Chapter 104: Only with food can you have peace of mind
After Zhou Fangjing and his wife disappeared from the forest path, Lu Lu turned around, took out the grass balls blocked in the chimney, and returned to the cellar to make a fire for cooking.
There are several shrubs inside the newly built fence, all of which are edible for sika deer.
While the rice was being steamed, Lu Lu took a look and saw that the doe was already picking and eating, licking the fawn from time to time. It was doing well.
Yuanbao and the three puppies circled around the fence for a long time, and finally realized that it was not their thing, so they returned to the open space in front of the cellar.
It finally calmed down.
After making food to fill his stomach and feeding the four Yuanbao Niangs, Lu Lu practiced his gun for a while until it got dark, then returned to the cellar, added firewood, continued to bake the deer heart, and heated hot water to soak his feet.
He washed and dried his feet carefully, put on the pair of sandals that Chen Xiuyu had given him, and walked back and forth in the cellar.
Inexplicably, he thought of that woman Zhou Fangjing again. No matter how he looked at her, he didn't think she would be a peaceful woman. He had to be careful.
After getting up the next morning and having breakfast, Lu Lu led the four Yuan Baoniangs and rushed to Xiushan Tun early.
"If you want to borrow it yourself, I don't have the ability. No one in this village is looking at me now, so I can't open the door."
Along the way, everyone he met greeted him with a smile.
We had made an appointment yesterday. Chen Xiuqing had already gotten up early and was busy making breakfast with Chen Xiuyu in the kitchen.
"I told my sister that you are coming over this morning. I am busy cooking and waiting for you."
After Lu Lu said with a smile, he led the four Yuan Baoniang and turned around to leave.
After Chen Xiuqing finished speaking, he didn't care that Ma Jinlan was shaking with anger. He hurriedly picked up a bowl of rice, picked up the hunting bag hanging on the wall, got up and left, and met someone who was making soup in the kitchen and carrying it in.
Chen Xiuyu quickly stepped aside.
Lu Lu thought of the busy people he met when he came here in the morning and suggested.
"No, since that time, Brother Lu has never been to our house again. Look at it now, even when he reaches the courtyard gate, he doesn't even come in..."
Chen Xiuqing scratched her hair: "Do you think it's because of what happened to our mother last time?"
Food is the most important thing for the people, and providing people with enough food is the most reassuring thing. This has always been the top priority.
"Don't think too much. I came here after I had eaten. I didn't go in. I just wanted to go to the forest to get something first..."
As soon as he heard him speak, Lu Lu knew that he must have had an idea because he didn't enter their house.
Ma Jinlan kept her head down and didn't speak. She just watched Chen Xiuyu return to the kitchen to serve the food. She looked at her back with a smile on her face. When Chen Xiuqing came in, she quickly put it away.
Seeing that Lu Lu didn't even enter the courtyard, Chen Xiuyu hurriedly ran over: "Brother, what's wrong with Brother Lu? Why can't you even enter?"
"Brother Lu said that he has already eaten. He should leave first and ask me to find him in the woods in Tundong." Chen Xiuqing also frowned slightly.
Chen Xiuyu was so angry that she went back to the house, took the food prepared on the stove and knocked it on the kang table: "Mom, what are you looking at? Are you satisfied now?"
Chen Xiuqing was extremely envious of Lu Lu's skill with a slingshot. If he had this skill, he would not have to worry about food and clothing just by beating small animals.
Chen Xiuqing left the room quickly without saying anything.
Chen Xiuyu also jumped out and shouted from a distance: "Brother Lu!"
Lu Lu really didn't have Chen Xiuqing's idea. Seeing that he was worried, he said, "Well, let's collect the bees and pack some food at your house for lunch."
"You're ready to eat so soon?" Lu Lu felt that it had just passed a while ago.
Seeing Chen Xiuyu looking towards her, Ma Jinlan quickly retracted her head.
Now that the fields have started sowing, the food needed for the year is only available in these short few months, and everyone is very busy.
"Are you stupid? You won't drag Brother Lu home?"
Lu Lu was already somewhat of a celebrity in the countryside.
After Chen Xiuqing heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and put a smile on his face.
"Ah...I've already eaten it!"
"Old girl!" Lu Lu also smiled and greeted her, then turned to look at Chen Xiuqing: "What are you still doing?"
Hearing Lu Lu's shout, he immediately pushed open the door and ran out to open the courtyard door: "Brother Lu... hurry up and sit in the room."
"I'm done eating!"
"Just eat something casually!" Chen Xiuqing smiled naively: "Brother Lu, are you still worried about what happened to my mother that night..."
Hearing this, Chen Xiuqing was stunned for a moment: "It's all my fault. I didn't make it clear to Brother Lu yesterday...Brother Lu, come in and have some more."
If you have food, you will be steady.
Chen Xiuyu looked at Chen Xiuqing who was running away, then at her mother who was ashen on the kang, and once again put the soup bowl on the kang table.
"Qing Na, don't just run to the mountains all day long. Other people's fields have started sowing. It's just a matter of gathering your nerves and planting the fields." Ma Jinlan glanced at him: "hunting and hunting every day.
, I didn’t see you bringing anything home, you were scratched once by a blind bear, and you didn’t learn a lesson. I went to find someone to borrow an ox and horse, we can’t delay any longer.”
"This... the food hasn't even been served yet!"
Chen Xiuyu clenched her fist and hit Chen Xiuqing's arm, scolding: "You idiot."
"Qingzi, I see that many people are starting to farm. Today's harvest of bees is so you should hurry up and recruit people to plant some of your own fields. You must seize the time. If you miss it, it will affect the harvest in September.
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"Brother, why are you leaving now?" Chen Xiuyu was a little confused.
Arriving directly at the door of Chen Xiuyu's house, Lu Lu shouted through the courtyard door: "Qingzi, have you gotten up?"
This meal was boring, and the mother and daughter stared at each other the whole time.
"I'm not a foodie, so I can eat so much. You can eat it by yourself. I'll go hunting in the red pine forest to the east first. Come and find me when you're done eating!"
Chen Xiuqing hurried all the way, and when she found Lu Lu in the red pine forest in Tundong, she saw Lu Lu using a slingshot to knock down the greyhound jumping on the branch.
When Lu Lu picked up the greyhound and stuffed it into the hunting bag, Chen Xiuqing walked over quickly.
As Chen Xiuyu spoke, she looked back at her house and saw Ma Jinlan sitting on the kang, her head leaning against the window and looking out.
It was just dawn, and the hard-working people in the village were already alive. Those who carried water, made fires to cook, and some were already driving their animals to the fields.
"Brother Lu, I know. But I don't have any livestock at home. If I want to plant it, I have to wait until someone has finished planting and the animals are idle before I can borrow it. Everyone is busy at this time, so we have to wait a little longer."
Not all families can afford to raise livestock, and this family has only a few manpower, so farming is difficult.
"Otherwise, follow me to the district tomorrow, sell those things, get the money, and buy the animals, so you don't have to wait all the time. If you are slow to plant, you won't be able to get crops yet.
Then there's a frost, that's bad."
Lu Lu thought for a moment, and it was indeed what Chen Xiuqing said, but waiting was not the answer.
The things he got from hunting in the past few days will be distributed to him after selling them. He can buy cows and horses. It won't be a problem.
Thanks to book friends Live Comfortably, Agent of Shenkan Bureau, Deng Yjie, 135063. for the reward!