"Uncle."

"Huixiang, I'm back to visit my relatives."

"Hey, send some New Year's goods to my mother."

They looked at each other half of the shop, one wanted to ask, the other wanted to speak, but none of them spoke, and there was a strange silence in the grocery store.

Until the little girl with pigtails asked, "Mother, can I ask for this candy?" ”

Lu Wuzhu came back to his senses and grabbed a handful of oiled paper for the child.

"How much?"

"Don't want money, give it to the child."

"How can this work......

"Nothing." Lu Wuzhu squatted down and touched the little girl's head, "Trouble, do you remember grandpa?" ”

The little girl shook her head sheepishly.

"It's still a good girl, quiet and quiet, like when you were a child." Lu Wuzhu smiled and mixed syrup for her again, "Here, the little girls in the village love to eat." ”

Shaking her head in shame, she ducked behind Huixiang, and couldn't help but look up at her mother. Lu Wuzhu handed it over again, and Huixiang let her out, "Grandpa gave it, take it." ”

Only then did he catch the trouble, and looked at Lu Wuzhu timidly.

Hui Xiang looked into the house, and Lu Wuzhu was the only one in the shop, "Uncle, I'm leaving." ”

"Hey."

Huixiang led her daughter away, Lu Wuzhu sent it out, the mother and daughter had already turned the corner, he sighed, turned his head and walked back, and saw a handful of money on the shelf at the door.

Huixiang came home with a troublemaker, and her son and husband were repairing chairs.

"Okay, grandma, it's sturdy, you won't be shaking anymore."

Grandma Zhao smiled and stuffed bacon into the baggage.

"See?" Her husband asked.

Megumi shook her head.

"Not at home?"

"Seems to be."

"It's okay, I'll come back when I come back in the second year of junior high school, maybe I'll see you."

"Hmm."

"Look at the Spring Festival couplets, how well they are written, I bought several pairs, and these are hanging in the big store." Wu Baolai diverted the topic and explained the meaning of the couplet he had just asked.

After lunch, they set out, and when it was dark, it would be difficult to travel a long way.

Huixiang tied up her baggage, told her mother to take care of her body, and when she left her mother's house, Wu Baolai asked her, "Do you still want to take a look?" ”

Huixiang shook her head, "Let's go." ”

In front of it is Drinking Horse Town, Wu Baolai met the townsmen of Nanqiao Town on the road, the two families happened to walk together, they couldn't walk anymore, they wanted to let their father carry it, Huixiang was coaxing her to rest in the town in front of her for a while, and suddenly saw a person walking in front of her.

They all froze.

Many words rolled and rolled in her throat, and Hui Xiang just smiled softly like when she was a teenager and called out, "Second brother." ”

Lu Qing's eyes were wet, and he was no longer as frivolous as he was when he was a teenager, and when he saw that no one was there, he ran to her side and asked her to call again, but said "hey" clumsily and awkwardly, his voice was polite and jerky, "Back to my parents' house?" ”

"Hmm. I heard you're back......"

"Well, I'm back."

Hui Xiang stared at him, when the young man was separated, they had fantasized a lot, she had been worried all night long, and if she hadn't seen her for two years, Lu Qing would not recognize her. Lu Qing said, "I came back from the battlefield, and the wind and sun were blowing every day, and you must not recognize me when the time comes!" ”

Huixiang annoyed him, and rarely lost her temper and ran away.

At night, Lu Qinglai apologized and asked Huixiang to embroider herself on the handkerchief, "I carry it every day." ”

Huixiang was embarrassed to listen and closed the window.

She was about to set off, and she didn't have time to embroider any portraits, so she only had time to stay up all night and embroider a peace charm under the oil lamp.

Lu Qingcai has been gone for a few years, she thinks about him every night, wants to see him in a dream, guesses whether he is taller again, thin or fat, the wind is cold in the north, I don't know if he will freeze......

But the worries of my youth are so redundant, even if some people have been separated by more than ten years, their appearance and personality have been changed by the years, and when they meet again, they can still be recognized at a glance.

Meguma slowly looked away, staring at the snow beneath his feet.

The snow that had only fallen a few days ago, but after three or two days of trampling, it was already covered with mud, and it was frozen again at night, and it became black and slippery ice.

Wu Baolai asked in a low voice, "Trouble, can you sit over there with your father for a while?" ”

pouted and shook his head, grabbed Huixiang's clothes, and said aggrievedly: "It's all snow over there!" ”

Lu Qing laughed, "Your daughter? ”

"Hmm." Hui Xiang Lala made a fuss, "Call uncle." ”

grabbed her clothes and whispered to her uncle.

Lu Qing squatted down, "Are you making trouble?" ”

Troublemaker: "My nickname is Trouble, and my big name is Wu Aixiang." ”

Huixiang's fingertips twitched slightly.

Lu Qing smiled, took out a round piece of jade from his arms and handed it to her, "Uncle will see you for the first time, so I'll give it to you." ”

She was only six or seven years old, and she didn't understand the value of jade, so she just played with it like a pebble by the river: "It's so beautiful, is this also picked up by the river?" ”

Lu Qingdao: "No, I picked it up on a barren beach far away." ”

"What is a barren beach? Are there pebbles there too? ”

“…… Maybe there was a river there a long time ago, but then it dried up and became a desert. ”

The noisy seems to understand whether I understand it or not, and I can't think of what a desert is.

"Let's give it back to my uncle, let's go pick up other stones and play, okay?" Huixiang said in a low voice: "This is too valuable. ”

made a fuss "oh", and reluctantly returned the stone to Lu Qing, Lu Qing didn't ask for it, and stuffed it into her hand again, "It's not expensive, it's just picked up on the side of the road, and I picked up a lot." ”

Holding it in a hurry, he blinked and looked at Huixiang with big eyes.

Lu Qing smiled at her, and showed some childish smiles from his youth, "The child likes it, make her a pendant, and that's what I can give this time." ”

Huixiang's eyes turned red, and she said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, make trouble, thank you, uncle." ”

looked at his mother strangely, and then looked at this somewhat scary uncle, and said timidly: "I don't want ...... anymore"

Huixiang picked her up, "Uncle gave it, take it." Second brother, we have a long way home, so let's go first. ”

"Well, I'm going back too." He picked up the things he had bought on the ground and arched his hand towards Wu Baolai.

Wu Baolai subconsciously raised his hand and opened his mouth to say, "I have time to drink at home." ”

"Good!" Lu Qing smiled heartily at them, strode forward, and never looked back.

Wu Baolai looked at his back, and Lu Qing's bold, frank, and free smile lingered in his mind.

He suddenly felt inferior, and from beginning to end, he couldn't compare to Lu Qing.

Even if he liked Huixiang earlier than Lu Qing.

"Ah Xiang, I thought he wouldn't come back, I ...... Am I wrong about you? ”

Huixiang "whew", laughed, moistened her eyes brighter than usual, she picked up the trouble, and stuffed her daughter into her husband's arms, "What nonsense, let's go, the child is tired, go to the town early to rest, let's go home quickly." ”

Her son caught up with his father and mother with the package on his back, and asked for a stone from his sister's hand, "Make trouble, show it to my brother." ”

"Hmm."

"Uncle Liu, what kind of stone is this?"

The fellow villagers took it over and looked at it carefully, "It's jade." ”

"Jade! Is it expensive? ”

"It shouldn't be too expensive, and I don't know much about it, but this piece has a good color, and it's good to make a pendant for trouble, and make the right earrings."

"Why don't I have a gift?" Wu Dabao took the jade, muttered, and asked excitedly, "Mother, is that uncle the one who was originally married to you?" ”

"Ahem!"

"Dad, what are you coughing about, who in the family doesn't know? Mother, people are indeed better than my father, no wonder you fell in love with him back then! ”

The family talked and laughed, and went farther and farther away from Lujia Village......

Chapter 98: Chinese New Year

At the end of the year, the house was swept, the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, the window paper was replaced, the furniture and farm tools were repaired, and only how to eat was left.

Twenty-eight noodles, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, thirty packs of dumplings.

In the past few days, the concubines of the Lu family have gone to the fourth uncle's house to steam steamed buns, steamed buns, steamed rice cakes, and steamed jujube flowers...... This is a major event of the New Year, every household usually saves money, and at this time, it is also necessary to use white flour to steam a few offerings to worship the gods and ancestors.

As soon as there are too many people, it will be chaotic, the big children can help, and the small ones running around are adding to the chaos, Lu Xu waved his hand, leaving the reliable Lu Hui, Lu Xuan, and Xiao Xia to help, and took Hanlu and the remaining group of small ones back to his house to continue to make other New Year's goods-

Fried tofu, croquettes, fried hot noodles and sugar vegetables, fried hemp leaves, fried twist flowers......

Except for the hot noodles and meatballs, Lu Xu needs to pay attention to himself, and the children in the other families can get started and participate in the play.

Lu Xu gave the knife to Lu Zhou, compared the size, Lu Zhou can cut the tofu into exactly the same rectangular cubes, Hanlu is responsible for adjusting the filling, meatballs, vegetarian meatballs, tofu balls, pies are too much, this is not difficult for her at all.

The hemp leaf twist flower was thrown to the remaining few small toys, Lu Xu and Han Lu made good noodles, Lu Wen was responsible for rolling out the thin dough, and commanded Xiaoman, Layue and Lu Fu to be responsible for twisting the hemp leaves and twist flowers. Half sugar, half spice, it doesn't matter if it's ugly or beautiful, they eat it themselves anyway.

Hot noodles and sugar dishes also look like a kind of balls, flour and sugar, boiling water to scald the noodles, and good noodles are covered with a layer of oil sealed, and then take an oil-stained shovel to shovel a piece of noodles, use chopsticks to dial into the size of balls, and fry them in the pot. Fried like a sugar cake, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, golden on the surface, very soft on the inside, can be used as a staple food, can also be used as a snack, and is very friendly to the elderly and children with bad teeth.

When it comes to fried dumplings, it is a test of skill, and Lu Xu himself is on it, as long as he fails, he blames luck.

Anyway, none of his brothers and sisters have ever eaten authentic, a little thicker, a little fatter, what does it matter!

Hanlu and they were dumbfounded just by seeing Lu Xu rubbing such thin noodles, and then they were plated and oiled, no matter how they thought about it, it was delicious.