The Sweet Little Fulang

Bamboo poles slapped the water surface, the water rose, and a group of teal ducks quacked and swam back into the pond in panic.

Lu Gu chased the ducks back, otherwise they would go down the river.

Before dawn, Wei Lanxiang took Shen Yan and the villagers to the town to catch the morning market. He saved a basket of eggs and a basket of duck eggs to sell, so he came to put the ducks today.

There is no need to fight chicken grass in the past few days. The family has chopped up a lot of grass. Most of the grass that chickens like to eat near the pond has been pulled up by Shen Yan. If you want to find it, you have to go far away. Lost the duck did not dare to go too far.

When the sun was not too hot, he walked back to the white stone and sat down.

The sky was blue and the trees were green, the river was rushing, and the sun was shining on his face. He raised his head and narrowed his eyes unconsciously, enjoying the heat of the sun in such silence.

In the past, I couldn't get enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes, and there were always harsh scolding in my ears. Sitting quietly like this was rare for Lu Gu. For him, it even seemed like a rebirth. It all seemed to become distant.

During the day, he lowered his eyebrows and pleaded with his eyes, and he didn't even dare to raise his head. Now, he raised his head to look at the sky, the clouds, and the sun, which was new to him, and gradually lost his mind.

Quack's duck calls brought him back to his thoughts, even if he was alone, he was still a little flustered, for fear of being seen and saying he was lazy.

He rubbed his hot cheeks, got up and plucked a kind of grass with slender stalks nearby. This grass can burn a pot like straw when dried, and it is also a soft firewood used for ignition. How long does it take to ignite.

Summer is almost over, and it's always right to store more hay while the sun is still bright recently.

The grass was too much and too heavy, and the long grass was not strong enough. Although the way back was short, if it was scattered, it had to be re-bundled. It was very troublesome. Lu Gu ran back to get the hemp rope. After taking the hemp rope, I came back and saw that the ducks were foraging for food in the water well, and my heart felt at ease.

Just before lunch, he plucked grass and dug up wild amaranth. It can be eaten fresh or dried. This thing grows quickly and abundantly by the water, so he dug a lot and tied it with rubbed straw rope. bring it back.

Ji Qiuyue saw him rushing back with the ducks, carrying a large bale of grass behind his back, and carrying wild vegetables in his hand, so he hurried over to catch it, seeing so many wild amaranth, he said, "It's just right, I'll mix it with miscellaneous noodles tomorrow, Steam a pot of steamed buns to eat."

In order to prevent the meat from spoiling, they have been working harder every day to eat them. Today, there is still the last bowl of chicken. Although the past two years have been hard, there is not much to eat. I won't feel tired of it, but if I eat it continuously, it will last for five or six days and seven or eight days. I will inevitably want to eat vegetables. Steaming a fresh wild vegetable bun will not be greedy.

Ji Qiuyue said that it would be steamed tomorrow, but the more she thought about it, the more greedy she became, and she simply said, "I'd better wait for the wash, and we'll eat it at night."

She said nothing to Lu Gu, and nodded in agreement. After he drove the ducks back to the backyard, he came back to spread the bale of grass to dry.

It didn't take long for Wei Lanxiang and Shen Yan to come back, and the family washed their hands to eat.

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Ducks eat twice a day, get up in the morning and go out once, and go out again after noon, but sometimes they are too busy to go out, and Shen Yan will go to the riverside pond to cut some water plants and come back to feed them.

Today, the journey to town is a bit farther. She is still young, and when she feels tired, she doesn't want to go out to put ducks. She carries a bamboo basket and pulls Lu Gu to go with her to the pond to mow water plants.

The two of them worked very quickly. The bamboo basket was full in a short time, and the pressure was particularly firm. Shen Yan didn't move her back all of a sudden, and was dragged straight back by the weight. Fortunately, Lu Gu supported her from behind.

"Too many." Shen Yan said in her mouth, but she also showed a silly smile, her almond eyes curved, innocent and childish.

She said that she had to recite it again, and saw Shen Yaoqing turning from the front of the house, carrying two empty wooden buckets in her hand, who had come to fetch water from the river.

Before he got close, he realized that the basket behind Shen Yan was too heavy, and asked with a smile, "Can't you carry it?"

"Brother Daqing, come quickly." Since there are rescue soldiers, although he can still move his back after persevering, Shen Yan simply threw the job to Shen Yaoqing.

"You said that you two, you won't make it less if you can't carry it." After he finished speaking, he poked Shen Yan's forehead, then put the wooden barrel down, and carried the bamboo basket on his back to go back first.

Shen Yan and Lu Gu carried the empty bucket, and walked up the river for a while before stopping. The wooden bucket was not too small. According to their strength, they had to hold their breath when they were full of water, and they could lift it up with both hands at the same time.

The two of them each had a bucket, but they all threw the water and brought them to the shore. Shen Yan said to Lu Gu, "Wait until Brother Daqing comes over and let him carry it back."

When he was in the Lu family before, Lu Gu couldn't carry such a bucket full of water, so he filled half a bucket and brought it back, so he had to make several more trips.

Fortunately, fetching water in these villages is usually a man's job. Before Lu Daxiang was old and frail, Lu Daxiang would go there most of the time. Otherwise, the villagers would see him and his two children being instructed to do heavy work such as fetching water. , I have to say it behind my back, Du Hehua didn't dare to make it so obvious at that time.

Shen Yaoqing raised the water several times until the water tank in the house was full.

Ji Qiuyue washed the amaranth, Lu Gu boiled water in front of the stove, and when the water boiled, she poured a pot of amaranth into it, blanched it, and then scooped it into cold water, so it was not so hot.

After chopping the wild amaranth, she and Lu Gu squeezed the water out of the vegetable with her hands.

"I'm going to dig the noodles." Ji Qiuyue saw that there were not many vegetables left, so she cleaned up the chopped vegetables on her hands, took the bowl to the noodle tank and dug four and a half bowls of miscellaneous noodles.

Lu Gu squeezed the last amaranth out of water and put it into a basin. Ji Qiuyue was alone in mixing the noodles. He didn't need his help. He saw that the fire in the stove had not been extinguished, so he took a few sips of water from a bowl. .

Even at the end of summer, the kitchen would be very hot as long as the fire was on, and both of their faces were sweating. Ji Qiuyue couldn't keep her hands free, so she raised her arm and wiped it.

The kitchen chopping board was right in front of the window. Shen Yaoqing saw her so hot in the courtyard, so he brought a fan and stood outside the window to fan her.

Lu Gu didn't dare to look at the two of them, so he walked out of the kitchen with his brows down. He didn't know what Shen Yaoqing said in a low voice. Ji Qiuyue raised his voice slightly and scolded: "Go!"

Seeing that there was no other work to do at the moment, he went back to the room to cool off. The window of the room was open, and he could hear the laughter of Shen Yaoqing and Ji Qiuyue in the yard.

He didn't listen to what the two of them were talking about, his eyebrows narrowed slightly, but he thought of Shen Xuanqing.

Unlike Ji Qiuyue and Shen Yaoqing, he didn't dare to talk in front of Shen Xuanqing at all, and even looked at that tall and strong man and felt terrified. Besides, he was sold by the Shen family, and he was originally married to a serious man. The difference was that he dared to think about joking with Shen Xuanqing. In this comparison, he felt that he was the best at the moment. He was not someone who could talk, so he should not do things that he was not good at.