Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 155 She is a Flower

People in the country live by crops, and how well the crops will be harvested depends on God.

Every year, people pray for good weather, but God will not bless them every year. Heavy rain, severe drought, severe cold and strong wind will affect the growth of crops, and hail disaster is one of the natural disasters that people fear most. Not to mention the damage to crops, people and livestock are not careful. It will also hurt, especially the hail this time, which is too big.

Master Wu didn't sleep all night. If his family didn't stop him, he would have gone to the orchard last night when the rain stopped.Finally, until dawn, the old man who has no appetite at all is going to the orchard on crutches. The Wu family's uncle and second master led their wives and children to persuade him, asking him to wait until the road is completely dry before going, old man If you don't listen, you have to go now.

I can't persuade him, I can't let the old man go by himself. The Wu family's uncle and the second master asked their wives to take care of the house and put on their boots to accompany the old man. Chased after the elders.

Master Wu liked this granddaughter, leaning on a cane with one hand, and holding her granddaughter's hand with the other.

A family of four, followed by a few servants, walked to the slope opposite the orchard, and saw a person pushing a cart of green and muddy branches to the north, with green fruits faintly visible under the branches.Looking at the person pushing the cart, he was dressed in gray clothes, almost all below his narrow waist was covered with mud, and his back and shoulders were wet, probably from the water on the branches.

The dirt road leading to the north in front of him has messy ruts and footprints, and I don't know how many times he walked.

"Lu Cheng, what are you doing!" Uncle Wu shouted loudly.

Lu Cheng paused, looked back, immediately put down the handle of the wooden cart in his hand, turned around and rushed over.

When he approached, 12-year-old Wu Ting couldn't help but clenched her grandfather's hand tightly.

Because she saw the wound on Lu Cheng's face, there was a wound on the right forehead above the eyebrow, it didn't know when it was injured, the blood had dried up, winding from the peak of the eyebrow to the side of the face, the left cheek was also scratched, the skin was broken, I don't know why There was no blood, and it was wiped away by Lu Cheng as if wiping off his sweat.

And he didn't seem to be aware of his injuries, so when he came up to him, he knelt down and kowtowed heavily to them: "Master, Lu Cheng was guilty of failing to keep the garden well, all the fruits fell to the ground, and the branches of the fruit trees were also broken... The master said that the fruit branches must be removed as soon as possible when the hailstorm occurs, and they cannot rot in the garden and make the fruit trees sick, so I transported all the fruits to the wasteland in the north, and burned them together at the end, and then pruned the fruit trees after transporting the fruits..."

"Man-made disasters can be prevented. When natural disasters come, what can we do with our mortal bodies? Let alone you alone, even dozens or hundreds of people will not be able to keep those fruits." The two who stared at Lu Cheng angrily Son, Master Wu calmly comforted Lu Chengdao.The sons like the shop but not the orchard, just like Uncle Li's two sons, they like to eat fruit, but they don't know anything about managing the orchard, and when they encounter problems, they first think of punishing the manager, but is it Lu Cheng's fault?

No, Lu Cheng was not only right, after the catastrophe, he was not upset and blamed himself, but he quickly thought of how to save the remaining fruit trees. This is a good fruit farmer. Uncle Li did not misunderstand when he picked his apprentices.

"Okay, let's go to the orchard. You go to the medical center to bandage it. I'll send someone to clean it up with you in a while. There's no rush." ​​Bending to help Lu Cheng up, Mr. Wu leaned on his crutches , sighed towards the wind and rain-ravaged orchard in front of him, his slightly cloudy eyes were full of sadness, as if looking at a descendant who was bullied and devastated.

"A little injury, it's okay. Then the master will go first, and I will continue to tidy up the garden." Lu Cheng glanced at the sun that was already starting to glaring in the sky, and his expression became serious.This year's fruit is destined to be useless, but if he doesn't clean up the garden as soon as possible, and then prune the branches that were interrupted by the hail, the fruit tree will be seriously damaged and its roots will be damaged.

Master Wu looked at Lu Cheng's tall back and nodded slightly.

Uncle Wu looked at his brother. Second Master Wu unconsciously touched the left side of his face and found a scar. It was when he was playing in the orchard when he was a child and was accidentally scratched by a tree branch. He has been sick of it ever since. If the old man hadn't been in charge of this orchard, he would have sold the orchard long ago.

The masters entered the garden, and saw unmelted hailstones and green fruits piled up all over the ground. The fruit trees looked like their arms had been broken, and many branches drooped down. Looking at those still hanging on the trees The fruit is also full of bruises, and it will definitely rot if it is exposed to the sun.Uncle Wu circled around the nearby fruit trees, and finally found a few undamaged fruits, one of which was still growing on a broken branch, and he couldn't get it anymore.

"Father, the orchard will definitely not produce any income this year." Uncle Wu said to the old man with a sigh.

Master Wu ignored him, bent down to pick up a fruit, wiped it with his hands, and took a bite.

Sour, so sour that the wrinkles on the old man's face became more.

It's like a child is gone when he is seven or eight years old.

"Grandfather, don't be sad. The fruit tree is still there. If it doesn't work this year, it will bear fruit again next year. At that time, my granddaughter will accompany you to pick the fruit." Seeing the sadness on the old man's face, Wu Ting persuaded thoughtfully. The family is not short of money. My grandfather had feelings for this fruit tree, not regret for the lost income.

Second Master Wu snorted, reached out and pulled a wounded fruit, and threw it on the ground: "Tingting has a good mouth, but who knows if there will be another hailstorm next year? Let me tell you that our family is not short of money, so why keep it?" Worry about this piece of orchard, why don't you sell it as soon as possible, and if you sell it, there will be hailstorms every year in the future, father, you don't have to be sad."

To put it bluntly, a person of such an age should stay at home and enjoy the happiness.

Master Wu followed the still rolling fruit thrown away by his second son, and remained silent.

When Uncle Wu saw it, he thought that the old man was moved, so he quickly echoed, "Yes, father, you like fruit trees. The fruit trees are good, and we don't advise you to sell the garden. After all, our family is not short of money, but this garden is bad luck. Something happened to Uncle Li, and now it’s raining hail again, you see, you didn’t sleep last night, how could your body be able to bear it?”

Master Wu's gray eyebrows finally frowned, and just as he was about to speak, footsteps came from behind the fruit trees in front of him.

Everyone looked over.

It was Yan Jing. When he saw several hosts, Yan Jing was stunned for a while, then looked at the garden, understood, and couldn't help pleading for Lu Cheng: "Master, the hailstorm was so heavy last night that my umbrella was smashed. Lu Chenghe..."

Master Wu waved his hand, looked towards the chestnut garden and said, "How about over there?"

Yan Jing sighed: "The chestnuts are small and haven't fallen much, but some branches have been broken. I have cut them quickly in the past two days, and the harvest should not be affected much."

Chestnuts bloomed later than Shaguo, and they are still very small now, but they were spared, Yan Jing was just a pity for Lu Cheng.If it were him, the fruits of his hard work for a year were gone, it was more painful than digging two pieces of flesh out of his body, either the money or the fruits.

Master Wu finally felt a little better.

Erye Wu's heart moved, and he decided that the old man would not want to part with this orchard, so he changed his words and said, "Father, why don't we let go of the fruit trees and plant chestnuts instead. Chestnuts are easier to serve than fruit, and you are not afraid of hail, so you won't have to worry about it anymore."

Yan Jing frowned, trying to dissuade him, but Erye Wu gave him a hard look.

Thinking that he was just a manager, Yan Jing shut his mouth tactfully, and even if he was too busy growing chestnuts alone, he still had to ask Lu Cheng to be the manager, and it wouldn't make Lu Cheng lose his job, so there was nothing to be afraid of up.

"Let's clean up the garden first." Master Wu continued to stroll around for a while, as if he had never heard what his sons said from the beginning to the end, and then left.Back at Wu's house, he immediately sent all the servants to help in the orchard, and hired fifty strong men, Yan Jing took ten, and left the rest to Lu Cheng.

Someone helped to clean up the tree. Lu Chengcheng was in a hurry to trim the branches, and the fallen branches were carried out by the helpers.

There were so many people working quickly, when Ning Xiang and Lu Ding rushed over, the area outside the orchard had already been cleaned up.The originally lush fruit trees lost [-]% of their branches, and the fruits seemed to have been stolen overnight, leaving only a few here and there. The soil under the trees had been turned over, exuding the unique earthy fragrance after the rain.

"This is to prevent freezing." Lu Ding explained for his sister-in-law, he learned a lot from his brother.

Ning Xiang nodded absent-mindedly, staring at the fruit tree: "But those fruits... are all useless?"

Lu Ding was silent, and said after a long time: "Sister-in-law, you are pregnant with the child, and you have already bumped all the way, so you can't be tired anymore. In this way, you go to the shed to rest, and I will go to the eldest brother and ask him to come here to see you."

Ning Xiang knew how to measure, looked at her stomach, and nodded.

She went to the shed first, and saw that the quilt inside was folded and placed in the middle, and the straw on the south side was also rolled up, exposing the wooden planks wetted by the heavy rain last night exposed to the sun, emitting a faint white gas.There was a lot of voices in the depths of the orchard, and there were voices of regret from time to time, and some people asked if they could pick up fruit and take it home for the children to eat.

Ningxiang heard Lu Cheng's answer, yes, the distance is too far, but she could distinguish her husband's voice.

Thinking of the nine-point sour and one-point sweet fruit that she ate last night, Ning Xiang shook her head helplessly.This kind of sour fruit is still smashed. It looks bad and tastes bad. It is absolutely impossible to take it out for sale, and it is not good for making preserved fruit.

The orchard is in trouble, will Lu Cheng be punished by his boss?

Ning Xiang was worried.

Familiar footsteps came from outside the shed, and Ning Xiang turned out immediately.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing his wife with a small white face, Lu Cheng frowned and said, "Is your stomach tumbling?"

I am afraid that something will happen to her.

"He was hit by hailstones?" Ning Xiang was the first to notice the wound on his face, her heart ached so much, her eyes quickly turned from his forehead to the rest of his neck, "Where else was hit?"

In fact, Lu Cheng had just been reminded by his third brother that he had already wiped the blood off his face, but the injury could not be covered up.Not wanting his wife to worry, Lu Cheng easily picked her up, placed her on the north side of the shed and sat down, then put his arms around her waist and pressed her forehead and smiled and said: "I'm fine, just a little injury, you and the child are fine, I'll take care of you." Don't be afraid of anything."

He smiled easily, but the fire bubbles at the corners of his mouth couldn't deceive anyone. Ning Xiang cried, touching the corners of his lips and crying, "I didn't have it when I left. Did you get too anxious last night? Lu Cheng, did the Wu family punish you?" ?" Before Lu Cheng could answer, she threw herself into his arms, put her arms around his waist and comforted him, "It's okay, at worst, let's quit and go home to farm. There are so many lands, and there is no shortage of wages."

She had worked as a maid before, and she knew that she was afraid of being punished by her master for not doing a good job.

She cried softly, with her petite body pressed against his arms. Although she was wiping tears on him, Lu Cheng felt that he was hugging a soft and warm stove, and a hug warmed his heart. It can offset the torment of last night.

The fruit is gone, and he still has a wife, who still has the small fruit he planted himself in her belly.

"Xiang'er, we really gave birth to a daughter, so the nickname should be Guo'er, isn't it nice?" Lu Cheng raised her chin and asked softly while wiping her tears.

Ning Xiang blinked her almond eyes blankly, what was he talking about?
She was stupid and didn't follow what he said, Lu Chengcheng repeated it again.

Fruit...

The pink-white sago flowers are delicate and beautiful, and the red fruit is even more tempting. My daughter's name sounds very nice.

Is it just time to talk about children?

Worry appeared in Ningxiang's eyes again.

Lu Cheng kissed her eyes, and said in a calm and forceful voice, "Don't worry, the master didn't blame me, the fruit trees need to be pruned, I'll go first, you rest here, don't move around, don't make me worry."

Ning Xiang could imagine his busyness, she nodded sensibly, then turned and pointed to her basket on the south side, "Didn't you have breakfast? I brought you two pancakes, you eat first, and only when you are full." strength."

"It's nice to have a daughter-in-law." Lu Cheng hugged her and kissed her, then quickly turned to the south, took out pancakes, took them away, and ate them as he walked.After walking a certain distance and looking back, he saw his daughter-in-law standing in the middle of the fruit tree in a light pink dress, looking at him charmingly like a newly blooming sand fruit flower in the bright sunshine, the last haze in Lu Cheng's heart quietly dissipated.

Not this year, he still has next year, he doesn't believe that God hails him every year!

Looking up at the sky, Lu Cheng took a bite of the pancake.

The red sun was setting, the orchard was tidied up, and the soil was turned over again. Only Lu Cheng and his brother were responsible for pruning the fruit trees, and they had to work for another day.

"Brother, go home, I'll be here tonight." The three of them got together again, and Lu Ding said proactively.

"No need, I'll be staying in the orchard these few nights, third brother, you go back, I'll leave the field to you, don't let your sister-in-law interfere." Lu Cheng rejected his brother's proposal, and then held Ning Xiang's shoulder like no one else, He sent her out of the orchard and gave a lot of instructions in a low voice.

"Walk slowly on the road, and come down when you encounter difficult places." Lu Cheng said worriedly as he helped his wife into the donkey cart.

"I'm not stupid." He babbled, Ningxiang smiled and gave him a look, staring at his man intently until the donkey cart was gone and he could no longer see him.

"Sister-in-law is gone?" After seeing off his wife, Lu Cheng turned back to the orchard and continued pruning. After a while, Yan Jing came around and asked from a distance.He got engaged to Xu Qiu'er in September, in fact, he could call his fiancee Cousin Ningxiang, but Yan Jing was used to calling her sister-in-law.

Lu Cheng responded in a low voice, his expression regained his solemnity.

When his wife was there, he didn't dare to show that he was afraid that she would be worried, but when he encountered such a big event, he couldn't be calm in a blink of an eye.

Yan Jing stopped beside him, stared at him for a while, and stopped talking.

He didn't speak for a long time, Lu Cheng felt strange, and looked at him sideways after cutting a branch, hesitantly said: "What's the matter?"

Yan Jing scratched his head, couldn't hold back his words, and said the second master Wu's suggestion in the morning, "The master didn't say anything, I don't know if he doesn't want to pay attention to it, or he wants to think about it, but you are not nervous, you will also be a chestnut tree." No matter, even if the chestnuts are planted here, I will still ask you to be in charge."

Lu Cheng was expressionless, looking down at the broken branch he had just cut in his hand.

The dark green sago leaves are still full of vitality.

"Just wait, it's useless for us to be anxious." Lu Cheng said calmly, throwing the branch into the wooden cart next to him.

Knowing that he was feeling uncomfortable, Yan Jing patted him on the shoulder and said: "Forget it, it's getting dark, let's do it tomorrow, let's go, I'll invite you to have a drink or two."

"Go by yourself, I don't have an appetite." Lu Cheng said with peachy eyes, staring intently at the branches above his head.

Yan Jing had nothing to do, he went home alone, and brought Lu Cheng dinner again.

After Lu Cheng ate, he was full, but his heart was empty, and he didn't sleep for another night.

Master Wu didn't sleep either. He was hit similarly to Lu Cheng, but he didn't have Lu Cheng's mature physique and fell ill.

The Wu family hastily invited a doctor, and found out that the cause of the illness was worry and illness. After taking a few medicines, the illness would be healed when the mood improved.

The old man fell ill because of a few broken fruit trees, the Wu family uncle and the second master were even more dissatisfied, and they all persuaded the old man to plant chestnut trees instead.

Master Wu did not agree for a long time, and lay on the kang for three days. Seeing that his sons had taught his grandson to continue to persuade him, only the eldest granddaughter truly understood his pain. She closed her eyes with a long sigh, and finally let go before dinner and said: "Tomorrow morning Please come over to Lu Cheng, I will discuss it with him."

Wu Erye didn't understand why he had to discuss with a steward about his own land, but the old man was ordered, so he sent someone to invite Lu Cheng the next day.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lu Cheng stood in front of Mr. Wu's kang and said some polite words.

Master Wu thought his sons were annoying, so he sent them out, and he and Lu Cheng were the only ones left in the room, so he said helplessly what he wanted.

He was reluctant to part with those fruit trees, but his sons didn't like them. Mr. Wu was afraid that he would persevere. When he was alive, his sons listened to him. Then when he died, his sons sold the orchard directly, and there was no chestnut tree left.Leave at least one of the trees and the land.

Lu Cheng pursed his lips.

In his eyes, those fruit trees were injured, which made him feel distressed as much as his son's hand. He couldn't imagine the situation of uprooting them.

In the past two nights, he also thought a lot.

Looking up at the sick old man, Lu Cheng suddenly knelt down and begged sincerely: "Master, I don't want to part with those fruit trees. If you don't want them anymore, I want to buy this garden and continue to take care of them. If you make money, yes Thanks to you, and thanks to me continuing to serve, I don't believe it will continue to lose money."

He dreamed of having his own orchard, and he couldn't bear to destroy the familiar one before his own orchard was built.If the Wu family insisted on planting chestnut trees instead, he would quit and find a piece of hilltop to reclaim wasteland and slowly build his own orchard. If the family had no money, he would plant a few first, and one day there would be more fruit trees.

(End of this chapter)