Before he put it, not to mention his mother's pet dog, his grandmother's native dog didn't eat it.

If he wasn't really hungry, he wouldn't eat, and his eyes would be green when he ate.

After checking around, there was no wok in the kitchen.

Lu Xu hated his stepmother, and he didn't pay much attention to eating and drinking, and he never entered her supervisor's kitchen before, which made him wonder if there was a wok-wok.

He was deflated, and when he turned his head, he saw his younger siblings standing at the kitchen door, looking at him suspiciously, curiously, and warily.

It's the younger sister who is curious, and it's the younger brother who is wary.

He doesn't blow up the kitchen!

Lu Xu waved his hand at the cheap brother, "Come here." ”

In my memory, Lu Zhou often went into the kitchen, and at the age of three or five, he helped choose vegetables, wash dishes, make soy sauce and buy vinegar.

Lu Zhou stood next to him respectfully, looking up at him, "Big brother." ”

Lu Xu asked, "Is there a wok?" ”

Lu Zhou was puzzled: "What is a wok?" ”

It seems that there is none.

I don't know where else.

Lu Xu changed his question: "Is there an iron pot?" ”

Lu Zhou shook his head, "There is a copper pot in Lizheng's house, do you want to borrow it?" ”

Forget it, he's afraid, "That's not necessary." ”

Anyway, there is oil in the house.

I don't know if it will work in a casserole for cooking......

Be careful, right?

Anyway, he fried a chili pepper and stir-fried the sauce.

The world says that there is scarcity, it is very scarce, it is not scarce or scarce, the seasonings commonly used by the common people are quite mature, soy sauce, vinegar, wine, and bean paste, tempeh sauce or something, Sichuan pepper, star anise, pepper These spices are also available, but in addition to onions, ginger, garlic, and peppercorns, they are basically used as herbal medicines. The same goes for chili peppers, which are planted in the front yard and back of each house, either pickled into pickles or dried and sold in pharmacies.

Lu Xu doesn't like pickled chili peppers, and insists that only oil and chili peppers are a perfect match.

He commanded Lu Zhou and Layue to wash the snails. The snails by the stream are clean, and there is no need to spit out mud, and he has already scrubbed them several times by the water's edge, so let them rub them casually at this time. He used scissors to cut off the tail of the snail, and after cutting the tail, it was dirty and delicious, and he could suck it without a bamboo skewer. The only downside is that the cut is a bit painful......

Lu Xu gathered all the seasonings he could muster, peeled garlic and cut ginger, piled grass, lit a fire, and lit a fire.

The flint is easier to use than he imagined, Lu Xu grabbed the straw and fine firewood to make up for it, carefully poured oil and seasoning in the casserole, fried garlic, ginger, chili pepper and peppercorns, poured tempeh sauce into it and stir-fried until fragrant, the salty and spicy fragrance spread in the kitchen, Lu Xu was frightened and poured the snail into it, stir-fried quickly, added water, and poured some spices all over and covered the pot.

At this time, he can breathe a sigh of relief, whether it is delicious or not, put it aside first, at least the pot will not fry.

"I'll be able to eat it later." As soon as Lu Xu turned around, this time he not only saw his younger brothers and sisters who were so shocked that they opened their mouths, but also the little stepmother who had just returned from the field with a hoe on her back.

Layue had the same eyes, and stared at him through the two children as if she had seen a ghost. His little brother, who was less than a year old, was tied to his back with strips of cloth by his stepmother, babbling and waving his paws excitedly at him.

Lu Xu: ...... Ay.

Chapter 3 Stir-fried snails

Seeing the stepmother, Lu Xu was inexplicably a little embarrassed.

Especially when I saw her carrying a baby on her back and coming back from working in the field for most of the day.

He held back for a moment and greeted with some curtle, "I'm back." ”

Isn't this nonsense?

Yuan Manniang didn't have that much thought, seeing that her eldest son, who was not very close to her, was no longer depressed, and finally had some fresh energy, her eyes and nose were sour, "Xu'er, are you better today?" Still have headaches? ”

Lu Xu shook his head, a little at a loss.

"That's good, that's good......" Yuan Manniang looked at the direction of the kitchen in a daze, carrying her little son on her back, looking at the two children, one big and three children, smelling the fragrance wafting out of the kitchen, and then felt that their family had finally survived.

She smiled at Lu Xu, but squeezed out the tears rolling in her eyes.

Lu Xu bit his lip, he really didn't know how to deal with this meeting.

Originally, his family didn't eat lunch, but the snails were all done, and they could make steamed buns, so Yuan Manniang went into the kitchen to heat up the steamed buns and cook porridge.

When she went in, Lu Xu came out of the kitchen, Yuan Manniang was used to Lu Xu ignoring her, and she was used to it, but this time she misunderstood, Lu Xu, who changed the core, didn't know how to face her like a stepmother who fell from the sky.

Lu Rui was put on the straw mat, he was not good at walking, he climbed all over the mat, Lu Xu sat on the bench and watched him, and when he saw that he was about to climb out, he dragged him back. Lu Rui was playing with him, crawling the ground more energetically, people were laughing like crazy, and Layue also took off his shoes and sat on the mat to block him.

Yuan Manniang looked at the kitchen from time to time, and couldn't help but smile.

After cooking, it was already over, and other people's families should go to the field, Yuan Manniang didn't urge them to send fried snails to the two uncles' houses, so they simply left half of it to soak in the pot, and took out half of it to taste it first.

At noon, it was still the same, the steamed buns were sour, the wild vegetables were bitter, and the porridge was clearer than the river at the edge of the village. With the snails, the contrast is even more tragic.

Yuan Manniang tasted two fried snails, and her apricot eyes lit up, which made Lu Xu can't help but wonder if she is actually a foodie.

Lu Zhou and Layue took a big bite of steamed buns and a snail, and they didn't lift their heads when they ate the ground, and the little brother Lu Rui, who couldn't eat, circled around the table in two steps and three crookedly, babbling and slapping the table to lose his temper, he also wanted to eat, but no one gave it!

Yuan Manniang picked meat for the three big ones while wiping saliva for the small ones, laughing and busy working non-stop, only Lu Xu was a little unate.

This fried snail, he thinks the taste is average, at most it is an ordinary night market stall level, it's okay to make a tooth sacrifice, it's not a serious dish, but just like that, they are like eating some delicacies and seafood, Lu Xu felt a little uncomfortable, and always felt that life shouldn't be like this.

At one meal, the whole family was satisfied, and a small pot of snails, except for the one that was set aside for the two uncles' families, was still in the pot, and the rest were all eaten. When they couldn't eat, Yuan Manniang swept the tail while cleaning up.

Lu Zhou took Layue to send fried snails to his uncle's house, and Lu Xu sat at the table and watched Yuan Manniang take steamed buns and dip them in soup to eat. He subconsciously looked at the empty throne. According to his memory, if his father was still there, it must have been his father holding Layue to pick snail meat for them one by one, and dipping his steamed buns in vegetable soup.

Seeing Lu Xu staring at the main seat in a daze, Yuan Manniang swallowed the steamed bun and said with some trepidation, "Xu'er, my mother has something I want to discuss with you." ”

Lu Xu: "You say." ”

Yuan Manniang said very hard, pinching her fingers tangledly, "Then, that mother will tell you, Xu'er, that oil is the lamp oil to be used for the New Year's vigil......"

Lu Xu coughed violently, his voice was a little cracked, "It's not cooking oil?" Can't you eat it? ”

Yuan Manniang had never heard of the term "edible oil", so she was stunned and said: "You can eat it naturally, if you want to eat it, it is okay to occasionally steam some oil rolls." ”

She was entangled, and Lu Xu understood.

Their family can't afford to eat oil.

He used the oil that was going to be used until the New Year.

Lu Xu's face turned red.

"This snail is delicious, but you can't eat too much," Yuan Manniang pinched her fingers and lowered her head, and whispered, "You know, your father was buried, and our family sold more than half of the field ......."

Lu Xu was silent.

He knew that.

His father died outside, and he was either buried underground or had someone transport him back. Helping the coffin back, manpower, travel expenses cost a lot, his father's situation is considered a horizontal death, according to their local customs, a horizontal death is unlucky, can not erect a monument can not enter the ancestral grave, Lu Xu and Yuan Manniang are surprisingly consistent in this point, sell the land and raise debts to let his father enter the ancestral grave for a good burial. Lu Xu's two uncles, an aunt, and the surviving grandparents all took the money out, invited someone to do enough rituals to remove obscurity, and invited the whole clan to watch the ceremony, before burying his father in the ancestral grave.

In this way, their family's savings, as well as the money from the sale of the land, were not only spent, but they also owed debts to their uncles and aunts.

Yuan Manniang continued to count, "Later, you were seriously ill, and my mother really had no choice, so I made the decision and sold some land to show you the disease......"

Lu Xu: "......"

She glanced at Lu Xu quickly, and sighed with relief, "Fortunately, your illness is very cured." ”

Lu Xu's eyebrows trembled, and he thought, it's not good, the original Lu Xu is gone......

In all fairness, Lu Xu's stepmother is actually good to him, his eyebrows are not eyebrows and eyes are not eyes every day, and he is not hungry for him, cold to him, blowing the pillow wind on his father to blow his father into a stepfather, and Lu Zhou is even more like his own child.

In the past two days when he has a headache and pretends to be dizzy, she also goes to the bedside from time to time to cover him with a quilt and wipe his face, he doesn't remember too little, he remembers, except for his grandmother, no one has taken care of him like this, his parents are busy with their careers, and they are so involved that they don't want their sons or families.

Although she sat on the edge of the bed and sobbed and cried alone, what would happen to their family, he was also embarrassed.

Lu Xu calmed down and asked in a deep voice, "Is there still a field left?" ”

Yuan Manniang snorted: "There are still two acres of good land left." ”

Lu Xu's eyes were dark, although he had never farmed, he probably knew that two acres of land could not support five people.

He asked, "Is there any money left?" ”

Yuan Manniang nodded hurriedly, and her voice was a little louder, "There are still one or two or three dollars left." Pay back your third uncle and fourth uncle and aunt's money first, or ......"

Lu Xu: "Let's keep it for now." "It's not enough anyway. If the money is returned, let alone oil, their family may not even be able to eat sour steamed buns.

Lu Xu stared at the table and worried, the wild vegetables and pickles that were difficult to swallow just now seemed to be ...... It's not that you can't eat it......

Yuan Manniang saw him staring at the table again, and hurriedly asked, "Xu'er, are you not full, there are still steamed buns in the pot." ”

Lu Xu hurriedly shook his head. If you can eat it, you can eat it, and when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, he doesn't really want to eat sour steamed buns.

Yuan Manniang comforted him, "Actually, it's not that I can't get by, my mother has thought about it, Zhou'er, Layue, Rui'er are still young, I can't eat much, my family is just two acres of land, I can also be busy, I will weave more cloth, raise two more nests of chickens and ducks, Zhou'er and Layue can help with grass, I usually sew clothes for people, if you still want to go back to the county as an apprentice, continue to go, if you want to be at home, let's open up some wasteland, save some, and always be able to live." ”

Lu Xu's face turned even redder.

Looking at her expression that I don't have to worry about everything at home, and then looking at the little brother who was lying in her arms and taking a nap with her fingers in his mouth, Lu Xu was in a very complicated mood, she was also twenty-five years old, and her lobby sister who graduated from graduate school had been resting at home for more than a year, and she was either playing with her mobile phone or watching variety shows every day, and Yuan Manniang had to raise four children to start a family.

Lu Xu rubbed his face, "I know." ”

Chapter 4: Script

Lu Xu turned his head back to the room, a little depressed and a little aggrieved.

He recruits whoever provokes whom, and wants to live this kind of life.

He lay on the bed for a while, and when he heard Yuan Manniang telling Layue to watch the house, she carried Lu Rui to dig wild vegetables, and sat up again.

Under these conditions, he really can't lie down.

Layue was playing with the neighbor's children at the door to hook leaves, two children were five years old and three years old, and they didn't know the age of worry, and the sun didn't hide at noon, so they squatted there to pick up leaves and have fun.

Seeing Lu Xu come out, Layue affectionately called her brother.

Playing with her is the neighbor Yan Wenzhen, who is three years old this year, and looks as quiet and delicate as his brother, but his face is one size rounder than his brother, and he looks more kind than his brother. The two families live at the edge of the village and usually come and go, and Yan Wenzhen also calls him brother when he sees him.

Lu Xu rubbed their little heads one by one and asked them, "Isn't it hot?" ”