Aotian the domesticated miniature dragon

It was very late at night, and there were only two or three large families in the village who hadn't finished making rice cakes. They were busy lighting lamps and cooking oil, and one of them was the Lu family in the west of the village.

Lu Datian’s family has many children, so the rice cakes are not only eaten by the family, but also sent to the homes of daughters who are married to other villages and counties. They make a lot of rice cakes every year, and they can eat them until the beginning of spring.In the past few years, two families made a family to eat, but this year it will not work. Even the old and the young have a kang, the women make rice cakes, and the men burn the fire to steam the rice cakes.The boy Yuanbao buried him and didn't let him intervene. In the end, he just ate it, and Lu Zhang was so angry that he cursed at the street.

Lu Datian was tired of hearing this, and scolded the fourth family to whip Yuanbao, and locked him in the room and refused to let him come out.

With the letter in his arms, Lu Qianshan heard the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping from Lu Datian's house in the distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.He was about to deliver a letter to Zhong Yulin, but Zhong Yulin was sound asleep and didn't cry out. It would take more than an hour to go back and forth, and it was freezing to death at night, so it's better to let him sleep in the house.

And before going out, Lu Qianshan even played a bad game, took off the earrings that Zhou Shifei gave him on his ears, and put the silver rings around a few times, just enough to fit on Xiaolong Zai'er's wrists, just like They look like two silver bracelets, no matter how you look at them, they look good.

Tap your toes lightly, and the figure goes away instantly like smoke, disappearing into the dark mountain.

The place Zhong Yulin mentioned was only a few hundred miles away from the capital, and it was also a few hundred miles away from him.After all, this is Fucheng, even if it is late, there are still many watchmen watching the night.Unlike in the village, even the dog does not go out day and night.

Lu Qianshan leaned against the corner of the wall, and his whole body melted into the darkness.He sneaked into the backyard of a cloth shop lightly, and put the letter in his arms beside the pillow of the cloth shop owner.It is estimated that when the boss wakes up and sees the letter next to the pillow, he will probably scare Bai Maohan out.

After doing all this, he was as silent as when he came, and disappeared into the night.When he got home, Zhong Yulin had already woken up, curled up under the blanket and was fiddling with the two silver bracelets on his wrists.The bell on the bracelet jingled with his movements, which was very nice.

"Why did you wake up?" Lu Qianshan took off his cold clothes and put them on the hanger, and stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove.The firewood in the stove was almost extinguished, leaving only the red charcoal fire. The kang was still warm, but it was not as hot as the firewood that had just been chopped.

Seeing him, Zhong Yulin felt a little wronged on his fat face, "Are you going to deliver a letter? What is this? Why did you put your earrings on me? If you leave me alone in the room, you won't be afraid of accidents?"

"Of course I'm not afraid of accidents. Someone is watching you." After all, there is an iron egg vigil at home, so I'm not afraid of any small things coming in.As for the mice and so on, the mice also have to sleep at night.

Zhong Yulin stretched out his arm and said, "Take it off quickly, I don't want to take this with me."

Lu Qianshan took advantage of the opportunity to pinch his chubby paws, and said with a smile, "Put it on, how can the little fairy not have any decorations on her body? How pretty."

"Looks good?" Zhong Yulin looked at the silver bell as big as his own palm on the bracelet, and said angrily, "Won't it look good to tie two bells to me? Pick them up soon! I slept well, but when I heard this thing ringing, I was stunned." Woke up."

Lu Qianshan couldn't help laughing, so he simply took off the two bells, and the silver rings were still on Xiaorou's arms, "That's all, go to sleep. I'm exhausted from going back and forth, go to sleep."

Zhong Yulin touched his new bracelet awkwardly, but felt sweet in his heart for some reason.

As the saying goes, after Laba is the new year, the taste of the new year will be stronger if you give it to the Stove Lord.

A few people in the village who have a good relationship with Lu Guangming came to the house to order candies, planning to give them as gifts around the year.Lu Guangming simply went to gather with the village chief and Wang Jinzhu, and each of them made a pot of sugar, and sold it directly in the village on a certain day.The other two hit it off and agreed.

Since the family always made sugar, a lot of firewood was burned. I was afraid that it would be burnt out before winter passed. Early this morning, Lu Qianshan followed his elder brother Lu Qianfan and took his younger brother Lu Qianhai to go up the mountain to cut firewood with a hatchet.The Zhou family didn't want Lu Qianshan to go, but now Lu Qianshan had an excuse, "Mother, it's the little fairy who wants to go and look around."

If the little god speaks, it will naturally work.

Lu Guangming brought his daughter-in-law Zeng Hongmei and eldest daughter Lu Qianyou to make candy at home.Zhou originally wanted to help, but was persuaded by Zeng Hongmei to rest.She sat in the house for a while, and saw that the two youngest of the family were playing with the snow in the yard, and did not enter the house to make trouble, so she just took a cloth and came out to make clothes for the little fairy.

The road up the mountain had to bypass the village, Lu Qianshan looked around while walking, saw a shed built next to a fork in the road, and asked, "Brother, what is this shed for?"

Lu Qianfan glanced at him and said, "The village head bought this piece of land before and built a tea shed here, but in the end it didn't work out. Although it's next to the main road, there will be vendors passing by to rest, but they can't make much money. Money. And there are villages nearby, even if you are hungry or thirsty, you will go back to your own home to eat, and there is no one here to spend money to buy food."

Lu Qianshan asked: "Then what did the village chief sell here?"

Lu Qianfan thought for a while and said, "Tea, pancakes, some side dishes and so on."

Lu Qianshan understood.

Tea, pancakes, and a few side dishes are nothing compared to meat.Those big merchants were not short of money, so they looked down on these small things. At most, they would rest their feet and drink tea, or buy pancakes for horse drivers.After all, the county is one hour away from here, and the town is half an hour away. Naturally, the food there is better than here.If it is a nearby villager, they are reluctant to spend money just to buy tea and pancakes. With this money, they can buy some food to fill a family.

This kid Lu Qianhai was more excited than Lu Qianfan. Hearing his second brother's question, he asked, "Second brother, do you have any ideas?"

Lu Qianshan smiled and said, "I have some ideas, but I still have to figure it out."

Lu Qianhai said: "Second brother is very smart now. Mother said that the money earned these days is more than what father and elder brother used to earn when they went out to help. It's all thanks to second brother."

Lu Qianshan smiled and said: "In the future, if you study hard, even if you don't become an official, you can still make money with the name of Juren. Look at that family, there is a scholar in the family, who can have [-] acres of land under the name of the scholar. Paying taxes, their family can save a lot of money for a year with just this tax. And the scholar’s ​​family can be exempted from hard labor, and there is money inside and outside.”

Lu Qianhai said: "Second brother, I understand, so I went to study in the spring, and tried my best to be a scholar, so that our family's land is tax-free."

Lu Qianshan laughed heartily, and raised his hand to touch Lu Qianhai's head.The Lu family members were all tall and strong. Although Lu Qianhai was only 13 years old, he was only half a head shorter than Lu Qianshan, and looked 1.6 meters tall.It's just that he has suffered a lot in the past few years. He has grown tall and has no flesh, and looks thin and pitiful.But because of eating well during this period, the child's face is no longer that yellow and thin, but with a blush on his face.

The shrubs at the foot of the mountain were almost cut down. Although the ancient times did not pay much attention to afforestation, people who have lived on the side of the mountain for a long time understand this truth.What kind of tree can't be cut down, even old trees can't be cut down.If someone needs good wood to make beams to build a house, if one tree is cut down, three trees will be replanted.This is to prevent the trees on the mountain from being cut down and unable to catch the rocks, and disasters will occur when it rains.

It was rare for Lu Qianfan to have the desire to speak. He explained these things clearly to his two younger brothers over and over again, and even talked about a place dozens of miles away from them. , chopped down the two mountains.As a result, there was a heavy rainstorm in summer, which washed down the mud and stones on the mountain, buried several villages, and killed thousands of people.It was also because of this that the official position of that high official was all sacked, and the whole family was sent to poor mountains and rivers.As for the relatives, they were all beheaded.

The trees that Lu Qianfan led them to find were all dead, half dead, or overgrown.Dead trees and half-dead trees can be cut off directly, and those branches that are messy can be cut off.In addition to these, the vines that are entwined on the big trees must also be cut off, "There are too many of these vines, and it is easy to entangle the tree to death."

There are not many people cutting wood in winter, but I met a few hunters.Among them were relatives of my sister-in-law Zeng Hongmei's family.

The Zeng family has a small population, and half of them know how to hunt, so Zeng Hongmei also learned how to set traps.It is also because of this that occasionally a rabbit and pheasant are used to secretly feed the children in the family to replenish oil and water. It is also because of this that Zhou Shi treats her very well, and it really hurts to use it as a daughter.

When the relative saw these children coming out to chop firewood, he thought it was Lu Zhang who forced him again, and angrily scolded Lu Qianfan, saying that he would suffer for marrying Zeng.

Lu Qianfan was the stupidest, he couldn't speak, and his face was flushed red when he was scolded.

Lu Qianhai just argued for a few words before being beaten back. After all, he was young and didn't know what to say, so he was about to cry.

Lu Qianshan looked at it for a while with a smile, and said: "If my sister-in-law knows that her family loves her so much, she will probably cry a lot. Don't worry, uncle, we have not been with the family in the west of the village for a long time. I guess you are far away. , the news hasn’t passed yet.”

"Why don't you come out to chop firewood in the winter without being together?" The man obviously didn't believe it.

Lu Qianshan said: "I have a small business at home, and I used a lot of firewood. In fact, there were still some, but the few of us couldn't sit still at home and wanted to come out to get some fresh air, and chop some firewood to go back. If uncle doesn't believe it, You can go back with us and take a look." He said, then glanced at the prey on the backs of these hunters, and said with a smile: "My mother always said that she wanted to buy some rabbit skins to make a vest for my sister-in-law, but the leather in the town They are all average, I see that some uncles have killed a lot of rabbits, can you sell us a few?"

"You want to buy rabbits?" asked another.

Lu Qianshan said: "Yes, I lost money a few years ago, and the pigs at home thought about killing them in a few days. It just so happened that the meat in the house was gone. It was fate to meet some uncles today. I can buy a few rabbits and stew them for dinner. .”

The relative said: "You little brother speaks very well, but I still don't believe it. Anyway, I know your family. How about it, after we finish reading the other sets, we will go to your house for a sit-down."

Lu Qianshan said: "That's a good relationship, uncle, you have to pick a few thick fur and sell them to us."

"Do you need to say that?" The uncle finally looked better, and dragged his companions away.

Lu Qianhai waited until they had gone far away, then pouted and said, "These people are so unreasonable, we don't believe anything, we just know how to scold them."

Lu Qianshan said: "If you care about it, you will be chaotic. This way you can see that my sister-in-law's family is really good. Brother, you can't treat my sister-in-law badly."

Lu Qianfan's expression had returned to normal, he nodded and said, "Your sister-in-law is not easy, how can I treat her badly."

Lu Qianhai said again: "Second brother, don't we still have meat at home? We haven't finished eating the fried meatballs and pig's head yesterday."

Lu Qianshan said with a smile: "Aren't we going to finish eating today? Besides, I have to find an excuse to let people go to the house to take a look. Can I rest assured if I don't?"

Lu Qianhai pondered for a moment, then said: "Second brother can still talk, the eldest brother and I are the most stupid, we can't say what's on our minds."

The three of them chopped a lot of firewood, Lu Qianfan was the strongest, and picked up two big piles with a shoulder pole.Lu Qianshan and Lu Qianhai each carried a bundle, and began to walk slowly down the mountain.Back home just in time for lunch, Zhou put up a pot of pancakes, stewed cabbage tofu and vermicelli with the lard boiled earlier, put the leftover pork head meat in it, and wiped a large pot of stick noodles with sweet potato sticky Congee, some rice cakes were steamed in the sticky porridge pot.

Seeing them come back, they hurried to eat.

Lu Qianshan told the story on the mountain, Zeng's eyes were red, and he said: "I went back to my mother's house once after I got married, but I never went back. The family members came, but the family was still there at that time, and the nose was not Nose and eyes are not eyes, my mother left crying."

Zhou sighed and said, "I really wronged you this year."

Zeng Hongmei wiped her face and said with a smile: "I won't talk about the past, but now I live a good life. I can eat enough every day, and there are sweets. I'm too happy. Don't think too much, mother." , When that uncle comes, he will know that I am doing well, and I don’t know which uncle it is.”

Lu Qianshan described the man's appearance, and Zeng Hongmei thought for a while and said, "It should be the second uncle of my great-grandfather's family. He is nice but has a straight temper. When I was at home, he often went to the mountains to pick fruits for our children to share." Woolen cloth."

After eating full at noon, the two young ones went to bed, and the others still made candy.When Lu Qianshan returned to his room, he saw the hot food on the stove at a glance, and felt that Mrs. Zhou really cared about this little thing. Half of this bowl of food was filled with meat, the rice cakes were still fried, and the pancakes were cut into pieces. Small pieces, convenient for small things to hold and eat.

Xiaolong Zai'er washed his hands, and asked while eating: "Did you see the shed area? What do you want to do?"

Lu Qianshan said: "Start a small business and make some income for the family."

Zhong Yulin frowned, puzzled and said, "What kind of money can that small shed make? If I had known earlier, I should have asked them for a shop and put it under your name."

Lu Qianshan glanced at him, Zhong Yulin took a bite of the jujube meat angrily, and said, "I know, the timing is wrong, right? But don't worry, after I recover and go back, I'll pick a few good shops that make money, I'll steal it for you. As for your family, you can figure it out."

Lu Qianshan asked: "Do you think I can't make money?"

Zhong Yulin quickly shook his head and said, "I don't think so, but don't you really want the shop that was given for nothing?"

Lu Qianshan said: "Even if you give me a mountain of gold and silver, I don't think it's too much. Let's talk about it when the time comes. I really don't pay attention to a few shops."

Zhong Yulin pursed his lips, feeling that Lu Qianshan was becoming more and more mysterious.Although he is a farm boy, he has an aura that does not belong to this mountain village.After all, whose little brother can travel thousands of miles at night?Whose little brother can serve as a ghost?Whose little brother can still treat himself like a pet after knowing his identity?

Can't help, get mad!

In the afternoon, those hunters really came.Not only was he carrying a string of rabbits and pheasants, but he also carried two roe deer on his back.

Zeng Hongmei came out of the kitchen, saw one of them, and ran over crying, "Second cousin!"

"Oh, my big plum, let the second uncle see you." The man dropped the roe deer he was wearing, and took Zeng Hongmei's arm to look carefully, "You look pretty good, it seems that kid is not lying."

Zeng Hongmei wiped her tears and said: "My parents are very kind to me, and my husband is also kind to me. Now that the family has moved away, life is much more comfortable."

Mrs. Zhou stood at the door of the main room and greeted: "Hongmei, let your uncle and the others come in and sit in the room, what will it look like outside?"

"That's right, let's go into the house, it's warm inside." Zeng Hongmei dragged her second uncle into the house like a child now.

Mrs. Zhou poured a bowl of water for each of them, and asked the children to call Lu Guangming.

Zeng Hongmei said: "Father is busy and can't get away, so don't leave today with the second cousin and a few uncles, stay at my house for a night."

Second Uncle Zeng hurriedly said, "What are you doing? We don't live here, and we have to go to the town to sell things."

Mrs. Zhou also said: "It's good to stay for one night. What are you going to do in town now that it's late? My family wants some of your wild game. Xiao Hai, go to your uncle Jin Zhu's house and the village chief's grandfather's house to ask, do they want it? "Those two families have also made money, so they are probably willing to eat something bad.

She directed Lu Qianhai to go out, and said with a smile: "Right now, Hongmei can be half of our family. I don't mind what she says. After all, she is the elder sister-in-law. This family has to be in her hands anyway."

When Second Uncle Zeng heard this, he had a smile on his face, and said: "My niece really has nothing to say, she can work, and she is also good-looking. Back then, it was true that your boss was tall and burly. Otherwise...hey, I won’t talk about it, anyway, it’s all in the past.” After he finished speaking, he picked up the bowl and took a sip of water, “Yo, sugar water?”

Mrs. Zhou brought fried peanuts and air-dried chestnuts on the table again, and said, "It's sugar water. The family has made some money, so we can't lose money to the children, right?"

Zeng Hongmei sat with him for a while, and said, "I'll replace Dad and let him chat with my second uncle." After speaking, he walked away, and after a while, Lu Guangming chatted with the curtain and entered the room.

At this time, Lu Qianhai also came back, followed by Wang Jinzhu and village chief Wang Ronghua.The two first picked some wild game and sent them home, and then asked Second Uncle Zeng to help kill the two roe deer, one for the family, and left Lu Guangming with a few rabbits with thick fur.

A few people didn't go to the town and made money, and they all had happy faces.Wang Jinzhu and Wang Ronghua didn't leave either, they became accompanying guests and talked on the kang.

The Zhou family started making dinner again, paid Lu Qianhai to buy wine, and took Lu Qianyou to clean up the east wing, burned the kang, and gave it to Second Uncle Zeng and the other three hunters.

For dinner, I stewed two rabbits, and stewed the remaining croquettes into the dish. I also made two pots of pancakes, boiled a pot of cabbage and egg soup with cabbage, and steamed a large plate of rice cakes, all of which were glutinous rice noodles. kind of.

The food at home is affordable, a large plate is full of Kang table, there is also a large bowl of scrambled egg sauce, a plate of green onions and a plate of radish on the table for dipping in the sauce.

Because the guests came, and they were all men, so the women didn't sit at this table, and opened a table from the west room. The dishes were the same as the east room, except that there was less wine.

It was rare for guests to come to the house, so Lu Guangming drank and cried a lot when talking about the past.Hearing the man crying, the Zhou family in this house was also a little sad, and cried a bag along with him.Zeng Hongmei persuaded Mrs. Zhou, brought hot water for Mrs. Zhou to wash his face, and also brought hot water for Dongwu to wash his face, and persuaded Mrs. Zhou to drink before returning.

The men all drank too much, and even Wang Jinzhu and the village head blushed from drinking.The Zhou family heated up another room in the east wing, leaving Wang Jinzhu and the village chief to rest here directly, and asked Lu Qianhai to go to the two houses for a while, and let them not worry.After all, it's very cold outside, if you drink too much and fall on the way back, or just sleep on the road, it will be over.

While tidying up, Mrs. Zhou said: "Your father has never cried before. This is the first time mother has heard him cry. I am not in the mood to cry in difficult times. I have the strength to save it for work. After a good life, I think about the suffering I suffered before. I can only cry out because of my sin. Hey..."

Lu Qianshan said: "That's over, let's live a better life in the future, why don't you cry every day?"

Zhou raised her hand and patted him, "Nonsense, what's the matter?" After speaking, she couldn't help laughing.

We had porridge for lunch the next day, and Uncle Zeng and the others were going back.Mrs. Zhou prepared a bag of sugar and a bag of rice cakes early for them to take away.Uncle Zeng doesn't want it. Candy is expensive these days, and this pack is at least half a catty, which is not a lot of money.

Mrs. Zhou smiled and said: "What I made at home is just a waste of time. Take it back and give it to the children. After the second day of the new year, Hongmei will also return to her mother's house. I have wronged this child these days. You should be more relieved when you go back." relatives by marriage."

Second Uncle Zeng said: "That's for sure, knowing that Meizi is doing well, my family is also happy."

After sending off Second Uncle Zeng and the others, the sound of slaughtering pigs came from the village again.

Mrs. Zhou stood in the yard and listened carefully for a while, then murmured: "It's Chinese New Year, and it's time for our family to kill pigs."

When Mrs. Lu Zhang lived here, even during the Chinese New Year, there was nothing delicious to eat at home, because Mrs. Lu took all the delicious food back and ate it.But at any rate, it can be a little oily, and the children are still looking forward to the New Year.But this year, Mr. Zhou said that he would sell one of the two pigs in the family, and kill the other to eat himself, so everyone from the big to the young was looking forward to it.

In the afternoon, Lu Guangming called Butcher Zhang over, picked the biggest one, weighed less than three hundred catties, and bought more than four taels of silver.I made an appointment to come over to kill the pigs.The atmosphere of the new year in the village is getting stronger day by day, but Xiaolong Zai'er seems quiet.

"There is a palace banquet every year in the palace. This is the first year I'm not at home..." When he said this, his eyes were a little red, but he still tried not to cry.

Lu Qianshan squeezed his chubby hand, thinking that even if he is the third prince, he is only a 19-year-old kid, hey...