The two of them shifted the topic to Ah Li again, one of them took Ah Li's hand, asked questions with "care and enthusiasm", and said that Lu Ming was so down-to-earth and so on, as if they were more familiar with Lu Ming than Ah Li.

Ah Li is a little introverted, and she doesn't like others to hold her hand with extra fingers, so she can only smile reluctantly at this time, coping with it awkwardly.

Lu Yu was not disgusted with their enthusiasm, even if it was not particularly sincere. He hadn't seen this kind of cliché and common politeness and enthusiasm for many years, and at this time he was in a trance, as if he had returned to his childhood, following his father out to visit relatives, and those relatives and elders would show exactly the same politeness and enthusiasm as the second and third aunts now when they saw themselves.

Seeing that Ah Li was very uncomfortable, Mrs. Zhang came out and took over the words of the two. A woman of similar age will always have a lot of topics, and Ah Li was immediately liberated.

Lu Yu said to Lu Ming and Ah Li: "The sheep at home haven't been herded yet, why don't you go out with me to herd the sheep?" ”

"Okay, it's this winter, is there still grass on the mountain?"

Lu Yu said: "Dead grass can also be eaten, this year the weather is warm, and there is grass that has not died." ”

"Go ahead, it's okay at home." Ah Li was reluctant to stay at home, and had meaningless and embarrassing pleasantries with people who were strangers to her.

Lu Ming was going to leave the fish at home for his parents-in-law to take care of, but the little girl stuck to her mother and wanted to follow. So Lu Yu drove the sheep, took his younger brother's family of three, and slowly shook to the hillside where the sheep are usually grazing.

When I arrived at the hillside, I saw Lao Gao also herding sheep with his son.

When Lao Gao saw Lu Ming, he waved his hand to say hello.

Lu Ming is several years younger than Lao Gao, and he rarely played together in the past, Lao Gao is so enthusiastic, more because of his relationship with Lu Yu.

"Da Yu, why are you still taking Xiao Ming with them when you herd sheep."

Lu Ming said: "Come out and go around, it's too boring at home." ”

"Hehe, it's okay to go around." Lao Gao looked at Lu Jiayu again and said with a smile: "This girl looks very good, like Lu Ming." ”

"Huh."

Lao Gao and Lu Ming didn't have anything to say, and asked Lu Yu again: "When will we go up the mountain to hunt again?" ”

"In a few days, have you finished eating your meat?" Last time I hunted, one person shared a wild boar, and there were some rabbits and pheasants or something, Lu Yu gave Lu Ming's family a small half, and kept a little for himself, and the rest was given to the Yan family, and some of them have not been eaten yet. There should be more left in Lao Gao's family.

"Nope." Lao Gao looked at his family's eight sheep and said, "My sister's family is going back and wants to get something for them to bring back." ”

"Aren't you here for the New Year?"

"They refused, saying they wanted to go home for the New Year. Hey, it's the same everywhere, when they go back, I have to help them prepare food. ”

Lao Gao mentioned food, and Lu Yu said: "You don't have much food at home, go back to me and get some." "Lu Yu's family still has a lot of grain, even if there is no rice planted in the valley, they can eat it until next autumn's harvest.

"Hehe, those sweet potatoes in my house are rotten a lot, so I won't change them with you."

Lu Ming was holding his daughter and riding on the back of a ram, and Ah Li was watching the goat graze with great interest.

Lu Yu glanced at Lu Ming and them, then turned his head to Lao Gao and said, "No, you go to my house to get some, I am alone, I can't eat so much food." ”

"Aren't there still your brothers? And the Nayan family. ”

"Don't worry, I'm really enough."

The old man raised his head, smiled, and said, "Okay, I'll borrow some from you and pay you back next year." ”

Lu Yu wanted to say, "No need to pay it back", but after thinking about it, he felt that there was no need to say it.

Lu Yu drove the goat to another hillside, and when the goat moved, Lu Jiayu couldn't ride, so Lu Ming put her on Lu Yu's neck.

"Come down, little fish." Ah Li felt that it was a bit bad to let Lu Yu carry his daughter.

Jiayu refused to come down, but pounced on Lu Yu's head, holding his head and not letting go.

"It's okay, my brother likes children." Lu Ming asked Lu Yu again: "Brother, are you really with the little girl of the Yan family?" ”

"Well, sort of." Lu Yu lowered his head, a little embarrassed.

"Then when are you going to get married?"

Ah Li also said: "Big brother likes children so much, get married early, and give birth to one himself." ”

Lu Yu was even more embarrassed, and said with a smile: "It's still early." ”

"Are you Chinese New Year's Eve three? Thirty-four? It's not early. Lu Ming seems to have forgotten that he was also an older young man when he got married, and now he is talking about Lu Yu again.

"Lu Ming, you see that the eldest brother looks younger than you, no wonder he is not in a hurry."

Lu Yu smiled, glanced at Lu Ming again, and found that his younger brother had indeed aged a little in the past two years, and there were already some shallow wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. He thought that he had been "getting younger and younger" in the past few years, but he didn't have half a joy in his heart.

"yes, my brother is really getting a lot younger." Lu Ming smiled bitterly, and said, "It's all born to the same parents, why are they getting more and more different now?" ”

Lu Ming didn't ask Lu Yu what he had experienced in the past few years, but Lu Yu felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and he almost told the secret of his cultivation. However, he still held back, thinking to himself: "It seems that it's time to study some elixirs or something, let Lu Ming eat it, even if he can't increase his cultivation, and become a cultivator like himself, at least it must be able to prolong his life." ”

Ah Li smiled: "When we are all old in the future, I am afraid that the eldest brother will be so young." ”

"Hehe, in fact, I only recently remembered why I was a little different." Lu Yu decided to make up a lie, a lie that would make him feel better.

Lu Ming hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

"I didn't know why before, but recently I think about it, I'm afraid it's because I once killed a big red python in the mountains, and then ate the snake gall, so I became like this." Lu Yu has seen a lot of anecdotes about some people eating the internal organs of spirit beasts and becoming immortals, this little lie, he told it carelessly.

"What snake? Eating snake gall bladder makes it stronger? General Lu Ming was skeptical, but he was very interested in Lu Yu's statement.

Lu Yu's face was not red and his heart was not beating: "It is as thick as an arm, it is estimated that it is three or four zhang long, and the whole body is red." ”

"That snake is powerful, isn't it? Why did you kill me? ”

"Don't you know, our kitchen knife is very sharp, and at that time the python entangled me, and I was almost strangled to death, and finally used our kitchen knife to cut the snake in two." When he said this, Lu Yu showed a look of palpitation.

"It's dangerous." Lu Ming said with some envy: "Even if it's not a spirit snake that wants to cultivate Jackie Chan." ”

Lu Yu shook his head and smiled: "Hey, I can't tell." After a pause, he said: "Later, my health is getting better and better, and it is getting different day by day, and I always wonder why this is happening." Recently, when I think about it, I think it's because I ate that snake gall bladder. He stretched out his hand again and gestured: "The snake gall is bigger than an egg, red and red, I heard that eating snake gall is good for the eyes, so I swallowed it in one bite." ”

Ah Li was also curious: "What about after eating?" Didn't anything change then? ”

"At that time? It didn't change much, but after I went home, I slept for three days in a row. Or four days. ”

"Hey, such a good thing, if I encounter it again, get my daughter something to eat."

Lu Yu took his niece off his neck, hugged him in his arms, and said, "Later, I was hunting, and I was also looking for it, if only I could meet another spirit snake like that." Lu Yu suddenly thought to himself: "If there is really such a snake, then a magical snake gall, is it for my niece to eat, or is it given to Yan Xi'an?" ”

"This kind of good thing, how can you say that you will encounter it." Ah Li asked Lu Ming to take his daughter back, and said: "Jiayu, her uncle is amazing, and no one will dare to bully us Jiayu in the future." ”

Lu Yu smiled, lowered his head again, and remembered the incident when Lu Ming's family was in distress.

In winter, the hillside is yellow, and there is a little old grass that has not completely withered and is half yellow and half green. The goats picked their mouths and picked up the half-yellow and half-green grass to eat, and when the bellies of the seven sheep were bulging, it was already afternoon.

drove the sheep home, and saw that there were still people at home chatting with Zhang Qiye and his wife, who were also Lu Yu's elders. When Lu Yu and the others went to herd sheep, it is estimated that there were several waves of people at home.

is still praising Lu Ming's daughter for being handsome and well-behaved, and praising Lu Ming for being sensible and down-to-earth, Lu Yu said a few words with him, and then went out to the mountain.

Lu Yu quickly went to the waterhole under the waterfall, caught two fish from the pool, and caught a rabbit on the way back.

When I got home, there were finally no outsiders, Ah Li was cleaning the house, and Lu Ming's mother-in-law was cooking in the kitchen.

Lu Yu hurriedly went to the kitchen and invited Mrs. Zhang out, she was a guest, and Lu Yu couldn't let her cook. Mrs. Zhang repeatedly insisted on helping, but in the end, Lu Yu had no choice but to let Lu Ming help her.

Since he was a child, Lu Ming has never cooked, when he was very young, it was his mother who cooked, and after his mother died, it was Lu Yu who cooked, so although Lu Ming had been running in a restaurant in the town for a year or two, he was actually not very good at cooking.

Lu Yu asked Lu Ming to light the fire, went to the backyard to kill the fish, and scalded the rabbit with boiling water and skinned it. Two grass carp, Lu Yu is going to fry one, cook one, and then fry a braised rabbit meat, and just get a vegetarian dish.

In the days when the Yan family was there, most of the time Mrs. Yan cooked, but Lu Yu didn't do it less. At that time, every time Lu Yu cooked, he would cook with heart, wanting to make the food as delicious as possible. These days, although Lu Yu has not learned any new dishes, his cooking skills are much stronger.

There are fish and rabbits, and the rabbit meat must be made first, otherwise there will be fishy fish in the pot.

The braised meat dishes are almost the same, Lu Yu first adds a large bowl of water to the pot, after the water is warm, pour the rabbit meat cut into pieces, then cover the pot and start simmering, and when the water boils, it will simmer for a while.

The rabbit meat was almost stewed, Lu Yu scooped it up, rinsed it directly with cold water a few times, and put it in a bowl to prepare for frying.

Hares are no more fat than rabbits, and there is no oil, so you should put more oil in the pan before frying. After the oil is heated, pour the washed chives and chopped ginger into the pot and stir-fry until fragrant.

After the rabbit meat was put into the pot again, Lu Yu felt that it was still not enough oil, and the meat was dull, so he added a small spoonful of lard and a small glass of white wine, and then stir-fried.

Braised rabbit meat is not good just by stir-frying, after stir-frying the fragrance, you have to add water to simmer for the second time.

Wait until there is only about 20% of the water left in the pot, and then you can open the lid and continue stir-frying. At this time, the rabbit meat is already cooked thoroughly, stir-fry a few times, put salt, sprinkle chopped green onions, and you can start the pot.