Chapter 4 (II)
Xiao Yi gasped and ran to ask Dr. Wu.
Liu Fangfang also followed.
Dr. Wu's house is about a mile away from the entrance of Xiaxi Village, there are some common herbs planted around the courtyard, the fence made of bamboo strips is crawling with honeysuckle vines, and a white dog is lying at the gate of the courtyard, hearing the movement, raising his head and barking in the direction where Xiao Yi is running.
Xiao Yi stopped outside the courtyard and waved at the white dog kindly, and said, "Good Xiaobai, don't bite me, I'm Xiao Yi!" ”
The white dog didn't buy it at all, and grinned at Xiao Yi and kept barking.
Xiao Yi didn't dare to go up, and shouted into the courtyard: "Is Dr. Wu at home?" ”
An old man in his fifties heard the sound, and the white dog ran to the owner's side flatteringly, waging his tail and begging for petting.
Xiao Yi glanced at the white dog with contempt for a few times, and then said to the old man: "Doctor Feng, my grandfather suddenly fell ill, and I bother you to go!" ”
Doctor Wu said wait a minute, entered the house, put the medicine box on his back and left the hospital door.
The white dog followed Dr. Wu and wagged his tail flatteringly.
"Go back and look at the yard, don't follow!" Doctor Wu gave an order, the white dog whined and barked aggrievedly, obediently turned around and returned to the gate of the hospital, lying on the ground pitifully watching Dr. Wu leave.
When Xiao Yi and Dr. Wu arrived at Lu's house, Lu Shouzeng was already fine, and he was sitting on the kang sulking.
Doctor Wu finished his pulse and instructed: "Anger hurts the liver and hurts the spleen and stomach, in the future, you should be less angry and more relieved!" ”
Lu Zhong hurriedly said: "Doctor Wu, do you want to prescribe some medicine?" ”
"No, it's not a big deal." After speaking, Dr. Wu walked out with the medicine box on his back, and Xiao Yi took the initiative to send Dr. Wu back.
"No need to send it, just a few steps!" Doctor Wu said to Xiao Yi with a smile.
"I invited you here, and I should send you back!" Xiao Yi tilted his head and said.
"Okay, Xiao Yi said well, then come with me!" Dr. Wu stroked his beard and smiled.
Xiao Yi stepped forward with a smile and wanted to help Dr. Wu carry the medicine box.
Doctor Wu lifted the strap of the medicine box, and it was almost to Xiao Yi's shoulder, "Hehe, you are too short" After speaking, the smiling box went out.
The two walked outside Dr. Wu's courtyard, and saw five strong men and a young man coming in the distance, and a strong man came over quickly, bowed to Dr. Wu and said, "This old man, how to get to Shangxi Village?" ”
Dr. Wu pointed to the road into the village and said, "Along this road through the village, there is a path up the mountain, and at the end of the path, it is Shangxi Village." ”
"Thank you, sir!" The strong man thanked him, and then waved to a few people behind, and the five people behind came over and thanked Dr. Wu.
Dr. Wu's white dog rushed out of the yard, wagging its tail at Dr. Wu flatteringly, and after a while, barked at a few strangers.
Doctor Wu reprimanded a few times, and the white dog leaned down at Dr. Wu's feet with his tail whining.
A boy jumped out of the house and shouted "grandfather, grandfather" to Dr. Wu.
The white dog wagged his tail and ran to the boy's side, rubbing the boy's hand incessantly.
The boy laughed and squatted down to play with the white dog, Xiao Yi was quite interested in the white dog, and also squatted aside to watch.
Liu Fangfang, who had been following Xiao Yi, carefully looked at the six strangers, five of them had big shoulders and round waists, burly figures, and looked like they had two heads. Among the strong men was a young man, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with his eyebrows lowered and his expression sad, carrying a blue cloth baggage.
Xiao Yi saw that the six people thanked them and set foot on the road into the village, before saying goodbye to Dr. Wu and following the strangers into the village from afar.
When the six people entered the village, they immediately attracted the attention of the villagers, and they all guessed whose relatives it was, until the group walked through Xiaxi Village and walked in the direction of Shangxi Village, and they realized who was a guest in Shangxi Village.
Liu Fangfang was curious about the six people, and followed them to a farmhouse on the mountainside before returning to the Lu family's courtyard.
The courtyard gate is not an obstacle at all for Liu Fangfang, the scene in her mind is just a void, she entered the west courtyard and saw Lu Shouzeng, Lu Zhong, Lu Yong and Lu Lian were all there, but Lu Pozi was missing.
I only heard Lu Shouzeng say: "Okay, that's it, Zhong'er, you take these silver money, borrow a carriage to go to the city to buy some tea and snacks and come back, early tomorrow morning, I will personally go to Qiu's house to apologize, even if I show my old face, I also want to ask this family business back!" ”
Lu Lian cried: "Dad, you better not go." ”
"You have to go, dad doesn't want this old face, and he can't lose this marriage, don't worry, dad will definitely go and earn it back for you!" After Lu Shouzeng finished speaking, he waved his hand and said, "Zhong'er, go and do what I have to do!" ”
Lu Zhong nodded and went out to borrow a car.
Lu Shouzeng was also tired, sat down and stopped talking, Lu Lian said to go to the stove room to cook lunch.
Lu Yong stepped forward and asked, "Dad, are you really going to divorce your mother?" ”
Lu Shouzeng slapped it on the table and shouted: "What is the use of keeping such a shrew, it will lose the face of the Lu family and offend the whole village!" ”
Xiao Yi is a child of early wisdom, and when he saw that his grandfather was angry, he brought a cup of tea obediently.
Lu Shouzeng said a few words in a row, took the tea and drank it all, then waved his hand, Lu Yong, Lu Lian and Xiao Yi all dispersed.
Lu Zhong borrowed the carriage, came back by the way and explained to Yulan, he didn't even eat lunch, so he hurriedly wanted to leave, Yulan hurriedly rolled a few cakes and stuffed them for him, Lu Zhong took them with a smile and drove into the city.
Lu Shouzeng didn't eat lunch, so he drank a bowl of millet porridge for dinner, and Yulan made some egg cakes, but Lu Shouzeng ate two.
Mrs. Lu hid in the house, never came out, didn't dare to eat lunch, smelled the aroma of egg cakes at dinner, and her stomach growled. Lu Lian brought her millet porridge, and Yulan also came in with a few cakes.
Mrs. Lu glanced at Yulan, took the cake and ate it with millet porridge.
As for asking her to pack up her things and go back to her parents' house, she didn't think it had happened.
When Lu Zhong came back, it was already dark, he went to return the carriage first, and then carried a few bags of gifts into the west courtyard.
Lu Shouzeng was thinking about tomorrow, and he didn't have the heart to talk to Lu Zhong more, so he waved his hand to let Lu Zhong go back and rest.
When Lu Zhong returned home, Xiao Yi Xiaoding and Xiao Geng surrounded him and called Daddy affectionately.
Yulan brought out the hot food in the pot and beckoned Lu Zhong to eat it. Yulan already knew her father-in-law's arrangement, and she didn't ask Lu Zhong much, and the family blew out the lamp and stopped.
Early the next morning, Lu Shouzeng dressed up and went to Qiu's house in the east of the village with a few bags of gifts.
The Qiu family did not have a good face towards Lu Shouzeng.
Especially Qiu Mingliang, the old man Qiu, pointed to Lu Shouzeng and said: "Lu Lao Er, we are all neighbors of the same village, and we are also friends who have known each other since childhood, and now for the sake of my son's family, I Qiu Mingliang has become a joke of the whole village, saying that my old Qiu family toad wants to eat swan meat, and I want to marry a girl from the Lu family for ten taels of dowry." ”
Old man Qiu pointed to his eyes and said, "I'm really blind, and I brought the matchmaker to the door in person!" I'm so blind! ”
Lu Shouzeng didn't look at it, let Qiu Mingliang point his nose and scold, and when he finished scolding, his anger became smaller, and then he bowed and apologized: "Brother Qiu, I came to the door today to apologize, if you want to beat or scold, you can do whatever you want, I won't have a word of complaint." ”
"My Lu Shouzeng complained that I was blind, married such a pickled shrew, a good family business, and was stirred up like this by her, I am ashamed, I am ashamed of Brother Qiu, and I am ashamed of my family Lian'er, a good girl, such a mother, what should poor Lian'er do in the future?" Lu Shouzeng burst into tears and made a gesture to kneel down for Qiu Mingming.
Qiu Mingliang hugged Lu Shouzeng and said coldly: "Don't kneel, I can't afford it, this matter is not negotiable, our Qiu family can't afford to lose this face, you can bring these gifts back!" ”
Qiu Fu on the side was anxious, he kept glancing at Qiu Mingming, and when he saw that his father ignored him, he begged with a depressed face: "Dad, Second Uncle Lu has come to apologize, you can forgive him!" ”
Lu Shouzeng said to Qiu Fu: "Fuzi, it's all my uncle's fault, yesterday my uncle shouldn't have worked in the field, so that a good marriage would be ruined!" It makes your father lose face, uncle is sorry for your family, and even more ashamed of my Lian'er. ”
Qiu Fu was even more anxious, and said loudly: "Dad, just say something!" ”
"Get out of here, so you don't have to speak!" Qiu Mingming's face darkened and roared at Qiu Fu.
Qiu Fu lowered his head and went out reluctantly.
Qiu Mingliang let out a long sigh, and after half a salary, he said slowly: "Lu Lian is also something I grew up watching, capable and kind, but your mother-in-law is famous, and our Qiu family originally disagreed, but Fuzi decided that Lu Lian was married, and I just found a matchmaker to come to the door." Who would have thought that your mother-in-law would ask for a dowry of fifty taels, and the two families would lose all their face. Things have come to this point, what do you say? ”
When Lu Shouzeng heard that there was a play, he hurriedly said: "Brother Qiu, Fuzi and Lian'er are also childhood sweethearts, let's be old people and fulfill them!" As for the dowry, our Lu family has offended first, your Qiu family will look at it, I have no opinion! ”
Qiu Mingliang said: "Is it true that our family is looking at it? Are you really okay? Then I won't give it, okay? ”
Lu Shouzeng sighed and said: "Brother Qiu, it's not that I'm greedy for your dowry, but I don't give a dowry, and our Lian'er doesn't look good when it comes out, Brother Qiu is also a real person, for the sake of our love for many years, the dowry is still ten taels." ”
Qiu Mingliang was silent, and seeing Qiu Fu, who was hiding at the door and peeking, showed a pleading face, Qiu Mingliang's heart softened, and he finally nodded.
Qiu Fu and Lu Lian's family affairs were settled in this way.
Lu Lian's matter is over.
Lu Yong's family affairs have become a major matter in Lu Shouzeng's heart, and Mrs. Lu is unreliable, so he has to worry about it.
Lu Shouzeng went to find Qin Matchmaker again, in addition to the widow's remarriage and the high-priced girl of Wang Laosan's family, there were also a few dowry requirements that were not high, Lu Shouzeng was inconvenient to look at each other, so let Yulan go.
Yulan was the sister-in-law, and when she looked at her daughter-in-law to her second uncle, she was also very energetic, and her vision became picky, and she was not very satisfied with each other.
And the meaning of Qin Matchmaker's words is: Now only people pick your family, and there is no share of your family to pick others.
Lu Shouzeng learned that he was very depressed, and when he went home to see that Mrs. Lu's nose was not a nose or an eye, he wanted to scold, but he couldn't help it, sighed, no longer paid attention to Mrs. Lu, and sat down in the Westinghouse to weave baskets with his head down.
As for the follow-up of Lu Yong's family affairs, Liu Fangfang said that she didn't know.
After all, it was just a three-episode drama dream she had had for three days.
Then, wake up, and there is no then.
In the following week, I didn't dream of the Lu family's courtyard again, as for the mother-in-law with a poisonous mouth and stupid heart, the strong daughter-in-law, the precocious and wise Xiaoyi, and other members of the Lu family, they all disappeared with Liu Fangfang's dream awakening.
Liu Fangfang returned to a normal life, not trapped by dreams, not disturbed by people in dreams, and her heart was also stable.
Therefore, when her roommate Li Wen invited her to her house on the weekend, Liu Fangfang readily agreed.
Carrying a bag of fruit and sitting on Li Wen's moped, Liu Fangfang was struggling with Li Wen's question: Is my mother's yellow stewed mutton delicious? Or is it better to grab lamb by hand?
As for whether Li Wen heard Liu Fangfang's answer, Liu Fangfang didn't know.
Because, both of them flew up, like a fruit ninja game, and the fruit in her hand was thrown high.