He gave Lu Xu the latest one to taste, and Lu Xu took a bite of it, frowning, "It's bitter!" ”

"I know it's bitter!" It's not that he hasn't tasted it, Liu Youzi smoked a fritter and dipped it in sesame sauce, "I've already thought about it, next time you come, I promise to ......"

"Okay, okay." Lu Xu took out another half tael of silver, "Advance payment, if you really make it if I come again, this is a bonus, if you don't make it, this will offset the sesame paste money in the future." ”

Liu Youzi muttered, "If I can't do it again, I'll lose", and reluctantly accepted the money.

Lu Xu: "You decorate this sauce for me." ”

Liu Youzi: "Isn't it bitter? ”

Lu Xu: "I've done everything, I'll put more salt and make do with it." ”

As soon as Lu Xu left, Liu Youzi immediately jumped up and took out the half tael of silver to his son: "Go and get half a catty of wine!" ”

"Dad," his son stopped talking, "you have made something less bitter, why do you still give him a jar of bitterness?" ”

"Who eats the bitterness? Do you eat? Liu Youzi pouted, "Who let that kid come to urge me every day, and I can't sleep well." ”

Lu Xu came out of Liu Youzi's house and went straight to Su Ji Xiang Cake Shop!

He still remembered the last time he stood at the door of Su Ji for a long time, and after that, every time he passed by Su Ji, he walked briskly.

Lu Xu stood at the door, smelling the sweet fragrance wafting from the store, clenched his fists, and then raised his feet and entered Su Ji.

"What do you want?"

Lu Xu looked at the pastries carefully at the counter, and picked out the signature puff pastry glutinous rice osmanthus cake, "I want six pieces of this, another piece that a one-year-old child can eat, and two catties of broken ones." ”

He, Lu Zhou, Layue, Lu Rui, Yuan Manniang, Lu Ji, and his mother-in-law, who he has never met and has a clear memory, each has a complete piece of pastry.

Lu Xu carefully put away the dim sum, went to the grocery store to buy sugar, and the butcher shop bought ten catties of pork belly, a pork rib, went to the wine shop to give gifts, and bought a jar of good wine.

The shopkeeper of the wine shop accepted the gift, and when he heard that he was going home for the summer harvest, he chose the most cost-effective wine for him.

Lu Xu went to the embroidery village to sell the embroidery newly embroidered by Yuan Manniang and Yan's mother.

The shopkeeper didn't want him to receive a return gift, holding fried dough sticks and zongzi wrapped in oiled paper, and he was confused.

The bookstore shopkeeper was also confused, "You sold the fritters for a long time!" My old man buys it every day! ”

Lu Xu didn't know, "Then next time you ask the old lady to register with me, I'll be cheaper." ”

Shopkeeper Zhile: "That's good." ”

Lu Xu bought some cheap paper and ink, and the shopkeeper gave him a discount first.

In the end, Lu Xu went to the blacksmith shop and the grain shop respectively, and the grain shop guy heard that he had not come for ten days and a half, and he was a little reluctant for a while.

"After your family has finished harvesting grain, if it can't be sold at a high price in your town, come to me to sell it, and I will guarantee that you will be given a fair price."

Lu Xu thanked him and inquired about the approximate price of grain, and went to the yamen to leave a gift for Luo Shen before leaving the city.

He didn't forget the soldiers at the city gate, and said goodbye to the soldiers, and went to the dock to buy two fresh grass carp.

Lu Xu sang all the way home.

Sing loudly on the empty mountain road.

Lu Xu divided the meat and pork ribs into three equal parts, wrapped sugar and some loose snacks and went to the third and fourth uncle's house with Yuan Manniang to repay the money.

Grandma ate the snacks he brought, thought of her eldest son, and couldn't stop crying.

"It's not a year, and I'm not in a hurry to spend it, how can you have no money to do business?" The fourth uncle pushed it and asked him to talk about it at the end of the year, Lu Xu said that he had money, and the old man made the decision to let the fourth uncle accept it, and he accepted it.

The fourth uncle and the fourth aunt sent him out: "If you use the money, come to the fourth uncle's house to get it." ”

Lu Xu: "Don't worry, if I am short of money, I will definitely borrow from you!" ”

The third uncle's family didn't say much, the third aunt wanted to buy cattle, and she knew that he was making money, but she just pushed and didn't want his meat and gifts, "Our own family doesn't want these, you and Zhouwa and Layue keep it to eat." ”

Lu Xu: "It's still at home." ”

They shirked it, and the third aunt stayed, happily asking the third uncle and Lu Hui to go to see the cow early tomorrow morning.

Lu Xu returned from the third uncle's house, and it was never easier to walk on the road.

He looked at the golden wheat in the field from afar, and then at the blue sky above him.

"It's over!"

Yuan Manniang also said: "It's over!" ”

Volume 2 Stand Firm

Chapter 25: Debt-free and light

When he got home, Lu Zhou was leading Lu Rui to clean up in the kitchen with Layue, when he heard the sound of the door opening, and ran out of the kitchen with a brush.

Layue: "Brother! ”

Lu Xu walked over quickly, picked up Layue, and circled around the yard, causing Layue to laugh.

"I'm dizzy!"

Lu Xu put down the wax moon, and lifted Lu Zhou up and turned around faster.

Lu Zhou was caught off guard, and grabbed Lu Xu's arm in fear, for fear of being thrown out by his crazy brother.

Lu Xu used endless energy, put down Lu Zhou, who was confused and weak-legged, and raised Lu Rui, who was making trouble to play, to be high.

The family laughed, and Yuan Manniang bought an old hen from the third grandmother's house and came back.

"Chicken!" Layue raised her head and asked, "Do you want to raise it?" ”

"Don't raise, stew and eat!" Lu Xu instructed Lu Zhou to boil water, roll up his sleeves to kill fish, and chop meat.

Lu Xu washed the swim bladder and threw it to Lu Rui to step on, Lu Rui deliberately stepped on the side and moved away, kicked away and then chased and stepped on, and the kitten played with a ball all over the yard.

Layue ran around handing scissors, sweeping garbage, her eyes were going to be spent, there were fish, meat, and chickens, which one should I eat?

"Is my brother celebrating the New Year today?" In her short memory, she can only eat so much meat during the Chinese New Year!

Lu Xu spoke proudly, holding a kitchen knife and scolding Fang Xuan: "I don't eat meat even if I don't want to eat meat in the New Year!" Our family is no longer in debt, my brother is rich, and he will eat meat if he wants to eat meat in the future! ”

The whole family was busy in the kitchen, Lu Zhou finished adding firewood and carrying a small bucket to carry water, Layue peeled garlic and onions, and Lu Rui nibbled on a piece of loose mung bean cake and swirled around at their feet.

It was not dark, and the smoke from the Lu family's kitchen was lit, wafting out bursts of fragrance.

Stewed chicken, stir-fried pork ribs, braised fish, braised pork......

No one felt wasteful, the three little ones sat in the kitchen staring at the red fire without blinking, the bubbling chicken in the pot, Lu Xu stir-frying the braised pork dyed with sugar and bright red oil, the freshly fried pork ribs in the deep-mouthed sea bowl, the red pepper exuded a choking and tempting fragrance, and the largest plate contained a braised carp.

Yuan Manniang took the square mouth basket, put the freshly steamed rice into a bowl and put it in the basket, separated by a layer, and then put the pork ribs and braised fish.

Lu Xu put the braised pork on a plate, and finally fished out the whole chicken.

The meal, together with seven pieces of snacks, was packed with two baskets, Lu Xu walked in front of him, Lu Zhou followed behind him with incense, candles, paper money and wine, Yuan Manniang held Lu Rui and led Layue to walk at the end, and the whole family climbed up the hillside together, and rushed to the ancestral grave of the Lu family, Lu Ji and Lu Xu and Lu Zhou's mother before dark to worship.

Coming down from the mountain, it was already dark, and Lu Xu lit the dishes on the table.

The whole family eats happily, and it is more abundant than the New Year. Eating and eating, I don't know who cried first, Lu Xu opened the wine, and drank lightly, only remembering that Yuan Manniang shed tears silently, and then cried loudly.

Lu Xu was drunk, the wine sent by the shopkeeper of the wine shop was good, the entrance was soft, sweet and silky, with a fruity aroma, and it was helpful to sleep without going up.

He was awakened by the sun, and he got up and ate without knowing what night or night, and went to bed early after eating, and slept for three days in a row.

For three days, Lu Xu didn't go anywhere, he woke up at home every day to eat, eat and sleep, as if he wanted to make up for the lack of sleep in the past two months.

The house was quiet, Lu Zhou and Layue whispered, and even Lu Rui was taken outside by Yuan Manniang to play.

Yan's mother and the third grandmother couldn't help but ask, "Isn't Xuwa sick?" ”

They still remember that Lu Xu couldn't afford to be sick last time, and he was sick for several days.

Yuan Manniang shook her head, this time she didn't have the panic of last time, she calmly did the embroidery work, sewing shoes and mending clothes for Lu Xu, less than two months, Lu Xu had worn out five pairs of shoes, "I'm not sick, I'm tired, I can only make up for it when I have slept enough." ”

Lu Xu slept very sweetly, and when he opened his eyes, his bones were weak. The last time I slept was lazy, it seems to have been a lifetime ago.

He stretched his waist and came out, the door was closed, everyone went out, and he couldn't hear any movement, Lu Xu got up and went to the kitchen to fill a bowl of water and drink it, and nibbled on half a bean paste bun, wiped his mouth and went up the mountain.

It's still him, it's still the hillside.

The grass on the hillside is more vigorous, and the mountains in the distance are greener than last time.

Lu Xu took a deep breath, extremely happy, and ran to the top of the mountain in one breath, and when he looked at it again, he only felt that the wind was gentle, the clouds were lovely, and even the mountain road with no end in sight was pleasing to the eye.

He scattered ducks and ran for a while, jumping up and down to move his muscles, lying on the hillside in a daze with his arms outstretched, thinking about nothing, everything was good!

After a while, it was still Yan Junqi who came up.

"I came to your house to see you, and when I saw that you were not there, I guess you were here."

"I'm fine, just come and see!" Lu Xu bit a dog's tail grass, exuding laziness all over his body, "I feel like I've walked a long, long way." ”

Yan Junqi looked at the mountain road in the distance with him, the narrow mountain road stretched into the endless mountains, winding like a line, at that time here, they could not see the road under their feet, and when they came back to their senses, they were already like a world away.

Yan Junqi sighed: "It's hard work. ”

"It's tiring, but it's not hard!" Lu Xu jumped up and clenched his fists to Yan Jun Qixiu's muscles on his arms and the cloth shoes on his feet that were about to be worn out. "Although I have to get up before dawn every day, I have to walk two hours to the county, and I have to walk for another two hours to rush back after selling things, but I feel so happy every day! Earn money and have fun! I made a delicious heartbeat! Sell all the fritters and snails every day! Seeing my mother Lu Zhoulayue, they rely on me so much and trust me, I am so happy! ”

Lu Xu's eyes were scorching, and his eyes were shining looking at the heavens, earth, mountains and rivers and Yan Junqi in front of him, "And you Junqi, I have never been so full as I am now, I have never felt that I am so important, every grain of rice and every bite of rice I eat is earned by myself!" The meat is fragrant, the sugar is sweet, the air is so fresh, the scenery is so beautiful, your love for me is true, Jun Qi, it's good to meet you! Even if it's a dream, I'm satisfied! ”

Yan Junqi smiled: "How can it be a dream?" ”

How can there be such a hard dream in the world?

Yan Jun looked at Lu Xu fixedly, only a happy person like you can look at everything like a dream. He reads every day at night, and when he is so bitter that he can't read anymore, only by turning out Lu Xu's account book that he has stored there, and thinking about Lu Xulai's hopeful conversation at his table, can he taste a little sweet.

Lu Xu sighed, and then he didn't have the heart or lungs, "Junqi, do you see if walnuts grow on the opposite mountain?" When we go up the mountain in autumn, there will definitely be walnuts and chestnuts! ”

"When I have the money, I'll buy all the hills, plant fruit trees, walnuts, and chestnuts! If you have nothing to do, you can go up the mountain and go around, and you can eat all year round, and you can eat as much as you want! ”

Lu Xu was thinking about how to build a road and build a pavilion, when he suddenly saw smoke rising from the bottom of the mountain, "Oh, what day is today, why does every family have lunch?" ”

Yan Junqi: "The summer harvest starts today. ”

"Summer Harvest?" Lu Xu snorted, "Today?!" How many days have I been asleep? No one called me! ”