As if she wanted Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu to stay in bed for a while, when it was just dawn the next morning, Chen Xiuyu was just about to get up when she heard a crackling sound outside, followed by a continuous splashing sound.
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She stood up and pushed the window open a crack. She saw the sky was dark and heavy, and heavy raindrops were falling, making the wood in front of the house crackle.
She closed the window again, looked down at Lu Lu, who was still sleeping soundly, and stretched out her fingers to brush the hair on Lu Lu's forehead.
Seeing Lu Lu's eyelids move, Chen Xiuyu knew that Lu Lu had also woken up and said softly: "Brother Lu, it's raining outside, please sleep a little longer...I'll make breakfast for you!"
Just as she was about to lift the quilt, get dressed and get out of bed, Lu Lu put his arms around her waist and dragged her down onto the bed. Lu Lu turned over and pressed on her without even opening her eyes.
"If you sleep a little longer, you won't be able to do anything when you get up, and Wang Dalong and the others won't come to work..." Lu Lu said confusedly.
"I still have to clean up the house, feed the chickens, the little flying dragons and the lynxes!"
Chen Xiuyu doesn't dare to lie down in bed. A good house should be taken care of well.
Yesterday we served guests for dinner, and there were quite a few things left behind that needed to be washed and put away.
Even though it may look like a new home, it also begins to have chores that will never be done in a lifetime.
Lu Lu didn't answer, he just stuck his butt out and poked it up and down: "Don't worry, just sleep a little longer...it's all crackling anyway."
Seeing his sleepy behavior, Chen Xiuyu was amused and laughed, so she had to reach into the quilt to help him.
As a result, after a lot of trouble, Lu Lu fell asleep and Chen Xiuyu also fell asleep.
There was a knock on the door, and the two of them suddenly woke up and turned over to sit up.
"Brother Lu, sister!"
Chen Xiuqing's shout came from outside.
This guy is not knocking on the door, he is just hammering with his fist.
Chen Xiuyu hurriedly dressed, then knelt on the bed and combed her hair in front of the big red mirror hanging on the window.
Lu Luze gently pushed open a crack in the window and looked outside. The heavy rain that had been pouring before had stopped. The dark clouds dispersed and the sun rose high.
"It's all your fault!" Chen Xiuyu glared at Lu Lu and said in a low voice.
Lu Lu smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Chen Xiuyu's butt, then stood up and shouted outside the room: "Qingzi, wait a minute, you'll be here soon."
He hurriedly put on his clothes, put on his shoes, buttoned his buttons, and walked out, opening the door: "It rained heavily in the morning, so I fell asleep and fell asleep. Qingzi, what are you doing here?"
At the door, Chen Xiuqing was carrying a basket on his back and a sickle in his hand. His shoes and trouser legs were covered with yellow mud. He looked at the sleepy Lu Lu and said, "I can't do much today. I came here just to invite you to the mountain to pick mushrooms."
"Collecting mushrooms..."
I was practicing shooting in the mountains a few days ago, and Lu Lu traveled a lot.
As the temperature in the mountains continues to heat up, everything is flourishing. As early as a month ago, Lu Lu had already seen scattered elm yellow mushrooms emerging in the forest, but the number was still small.
In June every year, the earliest mushrooms that appear in Xing'an Mountains begin to grow.
Now that so much time has passed, the mushrooms in the forest are already everywhere, and Lu Lu just has no time to take care of them. Mainly because he feels that the current mushrooms cannot be sold at a high price.
He suddenly realized that in the blink of an eye, it was already the end of July.
When Chen Xiuyu came out with her hair braided and heard that she was going to the mountain to pick mushrooms, she immediately agreed happily: "It's good to pick mushrooms!" Then, she looked back at Lu Lu: "Brother Lu, let's go together."
These days, all the miscellaneous things on the meadow, the woodwork and the fields were all on Chen Xiuyu, and she didn't have time to deal with them.
"Go ahead, I've been here for so long and I haven't had a good taste of mushrooms yet."
Lu Lu readily agreed, and then he called to Chen Xiuqing: "Qingzi, come in quickly, let's just have breakfast before going."
Chen Xiuqing nodded, and just as he raised his feet to step into the house, he suddenly noticed that his feet were covered in yellow mud and quickly stepped back and ran to the grass to wipe them.
"Then what's the point? Just scan it and you're done." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"That's not possible. Such a clean and beautiful big house cannot be destroyed. If I walk inside, there will be yellow mud footprints every step of the way. It will be too ugly!"
As Chen Xiuqing spoke, she even ran to the river to get water to wash off the mud on the soles and uppers of her shoes before walking back again.
We served guests yesterday and there was still a lot of food left.
After Chen Xiuyu washed up, she turned on the stove and started to heat the food. Chen Xiuqing was also busy adding fire to the bellows.
Lu Lu also walked to the meadow after washing up. He wanted to take a look at the sika deer he raised.
We haven't built a deer house for them yet, so the rain will only let them get wet in the forest. The key is to go and see if they have been injured by wild animals.
The five dogs naturally followed Lu Lu. Whenever Lu Lu raised his head and looked into the forest, they also stopped and looked.
Not long after, Lu Lu saw a herd of deer in the forest, twelve of them were picking and eating grass leaves in the forest.
Although it is within the fence, here in Lu Lu, it is almost like free range, and it has always been very worry-free.
Twelve deer are all healthy, which is probably the benefit of free range.
There are often people coming and going in the meadow. They are probably used to it. They no longer run away at the slightest noise like they did at the beginning. The two deer even ran down on their own initiative. However, after seeing the five dogs next to Lu Lu, they started to move away.
Standing far away, not daring to come near.
"Brother Lu...it's time to eat!"
Chen Xiuyu's crisp voice sounded so cheerful and loud to Lu Lu's ears.
"Coming!"
Lu Lu turned around and responded to Chen Xiuyu who waved to him, then ran back along the path that had been stepped on in Caodianzi.
Back in the wood carving room, the food had been set on the Kang table. Chen Xiuqing sat cross-legged at the Kang table and waited. Her eyes were still looking around the room, reaching out to touch everywhere. She even opened the Kang table to take a look.
When Lu Lu took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the kang, Chen Xiuyu brought the last two hot dishes to the kang table. She also sat down on the edge of the kang next to Lu Lu, and the three of them started eating with chopsticks.
“The more I look at this house, the more I like it!”
Chen Xiuqing said while eating: "Sister, when I went back last night, my mother pestered me with questions, and in the end I got bored with all the questions."
Chen Xiuyu blinked and asked, "What did mom ask you?"
"What else can I ask? What's it like in this house? In my heart, this house is only bright, beautiful and comfortable. I can't say anything else. I even found charcoal drawings from the stove for her.
After rowing on the ground for a long time, she still couldn't understand. I was stupid and couldn't explain clearly, so I could only tell her and let her see for herself."
Chen Xiuqing smiled.
"Then what?" Lu Lu couldn't help but ask.
He knew very well that Chen Xiuyu always regretted that Ma Jinlan had never stepped inside the fence.
"Nothing happened. Our mother didn't say anything. This morning, when I said I was going to invite you to the mountains to pick mushrooms, my mother asked again, asking Brother Lu if he is good to you!"
When Chen Xiuqing said this, he looked at Chen Xiuyu who was eating silently.
"You go back and tell mom that Brother Lu is very good to me and I am lucky to meet Brother Lu."
Chen Xiuyu slowly raised her head, looked at Chen Xiuqing, and said with red eyes.
Her reaction stunned Chen Xiuqing for a moment, and then she laughed: "That's what I told my mother too."
"Then go back and tell mom again. This time you tell mom that it was me who said it."
Chen Xiuyu's words were full of decisiveness.
Lu Lu could tell that Chen Xiuyu was deeply touched by her mother's concern. Although they were at odds with each other and seemed to be estranged from each other for the rest of their lives, neither of them could really let go of each other. And Chen Xiuyu said
There is only one purpose in saying this, and I want to tell Ma Jinlan: She made the right choice.
So stubborn!
But this stubbornness sounded like great trust and dependence to Lu Lu.
"I will never let you down in this life!"
Lu Lu looked at Chen Xiuyu and swore silently in his heart.
The meal was eaten quickly. While Chen Xiuyu was clearing the dishes and cleaning the table and mat, Lu Lu made some food to feed the five dogs.
Leftover meals are much better than cooked corn noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, etc.
Then, he took out the basket he asked Bai Gou Sheng to help knit from the immortal pillar. After Chen Xiuyu packed up the pots and pans and locked the gate, the three of them walked towards the fence gate together.
The five dogs stayed at Caodianzi during the period when Lu Lu entered the mountain. It felt like they were suffocating. When they saw the three people moving, they ran to the gate of the fence to wait. When Lu Lu walked there, they looked at Lu Lu again.
They were wagging their tails, humming, and flapping constantly, as if they were afraid that Lu Lu wouldn't let them out.
Lu Lu stretched out his hand and rubbed each dog's head. As soon as the fence door opened, they immediately squeezed out through the crack in the newly opened door, and then rushed along the fence towards the hillside.
After running up for a while, he looked back at Lu Lu and the others. When he saw that the three of them were also walking up the hillside, Yuanbao took the lead and rushed all the way to the ridge. He barked a few times at the mountains and felt a sense of relief that he was "finally out".
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They walked along the fence on the ridge and checked the condition of the fence. After more than 20 minutes, the three of them entered the forest.
As people who live in the mountains and villages, we all know that after a heavy rain, when the water vapor is thick in the forest, mushrooms germinate the fastest. Because of the heavy rain, many people who cannot go to the fields have gone into the mountains.
Mushrooms, such mountain delicacies, are the best delicacies in this season for mountain people.
You can pick some to eat at home, dry and store the uneaten ones, and enjoy them in winter.
Secondly, every day in the area, city dwellers or outsiders come to buy it and transport it to other places for sale. The price of this thing is much more expensive than many wild vegetables.
Every time I walked, I could always hear voices coming from the woods.
When you meet an acquaintance, you inevitably say hello and then go to one side. When you meet someone you are not familiar with, you look at each other with a smile and leave again. When you see someone you don’t like, you turn your head to one side or pretend not to see it, and continue talking to each other.
Go all the way.
They are all the boundaries around the village, and everyone is very familiar with them. Not to mention adults, even children can clearly know which forest has the most mushrooms in the surrounding mountains and forests.
According to this method of searching, you will naturally meet more people.
After wandering around for more than an hour, the three people who came out much slower than others sadly discovered that the mushrooms didn't see anything, but they chatted a lot.
Yes, let's go deeper into the forest.
Yuanbao and the other dogs happily opened the way ahead. The three of them continued to go deeper into the pine forest for two or three miles, and finally it gradually became quiet.
"Guess what mushroom I picked up?"
Chen Xiuyu was the first to find it among the thick pine needles and weeds in the forest. She picked it up with quick eyes and hands, hid it behind her back, and asked Lu Lu mischievously.
Lu Lu didn't answer immediately. He turned his head and glanced around, then smiled and said, "What you picked up is the purple flower face."
Chen Xiuyu suddenly pouted: "How do you know?"
Lu Lu dug into the gaps in the weeds on the side and said, "Because I also saw two."
Purple face, a type of mushroom, requires black peat soil and a moist and warm environment. Even in the next few decades, Lu Lu has never heard of anyone who can cultivate it artificially.
It is the finest among mushrooms, along with the fine-scaled fish, natural fungus, and Hericium in the mountains, which are known as the Four Treasures of the Mountains in later generations.
Lu Lu took two steps forward, picked up the two purple flower faces growing close together hidden in the gaps in the grass, cleaned up the mud, tore some green pine needles into the backpack and put them on the bottom of the backpack, and then put them in the basket.
Two purple-faced flowers that were inspected and determined to be intact and not infested with insects were placed in the backpack.
Chen Xiuyu also cleaned out the two flowers in her hand, and just when she put them together with Lu Lu's two flowers, she heard Chen Xiuqing shout again: "I picked them up too!"
Thanks to book friend Xiaoma Ge for the sweet reward!