"I have other things to be busy with at home, so I'll... go back first!"
Zhou Fangjing seemed very happy that Lu Lu could agree to come. However, he turned around and walked a few steps, stopped again, and looked back at Lu Lu.
Seeing that he still had something else to do, Lu Lu asked, "What else is there?"
Zhou Fangjing hesitated for a moment and took out twenty yuan from his inner pocket: "Brother, I actually want to ask you to do something... Can you help me prepare some pork for the treat?"
He said and handed over the money in his hand.
In the early years of the production team, every household was short of food, so the local pigs they raised relied entirely on pigweed collected from the fields. They would not grow much throughout the year. In two years, they would probably be able to grow.
It has grown to a weight of 1,780 pounds. It must be raised by a relatively hard-working family with a little bit of calculation.
Zhou Fangjing's family is not one that can raise pigs. When I have something to do, I want to go to the district to buy meat. Not only is the supply limited, but I also need meat stamps. The price is high, almost one yuan per kilogram. If I buy a pig,
The price is incredible. In comparison, the wild boar is obviously more suitable.
Therefore, he had the idea of asking Lu Lu to help kill the wild boar. Although he said it, he was afraid that Lu Lu would not agree, so he seemed a little timid.
Lu Lu glanced at him and did not pick it up: "Put the money away. I will go into the mountains tomorrow and bring you one back."
The wild boar on the mountain is not valuable. It is just a matter of going to the mountain. At least Zhou Fangjing has found the door. Marriage is also a turning point in his life. He just wants a wild boar. Lu Lu can still agree to this trivial matter.
, for the sake of him suddenly waking up.
As for the twenty yuan, Lu Lu thought about it and thought it was a favor if he didn't accept it.
"Thank you, brother, then...I'm leaving!" Zhou Fangjing smiled gratefully at Lu Lu, turned around and left quickly.
Lu Lu also closed the fence gate. When he returned to the yard, he saw Chen Xiuyu coming out of the warehouse and looking towards Zhou Fangjing who was leaving.
"Brother Lu, what is he doing here?"
"He has brought back a daughter-in-law from outside. He is going to set up two tables the day after tomorrow and invite us to come over as guests. He also asked me to help hunt a wild boar tomorrow."
Chen Xiuyu couldn't help but sneer after hearing this: "I don't know what kind of person he is, don't be the kind of person who sells big kangs."
After hearing what Lu Lu had said about Guiping and having seen Guiping's appearance at the Laojin Car Shop, Chen Xiuyu and Zhou Fangjing also became disgusted and didn't have a good face.
This is also the reason why Chen Xiuyu didn't open the door for him when she heard Yuan Bao and the others calling and saw Zhou Fangjing arriving at the fence gate.
"This time, I should have found a down-to-earth woman and prepared to live a more down-to-earth life!"
In Lu Lu's memory of his previous life, Zhou Fangjing's daughter-in-law was not Guiping, the kang seller, but another simple and unpretentious woman. Later, she lived a very stable life indeed.
Probably because of his marriage to Guiping, Zhou Fangjing has always kept a low profile. Even if he interacts with people in the village, he is only with a few families. His presence in Xiushan Village is not big. Many people
He hardly mentioned anything about him.
"Will you be a guest with me the day after tomorrow?" Lu Lu smiled and looked at Chen Xiuyu.
"No, you go and be your guest. I'll go back to my parents' house and chat with my mother...Brother Lu, can I take a piece of dried bearskin and ask sister-in-law Unakan to tan it and give it to my mother?"
I also want to make a bearskin coat. I’ve often heard her say recently that the joints of her hands and feet hurt from time to time, maybe it’s the cold!”
Chen Xiuyu said softly.
Do your hand and foot joints hurt?
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment and quickly realized: Could it be that Ma Jinlan was suffering from gout?
In her previous life, when she entered Chen Xiuyu's family, Ma Jinlan suffered from gout. When she usually got better, she didn't seem to have a big problem, but once she got sick, she suffered a lot.
Gout is a disease that, in a few decades, there will be no good way to cure. The only way is to avoid eating as much as possible, avoid eating the foods that cause the disease, and then use drugs to suppress it.
Lu Lu thought for a moment and said: "Isn't it just a bearskin? It should be. It's a filial piety. Tomorrow I will choose one and send it to Sister-in-law Unakan... Well, Uncle Wang and Brother Feng will also do it the day after tomorrow.
If we go to Zhou Fangjing’s house for dinner, our mother’s joints will hurt. You come with me as a guest, and by the way, please ask Uncle Wang to come and check on my mother.”
Hearing what Lu Lu said, Chen Xiuyu suddenly became happy.
"When you go to sister-in-law Wu Nakan's house tomorrow, you have to walk slowly. The road is slippery, so don't fall!" Lu Lu warned.
"Yeah!"
Chen Xiuyu nodded seriously: "What kind of person do you think the wife Zhou Fangjing married this time is?"
"How do I know this? I've never seen it. I won't know until the day after tomorrow." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"He married a wife really quickly. He went out to work on a farm, and within a few months, he got his wife!"
Chen Xiuyu seemed to be quite interested in this matter, but from her words, she could still tell that the impression that Zhou Fangjing was unreliable had taken root in her heart.
Lu Lu put his hand on Chen Xiuyu's shoulder and walked into the house with his arms around him: "Aren't we fast too!"
"Can we be the same?" Chen Xiuyu glared at Lu Lu.
"It's different, it's different..." Lu Lu said cheerfully: "Speaking of fast, I've heard that people get married on the same day they meet. That's called fast."
"How is that possible?" Chen Xiuyu looked unbelieving.
"It's rare to see many strange things, nothing is impossible!"
Lu Lu urged: "Hurry into the house... I tell you, that was a very common thing in the early years when the Great Northern Wilderness was being reclaimed. I also heard what the old workers said. The old workers on my farm were like this back then.
Those who got married, speed-dating marriages, got married just one day after meeting each other at the earliest, and there are quite a few who got married after only knowing each other for two or three days."
Chen Xiuyu looked at Lu Lu with wide eyes: "Come on, chat with me, what is going on?"
She suddenly became very interested in this matter.
"If you want to chat, you have to do it on the kang!"
After Lu Lu entered the house, he quickly got on the big kang. Chen Xiuyu also took off her shoes and climbed up. Wearing a bearskin coat, she sat cross-legged on the kang. She looked like a blind bear.
Seeing the expectant look on her face, Lu Lu shook his head slightly and talked about what he heard from old employees about speed dating: "You also know that in the early years, our wilderness had a harsh climate and was inaccessible, so we wanted to develop the Northern Wilderness.
, then someone needs to be there, but where do so many people come from..."
At the beginning of the development and construction of Dahuang, troops and corps were sent to Dahuang to carry out large-scale construction.
And this also faces a problem. Most of the people in the Corps are men and have a single gender.
A group of older men gather together, and there is no problem for a short period of time. But over time, when you see a slightly more handsome man, you will feel beautiful. If this matter is not resolved, it will not be conducive to taking root and cultivating in the long term.
Later, in order to solve this problem, local governments (especially Henan, Shandong and other places where the population is relatively concentrated and relatively poor) began to encourage young women to go to the wilderness to start families with soldiers and live in the wilderness to carry out long-term construction.
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It is precisely for this reason that speed dating became something that leaders at that time attached great importance to.
The biggest purpose of these young women who arrived in the wilderness was to have enough to eat and not starve.
Of course, it would be better if the person you marry is a hard-working person who can earn cash and know how to live well.
Carloads of young girls were sent into the wilderness, and the companies stationed in the wilderness often held parties at night.
In order to encourage speed dating, there is even a preferential policy that as long as you apply for a marriage certificate, you can be assigned a house.
But in fact, it is cold in the wilderness, and the houses assigned to them are often idle. In the beginning, few people know how to make a big kang, so living in a new house is not as warm as a cellar half-cut into the ground.
Under this policy, young men and women who had known each other for a day or two received marriage certificates and got married, starting families one after another, and quickly completing the "carrot and pit" matching.
And it is precisely this kind of make-shift that makes these speed-dating marriages quickly fall apart when the tide of returning to the city begins. There are only a few who can truly stay together for the rest of their lives.
Lu Lu was at the farm at the time and had returned to the city a little late. He had seen many examples of this.
Now that I think about it, it was an extraordinary time, and there was a specific reason for it. Lu Lu can only feel sad when he thinks about it now.
But it is precisely because of what he has experienced that Lu Lu understands how difficult life is, and when you meet the right person, you really should do it and cherish it.
Chen Xiuyu's interest in this matter was beyond Lu Lu's imagination. One night, while cooking and eating, even when everyone was lying on the kang, the conversation was still centered on what Lu Lu had said earlier.
Things that happened in the wilderness during the years.
This made Lu Lu have to give her two brain breaks, and she finally calmed down.
Chen Xiuyu has been pregnant with the child for more than three months and almost four months. Her belly is no longer as invisible as before, and now it has begun to bulge slightly.
And in the following time, the speed of this bulge will become faster and faster.
Lu Lu's favorite thing to do was to put his ear on Chen Xiuyu's belly and capture the weak fetal heartbeat.
He was looking forward to the fetal movements starting in two or three months, and looking forward to the arrival of his child at ten months.
By then, my family will have a lot more joy.
The next morning, Lu Lu got up early, lit the stove, took some frozen dumplings from the big vat outside the house, went back to the house and steamed two bowls, and called Chen Xiuyu to fill his stomach with him. Lu Lu brought the green onions and set up the sledge.
, led Yuanbao and the others into the mountain.
After thinking about it, Lu Lu didn't want to go too far, so he decided to go to Chuuzigou where Zhao Meiling had been rescued.
At this time of year, the large walnut tree trees in the Chuzi Valley dropped a lot of pecans on the ground, which were covered under the thick layer of snow and became a place frequented by wild boars.
Even though people often set traps there for hunting, groups of wild boars often visit Chuzigou due to the temptation of food.
He planned to try his luck there. If he didn't encounter wild boars, he could just look for them elsewhere. Anyway, it was less than an hour's walk from Lu Lu's meadow.
Unexpectedly, after walking three or four miles towards Chuuzigou, Yuanbao and Bailong issued a warning.
Lu Lu immediately tied up the green onions in the forest and followed the direction pointed by the two dogs. Not long after, he saw people on the hillside from a distance, grunting and plowing through the snow, like plowing the ground.
A common wild boar herd.
This herd of wild boars is small, with only five of them, and the largest egg weighs less than 300 kilograms.
I don’t know where they came from. During the autumn protection around the village, they were severely beaten and chased away. In addition, in the winter, many people went into the mountains and iron traps. It is usually difficult to encounter them in such a close place.
arrive.
I don’t know how this group of fish that slipped through the net avoided the many traps and came here.
Since they bumped into each other, Lu Lu would certainly not be polite.
He carefully came closer, chose a good position, and rolled his head on the snow a few times. From time to time, he stood still, acting very wary of the cannonball, and directly pulled the trigger and fired the shot.
Yuan Bao and the others immediately rushed forward and stopped two of them. These two were just wild boars that had just been replaced with black hair. They weighed only 150 or 60 pounds. Lu Lu easily took care of them. As for the rest, they were just a female wild boar and a
One of them turned yellow and ran away. Lu Lu ignored them and dragged the three wild boars onto the sledge and hurried back home.