Good Luck in the Year of the Pig

On New Year's Eve, the rainy days that lasted for many days finally ushered in the sun.The streets are crowded with people, men, women, old and children, coming in and out to work for the New Year.

At this time, only Lu Ying and Boss Yang were left in the bakery, and everyone else had gone home for vacation.There is not enough manpower, and Boss Yang doesn't want to recruit part-time jobs during the Chinese New Year. He takes Lu Ying to teach and watch the store every day. The products sold are subject to purchase restrictions. The heads of households snatched up the first batch in less than an hour.Then, he was doing and selling all day long, and Lu Ying learned a lot in a short period of time.The key is that Brother Yang doesn't seem to be busy recently, so he stays in the store every day to take care of his apprentices.

"Are the cranberry cookies sold out again?"

"Sorry, the last can just sold out."

"Ah, it's late..."

Lu Ying went to the inner room, behind her back, she wrapped up a pile of nougat, various nut snacks, seaweed rolls, spicy crispy rice, as well as self-fried fragrant melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, pudding and other rich snacks , This is the new year's goods specially prepared by the two for the new year.Usually everyone is busy outside, but on New Year's Eve, they will return to the mountain one after another. Except for Brother Gou, who is very professional and rarely comes back to celebrate the New Year, the rest of the people will get together no matter what.Sometimes they are on Qixia Mountain, sometimes they are on the hill 'Songhe Mountain' on the other side of Caifeng City. This year it happens to be Qixia Mountain.

At noon, Brother Yang hung up a closed sign in front of the store, and the two of them closed the door and continued to work.

"Brother Yang is amazing, this pot of pumpkin seeds is delicious." Tasting the milk-sweet pumpkin seeds just out of the pot, Lu Ying was full of admiration.Compared with the previous pot of savory melon seeds, he prefers sweet food.Brother Yang's sweets are even more unique, no matter how you eat them, you won't feel tired.Unlike the desserts in cake shops outside, even though he and Zai Zai were never picky eaters, those cake shops were okay for them to eat once or twice, and they didn't want to eat them at all the third time.

Yang Sigu was chewing nougat, and said with a smile: "Anyway, everything in your mouth is delicious, and you can hear calluses in your ears."

Lu Ying laughed, scratched her head and said, "I'm telling the truth."

"After today, we will officially enter the Year of the Pig. Do you have any plans?" Yang Sigu asked.

Lu Ying was stunned for a moment, and replied honestly: "I have no plans, that's not the case. Now I have put down other work, and I will concentrate on the store in the future. As long as Brother Yang doesn't drive me away, I will continue to do it."

"You can master everything I teach very quickly. In the first half of the year, you will be able to start your own business. Don't you want to be your own boss?"

"Ah... open a store by yourself?" Lu Ying never thought about it, he felt that he was still a newcomer, and opening a store required a lot of cost.Don’t look at Brother Yang’s bakery business is particularly good, but the initial investment is very large. For example, Brother Yang bought this shop, and he never chooses cheap parallel imports for the ingredients he usually uses. He chooses what is good and only sells what he is satisfied with. .The store's water and electricity bills, labor costs, and everything are very expensive.If it's him, don't even think about buying a facade, how can it be cheaper to rent one?It is simply not practical to open a shop.

And the most unnegligible point is that he has to accompany Zai Zai at night.If you become a boss, you will be busy from morning to night, definitely more tiring and busier than working part-time.Brother Yang is now stable, so he is relatively lazy. In the early days, he was still too busy to see anyone.

Lu Ying thought a lot for a moment and shook her head: "It's impossible in a short period of time. Cubs will be six years old at the beginning of the new year. I will be a primary school student in September. I heard that the current primary school is under a lot of pressure, and parents need to do a lot of homework every day. For tutoring, the teacher assigns homework directly in the WeChat group on the mobile phone, and some have to use mobile phone software to complete it. If the grades are not good, you have to find a training class... It's scary."

Lu Ying trembled with lingering fear. During the kindergarten, as long as she saw the children go to school happily, everything would be fine. Anyway, his son is Pishi. The biggest problem in the kindergarten is that children are easy to get sick. His family does not have this concern, and all poisons do not invade .

If kindergarten is an angel mode, elementary school is a normal mode, junior high school is a difficult mode, and high school is a hell mode.He, Alexander, was worried that his son, who was not good at mathematics, would put elementary school in a difficult mode o(╥﹏╥)o.

Yang Sigu frowned when he heard the words: "It's so troublesome to raise a child?"

"Otherwise, what do you think..." Lu Ying couldn't help rolling her eyes. Although Brother Yang is old, he has always enjoyed life freely. He probably has never had much contact with children at all.

Yang Sigu sighed: "I still thought it would be trivial if you were short of money, and I will lend you money if you are short of money." But it is really difficult to implement in relation to the life and growth of children.Although he has never raised a child, he 100% believes that children need the company of their parents. A parent who is so busy every day is dereliction of duty, unless there are alternative guardians at home, but Lu Ying is a single parent.

"I said, didn't that father, Zai Zai, come to look for you? It seems that he has an unforgettable old relationship with you. Why hasn't he come again for a long time?" Yang Sigu thought, if he is an irresponsible scumbag, next time we see you Just throw them out.

Lu Ying lowered her head to put things on, and muttered in a low voice: "I don't need..." The person didn't come, but there were many text messages, but he never replied.

Yang Sigu glanced at him, "I don't think you can let him go completely."

"..." Lu Ying dared not speak.

"Okay, it's not urgent anyway. Let me know if you have any ideas in the future."

"Thank you Brother Yang."

Hearing the commotion outside, Yang Sigu knew who was coming without looking up. Lu Ying hurriedly opened the door and looked at the companions who came together with a smile on her face.

"Lu Xiaozhu, long time no see you! Haha, so cute." The biggest brother Wang rushed over first, grabbed Lu Ying's head and squeezed it vigorously: "What are you busy all day, you kid, I don't even see you in Moments .”

"Wang, Brother Wang, Brother Hou! Sister Tu! Ah, Xiaotu is here too, are everyone else here?" Lu Ying smiled from ear to ear.

Ji Xiaofeng nodded: "You still have a lot of face. This time, everyone is working together. Some of the others are on the mountain, and some are going shopping in the market. We'll come to pick you up and Brother Yang. Are the delicious dishes ready?"

"Okay, okay, packing." Lu Ying nodded hurriedly, and then asked in disbelief: "Brother Gou is back too?"

"I'm back."

"Wow!" Lu Ying was beaming with joy. It was really not easy for everyone to get together. I didn't expect to have all of them this year. The last time we got together was the day when Zai Zai was born.

There are many people and strength, and everyone quickly packed all the food and put it on the car. Before night fell, everyone returned to Qixia Mountain.The cold mountain forest, as the night deepened, was unknowingly covered with thick fog.

Qixia Town.

Every house in the community is brightly lit, and the smell of reunion dinner permeates everywhere.Smelling the lingering aroma of food, in front of a dark door, a man standing alone was smoking a cigarette, leaning against the closed door and staring at the sky in a trance.After 5 minutes, the man took out his cell phone and made a call.

'The number you dialed is out of service area...'

Annoyed, he put out the cigarette, and the man continued to call, over and over again.Those who spend the Chinese New Year with their children are not at home, where did they go?There is no one in the store, and the house is also locked.The phone is not in the service area yet...

Suddenly, the man thought of a place, Qixia Mountain.

It must be there!

The man was so pleasantly surprised that he got up and was about to leave. After thinking about it, he stopped, took out a pen and paper from his briefcase and wrote a message, and stuffed it in through the crack of the door, so that if the owner came back, he would be able to see it and not miss it.

Leaving the community, the man walked straight towards Qixia Mountain. He didn't even realize that he was no stranger to the road leading to Qixia Mountain, as if he was very familiar with it.

On New Year's Eve, walking alone on the winding country road, there should be a small village in front of it, called Lujia Village, most of the people are surnamed Lu.

As he walked, he saw a light, and the village was still there.

The man strode into the village.

In the mountains and forests, a group of people are sitting in a spacious room having a reunion dinner. At a glance, they are almost all young people, with only one chubby boy in the middle. Red envelope!

As the smallest existence, Lu Zaizai was the first to collect the big red envelopes!

"Thank you, Uncle Hou, thank you, Uncle Gou, thank you, Aunt Tu..." Lu Zaizai thanked each one with a red face, and stuffed all the red envelopes in his arms to his father Lu Ying: "Daddy, I will give you all my red envelopes~~"

"Haha, Zaizai is awesome and cute." Aunt Tu sat next to Lu Zaizai and chatted with him from time to time.

Lu Ying said a few words politely, then took out the prepared red envelope from her bosom, stood up and handed it to Sister Tu's only son: "Xiao Tu, this is the lucky money for you. I wish you good luck in the Year of the Pig and success in your studies."

The young Lang Qin Xiaotu took the red envelope and politely thanked him: "Thank you, Uncle Lu, for your blessing."

Everyone followed Lu Ying, and continued to hand out red envelopes to Qin Xiaotu one by one, and made a fuss again. Then they got off the dining table and squeezed out of the room in a swarm. After a while, they all disappeared, and they didn't know where they went in the forest .

Only the two juniors and old Xu remained.

Mr. Xu, the housekeeper, took out a bunch of fireworks from home and greeted the two children: "Come, come, let's blow the fireworks."

The elder brother Qin Xiaotu led the younger brother Lu Zaizai, cheering and surrounded him.

At the foot of Qixia Mountain, Lujia Village.

The travel-worn man stood in the village, looking up at the Qixia Mountain in the night. Apart from the unbelievably thick fog, he could vaguely hear the laughter of a child coming from the mountain.

The person he was looking for must be there.