The next day, Sun Daqing sent a few catties of wild boar, a pair of pig hearts and four taels of silver. He looked pleased, saying that last night's harvest was bigger than killing dozens of pigs. Looking at the silver and pork hearts, Lu Yu was naturally very happy, the debts owed could finally be paid off, and there were still more than one or two points left.

Lu Yu wants to give the pig's heart to Lu Ming, and his younger sibling is pregnant. But after thinking about it, Lu Yu felt that they definitely didn't lack money for a pair of pigs' hearts, and it was really a question of whether to send it or not.

"Send it on, go to the town to see my father, I don't know if he's there. Besides, there is always a little bit of a difference between a wild boar's heart and a domestic pig's heart. Lu Yu thought to himself.

At lunch, Lu Yu fried a small plate of pork, although there was no seasoning, but the deliciousness of wild boar meat is not comparable to radish and cabbage.

After lunch, Lu Yu went to the town with the pig's heart. Anyway, he can walk very fast now. Lu Yu hadn't seen a horse run much, but he believed that if he ran with all his might, he should not be much slower than a horse, and he would not be tired. So when there was no one along the way, Lu Yu pulled his legs and ran wildly, and when he saw someone, he walked slowly, Lu Yu couldn't think of being treated as a monster.

In less than half an hour, Lu Yu had already arrived in the town. This time, to his surprise, he saw his father sitting under a wall napping from afar. Lu Yu walked over and woke up his father and asked him why he was here.

"Where can I go if I'm not here?" Lao Lu saw the pig's heart in his son's hand and asked him what he was doing. Lu Yu said that it was given to Lu Ming, and then Lu Yu didn't speak.

Lu Yu asked his father again, "When will you go home?" ”

"No return." Lao Lu replied very simply.

Lu Yu nodded, unwilling to persuade again, and said: "If you have nowhere to go for the New Year, go home." ”

Lao Lu ignored his son.

Lu Yu actually didn't want to go to Zhang's house, and he didn't go there once after Lu Ming got married. The Zhang family is too big, Lu Yu is too poor, every time he sees the Zhang family's mansion compound, he seems to be reminding himself: "I am a poor man from the countryside, a single poor man." ”

Knocking on the door, it was Lu Ming who opened the door, and the couple were basking in the sun in the yard.

"Brother, why are you here, have you had lunch?" Lu Ming was very happy to see Lu Yu.

Lu Yu handed him the pig heart and said that he had eaten it, and he didn't plan to go in.

Lu Ming persuaded Lu Yu a few words, and later Lu Ming's daughter-in-law also came over to ask Lu Yu to come in and sit, but Lu Yu insisted on refusing, saying that there was still something to go home in a hurry, so Lu Ming's family had to give up.

On the way back, Lu Yu thought to himself: "Lu Ming has already married, we are still brothers, but in the full sense of the word, we are no longer a family, I will meet him if he is doing well, and there are no other requirements." ”

Lu Yu is about to turn thirty years old, and he thinks that I should be like this for the rest of my life, and I will live like this alone. A lot of times he would feel a little sad and feel like a failure. He thought that when he was a child and sensible, or even when he was a teenager, he definitely never thought that he would be a bachelor for the rest of his life, thinking that no matter what, he would definitely be able to take a daughter-in-law, and then give birth to one or several children, and finally like most men in the world, he would quietly age while watching his children grow up.

But the truth is cruel, now Lu Yu has no hope of starting a family, he feels that he is not as good as his alcoholic father, at least he has two sons.

In the past, there was a scholar who "took Mei as his wife and crane as his son" and said a very reasonable sentence: "Those who have passed cannot be restored, and those who have passed cannot be expected", Lu Yu didn't believe it very much, but until that day he saw a person at the third grandfather's house, a very special person, he suddenly felt that he should do something.

Lu Ming's daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter at the end of March this year, and according to their customs, after giving birth to a child, she had to give wedding cakes to relatives. Of course, Lu Ming's closest relative is Lu Yu, but his father-in-law Zhang Qiye ordered a lot of wedding cakes, so he asked Lu Yu to send a few tubes to the third grandfather and their family (the wedding cakes are ten stacks, wrapped in paper into a tube).

There was no one in the third grandfather's family that Lu Yu didn't know, but when I went today, I saw a strange person, a little girl, maybe only sixteen or seventeen years old.

It stands to reason that Lu Yu has not seen a little girl, and he should not stare at a girl who is almost half younger than himself. When he saw her, Lu Yu suddenly felt a little panicked, his heart was beating fast, and he couldn't help but look at her, as if something on her body was attracting him to a glance, making him unable to move.

This strange feeling made Lu Yu both embarrassed and scared, he knew that he shouldn't think nonsense, it was still a little girl, maybe she could get married, but she was really young.

Her name is Yan Xi'an, and she is the distant niece and granddaughter of the eldest daughter of the third grandfather. is a niece, not a niece, if you come by generation, you should be called Lu Yu's cousin. Lu Yu called the eldest daughter of the third grandfather as an aunt, when Lu Yu was a child, that aunt treated him well.

Here's the thing, the eldest daughter of the third grandfather married forty or fifty miles away in Jinhua County (overhead, not the current Jinhua), and every few months she would always go back to Yangshan Village to visit her old father. When she came back this time, Yan Xi'an, who lived next door to her house, insisted on coming along, saying that she was going to climb the mountain to pick wild flowers or something. The aunt obviously liked this niece very much, so she brought her over. Of course, Lu Yu doesn't understand, what is there to climb the mountain?

When delivering the wedding cake, Lu Yu saw Yan Xi'an, and then said a few words to the third grandfather, and then fled out of his house. Of course, at this time, Lu Yu didn't know that the little girl's name was Yan Xi'an, and he only found out later.

Yanxi is very good-looking, white and pure; The eyes are large, there is not a trace of impurities in them, they are very bright and clear; The mouth is small, like a red cherry; Dressed very neatly and neatly, anyway, he is not a countryman. Lu Yu has been thinking about her since she went out, she was teasing the little earth dog in the third grandfather's house, and she didn't seem to see Lu Yu, but this didn't affect him thinking about her.

Seriously, the more Lu Yu thought about her, the more shameful she felt and felt a little lewd. In fact, Lu Yu didn't have any obscene thoughts at all, he just thought about it.

Yan Xi'an was too small, too clean and too crystalline, as if there was light up and down his body. Lu Yu didn't know how to explain, he just felt that she was like a fairy, Lu Yu wanted to get close, but he didn't dare to get too close, for fear that he would blaspheme her. After the rhapsody, there is a deep loss, is there any chance that he will be with her?

Yan Xi'an lived in the third grandfather's house for half a month, and Lu Yu saw her three times in half a month, except for the first time when she saw her at the third grandfather's house, the other two times were watching her from a distance. Lu Yu didn't know exactly when she would go back, anyway, she hadn't seen her since mid-April.