After dinner on the second night, the mother and daughter sat in the back room to do their work, and Lu, who was picking out the thread and recognizing the needle, overheard Yu Yu say, "Mother, I have something to discuss with you." ”

Seeing the serious expression on her childish little face, Lu Shi chuckled and asked, "What's the matter, let's hear it." ”

Yi Yu leaned in front of her, and slowly said: "It's not a matter for us to live here, what should we do when my brothers come in the future, we are female dependents, so it doesn't matter, but how can there be a reason why a family lives in someone else's house." Lu Shi heard her mention this, and his expression gradually became serious.

"I know that my mother is thinking that when we grow mint for others, I will go out to rent a house to live, but I heard Brother Li say that the rent of the two-room house in this town is also about 100 yuan a month, and it is two yuan a year. If the eldest brother is admitted, it's fine, but if he can't pass the exam-" Yi Yu paused at this point, "If we can't pass the exam, then we have to make more money in total, so that we can buy real estate here." ”

The Lu family also knows what the current situation is like, if Lu Zhi is admitted, then at least he is a jinshi, and the court will come down to reward him, but if he can't pass the exam, he will only be a move, although he has a meritorious reputation, the court will not give half a penny.

If you are still in the mountain village, you can't pass the exam, but now that you have settled here, the cost is really much higher than in the countryside, and you really didn't get in, and money is naturally tight. According to their current income, they can only get the bulk of the money when they receive food, but in the short term, they will not be able to make up enough money to buy a house.

"Mother," Yiyu called out to Lu after noticing Lu's embarrassed look, and continued, "Mother, let's continue to sell sugar gourds, this town is not far from Chang'an City, and it is said that there are many people there, and I am afraid that business will be very good." ”

Lu Shi was in trouble, and when he heard her say this, he burst out laughing and said, "Stay still?" Where is the red claw here? ”

Liu Xiangxiang listened to the two of them talk for a long time, but she could barely understand half of them, and then she overheard some new words coming out of their mouths, and interjected: "Sugar gourd? Red Claw? What's that? ”

Lu Shi explained to her with a smile, and then reached out and poked Yu Yu's head again, "You kid, don't you make your mother happy." At first, when she listened to the first few words of Yiyu, she was really poked in the heart, and when she thought that this kid had some good ideas, she didn't expect such an unbounded idea, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Mother, I brought the red claw seed." Yi Yu rubbed her head and said this, Lu's laughter suddenly stuck on her lips, and Yu Yu continued as if she was afraid that she would not be surprised enough, "Mother remembers the wild red claws in the forest, no, there were two more small ones in the west the year before last, and they were planted by me when we started buying sugar gourds." The year after she discovered that she could give birth to plants, she peeled the hawthorn seeds, planted them beside the small hawthorn bushes, and added "material" every two or three months, and the fruit was already borne in less than two years.

The Lu family didn't know that she had done this secretly, and now she used it to persuade the Lu family.

After Lu Shi was shocked, she thought about it carefully, when she went to pick fruits last year, there were indeed two small ones, and she thought they were grown naturally, but she didn't want to plant them by her own daughter, so she asked with a happy face, "You child, it's amazing when you just pick up some flowers and plants, and you can even grow red claws, tell your mother quickly, how did you get it?" ”

Where does Yiyu know how this hawthorn is planted, she just regularly "adds" to them, and that kind of seed will naturally grow, but since Lu Shi asked, she can only half-truth, "The deeper the pit is dug and the more diligent it is cared for, it will naturally grow." ”

Lu's face was suspicious, "Is this easy?" It's not that she doesn't believe in Yu Yu's words, it's just that in this era, it is easy to farm, but it is very difficult to plant trees and fruits.

"That's it, oh, mother, the fruit has been picked for you, why don't you believe it?" When Yi Yu said this, seeing that Lu Shi still didn't believe it on his face, he secretly said that after he was well prepared, he pulled Lu Shi to follow Liu Xiangxiang and went to the courtyard together.

"Mother, you see, this is what I planted in the days when we came, and it has grown so tall." Yi Yu pulled Lu Shi to the edge of the small pavilion at the four corners, and pointed to a sprouting seedling, which was the hawthorn she had secretly planted a few days ago.

Although Lu had never seen what a hawthorn seedling looked like, this tall green little thing was obviously a newborn sapling. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, and now she finally stopped doubting, but asked Yu Yu a few words in surprise, and the three of them went back to the house.

After entering the house and sitting down, Lu Shi pulled the Yu Yu in his arms, and carefully asked her how many seeds she had brought, etc., and the two talked for half an hour.

"Mother, shall we buy the land in Xufu?"

Lu Shi was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "Okay, we have our own land, what do we have to buy that piece of land, let's have some vacant space on the field, and we have planted red claws." ”

Liu Xiangxiang only interjected at this time, "Xiaoyu, how did you forget that it was a waste land and couldn't buy it." But she didn't know that the last thing she was afraid of was wasteland.

Yi Yu had already thought of the explanation, and when they asked, she said with a smile: "Mother, I saw in the miscellaneous books that my eldest brother bought, there is a kind of terrain under the foothills that cannot support mulberry trees, but it is good to plant some red claws." "When their family's fortune improved a few years ago, Lu Zhi went to the county to buy some miscellaneous books, and often took them home to read with Yiyu, and the Lu family also knew about it.

Yi Yu looked at the Lu family who lowered his head and thought, just waiting for her to ask a few more words, if she still didn't believe it, she came up with an idea to move the hawthorn sapling to the ground at the foot of the mountain and plant it, and she would know if it was alive in two days.

But after Lu Shi raised his head and smiled at her, his face suddenly darkened, and he shouted to her: "Come here!" ”

After drinking, he stretched out his hand and pulled the Yu Yu, who was startled by her sudden cold face, to his lap and pressed it, "You girl!" Why are you so bad-hearted, I'm afraid you knew about the problem of that land yesterday, and no matter whether the thing about the land that can grow fruit trees is true or not, but you only say it after you have gone around me now, when I am a fool! You're clearly a bad idea to hit someone's terrain! People have no enmity with us in the past, and there is no resentment in recent days, why are you so bad-hearted!"

After finishing speaking, he picked off Yu Yu's little pants, revealing her white and tender little buttocks, and covered the slap with all her might, Fang slapped it twice, and continued through gritted teeth, "Your second brother has a simple temperament, and your eldest brother is also cold on the outside and hot on the inside, how can you be from your girl's family, with this ghost mind, how old are you, ah?" How do you know that I pity you for being sinful when you were young, and I don't restrain you much on weekdays, but I raised your temperament! I'm going to change you today! ”

After speaking, there was a crackling slap, Liu Xiangxiang was frightened by Lu at first, but when she saw that she didn't have any love left in her hand, she screamed and pounced and began to stop her, but Lu was in a hurry, and her strength didn't know how to restrain at all, where could Liu Xiangxiang stop her.

Yi Yu, who was lying on Lu's lap, stared at a pair of big eyes, until the tingling sensation in his buttocks came, which was reflected: he was actually beaten!

Her mind was blank for a moment, what hawthorn mulberry trees, the terrain of the house, all left behind, only to hear the words of Lu scolding her clearly, only then did she understand where she was "wrong", a sense of grievance suddenly came to her heart, her nose was sour, and she cried out with a "wow".

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Tomorrow my niece is full moon, and I want to go to my brother's house, maybe later, please forgive me.