Four Foods in the Mountains

The next day, the rain stopped, and Lu Yunchuan and Lu Yunlang got up early to go to the town to watch the work.

It took an hour to walk from the village to the town. When Lu Yunchuan went out, it was just dawn, and Lu Yunlang was already waiting at the gate of the courtyard.

Cen Ning came out and stuffed them with a small cloth bag, saying, "There are pancakes and a few boiled eggs in here. I didn't eat anything in the morning. I'm going to eat later when I'm hungry."

Lu Yunlang was simple and honest, and said with a smile: "You don't need to work too hard, your sister-in-law also brought a bag of dry food, enough to eat."

Lu Yunchuan took the cloth bag and put it in the basket: "It's fine to take it with you. If you can do the job, you can stay in the town for a day and take the dry food for lunch."

Turning around, he said to Cen Ning, "Uncle Wu next door and his husband are going to the town to sell eggs early in the morning. If my elder brother and I stay in the town to work, I'll ask his husband to come over and talk to you."

Lu Yunlang scratched his head after hearing this: "I still forgot about it, then if we don't come back, brother Ning, you go ahead and tell your sister-in-law not to cook my meal at noon."

"Okay, I'll remember." Cen Ning agreed, watching Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan walk away with their backpacks on their backs before closing the courtyard door.

Lu Yunchuan was not at home, so he didn't cook porridge by himself, he took a pancake from the pot and ate it with dried radish.

Thinking that Lu Yunchuan had to hurry today, he made the dough before going to bed last night, and got up before dawn to make pancakes.

Turn on a low heat, brush a thin layer of oil in the pan, press the dough sprinkled with salt and put it in one by one, turn it over from time to time during the baking process, so that the baked cakes are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside very chewy.

It's a pity that Lu Yunchuan has to hurry, and time is tight, otherwise, boil a pot of porridge to eat with it, or fry two vegetable rolls in a pancake to make pancake rolls, which will be more delicious than empty mouthfuls.

After eating a piece of cake, Cen Ning washed his hands and started working.

The clothes he had changed last night hadn't been washed yet, so he went out with the basin and mallet in his arms, and when he passed by the front room, Yao Chunling called to stop him.

"Ning'er, go to the river to wash clothes? Wait for me, I'll go with you."

"Okay," Cen Ning waited in the yard with a basin in his arms, "Brother Liu Zhi can stay at home alone?"

"He's still asleep. I'll just lock the courtyard door. He won't be able to see me when he wakes up, knowing that he's wearing clothes to eat."

After Yao Chunling married into the Lu family, Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan were busy working in the fields all day long, and she had to take care of the house herself, without the help of her parents-in-law. Although my brother is young, he has been taught to be very sensible.

The two went to the river with the wooden basin in their arms, and talked about Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan going to work in the town.

Cen Ning: "Before going out, Chuanzi said that if he can do the job, he and his eldest brother will stay in the town for a day and let Auntie Wu come to the house to spread the word, so that they don't have to cook their meals at noon."

Yao Chunling nodded and said: "Chuanzi is still careful, your elder brother never thought of this, if the two of them don't come back at noon, you can come to my house, eat with Brother Zhi, and we can embroider together in the afternoon Pazi talk."

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There were already many daughters-in-law and elder brothers washing clothes by the river. Yao Chunling and Cen Ning greeted each other and found a stone pier to sit down on, and listened to their chat while pounding the clothes.

It is said that the boy from the Li family at the head of the village is going to get married next month, and he is marrying a girl from the next village. He has to prepare eggs and cakes in advance and bring them to us on the day of the meal. We can’t let the people in the next village look down on us, but we don’t know. How is the banquet in the Li family? Has the second kid from the Lu family managed it well a while ago?

It was also said that the eldest grandson of the Shen family was going to take the examination for a scholar in Fucheng, and grandma of the Shen family burned incense and worshiped Buddha every day, so she was counting on her eldest grandson to be able to enter high school this time. "

Speaking of this, the daughter-in-law sitting next to Yao Chunling turned her head and asked her: "Chunling, I heard that the boy Rui from your mother-in-law's family is also going to take the exam this time. Your mother-in-law has been hiring a car to go to Fucheng for the past two days. Be good!" , that’s Fucheng.”

Yao Chunling thumped her clothes and said, "Sister, our family Yunlang Yunchuan and the other side have separated long ago. Where did I get a mother-in-law? As for her kid, he went to the capital city, not to mention Fucheng, and fuck us What's up."

The daughter-in-law curled her lips: "Chunling, you can't say that. Aunt Fengyu is Aunt Fengyu, and boy Rui is boy Rui. They all say that boy Rui is smart. If he really passes the exam this time, he will be the master scholar." Oh, how expensive! Maybe thinking of the two elder brothers who used to work for him to study, I would be willing to help you."

"It doesn't matter how expensive he is, and it doesn't matter to us, and we don't need his help."

After Yao Chunling washed the clothes, she wrung out the water and put it in the basin. Seeing that Cen Ning was healed, Yao Chunling picked up the basin and said, "Ning'er, let's go."

Then he said to the daughters-in-law: "Sister, we have few clothes, so we'll go back after we wash them, and talk at home when we have time."

The two walked away with the pots in their hands, and the daughter-in-law who was talking to Yao Chunling murmured, "Chunling is impatient, I didn't say anything wrong, Mr. Xiucai is no better than her two peasants."

"Stop talking. It's not like you don't know who Aunt Fengyu is. If Kid Rui really passes the exam, she'll be fine if she doesn't go to Lu Dalu's family to make a run for her. How can she still help?"

"Yes."

The daughter-in-law blushed and stopped talking when she heard the other people say that.

But the brother next to him poked his head and said: "Don't say, the husband of Lu Er's family is really good-looking. Just from what you said, it's the first time I've seen it. It really looks good. Lu Er is a lucky man."

A few people here were interested in talking about Cen Ning again, while Yao Chunling was dragging Cen Ning over there to speak earnestly.

"Ning'er, don't listen to their nonsense, what happened over there has nothing to do with us, no matter what kind of master Lu Yunrui is, we just care about living our own lives."

"I know, sister."

Yao Chunling nodded with satisfaction: "We don't provoke them, but we don't need to worry about them. If Wang Fengyu comes to the house to make trouble next time, if you don't want to swear, just throw a pot of water out. Most people in the village understand the truth, no Gossip behind your back."

It was also a coincidence that the two people were talking, when they turned a corner, they saw two people walking in front of them, they were Wang Fengyu and Lu Yunrui.

Wang Fengyu usually looks beautiful, but today she is even more beautifully dressed.

Lu Yunrui next to him didn't wear dirty dark linen clothes like the men in the village, but wore a light-colored robe and a fan.

"Hey," Wang Fengyu saw them, and shouted from afar, "Isn't this from the eldest and second family?"

Meeting each other on a narrow road, Wang Fengyu remembers the last time she was scolded by Yao Chunling with her arms akimbo at Lu Yunchuan's house, and seized the opportunity to start showing off.

"I'm about to take a bullock cart with Yunrui to go to the town to buy things. We, Yunrui, are about to go to Fucheng to test for talents. That's Fucheng! Even the village chief has never been there, and some people in the mountains will never have a chance in their entire lives. Go take a look."

Yao Chunling snorted coldly: "Well, that's really a happy event. I heard them say when I was just doing laundry, that the Shen family boy also takes the exam for talent, and he wakes up early every day to study his homework late at night, and the family members dare not walk hard." , for fear of disturbing his studies."

"If you want me to say, Auntie, you should also learn from others. Don't yell one way or another every three days. Those who don't know think that Rui is already a scholar, showing off every day."

Wang Fengyu frowned: "What are you talking about! A dog can't spit out ivory, and he married a worthless farmer, so he envies us Yunrui."

"Who is useless? Who are you calling useless? If you want to talk about jealousy, I might as well go to the town of jealousy to sell pork. At least their meat is actually placed on the chopping board every day, unlike you, a scholar, who floats in the sky." Let’s go, who knows if it’s worth it.”

Wang Fengyu was busy arguing with Yao Chunling here, and didn't notice that Lu Yunrui beside him changed his expression the first time he saw Cen Ning.

Lu Yunrui knew about Lu Yunchuan's marriage. After all, Wang Fengyu had been upset for a long time, talking at home every day that Lu Yunchuan married a good brother.

Lu Yunrui didn't take it seriously at the time, and he still felt that his mother's eyelids were too shallow. How could a brother in the country be so good that he was exposed to the wind and the sun by working since he was a child?

But who would have thought that Cen Ning was born so fair and beautiful, without makeup or make-up, no worse than the girls and buddies in Fengyuelou in the town, and even more pure.

It's no wonder that such a brother looks down on his second cousin, but why is he willing to marry that rough guy Lu Yunchuan? !

Yao Chunling was tired of cursing, and Cen Ning was freeing his hands to comfort her. When he raised his eyes and saw Lu Yunrui staring at him, he felt that this person was very weird.

He was obviously wearing a robe worn by a scholar, and he was posing elegantly, but it reminded him for no reason of those lowly men in the village before, which made people feel uncomfortable all over.

"Sister-in-law." Cen Ning persuaded, "Brother Zhi should wake up now, let's go back."

Hearing what Cen Ning said, Yao Chunling gave Wang Fengyu a sideways look, and walked away from her with her head held high.

The rest Wang Fengyu was so angry that she patted her chest, turned her head and saw Lu Yunrui's unhesitating expression, thought he was angry with what Yao Chunling said just now, and comforted him: "Son, don't take that poisonous woman's nonsense to heart, my son I will pass the exam this time."

Lu Yunrui frowned and said, "Of course I won't pay attention to that ignorant village woman, but mother, why did the Cen family take a fancy to Lu Yunchuan?"

"Ah?" Wang Fengyu was stunned, and when she saw her son still looking at Cen Ning's back, she suddenly understood.

Although she also felt that the Cen family was blind to marry her brother to Lu Yunchuan, but her son was going to be a scholar and become a high official, so he couldn't be seduced by a brother from the village.

What's more, she originally wanted to marry her natal nephew to Cen Ning.

Wang Fengyu waved a handkerchief in front of Lu Yunrui and said, "It's just a son of a Orion family. When my son is admitted as a scholar, what kind of girl and brother can't get married? Let's go, I have to go to the town to buy it for you something."

Lu Yunrui took one last look at Cen Ning's slender figure in the distance. Of course he was going to marry the daughter of a wealthy family, but seeing how pretty Cen Ning was born, he followed a worthless farmer like Lu Yunchuan, and it wasn't worth it for him. .

Otherwise, she could marry herself as a concubine based on her looks, and with a gentler personality, she wouldn't treat him badly.

Thinking of Cen Ning's appearance, Lu Yunrui suddenly felt hot.

"Mother, come back first after you buy something. I'm going to drink tea and write poems with my classmates today, so I'll just spend the night in the town. Give me some more money."

"Want to write poetry again? The family has spent too much money during this time, or I won't go this time." Wang Fengyu said.

It's not that Wang Fengyu was stingy, during this time, Lu Yunrui said that he would go to the town to learn knowledge with his classmates every three days, and he would always ask for a sum of money.

"Mom, what do you know? I went to the banquet to be a scholar. There are many things we don't understand when I go to Fucheng. I didn't go this time. What if I miss what they said and delay my examination? ?”

"That can't be done!" Wang Fengyu became anxious when she heard the fame and fame, "Go, have to go!"

After taking out the money, Wang Fengyu weighed the much lighter money bag, feeling like her heart was bleeding.

It's all because of the two unfilial sons, Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan, who were arguing to separate the family. Otherwise, there was no need to hire someone to harvest the wheat some time ago, and it would have saved a lot of money.

Cen Ning didn't get anything from the dowry, and Yao Chunling, that poisonous woman, if her words ruined his son's luck, I had to tear her mouth off.