Chapter 146: Preparing to Propose
Lu Ming has been helping to light the fire, and seeing that Lu Yu is so skillful in cooking, he said with a smile: "When the sky is good next year, you can go to the town to open a restaurant, and take down the Baiweiju where I used to work, I see that the business is good." ”
"Forget it, I'm still farming at home." The rabbit meat was served in the sea bowl, and Lu Yu began to fry the fish again.
At this time, Ah Li also came in, and Lu Ming asked her if she was hungry.
Ah Li smiled and said, "I'm not hungry, I smell the smell in the kitchen, come in and take a look." She looked at the sea bowl containing rabbit meat and said happily, "Is this rabbit meat?" I haven't eaten it in a long time. ”
Lu Ming smiled: "Aren't you a rabbit?" How do you still eat rabbits? ”
"You're still a pig, so you don't eat pork all the time."
At the dinner table, the Zhang family was full of praise for Lu Yu's cooking skills, and even the small fish was delicious. When Lu Yu was cooking, Xiao Jiayu slept for a while, and he was very lively at this time.
Rabbit meat is delicious, but there are many bones, Ah Li tore the rabbit meat off the bones and fed it to his daughter, and Lu Ming helped his daughter pick thorns for the fish.
Lu Ming fed his daughter a bite of fish, and said to Zhang Qiye: "Dad, look at my brother's craft, can you open a restaurant?" ”
Zhang Qiye laughed and said: "This taste is okay, but there are many dishes to cook when opening a restaurant, and people who have not studied it dare not open a restaurant easily." ”
Mrs. Zhang also said: "That's right, I think your eldest brother is a person who does big things, where can he really open a restaurant." Besides, even if the restaurant is opened, there is no boss who cooks it himself. ”
"Why not? Wouldn't it be nice to open a small one? When my brother gets married, don't farm, just go to the town to open a restaurant. Lu Ming seemed to want Lu Yu to go to the town to open a restaurant.
"Hey, you can't say that." Zhang Qiye took a sip of wine, snorted happily, and continued: "In the past two years, if it weren't for the grain that your eldest brother planted, our family would have starved to death. ”
Lu Yu smiled and thought: "I have indeed taken care of Lu Ming and them in the past two years, but I rarely send them food, Zhang Qiye is a smart person, and he has also seen strong winds and waves, he knows when to store food." ”
Not to mention the opening of a restaurant, Lu Ming asked Lu Yu again: "Where do we sleep at night?" We have a lot of houses now. ”
"You will sleep in those two bamboo huts, which are clean and not cold." Lu Yu's old house is too old, the new house is clean, and the ground is covered with thick wooden boards, which makes it more comfortable to live in.
"Hehe, I really want to live in it, a house made of bamboo, I haven't lived in it yet."
Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "The bamboo house is new and good, but when the years go by, it becomes old, and it is either leaking wind or rain, which is not as good as a brick house." ”
Lu Ming was curious and asked, "Mother, have you ever lived in a house made of bamboo and wood?" ”
"Why haven't you lived? When I first married your father, they couldn't find three nails in their poor house, and they lived in an old house made of bamboo and wood for many years. When it rains, it rains heavily outside and light rain inside. And winter is even more sinful, when it snows outside, it freezes inside the house, and alas, ......"
Although the Lu Yu brothers have always been poor when they were children, thanks to the brick houses left by their ancestors, they have never suffered from rain and wind leakage. Hearing what Lu Ming's mother-in-law said, Lu Yu thought again: "When I get married in the future, I still have to use bricks, tiles and wood to build a house." ”
There were a lot of dishes in the evening, and there were a lot of cooked rice, and several people ate with round stomachs. Zhang Qiye drank a lot of wine, and went to the room to rest after eating. The old couple slept in the room where Lan Shaofang used to live, and Lu Ming and his wife took their daughter and slept in the room where Yanxi lived. Lu Yu lived in the room where there was a barn, and the bed in that room had not been confiscated, and he was too lazy to clean it up.
When he woke up early the next morning, Lu Yu remembered that he still had to send food to Lao Gao, so he carried a bag of grain to Lao Gao and asked him to come over and carry a few more bags with him.
Lu Yu forgot that it was a secret that his family had rice, so Lao Gao was surprised when he saw that Lu Yu's house was piled up with several generations of millet, and asked him where he got it.
Lu Yu also reacted quickly, saying that it was sent by Qin Zhongquan, and they Tianhai helped plant a lot of rice and gave it to themselves.
So Lao Gao also asked Lu Yu for a few bags of millet and a few bags of corn. Lao Gao said that he wanted to weigh it, how much he borrowed in total, Lu Yu said that he didn't need it, he really wanted to pay it back in the future, just give some casually.
Lao Gao was very moved.
Mrs. Zhang got up very early, and Zhang Qiye didn't get up yet because he drank a little too much last night. The breakfast was made by Mrs. Zhang, because Lu Yu was going to herd the sheep, even if he wanted to be polite, he couldn't help it, and he couldn't just throw the sheep into the valley now. When the sheep are almost gone, breakfast is ready.
At breakfast, Zhang Qiye got up, and he said to Lu Yu that the wine he brewed was good for the mouth, and his stamina was quite strong. Mrs. Zhang scolded him, saying that he shouldn't drink so much, and he didn't know how to control himself when he was old.
After breakfast, Lu Yu took Lu Ming and his family of five around the edge of the village. There is a very dilapidated tree wall around Yangshan Village, and there are two bamboo walls outside the tree wall, the bamboo wall is newer, but there are also some dilapidations. There has been no dragon crocodile entering the village for nearly a year, and the villagers don't care much about this bamboo wall.
I heard Zhang Qiye say that his hometown is also in the countryside, but he went out to learn business when he was less than 20 years old, and his ability to farm and farm was lost. Now when I see the fields on the edge of the village, I think of him when he was a child. Zhang Qiye said that it is difficult to do business, but it is much easier than farming, and farming is really hard.
Lu Ming also said that farming is not good, it is very hard.
Lu Yu's opinion was different, he didn't say it, but he thought in his heart, how good it is to farm, sow seeds, take care of it carefully, and there will always be a harvest. As long as there is land and land, people will not starve to death. Lu Yu thought: "I may be suitable for farming." ”
In fact, there are fields and land, and there will be people who will starve to death, Lu Yu should understand.
Xiao Jiayu feels new to everything in the countryside, although the fields are almost empty now, and most of the grass and trees are leafless and yellow. The little fish refused to let the adults hug him, and he was on the ridge and on the path, running and jumping, and jumping with joy.
Lu Ming looked at his daughter and said with a smile: "This guy, when he grows up in the future, he will send the village to farm." ”
"There's nothing wrong with farming. Tired is tired, but at least there is food to eat, even if it encounters a disaster year, it is not afraid. Ah Li grabbed Lu Jiayu's two pigtails and said, "When Jiayu grows up, he will get married, and I am willing to marry a farmer." ”
Lu Ming said with a smile: "What's not to want to marry a farmer, don't I also farm." With a smile, he said: "What you said is not right, those who farm are more afraid of disasters, you see that in the first two years, the most dead are not the croppers who farm." ”
Lu Yu heard this, and was about to refute, but suddenly thought: "Lu Ming is right, in the past two years, a lot of urban residents have indeed died, but in the countryside and villages, are there fewer deaths?" Lu Yu thought of himself and Yangshan Village, if he hadn't practiced the kitchen knife mantra and didn't have the magic cultivation of this body, of course, his own safety would be in danger, and the rest of the villagers in Yangshan Village, the Yan family of four, and even Lu Ming's family, I am afraid that they will also suffer.
At this moment, Lu Yu suddenly thought of a sentence: "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs." ”
The weather was a little cold, and Lu Yu was afraid that his niece would run too fast and sweat, so he held her in his arms. The little girl was still a little reluctant, and struggled in Lu Yu's arms for a while before settling down.
"Brother, seriously, you hurry up and go to Yan's house to propose marriage, and have a child as soon as possible."
Lu Yu smiled, and after a while, he said, "I want to go to propose marriage at the end of the year, so I don't know what to prepare." ”
"Are you really planning to propose?" Lu Ming was very happy for his brother, and said with a smile: "When I proposed marriage, didn't you go with Uncle Mingde to accompany me, what would it not do." ”
"It's easy to take you, it's your turn again, hehe."
"That's just as well." Lu Ming asked his father-in-law again: "Dad, you said that my brother is going to propose marriage, can you please accompany him?" ”
Lu Yu said that he was going to propose marriage, and several members of the Zhang family were also happy for him. Hearing Lu Ming ask if he could accompany him, Zhang Qiye thought for a while and said, "It's not that I can't go, but it's better to let my elders lead me." ”
Lu Ming said: "Those families in the village are not very close, and besides, my brother has been in the village for the past two years, and he has not gotten along well with them." I think it's better for your dad to take my brother with you, you are also his elder. ”
When Zhang Qiye groaned, Mrs. Zhang said: "Please ask your own elders to take it, otherwise it will be even more unfavorable for your brother to be in the village in the future." ”
After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yu felt that what Mrs. Zhang said was reasonable, if he asked Zhang Qiye to take him to propose marriage, the people in the village would know, let alone say anything about himself.
Lu Ming said: "Yes, then who do you want to invite with you?" ”
"It's still Uncle Mingde." Thinking about it, Lu Yu felt that Lu Mingde was the most suitable, he had the closest relationship with his family, and inviting him to go could ease the relationship between their family and himself and the Yan family.
"Hehe, I'm afraid people won't."
Lu Yu was also wondering if Lu Mingde would refuse, after all, he had fought with him before. But thinking of the warmth and kindness of Lu Mingde's daughter-in-law when she came to her house yesterday, I felt that Lu Mingde should not refuse.
Mrs. Zhang also said: "People will be willing, even if they don't think about their own family, they are willing to have a good relationship with your brother." ”
"That's right. Hehe, if it weren't for my brother guarding the village, where would they be so good. ”
Older people will always understand more, and they can see people and affairs more thoroughly, Lu Yu decided, go and talk to Lu Mingde in a few days, and ask him to take him to propose marriage. As for what dowry to prepare, please ask Lu Mingde to help guide him.
Lu Ming's family lived in the village for five days, and this was only after Lu Yu stayed several times that they were willing to stay for so long. Mrs. Zhang is always worried about her family, and going out for five days is already her limit.
In the past five days, Lu Yu prepared every meal very carefully, cooked every dish carefully, and entertained the Zhang family with all his heart. Of course, Lu Yu didn't want to please them, he really wanted to be nice to them, Lu Ming's family was the closest relative to Lu Yu in the world.
Yan Xi'an is not Lu Yu's relative, he is a relative, he is a lover, that is different.
Sent Lu Ming and the others back, and then returned to his house, Lu Yu remembered that he forgot to take the wine he wanted to give them, so he ran again.
Lu Ming's family lived in the village for a few days, and when they left, Lu Yu actually felt a little lost. Lu Yu thought to himself: "I really should have a family, so I don't have to live alone." ”