Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 173

The Lu family hired fifty helpers besides their own relatives to pick fruit.

In the past, I helped the Wu family to do things, and the Wu family made buns and took care of the meals. Now that I am the master, of course I have to cook by myself.

Lu Cheng bought noodles, meat and vegetables in advance and sent them to Yan Jing's house. He arrived at the orchard early in the morning. After meeting with Lu Cheng, Ning Xiang and Xu Qiuer Guan Ping went to Yan's house to do some work. The meal for more than 60 people was steamed with noodles and stuffing. Baozi, some are busy.

Guo'er misses her father, and after being hugged by her father, she refuses to let go, and she doesn't even chase after her mother when she leaves.A Tao followed his sister-in-law to Yan's house, A Mu was diligent and sensible, and wanted to stay and help, while Anan was standing next to his father wherever his sister was.With Lu Ding's help in making arrangements, Lu Cheng didn't have to keep an eye on everything. He carried his daughter to a fruit tree and taught her how to pick fruit.

Guo'er likes to play, and her father helped her press the branches. She hugged Guo'er with both hands, pushed back hard, and giggled.

The first time it didn't fall off, Lu Cheng quietly tore off the fruit stem a little, and let his daughter pick it off.

Guo'er tried again, and she really picked the fruit, but when the fruit left the tree, the little girl seemed a little frightened by her strength, she let go of her hand blankly, and then the fruit fell to the ground with a bang.

Guo'er looked down and yelled.

Anan immediately helped his sister pick up the fruit, and raised his little hand to pass it to his sister.

Guo'er looked at the fruit, shook his head suddenly, and looked up at the tree, wanting to pick a new one.

Anan put the fruit in the basket next to him, and he put one in when his younger sister picked it up, like a little follower.

But Guo'er soon got tired of picking fruit, and turned around with her little head, looking for her mother.

It happened that Niu Niu wanted to kiss his mother too, so Lu Chengcheng put the two children in a small wooden cart. He pushed the wooden cart, and Anan followed, and went to Yan's house together.Autumn was not so hot, but the sun was bright and dazzling. Lu Cheng put on that little hat for Guo'er so as not to hurt his eyes. Niu Niu also had a straw hat.

Looking at the siblings sitting opposite each other in the car, Anan looked up at his father: "I want a hat too!"

He wants to be like his sister.

"Daddy will buy it for you after selling the money in the afternoon." Lu Cheng patted his son's head and agreed happily.

Anan raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, and saw a black grape seedling in the field next to it, with several bunches of black grapes hanging on it, Anan ran over happily, squatted there and picked it in his hand, but accidentally crushed it, and the black juice was covered hand.The naughty boy didn't care, just wiped it on the front of his clothes, took two handfuls full, and ran towards his father who was waiting for him by the side of the road.

It's called Black Grape, but it's actually not a grape, but a common weed in the countryside, and the seedlings are only as tall as Lu Cheng's knees.The fruit is ripe when it is completely black, and it is sweet, which is the favorite of children.

"Daddy, give it to my sister!"

Anan put one hand on his chest, and used his small chest to block the black grapes from falling down, then picked up one and handed it to his sister in the car, his fingers and palms were almost black.Lu Cheng glanced at it, decided to save it for his wife to teach the child, bent down and told his daughter, "If you bite through, don't swallow it."

Guo'er pursed her lips vigorously and tasted the juice.

Lu Cheng stretched out his hand and asked his daughter to spit out the skin.

Guo'er obeyed obediently. After eating, she looked at the black grapes in her brother's arms and wanted to eat more. Niu Niu, who hadn't eaten a single one, was even more greedy.

Lu Cheng fed Niu Niu one, and he didn't allow the two younger ones to eat any more, and asked his son to follow behind to eat secretly: "My sister is young, her stomach hurts after eating too much, Anan can eat by herself."

Anan didn't want her sister to have a stomach ache. Although she was embarrassed by her eager eyes, she obediently hid behind her father and ate while walking. In the end, she dutifully left a few for her mother.Arriving at Yan's house, Anan called Yan Jingniang grandma cautiously with his hands behind his back. A four-year-old boy with dirty clothes, black around the corner of his mouth, and a pair of black phoenix eyes warily looked at Yan Jingniang, not to mention how cute he is.

Yan Jingniang thought it was cute, but the fragrance was broken, so she asked Lu Cheng, "What do you think of the child?"

"The orchard is busy, so I hurried back." Lu Cheng laughed, and ran away after speaking.

In other people's house, Ningxiang couldn't catch up, so she asked cousin Guan Ping to take care of the two children in the car first, she said to Yan Jingniang in embarrassment: "Let my aunt see the joke, I'll take Anan to wash his hands first."

Yan Jingniang smiled and said: "Go, go, children are like this, don't scold us Anan."

Ningxiang smiled helplessly, and led Anan to the kitchen.

Seeing her mother leaving, Guo'er called anxiously, but was picked up by Xu Qiu'er, and coaxed softly: "My aunt has a big cow at home, let's go, my aunt will take Guo'er to see the big cow."

Guo'er blinked her eyes, she had no conscience, she would not be a mother if she had a big cow, and she pointed at her cousin Niu Niu smartly...

Over there, Ningxiang led Anan to the kitchen, scolding Anan as she walked, but Anan said nothing, walked a few steps and looked back, but Yan Jingniang and the others were no longer in sight, Anan stretched out the other hand that had been clenched all the time, and looked up. Mother: "Mom, I'll eat for you!"

Ning Xiang lowered her head, and saw that the boy was holding a few black grapes in his dark hands, it looked like six or seven, only two were still bulging, and the others were squeezed flat at some point.Anan saw it too, and he groaned suspiciously, then threw away the bad ones, grabbed the two good ones with his left hand and continued to hand them to his mother, and the little black hand instinctively wiped them on his body.

Ning Xiang's head was as big as a bucket, she squatted down and pressed the boy's hand in time, touched his chest and said: "Look at your clothes, they are all dirty!"

Anan looked down, his head lowered for a while, and when he looked up again, his phoenix eyes did not dare to look at his mother, his bones turned around, the corners of his mouth were still dark, and he looked guilty like a little black dog that had gotten into trouble.

"Will you still wipe it on your clothes in the future?" Ning Xiang asked sullenly.

Anan shook his head obediently, and looked at his mother pitifully: "Mother, don't be angry."

Ning Xiang snorted, patted his butt lightly, and threatened: "If you wipe it on your body again, mother will beat you!"

Anan didn't dare anymore.

The child realized his mistake, Ning Xiang took two black grapes, ate one for herself, and gave the other to her son.

"It's so sweet." After eating, Ning Xiang boasted with a smile, and then kissed her son's dirty little face.

Mother stopped being angry, Anan grinned again.

Fortunately, this season is colder in the morning and evening, and the sun warms up as soon as the sun is high. Ning Xiang took off her son's dirty clothes, rubbed them vigorously before the juice dried up, and finally washed them clean and hung them on the clothes rack to dry.The sun was shining brightly, and it was enough for Anan to wear a middle coat. He sat in front of the wooden cart and helped his mother look after his sister, and then watched his mother, aunt, and aunt making buns together.

The steamed buns are relatively large. Yan’s kitchen steamed them together in two large iron pots. There were 25 steamed buns in one pot. They steamed them five times in total. Three buns per person were counted. Eat four, anyway, I made more on purpose, it must be enough to eat, if there is any leftover, I will eat it with my relatives at night.

Set up the donkey cart and pull a few pots of buns over.

The helpers hired outside are all big men, Yan Jingniang and Li's Pan are in charge of distributing buns, Ningxiang Guanping and Xu Qiuer are resting at Yan's house, Guo'er is sleepy, and fell asleep sweetly after eating milk, sitting next to Niu Niu.Anan put the pillow next to his younger sister, wanting to sleep with his younger sister. Compared with the two children under one year old, Anan looked very big lying there.

After getting enough sleep, everyone pushed the children to the orchard to watch the excitement.

The Jiao family still sent Steward Lu to collect the fruit, and this year there was a lot of fruit, and there was a long line of mules and carts outside.

There are too many fruits, and it is too time-consuming to weigh one basket by one. We weighed ten baskets in a row, took an average, and then counted the baskets directly. Finally, we counted them together. The 8000-acre garden yielded a total of 56 and [-] catty.

"Lu Cheng, you are so lucky, I can't accept it!" Lu Guanshi said enviously when he handed six hundred taels of silver, one of 50 taels and 38 taels of silver to Lu Cheng.

In a hailstorm last year, Wu’s family sold their orchards, and some people sold their orchards nearby, and more people replanted other fruit trees. In addition, last year’s supply of fruit was less and many people bought it. This year, the price has increased. After going up, the price has also risen from five cents a catty to seven cents. Coincidentally, Lu Cheng has made a fortune all of a sudden, just in time for the new year in the orchard?
Lu Cheng was already happy in his heart, but he concealed his flaws on his face, and said modestly: "It's just luck, the price of fruit will definitely drop next year when the orchard is young, and the profit will be less immediately. A year is a year."

While speaking, he handed 20 taels of silver to Guanshi Lu and invited him to drink good tea.

After earning 20 taels easily, Manager Lu took the man away contentedly.

At this time, only my relatives were left in the orchard.

Yan Jing punched Lu Cheng hard: "Master Lu has made a lot of money, so why don't you buy us a few more meals?"

680 taels, counting last year's 100 taels, I got back the capital in one go, and made a lot of money.

In front of all the relatives, Lu Cheng didn't have to hold back any more, and showed a big smile, "I must invite you, just as often as you say."

After returning to Yan Jing, peach blossom eyes first looked at the daughter-in-law who was holding her daughter.

He had vowed to make her live a good life when they got married, and now he finally did.

There was fire in his eyes, and Ning Xiang's heart was as sweet as eating honey, afraid of being looked at by others, she turned around with her daughter in her arms.

There were still some scattered green fruits left in the orchard, Lu Cheng asked his third brother to watch, and he accompanied his relatives back home.

Guo'er would still wake up in the middle of the night. In order to sleep well, Amu Anan would sleep with the third uncle when the third uncle was at home, and sleep with the aunt when the third uncle was away.

There are three members of Ningxiang's family in the new house.

Guo'er fell asleep, and Lu Cheng pulled his wife into his arms, like a general who had won a big battle, he couldn't enjoy drinking and eating meat, and had to fight his wife again.After picking the fruit for a day, but with endless energy, I tossed around several places, sweating profusely.

Ningxiang knew that her man was happy, so she made an exception and didn't beg for mercy. She stayed with him no matter what he did.

In the end, when the couple fell on the kang, they were sweating as if they had just stepped out of a bucket.

Lu Cheng lay on his back, his chest heaving sharply, it took him a while to calm down, he turned around and hugged his daughter-in-law, who was like a ball of tofu, and said, "Xiang'er, you will go to the city with me tomorrow and pay back the money from the third uncle's house. I'll take you to Ren Yazi's place, let's pick a capable maid, and let her cook the fire, wash and feed the pigs, you don't have to do anything, just take care of the children, and sew a couple of clothes when you have nothing to do."

"Buy whatever you want without getting tired. I can do it myself. Don't waste money if you have money. Look, who in our village has maids? You don't think it's a joke, do you really think of yourself as a master?" Ning Xiang said in a voice. Dumb, with a dry mouth, it was hard for him to say these words.

Lu Cheng went to fetch water for her first, and the couple were full. He hugged her on his lap, held her small hands, and let her right hand touch the bottom of the five fingers and the palm of her left hand: "I remember you were a maid in the Hou's mansion. When you were young, you didn’t have calluses on your hands, but you’ll have them after you marry me. Xiang’er, you don’t feel tired, I don’t, I think you’ve always looked like a fairy, don’t get your face yellow and your hands rough because of doing farm work. I feel distressed, and it seems that I am useless, turning a good fairy girl into a yellow-faced woman. In the past, we didn't pay attention to the conditions, but now it's okay. A maid pays one or two months, only 12 taels a year. Our cherry tree That's enough to feed."

"One tael? Do you think you are an official?" Ning Xiang looked at him in shock, "When I was a rough servant girl, I only had two taels a month..."

If you have money, you can't spend it recklessly.

"Then two dollars, it's up to you." Lu Cheng deliberately lured her, rubbing her face with a smile, "It's agreed, let's go to the city together tomorrow."

Ning Xiang knew that she had been fooled, twisted his waist, and asked in a low voice: "According to what you mean, I have become a yellow-faced woman, so you don't like me anymore? Are you going to take two white and clean water?" Shui Lingling's concubine?"

"Don't talk about the yellow-faced woman, even if you become a black-faced woman, I only want you alone." Lu Cheng's sweet words came as soon as he opened his mouth, and he murmured into her small earlobe, "But I like your whiteness and cleanliness." Yes, wearing a red bag and lying there, you are very attractive, and I also like your small hands, which make me feel comfortable..."

The more you talk, the more out of tune you get.

Ning Xiang hit him, turned her head and ran out, Lu Cheng didn't stop her, but just when she was about to crawl away on her knees, she skillfully used a trick of hungry tiger pounce on sheep.

Guo'er woke up the next day, and the couple who had a ridiculous night were still asleep.

Guo'er was lying beside her mother, the little girl yelled twice, seeing her mother ignoring her, she slipped into her arms by herself, it happened that mother was not wearing any clothes, so Guo'er moved her father's body away little by little. With big paws, he leaned over to eat directly, closed his eyes in enjoyment, and his chubby feet naughtily rubbed his mother's belly.

Ning Xiang frowned, and hummed softly: "Lu Cheng..."

I thought my greedy husband was making trouble again.

Lu Cheng woke up a little when his daughter called him. He heard his wife call him, and opened his eyes in a daze. What he saw was his wife's peach blossom-like face. The white part was like jade, and the pink part was like a flower. Long black hair was spread messily on the pillow embroidered with mandarin ducks.

As beautiful as a dreamer.

"Xianer..."

Lu Cheng called her in a low voice, propped himself up and kissed her cherry red lips, he didn't know how many lifetimes of blessings he had cultivated before he married her.

The father and daughter took advantage of her together, how could Ningxiang still be able to sleep, and woke up from her husband's deepening kiss.

The sky outside the window was as blue as washing, and a few sparrows chirped and landed on the eaves. Just about to peck the corn on the roof, suddenly a big eagle flew over, scaring the sparrows to flee in all directions.

(End of this chapter)