Lu Yu felt that Yangshan Village should not need to ask someone to help collect food, but Yan Jibai thought that it was not necessarily, last year the dragon crocodile entered the village, killing and injuring many men, and those families without men, relying only on women and children, it is difficult to recover food.

All the families in the village planted a lot of land this spring, especially sweet potatoes, except for Lu Yu, who planted a lot. Last year, the families where the dragon crocodile entered the village and killed the man, it is estimated that they will ask someone to help. In fact, they can also invite people from the village, but those who invite from the village will definitely not be able to give only five catties of grain a day. Those people in Dunlin Town are cheap, but it is better to invite them than not to invite them.

Lu Yu didn't bother to think about it a lot, as long as these northerners didn't make trouble in the village, they would do whatever they liked. If they wanted to make trouble, Lu Yu would not be polite.

After a few more days, the lees in the vat were almost fermented, and the sake was ready to be steamed. There are more things to pay attention to when steaming wine, such as how many times to steam, the heat of steaming, the time, the utensils for receiving the wine, etc., all of which are particular. Lu Yu didn't know much, and he didn't care about how many steaming and brewing, he only steamed once.

Lu Yu's family didn't have a wooden barrel, so he used another clay pot to catch the wine. The clay jar looks small, but in fact, if it is full, it can hold three or four hundred catties of water. The wine steamed out this time was only more than 100 catties, and when it was put in a clay jar, it seemed that the clay jar was empty.

After the wine was steamed, Lu Yu asked Yan Jibai to taste the first sip first. Yan Jibai does like to drink, and the last time he drank was in the first month, he hadn't smelled alcohol for more than half a year. He took a bowl of wine feet (the last steamed wine) from a porcelain bowl, brought it to his mouth, and drank it in small sips.

Lu Yu finished drinking it in vain and asked him, "How is this wine?" ”

"Ha ......" Yan took a sip of wine, his expression looked very happy, and then said: "Yes, this wine is very good." ”

Lu Yu scooped half a bowl from the tank and drank it, the wine was very spicy, as soon as he drank it, his mouth and throat were hot, and then even his chest and abdomen were hot, but he couldn't taste good or bad, for Lu Yu, all the liquor tasted the same.

In order to "celebrate" the brewing of new wine, Lu Yu decided to have a big meal in the evening. There is no meat at home, and now hunting in the mountains may not be able to hunt wild boars, Lu Yu decided to go to the mountains to catch a few fish and come back.

There were fish in the stream of Anding Valley, but there were not many of them, Lu Yu did not go to the valley, but went to the deep pool under the waterfall from the secret passage, and caught three big grass carp in the pool. When I came back, I met a pheasant on the road again, and naturally it was put into Lu Yu's bag.

In the evening, the dishes were braised fish, stewed pheasant, grass carp stewed radish, and fried eggplant and beans by Mrs. Yan.

After Yan Xiding came to Yangshan Village, he ate a lot of fish, and he really likes to eat fish, whether it is braised or stewed, it is delicious. Lu Yu didn't need to eat anymore, and he felt that even if he didn't eat for a month or two, he might not be hungry. It's just that the taste of the food is still very appealing to him, and eating is purely for the sake of appetite.

I drank a bowl of wine when I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

Lu Yu went over to open the door, and it turned out to be that Qi Xiang. Lu Yu was surprised, he didn't know what Qi Xiang was looking for him to do at this time.

"Hehe, where are you eating?" Qi Xiang smelled the aroma of Lu Yu's food, and his throat moved involuntarily.

"Eating." Lu Yu didn't invite him in.

"Mr. Lu, I heard someone say today that you are the leader of this area......" Qi Xiang said this for no reason, and Lu Yu was stunned.

"Where, I'm not a leader." Lu Yu asked directly: "Old Qi, is there something wrong with you?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I just want to come and visit Mr. Lu." Qi Xiang smiled, and had no intention of leaving.

"Well, thank you very much." Lu Yu felt that it was not good for him to always stop people out of the door like this, after all, the other party said that he was here to "visit" him, so Lu Yu asked: "Do you want to come in and eat?" ”

"Then bother, hehe." Lu Yu was just polite, but Qi Xiang didn't seem to understand the politeness in his words.

Lu Yu is not a stingy person, when it comes to this, he will invite Qi Xiang to come in and add another pair of dishes and chopsticks, it is not a big deal.

Qi Xiang politely greeted everyone in the Yan family, and then looked at the dishes on the table, swallowing his saliva secretly, but he was embarrassed to move the chopsticks first.

The four members of the Yan family are all reasonable people, and Yan Jibai poured a bowl of wine for Qi Xiang and persuaded him to eat.

Qi Xiang restrained for a while, said a few words to Bai Luyu, and gradually let go. Qi Xiang has a good amount of wine, maybe a little worse than Yan Jibai, but the rules at the wine table are exquisite, and he knows more than Yan Jibai, and he can say it better.

Yan Xi'an's sister and brother should have been a little disappointed in this meal, after Qi Xiang came over, the sister and brother didn't talk much, and got off the table after eating.

I don't know how much Qi Xiang drank, and when he drank until his face was red, the conversation box was completely opened. He suddenly sighed and said, "Alas, it's better for you, you have food and drink, and the family is complete." ”

Lu Yu's heart sank, and he remembered his father who had been missing for several years.

Yan Yubai only smiled and did not speak.

Qi Xiang said again: "Mr. Yan's children are growing up well, healthy and healthy. ”

Yan Jibai smiled: "That's right." ”

"Alas, my family originally had two boys and a girl, but now they are gone."

"Both...... Gone? Lu Yu was shocked.

Qi Xiang pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers, and he didn't know if he was quietly wiping his tears, he took a breath and said, "I'm sick, I'm hungry, and I can't be cured later." ”

"Alas, this world is sad."

Qi Xiang shook his head, picked up the bowl and took another big sip.

After eating this meal for a long time, the three men each drank nearly two catties of liquor, and Yan Yubai was a little drunk, while Qi Xiang seemed to be drunk.

Qi Xiang said a lot, almost alone in what he said, and the rest of the people were listening to him. In fact, Qi Xiang is not very old, he is not yet forty this year, but he looks like a person in his early fifties. I heard him say that since the year before, the north has also been first drought, and then extremely cold. Winters in the north are already cold, and the winters of the past two years have been much colder than usual. Lu Yu and Yan Jibai couldn't imagine how cold Qi Xiang's hometown had been in the winter of the past two years.

The people who came to Yangshan Village this time were all villagers from the same village as Qixiang, a total of twenty-three people, and there were originally three or four hundred people in their village, which was about the same as the population of Yangshan Village, and now these twenty-three people are all left.

Qi Xiang has a good amount of wine, and the amount of food seems to be better, or it may be that he has not eaten a full meal for a long time, he ate a small half of the rice cooked by Lu Yu alone, and he ate most of the dishes on a table, and then Mrs. Yan went to the kitchen to fry two vegetarian dishes.

The children are gone, and Qi Xiang and his wife have survived. Lu Yu didn't know which of those northern women was Qi Xiang's daughter-in-law. But Qi Xiang said that after his children were gone, his wife couldn't stand the blow, and then went crazy.

By the time Qi Xiang was full of wine and food, it was almost time (nine o'clock in the evening), and he was so drunk that he couldn't stand up, so Lu Yu had to send him back. Before going out, Lu Yu picked up the fish that he hadn't eaten again.

Qi Xiang and his family lived in a mountain depression not far from the edge of the village, where seven or eight straw huts were built. Lu Yu sent Qi Xiang "home", and then he knew which was his daughter-in-law. Qi Xiang's daughter-in-law should not be very old, but her messy hair is already half white, and her face is full of wrinkles.

The woman was indeed delirious, she took her husband back, took the grass carp in Lu Yu's hand again, and didn't even say thank you.

There is still a period of time before the autumn harvest, and Lu Yu wants to turn over the rice fields in Anding Valley during this period, and plant rice after the autumn harvest. The four seasons are warm in Anding Valley, if it were not for the fear of insufficient soil fertility, Lu Yu would definitely plant a stubble and harvest a stubble, and then plant another stubble after harvesting.

Early this morning, Lu Yu called Yan Xi'an, carried a shovel, and brought a few lambs into the valley, but Yan Xiding didn't call him before he got up.

The sheep were grazing, Lu Yu was digging the soil and turning the fields, and Yan Xi'an was sitting on the ridges of the field, quietly watching Lu Yu.

The wind and the sun are beautiful, quiet and quiet.

"Uncle, you rest for a while, I'll tell you something."

Lu Yu stopped working, turned around, and said with a smile: "What's the matter?" ”

"Come here, sit here, and I'll tell you again."

Lu Yu stuck the shovel on the ground, clapped his hands, and walked to Yan Xi'an and sat down.

Yan Xi'an's face suddenly turned slightly red, and then he lowered his head and whispered, "My father, he seems to know about the two of us." ”

"Ah, is it?" Lu Yu was surprised and delighted, and asked, "How did he know?" I haven't told him yet. ”

"It was my mother who told him very tactfully."

"This ...... That's good. Lu Yu thought to himself: "Brother Yan now knows the relationship between himself and his daughter, will he be embarrassed to get along with him in the future?" ”

"I think it's good, too." Yan Xi'an's face was still red, and she said again: "Uncle, you know that my father already knows about the two of us, but you have to pretend not to know?" ”

"Know and pretend not to know? What does this mean? ”

"Oops, that's stupid. Even if you think it's my father, you don't know about the two of us, and you can't mention it in front of him. ”

Lu Yu understood, but he didn't understand, and continued to ask, "Why is this?" Lu Yu was still thinking about when he would propose marriage to Yan Jibai, anyway, he already knew.

"You don't know, my dad loves face very much."

Lu Yu was even more puzzled, and said: "Brother Yan is a learned person, it seems that learned people are very face-saving. But I still don't understand why we can't talk about it in front of him. ”

Yan Xi'an glanced at Lu Yu, and said softly: "You don't understand, my father doesn't object to the two of us, let's be together." ”

Lu Yu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Brother Yan is a good person, I must repay him well in the future." ”

"I'm not done yet." Yan Xi'an leaned sideways against Lu Yu and continued, "You think, since my father doesn't object to our affairs, then if you go to him...... Mention ......, so does he agree or refuse? Yan Xi'an couldn't say the word "kiss".