Chapter 96: Beating Around the Bush
Lu Jian'an stretched.
Life went smoothly.
Seeing that she has been living here for half a year, this silkworm cocoon is about to go on the market.
Their family took away the cocoons.
Cocoon City is about to open.
I'm afraid that silk merchants from all over the country are also coming.
The last cocoon festival this year is related to everyone's good or bad this year.
All of them are carefully prepared.
Go and see Xu Mengshan, you should be back soon.
As soon as Lu Jian'an walked out of the door, he saw Old Man Xu walking in with Xu Mengshan, and hurriedly went down to greet him.
This grandfather is okay and comes to look for him again.
Lu Jian'an has no good or bad views on the Xu family.
is his own mother's mother's mother's family, no matter how powerful he is, he can't force his mother's blood relatives to deny it.
Say the great heavens, this is ancient.
Nor can she change the millennia standard of others.
She just has some prophets, not to change her life against the sky, and she doesn't have the ability to change the whole world.
Besides, the Xu family still has the confidence to hold it.
"Grandfather! Why did your old man come here so early in the morning? Have you eaten? ”
Warm and thoughtful, it is difficult to find fault.
The old man nodded with satisfaction.
"Brother An'er, go in, after breakfast, I just came to see you, I haven't seen you for a few days, I miss you, where is your mother?"
As Lu Jian'an walked to the backyard.
At a glance, I saw the silkworm shed in the backyard.
The busy figures of Xu and Mama Li faintly appeared inside.
Lu Xuehan was walking on his little short legs, holding the mulberry leaves and sending them inside.
"Mother, I look like these silkworms are about to form cocoons, and some of them have already formed cocoons."
"yes, I'm busy for a few days, and I'm going to divide them all! When we all have cocoons, we won't be busy, Xiao Wu, let's be tired, go and rest, my mother and grandma will be, what's the matter with you here. ”
Xu felt sorry for Lu Xuehan.
A four-year-old knows how to work.
In the past few days, Lu Jian'an has been busy not going out of the silk reeling room, and seeing that his face is getting sharper and sharper, the only thing Xu can do is to ask Mama Li to eat better on the food.
She and Mama Li have almost taken over all the things of silkworm raising.
At first, Lu Jian'an still disagreed.
Later, I was so busy that I couldn't turn around.
only then did they agree with Xu and Mama Li to do it.
Anyway, it's the last cocoon setting period of silkworms.
Once they're all cocooned, they don't need to be busy.
When it is winter, they will have their hands free, and besides, Li Zhilin's family can also help at that time.
Anyway, in winter they are idle and idle.
Naturally, raising silkworms this winter is probably Lu Jian'an's only family, and there is no other semicolon.
No one has ever raised silkworms in winter.
Of course, this is also Lu Jian'an's plan, and it is not to be implemented immediately.
Now he is short of manpower, a serious shortage of manpower.
Although it is possible to buy people.
But they don't have much money right now.
was thrown into the cocoon by Lu Jian'an, and 50,000 catties of cocoons really need a lot of silver.
Thanks to Zhao Laosan, it is 10,000 catties and a knot.
If it was really 50,000 catties sent at one time, he wouldn't have any money.
"Mother, I'm fine, I'm not tired, compared to my eldest brother, I'm not tired at all, I may think that he is in the silk reeling room all day long, the lights have not been extinguished, and he still has to take care of us, and there are so many apprentices to support, I feel sorry for him."
Lu Xuehan thinks that her eldest brother is the best big brother in the world, and from the mung bean cake that was about to be crushed that day, she knew that her eldest brother was the best big brother.
She will never forget it in her life.
The eldest brother was covered in blood, his face was pale, and he tried to comfort her with a smile, and took out the mung bean cake.
Lu Xuehan is four years old, but she really knows it in her heart.
The eldest brother is the third sister.
Big brother is gone.
Since then, the third sister has also disappeared.
They thought she didn't know.
But she knew that the third sister and the eldest brother had changed their clothes, and after they had changed their clothes, they encountered robbers, and the father and eldest brother died.
She knows.
Always known.
However, when she saw her mother and third sister, she thought she didn't know.
So she pretended not to know.
Yes.
She knew that the third sister was trying her best to support the family as the eldest brother.
A delicate girl who used to only like piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, now never touches those things again.
I never saw the third sister touch those things in the study again.
The third sister's sacrifice is too great.
She had to do what she could.
will definitely be able to help my mother and third sister support this family.
If Lu Jian'an knew that he was thought of as a little cabbage by his sister.
I don't know whether to be moved, or to smile bitterly.
"Mother, my grandfather is here."
Lu Jian'an took the mulberry leaf basket in Lu Xuehan's arms, and the basket was taller than Lu Xuehan.
Lu Xuehan stuck out his tongue, "Grandfather An!" "I gave a salute.
The eldest brother said that he would not let her do these heavy jobs, saying that he would not grow tall.
This time he was caught revealed.
"Good, good!"
The old man suddenly realized that he actually came to the door empty-handed.
Can you say that you forgot?
Xu hurriedly took off his apron and taught it to Mama Li.
"Dad, why are you here? Come, sit down in the house. ”
Mama Li went to Zhang Luo tea.
The old man sat down.
Xu had already entered the house, "Dad, what's going on at home?" ”
His father has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.
The last time I came, it was because I was trying to ease the relationship, and I wasn't afraid that my own silkworm god Niangniang disciple would be scared.
This time I was completely defenseless.
I don't know what my father wants to do.
"It's fine! I just want to come and see you, I heard Shanzi say, Brother An did a good job, just to see you. ”
"Dad, Brother An has a future, I don't have to worry about it at home, I can help him do some idle work, we can get by, don't worry about your daughter, Brother An is up to the Lu family, his father knows it, it's time to look at it." Xu was relieved and secretly wept.
If they hadn't met the robbers, maybe their family would be living in harmony now.
If there were two more big men in the family, maybe life would be better now.
But who knows.
"Good! Brother An'er is good, so that you will have something to rely on in the future, Brother An is also a filial person, and you will have a blessing in the future. ”
is not salty and not light, Xu is also strange, is his father just here to talk to her about this?
Is it because you see that Brother An'er is coming out, so you want to win over Brother An?
I still remember the last time.
Xu naturally knows that the husband is innocent and guilty.
Even my own father is the same.
What my mother said last time, didn't the old man and the two brothers mean?
After a long time of talking, the old man looked at Lu Jian'an, and finally turned to the topic.
"Brother An, you are busy with the silk mill business now, and your studies are naturally delayed, I think that your third uncle will take the imperial examination next year, and the books left by your father will be lent to your third uncle to see, your third uncle is a rare scholar in the Xu family.
Mr. also said that he was a rare seed of reading.
Don't be stingy, help your third uncle, he will become an official in the future, so he will naturally help you and arrange a job in the yamen for Brother An, and your life will naturally be better at that time. ”
The old man still had great hopes for his son.
Naturally, there is a different kind of superiority in his speech.