The Sweet Little Fulang

The chickens and ducks got down from the mountain, and they were a little wilted during the bumpy journey for the past two days. Lu Gu didn’t let them out. He regained his energy and then went out to plan for food and swim. He chopped half-dried grass and mixed it with chaff. , together with the chickens and ducks raised at home.

When he came out of the backyard, he saw Wei Lanxiang came back with Shen Yan, carrying a small bag of ice chips and shortbread in the basket.

In the cold weather defender Lan Xiang often carried a small cloth pad in the basket, and the cotton inside was sewn in from old cotton clothes. I used the pad today when I bought shortbread, and it was still warm when I came back.

"Go, here I am, sister-in-law." Wei Lanxiang opened the oiled paper bag, took two pastries and handed them to Shen Yan.

Seeing Lu Gu coming out from the backyard, she smiled and said, "Gu Zi washes his hands and comes to eat."

"Understood, mother." Lu Gu had rolled up his sleeves because he chopped chicken grass just now, and now he put them down after washing his hands.

Seeing that Shen Xuanqing was killing the last badger, Shen Yaoqing was cutting the fat of the badger in the kitchen, so as to refine the oil in the pot later, Wei Lanxiang went into the kitchen and took out the ice flakes and put them on the edge of the chopping board, saying: "In the basket Hold it in your mouth, you two can take it by yourself after finishing it."

"Okay." Shen Yaoqing agreed, and his subordinates kept cutting the fat meat. Seeing the puppy rubbing against his leg, he smiled and said, "It's not cooked yet, I'll eat it later."

The fat from the badgers can be used for refining oil, and the lean meat can also be eaten, but their family doesn’t like eating badger meat very much. Anyway, they have dogs at home, and a dozen badger meat is enough for them to eat for a while, even in winter. Sticking fat is not.

When Lu Gu entered the main room, he first glanced at Ji Qiuyue's room. Wei Lanxiang was joking with her. When he saw Shen Yan coming out, he lifted the small cloth cushion on the basket and was about to take it when he heard Shen Yan say, "Brother Guzi, take it for your mother too." One."

The three pastries were brought out, Lu Gu followed Shen Yan into the east room, and sat on the edge of the bed to eat the pancakes.Except for Ji Qiuyue who ate two in their family, everyone else ate one.

Wei Lanxiang saw the thin red cloth on the bed that hadn't been put away, and said while eating: "I'm in a hurry today, I forgot to buy another red cloth, it's hot in summer, make a few bellybands for the baby to wear, otherwise I will have to cover it up." If you have prickly heat, you can't cool your stomach."

Ji Qiuyue finally had a child, she felt happy just looking at the red cloth that was being made into clothes, and she was not willing to put it away, she nodded upon hearing this, it should be done.

Lu Gu sat beside him without saying a word, feeling very satisfied eating the crispy pancakes, but Shen Yan leaned over and said in a low voice, "Brother Guzi, I beg you for something."

No one had ever talked to him like this before, Lu Gu was a little nervous all of a sudden, thinking that something happened to Shen Yan, he could only nod hastily because there was something in his mouth.

Shen Yan scratched her head with the other hand, she seemed a little embarrassed, she showed a flattering smile, and said, "The new jacket my mother made for me is ready, can you embroider two flowers for me?"

"I'm not just learning embroidery. It's okay to embroider on handkerchiefs, but if the clothes are broken, Caixia and the others will definitely laugh at me." After she finished speaking, she took a big bite of shortbread, frowning and looking very sad.

It turned out to be this, Lu Gu felt relieved, and said with slightly frowned eyebrows, "Okay."

When Wei Lanxiang heard them talking, Shen Yan lowered his head and muttered, and asked curiously, "What are you talking about with your brother Guzi?"

She was criticized twice because her embroidery work was not good, and now she asked Lu Gu to embroider for her. Afraid of being accused again, Shen Yan said, "Mother, it's nothing, I'll ask brother Guzi about it."

"Little Nier, you still haven't told the truth to your mother." Wei Lanxiang gave her a smile, but didn't press the question, and talked to Ji Qiuyue about putting the child in a longevity lock.

The two of them were talking, when Shen Yan saw that Lu Gu had finished eating and stuffed the remaining shortbread into his mouth, he stood up and signaled Lu Gu to follow her.

In the kitchen, Shen Yaoqing boiled fat meat and refined oil, Shen Xuanqing tidied up the yard, shoveled the soil with a shovel, and covered the blood splashed outside the basin, so as not to step on the dirty blood on the sole of a shoe.

There are sixteen badger skins in total. He thought about it. If there is a white wind blowing in winter, no one can go out of the house. Light and warm, the neck will not be cold.

Tanning fur is also a labor-intensive job. The remaining ten skins can simply be sold as raw hides. It doesn't matter if the price is slightly lower than the tanned ones.

Seeing that Lu Gu came out to wash his hands again, and Shen Yan was still following, Shen Xuanqing smiled and asked, "What are you two doing?"

Shen Yan still prevaricated him with words, saying: "It's nothing, second brother, you can do your work."

"Brother Guzi, I'll go get it first." Shen Yan said after washing his hands.

"Okay." Lu Gu agreed, washed off the white foam from his hands and got up to wipe his hands. Seeing Shen Xuanqing smiling at him, he paused and saw no one around, so he whispered: "Shen Yan asked me to give her a new coat." Embroider some flowers on it."

He thought that this was not a secret that could not be said, and it would be okay to tell Shen Xuanqing, even if he didn't tell it, his family would definitely see it when he embroidered flowers later, and he couldn't hide it.

"No wonder." Shen Xuanqing smiled, he knew his sister too well, and when he thought about it, he knew that he was afraid that his mother would tell her, and said: "Then you go, if you are cold, sit on the bed, and the pot is occupied at the moment, and you can't boil water to pour the soup mother-in-law. .”

"Yeah." Lu Gu nodded.

The chimney smoke wafted from the chimney, people were talking and laughing in the courtyard of Shen's house, and people were working, sometimes there was a dog barking, and the days after going down the mountain were still solid and comfortable.

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Early the next morning, after eating two hot steamed buns and a small piece of salty lump, Shen Xuanqing poured a small half of the wild bath beads from the sack into his big bamboo basket, and the rest must be enough for his own use.

Shen Yaoqing, who was chopping firewood, saw him tidying up, and asked, "Going to town?"

"Yes." Shen Xuanqing put the sack back after pouring, raised her head and asked, "What's the matter, brother?"

Shen Yaoqing turned his head and glanced at the main room, Ji Qiuyue took the needle and thread out to make children's clothes, scratched her head and smiled silly, took out the money from her arms, and said in a low voice: "If you go, buy me a silver hairpin at Jinyinxuan, I will take care of it Last time, I didn’t bring enough money to buy it, it was a phoenix tail with small silver beads, if someone bought this one, there is another phoenix tail, it’s also pretty, so just buy one and bring it back.”

"Success." Shen Xuanqing took the money and said with a smile, he stuffed the money into his arms, his eyes paused slightly as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing him like this, Shen Yaoqing patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly like someone who came here: "I love my husband even after earning money. Our family can't afford gold or jade. Even if you are not happy, if you are interested, buy one The silver ones are also making me happy, right? Dad didn’t give mother a silver hairpin and silver bracelet in two or three years when he was around.”

Lu Gu's clothes are very plain, like most husbands in the village, his hair is often tied with cloth strips. The husbands in the town don't have to work in the fields, and their hair is combed differently from the farmers. They can also wear hairpins and hairpins, but they don't. There are so many tricks a woman can wear on her head.

"Not to mention anything else, when your sister-in-law first married me, I bought her a hairpin after earning money. I was so happy, and I haven't pulled my ear for half a year." After the intrepid thing came out, she quickly made amends: "Of course, she doesn't often pull my ears, and besides, I let her go."

Shen Xuanqing raised her eyebrows and smiled slightly, but did not expose him, and said, "I know, brother, I will buy one too."

"Hey, that's right, don't just be tall, but also have a heart." Shen Yaoqing patted him on the shoulder again, looking relieved.

There are not many things to sell today, except for the wild bath beads, there are ten badger skins, and there is no need to pull the cart. Shen Xuanqing told his family, and Lu Gu sent him out of the courtyard.

When Shen Xuanqing was far away, Lu Gu called the puppy back, and went to the hall to continue embroidering a coat for Shen Yan.

The women at home are doing needlework. Shen Yaoqing chops firewood for a while and sees that the sun is high, so he takes a hemp rope hatchet and goes up the mountain to collect firewood. The firewood he collected these days has not been sold, and he stuffed it into the woodshed. He is still thinking about it. , I have no other work these two days, so I went up the mountain with Shen Xuanqing to cut more firewood and came back.

When it was almost noon, Lu Gu was cooking in the kitchen, and Shen Yan was lighting a fire for him. At this moment, the puppy and Big Hui barked and ran out of the yard.

As soon as he heard it, he knew that Shen Xuanqing was back, but the dishes hadn't been cut yet, and the meal was going to be served later, so he couldn't stop, so he had to look out from the window.

After a while, Shen Xuanqing walked into the courtyard with a bamboo basket on her back, approached the kitchen and smiled when she saw Lu Gu, and said, "I'm back."

Lu Gu's eyes brightened slightly, and he smiled slightly.

"Mother." Seeing Wei Lanxiang coming out, Shen Xuanqing shouted, he unloaded the bamboo basket, and took out two oil-paper umbrellas from it, Lu Gu stood in the kitchen and saw green round fruits under the bamboo basket, green So bright, it looks very alive in the withering silence of early winter.

"Walking around at the pier, I bought some oranges when I saw someone selling oranges." After speaking, Shen Xuanqing glanced at Lu Gu with a smile on his brows.

His husband is timid and has never seen the world. Every time he encounters something he has never seen before, his eyes are always slightly opened, curious and surprised, obviously wanting to know what it is, because he is timid and dare not go forward, timidly.

Every time he saw Lu Gu like this, he couldn't help laughing.

"This color feels fresh no matter how many times I buy it." Wei Lanxiang smacked her lips and said, "Is it cheaper this year?"

When Shen Shunfu was there, he bought oranges for his family a few times. He came by boat from the far south, and the few times he bought them were not cheap, so he bought few oranges.

"It's okay." Shen Xuanqing showed the two oil-paper umbrellas to Wei Lanxiang, without the price of Dao Ming's oranges, and said, "Xiaoxue hold on, you can use these two."

Wei Lanxiang opened the umbrella and looked at it. The surface of the umbrella was painted with flowers, but it was beautiful. Shen Yan added some firewood to the bottom of the stove and ran out to have a look. Such a beautiful oiled paper umbrella made her laugh so hard that her eyes almost disappeared. , and turned it around twice in his hand, and said to Lu Gu: "Brother Guzi, look."

Lu Gu put the chopped vegetables into the bowl with a knife, looked up and said, "It looks good."

Every winter when it snows heavily, I don’t go out much. The light snow doesn’t look small when it floats up, but it quickly turns into water when it falls on the body and head, which wets the clothes and hair. It’s too much to wear a bamboo hat. The oil paper umbrella is exquisite.

The painted umbrellas are more expensive, but seeing the family members are so happy, Shen Xuanqing felt that the money was not wasted.

"Go eat with my sister-in-law." He took a few oranges from the bamboo basket and handed them to Shen Yan, and gave two to Wei Lanxiang, saying, "Mother, you can eat too."

When he was done, he took two more into the kitchen, handed one to Lu Gu, and said, "Smell, orange peels are different from other fruits."

Lu Gu wiped his hands on the apron, and took it carefully. The green orange was quite big, plump and heavy. He smelled it lightly, and the unique fragrance was really different.

Shen Xuanqing peeled off the other one, squeezed the peeled orange peel, and a little juice splashed out, and the juice splashed towards Lu Gu, he quickly stepped back half a step, causing Shen Xuanqing to chuckle. Voice.