The fields have already been sown, and there are still some idle things that the Lu family does not need to guard all day, and the family of four is all busy with other things at home at this time.

Yi Yu sat in the courtyard with his legs crossed and watched Lu Jun sharpen the bamboo sticks, which were old bamboo cut from the back mountain, and he was carefully smoothing the split bamboo pieces and using them as strings of sugar gourds. What made Yu Yu very curious was the palm-sized knife in his hand that looked very sharp, this was the first time she had seen him use this thing, this knife looked like iron in texture, the blade was thin and smooth, and the handle was engraved with fine patterns, at a glance, she knew that it was a good thing, but where did this thing come from?

"Daddy gave it." Lu Jun, who was lowering his head and sharpening the wooden stick seriously, answered her like this, but as soon as the words fell, Lu Zhi on the side glared at him fiercely, and his little eyes were even sharper than the delicate knife.

Lu Jun immediately felt a chill coming towards him, and when he looked up, he saw his eldest brother's sharp eyes, and then he realized what he had just said, and after his face turned white, he hurriedly turned back to look at the back room, until he was sure that Lu was still washing hawthorn in the stove room and breathed a sigh of relief, but when he turned around, he met his little sister's pair of sparkling eyes, couldn't help opening his mouth, and stammered: "Ah, this... This is... This is someone else's father, yes, this is someone else's father! ”

It turns out that Lu Jun, whose head and strength are inversely proportional, is indeed not a child who can lie, and it is really a technical job for Yu Yu to pretend to believe his words, in this era when ordinary people can't afford a kitchen knife, whose father would give someone else's son such a beautifully crafted inlaid knife? This dad is either too rich or his head is caught in the door.

Yi Yu was entangled for a while, and still let go of her poor second brother, not because she was not curious, she was really curious, but the premise of expressing her curiosity was to be able to withstand the extremely cold eye knife of the eldest brother of the Lu family opposite.

"Second brother, don't say anything strange to your little sister, you know?" Lu Zhi finally stopped his mental oppression of his younger brother and said lightly.

"Got it." Lu Jun was pardoned and nodded hurriedly.

Yi Yu felt a little regretful in her heart, but she still couldn't find out a little about her dead father. This family has a taboo against the dead father of their three siblings, and it stands to reason that Lu, as a mother, should often recall to the children about their father's life, but Lu never mentioned her ex-husband's affairs, and even Lu Jun, who occasionally knocked on the side and hit Lu Jun, whose head was relatively straight, ended up with the other party keeping his mouth shut.

Although in her case, it is very abnormal for such an older child not to mention his father, and it was okay when he was demented in the past, but now that he is sober, it is a little unreasonable to never ask about his father, but she is still not ready to mention the fateful father who has probably been reincarnated a long time ago in front of Lu, because from various inferences, for Lu's things, things related to that father are definitely not happy memories, or even painful, She didn't want to make this woman who loved her sad because of her momentary curiosity.

In her distraction, Lu Zhi quietly observed her with an obscure look, in his heart, the little sister was really different at home after she was sober, and in the past few years, the family was shrouded in the cloud of her congenital deficiencies, until she got better, they didn't have to be secretly sad, and the mother finally didn't have to force a smile. After he passes the hospital examination and the township examination in a few years, the conditions at home will be better, and he must let his mother and younger siblings live a good life.

Lu Jun sharpened a full thirty bamboo sticks with similar lengths and thicknesses, and Lu Zhi took them to the stove room and carefully washed them, and a few people began to string the red and bright hawthorns that were washed.

After skewering them all, Lu Shi started the stove to prepare to boil the sugar, which she had bought on a special trip to the market yesterday, and poured half of the whole jar of maltose into the pot, and slowly dissolved into an amber viscous juice as the temperature rose, until the sugar surface began to bubble, she scooped it with a big spoon, turned around and sprinkled it evenly on a wooden board that was two feet long and one foot wide.

This plank was made by a carpenter in the village, and it was made of dense birch, and the surface was polished very smooth, and it was soaked in river water last night. Six hawthorn skewers lay side by side on the board, and Lu poured syrup from top to bottom from left to right with one hand, and swirled the red fruit in a fine, crystalline coat with the other.

Lu Jun swallowed his saliva on the side, although he had not eaten the sugar gourd that Lu tried to make in the past two days, as long as he saw it, he still felt drooling. Yi Yu watched with satisfaction as the layer of sugar coating gradually solidified, and an unprecedented sense of accomplishment rose in her heart, although it was a skill of stealing from her predecessors, she was finally able to do something for this family on her own, which was the same feeling as when she used the money she earned to buy a batch of new stationery for the orphanage for the first time.

After the syrup had completely condensed into crystals, Lu carefully removed them from the water plate and inserted them into the sugar gourd rack prepared in advance. Coincidentally, yesterday Lu asked the three brothers and sisters to name this snack, and Lu Jun's sugar red skewers, red claw skewers, sugar red claws and the like were all vetoed by Lu, and in the end, Lu Zhi's words were adopted by Lu.

"The sugar coating wrapped in this food is similar to winter ice crystals, and the string of six is like several gourds connected from end to end, so it might as well be called a rock sugar gourd." After Lu Zhi calmly spoke, she was holding a string of rock sugar gourds and almost choked to death, and after seeing Lu Shi nodding in agreement, she had to wonder if this was also a credit to the ability to correct historical errors, so although it was made in advance, the rock sugar gourd still used its original name.

The shelf of this sugar gourd is different from the previous ones, but Lu Shi took the canes of the plant and folded them into four fingers wide, and the appearance looked like an inverted bird's nest the size of a basin, filled with some worn clothes, and wrapped in a layer of white cloth. By inserting the tail end of the sugar gourd from the surface, the tangled canes of the plant can keep them upright.

It is the season of high autumn and crisp weather, the sugar gourd made in the evening can be put overnight without fear of damage, the next day before the end of the day, Lu got up, called Lu Jun to pack up his things and went out in the car, and the two came back in the evening.

Although the county is far away, but the purchasing power is strong, adults and children see this food are rare, after tasting it is full of praise, so thirty strings of sugar gourds are sold out in half an afternoon. There are still a lot of wild mountain scum in the forest of the back mountain, and the Lu family sold the sugar gourd for seven days in a row before the back mountain was emptied, and the price rose from five wen at the beginning to twenty wen, and in the end, it actually made a net profit of more than three yuan, which made the family happy.

Lu made such a windfall, so she did not hesitate to add a new set of clothes to each of the three children in the family, and even she made one herself. The embroidery of the jade has also been done, the belts of the two brothers are embroidered by her own hands, although the pattern is simple, but it still makes the two brothers happy, and praises their sister skill.

Yi Yu is also happy that he can finally help this family a little, if it weren't for some natural and man-made disasters, the hawthorn in the back mountain will produce normally next year, then their family will be able to earn an extra three times a year, Lu is a careful budgeter, and he will pay attention to storage while improving his life, but if Lu Jun wants to participate in the scientific expedition in a few years, this money is obviously not enough.

Yi Yu was thinking about how to find some other fruits to replace the hawthorn and continue to make sugar gourds, so one day after the autumn, he called Lu Jun, who had come back from the martial arts hall, and ran to the back mountain again, ready to investigate.

The temperature in late autumn is low, Lu Shi also put on thicker clothes for the children, Yu Yu was not a master who was afraid of cold in his previous life, and he was also very prone to fever in this life, and when she arrived at the destination, she had a layer of fine sweat beads on her forehead, and the wind blew in the mountains, she wanted to undress a little to cool down in the end, she still honestly wiped the sweat with her cuffs, and when she got sick, Lu Shi went to the town to buy medicine, then again, since she crossed here, she really never had a disease.

Lu Jun was climbing an old tree with yellow leaves at this moment, probably wanting to touch a few bird eggs and go back to eat. Yi Yu stood in front of the hawthorn bushes that had been picked, pinching his fleshy chin lightly with one hand and looking at the bushes with only a few thin hawthorns left in front of him, and gently rubbing the prismatic green leaves on a cluster of branches in front of him with the other, thinking about how to make this wild hawthorn produce more fruit in the coming year.

"Hiss-" The child's skin is very tender, and the jade was accidentally pierced by the small and sharp barbs on the hawthorn branch, and instantly a crimson blood bead oozed from the tip of the index finger, although she had a thin callus on her fingers for a while because of the study of female red, but it began to recover after the summer, and now there is no trace of roughness, and the white and tender little hands surprised Lu Shi for a while.

Yiyu pressed her thumb on the lower end of the wound and squeezed it gently, and the blood beads rolled down to a cluster of hawthorn branches, she gently took the finger with a slight stinging sensation in her mouth, sucked it twice, only to feel a slight sweet smell between her teeth, she was slightly stunned, and wondered in her heart that this blood smell was still sweet, is it unique to children?

Before she could understand the strangeness of the smell of her blood, the scene in front of her made her eyes widen suddenly-the length of the arm of the hawthorn branches became greener, and the bare fruit that was originally picked appeared at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

Yu Yu took a deep breath and bit her index finger that was still in her mouth with a slight force, the tingling sensation made her clearly know that it was not her own dazzle. Then she carefully picked a hawthorn with her uninjured hand and put it to her mouth and bit it - the sweet and sour taste was not a dream, the smell of good hawthorn lingered between her lips and teeth, and the few strings of fiery red hawthorn in front of her seemed to laugh at her stupidity.