Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 113 Intentional or Unintentional

Chapter 113 Intentional or Unintentional
The persimmon tree in Ningxiang’s house has been growing for nearly 20 years. It has luxuriant branches and leaves, and is more than a foot higher than the roofs of the two houses. Ningxiang stepped on a bench and stood on tiptoe to barely touch the lowest tree trunk...

With such a tall persimmon tree, it is troublesome to pick persimmons every year.Xu Shouliang and his father climbed up the ladder, picked the bottom ones by hand, and picked the tall ones or the twigs on the side with a bamboo pole. A sickle was tied to the top of the pole, and a cloth pocket was wrapped around the pole. When the sickle was cut lightly, the persimmons fell into the pocket. inside.Picking persimmons once, Xu Shouliang's arms will be sore for a whole day.

At this moment, Anan was leaning in Ningxiang's arms, looking at his father standing on the wall, feeling unhappy, he stretched out his little hand and shouted: "I want it too!"

Why did daddy only pick it for Amu?
Daddy should like him the most.

Anan yelled "Daddy" crisply again, and it reached Lu Cheng's ears. He always felt that his son's yell just now sounded better than usual. He looked down and saw his son looking at him with bright eyes, with a small mouth He took a few sips lightly, as if swallowing saliva.

Little glutton.

Lu Cheng responded happily, but he didn't forget his main purpose of climbing the wall, he still said: "Daddy will pick it for Amu first, and Anan will pick it carefully, pick the biggest one, and Daddy will pick it for you." He likes to bully his wife Zhang's daughter-in-law is listening there, he has to show that he values ​​his brother-in-law more.

Anan didn't understand his father's little scheme, looked down at Amu, his face collapsed.

Ningxiang saw it clearly, amused in her heart, kissed the little guy lightly, carried him to the bottom of the tree, and said softly: "A'nan, let's see which persimmon is the biggest, let's ask daddy to pick the biggest one, aunt will see Yes, the ones over there are small, we don’t care about them.”

Anan raised his head and looked around, but he didn't feel that the ones on his father's side were smaller than the ones elsewhere, but he listened to his mother's words and started looking for them seriously.

In fact, with Lu Cheng's height, he could pick the bottom few persimmons with just a high jump, but he didn't really want to pick the persimmons.It just so happened that the persimmon tree had a big branch as thick as an arm that stretched straight to Zhang's house. Lu Cheng stood high on the wall, and he could pick the persimmons on that branch by raising his hand.

While picking persimmons, Mrs. Li came out from the kitchen, dumbfounded, holding her own bamboo pole in her hand, scolding Lu Cheng: "This big man is still climbing the wall, here you are, use this to pick."

Xu Qiu'er ran to pick it up, muttering something in a low voice.

Mrs. Li understood, looked at the steady but childish man on the wall, smiled and shook his head, and didn't care anymore.

Amu stood under the wall and quickly chose one.

The persimmons he wanted were in Zhang's yard. When Lu Cheng picked them, he turned his face towards Zhang's again.

Liu Zhi stared blankly at the man's overly handsome side face, still unable to believe that Ning Xiang's fiancé was such an outstanding person.Men love beauties, and girls also love handsome ones. Lu Cheng is tall and handsome. She is willing to marry such a man as a sequel.

Moreover, between his own son and his brother-in-law, he actually favored the latter. He helped Amu pick the persimmons first. Then, when Ningxiang gave birth to a son, Lu Cheng would definitely like the younger son more. With a man protecting him, Ningxiang, a stepmother, is perfectly fine. Treat Lu Cheng's ex-wife harshly, don't worry about offending Lu Cheng.

I heard that the Lu family is quite rich.

The man on the wall jumped off after picking the persimmons, and the willow branch stared at the wall, feeling suddenly gloomy.

She is not as good-looking as Ningxiang, and she is not as good-looking as Ningxiang.With Lu Cheng, Ning Xiang would definitely look down on her cousin, but her cousin still misses her in her heart, and she didn't dare to say that it was because she knew that she was not good enough that she was willing to marry her as a cousin.She is not stupid, and will not be easily fooled by her cousin's words.

Why do these men like Ningxiang?

Liu Zhi rubbed the clothes in the water resentfully, rubbing her eyes and becoming weird again.

Since men like Ningxiang, the eldest son Ningxiang served before should also like her, right?Thinking of how anxious her cousin was to her in the bed, the more Liu Zhi thought about it, the more she felt that Ning Xiang might not be innocent anymore, maybe she was sent back to the countryside because the prince got tired of playing?

Thinking of this, Liu Zhi felt happy again.

Don't look at Ningxiang's current beauty, when she is married and her Yuanpao is not red, Lu Cheng will have to divorce her, then she will watch the fun again.

On the Xu family's side, Lu Cheng smiled and handed the persimmons he had just picked to his son.

The persimmons were big, Anan stretched out both chubby hands, held the persimmons for a look, held them up in front of him and opened his mouth to bite.

Lu Cheng was always on guard, and quickly covered the persimmon with his big hand, Anan's small mouth was imprinted on Daddy's big hand.

Ning Xiang couldn't help laughing, she tilted her head to coax the little guy and said, "No, the persimmons are not ripe yet, Anan will take them home to dry for a few days before eating." After speaking, she raised her head and told Lu Cheng softly, "Anan is too young, give it to me from the inside." It is enough for him to dig two or three spoonfuls, don’t feed too much, remember to feed after meals, it’s not good to eat when you’re hungry.”

"Why do you know everything?" Lu Cheng looked at her tenderly, and liked to hear her tell him so.

The two stood too close, the tenderness in his eyes roasted her like a fire, Ning Xiang blushed and turned her head, and whispered: "Listen to Li Nanny."

Nanny Li works in the kitchen, because Pei Jinghan's younger brother is young, and Ning Xiang has a younger brother, Nanny Li, and a young grandson. When the two go home, they often talk about how to take care of the children. I learned a lot.

Lu Cheng wanted to boast a few more words, but suddenly his palms turned cold, and he lowered his head in shock, and saw Anan pull out from his fingers the little finger he didn't know when he had stuck it in. The finger was covered with persimmon juice, as if he knew that his father would As if obstructing, Anan lowered his head while raising his hand, and stuffed his finger into his mouth in a blink of an eye, and when he stuffed it, his phoenix eyes narrowed into a line triumphantly.

Sucking his fingers in satisfaction, Anan's narrowed eyes slowly widened.Stretch out your fingers, stare at your fingers, twitch your little mouth a few times, look at your father and then at your mother, the little guy suddenly starts crying, as if afraid that his parents won't understand his pain, he stretches out his fingers to ask for help. Let dad taste it too, "sour..."

A child who is less than two years old knows sour, sweet, salty and spicy in taste, so he classifies astringent into "sour".

Lu Chengcai didn't know how to lick his son's dirty fingers, and took away the persimmon with a smile, so he didn't plan to care about it from now on.

Ningxiang was here, and without his intervention, she quickly carried the wronged Anan to the kitchen, scooped up water to rinse the little guy's mouth, grabbed two red dates after rinsing, and fed him like tearing off the pulp.After Anan ate two sweet dates, his mouth finally felt comfortable, but he didn't miss the yellow persimmons any more. Xu Qiuer purposely brought the persimmons to him, but Anan wanted to hit her with a sullen face.

"Bad aunt!" Unable to hit anyone, the little guy squinted and shouted angrily. After scolding, he turned his head and threw himself into his mother's arms, not wanting to look at her again.

Xu Qiu'er laughed haha, having had enough trouble, returned the persimmons to her cousin, and went to help her mother with work in the east courtyard.Today, there are guests who want to order more dishes. The cousin is worried that Lu Cheng can't help, and Guan Ping is also a daughter-in-law who is waiting to be married, so she can only do it.

After cooking a few dishes, everyone still ate in the east and west courtyards.

In the east courtyard, Lu Cheng had a few drinks with Xu Shouliang and his son, and asked about the persimmon trees in the yard, "Uncle, what did you do with those persimmons in previous years? I just checked, and they should be able to bear more than 300 catties, right?"

Xu Shouliang nodded, "In the beginning, the knots were small, but in the past few years, they have started to grow more. It is calculated to be three hundred catties, and I will distribute it to the acquaintances in the village. I will sell the rest in the town. Five cents per catty, I bought a lot. Give a few, and it can be sold for a tael of silver. Alas, there are only a few people in the town who are willing to spend money to buy this thing. They are too expensive and they are unwilling to buy it. Earn some points."

The fruit trees grow on their own, and they don't need to do anything. It's a free income, and it doesn't hurt to earn less.

Lu Cheng thought for a while, and said: "Uncle, I know some big households in the city who are in charge of purchasing. Every year, they want seasonal fruits. If they are less than ten catties, they will be counted according to the basket. Otherwise, pick persimmons this year. If you ask me to come over, I will send it to the city to sell, and I don’t need to set up a stall to yell, just send it over there, and it can be sold for ten yuan a catty at least.”

Ten Wen a catty, three hundred catties is three taels of silver.

Xu Shouliang was overjoyed, and seeing Lu Cheng immediately liked it a lot: "That's good, I'll tell Xiang'er later, let her sell the money and share it with you." Giving Lu Cheng three points is also a full one or two more than in previous years.

Lu Cheng looked at him amusedly, "Uncle's words are too outrageous, and Xiang'er and I are engaged, selling a few catties of persimmons for her and charging her errand fees, isn't that a joke?"

Xu Shouliang thought about it too, knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, he poured a cup of wine for Lu Cheng himself.

The three of them ate and chatted like a family. Before the dinner was over, Lu Cheng mentioned that he would help pick chestnuts in the second half of the year.If there is wages to earn, Xu Shouliang and his son are of course willing to do it, and they agreed immediately.

After dinner, Lu Cheng sat for a while, then reluctantly took Anan Atao home.

After seeing off the guests, except for Guan Ping who stayed in the west courtyard, the Xu family gathered in the east courtyard to chat.

Mrs. Li praised Lu Cheng a few words, turned her eyes, and said with a smile: "At that time, our whole family will go out to pick up chestnuts, and Amu will go too. With your big brother Lu here, I will definitely pay you back this time."

Amu nodded excitedly.

"I'm not going." Xu Qiu'er said abruptly, seeing the whole family looking at her after speaking, she rolled her almond eyes and said coquettishly to her mother: "The last time I picked sand fruits, I was exhausted. The chestnuts are small in size. Too much, bending over to pick chestnuts will definitely be more tiring this time, I won’t go, I’d rather earn [-] cents less.”

If the quasi-brother-in-law took care of the Shaguoyuan, she would definitely go there, but the manager of the Liziyuan is a stinky hooligan surnamed Yan, who misunderstood her love for him, but this time she really went to his territory, that rascal Zhun is going to talk nonsense again, Xu Qiuer can think of what he would say if he just thinks about it.

So she would rather be scolded by her mother than go.

"Your sister and sister-in-law are all going, and Amu is also going. Why are you acting like a daughter?" Mrs. Li really raised her voice, glared at her daughter and said, "Stop talking nonsense with me, even if you tie me up, I will tie you up too. I'm getting used to you more and more."

"Mother..." Xu Qiu'er ran over, wanting to hug her mother's arms to act like a spoiled child.

Li sneered and avoided her, making it clear that this matter was not discussed.

Xu Qiu'er couldn't explain the unspeakable matter between her and Yan Jing, so she could only accept her fate. When the day came, she deliberately changed into the oldest and most rustic clothes, didn't wear any hair accessories and earrings, and followed suit with a displeased face. The family went out to Donglin Village to join the members of the Lu family.

The two families reunited, once again packed a donkey cart, and headed towards the orchard bustlingly.

The chestnut orchard and the sand orchard are next to each other, each occupying half of the hill, but the garden opens on the other side, so this time Lu Cheng drove directly there.

Yan Jing had been standing on the hillside waiting for a long time. Hearing people's words, he lowered his head to look, glanced at the people in the car one by one, smiled sideways at one of the little girls, and hurried out to greet them. Say hello to the elders.

The cousin was occupied by Anan, and Xu Qiuer hid behind the prospective sister-in-law.

After exchanging greetings, Yan Jing led everyone up, and explained with a smile: "Chestnuts are easy to store, and if you don't have sand fruit water, you may be in a hurry to pick them. This time I only invited our two families. If you work quickly today, you may be able to pick them." After picking up half of them, I have to trouble uncles and aunts to come over tomorrow, I wonder if you are free?"

Lu Cheng glanced at him unexpectedly, Yan Jing used to arrange for someone to clean up all at once.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Pan were all very happy, and thanked them in unison, wishing they could work for a few more days, only Xu Qiuer curled her lips quietly.

After making everyone happy, Yan Jing first taught them how to pick chestnuts, calm and capable, very serious.

The Lu family has been here a few times, and they followed Lu Cheng directly to divide the baskets and straw hats, so as not to hit their heads when they hit chestnuts.

Ready, they go first.

The weeds on the ground were cleaned up by Yan Jing in advance, and the chestnuts or chestnut pods were particularly obvious. A single chestnut was put directly into the basket, and the chestnut pods were so big that they stepped on both sides to pick up the popped chestnuts That's fine, but if the chestnut canopy is too small or closed, put the whole thing in a basket, and let Yan Jing pile it up and wait carefully, so that the chestnuts inside can grow longer.

Yan Jing finished teaching here, so he walked a few steps quickly to grab the straw hat from Lu Cheng's hand.

Lu Chengcheng was waiting for this opportunity to touch his wife, clutching the straw hat and refusing to let go, Yan Jing was furious, turned his back on the Xu family and glared at him, "Your wife is already settled, why don't you have a chance to get close? Let go quickly." .”

Lu Cheng understood immediately, and glanced at Xu Qiuer who was walking behind Guan Ping.Looking at Yan Jing again, there is hesitation in Tao Hua's eyes.

Should he help his brother chase his wife, or help his fiancée guard his cousin?

But in Yan Jing's heart, his hesitation had turned into forgetfulness. He gritted his teeth, approached Lu Cheng and said three words.

Lu Cheng frowned, looked at him helplessly, left only two hats, and gave the rest to him, then walked towards Ningxiang with a smile, lowered his head, looked at the good son who was being led by Ningxiang, bent down and said : "Anan put on his hat, don't let the chestnut hit his head."

Anan looked at the relatives who had already put on their hats not far away, and remained motionless, looking at the little hat specially prepared for him by Uncle Yan, who was covered by his father, until the hat fell on top of his head.

"This is for you." Anyway, there was no outsider, Lu Cheng stood up straight, holding up his hat to put it on for his fiancée.

Ning Xiang looked at her uncle and aunt who took the hat and picked up the basket and walked forward, and understood that they acquiesced to Lu Cheng's intimacy this time, she lowered her head shyly, her face like a peach blossom.Lu Cheng's heart fluttered, and he had already planned to help her put on the hat and touched her tender face, when a figure suddenly rushed over from beside him.

"Brother Lu must have chosen good hats for my sister, I want this one!" Xu Qiuer quickly snatched the hat from Lu Cheng's hand and ran forward.

Before Lu Chengningxiang could react, Anan yelled angrily, dissatisfied that the bad aunt snatched the hat that his father gave to his mother.

Mrs. Li turned her head and scolded her own daughter, "How grown up, you still act like a child all day long. They are all straw hats. What's the difference?"

Xu Qiu'er ran to Sister Lu Fu as if she hadn't heard her.

Lu Cheng turned his head, looked at Yan Jing who was about to be cocked by Xu Qiuer's anger, and after a moment of silence, he put the hat on his head on Ning Xiang's head.Ning Xiang raised her eyes in surprise, she didn't see the person clearly, she felt that Lu Cheng's callused big hand frivolously touched her face, and when she left, her index finger wiped her lips intentionally or unintentionally.

Ningxiang bowed her head in embarrassment, and led Anan forward.

(End of this chapter)

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