and Jin Jin sit on the blanket in the living room to eat and play.

Then, Yaya and her son also came over smelling the smell of biscuits. After entering the room, Yaya saw that there were no adults in the living room at this time, and looked at the few biscuits that Houwazi was holding in his hand, and immediately made them Grinning like a vicious dog, he barked at him. "Wow!"

"!" The life experience in the monkey group told Houwazi that if he showed weakness at this time, he would be bullied all the time in the future, so he waved his paw without thinking.

"Ah woo woo..." Yaya let out a series of screams.

"What's the matter?" Liu Chunlan heard the movement, and quickly poked her head out of the kitchen to see what was going on, only to see Yaya running out of the gate with her tail between her legs, followed by the chubby Dabao. Monkey Cub and Gold were sitting on blankets by the window eating biscuits.

Under the sun, a beautiful golden retriever, a beautiful little doll, his slightly withered half-long hair was tanned brightly by the sun, the doll turned its head and smiled at Liu Chunlan, it was so beautiful that her heart melted instantly up.