The Sweet Little Fulang

The full moon wine is not as big as getting married, only relatives and friends who have a good relationship come, and the waist-hugging woman and husband are also invited. There are not many people, and only four tables are set up in the courtyard. A table is still a child's table, even so, it is already very lively in the countryside.

It costs money to invite others to cook the dishes. The full moon banquet is important, but there is no need to specially invite people. Wei Lanxiang called Zhou Xiangjun to help cook vegetables for the banquet. Lu Gu and Chen Xinlian set up their hands to wash and chop vegetables. Relatives have not come early in the morning At that time, they were busy in the kitchen, preparing things in advance.

The snails are fat, so there must be one on the table, this is what Lu Gu and Shen Yan found in the river, and they brought back two bamboo baskets, which are definitely enough to eat.

The fish was caught by Shen Yaoqing, and he and Shen Xuanqing went up the mountain to hunt the pheasants and rabbits, so that there was no need to slaughter the livestock at home.

There are also bacon and fresh pork, not to mention vegetarian dishes, those grown at home are enough, just looking at the noodles is enough to see the sincerity of their hospitality.

Ji Qiuyue's natal family is the main event today, and they want to give the child a safety lock. Besides, it is her natal family, Shen Yaoqing respects it very much.

It has been a year since Lu Gu came to Shen's house, and the relatives who should know him have already been recognized, but they can't see each other a few times throughout the year, so it is inevitable that they are a little unfamiliar.

There are so many noisy people in the family, the children are playing in the yard, the adults are sitting in the main room or in the yard having tea and chatting with each other, and some of them even want to go to the new house to have a look, so Shen Xuanqing led them there, and Shen Yaoqing stayed behind. Treat other guests at home.

Knowing that there are children from relatives who will come, the hounds are more vicious after all, for fear of scaring them, Lu Gu brought them to the new house last night, but did not bring them over during the day, and asked them to guard the house there.

Wei Lanxiang's natal family also came. She was busy with the work in hand, wiped her hands on the apron, went out to chat and laugh for a while, and shared pastries and fruits with the children.

Lu Gu stood in front of the chopping board and cut bamboo shoots into slices. Shen Yaoqing ran to the mountain yesterday and came back with a basket of bamboo shoots.

The kitchen knife in his hand was chopping very neatly, and sometimes when he heard the laughter outside, he looked up from the window, with a slight smile on his eyebrows and eyes.

Only their relatives came here today, and Chen Xinlian who was washing vegetables next to her was not familiar with her, so she didn't say much.

In fact, he had no relatives himself, and had already cut off contact with the Lu family. After his mother died, Lu Daxiang married Du Hehua.

His grandfather and grandmother died before his mother left, his uncle was a gambler, ran away with debts before his mother died, and his aunt remarried.

There are two aunts and one uncle, Lu Dahe, but he was sold to Shen Xuanqing when he left the Lu family, so naturally there will be no contact.

Wei Lanxiang and her nephew Wei Chengzhi sat together and talked for a few words, then laughed from ear to ear, and boasted: "We Chengzhi are worthy of being scholars, look at this sweet talker."

The courtyard was bustling with excitement, and there were people punching and drinking, it was Shen Xuanqing, Shen Yaoqing's fourth uncle.

As soon as Lu Gu raised his head, he could see the outside from the window. He knew three uncles. According to Shen Xuanqing, the fourth uncle was a drunkard. As expected, not long after entering the door today, he took Ji Qiuyue's family to drink and punched. It sounded noisy.

He also saw the displeased eyes of the eldest uncle looking over there. Drunkards like to make trouble when they are drunk. He once heard Shen Xuanqing say that the fourth uncle sometimes beats people and goes crazy after drinking, regardless of the occasion. The eldest uncle As an older brother who has studied and paid special attention to etiquette, and he had had conflicts with his fourth uncle before, he despises this behavior the most.

The expressions of the crowd were different. This was the first time that Lu Gu noticed all kinds of attitudes. Suddenly, he felt some emotion in his heart. Although he was standing in the kitchen far away from the crowd, he felt that it was very strange, but this state of mind quickly dissipated. Shen Xuanqing After bringing a group of relatives into the door, the tall and big man appeared in front of him, which made him smile even more.

In the sunlight, he could clearly see the froth coming out of the mouth of the shouting man and splashing on the wine cup and cakes.Both Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing don't drink too much, and they both like to be clean, even if they punch their fists, they won't froth.

He was a little distracted, subconsciously thinking, fortunately he is not a man, so he doesn't have to sit and eat with the fourth uncle and the others.

But such a thought is really a bit outrageous. If people know that he disrespects his elders, he will definitely be scolded, so he dare not think about it any more.

The sun was running really fast, and seeing that it was almost noon, Wei Lanxiang got up with a happy face, and got up to go in to cook.

The oil pan sizzled, and the aroma of meat and vegetables soon came out.

They were all relatives, no outsiders, Shen Xuanqing was afraid that Lu Gu would not be able to eat, so she asked him and Chen Xinlian to accompany her aunt and aunt for dinner, and both of them sat down, and she and Shen Yuping were busy serving dishes back and forth, taking advantage of the cooking time to sit down Eat a few bites.

The female relatives and husband sit together, next to the children's table, and they have to take care of it from time to time, so as to prevent the children from fighting and crying over stuttering.

At noon, the weather was clear and the wind was light, so Ji Qiuyue wrapped up the infant child, and Shen Yaoqing carried her out to meet relatives, so that her parents could put a safety lock on the child in front of everyone.

The milk doll has grown up for a month, her face is chubby, she is pleasing to look at, her shoes are not on, but she is wearing a small tiger head hat, which looks like a tiger's head and tiger's head, even Lu Gu has tiger patterns embroidered on her swaddle , anyone who sees it will have to praise it for its exquisiteness.

The child was too young, so he hugged it back when he came out to meet people. Compared with his relatives, Lu Gu hugged his little nephew almost every day and helped him to coax him a few times. It can smell a kind of milky smell, but this does not prevent the family from loving the doll.

After eating the full moon wine, the relatives took a rest and left one after another. Lu Gu and the others packed up the dishes, tables and chairs in the courtyard.

Shen Yaoqing wiped the cleaned table again, it was borrowed from the neighbor, and he will return it later, and said with a smile: "I thought fourth uncle was going to get drunk again today, so I was worried about it, and I have been paying attention to it. He never thought of giving our family face."

"He." Wei Lanxiang snorted softly when he mentioned the fourth brother, and said, "Your eldest aunt told me that before coming today, your eldest uncle explained to him that this is a wedding banquet, and we have children, so don't you?" Tell him to get drunk and go crazy."

"That's the way it is, I just said it." Shen Yaoqing laughed, the fourth uncle is an elder, and he can't stop drinking as much as he wants to be a guest, so there is no need to worry about him as a junior.

Lu Gu scooped up water and sat in the kitchen washing dishes, while Shen Xuanqing brought in a stack of dishes and squatted down opposite the wooden basin to put them down.

"Are you full?" Shen Xuanqing asked him.

He nodded hesitantly, but he didn't say the word full. Seeing his appearance, Shen Xuanqing laughed.

Lu Gu had no choice but to whisper: "A few aunts and aunts are here, how can I eat more, and making them full is the way of hospitality."

It's not easy for country people to sit at the banquet, and there are some poor relatives in their family. They have eaten all the food that should be eaten at the banquet, and there are few mouthfuls left. Shen Xuanqing glanced at the field snails and bamboo shoots soaked in the wooden basin on the ground, and said: "Wait Next, I'll fry a piece of pork with bamboo shoots, is there any chicken soup?"

"Yes, I stewed all three of them. The big pot is not finished, and the rest of the meat and soup are still stuffy in the pot." Lu Gu nodded and said, in fact, he thought of heating a bowl of chicken soup for himself just now He was determined not to be hungry at home.

He asked again: "Then do you still eat? I saw that you and Yuping didn't take a few bites."

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said, "Of course I want to eat."

Lu Gu frowned all of a sudden, his eyes were bright, and he said, "Then you still criticize me, isn't it the same for you?"

Zhou Xiangjun was the last to leave, and brought Shen Yuping a big bowl of chicken soup and a bowl of rice to go home to eat, so he could rest after eating.

Outside, Wei Lanxiang heard the two of them saying that they were full, and said: "Guzi, heat up the chicken soup in the pot later, and then fry a bamboo shoot for us. There are so many guests today, I didn't even have a few chopsticks."

As soon as these words came out, even Shen Yaoqing nodded.

When they entertain guests by themselves, they will naturally be more reserved when they are at the table. This is the custom, and it is almost the same in the villages of ten miles and eight villages.

Shen Xuanqing brought back three pheasants, chopped them into pieces and stewed them into soup. In order to let his relatives eat them well, he stewed all of them. There was still half a pot left.

Ji Qiuyue was so hungry that no one could be so hungry. Wei Lanxiang picked out a bowl of meat and vegetables for her, including rice and a bowl of chicken soup, and brought them to her room for her to eat, so Lu Gu and the others ate chicken soup She didn't come over when making the meal, she was in the room coaxing the child to sleep.

Since the birth of the child, Wei Lanxiang's waist has become straighter in front of the women of the same age in the village, especially in front of the two women who have chewed their tongues, her eldest grandson is the only one who speaks and shuts, so she can let out the anger of the previous two years As soon as they come out, let's see who dares to say that Qiuyue in their family can't have children, and Ji Qiuyue has been a son all her life, so she has a long face, not to mention the countryside, even having a son in the town is different. Will not be bullied.

If it wasn't for the fact that the child was too young to be carried out, otherwise she would really have to take it out for a walk every day.

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It was cloudy, and it was going to rain at some point. Lu Gu and Shen Yan brought back two baskets of grass by the river, and they were packed tightly. This was not enough. There were so many grass-grazing animals in the house. It was hard to go out when it rained, so they took out the grass from the bamboo basket and poured it in the main room, so as not to get wet by the rain.

While he was busy, he heard Wei Lanxiang talking to someone outside.

"Sister-in-law, you went to the field, haven't you been to Yutao's place these days?" Wei Lanxiang brought a basket of steamed buns with mixed noodles, and put them here to feed the dogs. Zhou Yunzhi stopped to say hello.

Zhou Yunzhi was carrying a hoe, and his face was a bit uneasy when he heard this, but he still said: "No, I will see Yutao in two days and let someone send a message."

Wei Lanxiang didn't know that she was rejected by Yutao's daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law often lives in the town, and her parents are also from the town. Shen Shunde went to town.

She didn't care about Zhou Yunzhi's face, when Zhou Yunzhi was serving the full moon wine that day, she said in front of relatives that their family named their son without following the genealogy, but luckily they were all from her natal family and Ji Qiuyue's natal family that day, so she didn't pay much attention to Zhou Yunzhi's nonsense.

But she remembered it, so she smiled and said: "I said why you didn't go, and thought that if you go to the town, Yutao will take you to eat Hongqiao, and take me to taste it too. It's not the time, last year you Said Yutao was busy, and I was too busy to go there, but when I thought about it, I didn’t eat this Hongqiao for a year.”

Zhou Yunzhi frowned, her eyes became vigilant, obviously she was guarding against Wei Lanxiang taking advantage of their family, a plate of red and pretty is expensive, and the cheap ones cost fifty cents, she didn't eat it this year, Wei Lan Xiang, who has an eye for money, doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and asks her what she wants to eat.

The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and the phrase "Don't even think about it" almost couldn't hold it in her mouth, but she finally held it back, endured the fire that came out of her heart, snorted a sneer from her nose, and said : "I don't know. It's not easy for Yutao to earn money in the town, and he has a wife and children to support. I don't dare to make trouble for him."

Wei Lanxiang said strangely: "Sister-in-law, no one in the village knows that Yutao is filial. If you say you want to eat Hongqiao, he can't do it. Besides, Jiaojiao is also reasonable and filial to her parents-in-law. Then you If you really go, remember to call me, so that I can also enjoy the glory of our Yutao."

Being filial to her parents-in-law, Zhou Yunzhi wanted to spit when she heard this, and when Wei Lanxiang said it so vigorously, her eyes became contemptuous and disgusting, and she quickly found an excuse: "I have something to do, your elder brother is waiting at home." Let's cook."

After speaking, he left in a hurry without even looking back.

Wei Lanxiang watched from behind, and it was a sigh of relief, and with Zhou Yunzhi's petty and stingy temperament, she would definitely not dare to visit their house in the future, she is really a chicken thief, she cursed in her heart, turned around and entered the courtyard up.