The next day, Lu Zhong really didn't go to pick up passengers, he couldn't stay idle at home, and went to his field with a hoe to walk around, and saw that the newly developed winter wheat had already grown fingers, so he went home and talked to Yulan non-stop.

Lu Xiaoyi made an appointment with Yu Liang yesterday to dig the mud to go to the paste pit, and when she arrived at the ridge, she found that it was easy to talk and difficult to do, not to mention that it was difficult to dig the mud or go down to the field, she came home dejected, and made up an excuse that she found that his stove was rotten when she was playing at Yu Liang's house yesterday, and asked his father to help dig two baskets of field mud to make up for it.

Yulan blamed: "Why didn't you say it earlier, kid? The stove is rotten and can't be cooked, so the grain must still be hungry by now? He said to Lu Zhong again: "You go to the seedling field to dig two baskets of mud and send them to you, and I will quickly make a few egg cakes here, and let Xiao Yi take the grain later." Ay! Lonely and pitiful, I don't know how many hungry meals I have on a cold day. ”

Yulan kept chattering, while spreading the pancakes, Lu Xiaoyi knew that his mother was kind, especially for the surplus grain, and now she was lying all the way, and it was not easy to tell the truth, so she obediently went to the stove room to help burn the pancakes.

Before leaving, Yulan proposed another basket of wheat and explained to Lu Xiaoyi: "Remember to ask your father to stir the wheat into the mud, so that the paste stove can be used." ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, smiled and carried the wheat basket and egg cake to Xiao Geng's house with Yu Liang, Xiao Ding was pitifully left by Yulan to learn needlework, and his big eyes were watery and full of melancholy that he couldn't play with him.

Lu Zhong arrived earlier than Lu Xiaoyi, and was enthusiastically surveying in the Yu family's stove room. Lu Xiaoyi's nonsense reason is quite in line with the actual situation of the Yu family, the mud in the stove has indeed collapsed a lot, Lu Zhong ignored the dissuasion of the remaining grain, picked up the shovel and began to stir the mud and wheat grains.

Yu Liang followed Lu Zhong with a blank face, unable to react to his eagerness to go straight to the stove room, and looked at Lu Xiaoyi in the back with puzzled eyes.

Lu Xiaoyi shrugged at him, his eyes signaling that he didn't have to care.

Lu Zhong was also not polite, beckoned Yu Liang to bring a shovel and a trowel, rolled up his sleeves and began to work.

The men in the township are almost all almighty, and they can afford to turn over tiles, mend walls, build stoves, and build pots, and they can afford to put it down, plus the stove of Yu Liang's house is not as exaggerated as Lu Xiaoyi said, Lu Zhong quickly repaired it.

He wiped the mud on his face and said with a smile: "It's okay now, several smoke leakage holes have been blocked, and the ash leakage groove has also been cleared for you. ”

Yu Liang thanked him gratefully, and Lu Zhong waved his hand, "You're welcome, you can take a look at these jobs, but these mud have just been pasted, and you can't cook on the fire until it's dry, and you will come to your uncle's house for dinner in the next few days!" ”

Yu Liang shook his head, Lu Zhong knew that he was bored, so he smiled and said, "If you feel awkward, I'll let the children send it to you." ”

Yu Liang still shook his head, Lu Zhong was a little embarrassed, and he said again in his mouth, 'Let the children send it to you', and walked to the basin regardless of it, washed his hands and face, and beckoned his children to go home with him, Xiao Geng hugged the black tiger and didn't want to go, Lu Xiaoyi had more important things to do, and he didn't want to go, so Lu Zhong had to go back alone.

Seeing Lu Zhong leave, Lu Xiaoyi turned his head and smiled knowingly at Yu Liang, as if the two had a common secret, and they could convey their inner thoughts just by looking at them.

Yu Liang blushed, walked to the edge of the remaining mud pile, and followed Lu Zhong's muddy action just now, and pasted a thick layer of clay on the inner wall of the soil pit.

The two baskets of mud are very large, and there is not much to repair the stove just now, and the rest is enough to paste the pit. Lu Xiaoyi was anxious that the mouth of the pit was too big, but the surplus grain had already been prepared, it turned out that his family had a clay pot with a rotten bottom, the size of the mouth was just right, he brought it over and sat on top of the pit, supported it with a few wooden sticks, and then used stones to fill the gap between the clay pot and the soil pit, and then pasted it with thick clay, and the part above the surface was built with stones to make a stove, and then used mud to paste it.

The finished product in front of her was getting closer and closer to the naan pit in her previous life, Lu Xiaoyi's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, she excitedly took a closer look, and exclaimed, "Wow! Wow! Brother Liang, this pit is so perfect! ”

Yu Liang put down the trowel in his hand, rubbed the sweat on his arm, and said with a smile: "When the mud is dry, remove the bracket inside and use it." ”

"Eun! After two days, when the mud is dry, it will be burned with firewood, and all the mud must be burned white before it can be made into scones! As for the exact number of days of firing, Lu Xiaoyi is not clear, everything is in the experimental stage.

"Brother Liang, let's go to the mountains to chop some dry firewood and come back!"

Yu Liang nodded, washed the mud from his face and hands, found a straw rope and a machete, then a bow and arrows and a spear, and immediately looked like a young hunter.

"Still going to see the traps?" Lu Xiaoyi asked knowingly.

Yu Liang nodded again, left Xiaogeng to play with the black tiger at home, and took Lu Xiaoyi to embark on the path into the mountain again.

Compared to the previous time, this time the mountain forest is more bleak, except for the evergreen trees in all seasons, all the other trees have lost their dead leaves, and the autumn sun easily pours down from the branches, illuminating the whole mountain forest bright and dry.

Lu Xiaoyi walked on the forest path with thick dead leaves, only to feel that her feet were soft and soft, and the rustling sound was louder, she asked Yu Liang: "Is this season the most suitable for hunting?" Many wild animals grow the fattest in autumn. ”

"Well, and there's nowhere to hide!" Yu Liang added.

Lu Xiaoyi smiled, "Nowhere to hide is a two-way street, the prey has nowhere to hide, and the hunter is not hiding." ”

Yu Liang's black eyes glanced at Lu Xiaoyi deeply and smiled.

Lu Xiaoyi felt that his thick eyebrows were very pleasing to the eye, and he also laughed.

Yu Liang first took Xiao Yi to check the trap, this time the harvest was quite rich, there was a fat rabbit in each trap, Yu Liang happily scooped up the rabbit and put it in the back basket, and then camouflaged the trap mouth, and returned along the road with Lu Xiaoyi.

Lu Xiaoyi thought that he had forgotten the purpose of entering the mountain, and reminded: "Brother Liang, aren't we going to chop wood?" ”

How could the surplus grain forget, and explained with a smile: "Go back again, there are a few dead trees there, close to the mountain pass, and it is easy to move!" ”

Sure enough, when I walked to the mountain pass, I could clearly see a few dead dry trees, which were different from other trees with lost leaves, the whole bark and trunk showed a dead gray with no signs of life, and the branches were even more crisp, and the slightest fold made a crisp sound.

Yu Liang took out a machete and quickly cut down one of the dead trees, and then cut it into a half-human-high short section, Lu Xiaoyi helped to pick it up into a pile, and the two of them worked together to tie it up with straw and pile it under the big pine tree on the side.

Busy until noon, more than a dozen bundles of dry firewood were neatly stacked under the tree, and Yu Liang said: "Come again in the afternoon, simply prepare the dry firewood to be used in winter." ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded and followed the rest of the grain back.

Yu Liang took Lu Xiaoyi to take another shortcut down the mountain, bypassing an abrupt mountain cliff, and turned back to the previous path up the mountain, and the Yu family's small courtyard was even closer in front of him.

Lu Xiaoyi was surprised and frequently looked back at this shortcut that was not considered a road, and Yu Liang smiled even more proudly, "Isn't it much closer?" ”

Not only is it much closer, it's just too close Okay, Lu Xiaoyi smacked the two roads in his mind, and suddenly realized that the old road detoured the gentle section on the east side of the cliff, and the short road was a bit risky, detouring the steep section on the west side of the cliff.

Yu Liang continued: "This road is only easier to walk in autumn, with shrubs and thorns blocking the way in spring and summer, and snow covering it in winter, which is particularly difficult to walk. ”

Lu Xiaoyi pointed to the serious path into the mountain and said, "Then take this old road, the old road is safe." Although the new road is close, there is one close to the cliff, and if you don't fall off the cliff, you won't be able to save your life. ”

He also said: "It's the same road, why does this one become a road, but that one doesn't?" Because people are willing to choose a safer and safer path, right? ”

Yu Liang glanced at Lu Xiaoyi with a smile and stopped talking.

The black tiger had already heard the footsteps of the master, barked and rushed out of the yard to greet him, Xiao Geng followed behind the black tiger, and when he saw Lu Xiaoyi coming back, he shouted happily: "Eldest sister, you are back, the second sister has already come once, saying that the mother has already prepared Chinese food, let Brother Liang go home with us to eat." ”

Yu Liang helped her so much, Lu Xiaoyi was already very grateful in her heart, and when she heard Xiao Geng say this at this moment, she was even more energetic, "Brother Liang, let's hurry down the mountain, my mother must be in a hurry!" ”

Yu Liang shook his head and refused, Lu Xiaoyi glanced at Xiao Geng, and Xiao Geng stepped forward to hold Yu Liang's leg and coquettishly. Yu Liang's body stiffened, a little overwhelmed, and looked at Lu Xiaoyi with a bitter face.

Xiao Yi smiled proudly, "Brother Liang, if you don't go, Xiao Geng will definitely not let go." ”

Xiao Geng pouted and affirmed: "I won't let go, I won't let go." ”

In the end, the surplus food could not be consumed by the Lu family sisters and brothers, nodded in agreement, and wanted to mention the two rabbits as gifts, but Lu Xiaoyi quickly pulled them away, and finally admitted defeat, so he had to walk awkwardly with the Lu family sisters and brothers to Xiaxi Village with a red face.

Entering the courtyard, it happened that Yulan came out of the stove room, Yu Liang hurriedly bowed and saluted, politely calling his aunt, his words and deeds seemed to be down-to-earth and generous, but his face was getting redder and redder, after all, it was the first time he went to someone else's house after returning to the village, and there was no gift in his hand......

Yulan couldn't see his embarrassment, and stepped forward with a smile to greet him: "It's coming, it's coming, come in and sit down, your uncle is waiting for you!" ”

Lu Zhong came out when he heard the voice, and greeted Yu Liang into the house with a smile, Lu Xiaoyi followed Yulan into the stove room and helped bring out the food, there were chickens, meat and eggs, and the table was very rich.

"Liangzi, don't be formal at your aunt's house, eat whatever you want, don't be polite." Yulan smiled kindly, and when she saw the surplus food, she became even more uncomfortable, and said to Lu Zhong on the side: "You take care of it, I'll send some vegetables to my father." ”

Lu Zhong nodded and waved Yulan to go.

Today, Lu Zhong happened to be at home, and caught up with the surplus grain stove rotten, Yulan thought about tidying up a table of dishes, and invited the surplus grain and Lu Shouzeng to eat together, Lu Pozi's face was moved and heartfelt, but Lu Shouzeng refused, Yulan had to pick up some good dishes and bring them over.

Yulan came back and saw that everyone in the house was still waiting for her, and sat down with a smile and beckoned everyone to eat.

The people of Xiaxi Village regard the pick-up of vegetables as the standard for judging hospitality, and Yulan did not stop holding the chopsticks, until the rice bowls in front of the surplus grain were piled into a hill, and then she put down the chopsticks with satisfaction, picked up her own chopsticks, and did not eat the vegetables, looked at the surplus grain with a smile, and muttered in her mouth: "Look at this child's thinness, the food he eats has grown taller, right?" The first time you go to your aunt's house, you will inevitably be restrained, and if you walk around more in the future, you will be at ease. ”

"Why don't you eat it, isn't the food made by my aunt not delicious?" Seeing Yu Liang shaking his head, Yulan smiled again: "If it's delicious, you can eat more, don't be polite, add another bowl after eating, there is still more in the pot!" ”

Yulan chattered endlessly, Lu Zhong faked a cough, and said, "Okay, okay, you don't have to say a few words, the whole dinner table is your voice." ”

Yulan glanced at Lu Zhong and sandwiched a piece of meat for Lu Zhong, "Got it!" ”

Yulan finally began to eat normally, but the surplus grain was very headache, facing the rice bowl like a small mountain, she unconsciously glanced at Lu Xiaoyi, and saw that her eyes were full of smiles, and her face was even more red and embarrassed, so she had to pick up chopsticks and eat slowly.

Thinking of this metaphor Lu Xiaoyi choked on a mouthful of rice in her throat, coughed violently, and even choked a grain of rice into her nose, which stimulated her tears, put down the dishes and chopped out of the hospital for a while, and finally choked the rice grains, took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears and snot, and felt embarrassed and thrown home.

Sure enough, when she returned to the dinner table, Yulan looked at her with obvious disappointment, raised her eyebrows and warned Lu Xiaoyi that she must be polite, and then smiled and put vegetables on the remaining grain.

Well, the rice bowl that had just eaten half of the surplus grain was immediately filled again, and he smiled bitterly: "Auntie, I'm enough, enough!" ”

"Mother, you let Brother Liang clip it himself, you don't know what he likes to eat!" Lu Xiaoyi couldn't help but speak.

Yulan glanced at Lu Xiaoyi, "Just take care of yourself!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi's face was black, holding the bowl and eating in a regular manner, peeking at the surplus food on the opposite side from time to time, on the whole, the action was natural and generous, but the always tight neck exposed his nervous heart, but at the end of eating, he found that he finally relaxed, and his movements became more natural.

After eating, Yu Liang thanked him again and again, said goodbye and went out, Lu Xiaoyi and Xiao Geng sent off the guests under the pretext of sending off the guests, and followed Yu Liang to Shangxi Village.