The sun is rising higher and higher, the scorching sun is scorching the earth, the little green cicadas in early summer are hiding in the bushes and hissing, Lu Xiaoyi has prepared a large jar of sugar and salt water waiting for Lu Zhong to come back.

Tea is expensive, and the Lu family usually drinks white water, and only when guests come make tea to entertain them. Lu Xiaoyi's homemade sugar and salt water, with a faint salty and sweet taste, is easy to accept, and can effectively supplement the body's needs after a lot of sweating, quickly recover physical strength, reduce fatigue, and is most suitable for people who work in summer.

Lu Zhong led the donkey to carry the wheat back, and before he took off the wheat stalks, the children handed the water and the fan of the wind, and Lu Zhong, who was waiting, said yes again and again.

Lu Xiaoyi had already prepared his words: "Dad, I wanted to make some sugar water for you and my mother, but I mistook salt for sugar and confused it, Dad, you won't blame me!" ”

Lu Zhong said with a smile: "What's so strange about this little thing, it's hot outside, you look at Ding Xiaogeng, don't go out, beware of the heat." ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, and handed a large pot of sugar and salt water in his hand to Lu Zhong, "Dad, there is a big jar here, salty, sweet and salty can quench your thirst, it's a pity to pour it, you can take it to the field to drink." ”

Lu Zhong took it: "What are you doing when you pour it, just drink it." ”

"Dad, how many more turns?" Xiao Geng asked while pulling the donkey's tail.

Lu Zhong quickly lifted Xiao Geng away, "Stand far away, I can't kick you to death!" ”

Xiao Geng grinned and said proudly: "Da Hei won't kick me!" ”

Lu Zhong gritted his teeth angrily, looked at the sun above his head, and said, "Two more turns, let your mother come back to cook Chinese food." ”

Xiao Ding handed the wrung out wet cloth towel to Lu Zhong, "Dad, the sun is poisonous at noon, you and your mother should come back early, don't get heatstroke." ”

"What's this summer heat, it's not the hottest time yet, you guys have fun at home, Dad knows it." Lu Zhong put a wet cloth towel around his neck and led the donkey away.

"Daddy is working so hard, let's help make lunch!" Lu Xiaoyi proposed, and received an immediate response.

So, Lu Xiaoyi carried a bamboo basket and marched towards the vegetable field with two small tails.

Thinking of her previous life, she followed her grandmother to make a small tail, looking for melons and vegetables in the vegetable field, and after a trip, a basket full of red, green, purple and yellow, and she was very satisfied.

Now, she is followed by her younger brothers and sisters in this life, and her heart is warm, I think back then, my grandmother's heart was the same.

Lu Xiaoyi couldn't help but walk briskly, and suddenly remembered to pretend to be lame, looking around like a thief, only a woman not far away was bent down to work in the field, fortunately, Lu Xiaoyi was overjoyed, handed the bamboo basket to Xiao Ding to carry, and he held the small cane, concentrating on pretending to be lame.

The vegetable plot of Lu Xiaoyi's family is close to the courtyard of the Lu family's big house, the vegetable plot is not big, but it is picked up by magnolia very neatly, the vegetable is boxy, and all kinds of melons and vegetables grow well, which is pleasing to the eye.

The courtyard door of the Lu family's big house was locked, a few green-barked pear branches with fruit hanging out of the courtyard, and several children poked the little pear with wooden sticks at the root of the wall.

Xiao Geng shouted angrily: "Don't steal the pears of my uncle's grandfather." ”

A child shook the pear in his hand towards Xiao Geng, and said mischievously: "This is for you." ”

Xiao Geng immediately stopped getting angry, and ran over in a hurry to poke the pears together.

"Eldest sister, look at Xiao Geng, it's so delicious!" Xiao Ding covered his smile and smiled.

"Regardless of him, the small pear can't be eaten, let's pick vegetables!" Lu Xiaoyi was inexplicably excited as soon as he arrived at the vegetable field, he didn't expect this overhead dynasty melon vegetables to be so rich, and there were a lot of cucumbers, pumpkins, loofahs, eggplants, peppers, and beans in this season.

Xiao Ding picked a tender cucumber, removed the top flower, wiped the tender thorns with his hands, and ate it with a click.

Lu Xiaoyi smiled: "You also said that Xiao Geng is delicious, don't you do the same." ”

Xiao Ding picked another tender cucumber and handed it over, and said with a grin: "Sister, you can eat one too, so as not to talk about me." ”

Lu Xiaoyi was not polite, and he wiped it and ate it.

Several children who poked pears also came one after another, it was not a rare thing, seeing that others were eating fragrantly, they all shouted to eat cucumbers, and Lu Xiaoyi picked a few for them to eat.

A child patted the horse while eating cucumbers and said, "Sister Xiaoyi, we won't call you lame sister again." ”

Lu Xiaoyi pointed at him with a cucumber, and pretended to be angry: "Say, do you still call me bald sister behind your back." ”

The child's eyes unconsciously glanced at Lu Xiaoyi's head, smiled, and then looked at the other children and scattered in all directions.

Lu Xiaoyi said loudly: "If you dare to shout nonsense in the future, beware of me hitting you with stones!" ”

"Yo, this Lu family girl is quite powerful, she will smash and beat at every turn!" The village woman, who was bent down to work not far away, heard the movement and got up and sneered.

Lu Xiaoyi recognized her, she was the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family a few families away, Lu Xiaoyi greeted: "Aunt Zhang, are you picking vegetables too?" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family smiled: "This child is becoming more and more polite, I heard that you didn't like to talk a while ago, and it seems to be much better now." ”

Lu Xiaoyi smiled and continued to pick vegetables.

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family is also an inquisitive person, seeing that Xiaoyi's sister and brother are young, she wanted to find out something, but she walked more than a dozen steps to this vegetable field, and asked with concern: "Okay Xiaoyi, you tell your aunt, what did the Shen family say?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi looked at the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, pretending not to understand.

"Tell me, you are such a delicate girl, and you have been lame, so the Shen family will not lose some silver?" The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family continued to inquire, "I heard that I accompanied your family for fifteen taels, I don't know if it's true or not?" Gee! Fifteen taels! Didn't the Shen family kid marry you? Ouch, you've fallen into the honey pot because of a blessing in disguise, and you're the first to marry a lame girl so well! The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family exclaimed.

No matter how young Xiao Geng is, as soon as he hears about the Shen family's marriage, he pouts and wants to speak.

Lu Xiaoyi hurriedly pulled Xiao Geng's hand and motioned him not to speak, Xiao Geng was so good, he especially listened to Xiao Yi's words, so he closed his mouth and stood beside Lu Xiaoyi with Xiao Ding.

Lu Xiaoyi said with a smile: "Aunt Zhang, that's all about adults, not what we children should know, besides, you want to know if my lame leg is worth fifteen taels, let the Shen family kid make your daughter's leg lame, as for whether you are determined to be a parent, it depends on your ability." ”

Lu Xiaoyi pretended to be innocent and asked, "Aunt Zhang, are you saying what I said right?" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family suddenly darkened her face and said, "I have never seen you so sharp and toothy, and you don't know how to hide at home when you are lame, what are you running around the village on crutches?" It's not shameful enough! ”

Lu Xiaoyi saw a few women walking not far away, and deliberately cried loudly: "Aunt Zhang, why are you so bullying? Can't I see people if I'm lame? My father and mother cut wheat hard, what's wrong with me coming out to help pick vegetables and cook, you scold me for no reason like this, how can I have the face to go out in the future? ”

Several women approached, and a Liu Pozi stepped forward and asked Lu Xiaoyi, "Good boy, why are you crying like this?" ”

"Granny Liu, our sister and brother picked the vegetables well, but Aunt Zhang came over and said that I was lame and didn't stay at home, and I was embarrassed to come out." Lu Xiaoyi cried even more sadly.

"Hey, you thief, when did I say you're embarrassed?" The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family jumped angrily.

Xiao Ding and Xiao Geng also cried and pointed out, saying that the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family had said it.

"I'm embarrassed, I'll go home!" Lu Xiaoyi pitifully carried half a basket of melons and vegetables, and walked home with his younger brothers and sisters, sobbing as he walked, choking and choking: "It's not my fault that I'm lame, I didn't expect it to hinder your eyes, and I won't go out again in the future, woo woo." ”

When Mrs. Liu and the women saw the pitiful appearance of the young brother, the eyes of the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family suddenly changed, and Mrs. Liu said coldly: "The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family is also a person with a daughter, why do you verbally abuse other people's daughters, that child is lame, pitiful like this, you can do it too!" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family gritted her teeth angrily, and said to Mrs. Liu with a cold face: "You think she is pitiful, why don't you let your grandson marry her?" Hum! What rotten good people are here! ”

The country mother-in-law is all born in a fighting race, and no one is embarrassed to come out to mix without two brushes, Mrs. Liu crossed her waist and began to scold: "You faceless and skinless goods, you can also say that you can talk about marriage, you are not afraid of breaking your teeth and rotting your tongue, you have that idle heart, why don't you take care of your man, and knock on the door of the east house and shoot the window of the west house!" ”

Mrs. Liu poked the sore spot of the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, and the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family immediately exploded, and quarreled with Mrs. Liu with all the firepower.

Mrs. Liu and the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family scolded vigorously, and there was a village woman who came looking for a voice, but for some reason, she pulled Lu Xiaoyi and asked, "What are you arguing about over there?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi immediately said pitifully: "Auntie, my father and mother are busy cutting wheat in the field, and I helped to pick vegetables in the field, but Aunt Zhang said that I was lame and didn't know how to hide at home, and I was embarrassed when I came out, and Granny Liu couldn't look past it, so she said a few words to Aunt Zhang." Auntie, do you think I can't go out if I'm lame? If that's the case, I won't come out in the future! After speaking, Lu Xiaoyi wiped his tears and wept.

The woman comforted, "Good boy, you are not to blame, go home quickly!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, took his younger brothers and sisters home, looked back pitifully from time to time, and once he turned his head, he grinned.

"Eldest sister, you forgot to pretend to be lame!" Xiao Ding saw that his sister was carried away, and hurriedly reminded.

"Uh-oh." Lu Xiaoyi's left leg immediately shortened, "You two must remind me in time when you are outside, you know?" ”

Xiao Geng nodded, buried his head and kept looking at Lu Xiaoyi's left leg, "Sister, it's too lame!" ”

"Uh-oh." Lu Xiaoyi straightened his waist.

Wait, under the camphor tree over there, who has been watching her?

Lu Xiaoyi took a closer look, it was actually the man who had helped her tie up at the bottom of the ditch, Lu Xiaoyi didn't know how much he had seen, plus the strange accent when he first came, and he didn't know if this man had any suspicions, Lu Xiaoyi turned his head weakly, and he didn't dare to look under the camphor tree.

When she entered her small courtyard and closed the door, she peeked under the tree and saw that there was no one there.

Lu Xiaoyi was nervous, afraid that this man would suspect her of something, and after thinking about it, there was nothing to be afraid of, she would not admit it at most, anyway, at that time, it was just the two of them, and no one could prove anyone, and besides, she was now speaking in her local dialect, and even her father and mother did not suspect it, she had something to fear, thinking of this, Lu Xiaoyi was immediately relieved, and ran to the back of the stove room with the basket, and Xiao Ding Xiaogeng chased after him with a grin.

Lu Xiaoyi knew how to cook in his previous life, and he did a good job of home-cooked dishes.

In this life, she is limited by age, and she is tall and short, which is not difficult for her, so she moved a square stool and stood to chop vegetables.

In order to eliminate her father's concern that she could suddenly cook, she had a plan, and she stayed in the stove room a while ago to learn how to stir-fry with Yulan, just to pave the way for today.

The cucumbers in the basket are crisp and tender, the eggplant is purple and bright, and the greens are green.

The well water used to wash vegetables is even cooler and more delicious, clear and transparent.

Lu Xiaoyi washed the melons and vegetables, stood on the stool and began to chop the vegetables.

Xiao Ding Xiaogeng stood next to him and watched with an admiring expression.

After cutting the vegetables, everything is complete, it is the staple food, the staple food of the Lu family is mostly coarse wheat noodles, and fine noodles are only eaten occasionally.

Lu Xiaoyi made a lot of effort with the noodles, and when the noodles were kneaded, his hands were sore.

Put the dough in a basin and wake up.

She started stir-frying, Xiao Ding volunteered to light the fire, and Xiao Geng also helped to fold the firewood.

Cold cucumbers, garlic greens, and shredded green peppers and eggplants were quickly served.

The Lu family's stir-fry vegetables are light, Lu Xiaoyi thinks that this is related to the high cost of salt, but he is used to eating light tastes, and Lu Xiaoyi also thinks it is good, which can not only ensure the natural taste of vegetables, but also benefit people's health.

By the time Lu Zhong and Yulan came back, the lunch had already been set up in the dining hall.

Lu Zhong praised Xiao Yi with a smile, which provoked Xiao Ding Xiao Geng's pout.

Lu Zhong praised the two little ones again, and the little cocked mouth flattened.

Yulan was even more happy, scooped water out and washed it with Lu Zhong, and then prepared to eat.

Lu Shouzeng came over, and he didn't sit down to eat, but just called Lu Zhong to the east room.

Lu Xiaoyi knew that Old Man Lu's purpose was nothing more than borrowing money, and she didn't listen to the corner, she sat in the dining hall and told Yulan about the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family in the vegetable field.