After Lao Lu entered the house, he didn't look at their brothers, so he went to the bed in the room and lay down, it was Lu Yu's bed, and Lu Ming would squeeze with him when he came back. The bed in Lao Lu's room has not slept for a long time, there is no bedding on it, only dust.

The brothers looked at each other, unwilling to disturb their father. Lu Yu said, "Leave him alone", and went to scoop the noodles again, there are three of them, and the dumplings should be wrapped more.

When it was getting dark, firecrackers began to sound in the village. The custom here is to have a reunion dinner in the evening, and firecrackers will be set off before the meal. Of course they didn't buy it, and it wasn't a reunion dinner at night. When the sound of firecrackers was the most intensive, Lu Yu took the wrapped dumplings to the kitchen to prepare for the pot.

Maybe he was hungry, or maybe the firecrackers were too noisy, and Lao Lu woke up. He dangled to the kitchen and asked Lu Yu as soon as he opened his mouth: "Have you drunk?" ”

Lu Yu didn't reply, and replied, "No, Lu Ming and I don't drink." ”

"Who doesn't drink during the New Year?" Lao Lu was a little angry.

Lu Yujue was very funny and funny, although the situation like today has lasted for several years, he is still a little difficult to accept.

Lu Yu asked rhetorically, "Do you want to drink?" Why didn't I call back in town. "Lao Lu is their father, Lu Yu will care about him, but Lu Yu doesn't respect him at all in his heart, let alone fear him. Lu Yu thought to himself: "Will he beat himself?" Maybe, it's okay to be hit twice by him. ”

"Unfilial son......" Lu Yu's father was indeed very angry, and his eyes and nose were red. Lu Yu didn't care about him and continued to cook dumplings.

At this time, Lu Ming walked in, he reached out and pulled his father, trying to pull Lao Lu out of the kitchen. Father slapped Lu Ming's hand away with a slam of his hand. The two of them froze in the kitchen, and Lu Yu used the pot and spoon to pluck the dumplings that were tumbling with the boiling water, which was similar to stiffness.

After standing for a while, Lao Lu still went out, and he didn't say anything more. Lu Ming came over and patted Lu Yu on the shoulder, and sat in front of the stove to help light the fire. Lu Yu stared at the dumplings intently, and his heart was suddenly very calm, really.

When eating dumplings, Lao Lu was also on the table, and the father and son sat opposite each other, but they didn't say a word. Although there is no wine, Lao Lu still eats very fragrant, Xu is usually hungry, he can eat more than his own two young men, and he eats half of a large pot of dumplings alone. Fortunately, Lu Yu had a lot of food, and he and Lu Ming were almost full.

After eating, Lao Lu fell to sleep on Lu Yu's bed again. Lu Yu asked Lu Ming to wash the dishes, and he went to take out the old quilt and mattress from the cabinet and spread it on the bed where their father and mother used to be. When holding the quilt, Lu Yu suddenly thought that if his mother was still alive, then these quilts and mattresses should be clean and have a sunny taste.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he has to go out to pay New Year's greetings, although Lu Yu usually doesn't like to walk around with the people in the village, he still has to go to worship on the first day of the new year. When he got up early in the morning to cook and went to call his father to eat, he found that his father was no longer in the house. Glancing at the room where he had slept in, it was a bit messy, and it was obvious that he had turned it over.

Lu Yu suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly went to open the old wardrobe against the wall, and sure enough, the two taels of silver he put in the innermost corner were gone.

Lu Yu only saved more than five taels of silver in total, and gave Lu Ming more than one tael last time, and the remaining four taels were hidden in two places, and half of them were taken away by his father this time.

The days can't be passed, Lu Yu is going to keep it for Lu Mingcheng's personal use, although it is less, but he can always buy a little, now it's okay.

Lu Ming also found out that something was wrong and asked Lu Yu what was wrong. Lu Yu said that his father took two taels of silver and left, and he had saved it for a long time.

Two taels of silver is not a small amount for the Lu Yu brothers, they can buy forty or fifty catties of meat, and they can eat more than half a year when they are exchanged for food, and they don't know how long they can drink when they are exchanged for wine. Lu Yu sighed: "Alas, I can't live this day." ”

Lu Yu was a little distressed, and Lu Ming was not happy, but there was no way. The two of them were not in the mood to eat breakfast, so they packed up and prepared to go out for New Year's greetings.

The brothers went out for a walk, of course, only to those who were of high seniority and had old people in the family, and they came back soon. New Year's greetings are like this, usually no matter whether there is a contradiction or not, the New Year's Day must be polite in the past few days, all speaking auspicious words, smiling and smiling to send to. Lu Yu didn't know how real or false the enthusiasm of the past few days of the New Year was, but he liked this atmosphere, as if everyone was really a family.

Lao Lu is not at home, and the Lu Yu brothers are not of high seniority, and they are not married, so no one usually gives us New Year's greetings. But this year was a little different, and soon after returning home, Lao Gao took his son to Lu Yu's house.

Lu Yu and Lao Gao are not of the same clan, so there is no way to compare who is higher. But Lao Gao is older, and it stands to reason that Lu Yu has to call him brother, so it was his son who opened his mouth to say New Year's greetings. The little guy is a little thin, let his mother be.

There are juniors who pay New Year's greetings, and the elders are going to give snacks and gadgets, and the embarrassing thing is that Lu Yu's family doesn't seem to have anything for children to eat and play with, so they can only put more sugar in the boiled water of their father and son.

"Brother, didn't you buy candy?" Lu Ming was also embarrassed.

Lu Yu smiled: "I forgot." Then he said to Lao Gao: "I'm sorry, I haven't prepared anything at home, or you and Xiaocai will eat here at noon." ”

Lao Gao took a sip of water and said nonchalantly: "What's polite, I'll take my son to see you." ”

Lu Yu was still a little embarrassed, changed the subject, and asked, "Did the wild boar run out last time?" ”

Lao Gao came to the energy and said happily: "Wild boars are really worth a lot more than pigs raised at home." A total of 117 catties of meat, I will give you a little, my mother-in-law and her mother's family will send more than a dozen catties, keep a little, and sell 85 catties. Hehe, guess how much I sell for a pound? ”

Lao Gao is really frank enough, I thought about it for a while, and said, "There is always a hundred Wen, right?" ”

"Hehe, one hundred and forty wen a catty, two kidneys sold for seven hundred wen, and I ate my stomach and everything, a total of more than a dozen taels."

Lu Yu exclaimed: "Good guy, planting a field for two years may not have such a good harvest." ”

"That being said, but luck is nothing." Lao Gao's face was full of joy.

Lu Yu was a little tempted and wanted to go hunting with Lao Gaoxue. But when he thought about it, he stopped in his heart, and realized that he was not that material.

The old master is really good, although he is a little thoughtful, he is still relatively honest overall, the key is that he doesn't talk much, and he won't ask Lu Yu and Lu Ming when they will get married.

Lao Gao naturally didn't have lunch at Lu Yu's house, and Lu Yu felt even more embarrassed when he watched Xiaocai bounce away. Not to mention that he ate wild boar meat that was more than one or two pieces of silver, he said that he could bring his son to pay New Year's greetings, which made the Lu Yu brothers have a great impression of Lao Gao.

After Lao Gao left, Lu Yu said to Lu Ming: "Tomorrow on the second day of the new year, you will go to Zhang's house to pay New Year's greetings." Lu Yu suddenly found that his brothers didn't understand this kind of new family etiquette at all, and he felt that he should find an elder who understood and asked.

"I should." Lu Ming didn't understand either.

"Well, let's go to the third grandfather's house and ask in a while, he must know what to prepare." The third grandfather is Lu Yu's own family, but the relationship is a little far apart, and the grandfather of the third grandfather and the grandfather of Lu Yu seem to be cousins. Although I don't usually move around much, I shouldn't refuse to ask him for advice.