Although he couldn't see Mrs. Lu's expression at the moment, Lu Xiaoyi could imagine that she must have held back her anger and blushed, and dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak.

After Mrs. Lu finished speaking, Mrs. Lu began to arrange Lu Si's daughter-in-law again, Lu Xiaoyi intuitively felt that this matter was related to her family, and couldn't help but get nervous.

I only heard Mrs. Lu say lightly: "Daughter-in-law, are you still used to going back to the village for a few months?" ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law has not said a word since she entered the house, and she also knows the purpose of Mrs. Lu calling her to come, to be exact, she took the initiative to promote this matter. A few days ago, her sister-in-law called her back, saying that the martial arts family in the city did not come to see each other, and in the final analysis, she still couldn't look down on the Lu family, if the Lu family had a talent and fame, if the Lu family lived in the city and made a living, who wanted to find out that the Lu family had nothing, sold the yard and moved back to the countryside from the city, and the family had no other property except the fields, how could the Wu family look at it!

After Lu Si's daughter-in-law learned about it, she was sad all night with red eyes, scolding the martial arts dog for looking down on people, but in her heart she felt sorry for missing such a rich family, and then lamented that the man who married her life hard was not angry, and Wen couldn't show off her talent and martial arts couldn't make money to support her family, which not only dragged her daughter down but also broke her heart.

When he was in a hurry, rumors spread in the village, saying that Lu Zhong could earn ten taels of silver a day, ten taels of silver! That's not a decimal number. Although she didn't believe it all, she found some doorways, and a way to make money appeared in front of her, why not ask for the scone recipe, and she and her mother-in-law made a grocery store to sell it, not to mention ten taels of silver a day, that is, five taels a day, not only can you save a rich dowry for Jia Wei in a year, but also buy a big yard in the city and buy a few servants to serve. The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't wait, so she mentioned it a little in front of her mother-in-law, and her mother-in-law rushed to Lu Zhong's house.

Lu Si's daughter-in-law turned around, and she didn't even hear Mrs. Lu ask her. Mrs. Lu waited for a moment and didn't see her reply, and then repeated it lightly, Mrs. Lu was also anxious, pretending to have a sore throat and coughing loudly at Lu Si's daughter-in-law.

Lu Si's daughter-in-law came back to her senses. Seeing Mrs. Lu looking at her without blinking. hurriedly said: "Grandmother, my granddaughter-in-law is distracted, please punish my grandmother!" ”

Mrs. Lu asked her for the third time: "How many months have you been back in the village, are you still used to it?" ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law hurriedly replied: "Get used to it, grandmother." The granddaughter-in-law is used to everything. ”

"Just get used to it." Mrs. Lu nodded and said, "Xiao Jia is not small. Don't stay in the house all the time. It's time to come out and breathe, how can we peasant girls not learn to cook, wash, feed pigs and chickens? Reading and embroidering can't be eaten after all. ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law hurriedly said: "Grandmother, Jia Wei is going to marry into the city." I..."

Mrs. Lu interrupted: "Marry in the city? Okay, dowry you out? ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law stopped talking, to be honest, although her mother's family is from the city, she only runs a small grocery store, with brothers and sisters-in-law and younger siblings, she didn't have much to marry when she got married, and she wanted to add some to Jia Wei, but she was also more than willing to do it, otherwise she wouldn't have beaten Mrs. Lu's idea.

Mrs. Lu continued: "You can't empty your family and buy a dowry for Xiao Jia, right?" What should I do with the little C and the little self in the back? Do you drink the northwest wind? ”

Lu Fuzeng said solemnly: "No! Savings can't be touched! Si'er and I are looking to take the Xiucai exam, Xiao Bing and Xiao Wu have to spend money to study and get married, Xiao Jia is a girl, and sooner or later it will be someone from another family, so you don't have to spend too much, just buy some dowry, and marry someone in the surrounding villages! ”

Just buy a dowry? Casually looking for a home? Although the relationship with Jiawei's cousin is not good, but listening to her uncle's grandfather say in such a casual tone about her granddaughter's marriage, Lu Xiaoyi listened to it outside the wall with a cold heart, she felt sad for Jiawei, she was a woman with a high heart, and then she met a feudal parent who didn't really plan for her, there was no dowry to be around, she couldn't speak in her mother-in-law's house, there was no man to rely on, her married life was full of uncertainty, and she didn't know what her cousin's fate would be in the future?

Lu Si's daughter-in-law hurriedly said: "Dad, Jia Wei is also your own granddaughter, find a good family for her in the city, not only will she not suffer, but she can also help her younger brothers and sisters!" Let's not let Jia Wei live a hard life for the rest of her life for a few dowry money! ”

Lu Fuzeng snorted coldly: "The benevolence of a woman." ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Mrs. Lu: "Okay, okay, don't fight about this matter, if Si's daughter-in-law can find a suitable family in the city, I can still afford a few dowry money, our Lu family was able to marry a daughter-in-law from the city, and now we can also marry a granddaughter from the township to enter the city." ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law was overjoyed, and choked up: "Thank you grandmother for making decisions for Jia Wei!" ”

Mrs. Lu said: "I have a word first, I must find someone who is equivalent to the door, I promise to give the dowry is also limited, you don't follow me to fix those unreliable people, delusional to rely on the dowry to win, don't even think about it!" The second is that our Lu family daughter can't be a concubine! Remember? ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law nodded, and Mrs. Lu continued: "If you can't find a suitable one in the city, you will die of this heart, I will pick an honest peasant boy for Jia Wei, as long as she lives with others in a down-to-earth manner, she can't keep her life badly!" ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law said in her heart: I will definitely be able to find it, when I learn the method of scones, earn enough money, and buy a decent dowry for Jia Wei, will I not be able to marry a rich family?

Fortunately, there is still an old lady Lu who is in charge, if it is all up to Lu Fuzeng, Lu Jiawei will probably cry to death! Lu Xiaoyi inexplicably had a good impression of Mrs. Lu, no matter how she favored the big house at the beginning, and whether she was really good at digging pits and torturing people as Mrs. Lu said, judging from her attitude towards Jia Wei's family affairs, Mrs. Lu is still a little affectionate, not as pedantic and rigid as the old scholar Lu Fuzeng.

Lu Xiaoyi has been in a posture close to the wall for a long time, and the feeling of soreness in the calf muscles is getting stronger and stronger, and I don't know when Mrs. Lu started to pull her father in, but after careful analysis, from arranging Lu Fuzeng to run a private school, to Mrs. Lu's raising pigs and chickens, and finally Lu Jiawei's family affairs, after saying it one by one, it must involve her father next.

Sure enough, as Lu Xiaoyi thought, Mrs. Lu said to Lu Zhong kindly: "Zhong'er, wait a long time, grandmother is not acting in front of you." It's for you to see the real situation of the big house and see what kind of life the big house is living now! After speaking, he glanced at the few people in the big room.

A few people in the big house are embarrassed, and Lu Zhong is even more embarrassed, although he is a family, he is already the son of the second room and the second room who went out of the family, and he dared to listen to the family affairs of the big house, how inconvenient to say!

Mrs. Lu smiled: "That's the case, I heard that your family's scone business is doing well, I want you to help our family!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi's thoughts at the moment are the same as Lu Zhong's. They all guessed that Mrs. Lu wanted to use the face of her elders to suppress Lu Zhong. Let him hand over the scone recipe, thinking of this, Lu Xiaoyi gritted his teeth and complained: "I just had a better impression of you, but now I have fallen to the bottom again." I didn't expect the big house to succeed. You're here again! Hum! There are no doors. Fortunately, I let Brother Liang out of the horse at the beginning, otherwise this recipe is really ours, and my father may give it to you! ”

Who knew that Mrs. Lu's next words were not to ask for a prescription. "Don't worry, I'm not asking you for a cake recipe, but I want Si's daughter-in-law to go to your house to help bake the cakes, I heard that Lian'er and Yong's daughter-in-law are also helping you, and even invited outsiders."

Lu Zhong said: "Back to grandmother, it's true!" ”

"This is a good thing, relatives and neighbors can help it!" Mrs. Lu nodded, "Catch Ming'er and let Si's daughter-in-law go to your house to help bake the cakes!" How much to earn a little family, it can also be regarded as a help for the big house! ”

Mrs. Lu didn't ask too much, she didn't ask for a recipe and didn't ask Lu Zhong to offer the cakes to her granddaughter-in-law's shop, but asked her daughter-in-law Lu Si to help bake the cakes to earn wages.

Lu Zhong thought about it and nodded, Mrs. Lu smiled happily and said yes again and again! Lu Si's daughter-in-law saw that her goal had been achieved, and she was also happy in her heart, hum! If she didn't want to give Fangzi, she would come in through Mrs. Lu, and she didn't believe in learning.

Mrs. Lu was very satisfied when she saw Lu Zhong's promise, and thought that her eldest daughter-in-law came to cry to her in the morning, saying that Lu Zhong's family had made money by baking cakes, which caused rumors in the village, and she kindly reminded her, but she didn't expect Zhong's daughter-in-law to scrape her out of the door with her eyes on the top of her head, she was really kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs! Mrs. Lu didn't know what her daughter-in-law was, so after ignoring and reprimanding her, Mrs. Lu Si's daughter-in-law came again, saying that she wanted to go to Lu Zhong's house to help bake cakes and make money to supplement the family, so Mrs. Lu helped and said.

It's okay to help, but it's not okay to ask for a prescription, they are all their own children and grandchildren, Mrs. Lu doesn't allow this kind of intrigue of her own people to happen, so she invited Lu Zhong to come and put everything in the big house in order from the beginning.

When the people in the hall dispersed, Lu Xiaoyi also planned to retreat, and when he turned around, he saw that Xiao Ding was helping Jiluo expand the land, shoveling all the usable land in the corner of the wall soft, and helping her to load grass ash mixed with the soil to fatten, Xiao Geng and Jiluo watched carefully on the side.

Lu Xiaoyi wanted to sneak back to help, but when he raised his feet, he found that his legs were sore, so he had to stand in place and wait for Ma Jin to pass, but he didn't expect to hear a long sigh from the hall, it turned out that Mrs. Lu was still there!

I only heard her say to herself: "I'm old, I'm old, I can't manage it for a few days, I knew that I shouldn't have entered the city in the first place, who wants to go around or go back to the same place, don't talk about it, and the family is empty!" Ay! Don't believe it, don't believe it! The tone was full of disappointment and sadness, and from the mouth of a white-haired old man, there was a sense of gloom and vicissitudes.

Lu Xiaoyi wanted to listen to her again, but unfortunately it was quiet next, and Mrs. Lu's voice came from the front yard, "You must be playing in the backyard, Zhong'er, you wait, I'll help you call." ”

Lu Xiaoyi endured the numbness of her legs and stumbled to the small plot of Jiluo, Mrs. Lu appeared at the door of the backyard, looking in a good mood, and said to Lu Xiaoyi with a smile: "Hurry up to the front yard, your father is leaving, waiting for you!" ”

Xiao Ding's face was all ash, "Wait, I'll go wash it." ”

Mrs. Lu said: "Don't wash it, go back to your house to wash it, it's not easy to carry water at my uncle's grandmother's house." "I can't bear water.

Xiao Ding pouted and returned the little shovel to Ji Luo, and walked out with Xiao Yi Xiao Geng, and the voice of Mrs. Lu reprimanding Ji Luo came from behind him: "The good yard was shoveled like this by you, why are you so loser?" Also, the ground is full of grass ash, go get a broom and sweep it clean! ”

"Humph! I'm a kid! I don't sweep. Ji Luo dragged the little shovel and chased after Lu Xiaoyi's sister and brother, and the angry Mrs. Lu stomped her feet and scolded in the back.

Lu Zhong waited outside the courtyard, saw his children come out, and said with a smile: "It's really playing in the backyard!" I thought you were home! ”

Xiao Geng rushed forward and said, "Dad, my sisters and I are helping my cousin grow vegetables!" ”

Xiao Jiluo also said to Lu Zhong excitedly: "Second uncle and second uncle, the autumn melon I planted has sprouted, I'll take you to the backyard to see!" ”

Lu Zhong smiled, "Another day, another day, the second uncle will help you build an autumn melon rack, and when the autumn melon is finished, will you send the second uncle one?" ”

Ji Luo nodded, very happy, and dragged the small shovel all the way to Lu Zhong's house.

Yulan was already waiting at home, and wanted to wait for Lu Zhong to come back and go to the field to cut the sweet potato vine together, but he didn't expect to be called by the big house to delay for a long time, and when he came back, the pigs in the pen were hungry and almost turned over, and Yulan didn't care about asking about the big house, and it was the right thing to cut the sweet potato vine back first.

So, the family was busy with their own work, Yulan Lu Zhong went to the field to cut sweet potato vines, Lu Xiaoyi went to the stream to catch screws and mussel shells and came back to feed the chickens, Xiao Ding Xiaogeng was responsible for leading the calf to the stream to graze, and Jiluo dragged the small shovel to follow. (To be continued......)