Song Huaishu looked at the crowd that had suddenly quieted down, and he was a little uncomfortable for a while. Turning his head to look at Lu Zhengan, he reached out and tugged at his sleeve.

Lu Zhengan glanced at Song Huaishu, stretched out his hand to hold his hand, and led him to the crowd. "What's wrong with everyone today? I'm tired from work these days and don't have the strength to speak? ”

In the face of Lu Zhengan's ridicule, everyone looked at Mrs. Ji, who was in the shade of the tree, and laughed dryly twice, but no one spoke.

However, Chen Zaohua was a little bolder, straightened up and looked at Lu Zheng'an who was squatting opposite, and casually pulled a reason and said with a smile: "I guess that the big guys are guessing that after your little Song is born, how many tables will you set up?" But do you still want to ask the master chef in town to come and take charge of the spoon? ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhengan couldn't help but smile and said: "That's natural, when the time comes, everyone in our village will come over and have a lively and lively time." The exact number of tables will be counted, but everyone will definitely be fed and drunk. ”

After such a fuss, the small courtyard returned to its usual liveliness.

Mrs. Ji sat on the chair, looked at Lu Zheng'an and Song Huaishu, who were laughing with everyone in the field, knocked on Mama Zhang's arm with the pu fan in her hand, and said: "Look at Zheng'an's way of life, if the group of wine bags and rice bags in the family could have fifty percent of him, I would have handed over the power of the family a long time ago." ”

Listening to Old Madam Ji's words, Mama Zhang bowed down and comforted: "Young Master Sun is still young, and the environment in which Young Master Sun grew up is also different, so naturally there will be some differences. Don't be too anxious, just tune/teach slowly. ”

As she was talking, Mrs. Ji saw Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu suddenly stand up, and before Mrs. Ji could react to what was going on, the two walked towards a middle-aged couple on the mountain road.

Mrs. Ji was a little old, and her eyes were not very good, and she couldn't see who was coming. frowned and looked carefully for a moment, only to feel that the other party's figure was a little familiar. Mama Zhang, who was still on the side, reminded in a low voice: "It's the uncle and aunt of the young master who are here." ”

Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu looked at Lu Yang, whom they had not seen for nearly two months, and were surprised and delighted, and after they stepped forward to look at Lu Yang's emaciated cheeks, the smiles on Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu's faces couldn't help but sink a little.

I secretly guessed in my heart that Lu Yang's trip to Linzhou was not so pleasant, as Lu Yingchun said......

Chapter 84

After Lu Yang received the news that his daughter-in-law was pregnant, he packed up his things and went to Linzhou to visit, and stayed there for nearly two months before leaving to return.

Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu looked at Lu Yang's who had returned, and their hearts were extremely happy. It was only after seeing the sadness in each other's eyes and emaciated cheeks that the smiles on the faces of the two of them sank a little.

"When did my aunt come back?" Why haven't you heard Uncle Changgen say? ”

Hearing Song Huaishu's question, Lu Yang took his hand and smiled: "I only got home last night, how have you been doing, maybe you have eaten more?" ”

"And I can eat it, I can eat more than one bowl of a meal, and I have to add another meal in the afternoon."

Lu Zhengan waited for Song Huaishu's voice to fall, and hurriedly said to the three of them: "Let's go home and talk, the sun here is very poisonous, and people are panicked." ”

Hearing Lu Zheng'an say this, Lu Yang reacted at this time, holding Song Huaishu's wrist and helping him to walk towards Lu Zheng'an's house.

However, when Lu Yang saw the old lady Ji sitting in the shade of the tree, the smile on his face suddenly froze, and he turned his head sideways and asked Song Huaishu, "When did this old lady come?" ”

"I came here yesterday, this book is almost the end of the day, the old lady was a little worried, so she found two experienced women and sent them."

Hearing Lu Zheng'an's answer, Lu Yang nodded, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "In the end, it is your grandmother, who still thinks about you in my heart." ”

While speaking, the four of them had already come to the small courtyard. After greeting the villagers who were working warmly, Lu Yang came to Mrs. Ji. Looking at Mrs. Ji's ordinary muslin clothes, although she wondered in her heart, there was nothing unusual on her face.

"Old lady, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?"

Old Madam Ji had a good impression of Lu Yang's family, and when she heard her greet her, she nodded and smiled in response: "Okay, okay, come down the mountain to get hot, right?" Let's go inside and talk. ”

Seeing that Old Madam Ji was about to get up, Lu Yang hurriedly stopped the person.

"It's not far from the village, and it's not hot and windy all the way. I just came back from a trip a while ago, and I came to see these two children with these two children in mind. I didn't expect the old lady to be there, you are a rare guest, you must stay a few more days this time. ”

Seeing Lu Yang and Mrs. Ji pulling homely, Lu Zhengan, who had nothing to do on the side, saw that there was nothing to do with them, so he simply found an excuse to take Song Huaishu into the courtyard. He took two pieces of dim sum from the hall and handed them to Song Huaishu.

"Look at Aunt Changgen, she seems to have lost a lot of weight, don't you really say it in the spring, right?"

Lu Zheng'an, who was about to help him pour water, couldn't help but laugh when he heard Song Huaishu's words. I just felt that the other party had stayed with these aunts and aunts in the village for a long time, and it seemed that he had become more curious.

"If you don't fit in, don't be foolish. The old lady didn't know what to think this time, as if she was going to live here permanently. If she says or does something unhappy, don't keep it in your heart. ”

After carefully explaining Song Huai's book, Lu Zhengan went to the courtyard to turn over the dried peaches. Hearing Lu Yang calling him outside the courtyard, Lu Zhengan hurriedly walked out of the door.

Seeing Lu Yang standing at the door as if he was about to leave, Lu Zhengan hurriedly said, "It's time for lunch now, you and Uncle Changgen are eating here, right?" I asked the people in the village to give a message to Yingchun and asked her to come over too. ”

Lu Yang smiled and pulled his wind-blown hair behind his ears, and said, "No, after walking for so long, the house is very messy, and I will come back when I clean up the house." ”

Seeing this, Lu Zheng'an did not hold on anymore, and sent people to the side of the mountain road with Song Huaishu, and watched Lu Yang's family go down the mountain, and then the two turned around and went home.

Three days after Mrs. Ji came to Lu Zheng'an's house, the fruits in the garden were completely picked. After taking it home and weighing, it was only three or four hundred pounds.

Lu Zhengan looked at the tanned faces of everyone and the empty firewood shed, so he simply didn't bother anymore. Directly asking everyone to divide these peaches equally is also considered a reward in addition to wages.

Fortunately, these villagers who followed him to work were not ungrateful people, knowing that Song Huaishu was about to give birth, and there were no people around him at all. Seeing that his firewood shed was empty, everyone took a day to go to the mountains to help pick up some and help them fill most of the firewood shed.

Mrs. Ji lived in Lu Zheng'an's house for so many days, and she only thought that Lu Zheng'an had only a superficial relationship with these people in the village. However, when Mrs. Ji watched the people in the village spontaneously fill the firewood shed of Lu Zheng'an's house with half fill, her heart couldn't help but be greatly shaken.

There were fewer people working in front of the door, and the Lu family suddenly became quiet. Not to mention that Song Huaishu was a little unaccustomed to it, even Mrs. Ji felt a little bored.

Lu Zhengan wore a straw hat and dried dried peaches with Mama Zhang in the yard, and when he raised his eyes to see Song Huaishu holding a very boring face under the eaves, he smiled helplessly.

Mama Zhang looked at Lu Zheng'an's doting expression, and while doing her work, she asked, "Young Master Song is about to give birth in a month, and my mother's family has come to deliver the birth meal?" ”

Where did Lu Zhengan understand these customs, and when he heard Mama Zhang say this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. "Giving birth to rice? It's the first time I've heard of such a statement. ”

Seeing Lu Zhengan's ignorant face, Mama Zhang thought about it for a while and knew that Lu Zheng'an had no elders in the family, so no one could remind him of this. sighed silently in his heart, and told Lu Zhengan the reason for the birth of the meal.

After Lu Zhengan listened, he couldn't help but laugh when he thought that the two elders of the Song family would send them here every time they came.

"If that's the case, then there's no need to send this meal to my father-in-law and mother-in-law. Most of the food used by my family was sent by the two elders, and even the children's clothes were prepared. ”

Hearing Lu Zheng'an say this, Mama Zhang couldn't help but laugh. "That cousin young master really found a good Yue family, it's not easy to find someone who knows cold and hot like this."

As soon as Mama Zhang's voice fell, she only heard the sound of talking at the door. Lu Zhengan turned his head to look at the door, and saw the two elders of the Song family coming in with things in their hands.

When Song Lanshi first arrived at the door, he saw Mama Zhang beside Lu Zhengan. Seeing that the other party is tall, his hair is meticulously combed, and his clothes are simple but very clean and tidy, and the style of the whole body does not look like he was born in the countryside.

Just when Song Lan's family was wondering who the other party was, when they saw Song Huaishu holding his face under the eaves, and the old lady sitting next to him, he immediately understood the identity of the other party.

Looking at Lu Zheng'an, who greeted him, Song Lanshi asked in a low voice, "The one from the Ji family?" ”

Seeing that Lu Zhengan nodded slightly, Song Lan's heart also had a score. He handed the red dates, longan, brown sugar and other things he was carrying to Lu Zheng'an, and went into the courtyard with him.

When Song Huaishu saw his parents coming, he hurriedly stood up with a chair. Old Madam Ji looked at the eyebrows and eyes of the person who came and Song Huaishu, and she already understood the identity of the other party in her heart.

Although Mrs. Ji has a noble status outside, as Lu Zhengan's maternal grandmother, it is the first time she has met Song Huaishu's parents, and the due etiquette cannot be lost. Seeing Song Lan and Song Xiren walking into the courtyard, Mrs. Ji also stood up on crutches.

However, Old Madam Ji is an elder after all, even if Song Lan and Song Xiren are her mother's family, it is not good for her to let an elder come to pick her up.

So, Song Xiren and Song Lan walked a few steps in front of Mrs. Ji, and after Lu Zheng'an introduced her as if she were going through the motions, the two of them greeted Mrs. Ji as juniors.

When Mrs. Ji took Song Lan's hand and entered the house, her eyes swept over the things brought by the two of them, seeing that there were all kinds of red dates, longan, brown sugar, and quilted clothes, etc., knowing that Song Huaishu's parents were all polite and thoughtful people, the smile on her face couldn't help but be a little more enthusiastic.

Song Lan was born in a scholarly family, and there was always some difference between her speech and demeanor and that of a rural woman. The old lady inquired and learned that Song Lan's maiden family was actually the Lan family in Jiang'an Town, and she sighed in her heart that Lu Zheng'an was lucky.

You must know that the old man of the Lan family is a famous power in the Daxi Dynasty, and there are countless literati who admire him, and Lu Zheng'an can have a relationship with him, and if he goes outside in the future, he will also be looked down upon.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Ji's attitude towards Song Lan and his wife became a little more enthusiastic.

Lu Zheng'an didn't care about the few people in the hall who were chatting happily at this time, and he was standing in front of the vegetable cabinet in the stove room at this time, looking at the various vegetables in it and feeling a little worried.

In the past, Lu Zhengan didn't know the meaning of giving birth to rice, but now after listening to Mama Zhang's explanation, he had to pay attention to it.

Fortunately, because of Mrs. Ji's stay, the ingredients at home, whether Mrs. Ji brought them herself, or went down the mountain to buy them by herself, were extremely rich. It is not particularly difficult to reorganize a table.

Just when Lu Zhengan was about to light a fire and boil water, Song Huaishu walked in with a pu fan. Seeing Lu Zhengan squatting in front of the stove, he stretched out his hand and poked him on the shoulder, and said, "You go get vegetables, I'll make a fire." ”

Lu Zhengan looked at Song Huaishu, who was sweating on the tip of his hot nose, and raised his chin from him to signal him to hurry out.

"It's hot in the house, so you might as well go to the hall and talk to your mother. Mama Zhang went to the back yard to pluck green onions, and she will come over later. ”

"When their elders talked, I couldn't interject, and I was bored in the hall. I took a fan, and I just fanned it a few times when it was hot. ”

Lu Zhengan imagined the scene in the hall and understood that Song Huaishu really didn't want to go over. So he lowered his head and lit the fire, went outside and carried a bamboo chair and put it at the door of the stove house.

"Then just sit here and talk to me if you're cool."

After Lu Zhengan finished speaking, he saw Song Lan's family and them coming, and he also brought up a watermelon. After washing it in a basin of water, he cut it into small pieces, handed it to Song Huaishu first, and then put it in a tray and sent it to a few people who were talking in the hall.

When Lu Zhengan came out of the hall, Song Huaishu was holding a watermelon and munching on it happily. Seeing that the water in the iron pot had already begun to ring, he stared at Lu Zhengan and asked, "What are you going to do with boiling water in the pot?" Father and mother are not outsiders, so on such a hot day, why don't we just do something? ”

As soon as Song Huaishu's words fell, Mama Zhang walked over with a handful of shallots.

Hanging the straw hat on top of her head under the eaves of the stove house, Mama Zhang stood next to Song Huaishu, peeling green onions, and replied with a smile: "That's not possible, Master Song and Mrs. Song came to give birth to you today, this meal can't be sloppy." ”

Song Huaishu didn't know what to give birth to, but he was embarrassed to ask more when he heard Mama Zhang say this. He bowed his head and finished eating the watermelon in his hand, went to the basin to wash his hands, and returned to the door of the stove house.

"Mama Zhang, I'll choose shallots, and you can quench your thirst with a piece of watermelon."

Seeing Song Huaishu stretching out his hand, Mama Zhang smiled and turned sideways to dodge. "Young Master Song, don't get your hands dirty anymore, just come to the old slave. Why don't you sit in the shade of the tree in the yard with your stools, and the heat of the kitchen keeps going out, can you sit at the door without getting hot?"

While speaking, Lu Zhengan had already blanched the pork ribs and was putting them in the crockpot with a fence. After Mama Zhang had washed the shallots, Lu Zhengan hurriedly took two of them and tied them into knots and threw them into the crockpot.

"Huaishu looked at the fire in the stove, and I went to the barn to find the charcoal stove and stew the soup." As he spoke, Lu Zhengan trotted towards the warehouse.

Although Mama Zhang has been serving by Mrs. Ji's side all the year round, she also has good cooking skills. Seeing that Lu Zhengan's meat slices were of different sizes and shapes, he hesitated for a moment, but still rolled up his sleeves and pushed Lu Zhengan aside.

"Young Master Cousin, let's come as an old slave. Your slices of meat are sliced, and the smaller ones are old, and the thicker ones are not yet cooked. ”

Seeing that his knife work was disliked, Lu Zhengan subconsciously looked at Song Huaishu who was fanning a fan at the door, shrugged his shoulders, and the expression on his face was very helpless.

Song Huaishu couldn't help but feel a little funny when he looked at him, but Song Huaishu also felt that Lu Zheng'an's knife work was not as bad as Mama Zhang said, so he couldn't help but say: "It's the same food when it's done, and there are no outsiders here today, so there's no need to be so particular." ”

Mama Zhang didn't expect her unintentional remark that this little young master, who seemed to have no temper, would protect Lu Zheng'an like this, and she was amused and relieved for a while.

I was busy with Mama Zhang in the kitchen for an hour, and the dishes and bowls on the kitchen board in the stove room were almost gone. When Lu Zhengan brought down the pork rib soup on the charcoal stove, he felt that his underwear was soaked with sweat.

Looking at Lu Zhengan's hot red face, Song Huaishu couldn't help but feel very distressed. Hurriedly took the handkerchief that had been frozen by the spring water and handed it to Lu Zhengan, and while Lu Zhengan wiped his face, he kept fanning him with the cool breeze with the pu fan in his hand.

"Seeing that your hair is all sweaty, why don't you go to the house and change into a clean one, how uncomfortable it is to wrap around your body."

Seeing Song Huaishu looking at him with his eyebrows twisted, Lu Zhengan wiped the sweat from his face and let out a sigh of relief. "It's okay, it's just hot for a while. Fortunately, you still have a month to give birth, according to this hot method, confinement is really hard. ”

Mama Zhang also breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the scorching sun above her head, and nodded in agreement.

"Indeed, I heard from the doctor that giving birth to a child is equivalent to loosening the bones of the whole body, and it is necessary to protect yourself from the wind during the confinement period, let alone take a bath. Fortunately, autumn will begin in a few days, and the cool wind on the mountain will not be so sad. It can be seen that this little master in Young Master Song's belly is a person who can pick a day. ”

Since she became pregnant, Song Huaishu has been unusually afraid of heat, and she never leaves her fan after entering the summer. Originally, he was thinking about having a child just in time for the hot weather, but Song Huaishu was still a little afraid in his heart. Hearing what Mama Zhang said, she silently calculated the days in her heart, and when she gave birth to a child, it was indeed autumn, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief

The three of them rested at the door for a while, and when they saw that it was almost noon, Lu Zhengan went to the hall to set up the table and brought up more than a dozen dishes that he had prepared with Mama Zhang.

I didn't know that the two elders of the Song family were worried about Mrs. Ji, and the two people at the dinner table did not talk and laugh with Lu Zheng'an and Song Huaishu as they had done before, and the whole hall was silent and could only hear the sound of a few people chewing and the dishes and chopsticks colliding with plates.

Fortunately, the meal was not too long, and after letting Mama Zhang and the two stable women help remove the table, Lu Zhengan breathed a sigh of relief, and subconsciously looked at Song Huaishu, seeing that he also looked relieved, and reached out and pinched Song Huaishu's palm in a reassuring manner.

Old Madam Ji sat upright on her hand, watching the small movements of the two of them, she couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth. Knowing that there is oneself, it is not convenient for several people to speak.

Old Madam Ji stood up on the table and said apologetically to Song Lan and Song Xiren: "I got up a little early today, and I'm a little tired now, so I'll go back to my room to rest for a while." ”

Seeing this, Song Lan and Song Xiren immediately stood up from their stools and watched Old Madam Ji take Mama Zhang's hand into the west room, and then turned their heads to look at Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu.