This night, the Lu family didn't sleep well, the big house suddenly moved from the city where they were used to living to the countryside, it was strange to be able to sleep steadily, Lu Shouzeng and Lu Yong had been living in the west courtyard and moved to the east courtyard suddenly, and they were not used to it.

Lu Xiaoyi's sister and brother did not move the nest, but Lu Zhong and Yulan moved in. On weekdays, the three sisters and brothers rolled at will, and there were two more adults who suddenly became crowded. However, the younger brother was still very excited to be able to squeeze in a kang with his father and mother, and the family slept for an hour later than usual while talking.

Even though I slept late, the time of wake-up remained the same.

In summer, the sky is early, the rooster has just crowed, the eastern canopy has begun to whiten, the clear canopy still hangs a few stars, and the crescent moon is like a small boat anchored on the western mountains.

Lu Shouzeng had already begun to sweep the yard, and when he saw Mrs. Lu coming out, he ordered: "You go and arrange breakfast, and if you need help, let Yong's daughter-in-law take a hand, don't bother Zhong's daughter-in-law." ”

Mrs. Lu said with a dark face: "The eldest family has already been separated, why am I bothering his daughter-in-law?" Since you have received the money, who will do the food for the big house if I don't do it? ”

Lu Shouzeng said in a rare and kind tone: "Thank you for your hard work." Seeing Mrs. Lu's eyes widen and look at him in surprise, she said: "Sister-in-law and nephew and daughter-in-law have just come back, and they are not used to anything, so you can do more, and when they get used to it for a few days, it is always okay to help cook and laundry." ”

Lu Shouzeng's tone was kind, and Mrs. Lu's heart was comfortable, and her face, which was still as black as charcoal, immediately smiled, and she went to the stove room quickly, and even prepared a hearty breakfast.

The breakfast prepared by Magnolia here was very ordinary, multigrain porridge and coarse wheat flour cakes, and four eggs were boiled. Everyone but her had it.

After the meal, Lu Xiaoyi helped Yulan clean up the pots and bowls, and said, "Mother, our family is not bad for eggs, you can also cook one for yourself in the future!" Don't you see that Daddy always makes excuses to give you eggs? ”

Magnolia smiled: "Okay, cook one more next time." ”

Because he was busy preparing for the full moon banquet the day before, Yulan didn't make scones, and Lu Zhong was idle at home today, and was later called away by Lu Shouzeng. It turned out that he went to the village to look for laborers and craftsmen.

In the end, I have to bring it back so that Mrs. Lu will be able to see it too. Negotiate the salary in person and agree to start work the next day.

Early the next morning, Lu Xiaoyi went to the courtyard of the big house to see how they renovated it, and planned how to build their yard in the future.

Lu Shouzeng gathered outside the courtyard gate with laborers and craftsmen. A rusted iron lock hangs from the mottled courtyard gate. Someone proposed to smash it open with a hammer. Lu Fuzeng, a helpless pedantic old scholar, disagreed, and asked Mrs. Lu to take the key to open the lock.

The keyholes are all rusty, how can it be opened. Lu Fuzeng reprimanded Mrs. Lu with a straight face, but Lu Shouzeng stepped forward to relieve the siege and let people smash the rusty lock with a hammer.

Lu Xiaoyi followed up the courtyard, and the sentence immediately appeared in his mind: The old hometown is deep in grass and trees.

In the middle of summer, when the grass is abundant, the weeds in the courtyard of the big house are mottled, and there is no cone to settle down. I don't know where the thatch seeds floated from take root and sprout on both sides of the steps, the slender leaves fall on the steps, the gray thatch ears sway gently in the wind, and the summer abundance of grass actually gives people a sense of decay.

Someone sighed: "Tsk, a good yard is abandoned like this!" It's a pity, wow! ”

The other laughed: "What are you distressed about, it's not your yard." ”

"Okay, count me salty and eat radish and worry about it!"

"Your eggs are a lot of worries, haha!"

Seeing that the meat talk was coming, Lu Shouzeng coughed twice and quickly stopped.

The owner of the house, Lu Fuzeng, did not have a good face, almost invisible frowning, his expression was a little high, some disgusted, and more impatient, as if I paid you to work, and I didn't let you talk nonsense, but I don't know that the men in the village work like this, there will be no less meat jokes, and it is common to joke and amuse.

Lu Fuzeng's inner unhappiness was vented to Mrs. Lu on the side, "Stupid woman, I don't know how you can be a family, let a good house be wasted." ”

Mrs. Lu has words of suffering, not to mention that there are outsiders present, and she does not dare to contradict Lu Fuzeng, and gritted her teeth and endured her anger.

Lu Fuzeng was very disgusted, and he didn't like anything, so he finally shook his sleeves and walked away without saying a word, and threw all the mess to his brother Lu Shouzeng.

Lu Xiaoyi saw everything in his eyes, and couldn't wait to step forward and give him a word: scum!

Lu Shouzeng didn't care, and greeted with a smile: "Start work, finish it early, and get the money early." ”

There was a human voice, there was a sound, a few mice rushed out of the weeds, and two small finches flew out of the thatch, a few little teenagers ran over with a smile, and turned out a small bird's nest woven of tough grass in the thatch, and found that there were three eggs in it, and the boy who took the bird's nest wanted to swallow it alone, and ran away with the bird's nest, and the other teenagers squeaked and chased behind him.

When the naughty boy dispersed, Lu Shouzeng arranged for the two of them to mow the grass with a sickle, and the rest of the people checked the room in turn, many doors and windows, purlins, beams and column heads were moth-eaten or rotted in the rain, and bright light was projected through the cracks in the broken roof tiles, forming pillars of light, through which the fine dust could be seen levitating.

The front yard wall is still intact, and the back yard has several lodging brick walls, and the stove house needs to be renovated.

Lu Shouzeng and experienced craftsmen estimated that buying wood was the majority, followed by house tiles, and odd and bits of expenses, plus the wages were about twenty taels of silver.

Twenty taels of silver can build a new set of small courtyards in Xiaxi Village, so it is better to tear it down and rebuild it.

Lu Shouzeng mentioned his thoughts to Mrs. Lu and Lu Fuzeng, and Mrs. Lu said: "That set of yards is not small, and it is normal to spend more money to renovate it. ”

Mrs. Lu was telling the truth, but Lu Fuzeng was telling some lies, "What is the Lu family's ancestral property and ancestral business?" As the son of the Lu family, I have the responsibility to protect the ancestral property and ancestral industry! ”

Lu Shouzeng stopped talking.

Mrs. Lu said: "Your eldest brother is not young, and now he has quit his job in the city and returned to his hometown to retire, and the family has no stable income. ”

Lu Fuzeng was still angry about his work in the city, and when he heard Mrs. Lu mention this stubble, he said unhappily: "My mother is reluctant to make money, so she let others take advantage of the loophole." ”

Mrs. Lu lowered her eyelids helplessly. didn't want to talk to Lu Fuduo about this topic, so he said coldly: "I'm still alive for a day, I have the final say in this family, if you have the ability, when I die, you will make trouble." ”

Lu Fuzeng was speechless, and hung his head stupidly.

Mrs. Lu sighed again: "Yifu City is so big, there are many capable people in Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, and small families like ours must be self-aware." The more than 100 taels of silver that sold the yard is not money in the eyes of some people, but it is all the money for our family. I'm old, you're old, and it's time for us to be aware of current affairs. The family opened their mouths to eat and drink. You ignore them, I can't ignore them! ”

The renovation was decided in this way, and Lu Shouzeng ran before and after the renovation of the big house, but the owner of the big house became the shopkeeper. Lu Fuzeng looks at everything every day with a disgusted face. It feels like there are fools all around. It made him feel a sense of loneliness in a high place.

Lu Fuzeng was in no mood, and Lu Si studied hard and didn't listen to things outside the window, so he relaxed the homework of Lu Bingyu and Lu Wufeng. The two seized the opportunity to go crazy, and ran away with Xiao Geng every day after eating, catching cicadas and frogs and yellow eels with the little boys in the village, and had the heart to go down to the stream but didn't dare to undress, so they had to stay on the shore and watch.

There are two more Sven boys in the village who can read and write, and like a little crane standing in a flock of chickens, they immediately win the admiration of many little girls in the village, and of course there are also young men who are jealous of them, and often scare them with snakes or toads.

Lu Xiaoyi's life is still the same as usual, in the morning, he went to the stream to cut pigweed and fish for screws and mussel shells, and had a bit of fun with the little girls, before going home to chop and add food to the chicken, and baking cakes at home in the afternoon, occasionally being lazy, and taking the time to sneak to the courtyard of the Yu family to find surplus grain and talk for a while.

The days remained sembrishing peaceful.

On the fourth day after the Lu family's big house came back, Mrs. Lu was finally about to break out, before the outbreak, she deliberately discussed with her granddaughter, it turned out that the eldest mother-in-law of the Lu family and Lu Si's daughter-in-law had been copying their hands on their chests as spectators since they came back, neither helping to cook nor cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, as if they had given five taels of silver, and they accepted the service of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the second room with peace of mind.

Lu Xiaoyi also gritted his teeth angrily, but he didn't support Mrs. Lu to turn her face and stiffen, and came up with an idea: "Grandmother, you should inform your grandfather first, and you don't say how lazy your uncle and grandmother are, you just say that you can't be busy, and then push back every meal, great-grandmother can't starve when she is old, you take advantage of making porridge for Xiaofeng, and by the way, bring your great-grandmother to open a small stove to make some good food, as long as she doesn't starve, others can drag it out, and the energy consumption will be consumed!" ”

Mrs. Lu nodded with a smile and praised: "You ghost elf, your brain makes this special like me!" ”

This is to lift yourself up by praising others! Lu Xiaoyi's face was black, and he echoed helplessly: "Yes, yes, I'm just like you." ”

In the next few days, Lu Xiaoyi's family began to eat, and Mrs. Lu was still grinding in the stove room.

Mrs. Lu suddenly has a small stove, and she is not only punctual every day, but also able to eat well. The old lady loves to think about things when she is full, and Mrs. Lu and Lu Si's daughter-in-law complain in secret, smart as she immediately understands the reason, and just uses this matter to knock on the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, "Don't come to me to complain, I can't carry it on my shoulders, and it's useless to tell me." You should know what kind of temperament the second family has, she is not the mother Zhang hired before, and she is obedient to your fingers. ”

Mrs. Lu hurriedly said, "Mother, didn't you give her five taels of silver?" Ten people are enough. ”

Mrs. Lu didn't like to listen to Mrs. Lu's words, so she sneered: "What a big breath! I don't know, I think you're a lady. ”

Mrs. Lu was immediately silent, she knew best what kind of family she was.

"You were also born as a peasant girl, and you lived in the city for a few years, and you thought that you had taken off your farm skin and become a nobleman? Wake up! The days of not sticking to the mud are over. Mrs. Lu continued to taunt, "A peasant woman should look like a peasant woman, and when I have time to complain in my ear, why don't I have time to go to the stove to help?" If you are abandoned, laundry, cooking, feeding pigs and chickens, take advantage of living together to learn from the second family! ”

The corners of Mrs. Lu's mouth twitched, she smiled ugly, and nodded yes, and Lu Si's daughter-in-law on the side hung her head and didn't know what she was thinking.

Mrs. Lu raised her eyes and glanced at the two of them, and said: "Marry a chicken and a dog and a dog, marry a sheep and walk all over the mountain, I have rested my thoughts, why should I go!" ”

Since then, Mrs. Lu took Lu Si's daughter-in-law to start entering the stove room, carrying Mrs. Lu on her back, and the mother-in-law in the two rooms had red eyes and green eyebrows.

The courtyard of the Lu family's big house was so dilapidated that it took a month to complete the renovation.

On the day of moving in, Mrs. Lu paid more money for Lu Shou to hold a few tables of banquets, and in addition to her relatives, she also invited Li Zheng and some prestigious old people in the village.

It not only celebrates the joy of moving, but also connects with the friendship of the same village.

Lu Fuzeng was the shopkeeper for a month, not only didn't worry about anything, but also had a sense of grievance that Longyou was in the shallow water and suffered from shrimp play, and now he moved to his own compound, his mood was broadened, and his interest was even better, and he wrote a few words with a splash of ink, and hung it in the hall more and more proudly.

Insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the liveliness.

Few of the villagers who were invited to the banquet were literate, and after reading the lively calligraphy, they did not hesitate to praise them, and the kind of reverence and envy for the readers from the bottom of their hearts made Lu Fuzeng's vanity greatly satisfied, and even boasted of Haikou: He had all the New Year pairs in the village. (To be continued......)