After eating at noon that day, Lu and Lu Jun went to the place where the government outside the village collected grain to pay rent and sell grain, leaving only the two brothers and sisters at home. The eldest Lu Zhi was reading in the yard, and Yi Yu also moved a small stool to sit in the yard while basking in the sun, while practicing embroidery with coarse cloth, after all, the family had no money left to buy silk silk for her to learn female red, and it was good to have a few pieces of old cloth to practice.

Yi Yu's eyes stared at the embroidery for a long time, and when she was about to look into the distance to let her eyes rest, she saw a woman in her twenties walking in front of the courtyard gate, holding a little girl who was taller than Yu Yu.

When the woman saw her look up, she came out with a smile and said to her, "Yo, Sister Yu'er, play in the yard." ”

Yi Yu still looked at this woman, and slowly pulled out a fragment from her memory: it was ten days ago, when she was hugging sand on the side of the village road, when she saw this woman surnamed Wang gossiping with another woman, saying that the Lu family had hooked up with the man named Li Laoshi in her family.

She had seen that Li Laoshi, she had borrowed the ox cart twice, and she was smiling and simple, but the Lu family didn't pay much attention to her, and only dragged him back from the town with a little candy to eat as a snack for Yuyu. The small caramel cube is more expensive than the simple maltose, but because it is natural, the taste is not bad, the fruit type is simpler, the sweet cake is about the size of her palm, and she can't eat a whole piece of food.

Although Yu Yu also loves gossip, but that is on the premise that the protagonist of gossip is someone else, her wife is inexplicably disgusted, and she really can't raise any interest in dealing with the person in front of her, so she stretched out her hand and pulled the eldest brother who was still addicted to the sea of books around her. It is worth mentioning that the day after she came over, Lu went to the market to buy flour and brought a book of poetry back to Lu Jun.

Lu Zhi looked up and saw the Wang family holding his daughter standing in his yard, and he couldn't react for a while, until the other party said to him with a smile, "Brother Zhi, it's good for you to lend me the burden of carrying water." ”

Yi Yu thought to herself, it turned out that she had borrowed something, no wonder she had such a good attitude. During this period, the daily necessities in the countryside were still very poor, such as kitchen knives and other things, such small farmers generally did not have, a kitchen knife at least half a penny, the money has always been a thousand copper coins, which can also be exchanged for one or two silver, but few people in remote areas make silver.

Their family has 30 acres of medium farmland, and there is about one stone of grain per acre, and ten buckets of grain are one stone, one bucket can be sold for ten yuan, and one stone of grain can be exchanged for one hundred yuan. The family's main land can be harvested three times a year. The four of them eat at least ten stones of grain a year, plus some daily sundries, and five buckets of taxes per ten acres of land, it is already very good to save a consistent amount of money a year.

Besides, this Wang explained the intention, originally Yiyu thought that Lu Zhi would take it directly, but she didn't expect her eldest brother to tilt his head and think for a while, and asked rhetorically: "Auntie, I remember that you came to my house last month to borrow half a bundle of firewood and haven't paid it back, and this time you borrowed the burden, you won't have another ten days and a half months." ”

Listening to his words, Yi Yu couldn't help but grin secretly, don't look at Lu Zhi, who usually only reads books and doesn't play and doesn't talk much, he looks like a good boy who is Wen Wennuo, but he is actually a clever one, and in modern terms, he is a little black-bellied. Such a simple two sentences, mentioning that the Wang family borrowed the unpaid firewood before, so that she was ashamed, if she was not very thick-skinned, she would either return the firewood or be embarrassed to borrow the flat burden again.

It's just that I didn't expect this Wang family to be really kind-hearted, and she didn't feel annoyed after listening to Lu Zhi's words, but she didn't spare people, "Isn't it just half a bundle of firewood, your Uncle Li doesn't send firewood to your house on weekdays, I didn't say to let it be returned, right?" You're bothering me about this now? ”

Lu Zhi frowned after hearing her words, thought for a while and said, "Auntie, this is strange, according to what you say, I often see my mother giving Uncle Li a lot of money, should I care about this with you?" ”

"That's your mother asked him to buy firewood, but he didn't give it in vain!"

"Oh, I see. Then Uncle Li sent firewood to our house, didn't my mother spend money to buy it, you never gave my mother money to take firewood from my house. ”

Yi Yu looked at the serious look on his eldest brother's delicate little face, and couldn't help laughing, and the hard smile on Wang's face finally couldn't hold back, and replied stupidly, "Am I borrowing it, do you want money to borrow something?" ”

"You probably don't need money to borrow something, but don't you have to pay it back?"

Yi Yu watched Lu Zhi choke the Wang family speechless, and inevitably compared his current appearance with his usual smiling nerd appearance, and found that his eldest brother seemed to have the potential to have a black belly.

In the end, Wang didn't borrow the flat burden, so he pulled her daughter away with his head bored. Lu Zhi saw that the person was gone, and opened the book again and began to read it carefully word by word, as if it was not him who sneered at the person just now.

In the evening, the Lu family went home to cook, and the two brothers and sisters of the Yu family did not mention the fact that the Wang family had come in the afternoon, so that the second brother Lu Jun looked like he couldn't sit still, scratching his ears and cheeks and revolving around the Lu family, and the Yu Yu he saw was very novel. Although her second brother is an extrovert, it is rare to see him look like he is scratching his heart.

Under his interference, Lu finally prepared the meal and served it to the table, and when the three brothers and sisters were seated and Lu Jun still looked at her, he couldn't help but slap him on the back of the head, and said that he would eat well.

When it was nightfall, Lu Shi smiled and pushed a few children to bed. The wooden plank bed at home is also very large, with a two-meter-wide and three-meter-long appearance, and below is a platform piled up of earth and stones to the height of Lu's knees, covered with a few wooden planks and covered with a thin undergarment, and the four of them lie horizontally to be very spacious, and the widow who has slept on the college hardboard bed for four years does not feel any discomfort, on the contrary, Lu's hugs her sleeps every night, and the faint smell of wheat fields on her mother's body and the warmth brought by the bedding after being fully sun-dried, all of which make her like it very much.

Lu Shi slept on the outside, Yu Yu was lying in the middle in her arms, Lu Zhi was on the other side of the wall, and then Lu Jun came over, and several people always liked to chat about some miscellaneous things before going to bed, and the family was very happy.

Lu Jun lay beside Yi Yu and looked at his mother with a blank eye, and the Lu family who saw it chuckled again, and then whispered to Yu Yu in his arms, "Sister Yu, you haven't gone out since you got better, this year's harvest is good, tomorrow my mother will take you to the market." ”

"Mother! I'll go too! Lu Jun saw that his mother finally mentioned the matter of going to the market tomorrow, and finally couldn't help shouting, Yi Yu then understood what he was inking for a night, thinking that although the material life of the Tang Dynasty has been greatly improved, but people's daily entertainment activities are really boring, for children, catching the market is probably the same level as going to the playground, no wonder he is very excited.

Lu Shi touched the little brain of the jade and asked, "Sister Yu said that she would take your second brother with you?" ”

Okay, I teased Lu Jun with her. Yi Yu obviously felt that Lu Jun's eyes staring at her suddenly became hot, and she thought that she was really still a child, so she nodded and said, "Take it, the eldest brother and the second brother will go." ”

Lu Jun was excited when he heard this, and kissed her little face with a big "bar", and she didn't dislike the saliva that was rubbed, she just felt funny.

When Lu Zhi heard her mention herself, he also propped up his head with one hand and turned his head to smile at her, "Big brother doesn't go, big brother is guarding the door at home, Xiaoyu is going to ask my mother to buy you fruits to eat." ”

What a sensible child, Yi Yu sighed in his heart, and also knew that in this era, there must be someone in the family to watch the door, although people in his own village may not come to get something, but there are also some thieves in other villages. Instead of asking your neighbors to watch your home, you should leave your own home.

When Lu Jun heard his eldest brother say this, he hesitated for a moment on his face and said, "Then I'll take care of the house, big brother go!" ”

Lu couldn't help but feel relieved to see that the two of them were humble to each other, and finally decided that the eldest would stay and watch the house, and the second would go to the market together. It's just that Lu Jun, who was still looking forward to it, also lost the spirit of the evening, children all suffer from gains and losses like this, and Lu didn't care about him, and a few people chatted about the market for a while before slowly falling asleep.