The wealth of rebirth is deep in the mountains

Chapter 20

When the dumplings were made, they were half cooked in the pot, and the rest was kept for Feng Jian's supper later.

However, something strange happened when I got up early the next day.

The half-covered dumplings frozen on the stone mill in the courtyard disappeared. Lu Xiaomi circled Shi Mo several times, trying to find out whether it was a good thing done by the weasel or if the family had been burglarized.

Lu Er Er took the blame again, and was stuffed with snowballs by his sister under the bed. After jumping up from the cold, he shouted for innocence.

"I didn't do it. I fell asleep after eating enough last night, so I didn't steal dumplings in the middle of the night!"

Lu Xiaomi obviously didn't believe it, and threw the last school group in his hand, "Who said you stole it? You must have taken it to the mountain! If you want to send food to your master, just follow me freely." Said, if I become a thief again, I will ask my father to ask for family law!"

Lu Er Er was so angry that he jumped up and down. Fortunately, he was careless. Seeing the girl leave, he shook off the snow scum in the bed and continued to have intimate contact with the hot kang.

The left and right are just half-curtain dumplings, and they are not worth much. Lu Xiaomi is more involved in playing around with his brother.At this moment, no matter what the elder brother said was true or not, he was busy going to the stove to fry and eat, completely forgetting about it.

In the hope of the naughty children in the village, the New Year finally came.Lu Xiaomi gave the naughty children a holiday on the first day of the new year and let them play wild for a few days. After the [-]th day of the first lunar month, classes resumed.

The naughty boys went home, performed crooked calligraphy for their parents, wrote their own names, recited the three-character scriptures again, and added and subtracted with copper coins, which made the whole family proud.

So the New Year's gift to Lu's family was even more generous. Your family gave three rabbits, and my family added a few more bunches of dried mushrooms. After this, the Lu family's side room, which was used as a warehouse, was half full again.

Lu Xiaomi is not stingy either, but everyone who comes to the door will give back a box of mahua and dried fruits.As for the meatballs, it's not that she doesn't want to give them away, it's because there are too many foodies at home.Gao Ren and Lu Erer guarded the meatballs, and they cared more about meat and bones than puppies, she couldn't be generous even if she wanted to.

So busy, on New Year's Eve, Lu Xiaomi got up early and started to get busy, breakfast and lunch were hastily dealt with, and in the evening, the rich dishes on the dinner table almost collapsed the table.

Spicy rabbit meat, stewed chicken with mushrooms, Sixi meatballs, braised pork ribs, steamed fish, fat sausage, white meat with garlic, radish meatball soup...

Eyes full of meat, everyone in the Lu family was so happy that they held up their chopsticks and didn't know where to start.

Lu Wu ran to the mountain to deliver new clothes, food and drinks to the master, and when he came back, he was the first to grab a chicken leg and gnaw on it. Father Lu slapped the back of his hand severely, which also opened the prelude to the Lu family's New Year's Eve dinner.

Lu Xiaomi brought out a jar of spirits with a smile, and everyone, including Feng Jian, filled the bowl.

Lu Xiaomi wanted to watch the excitement, but Gao Ren made a fuss and poured half a bowl for her too.

Lu Xiaomi was also happy. This was her first New Year here, and she was accompanied by her family, so she didn't refuse.

Everyone had a bowl of wine, talking and laughing while eating, very happy.It was Feng Jian who, through his drunkenness, matched more than a dozen pairs with Lu Laosan.

When it was time to write poems and recite the wind and snow to welcome the spring, Lu Xiaomi was lying on the kang, snoring on Feng Jian's quilt.

The girl's fair and tender cheeks were now flushed from drunkenness, healthy and lovely.I don't know what she saw in the dream, but from time to time she pursed her red lips coquettishly, like flowers waiting to be picked.

Feng Jian lowered her eyes, quietly turned sideways to block the dazzling candlelight, and finally pulled off her cloak to cover it...

The world is the same as the night, and the Great Yuan welcomes the spring together.At such a moment, every family is reunited to welcome the arrival of the new year.

In a certain city in the distance, in a certain luxuriously furnished room, a middle-aged man with gray hair was staring at a bowl of white dumplings in a daze.

The ivory chopsticks flipped over and the edges were locked into dumplings like ears of wheat. The middle-aged man cursed, "Stinky boy, I didn't learn the skills when I went out to study, but I learned the skills of such a woman."

But after saying that, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and the warm color in his eyes surged.

The ivory chopsticks rose and fell, and the dumplings were eaten up in no time, revealing the delicate flowers on the white porcelain plate underneath...

The firecrackers sounded in the middle of the night to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, waking up Lu Xiaomi and revived the drowsy naughty boys.

On the small Laoxiong Ridge, there are children running around with small paper lanterns everywhere, and the men who are carrying firecrackers with forks, it is rare that they did not scold their sons and daughters, but smiled and told them, "Play for a while Just enter the house, your mother is cooking dumplings, get up early to kowtow to your husband for the new year."

"Okay, Dad." The children responded with their mouths, but their feet refused to obey. After playing enough, they were called back by the old lady who brought the dumplings.

The remnant seats in the east wing of the Lu family had been vacated long ago, Lu'er Er and Gao Ren were staggering drunk, and Lu's father was escorted back by Lu's boss.

On the contrary, Lu Xiaomi woke up suddenly and found himself sleeping next to Feng Jian, covered with Feng Jian's cloak, unable to react.Pounding Chaos's head, he managed to remember something.

So, she raised her hand and pinched Gao Ren's white and tender face, and then blushed and hurriedly went to cook dumplings.

Feng Jian on the side slowly opened his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Sauerkraut pork and tofu egg vermicelli stuffing, Lujia dumplings made two kinds, one meat and one vegetarian.

Previously they only cared about drinking, and they didn't eat too much food.Now holding the hot dumpling bowl, he ate it with big mouthfuls, and his appetite was better than usual.

Boss Lu took it back and ate with Papa Lu. Lu Xiaomi remembered that she was sleeping with Feng Jian before, so she was too shy to lift her head, so she ate a few dumplings in a hurry, and finally told Lao Er Lu to clean up the table, and went back The house went to sleep.

Woke up early and just after dawn, the dolls in the village, accompanied by their father, came to kowtow to pay New Year's greetings.

Lu Xiaomi had been prepared for a long time. The red paper bought from the grocery store was cut into small red envelopes and filled with ten copper coins. The children almost jumped three feet high with joy.One must know that it is rare for parents to give pocket money and it is only two or three pennies, but now they get ten pennies in one go, how could they not be happy?
The men had already made up their minds to take on the farm work of the Lu family, so they didn't give in hypocritically. This naturally surprised the children even more. They quietly withdrew and ran back like a swarm, preparing to hide the copper coins and wait for a few days There will be peddlers coming to the village to sell snacks, and then they will be able to buy delicious things.

The doors of every household on Laoxiong Ridge were wide open. Seeing Father Lu greeting everyone, Lu Xiaomi was going to pay New Year's greetings to Uncle Bi and Old Master Feng.These two are older, and they take good care of the Lu family on weekdays, so at the beginning of the new year, it is really appropriate to visit Yi Er.

It's a pity that before she could go out, women with quick legs and feet came to the door.

The women were eating melon seeds and hazelnuts, eating snacks, and drinking tea. The gossip became lively and lengthy. Lu Xiaomi thought about it, and then called the eldest and second brothers to go out first.

Feng Jian listened in the wing room, and also ordered Lao Yang to go with him to thank him, especially to Uncle Bi.Previously, I thought that rural doctors were not good at medicine, but I didn't expect to be a master of rejuvenation.Although he can move on his own now, he can't go too far, so he can only ask Lao Yang to thank him instead...

New Year's greetings on the first day, New Year's greetings on the fifth day.

The lively and leisurely days always go by so fast, it seems that in the blink of an eye, Nian was chased away by everyone and disappeared without a trace.

The naughty children put away their playfulness, and were locked up at home by the old woman, grabbed branches and wrote and drew on the sand table, trying to rescue those words that were eaten with pork and dumplings.

The children's fathers, with their hands behind their backs, wandered around the village and the foot of the mountain against the still cold north wind.

There is not much snow this year, and the wintering beasts have a better life. If they breed more cubs in spring, autumn is a good time for these hunters to show their talents.

If you are lucky, and the black bear or tiger comes back with the head, the children's paper, ink, brush and inkstone will be in place.

After all, you can't always use branches and sand tables to deal with reading and calligraphy.

In the Lu family compound, Lu Xiaomi was also impatient like a cat scratching her heart. After breakfast, she grabbed Boss Lu and went to the dry fields under the ridge.

When Lao Yang saw him, he still followed behind the two brothers and sisters.

The so-called one-year plan lies in spring. This year, Xiaomi has made up his mind to make a good use of the family's [-] acres of dry land.This is Dayuan, not a modern society with extremely developed materials.

At critical times, gold and silver are not enough, and it is still necessary to have food at home.

Especially the Lu family, the youngest Lu is taking the imperial examination career, and it is destined that the Lu family can only do business on a small scale, or in the name of others, in short, it must not be a merchant.

Not to mention how difficult it is to partner with outsiders, even finding such a trustworthy person takes effort.

As for hunting and making a living like the villagers, it is also impossible.Even if Lu Wu is highly skilled in martial arts, he will not always be able to hunt back tigers and black bears.At that time, it will be necessary for the third son Lu to study, to go to Beijing to catch up with the exam, to support the old man Lu until his death, the three brothers will also marry their wives, and even Xiaomi himself will be married...

All these things are finally calculated, and the burden is not insignificant.

After countless sleepless nights, Lu Xiaomi counted and counted, and most of his hopes of getting rich fell on the [-] acres of dry land.

In her previous life, she had grown vegetables, corn and the like with the old dean.But now it is in Dayuan, and Anzhou is the northernmost part of Dayuan. She has almost no idea of ​​the weather and seasons.

When to grow seedlings, when to raise seedlings, when to go to the ground, if the connection is not good, it will be troublesome.

Fortunately, although Boss Lu is soft-hearted and cowardly, he is a good hand at work.He walked around the fields with his sister all the way, but he answered whenever he was asked, as carefully as he could.

Lao Yang followed behind, interjecting a few words from time to time.

Lu Xiaomi held the eyebrow stone in his hand, wrote and drew in his notebook from time to time, and finally filled his heart with the thirty acres of dry land in his family.

The winter in Anzhou is long, and the first month of the year is the spring plowing in other places, but here it has to wait until the end of February, which is a whole month late.

Frost often comes early in autumn, so the grain growth period is not enough, and the production will be reduced or completely eliminated.

In the final analysis, shortening the growth period, or thinking about early-maturing varieties is the fundamental solution.

(End of this chapter)