Aotian the domesticated miniature dragon

This time, in addition to buying burning paper incense candles for ancestor worship, Zhou also bought a lot of leather.But they are all cheap scraps of leather, which are just right for making boots or putting together a vest, but they can't be made into large pieces.But this also made her very happy, touching the soft and thick leather in her hand, and thinking about it all the way.

When he was about to reach the house, Lu Qianshan said: "The second and third uncles of the third grandpa's family are back. I saw them when I was in the big car shop. Originally they wanted to go back by car, but someone mentioned the relationship between our two families. Well, they went back."

Mrs. Zhou was taken aback, and her first reaction was to look at Lu Guangming who was driving the car.

This green mule cart is just a flatbed cart without any sheds.Lu Guangming sat in the front and drove the car, with his eldest son Lu Qianfan sitting beside him.Zhou Shi and Lu Qianshan sat on the car floor with old cotton mattresses on their legs to keep them warm.It is also because of the snow these few days and the weather is too cold, otherwise even this old quilt would be reluctant to take it out.

Lu Guangming's hand that was driving the car paused, and he sighed vaguely.

Mrs. Zhou also sighed, and said: "Your second uncle, third uncle, second aunt and third aunt are all good people. When your third grandpa and third grandma lived here, they often came here to help with work. Son. Especially your second aunt and third aunt, life is too hard. Back then your third grandpa and third grandma took a fancy to the old family over there, and they only picked capable and honest people to find a wife for your second uncle and third uncle. There is such a big one over there The home, the old ones don’t do the work, the fourth one’s hob meat, and the fifth’s one has a good eye, but the rough work has never been done. Feeding pigs, feeding chickens, even collecting firewood and chopping firewood, it’s all you The second aunt and the third aunt are busy inside and out. Even the young ones in their family knew how to do the work quite early. A few days ago, I went out to visit and saw your second aunt, and she looked thinner again lock up."

Lu Qianshan thought for a while, and said: "I saw that the third grandmother was very kind to Lu Xiuxiu, and thought she was also kind to other aunts."

Mrs. Zhou snorted, and said, "Lu Xiuxiu crawled out of her stomach. She is also an old girl, and she is also pretty. Naturally, she can rest assured. Your second and third aunts are the married daughter-in-laws." Well, your third grandma has always been like this, she doesn't care about honest people holding hands, and your fourth aunt's kind of hob meat. If I say that I have to be a little bit tempered to make a living under her hands , It was the same in those years, why did I..."

Lu Guangming coughed, and said in a low voice, "Mother, don't talk about the past, isn't our family doing well now?"

Now I am really living a good life. I can sleep in a spacious kang, I can burn firewood early, I can also pull some new cloth to make new clothes, and I can also eat meat from time to time. This is quite satisfying.Even Lu Guangming wondered if he had been confused by cow dung before, how could he agree to and do that kind of thing?Look at other people's children who have been eating well in the past few years. My own children are so thin, especially the two youngest, whose hair is burnt yellow and their face is thin.But now he has become a little more rosy and lively.

Lu Qianshan was thinking about what Hong Juan'er said to him. Lu Datian's family wanted to build a new house, but it was just two adobe houses built from the backyard, and the second and third children had to move in. It was true Doesn't sound too good, living in an adobe house in the backyard, isn't that really a servant?

It's just that I don't know if the honest second and third children in Zhou's mouth can still bear it, and swallow this dumb loss for the sake of the so-called prosperity in the future.

When they got home, they gave the silk thread and embroidered handkerchief to Zeng Hongmei and Lu Qianyou, both of them were very happy.Mrs. Zhou has always been very tolerant to children, even to her daughter-in-law. The embroidered things are taken out and sold, and the money they earn is their own, and they don't want to buy something to eat and drink. No money at all.

Back when Lu Datian and the others were still living here, the Zhou family asked Zeng Hongmei to embroider something and sell it, and kept the money after selling it, even if it was good to buy an egg to eat.So Zeng Hongmei is also very filial to this mother-in-law. She will set up a trick, and secretly roast it, and distribute it to a few younger brothers and sisters, so that these children will also be stained with oil and water.

Zhou called his family to count the money in the house again, which made them happiest.A lot of copper coins were scattered on the kang, and the hearts of those who saw it were sweet.She specially picked up dozens of them and put them on strings for Lu Qianshan. She said with a smile, "I made more than three liang of silver this time, and it's all thanks to Shanshan's idea, so I will keep this money for Shanshan."

Lu Qianshan declined twice, then took it.Dozens of copper coins are nothing to him, but it is Zhou's kindness.Mrs. Zhou picked up twenty more and stuffed them with Mrs. Zeng, and then stuffed five copper coins into each of the younger ones.Although five copper coins are not much, but there are hawkers and salesmen in the village, and they can be exchanged for several pieces of candy.This is the happiest thing for children.

Lu Qianhai carefully put the copper coins into his purse, and said, "I will also save this money. I will go to school in the next year and use it to buy pens and paper."

When Lu Qiancheng heard this, he quickly stuffed up the money, and said in a childlike voice, "I also want to save up to buy paper and pens, I want to study hard, and I want to be a scholar."

These words made the Zhou family and Lu Guangming very funny, and they called Lu Qiancheng a little scholar, and they were embarrassed to call others.

Lu Qianshan said at this time: "On weekdays, Uncle Jin Zhu and the village head's grandfather also helped us a lot. We can't help you otherwise. In fact, we can tell them about the craft of making maltose."

Mrs. Zhou was taken aback, "This handicraft... Do you want to tell them?" To her, this is something that the family uses to make money. If she tells others like this, won't she cut off her family's financial resources?

Lu Qianshan said: "Mom, now that we have made money with this craftsmanship, there must be people who are jealous and gossiping from behind. Instead of doing this, why not find someone to do it with us, and if we do a lot, we can distribute it to those salesmen in batches." A peddler. In fact, he earns a lot of money. Besides, if there is anything wrong with our family in the future, we can ask for help, right?"

Mrs. Zhou couldn't figure it out, but Lu Guangming could understand. He nodded and said, "Shanshan is really clever. It's good to tell the two of them the skills, but it's just that the three of them do it together. Even if someone tells us, they can help. Besides, Jin Zhu that person is a righteous person, and he will not take advantage of our family for nothing. And if he can save some money to buy land in the future, it will be more convenient to find the village chief."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou finally figured it out, and quickly said, "It's indeed a good thing, but who should tell it?"

Lu Qianshan said: "Of course it's dad who said it, steam a basket of fat cakes and give them a few yuan, don't we have some candies left, just pack two bags and send them together."

To Lu Qianshan, this kind of thing is actually a small favor, but to the villagers, it is a serious matter that can make money.Wang Jinzhu and the village head's family are prestigious in this village. Last time they drove Lu Datian and his family out, they did a lot of hard work and offended Xiucai, so this time I took it over so that they can't afford to complain in the future. , better for yourself.

And with these two companies working together to make candy, even if others want to have any bad intentions, they have to keep it in their stomachs.

Mrs. Zhou couldn't let go of things. After listening to it, she immediately began to collect the pile of copper coins on the kang and put them into a box, then got off the kang and said, "I'm going to make hair cakes, rice, red plums, come and give them to me." Do me a favor."

"Hey!" Zeng Hongmei readily agreed, and followed Zhou out.

After making the noodles, I started busy making lunch again.Because I bought a lot of pork bones last time, this time I boiled the bone soup in a big pot, rolled the noodles with the noodles, and ordered a big pot of Lianghe noodles with homemade miso and green onion pickles. The family ate deliciously.

Zhong Yulin hid in Lu Qianshan's arms and smelled the fragrance, sighing inwardly.He used to have others wait for him to eat first, but now he has to wait for others to finish before eating, and there is still leftovers.But there is no way around this, Lu Qianshan can't let him take out and put himself on the table, saying that this is a distinguished guest, let the distinguished guest eat first.He was really afraid that if he showed up, he would frighten the honest people in this family.Besides, I'm embarrassed to see people like this.

After eating and returning to the house for an afternoon nap, Lu Qianshan mixed two sticks of noodles for Zhong Yulin, topped with some shredded green onions and a small cup of pork bone soup.This noodle can't be grasped by hand, but this time he bought a box of toothpicks in the town, which is specially used to make chopsticks for this little thing.

But the toothpick was thick enough, so Zhong Yulin held the toothpick and stuck a noodle on it to eat. He ate the sauce all over his face, and he was in a mess.

"I'm eating noodles next time. I'll chop them up for you. I forgot this time." Lu Qianshan just smiled, and used a small handkerchief as a bib to surround the little thing. trouble.

I think you did it on purpose, to see me make a fool of myself!Zhong Yulin took a bite of the noodles viciously, then another bite of shredded green onion, and then took a big mouthful of pork bone soup.This little brother's bad tastes are always emerging one after another. If he resists, he will definitely be hit harder, so he learned to be good.No resistance, no fuss, no anger, just do what you say.

After eating and drinking enough to satisfy his physical needs, Zhong Yulin, who had been washed clean, put on his pants numbly, and then lay numbly on the kang, sighing and digesting.When is this kind of day?He felt that he was like Lu Qianshan's pet now, he would be taken out and kneaded from time to time, which made him lose his temper at all.

Lu Guangfu and Lu Guangcai brothers returned home and took the things in the package to Lu Zhang.Mrs. Lu Zhang sorted it out in disgust, and said to Lu Guangfu casually: "Second brother, your wife should take care of it. A few days ago, she wanted to buy meat for dinner at home, so she came in and asked for money in front of a group of men. It's as if I, as a mother-in-law, owe her a lot."

Lu Guangfu's face was a little red, and he said in a low voice: "My mother, maybe I have no money in my hand."

"No money in hand? What do you mean? Could it be that you still blame me for eating her and drinking her?" Lu Zhang became angry, her voice became high-pitched, "Don't let her eat or let her drink Who are you going to show me with a sad face all day long? And I didn’t say no to her, but just reached out to me in front of a group of people? Is this your good wife?”

Lu Guangfu hurriedly said: "Mother, she is stubborn and has no other ideas."

"What else do you want to think? Oh, what do you want to eat from me?" Mrs. Lu Zhang slapped the edge of the kang, "If you don't face me face to face, she will be fine? I'm bah! Don't look at your own virtue !" With Lu Zhang's mouth, he has always cursed people mercilessly, especially when he scolded Zhao and Sun, no matter how ugly he was.

Mrs. Zhao was washing clothes in the backyard, hearing the ugly scolding in the house, tears streaming down her face.

Lu Guangfu shrank aside with a disheveled face after being scolded, and looked stunned.Lu Guangcai also helped to persuade, "Mom, don't be angry, and make yourself angry again."

Mrs. Lu Zhang gave him a blank look, and said: "What do you think your wife is? You usually look honest, but you still don't know how to scold me behind your back. This is not marrying a daughter-in-law, it is marrying a supercilious person." Where's the wolf!"

Lu Guangcai was a little unhappy, and said: "Mother, who is gossiping with you? How can Qianru scold you behind your back? It's too late for her to be filial to you."

Mrs. Lu Zhang pouted hard, and said: "She is filial to me? Just don't make me mad at her! Every day I get together with the second child's family to mutter, I really think I don't know what they mutter about?"

Lu Guangcai's eyebrows were a little gloomy, so he didn't speak at all.

Lu Datian got a headache from the quarrel, and said: "When your son comes back, don't say good things, what are you doing? No matter how bad the second and third families are, you still eat a lot of cooking every day. Stop nagging."

"Could it be possible for me to cook for them? Sure, I'll serve them right away, I'll serve them!!" Lu Zhang's unreasonable behavior was simply jaw-dropping.

Lu Guangfu and Lu Guangcai hurriedly stopped Mrs. Lu Zhang who was about to get off the kang, and repeatedly persuaded, "Mother, what are you doing? Why do they ask you to serve? Mother, don't worry."

Mrs. Lu Zhang snorted, then retreated to the kang again, and said, "I've been holding back this anger for several days. I can't tell them that your two daughters-in-law are outsiders, but you two are my sons. From my stomach Climbed out, you know?"

The two nodded repeatedly, and kept saying that they knew it, so they coaxed Mrs. Lu and Zhang to go smoothly.

Mrs. Lu Zhang rummaged through the two bundles for a long time, picked out two pieces of old homespun cloth and threw them to the two of them, "Let your daughter-in-law make new clothes for you. What do you look like in the tattered ones you usually wear? I don't know." I thought your daughter-in-law was attracting maggots on the kang, and she couldn't even clean up her own man. Let's go, don't look at me, it's an eyesore."

The two brothers took the cloth and backed out blushing.

Lu Guangfu took the cloth and returned to his room with a sigh. Lu Guangcai's face became more gloomy.

He knew who his daughter-in-law was, and she was honest on weekdays. She never blushed when talking to her sister-in-law, and she rushed to do all the work.Why did Lu Zhang look down on her?The cloth he brought back this time, he originally thought that Mrs. Lu and Zhang could make their whole family make new clothes, but he just gave one piece.This piece will be enough for him to sit on, not to mention it's winter, what can a single suit do?Not even any cotton...

But look at the old people who are bored in the house and can't come out. They all wear new clothes, and those women still wear silver hairpins and gold lilacs on their heads. Where did they get the money?Didn't you earn it yourself?

How come these days are getting harder and harder?

Originally, he wanted to ask why he moved out of Lu Guangming's house when he came back. Since his parents moved to Lu Guangming's house, he felt that life was not so tiring. Can eat good food from time to time.But father and mother are back, and this time, the family is afraid that there will be no rest.

After dinner, the daughters-in-law were asked to go out to pack their things, and the children were also driven away. Lu Datian cleared his throat and talked about building a new house.

"There are more and more people in the family, and the grandchildren will get married in the future, and this house is not enough to live in. But my parents don't have that much money, so I want to build two adobe houses in the backyard first, and make do with it." He said Glancing at his sons, he asked, "Which one of you used to live?"

He doesn't directly tell the second and third to live in, after all, it doesn't sound good to say it, but if they take the initiative to say that they live in the past, it will be fine.

It's a pity that none of the five sons spoke, and all lowered their heads.

He focused his attention on the second and third children. Both sons' faces were a little numb, so they just sat there without saying a word.

Lu Datian frowned, and his face was not very good-looking.

But he was scruples about face, but Lu Zhang didn't have to scruple about face, and said directly: "What else is there, just let the second and third move over."

Both Lu Guangfu and Lu Guangcai raised their heads and looked at their mother in disbelief.

Lu Guangcai said: "Build two adobe houses in the backyard for us to live in? Well, what's the difference between this and servants? Mother, what do you think?"

"What do you mean by servants? If you have no money at home, you won't let them go? Is it possible to let your eldest brother and his family live? Or let your younger brother live?" Lu Zhang said with a straight face: "It's just the two of you. It fits."

Both Lu Guangfu and Lu Guangcai's faces changed. Lu Guangcai clenched his fists and said, "Then why don't you let the fourth family live?"

Lu Guanghui said: "Oh, third brother, if mother tells you to live here, you can go and talk back."

Lu Guangcai was trembling with anger, stood up abruptly and said, "Second brother and I work for nothing every day, and all the money we earn is given to the family. What did you do, fourth brother, and how much money did you earn? Drive me and my second brother to live in an adobe house? Those who spend money together with the family can live in a blue brick house, but those who make money have to live in an adobe house like the servants?"

"I see it!!" Lu Zhang began to howl again: "You want me to live with your father, you heartless bastard! You should have been strangled and thrown into the wild when you were born. What are you still doing alive? You want to pierce my heart and throw me into the field!"

"Mom, I didn't mean that, I..." Lu Guangcai couldn't utter a word, he looked at the expressionless Lu Datian with trembling lips, the crying Lu Zhangshi, and then at the big brother Lu Guangzeng with his head down. Lu Guanghui, the fourth child who was doing nothing, and Lu Guangfa, who was looking aside, felt pain in their hearts.

Lu Xiuxiu didn't have to work. Seeing Lu and Zhang crying, she said angrily, "Brother, what do you mean? Are you trying to drive away your parents? It's not your turn to be the master of this family! You used to be Is it like this, did my third aunt tell you something again? That woman usually pretends to be honest, but her heart is black!"

"Shut up, that's your sister-in-law!" Lu Guangcai was really annoyed, "You are a girl from every family, do you ever say that about your sister-in-law?"

"What's the matter? My daughter is not allowed to speak for me? If she doesn't speak for me, you really want to throw me out!" Mrs. Lu Zhang yelled and cursed, and said: "Just you Let the two move in, it's settled, and the house will be built in the spring!"

Lu Guangcai's face turned gray, and he sat back on the stool precariously.

Lu Datian knocked on the cigarette pot, and said slowly: "Third brother, don't worry, wait until your elder brother, your younger brother, and your eldest nephew become officials, and they will earn a lot of money in the future. Building a green brick house. Isn’t it difficult for the family now? In spring, your eldest nephew is going to go to Chunwei, and your elder brother and younger brother are also going to take the exam for scholar. Money is needed everywhere. The family’s money is not good enough, but if there is any excess, can you not give it? You two built the house?"

Lu Xiuxiu also said: "That's right, mother is not good to you? I gave each of you a piece of cloth to make clothes today. It depends on who gives it back. It's just for you two."

Lu Guangcai snorted coldly and stopped talking.

Lu Guangfu pursed his lips and said, "That cloth, let's make two new clothes for the child first, mine can still make do with it."

Lu Datian frowned and said, "The children don't go out very often, why are they wearing new clothes? I just made clothes for you two, and you have to go out to worship your ancestors during the Chinese New Year."

Lu Guangfu opened his mouth and said, "Wearing single clothes to worship ancestors?"

Lu Zhang's eyebrows instantly stood up, "Oh, I just said that your wife is not a good thing. She makes unlined clothes for her men in winter? Do you want to freeze you to death? This kind of wife is better off. What do they do?"

Lu Guangcai said: "I only gave cloth, no cotton, so I can only make single clothes."

Lu Datian coughed and said, "I don't have any new cotton at home. Let your mother remove the quilt and share the cotton between you two."

"Yeah, take off the quilt, your father and I are both freezing, and it's as you wish to freeze to death." Mrs. Lu Zhang seemed unwilling to say a few words, "I'm kind enough to give you the quilt, but I also made a mistake. ?”

Both brothers wanted to say that we brought the cloth back too, but they didn't dare to say it, for fear that the Lu and Zhang family would make more trouble.But there is indeed no cotton at home, and there are only two or three quilts, which they and their children still have to cover.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Mrs. Lu Zhang said viciously, "Okay, I'll take the quilt apart, and I'll make padded jackets for you!" Then she went to open the kang cabinet, pulled out a quilt and beat it hard.

Lu Guang met him, and said with a smile, "You have to be rich enough to make two cotton-padded clothes out of one quilt. Give me the rest? I'm going to make a new cotton-padded jacket to wear."

"Damn, why are you wearing a new cotton jacket? Do you deserve to wear a new cotton jacket? I'm afraid your mother-in-law will wear this cotton on you in a blink of an eye!" Lu Zhang was really half-dead with anger, and put the cotton quilt on her body. The Lu Guangcai brothers threw it on their bodies, "Hold it by yourself, and let me wait for you to remove the quilt, what's the matter? Weigh the amount of cotton by yourself, and bring the rest back to me."

The two brothers hugged a quilt, whether they took it or not.

At this time, Lu Guangzeng said, "What are you two? You two are filial if you make your mother angry like this? On weekdays, my mother praised you two for being the most obedient. Is this your obedience? Use your parents' quilt to give yourself Making padded jackets? If you talk about this kind of thing, you will laugh to death."

Lu Guangfu's hand holding the quilt trembled suddenly. He glanced at Lu Guangcai and knew that the quilt could not be taken away.