farmer's little girl

Chapter 52 Do You Like Jinshu?

When Lu Jiaoyue arrived home, Lu Guangyi had already returned.

He just came back, luckily he brought a coir raincoat, otherwise he wouldn't know what he would have looked like.However, none of the pickled tofu was sold, and Mei didn't feel sorry for it. Instead, she decided to make frozen tofu and keep it for herself.

It can only be like this, who makes the weather unlucky.

Lu Jiaoyue told about how Miss Gui was turned away when she returned to her natal home.Mrs. Mei sighed again and again, lamenting the bitter lives of the Gui girls, but it is understandable, after all, the Liu family is also a big family, if the attitude is softened, these people will stick to it, whether to accept it or not accept?

Accepted, with so many people eating, no one can live well.In particular, Gui Yaniang's reputation is not good now, and she may cause the children in the family to talk about marriage.But don't accept it—since you don't intend to accept it, it's better to cut off the other party's thoughts from the beginning.

It's just that after all, they are brothers and sisters of direct relatives, so they don't even open the door, which is a bit too cold-blooded.Moreover, the Gui girls are not the kind of people who don't know what to do. After knowing each other for so many years, Mrs. Mei is quite aware of this.

After all, it was someone else's business, so Mei didn't have much to say, but discussed it with Lu Minghai, and planned to send some food to Guiya's family when the snow stopped, so they couldn't watch this family starve to death.During the period, he scolded those members of the Chen family, so he didn't mention it.

It snowed intermittently for three days before it stopped.

During this period, Erfang's family didn't go anywhere, just cats at home.

Lu Jiaoyue thought of the thin jacket on Han Jin's body that day, and remembered that no one usually made clothes for him, so she quietly hid in the house to make clothes for him.Fortunately, she had just made some cotton-padded jackets for her family, and not only did she have leftover fabric, but also cotton, which was just enough to make a cotton-padded jacket for him.

If there is no need for embroidery on the clothes, it is actually quite simple to make, plus Lu Jiaoyue's quick hands, it only took one and a half days to make the cotton clothes.

It was chilly outside, but there was no wind, and it was dry and cold.

Early in the morning, Goro went out to have fun. Sitting in the house, he could hear the laughter of him playing snowball fights with a group of friends outside.

Lu Guangzhi also went out, but Lu Jiaoyue didn't take it seriously, but he came back soon.

"what happened?"

"Uncle Jin didn't come today."

Lu Jiaoyue was taken aback and said, "With such heavy snow in the past two days, there must be a lot of snow on the road, so it's normal if we don't come."

Lu Guangzhi nodded and said: "I thought so too, so I waited for a while and came back when no one came. Sister, I plan to follow up with Uncle Zi and say that I won't go to the gambling house this year, and wait until next year." It's getting colder every day, and we have a lot of snow here, I don't want to trouble Uncle Jinzi to come and pick me up."

Lu Jiaoyue pondered for a while, and said, "Okay, this matter is up to you."

On the other side, Mei asked Lu Guangyi to send a bag of grain to Guiya's family.It has been snowing for several days, and I don't know how the mother and daughter survived.After thinking about it, she took a few sauerkraut from the tank and asked Lu Guangyi to bring it along.There are no vegetables to eat in winter, so every household will pickle a lot of pickled vegetables in summer and autumn for dinner in winter.The Gui girls were kicked out by cleansing, so naturally they had no pickles to eat.

Lu Guangyi nodded, and picked up another bundle of firewood from the woodshed, carried it on his back, and then went to Guiya's house.

When he arrived, Guiya was shoveling snow in the yard.

His face was flushed red from the cold, he shoveled it twice, stopped and rubbed his hands together.

Seeing him coming, Gui Ya put down the wooden shovel in her hand and greeted him.

"Brother Lu, why are you here?"

"My mother asked me to send some food to your family, and I'll give you this firewood too. It's cold and it's inconvenient for you to go out. If you don't have any firewood, you can come to my house and say, I have a lot of firewood."

Gui Ya was very touched, "Brother Lu, thank you, and thank you, Aunt Lu and Uncle Lu. Don't worry, I will definitely pay back the food." It's fine if the people in the country give other things, and the food is given out. , generally have to pay back.

Lu Guangyi pursed his lips, glanced at the expression on the other party's face, and swallowed the words that he didn't have to return.

He has known Gui Ya since he was a child. Although she doesn't usually deal with her because she is a girl, he can tell what kind of character she is from her sister.Since she said she wanted to pay it back, he listened to it, so as not to make her feel uncomfortable.

Lu Guangyi didn't stay any longer, and after handing over the things to Gui Ya, he left.

Gui Ya put the things away before going back into the house.

"The second bedroom couple of the Lu family are really good people, and the boy Guangyi is also a good person. You three sisters must remember the great kindness of others, and you must repay it when you are able." Gui Maid said to the three daughters.

The three Gui Ya sisters nodded one after another, and Gui Ya Niang sighed again, "Such a good boy, the people of the Pei family don't know what they think, they ruined this good marriage just like that."

Speaking of marriage, I can't help but think of the fact that my eldest daughter is not young. A flash of self-blame and guilt flashed across Gui Ya's dry face, and she said to Gui Ya: "Big girl, it was your mother who delayed you. I wish I had told you about a marriage earlier." It wouldn't be the case that she and Li go out now, causing her daughter's reputation to be ruined, and no one comes to propose marriage.

"Mother, didn't I say that I don't want to marry now. We can't even fill our stomachs now, so why do we still think about marrying or not? I will stay at home and serve you for the rest of my life."

"What are you talking about, mother will never delay you. When the family situation is better, mother will ask someone to marry you. It was also mother who was a step behind. Otherwise, she would talk to Minghai and his wife and betroth you to Guangyi boy, you still don’t know what blessings you enjoy now.” After saying this, Gui Yaniang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and she couldn’t help saying: “Big girl, what do you think of Guangyi boy?”

How could Gui Ya fail to see what her mother was thinking, she blushed immediately, and said urgently: "Mother, stop, don't think about this kind of thought again. If you want to break friendship with the second room of the Lu family, It doesn't matter if you think about it. What is the situation of our family, which family will marry a daughter-in-law and drag a mother-in-law and two aunts. Even if you have this face, I don't have this face, so don't mention it in the future. "

Gui Ya Niang felt a little wronged and embarrassed. After all, she was her daughter, and what she said made sense, so she didn't say anything.

On the contrary, there was a flash of guilt on Gui Ya's face, she knew that her mother was doing it for her own good, but she didn't have such a face.She sighed and said: "Mother, don't blame your daughter, the second room of the Lu family has a great favor for us, we can't cheat people like this, we can't even think about it. Don't talk about it anymore, I have no plans to get married right now. "

Lady Gui nodded her head.

For three consecutive days, Lu Guangzhi would go to the end of the village every morning, but Han Jin never showed up.

Lu Jiaoyue also knew about this, and her heart was always heavy.With Han Jin's thoughtful temperament, even if he doesn't come, he will arrange things well, and he won't just disappear without knowing why.

Today, Lu Guangzhi couldn't bear it any longer, and planned to go to the county by himself.

One is to check the situation, and the other is to explain to the casino.Lu Jiaoyue didn't object, but just told him to wear thicker clothes and go back early. In fact, she was also a little worried about Han Jin.

It was almost noon when Lu Guangzhi came back.After returning, he told Lu Jiaoyue that the reason why Uncle Jinzi hadn't come these days was because he was sick, and he was a little seriously ill. bed.

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help being a little anxious, her heart was on fire.

He must have gone back in the snow to catch the cold that day, and he doesn't know what happened. He is so strong, why is he lying on the bed and can't get up?Worried in my heart, I couldn't help asking a few more questions.After asking, she went out of Dongjian with a lot of thoughts, and Lu Guangzhi looked at his sister's back suspiciously.

The whole afternoon, Lu Jiaoyue was out of her mind, Lu Guangzhi saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.After dinner in the evening, everyone went back to the house to rest. Lu Guangzhi came to Lu Jiaoyue's house on the pretext of helping the elder sister to burn the kang.

"Big sister, are you worried about Uncle Jin?" Lu Guangzhi, who was squatting in front of the kang cave, cast a glance at the big sister who sat there and started to do needlework, but was the big sister who stopped for a while.

Lu Jiaoyue was stunned for a moment, then smiled with a concealed smile, "I was just thinking that Uncle Jin looks so strong, why is he lying in bed so sick that he can't get up."

"It's not a fever. I heard Uncle Hu said that it's because he is strong and doesn't get sick often, so he gets sick like a mountain when he gets sick. Uncle Jinzi has had a fever for several days, and it doesn't work after taking medicine. I can't back down." After speaking, Lu Guangzhi fixed his eyes on the expression on his sister's face.

It's a pity that Lu Jiaoyue didn't realize all this. When she heard that taking the medicine didn't help, she couldn't help feeling a little flustered, her hand trembled, and the needle tip accidentally pricked her finger. She frowned slightly and put her fingertip in her mouth Contains.

His elder sister began to learn needlework at the age of five. Except for the first two years, Lu Guangzhi had never seen his elder sister get her hand pierced while doing needlework.He stood up with a dignified expression: "Sister, do you like Uncle Zi?"

Lu Jiaoyue's expression suddenly became flustered, she was not a person who was good at disguising, so how could she hide it from Lu Guangzhi.

Looking at her younger brother, Lu Jiaoyue's heart beat fast, but she felt extremely ashamed to admit her feelings for Uncle Jin in front of her younger brother, so she could only hang her head and not speak.

The room was very quiet, and Lu Guangzhi didn't speak, he seemed to be thinking about something, just when Lu Jiaoyue's heart was about to jump into her throat, she suddenly heard Lu Guangzhi say: "Sister, you have a good eye."

"Ah?" Lu Jiaoyue was stunned, never expecting her brother to say that.

"Uncle Jinzi is kind-hearted, man enough, and responsible. To be honest, elder sister, I have been thinking about what kind of person you should choose to be worthy of you if you marry in the future. Now it seems that you and Jinzi Uncle is pretty good." Lu Guangzhi paused, and then said: "The only thing is, Uncle Jinzi's reputation is not very good, so my parents probably won't agree to it. As for age, I think older men know It hurts."

Lu Jiaoyue blushed like a fire, and whispered: "What did you say, second brother."

"What? Don't you think my analysis makes sense? I already thought it was wrong. You meet Uncle Jin Zi too often. Even if you ask about Uncle, you don't meet so many times. And If it is said that Uncle Jin is looking at our little uncle's face, helping us to teach Du Lian and the eldest aunt's family, but it is a bit too kind. I always feel that he is not taking revenge for others, but has a personal grudge with these two people... ..."

The next words were interrupted by Lu Jiaoyue: "Did you teach Du Lian and the eldest aunt's family a lesson? You mean that Uncle Jin Zi also did what happened to Cousin Guodong?"

Only then did Lu Guangzhi realize that he had slipped his mouth, so he hurriedly shut up, but Lu Jiaoyue had already heard it, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to.

Lu Guangzhi could only confess: "Zhao Guodong's incident was indeed done by Uncle Jinzi, but it was not Uncle Jinzi who instigated Zhao Guodong to gamble and covet money in the commercial firm. When he saw it, he wanted to avoid it for a few days, so as not to cause trouble. Unexpectedly, after Uncle Jin knew that Zhao Guodong was the son of his aunt, he asked someone to set Zhao Guodong up... In fact, even if Uncle Jin didn't do anything in the middle, Zhao Guodong will become like this sooner or later, he has already greedy a lot of money in the business, and he is jealous."

Lu Jiaoyue fell silent, unable to tell what it was like, he always seemed to be able to do something unexpectedly that made people both moved and helpless.

Seeing that the eldest sister did not speak, Lu Guangzhi said anxiously: "Eldest sister, you are not going to get along with Uncle Jin because of this, right?"

Lu Jiaoyue blushed with embarrassment and said angrily, "Whether I get along with him or not is none of your business!"

Lu Guangzhi grinned: "It seems that Eldest Sister is dating Uncle Jinzi?"

Only now did Lu Jiaoyue realize that her younger brother had said so much just to deceive her, and immediately became annoyed.But she couldn't make her get angry at her younger brother, so she could only sit there silently.

Lu Guangzhi also knew that he talked too much today, and wanted to run away for fear of being blamed by his sister, but Lu Jiaoyue stopped him from behind.

"Then what, is he really seriously ill?" Lu Jiaoyue's voice was low and hesitant.

Lu Guangzhi stood still and nodded, "But it should be fine. Uncle Hu and the others are taking care of him, and there is a medical clinic in the county. Don't worry, big sister."

Lu Jiaoyue looked a little embarrassed and hesitated, but she still said, "I want to go see him."

Lu Guangzhi didn't expect the elder sister to say that, he was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head: "I know the place, and I can take you there too, but I'm afraid it's not easy for you to go out, elder sister."

Lu Jiaoyue thought for a while, and said: "It's okay, I'll tell mother that I'm going to Gui Ya's house when the time comes."

"Then elder sister, you can think it over, and tell me after you think it over, and the road is so far away, and there is no bullock cart now, can you do it?"

"Don't think about it, you will take me there tomorrow."

The next day, Lu Jiaoyue found an excuse and went out with Lu Guangzhi.

The snow hadn't melted yet, so the road was slippery, with snow and mud everywhere.Luckily, Lu Jiaoyue was well prepared, so she dug out a pair of lambskin boots that her little uncle bought for her last year, and put them on, so that she could keep warm and not afraid of getting the shoes wet.

The road was not easy, and there were no pedestrians. Lu Guangzhi was afraid that his eldest sister would fall, so he helped her along the way.The two went out at Chenshi and did not arrive in the county until noon.Lu Guangzhi looked at the elder sister with some worry, and said, "Elder sister, are you okay?"

Lu Jiaoyue wore a long jacket with a plain face and a purple border, and a duck-egg-blue satin cloak with cotton on the outside.Lu Jiaoyue seldom wears this cloak, and only occasionally wears it when she goes out to visit relatives in winter.

At this time, her cheeks were flushed and she was out of breath, obviously very tired.

"It's okay, let's go, we can go back early then." She wiped the sweat from her forehead and said.

"Sister, when we go back, you can talk to Uncle Hu and ask him to find someone to help us. The ox cart can't go, but the carriage is fine. It was Uncle Hu who sent me back when I came back last time. Are you hungry now? Otherwise, let's find a place to eat something first, and wait in the house, where there is never fire, but there is no food for us to eat."

Lu Jiaoyue looked at the sky, not to mention, she was also hungry right now.Before going out in the morning, I ate a bowl of porridge, and after walking for so long, I was already hungry.

"Then let's go eat something first."

Lu Guangzhi took Lu Jiaoyue forward with ease, turned around, and arrived in front of a restaurant.

This restaurant has a small storefront, but the business seems to be doing well.There are five or six tables in the shop, almost all of them are filled with customers at this moment, there is still one empty table in the corner, Lu Guangzhi leads Lu Jiaoyue there.

"Sister, the food here is not bad. Dongzi brought me here once."

The two of them just moved their stools and were about to sit down, when suddenly someone jumped out from the side, pushed them away, sat down on the stool, and greeted several people standing at the door: "There is still an empty table here."

Those few people were all wearing short jackets, and they were not badly dressed, but they didn't look like good people.While laughing, they walked over shaking their heads and jokingly said, "Liu Wu, you have sharp eyes and quick hands."

"That's right, I don't feel ashamed to grab a table with a big girl."

"Yo, I didn't realize that this big girl looks pretty good."

One of them pointed at Lu Jiaoyue, and all of them turned their eyes towards Lu Jiaoyue.

Lu Jiaoyue had never encountered such a situation before, so she could only slightly turn her body away and pull down the hood on her head.Lu Guangzhi stared and wanted to say something, but was stopped by his sister.Lu Jiaoyue shook her head at him, then pulled him to go outside.

But before he took two steps, he was stopped by the man named Liu Wu.

"Girl, we didn't deliberately grab your seat. How about this? Let's sit at the same table, so that we won't delay your meal or our drinking?" Liu Wu said with a hippie smile, his eyes fixed on Lu Jiaoyue's half-sagging face turned around.

Just as Lu Jiaoyue thought, these people are indeed not good people, they are well-known ruffians on this street.Ordinarily, walking on the street is annoying, but unfortunately this kind of person is also the most difficult to deal with, so generally no one dares to mess with it.They would come to the restaurants and wine shops on this street to eat and drink from time to time, but they never paid the bill.But they don't dare to go to the bigger restaurants, there are people behind the big restaurants, and they are not the ones who can't be messed with, so they usually come to this kind of small restaurant.

Just now when the owner of this store saw a few people coming in, he wanted to frown, but before he had time to find fault with himself, he molested the big girl.The boss is also kind-hearted, seeing how Lu Jiaoyue and brother are dressed, knowing that they are from common people, and thinking that they are here to take care of their own business, so this happened to them, so they inevitably want to step forward to make a rescue.

He stepped forward and made a bow: "Masters, it's rare for you to come to the small shop. I don't know what you want to eat? There are fresh river carp today, just caught, and they are still in the tank right now. If not I'll ask the cook to cook one in soy sauce for everyone, and then serve it with a few appetizers, so you can have a good drink?"

Liu Wu pushed the boss who was over fifty years old away, spat on the ground, and cursed: "Get out of here, don't think I don't know what you old man is up to. I tell you, some It can manage things, but there are some things that it can’t touch.”

Seeing someone making trouble, the customers who were eating in the store got up to pay their bills and left.

The boss looked at Lu Jiaoyue and his brother with a wry smile. This is all he can do. He has opened a shop on this street for decades, and he has no plans to leave in the future. He still has to support his family. These hooligans.

Seeing that the boss retreated knowingly, Liu Wu smiled triumphantly at Lu Jiaoyue, "Girl, I've invited you for dinner today, if you don't give face, it won't work."

A few people standing on the side yelled at Liu Wu in a strange manner, not only did he not feel ashamed, but became even more rampant, wanting to pull Lu Jiaoyue's hand.

With a snap, the hand was opened.

It was Lu Guangzhi.

Liu Wu's eyes widened, and he wanted to drink violently, but Lu Guangzhi took the lead.

"Blind your dog eyes, where are you from? Is it the Dexing Club in the south of the city, or the Black Tiger Gang in the north of the city? Or the side of the pier? Do you know who we are? It's the boss of Guangji gambling house Han, you If you don’t want to see the sun tomorrow, keep stretching your hand forward.”

For a moment, everyone was stunned, including Lu Jiaoyue.

Liu Wu looked confused, "You said you belong to Boss Han of Guangji Gambling House?"

Lu Guangzhi nodded with an inscrutable attitude.

Liu Wu was in a cold sweat, and he didn't care about the big girl anymore, so he hurriedly bowed and made a bow: "I hope you won't be surprised, it's because we didn't know Taishan with our eyes, and we bumped into the two of you. Let's go now, let's go now." .”

With that said, the group of people disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Lu Jiaoyue glanced at her younger brother, just in time to meet Lu Guangzhi's gaze. She raised her head and glanced at the boss and the guy who were huddled aside, and pulled her younger brother and hurried out of the store.

Lu Guangzhi carefully glanced at the elder sister's face, and said: "Elder sister, I also listen to Uncle Zi and Uncle Hu on weekdays, but today I learned it and used it to scare people."

Lu Jiaoyue gave him a strange look, then stopped, "What do you mean, what you said just now was not a lie?"

Lu Guangzhi couldn't laugh or cry, he thought his sister was angry, but she never thought that she thought he was defrauding those people.

"Eldest sister, you don't know, for those noble people, it's fine, but for this group of people, Uncle Jinzi is their grandfather. When I saw these people just now, I knew they were just punks on the street. If you say it's a hooligan, I'm afraid they won't even be able to get along with each other."

Lu Jiaoyue's expression was unpredictable, she breathed a sigh of relief after all, "I thought you were putting on airs on purpose, just in case people would realize it and turn around and trouble us."

Lu Guangzhi continued to be dumbfounded, and after a while, he said: "Let's go, let's change to another place to eat."

The two went to eat together before going to Fengyuan Street.

Fengyuan Street at this time looks peaceful and ordinary, completely different from Fengyuan Street at night.In fact, Lu Guangzhi was very fortunate that they arrived before the afternoon. You must know that there are many flower houses on this street. Pedestrians in the past laughed and teased.

He had suffered this kind of loss before, and every time he passed by, there would always be that flower girl who saw him young and tender and teased him.So much so that later, he never went out of the casino in the afternoon.

Lu Guangzhi didn't want his elder sister to see the filth here, not at all, so Lu Jiaoyue was still looking around curiously, so he pulled her past and hurried forward.

Going around to the back door of the casino, the door of the house is half open.

There was no one in the yard, most of them were cats in the house.Sure enough, when the two walked in, someone greeted him through the window.

"Boy Lu, are you here to find the boss?"

Lu Guangzhi nodded, exchanged some pleasantries with the man, and then pulled Lu Jiaoyue to the south.The person who greeted him was separated from the window, his neck was almost broken, and he didn't see clearly what the person next to Lu Guangzhi looked like, he only knew it was a girl.

Could it be that it was the girl who made clothes for the boss in the legend?

Han Jin has always kept himself clean, and it is easy for people in the gambling shop to get money, and there are several Goulan courtyards, so it is inevitable to turn around and spend it when he makes money on weekdays.But Han Jin has never been involved in these things, and he has almost never heard of any girl involved with him, the only exception is that a few days ago he appeared in clothes that were not bought outside.

Of course, the fact that there was a girl was guessed by everyone. I didn't see any movement afterwards, so I let it go. Looking at it now, it doesn't seem to be a legend.

Lu Guangzhi didn't know that just as he led his sister through here, a group of people behind him began to discuss unwillingly.

In the winter, there is nothing to do, except for going to work, the cat is sleeping on the bed.It's rare for something new to happen, and all of these boring men are invigorated.

(End of this chapter)