Chapter 53: The Vanishing Rabbit Meat
Gu Chengyu said goodbye to Li Langzhong and his wife, refused Yao's retention, and prepared to go back, if he didn't go back, maybe his mother would come to arrest someone.
Walking towards the Gu family's courtyard from the end of the village, he had already walked halfway, but found that his eldest brother was walking this way, "Big brother, where are you going?" Gu Chengyu took two steps forward and asked.
"Little treasure! I'm about to pick you up at Li Langzhong's house! My mother is in a hurry at home, why is it so late? ”
"I learned to recognize medicinal materials at Uncle Li's house, and I forgot the time, and my mother asked you to pick me up? This is in the village, can I still get lost? Gu Chengyu was a little helpless, his mother just looked at him too strictly, which caused him to have a lot of things that were inconvenient to do, it seemed that the matter of building a house was imminent, his mother watched him during the day, slept in a room at night, and had no time to enter the space.
At the Li family, Li Langzhong was concocting some medicinal materials, and after Yao waited for Gu Chengyu to leave, he finished cleaning up the stove and sat opposite Li Langzhong.
"But it's already decided?" Yao looked at Li Langzhong and asked softly.
"What do you think? This Gu family is smart, talented, not impetuous, and more importantly, has a good temperament, so he is a suitable candidate. "Li Langzhong and Yao's husband and wife have been married for many years, and they know each other, needless to say, they know what to ask.
"This little baby is really good, and it's likable, and I'm very satisfied. It stands to reason that if you want to choose people, he should do it. However, I'm afraid we don't think it will be as good as we want. Yao helped Li Langzhong to sieve the medicinal herbs on the ground and put them in the sieve.
Li Langzhong held the medicinal herbs in his hand, looked up at Yao, and asked suspiciously, "How do you say this?" "The Gu family's family is not well-off, although they can get a few hundred taels of silver by selling ginseng, but how much can they get for that big family? A few hundred taels is actually not much, if he made this request, the Gu family would definitely not disagree.
Yao smiled mysteriously: "Otherwise, let's make a bet?" I bet the Gu family wouldn't agree. ”
"Oh? Ha ha. Madame is very interested, okay, I will fight you with this bet, what if you lose? Li Langzhong was also very happy to see that Yao rarely showed such an interested expression. Since coming to Shangling Village, his wife is always worried, she has a quiet temperament, she doesn't like to go out, and those rural peasant women can't talk, and staying in the house all day is really stuffy and panicked, if there is a little baby at home in the future, his wife can also be happier, and she laughs a lot today.
"Maybe the old man lost? Let's wait and see! Of course, Yao refused to admit defeat.
Let's say that Gu Chengyu returned home, and as soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate, he ushered in a warm hug from his mother, "You baby, are you really eating at Li Langzhong's house!" You're welcome, but you are greedy for other people's mung bean cakes, so you refuse to leave? If you really want to eat it, go to town the day after tomorrow and ask your dad to buy it for you. Lu also thought that Gu Chengyu didn't like to eat cloud cakes, but he loved to eat mung bean cakes, Lu often doted on Gu Chengyu, of course, there was no younger son who wanted to eat, but she was reluctant to say.
"Mother, I don't want to eat mung bean cake! Have you eaten? Gu Chengyu was about to pull his mother into the house, "Mother, where is the little rabbit yesterday?" I've got to mow them!" Dad said I would raise these rabbits. ”
"Don't listen to your father's nonsense, how can my son do such rough work as mowing the lawn? I've already told Da Lang to go to them, and when you come back, the rabbits will starve to death!" I let your sister-in-law stew that big rabbit, and you didn't come back to eat, so I warmed it for you in the pot, and I went to serve it to you, you haven't tasted it yet! The taste is fresh. You go back to the house and wait. ”
When Gu Chengyu passed by the West Wing, he found that the door of the house was hidden, there was no one in the house, the second brother and the second sister-in-law should have gone to the ground, but the eldest and second sister-in-law were not in the house, and I don't know if they went out to play, or they were assigned by his mother. But there was a fragrance wafting out of the empty room, the fragrance was not strong, only a trace remained, if Gu Chengyu hadn't been transformed by Lingquan, his nose wouldn't have been so smart!
Sniffing it carefully, Gu Chengyu shook his head and smiled, this second sister-in-law. I guess after a while, his mother will have to scream. Sure enough, as soon as Gu Chengyu turned around and walked towards the stove room, he heard his mother's shout: "Oops! Where's my meat? Which goddamn shameless thing? How dare you steal meat? There's a thief in the house! ”
Gu Chengyu walked quickly to the stove room, and saw his mother patting her thighs and jumping there, and then looked into the pot, okay! There are still three pieces left? Is this not the dare to finish eating? Who else can do such a thing as stealing food in this family? That must be his second sister-in-law!
It was not only Gu Chengyu who was attracted by Lu's shouting, but also Gu Chenglian, "Mother, what's wrong?" What's wrong? Gu Chenglian saw that his mother was in such a hurry, and thought that something big had happened.
"The third child! I walked away for a while, and our family was robbed, and the meat I left in the pot was stolen and eaten, and Xiao Wu hadn't eaten it yet! There are more than a dozen pieces of meat in such a bowl of meat! Now there are only three pieces left. "The Lu family is really distressed! A rabbit was stewed for half a piece, so the old man ate a piece, gave one piece to each of the four brothers, Gu Wan also ate a piece, and the rest was steamed in the pot, ready to be kept for her Xiaobao to eat, for fear of being stolen and eaten, and asked Erya to watch it.
By the way, what about Erya? It can't be that Erya ate it secretly, right?
"Mother, what are you making all the fuss about? Who's going to come to our house and steal a few pieces of meat? I can't say who eats it at home. Gu Chenglian felt that his mother really liked to be surprised, and it wasn't that the money at home was lost, so after speaking, he went back to the house.
"That's right! Can't you say that the second girl can eat it secretly? The more Lu Shi thought about it, the more suspicious he became, and shouted towards the east wing: "Erya, Erya, you come out quickly!"
"Mother, forget it, it's not Erya's food, it's just a few pieces of rabbit meat, and I'll eat it." Gu Chengyu hurriedly stopped, but it was none of Erya's business, she couldn't be wronged, and it wasn't worth it for a few pieces of rabbit meat.
"It's not her who eats, who eats, she is the only one in the house today with a few small ones, and everyone else has gone to the ground, is it possible that the rabbit meat will come back to life and run away by itself?" Lu Shi only felt angry, this was simply not taking her seriously.
"Hey! , you call me? "Er Ya Gu Lan trotted from the east wing to the stove, there was no way, her grandmother called her, if she didn't arrive immediately, she would have to be scolded to death. As soon as he entered the stove, he saw the murderous Lu Shi and the uncle standing aside, and the second girl shrank back. glanced at the pot in the morning, but found that the lid of the pot had been lifted, the bowl containing the meat was placed on the stove, and the meat that was originally full to the mouth of the bowl was gone. Erya chuckled in her heart and had a bad premonition.
Sure enough, "Erya, didn't I tell you to look at the meat?" What about rabbit meat? You're not watching here, where have you gone? Are you lazy? Or did you steal it? Lu Shi stared at Erya's face, not letting go of the slightest expression on Erya's face.
"Milk, I don't dare to eat rabbit meat, don't I believe you smell it?" Er Ya hurriedly explained. How dare she do that?
"If you didn't eat it, who ate it? I told you to look at the pot, where have you been? "Lu Shi is a little convinced that Erya didn't steal it, she doesn't have the guts.