There are a lot of black people at this time!

Since they opened their shops, many people in the village have not stored a lot of spices at a time like they used to, and when it comes to cooking, there is always a shortage of salt and a lack of sauce in that house. Towards the end of the year, this year's harvest is good, and the relatives who have served in the army have returned, and every household is more willing to eat than usual, and there are more people who come to buy things for dinner.

Not only buy things, but also put sauces, vegetables, bacon, and self-brewing in their stores, usually the village goes back and forth, what is lacking to exchange with each other, there are always losses, there are earnings, now it's good, can't wipe off the face, want to make money, all put the things in the grocery store, one by one said that the price is good, Grandpa Lu sells it for them, and he doesn't charge any money, just want to be lively.

At the root of the year, every household began to paste the Spring Festival couplets, paste the word blessing, paste the window flowers, and began to stew fish and stew meat on the second and sixth days of the anxious year.

The married girls who returned to the village to give New Year's gifts also went back to their parents' homes to give New Year's gifts, looking at the red houses in the village, several people discussed, and arrested a brother to come to Yan Junqi's house and knock on the door, asking if there were any extra Spring Festival couplets.

This time, they didn't take it for free, some gave money, some gave gifts, and some went home to call relatives and came to Lujia Village across the village to buy couplets.

Yan Junqi probably calculated the capital, adding one percent to the capital, and the business was quite prosperous.

Seeing that the red paper was running out, Lu Xu went to the town to buy it for him: "I just want to buy tofu, do you want to bring you some?" ”

Yan Junqi: "Okay." ”

The town is not far away, but the road is a little slippery, Lu Xu pushed a small cart that had not been used for a long time, led Lu Zhou, and took Wenzhen, who wanted to play with him, to the town together.

Passing by the river, I saw Lu Wen leading Lu Fu to fish by the river.

The river is frozen, take a stone to smash a hole, and after a while, there are fish to the hole to breathe, quickly take a fence, net fishing, see the fish and hurry to fish, slow hand put a thin rope to fish slowly, some children don't even have to hang the bait, can also blind cats meet dead rats.

Lu Xu put down the cart and went over to look, Lu Wen took a little steamed bun dregs, sprinkled a little after a while, and hurried to catch fish when there were fish, the brothers' little faces were frozen red, and there were already four or five fish in the basin.

Lu Xu praised, "Yes, there are so many fish!" ”

Lufu: Hey, hey.

Lu Xu fluttered his head: "Let's play, don't get your shoes wet." Lu Wen, look at him a little, don't let him go down the river. ”

Lu Wen stared intently at the water, "Don't worry." ”

Lu Fu sniffed: "Big brother, where are you going?" ”

Lu Xu: "Let's go buy tofu, do it well, and ask your brother to take the fish to my house in a while, and make tofu and fish soup for you to drink." ”

Lu Fu sniffed, said "um" twice, and looked down to count the fish again.

Lu Wen had eyes on the back of his head: "Xiaofu, don't touch fishing, go home with wet sleeves and be beaten!" ”

Lu Fu withdrew his fingers, put his two hands in the socket of his knees, and counted with his eyes as he warmed his hands, one, two, three...... In a moment, it will become a pot of fish soup!

Passing by the grocery store, Lu Xu asked his grandfather if he wanted to bring something, and learned that the second uncle went out early in the morning to buy it.

Lu Xu didn't delay any longer, put Wenzhen and Lu Zhou into the cart, and pushed them all the way to the town.

The snow hasn't melted yet, and the path from the village to the town has formed a layer of ice, Lu Xu can run fast without effort, and he can skate when he reaches a smooth place, and the cart jumps forward like a fly, Wen Zhen screamed in fright, and after a while, he had fun again, hahaha laughing, Lu Zhou hugged Wen Zhen tightly, for fear that the car would overturn and throw him out.

What used to take half an hour to travel, the three of them took half the time.

When Lu Zhou got out of the car, his legs were all weak.

It was noon, I didn't work much for a while, my family only ate two meals a day, and when I walked to the town, I smelled the smell of food everywhere, and I couldn't move a little.

Lu Zhou glanced at the snacks on the side of the road, and he didn't squint, Wen Zhen was so young that she couldn't help but look at the stall as she walked.

Seeing the rice cake seller, Lu Xu was also greedy, pushed on the cart, and asked Lu Zhou to take Wenzhen well, and the brothers came to have a piece of rice cakes first.

They have two kinds of rice cakes here, yellow rice, glutinous rice, yellow rice cakes are made of yellow rice noodles, which are not easy to form, and are more sticky than glutinous rice when steamed.

The glutinous rice is mixed with jujubes, different from the southern rice cakes, the rice cakes here are still distinct, and the red dates form a layer of white and a layer of red, which is beautiful and delicious.

Lu Xu bought a piece of each, while standing on the side of the road to eat, the boss was not very willing to put sugar, the rice cake did not taste too sweet, and he was not tired of eating more, and after a while, Lu Xu ate a large piece of everything, and asked the boss to wrap more, put it in the cart, and take it home to the family to eat a few small ones.

After eating the rice cakes, Lu Xu bought a braised goose at the cooked butcher shop.

The family wants to make chickens and ducks during the New Year, but the geese are too big, they generally don't do it, it is better to buy it from the town, he remembers that Yuan Manniang loves to eat this braised goose.

Before the Chinese New Year, there were already lanterns sold on the street, made of bamboo strips of bone, pasted with a thin layer of white paper, and there was a small groove for candles inside. The peddler saw that there were rice cakes and geese in his car, and that he was leading two little dolls in new clothes, and he wanted to come to the house in good condition, and tried his best to sell his lanterns.

"Our family has been making lanterns for decades, you see, how well this lantern is tied, children holding running candles will not be extinguished."

The peddler lit a candle as he spoke, and handed it to Wen Zhen to hold it.

Wen Zhen took it ignorantly, shook it a few times, and it really didn't go out!

Lu Xu wanted to go over and walk a few steps by himself, and the candle was swaying inside, and it really hadn't been extinguished.

Lu Xu didn't know what the principle was, this was good, just take it back and let Yan Junqi draw a few rabbits, puppies, pigs or something, and seeing that the lanterns were well done, he bought five in one go.

Originally, he wanted to buy it per capitation, but he really couldn't fit it in the car.

Five lanterns, one for each of them, and the other two in the car.

When he arrived at the tofu shop, Lu Xu bought three large plates of tofu, went back to freeze tofu, stewed tofu, fried tofu, and made tofu balls...... In short, there are many ways to eat!

They went to buy red paper, bought snacks, went to the medicinal herb store to replenish some spices, and bought some Chinese New Year gadgets for a few small ones, and even bought a big kite for a while, afraid that Lu Wen and they would catch fewer fish, and bought several fish at the dock.

Small stew, big braised soup.

I bought a cart full of carts and went back, and I didn't see the second uncle when I walked around Yinma Town.

Lu Xu muttered, "You won't go to Nanqiao Town, will you?" But isn't Aunt Huixiang going back to her parents' house today......"

Chapter 97: Regret

After passing the town of Yinma, go east again, and the next town is Nanqiao Town.

Nanqiao Town is older and longer, and there are nine large and small villages nearby, which is twice as large as Yinma Town.

At this time, the town is lively, everywhere with the family with the mouth of the purchase, Guanyang customs, the second and sixth of the year, back to the mother's house, give New Year's gifts, filial daughters and sons-in-law, all on this day to buy meat, buy sugar, buy wine back to their parents' home.

Early in the morning, those who buy New Year's gifts on the street and go back to their parents' homes are very lively.

Lu Qing hadn't felt such a peaceful and lively atmosphere for many years, he was walking on the street alone empty-handed, out of place with all around, and he didn't know how to blend into such an atmosphere.

A moment later, a child running around hit him in the leg.

He looked down, and the child looked up at him timidly, a little frightened.

The child's father and mother hurriedly ran from the side with a large bag and a small bag, "Little stink! I said that there were too many people not to run around, but I just didn't listen! ”

The child's mother caught him, looked anxious, and slapped his ass first, and then thanked Lu Qing with the child's father.

Lu Qing bent down and picked up the bamboo dragonfly on the ground and handed it to the child, "Are you from Nanqiao Town?" ”

"yes."

"I want to ask where there is a china shop in town?"

"Porcelain?"

"I want to buy an ornament."

"Oh, then you go to Wu Ji to have a look, walk along the street to the north, turn right after the second alley, and you will see it." The child's father gave Lu Qing directions.

"Thank you."

Lu Qing walked slowly, crossed the main street, passed through the alley, and saw the old signboard that had been hung for many years in the distance-porcelain Wu.

He didn't go in, but ordered a bowl of somen noodles at the restaurant opposite, and waited while looking at the porcelain shop.

There are a few customers in the store, two guys lead people to see the ornaments, and two women in their thirties are on the other side and a female customer are having a homework, and it seems that they are all returning to their mothers today. Behind the counter, an old man wiped a large plate with a handkerchief that was more than two feet wide.

"Your face."

"Thank you."

"Would you like to buy an ornament?"

"I'll take a look, I heard that Wu Ji's ornaments are good."

"That's it, the old shop, we can count Wu Ji in Nanqiao, if you want to see better, you have to go to the county seat."

"You still refer customers?"

The noodle shop guy smiled: "It's all an old neighborhood." ”

"It sounds like Wu Ji is very popular."

"As soon as I heard that you are a foreigner, we are from ten miles and eight towns, who doesn't know that Master Wu is charitable," he looked around, leaned into Lu Qing's ear and whispered: "When Master Wu was young, he couldn't have children, and then a master instructed him to do more good deeds, and within two years, he was born!" You see now, his family has five daughters, one son, all of them are filial and capable, and if you want me to say, people still have to do good deeds. ”

Lu Qing smiled, "Which one is his son?" ”

"Those two are guys, and the son took his daughter-in-law back to his parents' house to visit relatives."

"So early?"

"I heard that it seems that the daughter-in-law is far away, not from our town. Do you have something to do with Xiao Wu? ”

"I've heard that he burns a lot of ornaments."

"That's nonsense, you must have heard it wrong, his family is a son-in-law's successor to the big ornament craft, and Boss Xiao Wu only burns small ornaments!"

"I guess I heard something wrong......

Lu Qing ate noodles, asked unhurriedly, observed the business of the Wu family, and saw that they were in harmony with their neighbors, their daughter was straightforward and kind, and Boss Wu and his wife were also very kind, so they settled the account after eating noodles and walked back slowly.

"Hey, guest, you don't buy ornaments?"

"I'll go shopping again."

Lu Qing walked on the street, saw the old lady of the Wu family coming out, looked at the sky and worried, "Look at the sky is not good, I don't know if Huixiang and they are home." ”

Lu Qing's footsteps slammed.

"They left early in the morning, and they arrived!" Her daughter took the old lady back to the store.

The old lady chattered as she walked: "Huixiang's mother's home is far away!" They were carrying something so heavy......"

"I'll be back in a while, come into the house, they'll have to serve you when you get sick......"

Lu Qing looked at the mother and daughter of the Wu family, the corners of her mouth slowly curled, presumably, Huixiang's mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law also liked her.

Yes......

She has such a good character, how can anyone not like it?

In Lujia Village, Lu Wuzhu was filling the basket with eggs when he heard the child shouting, "Mother, I want sugar!" ”

The shadow at the door flashed, and a guest entered the door, Lu Wuzhu listened to the child's accent, turned his head, and saw Zhao Huixiang holding the child.