The two were about to sit down and drink tea again when they saw Feng Dezhu walking by on the road carrying many salutes on his back. His wife Zhou Cuifen and her child Feng Jinding followed beside them, whispering something along the way until they arrived at the village entrance.
Parting reluctantly.
Zhou Cuifen led the child until Feng Dezhu could no longer be seen before turning back.
"It looks like he's going out. Where is Big Nose going?" Lu Lu couldn't help but ask.
"I know about this, Big Nose is going to work part-time on the farm."
Chen Xiuqing said with a smile: "I was walking in the village that day, and I heard from their neighbors that Zhou Cuifen led Big Nose to Liu Pao's house to make trouble. After returning, Big Nose was pinned down in the yard by Zhou Cuifen, who had to clean it up."
The only ones who can conquer the Northeastern men are the Northeastern ladies.
Lu Lu estimated that Zhou Cuifen took what he said into consideration.
“I don’t know whether it was because he was being disciplined or something, but Big Nose suddenly became more diligent. He rushed to do things around the house, and even worked in the fields that he was unwilling to work in.
Like a human being."
Chen Xiuqing took a deep breath: "I hope he will change his gender from now on, live a good life, and stop harming everyone."
Lu Lu nodded: "I hope so!"
To Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, these words were warm and kind words, but to Wang Demin, they were a bit harsh.
Li Shumei pretended not to see it, ignored it, and made an excuse: "I'll get you two more side dishes." After saying that, she prepared to return to the kitchen.
Wang Demin rolled his eyes and stared at Li Shumei.
Moreover, if the raw rice has been cooked, what else can be done?
"Uncle, please don't bother me. I can go back by myself." Lu Lu tried to dissuade him.
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
"Don't worry about her, that's how good your aunt is." Wang Demin said calmly, then he picked up a wine bottle and poured wine for Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, and invited them to eat.
It took him more than half an hour to grind out a round hole on both sides of the three apricot kernels. The diameter of the round hole was about three millimeters. Then he found the needle used to hang the acupuncture water on Yuanbao and carefully cut out the apricot kernels.
Poke and pick out the almonds inside.
"It's okay, it's just a minor injury. I'll take a look at it. It'll be fine in a few days." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"You guys can eat, I'll just eat in the kitchen!" Li Shumei said with a smile.
After the three of them had eaten, they chatted for a while. Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing looked at each other and stood up to leave.
Such a good thing cannot be completely cheap like others.
"They left fifty yuan. In addition to the medical expenses, you also lost at least eight yuan. That's not money? What else do you want?" Wang Demin began to get angry.
She took the bowl and chopsticks, added a bowl of rice for herself, picked a few good pieces of chicken from the pot and piled them into the bowl, sat down on the stool by the stove, and started eating vigorously.
Li Shumei's eyes suddenly lit up when she looked at the ticket handed over by Lu Lu.
A few minutes later, she returned from Chen Xiuyu's house, went into the kitchen, looked at the chicken in the pot, and felt pain again.
Li Shumei's face changed slightly: "How could you kill the egg-laying hen?"
"Man, wait a minute, I'll set up a carriage for you and take you back!" Wang Demin said, holding Lu Lu's shoulders.
Wang Demin smiled and said: "I'll leave Lu Lu and Qingzi to eat at home and get them some food."
The three of them walked out of the house together. When they were about to go out, Wang Demin turned around and glared at Li Shumei. Li Shumei was even more direct, turning her head to the side and not looking at him. This made Wang Demin angry, so he could only stretch out his fingers and slap fiercely.
He poked her several times in the air.
After thinking about it, she got up, went into the inner room, and said with a smile: "Lu Lu and Qingzi, it's rare for us to come to our house for a meal. Eat it while it's hot and eat more. If you hadn't come here, your uncle wouldn't be like this."
diligent."
We can no longer mess around, we must take good care of our feet to get down to business. The plan to get another bee bucket was temporarily shelved by Lu Lu.
After Wang Demin finished speaking, he took the chicken and left, leaving an angry Li Shumei in the kitchen, dragging a stool and sitting angrily.
After Wang Demin left, Lu Lu cooked corn porridge and fed it to Yuan Bao and his wife in the cellar: "My feet are weak and I can't go up the mountain. I have to suffer you for a few days."
No matter how angry you are, you still have to say hello, otherwise it will not be honest.
Li Shumei responded, quickly walked out of the yard and walked towards Chen Xiuyu's house, muttering as she walked: "Prodigal stuff."
At this moment, Wang Demin hitched up the carriage and was about to come in to help Lu Lu. He happened to see Li Shumei stuffing the money into his pocket. Knowing that she was collecting money secretly again, a vein popped out on his forehead.
Li Shumei carried the picked thorn buds on her back, pushed the door into the house, and went directly to the kitchen. She saw Wang Demin scooping the stewed chicken from the pot into a large earthen bowl.
This startled Wang Demin: "Can you please lower your voice? The chicken has been stewed, and I can't bring it to life now. Besides, they didn't want to eat here, so I kept them...
...If you want to make a quarrel, you have to wait until the meal is over. I will stay with you until the end. What the hell!"
"Hey...you prodigal thing, what are you talking about? If I hadn't been careful in all these years, you would have drunk the northwest wind." Li Shumei also became angry, and her voice suddenly became much louder.
Despite the trouble, Li Shumei also knew that now that there were guests at home, she had to save some face for her men.
When Lu Lu was sent back to Dijiangzi by Wang Demin, it was probably already past one in the afternoon.
As soon as she heard that there were guests, Li Shumei quickly shut up. After giving Wang Demin a hard look, she left the kitchen, tilted her head and looked at Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing who were sitting at the Kang table in the back room. She returned to the kitchen and lowered her voice to blame.
He said: "Why do you want to make up for it? As long as you have a good heart, you are willing to bear it, and you are a good person. Sooner or later, this family will be ruined by you. You are reluctant to kill me during the Chinese New Year. You are so generous and don't discuss it with me."
The meals Wang Demin cooked by himself only consisted of a simple portion of raw pickled garlic, a portion of cold thorn sprouts, and a portion of shredded potatoes, three ordinary side dishes, and because of the fat braised hen with some medicinal herbs,
Become luxurious.
"What are we discussing? Why don't you tell me about the bear paws, bear legs, bear nose, and ripple cover that I gave to my family last time?" Wang Demin replied angrily.
Wang Demin looked at Li Shumei who turned back to the kitchen and said, "Don't be too busy eating. Go to Qingzi's house first and tell Jinlan and Xiuyu that Qingzi is eating at our house."
However, in front of Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, they had no choice but to pretend not to notice and enthusiastically supported Lu Lu: "Man, the car is ready. I'll help you get in!"
"You treated their injuries and looked after their dogs, but you didn't get paid either?" Li Shumei was very unconvinced.
The couple had been together for several years, and they often quarreled over trivial things.
She wiped her hands and took the money: "Hey, you wouldn't know if your foot was injured unless you told me. Is it serious?"
"I just had a knife applied to my foot. How do you go back? Just listen to me!" After Wang Demin said that, he turned around and went out. He pushed out the cart that was placed against the wall and took out the horses from the stable.
Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing drank very little wine, but each had two bowls of rice.
While Wang Demin was setting up the cart, Lu Lu limped to the kitchen and took out five dollars from his inner pocket: "Auntie, I'm going back now. I just asked you to help treat my foot injury.
The medical expenses haven’t been paid yet, you keep the money.”
"Auntie, these dishes are already very good. Don't bother us anymore. Let's sit down and eat together." Lu Lu greeted.
In boredom, he took out the three apricot kernels from his pocket, found a stone nearby, held it in his arms and began to polish it.
After jumping to the river, Lu Lu cleaned three apricot kernels, then put each one in his mouth and inhaled, making a slight sound, and adjusted it while inhaling.
In fact, when Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing were at the Kang table, they also vaguely heard some of what Li Shumei said after she came back. Knowing that they would be very uncomfortable if they were to sit and eat together, they ignored her.
After trying them one by one, he selected one and threw the other two into the river.
This is the pheasant flute he made from apricot kernels.
It can make a sound very similar to that of a wild hen.
Of the three apricot kernels, only the remaining one has the closest sound.