The Sweet Little Fulang

After Shen Yan's marriage was settled, it was fine in winter, but when the weather warmed up, Gu Chengyue ran to their Qingxi Village more diligently, either to deliver snacks or to buy some playthings.

The two of them were already engaged, and this move was not frivolous, so Wei Lanxiang didn't care too much, anyway, every time Cheng Yue came over, his family members were there, so he wouldn't stay for too long.

All kinds of invitations, replies and gifts have not been completed yet, and the auspicious days must follow the rules. The date of marriage has not yet been counted, but she has already started sewing wedding dresses and embroidered hijabs.

This is how people in the countryside do their own cloth, and rarely ask someone to make a wedding dress.

Gu Chengyue still needs to take the exam, so he has to hurry up and study. He is sometimes dumbfounded in front of Shen Yan, but his mind is simple, and he is happy when he gives things to his future wife. After returning home, he still studies very hard. Naturally, he can support his family, and Shen Yan doesn't have to endure hardships following him.

The Gu family didn't mention it, Shen Yan's marriage was smooth, and the whole family was relieved. Now all that is left is to live a good life. It will be many years before the two children grow up.

After summer, Lu Gu took Ling Geer back to his hometown to live for a while, when someone in the village was selling land, Shen Yaoqing bought the four acres of paddy fields.

Their family has a lot of land, which is enough to eat, but if they have a few more children in the future, they will all open their mouths to eat, but they can't save some land when they have money. As the saying goes, half-children eat poor parents. Xuan youth ate a lot when he was young, and if there are a few more boys, he has to prepare enough rice and noodles if he wants to take care of them all.

After staying at home for half a month, it was cold in the afternoon. Lu Gu and Ji Qiuyue took their two children to wash clothes in the shallow water by the river. Be on the lookout.

Before the clothes were washed, Lu Gu heard a familiar barking of a dog, squatted there and turned around, he was indeed a good boy.

The dog ran over quickly, and not long after, a familiar figure in the distance approached.

"When did you come back?" He rubbed the dog's head with one hand and asked with a smile.

Shen Xuanqing picked up his son and nephew by the water at the same time, and the two children couldn't stop laughing after being picked up. He said, "I just came back, and Yanyan said you were doing laundry by the water, so I came here."

"Have you eaten?" Lu Gu asked again.

"I've eaten at noon, mother is making dinner." Shen Xuanqing put down the child in her arms again, and let them play by themselves.

Lu Gu pounded his clothes with a mallet, and asked casually, "Where did you eat?"

"The restaurant on the street corner has a plate of dishes and a pot of wine. I went back and cleaned up the butcher shop, and the front and back yards of the house, so I hurried back." He lowered his head to find a thin piece of rock on the ground, and threw it out to make several ripples on the water.

"Wow!"

The two children saw that the little two groups squatted on the bank and let out an exclamation, and then turned their heads to look at him with surprised eyes.

Even though they were only two children, even Shen Xuanqing couldn't help being a little proud of being looked at like this. Lu Gu saw it from the side and secretly smiled.

"Daddy, daddy hit." Brother Ling ran up to his legs and stuffed a pebble into his hand.

The child has small hands, and the small stones he found were also so small. Shen Xuanqing couldn't help smiling when he glanced at the small stones that Brother Ling gave him.

"Daddy hits."

He was laughing, when he heard Zhao'er shouting the same, he burst out laughing.

"Look carefully, is this Daddy?" Ji Qiuyue asked with a smile.

Zhao'er is not very old, so he hurriedly called out to Brother Ling, calling him the wrong father, he didn't care at all, he just cared about playing.

Ji Qiuyue smiled and said, "That's your second uncle, why do you have long eyes."

"Okay, I'll fight." Shen Xuanqing walked towards the water and played with the two children.

Smoke was rising from the kitchen, and the sun was about to set, and the farmers were returning home one after another with their hoes on their shoulders. Shen Xuanqing held a child in front of him, and Lu Gu and Ji Qiuyue were talking and laughing behind with their clothes in their hands. Back to the old house.

It's summer, and there are no poultry in my hometown, so the smell is very light.

Shen Xuanqing stayed at home for two days. Together with Lu Gu, he took Brother Ling and Zhaoer up the mountain to pick fruits and find sweet buns. Both children had a good time playing, but they were still young, unlike the older wild boy, who was full of joy. The mountains are running around.

When they went to the town again, besides the boy in the rabbit cage, Lugu and Lingjun were also pulled on the cart.

He ate and drank by himself in the town for half a month, mostly at restaurants and noodle restaurants, and occasionally went to Yan's for a meal, Lu Gu was worried that he could not eat well in restaurants outside, it was time to pass.

When I came back, the front and back yards of the house were swept clean, not messy at all, it was really tidied up.

After falling asleep at night, the whole town gradually quieted down.

The door of the main room was not closed, and a gust of cool breeze blew in from time to time, the boy slept on his stomach on the ground, and he never lay down on the sack he usually used since it was hot. Lu Gu took out the straw inside to dry, and washed the sack skin.

Brother Ling slept soundly. When Zhaoer left his hometown, Zhaoer cried and wanted to take the mule cart and go with his younger brother. When he cried, Brother Ling cried too. It took a long time to comfort him on the way.

We haven't seen each other for half a month, but Lu Gu still misses Shen Xuanqing a lot, the two are next to each other, holding hands on the thin quilt, whispering a few thoughtful words.

"There is something I want to discuss with you." Shen Xuanqing turned over, reached out and touched Fulang's cheek under the moonlight, her brows were gentle.

"Yeah." Lu Gu also turned sideways, facing him.

"I estimate that Biaozi will come back in half a month. I want to ask him if he will go to the north after autumn. If he does, I want to go with him and sell some leathers." Shen Xuanqing said in a low voice.

Lu Gu was stunned for a moment, and asked him, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

Luo Biao is going to the north, far away, and it takes two months to go back and forth. If there is a delay on the way, it will take two and a half months to three months. He has never been separated from Shen Xuanqing for such a long time.

"If I don't hunt foxes this year, I won't earn much money, so I want to get some furs and come back in winter, and I can sell them when it's cold. We have money in our hands, but Yanyan is going to get married, and the dowry brother and mother are both If I give it, I can't let it go, since my father is gone, no one will prepare a dowry for her."

Shen Xuanqing's voice was very low, and he slowly talked to him: "This is a sum of money. I have enough money in my hand. I have a brother and a mother. I don't need to pay too much, just add a little more."

"According to what Luo Biao said, the furs sold back can at least double. I want to earn more money as soon as possible. I'm not young these years."

"The few hundred taels in our hands are our family property. We can't keep them for a lifetime. Brother Ling's dowry will be a lot in the future. We can't wrong the child and have a second child. If you are a boy, how can you marry a wife and start a family? It costs nothing."

"There are also various expenses for food, clothing, schooling. I went outside the town to see it two days ago. Since we live here, why don't we buy a few acres of land outside the town? In the future, we don't have to bring rice and noodles from home. We have fields and land. No need to worry about food and drink.”

Lu Gu listened silently, the field is the root, Shen Xuanqing was right, and after buying the farmland, even if the two of them are gone, the children will be left with family property, as long as they work hard, they will be able to eat.

"It's so far to the north." He was reluctant and murmured.

Shen Xuanqing was also reluctant to part with her husband and children, sighed softly in her heart, and then said with a smile: "I'm just talking, I want to ask what you mean, so I won't go, anyway, I can earn money at home, just like before, Let's save slowly, and the days will not be bad."

"Yeah." Lu Gu breathed a sigh of relief, he really couldn't think of a day when Shen Xuanqing had been away for so long.

The wind blew in through the half-opened window, and Shen Xuanqing stretched out his arms to put his arms around the person beside him. Just like before, Gu Zi also took the initiative to lean into his arms, which made him feel satisfied.

"In a few days, I'll go to the carpenter and ask if I can make a car for us, and then put on a mule, so that I won't be afraid of the wind, the sun, and the rain or snow. It's fine in summer, but in winter The cart was bare, with no shelter, and it was really cold when the wind blows all the way."

After hearing this, Lu Gu remembered the deep winter of last year. They rushed to their hometown before the Chinese New Year. The adults were resistant to the cold. Fortunately, they dressed the children thickly, otherwise Brother Ling would be terribly cold.

"This is good." He replied in a low voice. Although it cost more than 100 taels to buy a shop and a house, he still has a few hundred taels of silver in his hand, which is more than enough to make a car.

He smiled and said, "It's been so long since I've been here, I never thought of making one before."

"Indeed, there are so many chariots and horses on the street, and you can see them every day. I didn't expect to make them for our family." Shen Xuanqing also laughed.

Unable to sleep now, he hugged the person in his arms and continued: "If you originally wanted to go to the north, get us a good horse, and drive the carriage back and forth faster. The last time the Gu family passed by, Brother Ling saw the big horse, Let me buy it for him."

What he was talking about was the day when Gu Chengyue and Shen Yan met each other. Brother Ling often lived in the town. Sometimes when he passed a horse on the street, Lu Gu would teach him what it was. Even though he was a baby, he could recognize even mule carts, donkey carts and carriages. Majestic and beautiful, even children can tell the difference.

That day when Shen Xuanqing went to Sanfang's house with the child in her arms, Brother Ling called for a big horse to drive, and pointed to the horse to ask Dad to buy it for him.

Lu Gu also knew about this.

"But we already have mules. What do we need horses for? There is only so much space in the house. It's not like at home. It doesn't matter how many animals you raise." Shen Xuanqing said again: "The left and right are just from my hometown, the farthest is In the city of Yuqing, the horses are expensive and not worth it."

It turned out that I went to the north to get a good horse for my family.

Lu Gu thought for a while and asked, "It's cheaper to buy horses in the north?"

"Well, it's cheaper, and the horses are born over there." Shen Xuanqing pulled down the thin quilt, it's easy to get hot when hugged together in Xia Tian, ​​so it's enough to cover the stomach.

"Apart from wanting to buy a horse, what else do you think about?" Lu Gu also felt the enthusiasm, and retracted the hand on Shen Xuanqing's waist.

Sensing his movement, Shen Xuanqing grabbed that hand back, put it on her waist, and said with a smile: "I rode the horse brought back by the sign last year, and I heard him talk about the scenery all the way to the north. I want to go and have a look, after I have gone through this experience, I will know where the fun is, and when the child is a few years old, I will take you two out to have a look."

"The grasslands in the north are too far away, and the road is difficult. Let's just wander around in the beautiful scenery on the way, at least go out of the Yuqing land boundary. When Brother Ling grows up, maybe he can go to Jiangnan. The road over there is better. Let's go." Officials are not afraid of encountering bandits."

He has studied, and knows from calligraphy and painting that Saibei and Jiangnan have beautiful scenery. Now that life is better, he has contacted a lot of people in the town, and he knows that in addition to traveling around the town, the rich and noble families also visit the mountains and rivers, burn incense and worship Buddha, and even their female relatives are also punished. I took Shangjing to Jiangnan to play.

After listening to it a lot, he would sometimes think that he would take his family out for a walk, otherwise he would only stay in Qingxi Village and Jixing Town for the rest of his life, which would be really restrictive.

"Then go."

Shen Xuanqing was actually just talking about it this time, and it was enough to have fun, and was about to talk about the style and appearance of the capital when he heard this sentence.