Chapter 30: The Apprentice
Early the next morning, Lu Yuan came to the camphor hut, and before he could get closer, the big wolf jumped up from the ground, bared his teeth and cracked his mouth, and whispered "woo".
Lu Yuan flicked his sleeves: "What's so ruthless! I'm here to learn art." Senior Brother Lu!
A confused voice came from inside: "Shout something." People slept late yesterday, so let's sleep a little longer. ”
Lu Yuan was stunned, and said in his heart, what my cousin said is right, this Senior Brother Lu is indeed a bit of a mother.
After waiting for half an hour, Lu Yuan was really a little impatient. He is a dignified young master of the Lu Mansion, when has he ever been neglected like this?
However, the big wolf was very vicious, and he would not let him enter the door.
The door creaked open, Lu Yi rubbed his eyes and came out, yawning and saying, "Come in, sit casually." ”
Lu Yuan entered the house, except for the two long benches, there was no other place to sit in this room. The bed was a mess, and it was uncomfortable to look at it again.
He walked to the bench, hesitated, but couldn't help but wipe off the dust with his sleeve, and then sat down carefully.
Lu Yi saw it in his eyes, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Lu, I haven't eaten breakfast yet, please go and help me get some food." ”
Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and looked around: "Where to get it?"
Lu Yi was also stunned: "Where do you usually eat?"
Lu Yuan said: "A servant sent it to my room. ”
Lu Yi said in his heart, sure enough, it was a rich and noble brother, so he smiled and said: "Go up the mountain road for half a mile, go to the restaurant, and if you have steamed buns, you can take five." ”
Lu Yuan had no choice but to get up.
There were a few people in the restaurant who were familiar with each other on weekdays, and they were all a little surprised to see Lu Yuan coming in person. One of the girls was the one who had quarreled with Lu Yuan on the day she entered the palace, and she sneered a few words.
Lu Yuan blushed slightly, wrapped five steamed buns with lotus leaves, and was just about to leave, when the girl passed by him, deliberately bumped his shoulder, and the two steamed buns fell to the ground.
"You!" Lu Yuan was angry.
The girl scoffed and looked at him defiantly.
Because he had to hurry back to the camphor hut, Lu Yuan had to put down his anger, hurriedly changed two clean steamed buns, and returned without arguing with her.
Lu Yi picked up a steamed bun and took a big bite, almost choking. said vaguely to Lu Yuan: "It's too dry, help me get some water to drink." ”
Lu Yuan's small mouth pursed: "Why do you want me to do this and that?"
Lu Yi swallowed the steamed bun with great effort, and said seriously: "You want to be an apprentice, and you can't help the master with work?"
Lu Yuan's face turned red, and he wanted to say that I didn't give you Xie Yi? The words came to his mouth and swallowed hard, he stood up with a breath, and went to the well to fetch water angrily.
Ah Yi looked at his back and sighed: "Yun'er, why are you so difficult for him?"
Tao Yunjin smiled: "This child is pampered at first glance. I'm afraid no one but me would dare to ask him to do such a job. Rest assured, he won't be tired by doing it, and he can also exercise his muscles and bones. I'm not Zhou Peel, and I won't squeeze him to death. ”
Ah Yi thought for a while and said, "Oh, I understand, just like that sentence says, the sky will descend on the people, and they must work their muscles and bones first, you mean that, right?"
Tao Yunjin was stunned: "I'm not so profound, I just want to tease him." ”
As he spoke, Lu Yuan had already brought a bowl of water to the table.
Lu Yi took a sip, which was very refreshing.
After eating the two steamed buns, he pushed the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Wash the dishes, sweep the floor, and make the bed." ”
Lu Yuan's small mouth was already pouted enough to hang an oil bottle: "You lie to people, if you don't teach me, it's just that, and you still instruct me to work, you don't even talk count!"
Lu Yi smiled: "When you satisfy me, I will teach you when I am." ”
Lu Yuan's two eye sockets immediately turned red, and tears flashed in the corners of his eyes.
Lu Yi took a closer look, and said in a long tone: "Oh! I'm going to cry!It's not a sin for a man to cry~~Taste the taste of tears that have been absent for a long time~~Even if it rains, it's a kind of beauty~~It's better to take advantage of this opportunity~~Cry again~~"
Lu Yuan couldn't cry when he sang like this, he just glared at him hatefully, but he didn't know what to do.
Lu Yi pursed his lips and imitated Lu Yuan's appearance: "So wronged, it's better to go home and find your mother!"
Lu Yuan snorted fiercely in his nose: "I don't! I want to work! I want to learn art!"
Lu Yi said curiously: "Why? What is there to learn about this thing? You are more than enough to fight the enemy with the true body of the Golden King Jackal!"
Lu Yuan lowered his eyes and said slowly: "I think so too." But my mother said that as long as I learned dragon scale armor, she would take me to the barracks to find my father. It's been a long time since I've seen my father, and I want to see him. ”
At a young age, there is a taste of desolation and loneliness when he says this.
Lu Yi was silent for a long time. Then he stood up, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then made the bed.
Lu Yuan hurriedly grabbed a broom to clean the room, and Lu Yi didn't stop him.
swept to a small crack in the corner of the wall, and suddenly a small round head came out of it, staring at two small eyes, facing Lu Yuan.
"Mouse!" Lu Yuan turned the handle of the broom and smashed it at the mouse's head.
"Squeak!" the rat flew out of the sky with a frightened cry and slipped back into the burrow.
"Where to escape!" Lu Yuan threw away the broom, smashed it with his fist, and with a bang, smashed a hole in the foot of the wall.
Lu Yi hurriedly came over to see: "Hey, my wall, what are you doing?"
Lu Yuan stared at the big eyes of the copper bell and searched into the hole: "A big mouse, disgusting to death!"
Lu Yi thoughtfully, pulled him away, and called softly into the hole: "San'er, is it you?"
A cry came from the depths of the hole: "Ah Yi~~ Who was that just now, you almost beat me to death~~Woo~~ I came all the way to see you, am I easy? Woo~~"
Lu Yi couldn't cry or laugh: "San'er, you come out first." ”
San'er's round head came out of the hole, and when he saw Lu Yuan, he was frightened.
As soon as Lu Yuan saw him, he was also full of excitement, and the broom handle in his hand tightened again.
Lu Yi pointed at him and said, "Calm down, put down the broom for me!"
Lu Yuan was very reluctant: "How can there be rats in the house? It's too dirty!"
San'er took a sip when she heard this: "I'm sorry! I groom my hair every day, and I'm much cleaner than you." ”
Lu Yuan pouted: "Rats have fleas, and they are looking for something to eat in the garbage heap all day long." ”
San'er leaned out of the hole, crossed his hands on his waist, and said angrily: "You only have fleas on you, and your whole family has fleas!
Lu Yuan suddenly pointed behind him and shouted, "Ahhh
From the dark place of the hole behind San'er, two small furballs rolled out, not as big as an adult's thumb, startled by Lu Yuan's shout, and rolled behind San'er to hide.
San'er scolded: "Ahh
Lu Yi exclaimed: "Wow! San'er, you are a father! Let me see, kawaii!"
Stretched out a finger to approach the two balls of hairballs behind San'er, and the two balls of hairballs panicked, squeezed one after another, and desperately stuffed under San'er's buttocks.
San'er changed his face, pulled out a ball with one hand, pushed it in front of Lu Yi, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't be shy! This is Uncle Lu, call Uncle Lu quickly." ”
Four thin arms and legs emerged from the hairball, pink flesh with no hair covering, and two smaller eyes, as if sesame seeds were embedded in them.
The furball blinked and opened his mouth to shout, "Squeak!"
San'er explained, "They called you, Ah Yi. ”
Lu Yi smiled: "Hello children, what's the name of the child?"
The furball replied, "Squeak! squeak!"
San'er explained: "Twenty-seven, twenty-eight. ”
Lu Yi was stunned, this is the name?
San'er laughed embarrassedly: "These are the eldest and second in the second litter." The first litter gave birth to twenty-six. That's why they were called by that name. There are so many cubs that I can't even remember calling them that. ”
Lu Yi patted San'er on the shoulder: "Among the brothers, it belongs to you." ”
San'er touched his smooth and shiny head and laughed.
Lu Yi saw that there was nothing to eat in the house, and said, "I didn't know that you came today, and you didn't prepare anything." In this way, you sit down for a while, and I'll go up to the back mountain to hunt some game. ”
So he went to the back mountain with the big wolf, and when he came back after a while, he saw San'er sitting on the bed, playing with two hair balls on top of his head, and the three heads were like a string of sugar gourds.
Lu Yuan clenched the handle of the broom and pestled it straight by the door, looking bitter and hateful.
Lu Yi took off the broom and sighed lightly, "Relax." ”
He threw the hares, marmots, and brown-backed jays in his hand to him: "Go and pick up the feathers, peel the skin into tubes, and give me the rest, you don't know how to burn it to be delicious." ”
Lu Yuan seemed to be listening to the book from heaven: "Mao ...... Masturbated?skin...... I won't. ”
Lu Yi frowned: "What will you do?"
Lu Yuan lowered his head and said, "I can eat." ”
Lu Yi snatched the prey and glared at him fiercely. "Come and light the fire!"
From time to time, there was laughter and squeaky laughter on the bed, and San'er moved the two hair balls from the top of his head to his belly and used them as trampolines to play with.
Lu Yuan sat in front of the makeshift earthen stove, adding firewood to the stove, and raised his eyes from time to time to look at the grandfather over there. There was a little envy in his eyes, when he was very young, his father also played with him like this!
Lu Yi glanced at him a few times and said with a smile: "What are you looking at?"
Lu Yuan lowered his eyes and did not speak.
Lu Yi paid attention to his expression and said slowly: "I heard that your father is a dragon." Why don't you have dragon scale armor?"
Lu Yuan said casually while lighting the fire: "What's so strange about this? Mother said that she has the blood of the Golden King Jackal in her clan, but not the blood of the Dragon. So it's possible for me to inherit the true body of the Golden King Jackal. ”
Lu Yuan said again: "But I still want to have dragon scale armor, not only because I want my mother to take me to see my father, but also because I think the dragon scale armor is majestic, just like my father! I want to follow my father in the army in the future and fight with him on the battlefield! Just like the old saying, father and son soldiers go into battle!"
Lu Yi nodded, and asked again, "Is your father good to you?"
Lu Yuan was proud: "Of course! Father loves me, although he never says it." But I can feel it. It is...... He doesn't come home much. ”
Lu Yi was silent for a long time, and said, "It's okay for me to teach you dragon scale armor, but you can't say that I taught it, and you can't say it to your father." It's our secret, can we do it?"
Lu Yuan was a little surprised: "Mother also told me so. ”
Lu Yi took off the fire stick in his hand: "Okay, you are not needed here." Go, invite Senior Sister Xu over. ”
Lu Yuan's heart thumped: "What are you doing? You want to sue! Am I not doing a good job?!"
Lu Yi rolled his eyes and shook the braised rabbit meat in his hand: "I'll invite her to dinner." ”
Lu Yuan lowered his head and went obediently.