The Sweet Little Fulang

The chickens and ducks came down from the mountain. The bumpy road was a bit sluggish for the past two days. Lu Gu didn't let them out. , together with the chickens and ducks raised at home.

When he came out of the backyard, he saw that Wei Lanxiang brought Shen Yan back. In the basket he was carrying, in addition to a small packet of borneol, there was also a packet of shortbread.

The cold weather guard Lan Xiang often carried a small cloth pad in the basket. The cotton inside was sewn from the old cotton clothes. Today, I bought the shortbread and used this pad, and it was still warm when I came back.

"Go, give it to your sister-in-law." Wei Lanxiang opened the oiled paper bag and took two shortbread cakes and handed them to Shen Yan.

Seeing Lu Gu coming out of the backyard, she smiled and said, "Gu Zi also comes to eat after washing his hands."

"Got it, mother." Lu Guyin just chopped chicken grass, rolled up his sleeves, and put it down after washing his hands.

Seeing that Shen Xuanqing was killing the last badger, Shen Yaoqing was in the kitchen cutting the fat of the badger, and later refining the oil in the pot, Wei Lanxiang went into the kitchen and took out the ice flakes and put them on the edge of the chopping board, saying: "In the basket Cover it inside, and you two can take it yourself when you're done."

"Okay." Shen Yaoqing agreed, and his subordinates kept cutting the fat. When he saw the dog rubbing his leg, he smiled and said, "I'm not familiar, I'll give it to you later."

Badger's fat can be refined into oil, and lean meat can be eaten, but their families don't like badger's meat very much. Anyway, they have dogs at home, and a dozen badger's meat is enough for them to eat for a while, and they are also posted in winter. Posting is not.

Lu Gu entered the hall and first glanced at Ji Qiuyue's room, Wei Lanxiang was joking with her, and when Shen Yan came out, he lifted the small cloth pad on the basket and was about to take it, when Shen Yan said, "Brother Guzi, take it for my mother too. One."

After taking out the three puff pastry, Lu Gu followed Shen Yan into the east room and sat on the edge of the bed to eat the pancakes together. In addition to Ji Qiuyue eating two in their family, the others are one.

Wei Lanxiang saw the thin red cloth on the bed that had not been put away, and said as she ate, "I have to hurry today, I forgot to buy another red cloth, it is hot in summer, so I will make a few bellybands for the baby to wear, otherwise I will cover it up. I have prickly heat, and I can't catch a cold on my stomach."

Ji Qiuyue finally had a child, and she was happy just looking at the red cloth that was being made to make clothes, but she was not willing to put it away, she nodded when she heard the words, it should be done.

Lu Gu sat next to him and didn't speak. He felt very satisfied eating the crispy pancakes, but Shen Yan leaned over and whispered, "Brother Guzi, I beg you."

No one had ever spoken to him like this before, and Lu Gu was a little nervous all of a sudden, thinking that something had happened to Shen Yan, so he could only nod his head quickly because there was something in his mouth.

Shen Yan scratched her head with the other hand, as if she was a little embarrassed, she showed a pleasing smile, and said, "Mother made me a new coat, can you embroider two flowers for me?"

"I'm not just learning how to embroider. It's fine to embroider on a handkerchief, but if the clothes are broken, Caixia and the others will definitely laugh at me." After she said that, she took a big bite of the shortbread, frowning and looking worried.

It was this, Lu Gu felt relieved, and said with a slight eyebrow, "Okay."

When Wei Lanxiang heard the two of them talking, Shen Yan lowered her head and muttered, and asked curiously, "What did you and your brother Guzi say?"

She was told twice because her embroidery was not good, and now she was looking for Lu Gu to embroider for her. Shen Yan was afraid of being told again, and said, "Mother, it's nothing, I'll ask Brother Guzi."

"This little Ni'er, you're not telling the truth to my mother." Wei Lanxiang glared at her with a smile, but did not ask further, and told Ji Qiuyue that she was going to give the child a longevity lock.

The two of them were talking, and when Shen Yan saw that Lu Gu had finished eating, he stuffed the remaining shortbread in his hand into his mouth, and stood up to motion for Lu Gu to follow her.

In the kitchen, Shen Yaoqing boiled the fat and refined the oil. Shen Xuanqing cleaned up the yard, shoveled the soil with a shovel, and covered the blood that had spilled on the outside of the basin, so as not to step on the soles of his shoes.

There are sixteen badger skins in total. He thought about it. If there is a white-haired wind in winter, no one can go out of the house. Light and warm, the neck is not frozen.

Tanning fur is also a laborious job. The remaining ten skins are simply sold raw, and the price is slightly lower than that of tanned skins. It does not matter.

Seeing that Lu Gu came out to wash his hands again, and Shen Yan was still following, Shen Xuanqing smiled and asked, "What are you two doing?"

Shen Yan took the words to prevaricate him as usual, and said, "There's nothing second brother, you can do your own thing."

"Brother Guzi, I'll go get it first." Shen Yan said after washing her hands.

"Okay." Lu Gu agreed, washed off the white foam from his hands and got up to wipe his hands. Seeing Shen Xuanqing smiling at him, he paused to see that there was no one around, and said in a low voice, "Shen Yan asked me to give her a new jacket. Embroider some flowers."

He thought that this was not a secret that couldn't be said, and it would be fine to tell Shen Xuanqing. Even if he didn't say it, his family would definitely see it when he embroidered, and he couldn't hide it.

"No wonder." Shen Xuanqing said with a smile, he knew his sister too well, and when he thought about it, he knew that he was afraid that his mother would talk about her, and said: "Then you go, if it's cold, sit on the bed, the pot is occupied at the moment, and I can't boil water for the soup. ."

"Yeah." Lu Gu nodded.

The smoke from the chimney wafted out, and the room in the Shen family courtyard was joking and joking, while working and working, sometimes a dog barked, and the day after going down the mountain was still steady and comfortable.

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The next morning, after eating two hot steamed buns and a small piece of salty lump, Shen Xuanqing poured half of the wild bath beads in the sack into his big bamboo basket, the rest must be enough for his own use.

Shen Yaoqing, who was chopping wood, saw him packing up and asked, "Go to the town?"

"Yes." Shen Xuanqing put the sack back after pouring, looked up and asked, "Is there something wrong with big brother?"

Shen Yaoqing turned to look at the main room, Ji Qiuyue took out the needle and thread to make children's clothes, scratched her head and smiled, took out the silver money from her arms, and whispered: "If you go, buy me a silver hairpin at Jinyinxuan, I'm all optimistic. , I didn't bring enough money to buy it last time, it's a phoenix tail with small silver beads, if this is bought, there is another phoenix tail there, and it looks good, in short, buy one and come back."

"It's done." Shen Xuanqing took the money and said with a smile, he put the money in his arms, and his eyes seemed to be thinking about something.

Seeing him like this, Shen Yaoqing patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly, like someone who had come over, "I love my husband even if I make money, our family can't afford gold and jade, even if we're not happy yet, if you're interested, buy one. The silver ones are happy too, aren't they? When my father was here, I didn't give my mother a silver hairpin and a silver bracelet every two or three years."

Lu Gu wears very plain clothes. Like most husbands in the village, his hair is often wrapped with cloth strips. The husbands in the town do not need to work in the fields, and their hair is combed differently from that of the farmers. They can also wear hairpins and hairpins. There are so many tricks to wear on a woman's head.

"Don't say anything else, when your sister-in-law first married me, I bought a hairpin for her when I earned money. I was so happy that I didn't pull my ear for half a year." Shen Yaoqing realized that he When the incompetent thing came out, he hurriedly sought to make up for it: "Of course, she doesn't always pull my ears, and besides, I let her."

Shen Xuanqing raised his eyebrows and smiled, but did not pierce him, and said, "I know eldest brother, I will buy one too."

"Hey, that's right, don't just grow taller, but also grow up your heart." Shen Yaoqing patted him on the shoulder again, looking relieved.

There are not many things to sell today, except for the wild bath beads, the ten badger skins, even the scooter does not need to be pulled, Shen Xuanqing told his family, and Lu Gu sent him out of the courtyard.

When Shen Xuanqing was far away, Lu Gu called the dog back and went under the main room to continue embroidering Shen Yan's jacket.

The women in the family made needles and thread. Shen Yaoqing chopped firewood for a while. Seeing that the sun was rising, he took the hemp rope and hatchet and went up to the mountain to gather firewood. The firewood that he caught in the past few days has not been sold. , I don't have any other work for the past two days, so I went up the mountain with Shen Xuanqing to chop more firewood and came back.

When it was almost noon, Lu Gu was cooking in the kitchen, and Shen Yan set a fire for him. At this time, the dog and Da Hui barked and ran out of the yard.

As soon as he heard it, he knew that it was Shen Xuanqing who was back, but the vegetables had not been cut yet, and the meal was going to be served later, so he couldn't stop, so he had to look out the window.

After a while, Shen Xuanqing walked into the yard with the bamboo basket on his back, and when he approached the kitchen, he smiled when he saw Lu Gu, and said, "I'm back."

Lu Gu's eyes brightened and he smiled lightly.

"Mother." Seeing Wei Lanxiang coming out, Shen Xuanqing shouted. He took off the bamboo basket and pulled out two oil-paper umbrellas. Standing in the kitchen, Lu Gu saw that there were green round fruits under the bamboo basket. So bright, it looks very alive in the dead silence of early winter when everything is withering.

"I walked around at the pier and bought some when I saw someone selling oranges." After Shen Xuanqing finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Gu, his eyebrows full of smiles.

His husband is timid and has never seen the world. Every time he encounters something he has never seen before, his eyes are always slightly open, curious and surprised.

Every time he saw Lu Gu like this, he couldn't help but laugh.

"This color feels fresh no matter how many times I buy it." Wei Lanxiang smacked her lips and said, "Is it cheap this year?"

When Shen Shunfu was there, he bought oranges for his family several times. He came from far south by boat. The few times he bought it was not cheap, so he bought less.

"It's alright." Shen Xuanqing showed the two oil-paper umbrellas to Wei Lanxiang, without the price of Daoming oranges, and said, "Hold on under the light snow, you can use these two."

Wei Lanxiang opened the umbrella and looked at it. The umbrella was painted with flowers, but it was beautiful. Shen Yan added some firewood to the bottom of the stove and ran out to see. Such a beautiful oil-paper umbrella made her smile until her eyes were almost gone. , and turned it around twice in his hand, and said to Lu Gu, "Brother Guzi, look."

Lu Gu put the chopped vegetable knife into the bowl, looked up and said, "It looks good."

Every winter when it snows heavily, I don’t go out very often. When the snow floats, don’t look too small, but it will soon turn into water when it falls on the body and head. It wets the clothes and hair. Wearing a hat is too much. It’s better to hold on. The oil-paper umbrella is exquisite.

The painted umbrellas are more expensive, but seeing the family so happy, Shen Xuanqing felt that the money was not wasted.

"Let's eat with my sister-in-law." He took a few oranges from the bamboo basket and handed them to Shen Yan, and two more to Wei Lanxiang, and said, "Mother, you can eat too."

After finishing, he took two more into the kitchen, handed one to Lu Gu, and said, "Smell, orange peel is different from other fruits."

Lu Gu wiped his hands on the apron and took it carefully. The green orange was quite large, plump and heavy. He smelled it lightly, and the unique fragrance was really different.

Shen Xuanqing peeled off the other one, and squeezed the peeled orange peel with his hand, and a little juice splashed out, and the juice splashed towards Lu Gu. He quickly took a small step back, causing Shen Xuanqing to chuckle lightly. Voice.