CHAPTER XVII
The leek box came out of the pot, the aroma was overflowing, Lu Pozi picked up a plate and asked Xiaoyi to take it to the East Courtyard, Lu Xiaoyi deliberately brought it to Lu Shouzeng and said with a smile: "Grandfather, the leek box made by my grandmother is really fragrant, I picked up most of the pot and let me bring it over, saying that my father and mother have worked hard these days, and they made it deliberately." ”
Lu Shouzeng was still very kind to Xiao Yi, and smiled and asked Xiao Yi to serve it while it was hot, it would not taste good if it was cold.
Lu Xiaoyi turned around and smiled at Mrs. Lu, shook the porcelain plate in her hand, and reminded Mrs. Lu to leave some for her uncle and aunt.
When she got home, Yulan said, "Our family can endure it, and you can earn food from your grandmother every time." ”
Lu Xiaoyi proudly put down the leek box, and told Yulan what happened with a smile, Yulan poked Xiaoyi's forehead and said angrily: "Your grandmother's temper changes three times a day, you can coax for a while, but you can't coax for a lifetime." ”
"As long as she commits it, I'll coax." Lu Xiaoyi said with deep feelings: "Mother, I think my grandmother is still very easy to coax, and she is also really good to Xiao Geng, but her temper is too bad and she is unforgiving." ”
Yulan said lightly: "I don't have the heart to coax her, I'm used to it." ”
Lu Xiaoyi took a leek box and gave it to Yulan, "Mother, you eat one." ”
Yulan took it and broke it in half, gave it to Xiao Ding and Xiao Geng, and instructed again and again: hot, eat slowly.
"Mother, as long as grandmother doesn't stir up trouble, our two families can live a peaceful life, and it's really uncomfortable to listen to her scolding every day." Lu Xiaoyi took another leek box and shared it with Magnolia.
Yulan smiled: "If you want to have that leisure, you can coax her, if she can scold a few words, we will live a comfortable life." After speaking, he finished eating half of the leek box in his hand, deliberately picked a few for Lu Zhong to keep, and then let the children eat them all.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lu Yong and Wang Dongmei came back, empty-handed, and Wang Laosan was really picky, and he didn't prepare anything for his daughter and son-in-law.
Lu Xiaoyi squatted at the base of the wall with his ears pricked up to listen to the movement next door, for fear that if he persuaded Mrs. Lu in the morning, he would not be able to control it in the afternoon.
Fortunately, in addition to the voices of Lu Shouzeng and Lu Yong, there was no scolding of Mrs. Lu in the West Courtyard of the Lu family.
Yulan saw Xiao Yi squatting and listening to the root of the wall, and smiled and stepped forward to pull Xiao Yi into the house, "You girl is really getting bigger and more trouble, why do you want to care about everything!" ”
"Mother, I just want to see if my grandmother can listen to my persuasion, even if it is only for one day, I am happy."
"You child, who didn't care about your grandmother in the past, now that she has changed her sex, you have to scratch her!"
Lu Xiaoyi smirked.
Yulan glared at Xiao Yi and said helplessly: "Okay!" You can coax her as much as you like, as long as you don't make her angry. ”
Lu Xiaoyi nodded, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Mother, what about Xiao Ding and Xiao Geng?" ”
"Feed the little lame chicken in the next house, from tomorrow, you and Xiaoding will go to the village stream to cut the grass, the chicken grows up day by day, and it is not enough to eat only food." Magnolia commanded.
"The water in the upper reaches of Qixi is shallow, you cut it on the upstream bank, don't go downstream, the water is deep over there." Magnolia admonished.
"Got it." Lu Xiaoyi thought to herself, I'm not afraid of the depth of the water, I don't have any swimming skills, but she doesn't dare to mention the matter of drinking water with Yulan, if Yulan asks her when she will, she can't say it.
The next day, Lu Xiaoyi and Xiaoding walked upstream of Qixi with baskets.
The name of Qixi is called Xixi, but it is actually similar to a river.
I saw a transparent and wide stream of water rushing down steeply from the distant mountain, the splash of water splashing from the stones, scattered into seven colors in the sun, the stream rushed all the way, several twists and turns, slowed down in the gentle place, and suddenly became quiet and beautiful.
On both sides of the stream are lush weeds, pink and blue wildflowers, white butterflies stumbling on the flowers, and long round insects crawling on the grass.
Lu Xiaoyi immediately fell in love with this jade belt and blue stream, and couldn't wait to go down to the stream to touch the fish and catch shrimp to play.
Xiao Ding shook the bamboo basket in his hand, pointed to a place upstream where water and grass were abundant, and said happily: "Sister, let's go over there." ”
So, the little sisters rushed over, brushed and cut open, and joined the girls and spring flowers of the same village halfway, and then came magpies and Xiaofang, and a few little girls quickly finished cutting the grass, and then took off their shoes to catch fish and shrimp in the shallow stream.
The upstream water is shallow, the stream is transparent, and you can see the blue-ridged crucian carp shuttling between the stone crevices, but they can't catch it, Lu Xiaoyi poured out the grass in the basket and wanted to use the basket to catch fish.
Hee-hee-ha for a while, but it was still empty.
"This fish is too slippery, isn't it?" Lu Xiaoyi put the grass back into the basket and said dejectedly.
The magpie smiled and flicked a face of water to Xiao Yi, and chirped: "I can't catch a fish, let's touch the shrimp and crabs!" ”
So the little girls turned over the rocks at the bottom of the stream to find shrimp and crabs.
Lu Xiaoyi saw that there were river mussels and screws, so she asked Xiaoding to pick a taro leaf on the river bank and fished a big bag, which made the other little sisters laugh at her for not being able to catch the slippery fish and shrimp, so she bullied the clam who couldn't start fast.
The little girls have played enough, and then they carry the grass basket to the village, and the wildflowers on the side of the road are picked, you help me pin them in my ears, I help you insert them in the bun, Lu Xiaoyi folded the weeping willows, wrapped around the green silk vines, and then inserted the white, pink, red, blue, and green wildflowers, and a beautiful wreath is done.
The little girls rushed to wear it, and after some evaluation, Xiao Ding still looked the best when she wore it, Lu Xiaoyi put the garland on Xiao Ding's head, Xiao Ding's excited cheeks were red, and she was very beautiful.
The magpie Xiaofang and the others also jumped and tore off the willow branches in the high places, comparing their heads to small garlands.
Lu Xiaoyi made himself a dog tail grass, which made the little sisters laugh.
The little girls wore garlands and carried straw baskets, giggling and walking across the ridges, near the entrance of the village, before lowering their voices and becoming regular.
Lu Xiaoyi limped down the village road, and if the woman under the tree who was riding the soles of her shoes looked over, Lu Xiaoyi greeted her with a smile, and as for those who looked at her left leg, she also turned a blind eye.
When I got home, I quickly chopped up the weeds, mixed them with coarse bran, dug up the mussel meat, mixed it with small screws and minced it, poured it into the trough, and was immediately robbed by the chickens.
Nineteen chickens under the careful care of the Lu family, except for one lame, the others are healthy and lively, their yellow fluff has faded, and they have grown brown light feathers.
Because the little lame chicken was trampled by Xiao Geng, Xiao Geng naturally took on the responsibility of taking care of the little lame chicken, every time he fed the little lame chicken alone, Xiao Geng had to personally guard, if there were other chicks to grab food, he would pick up the chicks and fly around.
Yulan saw that the children took good care of the chickens, so she began to hatch the second batch of chicks, and Lu Xiaoyi, who was happy, watched the chicken nest three times a day.
As the chickens grew up, the tender grass in the upper reaches of Qixi had been mowed, and the little girls began to move towards the middle reaches of Qixi.
The water depth in the lower reaches of Qixi is suitable, and the depth in the middle reaches is suitable, which is most suitable for washing and water. The villagers used a large stone slab to set up a laundry table in the middle of the stream, the morning is the territory of the daughter-in-law, the afternoon is the world of the little boy, the teenager knows how to wear a cloth to cover his shame, the young man is not ashamed at all, and his bare butt is fluttering in the water.
The little girls blushed, dodged away, and went downstream.
Lu Xiaoyi stole a few glances at the little boy's bare farts and little finches, and then pretended to be serious, followed the female captain magpie, and walked downstream together.
The magpie picked a place where the weeds flourished, and with an order, the little girls brushed and lined up to cut their own grass.
After mowing the grass is playtime.
In the middle of July, the weather was as hot as a steamer, and a lodging willow tree was lying on the surface of the stream, and thousands of silk silks were hanging in the stream, dancing lightly with the wind, striking bursts of ripples, and amusing the fish to go back and forth.
The little girls sat on the grass platform, soaking barefoot in the river, enjoying the cool comfort.
The sound of the little boy playing in the water was getting closer and closer, and the magpie stood up and glanced at the middle swimmer shyly, and said angrily: "The group of bastards of the second dog have secretly gone downstream to swim in the water again, and they are not afraid of being drowned." ”
Lu Xiaoyi looked up, only to feel that the stream near the laundry table was like dumplings under the boiling pot, fluttering all the splashes, his eyes glanced around, and found that there was a head rippling in the water waves on the other side of the deep water area, Lu Xiaoyi stood up with a swishing look.
The magpie pinched her and asked, "Who stung you in the ass, it's scary!" ”
Lu Xiaoyi pointed to the opposite shore and asked, "Do you think that person has fallen into the water?" ”
The magpie pointed to take a closer look and laughed, "What kind of eyes are you, that person is in the water!" ”
Lu Xiaoyi smiled embarrassedly, feeling that she was really nervous, this is not to blame her, in her previous life, she was on the school swimming team, and she also worked part-time as a lifesaving coach in the school swimming pool.
Lu Xiaoyi relaxed, lay down in the grass, listened to the stream lapping on the bank, looked at the blue sky and white clouds, the grass and wildflowers on both sides, and suddenly fell into the blue sky and white clouds, the clouds slowly drifted westward, the years were so quiet and beautiful, Lu Xiaoyi closed his eyes, he really wanted to sleep for a long time and never wake up!
Xiao Ding naughtily scratched Xiao Yi's face with a dogtail grass, Xiao Yi accurately grabbed the messy little hand, and laughed: "Xiao Ding, if you are naughty again, I won't weave a wreath for you." ”
Ding pouted and withdrew the dog's tail grass that was messing up.
The magpie said disdainfully: "If you don't make it up, I'll make it up for Xiao Ding!" ”
Lu Xiaoyi closed his eyes and lazily sang a children's rhyme: "Flower magpie, chirping, relatives to see, Le Taotao, girl boy jumping, snoring dog baby, hurry up and make trouble together." ”
The magpie smiled and pulled a wildflower and smashed it over, the wildflower swirled and landed on Lu Xiaoyi's left eye, Lu Xiaoyi didn't care, and said with a smile: "I haven't finished singing yet, do you want to listen to anything more fun?" ”
The magpie shook his head and covered his ears, "Don't listen, don't listen." ”
Xiao Fangchun smiled a few but shouted to listen, Lu Xiaoyi closed his eyes and continued to hum: "Flower magpie, tail cocking, good omen, come early, grandfather and grandmother clap and laugh, rare old looks, come down and jump, hahaha, don't be ashamed......"
The magpie pounced over and covered Xiao Yi's mouth, and said with a red face: "You are not ashamed." ”
Several little girls laughed and asked Lu Xiaoyi to teach them to sing.
The magpie blushed and begged: "The first section can be taught, but what kind of mess is there in the back, I'm so angry, Lu Xiaoyi, where did you learn this?" ”
Lu Xiaoyi grinned and said, "Na Na Na, it's just a nursery rhyme, why do you little girl have so many eyes!" ”
The magpie angrily scratched Lu Xiaoyi's diaphragm fossa, Lu Xiaoyi was most afraid of itching, and begged for mercy again and again.
The little girls were having fun when suddenly the exclamations of the teenagers came: "Come and save someone, someone has a leg cramp!" ”
Lu Xiaoyi turned over and got up, followed the prestige, and saw two small figures fluttering up and down in the deep water downstream not far from them. Lu Xiaoyi ran away barefoot, completely forgetting about pretending to be lame, but the girls' attention was attracted by the people who were constantly fluttering in the stream.
When she arrived at the nearest riverbank, Lu Xiaoyi slammed towards the falling water, the nearest teenager to her had already begun to sink, with a circle of water lines swinging above his head, and the other one was still fluttering up and down, but the splash was getting smaller and smaller, and he couldn't hold on.
Lu Xiaoyi quickly swam to the sinking boy, passed his arm from behind with one hand, carried the little boy, swam sideways to the shore and put it down, and quickly turned around and swam towards another boy, only to see that he was no longer able to pounce, and his body began to sink.
Lu Xiaoyi swam with all her might, but fortunately, the level of the stream here was gentle, and she quickly found the point of falling into the water. Lu Xiaoyi's swimming skills have nothing to say, it's just this small body, her physical strength is too poor, her hands and legs are sore and weak after swimming around, and she feels that she can't hold it anymore, and she is even more worried that the sinking teenager will struggle desperately and hug her, in that case, both of them will have to explain here.
Lu Xiaoyi couldn't manage so much, she took a deep breath, dived down, her hand touched the floating fabric, Lu Xiaoyi pulled it up, and grabbed the little boy's arm, but the young man was still holding the last trace of breath, and when he saw hope, he hugged Lu Xiaoyi's life-saving straw with his hands and feet.
Lu Xiaoyi thought about it, she was really afraid of something, she exhausted all her strength, and she couldn't break free, her body was tied tightly, Lu Xiaoyi's left hand seemed to touch something, and she had an idea, and pinched the little boy and the little finch, but she didn't expect that the boy's fear of death was far greater than the pain of the finch being pinched, and he hugged Lu Xiaoyi tighter.
Lu Xiaoyi's lungs felt like they were about to explode, she couldn't push them away, she couldn't move, her body kept sinking, and the dim halo above her head was slowly expanding, she felt that she was really going to be finished this time, and she didn't know if she could wear it back if she died? Lu Xiaoyi faintly looked forward to it again.