Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 69

After Lu Cheng left, Ning Xiang heard the movement when he jumped over the wall and fell to the ground.

Ning Xiang suddenly understood that it was considered polite for Lu Cheng to knock on the door and inform her when he came, otherwise she would have no choice but to climb over the wall and come in.

Hiding in the kitchen room and waiting for a while, after confirming that Lu Cheng had really left, Ning Xiang gently opened the door, looked at the wall, stared blankly for a while, and then began to look for his leftover pistachios.

She had to eliminate the evidence that Lu Cheng had been here.

However, from the door to the back door, she searched back and forth twice but couldn't find it. Ning Xiang was worried that Lu Cheng had just thrown it to the side of the yard. Cheng either ate the kernels or carefully threw them into the field outside before entering the house.

Picking up the clothes in the sewing basket, Ning Xiang stared at the few stitches Lu Cheng sewed, then touched them again, and couldn't help laughing at the thought of his concentration when he bowed his head while sewing.

Although this man is domineering and rascal, he is indeed a good brother and father, able to manage the family inside and earn money to support the family outside.

I can't tell why, but I feel a little proud.

The cool wind blew in from the yard, Ning Xiang pinched the clothes and continued to sew.

Not long after, the sound of crackling firecrackers came from the south of the village, and the new daughter-in-law entered the village.

Ning Xiang turned her head to listen.

In the Hou's mansion, you can never hear such excitement. The whole Hou's mansion is always in order, unlike in the village, you may sleep soundly at night, and suddenly you will be woken up by the fierce quarrel of the couple next door, or you may want to sleep at noon. After taking a nap, I don’t know whose child ran past the door with a smile.

Maybe occasionally irritable, but this is life.

At noon, Ningxiang warmed up the pimple soup that she specially made in the morning. She had a simple lunch by herself and fed the chickens and pigs after the meal. After the busy work, Xu Qiuer led Amu back.

"Sister, look!" Amu grabbed three small red firecrackers from his pocket and showed off to his sister.

There are two main types of firecrackers here. The rough paper tubes placed one by one are called Gaosheng, and the ones that are thinner than a thumb are strung together and placed together are called small whips. Some of them will be burned by fire when they are released It collapsed before and became the children's favorite thing to pick up.

"Did you pick it up after the firecrackers were all set off?" Ningxiang Surong interrogated her younger brother.

Amu nodded quickly, looked into his sister's eyes and said, "I wanted to run over before I finished releasing Da Zhuang, but my second sister told me about him, so I went to pick it up after I released it." He remembered what his sister said.

The younger brother is sensible, Ning Xiang smiled immediately, touched the three small whips and boasted: "Amu has picked up so many, when do you want to let them go?"

"Release it after the Chinese New Year!" Amu said in a very sweet and authentic way.

"Then sister will hide it for you." The firecrackers are dangerous, and Ningxiang is afraid that her younger brother will secretly order them behind her back, and accidentally collapse herself.

Amu was a little bit reluctant, but still obediently followed behind her sister, watching her put the three small whips in an iron box.

"Sister, we saw Big Brother Lu." Xu Qiu'er sat on the kang and smiled meaningfully.

Ningxiang glanced at her pretending to be surprised, and met her cousin's sly eyes, she said calmly: "See when you see it, tell me what to do." Afraid that my brother would talk nonsense, she patted his head and told him to go outside Count the chicks to see if there are any.

The little guy left, Xu Qiu'er lazily lay down on the kang, propped her chin with one hand and said: "Sister should go, you didn't see it, brother Lu was arranged at the table next to the male guests during the meal, and we The female guests are next to each other. The girls and daughters-in-law at our table and other tables have all seen him secretly, and many people have secretly inquired about the situation at Brother Lu’s house. Sister, Brother Lu looks like that, and his family has money. You have to keep an eye on him. Hurry up, lest Brother Lu is snatched away."

He earns a tael of silver a month, and knows a rich man in the city who sells cherries, and the money he earns from selling cherries is equivalent to the income of ten mu of other people's land. According to the wives, such a rich, handsome and capable man, Even as a continuation, I am willing.

Ningxiang felt a little turmoil in her heart.

She knew that Lu Cheng was attracted to women, but she didn't expect to be so exaggerated that all the daughters-in-law in the village looked at him.

But he said indifferently: "If you rob it, just rob it. If you rob it, it means that he is not sincere to me."

Sitting on the edge of the kang, Ning Xiang took out the pillows of herself and her younger brother, and reminded her cousin in a low voice, "Don't mention him at home again, what should I do if someone overhears me?"

"My mother is helping wash the dishes there, it's still early to come back." Xu Qiu'er turned around and saw that her cousin was calm, unable to tell what was going on in her heart. She was afraid that she might misunderstand Lu Cheng, so she comforted Lu Cheng in a low voice: "Sister Don't worry, Brother Lu is always sitting with his back to the female guest, no one is watching, but he is serious."

Ningxiang was sweet in her heart, and cast a puzzled glance at her cousin, "You were the one who persuaded me not to talk to him back then, why do you keep talking to him now? Did he do you any favors?"

"I'm telling the truth, you can't wrong him, right?" Xu Qiu'er pretended to be angry and went down to the ground, "I don't care about you, I'm going to sleep."

Ningxiang shook her head with a smile, went out to see her off, and called her younger brother to come in for a rest.

In order to conceal that she met Lu Cheng, Ning Xiang didn't tell anyone that the three sisters of the Lu family would bring Anan to visit tomorrow.

But when she got up early the next day, Ning Xiang carefully tidied up the inside and outside of the house, Lu's house was so clean, her own house couldn't be worse.

About half an hour after breakfast, Lu Ding drove over and brought the three younger sisters and nephew over.

"Auntie!" Anan shouted into the yard while still in the car.

Ning Xiang was sitting under the persimmon tree, seeing them coming, she greeted them with a smile.

"Auntie!" Anan stretched out his hand to her excitedly. The little guy was wearing a small blue gown today, which made his face look fairer.

"Anan looks better the longer he grows." Ningxiang hugged Anan and kissed him first.

Being praised by his mother, Anan grinned, looked at his mother, and said crisply: "Beautiful!"

Xu Qiu'er, who followed Ningxiang out to treat guests, burst into laughter, and quickly pinched Anan's cheek, "You have such a sweet mouth, who taught you?"

Anan didn't like being touched by someone "unfamiliar with him", so he leaned on his mother's shoulder and didn't answer Xu Qiuer.

Being left out in the cold again, Xu Qiu'er simply ignored him and called sister A Tao into the yard.

Ningxiang looked at Lu Ding who was still standing in front of the seat, "Come in and have a seat too, my elder brother is at home, talk to you."

"No, I'm going to the field now, my second brother is still waiting for me." Lu Dingduo took a look at the gentle and beautiful sister-in-law-to-be, and drove away.Turning around when turning the corner, seeing Zhun's sister-in-law still standing at the door, holding her nephew who was not at all reluctant to part with him in her arms, the corners of Lu Ding's mouth curled up in a rare way.

The young man left, and Ningxiang carried Anan into the yard.

The house was stuffy in summer, everyone sat in the house for a while, and then went back to the yard, the girls sat on a small bench, talking here and there, talking about jewelry and dresses and so on.Anan leaned in front of his mother, looking at the first aunt for a while, and the second aunt for a while, listening very carefully.

"Sister, let's play hide-and-seek?" Amu didn't like sitting like this, and whispered.

Ningxiang lowered her head and asked Anan, "Tell them to hide, aunt will take Anan as a ghost, and go catch them together, okay?"

Anan's family has two uncles and an aunt, and the second grandmother's family has two aunts and an uncle. They are not very old, and they play with him when they have time, so the little guy knows how to play. Eyes closed, "Hide!"

The boy was so cute, Ning Xiang kissed again, turned Anan around, the two mothers pressed their foreheads together, closed their eyes and asked A Tao and others to hide.Two front and back yards plus six rooms are perfect for playing hide and seek.

Ning Xiang was in charge of counting, and when she counted to twenty, she opened her eyes and met Anan's black phoenix eyes.

"Did Anan peek at it?" Ningxiang asked with a smile.

"No!" Anan hurriedly denied, he just looked at his mother and didn't look elsewhere.

"Anan is so good, let's go, let's catch them." Ningxiang boasted softly, leading the little guy to look for them slowly.When I found Amu in the hut, Anan giggled, and found Atao in the chicken coop behind, Anan laughed again. Anyway, I just laughed once when I found a little guy, and I had a great time.

The laughter attracted Da Zhuang next door to play with them.

The more people playing hide-and-seek, the more fun, Ning Xiang readily agreed, and everyone guessed the back of their hands to decide who would be the ghost.

Ningxiang hid twice with Anan in her arms, and when it was Da Zhuang's turn to be a ghost for the third time, Ningxiang carried Anan into the east room, climbed onto the kang and pulled the quilt outside next to the window sill , and then asked Anan to lie down in the gap between the window sill and the quilt, and coaxed in a low voice: "Anan, don't make a sound, aunt, hide behind the door."

Anan was small, and it was just right to lie in it. The little guy seemed to be very satisfied with his place, and he pursed his mouth tightly, expressing that he would not make a sound.

Da Zhuang outside counted to fifteen, Ning Xiang gently covered Anan's two little feet with a pillow towel, quickly got off the ground, hid behind the door panel and said to Anan: "Auntie is also hidden, none of us are allowed to make a sound .”

The little guy on the kang didn't reply.

Imagining Anan pursing her lips seriously, Ningxiang laughed silently.

Almost everyone hid in the backyard, and the first thing Da Zhuang looked for was the house.

Ningxiang just wanted to make Anan laugh, and didn't hide her carefully, Da Zhuang found her as soon as he entered the room.

"Where's Anan?" Da Zhuang asked, staring at her.

"This time he hid with Amu." Ning Xiang said seriously.

Da Zhuang didn't believe it, he looked around, and soon found that a quilt on the kang had been moved. The five-year-old sturdy boy immediately took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, rushed into the kang in two or three steps, and saw Anan lying in the gap , Da Zhuang exclaimed excitedly.

The little idiot Anan who was caught also laughed, the little purse hanging on his chest loosened somehow, and a copper coin slipped out, sliding down little by little with the tremor of the little guy's chest.

Da Zhuang saw it with sharp eyes, because his mother was usually greedy for petty gains, and he also learned a little bit.

"I'll let you out." Da Zhuang first glanced at Ningxiang standing in front of the kang, then lay down on the quilt, first picked up the copper coins on Anan's chest, and then pulled back the quilt vigorously, revealing enough The big place made Anan stand up.

But he was also a child himself, and his movements were rusty and left traces. Anan saw it and touched his purse. The little guy sat up suddenly and reached out to grab the copper coins his mother gave him.

Da Zhuang was greedy for money, so he withdrew his hands and didn't move.

Anan didn't snatch the money back. He looked up at Da Zhuang, his phoenix eyes were wide open, and before Da Zhuang could see what he meant, the little guy raised his arm and quickly scratched Da Zhuang's face, " beat!"

(End of this chapter)