Before the Chinese New Year, Lu Yu sent two sacks of charcoal burned last time to Lu Ming, although the charcoal is difficult to burn out of an open flame, the heat is not lower than that of firewood, and it is more resistant to burning, and there is less smoke. Now many people in Yangshan Village have begun to dig cellars and burn charcoal, judging from the winter of the past two years, this unusually severe cold may not be accidental.

Lu Ming's family has food, meat, and firewood and charcoal for heating, which is already better than most people's lives, and Lu Yu doesn't worry much about their family.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the sky was sunny and windless, and the weather seemed to be a little warmer.

As soon as breakfast was eaten, a few people came to Lu Yu's house, and they were still carrying gifts in their hands.

These people admit that they are from the Tianhai Gang, and they said that they came to see Lu Yu during the New Year. Lu Yu thought to himself: "I'm not familiar with you robbers, what is there to meet." ”

However, the other party came politely with gifts, and Lu Yu couldn't be too rude. He invited those people to sit down and poured hot water, but Lu Yu's family didn't have tea.

Lu Yu refused to accept their gifts, and even returned the silver they gave them last time. But those people also insisted on not accepting, and finally someone said: "Mr. Lu is too polite, this thing is not valuable, what can we do if we make friends?" ”

Lu Yu thought to himself: "Since they have 'made friends', it means that at least they will not come to the village to make trouble." So he took the gift.

These people are also interested, because the New Year is coming soon, so they didn't open their mouth to invite Lu Yu to join their Tianhai Gang, and left after a few words.

Not long after the Tianhai Gang left, Lin Siyao's men came again.

This time, Li Datou also came, but he was not the leader this time, he was a small follower. The leader is a middle-aged man with a polite temperament, also surnamed Lin, but not Lin Siyan himself.

This group of people also came to "visit" Lu Yu and brought gifts. This time, Lu Yu knew that the name of their association was "Jishan Association", which was taken from the sentence "If you are poor, you will help the world, and if you are good, you will be good alone". Lu Yu thought to himself, if he only listened to the name, this charity seemed to be an organization composed of good people.

The group of people from the Charity Society opened their mouths and invited Lu Yu to join them, but Lu Yu naturally refused, and after saying a few words, these people left their gifts and left, saying that they would come to visit in the future.

After the two groups of people left, Yan Xiding couldn't wait to unpack the exquisite gifts, most of which were some gold, silver and jade, which were very valuable things in normal times.

In addition to gold, silver and jade, there were also two jars of wine, and the Tianhai Gang and the Masamity Association each sent one jar. In these days, wine is a better thing than gold and silver, and now everyone is worried about the food they eat, and who can take the grain out to make wine, even if there is a mine at home.

Someone from the Tianhai Gang and the Charity Society went to Lu Yu's house one after another, and this matter was soon known by the whole village. Therefore, some people said some not very nice gossip behind their backs, and this gossip passed through Lao Gao's mouth and told Lu Yu.

Lu Yu smiled bitterly: "It's nothing, they can say whatever they like." ”

Lao Gao said: "Da Yu, these people are so polite to you, they shouldn't come to our village to rob in the future." ”

"Probably not."

"Then we have to thank you, with your great god in charge, our Yangshan Village is much safer than other places."

Lao Gao told the truth, Lu Yu smiled and said, "I don't want any thanks, I just hope that everyone doesn't drive me out of the village." ”

"Hey, whoever wants to drive you away, I won't be the first to agree." Lao Gao said: "Actually, although those people are bad, they all know in their hearts that this village can't do without you." ”

Lu Yu smiled silently.

Lao Gao said: "I heard that some people in the village want to move out. ”

"Move out? Because of the dragon crocodile? ”

"yes. They wanted to move to a village farther away from the mountains, but they were worried that other villages would be easy to recruit robbers, so they didn't move for the time being. ”

Lu Yu sighed and said, "It's not easy for everyone to live." ”

"yes, it's amazing to be alive these days." Lao Gao also sighed, and said: "I don't have much food at home, I don't know what to do next year after this year." ”

Lu Yu hurriedly asked, "Your family has run out of food?" ”

"I haven't run out of food yet, but I'm worried about next year."

In fact, Lu Yu is also worried about next year's food, he said: "If your family is gone, come to me and get some, I can still support it for a while." When the weather is warm, we will go hunting. ”

"Hey, oh my god, I don't know if it's going to be warm."

Before Lao Gao left, Lu Yu stuffed a jar of wine for him. Lao Gao shirked for a while, but in the end, he couldn't resist the temptation of wine, and took it with a smile.

Before leaving, Lao Gao turned back to Lu Yu and said, "Da Yu, I remember all your goodness." ”

This Chinese New Year, Lu Yu's family is finally not alone.

On the afternoon of the 29th, Lu Yu went to the mountains to catch a few grass carp, and the section of the water in the upper reaches of the mountain stream near the hot springs was not frozen, and almost all the swimming fish in the entire stream were concentrated there.

The New Year's dinner was cooked by Lu Yu, and he said that Mrs. Yan had cooked the whole year's dinner and had to take a good rest.

Stir-fried cabbage with pork, stir-fried radish strips with pork, stewed radish with pork ribs, sauerkraut fish, braised fish and a lamb bone pork bone stewed with radish and cabbage. In addition to fish and meat, Lu Yu's family only had radishes, cabbage and pickled sauerkraut, and Lu Yu changed his tricks and made five or six dishes.

Although the food is monotonous, the good thing is that it is sufficient, and even better, there is a large jar of wine at home.

Before eating the New Year's dinner, it stands to reason that the Spring Festival couplets should be posted to set off firecrackers, but this year there is no place to buy Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers, and Lu Yu's family does not have red letters, so these two contents are exempt.

The door of the house was closed, the fire was lit, and the five of them were served.

It's the last day of the year, and everyone has a lot of emotion.

Lu Yu poured a bowl of wine for Yan Jibai, and poured half a bowl for Mrs. Yan, but before she could pour it for herself, the pair of sisters and brothers also shouted to drink.

After hesitating for a moment, seeing that the Bai couple did not object, Lu Yu poured a small half bowl for the sister and brother.

Yan Xiding didn't talk about any rules, took the lead in raising the wine bowl, and said to Lu Yu: "Uncle Da Yu, thank you for taking our family." ”

Lu Yu didn't expect this guy to say this, he was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Then I also thank your whole family for accompanying me for the New Year." Yan Xiding took a small sip, and then bared his teeth and grinned, his eyebrows fluttering.

Yan Jibai said to Lu Yu solemnly: "Brother Yu, thank you for your kindness, I will do this bowl of wine first." Saying that, he raised his head and drank all the liquor in the bowl, and Lu Yu naturally accompanied him to make a bowl.

Then Lu Yu drank with Mrs. Yan again, Mrs. Yan was much more casual than her husband, she knew that Lu Yu didn't like to listen to those kind words, so she didn't say anything.

In the end, Yan Xi'an also wanted to do it with Lu Yu seriously. Before drinking, she said that she wished Lu Yu all the best and getting younger and younger.

Yan Xi'an took a small sip, but he also frowned tightly, grinning spicy.

After drinking a round, Lu Yu and Yan Yubai slowly drank each other. There is only one jar of wine, and the two of them are reluctant to drink it in a big bowl.

It was cold outside, but it was warm like spring inside, and the five people drank at the same table, enjoying themselves.

Halfway through eating, Lu Yu took out two small cloth bags and handed them to Yan Xi'an and Yan Xiding respectively, saying that this was the New Year's money he had prepared for his sister and brother.

The sister and brother took it with a smile and didn't say anything. And in the bags were five silver ingots, each forty or fifty taels. Lu Yu is now a "rich man", and he will pay hundreds of taels of silver as soon as he makes a move. You must know that before Lu Yu was thirty years old, he had never touched a whole silver ingot.

Yan Xiding said: "Uncle Da Yu, when I grow up in the future, I will also give you New Year's money." ”

"Nonsense, you are young, even if you give you Uncle Da Yu, it is not New Year's money." Yan Jibai said: "But when you grow up and become independent, you really have to repay your Uncle Da Yu." ”

Yan Xi nodded fixedly, and said: "When I grow up, Uncle Da Yu will teach me martial arts, and I will repay after I learn martial arts." ”

Lu Yu laughed and said, "You don't have to remind me, when you grow up, I will definitely teach you martial arts." He suddenly remembered that he had taught Yan Xi'an to practice, and he hadn't asked her how her cultivation was progressing recently, and she hadn't taken the initiative to ask her if she had encountered any problems or obstacles in her cultivation.

Now that the year is too bad, everyone is working hard, wanting to live in this world, and the Bai family has no extravagant hopes for returning to Jinhua City in the near future. So when it was time to eat, none of them discussed going back.

Lu Yu suddenly said: "If the spring is not so cold, I want to build a few houses." Lu Yu felt that although the house at home was barely enough to live in now, they would not be able to ensure that Lu Ming would come back one day, and the house would not be enough at that time. Besides, Yan Jibai and his wife always sleep in separate rooms in their own house, which is not very good.

"That's good." Yan Jibai said: "Brother Yu will take a daughter-in-law in the future and build a new house, which is ...... Better. ”

Lu Yu smiled slightly, and thought, "I don't agree with marrying a daughter-in-law or seeing your old man." ”

Yan Xiding fought hard with a piece of sheep bone, and said, "Uncle Da Yu, you build a few more rooms and leave one for me." ”

"Of course." It is not yet spring, and it is not known what the situation will be next spring, and Lu Yu is too lazy to calculate the various expenses needed to build a house, and whether he is building a few more houses, or completely demolishing the old house and renovating it.

Yan Xi'an said: "I also want one, and it will be bigger than the one in Xiding, and it will have a window, a big window." ”

"That's enough, do you think it's easy to build a house?" Yan Jibai smiled and said: "If the ground really breaks next year, both of you will have to help move the bricks." ”

"What's so difficult about moving bricks, when Uncle Da Yu surrounded the yard, I moved bricks."

Lu Yu said: "If the valley in the mountains is opened, the houses outside are not busy building, I want to build a few wooden houses in the valley first." "Lu Yu has already begun to try to arrange a teleportation array in his body, but he still can't do it.

"That's right, Uncle Da Yu, didn't you say that you can get through before the Chinese New Year?" Yan Xiding was also frightened by the cold, and said: "It's too cold outside, I really want to go to live in that valley." ”

Lu Yu suddenly felt very sorry, and said with a smile: "That's fast, don't lie to you, I will definitely be able to get it done before the first month, and I will be the first to take you in when the time comes." ”

"That's not going to work, I'm going to be the first one." Yan Xi'an was very unconvinced.

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