25. Chapter 25
When he got home, Lu Cheng parked the donkey cart and picked up his sleeping son and walked in. When he reached the eaves, he saw that the fire had not yet been set in the kitchen. When he entered the room, he saw that the two younger brothers were lying on the kang, and he had no intention of getting up when he saw him!
Lu Cheng frowned and stared at his second brother Lu Yan and said, "Cook quickly, go to the ground to plant corn after eating."
"Today, we are all helping with my second uncle's planting in the morning. We go to his house to eat at noon, and we have to do one in the afternoon. Let's talk about our family tomorrow." Lu Yan lying with his head on his hands, saying, "It's not without any complaints. In the past, whether it's spring or autumn harvest, his family was almost the first household in the village to finish the busiest. This year, because my elder brother delayed it repeatedly, he fell behind a lot.
Lu Cheng was a little surprised and looked out the window and said, "How many are left in the second uncle's family?"
Lu Yan said: "If you and donkey are too much, let's work together. It won't take an hour to finish it."
The plow was light and fast with a donkey. Without a donkey, I would probably have to be busy until dusk.
Lu Cheng looked at his seventeen-year-old second brother and thirteen-year-old third brother. They were all very strong and could work hard, and said, "That afternoon, you can continue to go to the second uncle's house to help. I will lead the donkey to our land first, so how much is it to plant first."
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows. He was not afraid of the hard work of plowing, but he couldn't understand the reason why the eldest brother was so lazy today. He sat up and was about to ask, Anan woke up. He yawned, Anan rubbed his eyes, turned his black eyes around, and glanced at his familiar fathers and uncles one by one, and then looked at his aunt who had climbed into the kang. The little guy's eyes showed a confusion and looked down at his chest.
There was a red purse hanging there, which contained two cents.
As if she had confirmed that she had really seen Aunt Xiang, Anan looked at her father, opened her mouth and started crying, crying and calling her mother.
Lu Yan looked at his nephew in surprise, and while answering his nephew, he wondered, "Who taught him to call him mother?"
Lu Cheng didn't want to say anything, and A Tao said quickly on the kang: "Anan heard others call her mother, so she called her sister Xu's mother. This time, Sister Xu went home while he was asleep. Anan cried without seeing anyone."
"You guys come back and meet her again?" Lu Yan looked at his brother suspiciously.
Last month, my elder brother met Miss Xu, which was a coincidence, but this time I met again...
Without waiting for Lu Cheng to refute, Lu Yan's heart moved and stared at his brother and asked, "Brother, this time, did he go to the city, right?"
It must be, he wondered why his brother chose to go to the city during the busy farming season, and it turned out that he had specially picked up people!
Of course Lu Cheng would not admit it, and said with a tense face: "What are you talking nonsense? Hurry up and coax Anan, I'll go to my second uncle's house to have a look."
After saying that, he left.
Lu Yan stuffed his nephew to his third brother and chased him out, "Brother, is that Miss Xu beautiful?"
He knew that his brother and Miss Feng were innocent, and that Anan was not his brother's flesh and blood, so his brother, who had been bachelor for so many years, finally got to know him. Lu Yan was eager to figure out the whole story. With his understanding of his brother, he was not moved easily, and if he was moved, he would try every means to marry someone.
In other words, Miss Xu will probably be his sister-in-law.
Lu Cheng didn't say anything. Seeing that his second brother was still chasing him when he walked to the gate, he suddenly turned around and said, "Don't talk bad, I'll fall in love with you if I don't look good? Stop asking around and go back to the house to coax Anan."
The third brother is dull and not good at speaking, and his sister is too young. Only this second brother, who is very polite, is good at coaxing children, and Anan also kisses him even more.
The brother admitted it personally. Lu Yan rubbed his hands excitedly and his mind turned faster. "In the first month of the year, you said that the land of the Liu family was bought by the villagers. It must be the Xu family bought it? Brother, you can do it. Do you want to lead the donkey to plow the land for the Xu family, but you treat your brothers as donkeys?"
He guessed it all, and Lu Cheng simply did not hide it, stared at him and said, "Don't you want to?"
How could Lu Yan not be willing? As long as the eldest brother can marry a wife who suits his wishes, he is willing to be a donkey for the eldest brother to plow the Xu family's land.
Seeing the crampedness in his eyes, Lu Cheng coughed and instructed in a deep voice: "The eight characters are not yet spoken, don't say them."
"Brother, don't worry, I promise not to ruin your business!" Lu Yan promised immediately, his eyes shining and his face was smirking.
Lu Cheng didn't believe him very much, so he gave him another advice.
Lu Yan thought he was nagging and ran back to the house to coax his nephew. The little guy kept crying, and he felt distressed.
Lu Cheng stood at the door for a while, shook his head, and went to his second uncle's house.
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Liuxi Village.
Li didn't want her tender niece to go to the fields to work, and advised her: "I don't need her help Qiu'er, and Xiang'er should not go. It's not good to make her thick hands look good. You should be careful when you serve the marquis's house, so don't get in the eyes of the master. I heard that there are many rules for the wealthy families, and your clothes are all related to the wrong face of the prince?"
Outsiders complain that his niece is determined to climb up, but Li never thought so. The prince in his niece is a gentleman, so Li thought that his niece was a master of her own skill and skill. Naturally, she hoped that her niece would not lose to others everywhere, so as not to be squeezed down by the second-class maid if she was accidentally.
They are all maids, the eldest maid is decent and has more monthly money. Her niece has a solid status and can save enough money to redeem herself as soon as possible.
The elders were thinking too much, Ningxiang said funny: "I only help with some seeds, so how can I get thick hands?"
After dinner, I insisted on going out with Xu Shouliang's family.
Five-year-old Amu held his sister's hand. He was very happy to farm with her. He was not like a child from another family. He wanted to stay lazy when he mentioned farming. His younger brother was sensible, and Ningxiang was very pleased. He thought about buying more delicious food for his younger brother next time he went home.
When I walked to the west of the village, I saw that many villagers in the fields were working.
Ningxiang looked at her own ground, but saw someone pulling a donkey plowing the ground next to her. A donkey cart was parked on the ground. A little girl in a red shirt was sitting there, lowering her head and not knowing what she was doing. Ningxiang looked at the girl who looked seven or eight years old from afar, and suddenly thought of the Lu brother and sister, but she felt that it was not that coincidence. Moreover, when she parted before the meal, A Tao was wearing an embroidered white shirt...
"Sister, is that person Brother Lu?"
She was denying her guess here, and Xu Qiuer next to her suddenly felt unsure.
Ningxiang's heart thrilled, and she looked at the man who pushed the plow in the field and drove the donkey in the other hand. She was indeed a bit of Lu Cheng's shadow.
As I got closer, I looked at the Tao who hadn't noticed them on the ground, Ningxiang felt indescribable.
It’s a coincidence that my own land is actually next to the Lu family’s.
However, Liu Quan, who sold the land, did say that the next door was three or three brothers.
"A Tao!" When he was about to come, Xu Qiuer shouted with a smile.
A Tao was coaxing her nephew who was sitting in her arms and feeling depressed. When she heard Xu Qiuer's voice, she turned her head and looked over. The first thing she saw was Ningxiang next to Xu Qiuer. She was overjoyed. A Tao immediately helped her nephew stand up, "Anan, see who is coming?"
Anan is still angry!
He was angry with his father and his aunt. He asked him to look east, but he insisted on turning his head west, and his small body was also tilted toward the other side.
Ningxiang couldn't see the little guy's face, thinking Anan was so playful that she didn't say anything for the time being.
But Amu shouted Anan enthusiastically.
Anan slept until home in the morning, but he didn't see Amu. He didn't see him for a month. Even Ningxiang was familiar with him again. Of course, he didn't remember Amu's voice. His little head was still tilted to the west, ignoring his aunt's friend.
A Tao lit the head of his nephew's bad temper and complained Tong Ningxiang, saying, "Sister Xu, Anan didn't see you when she woke up. She was angry. She didn't eat lunch and ignored anyone. My elder brother wanted to hug him, and he was even more anxious when he touched him, just like looking at his enemy."
Ningzhu looked at Anan in shock. What a little guy really has such a big temper?
When Anan heard his aunt call Sister Xu, he blinked his eyes and slowly turned his head. Seeing that Aunt Xiang was really coming, the little guy's face turned as if it suddenly turned sunny on a rainy day, his eyes lit up, and his little mouth also started to grin, and he rushed to Ningxiang.
Ningxiang was worried. When she saw the little guy opening his mouth wide, she was afraid that he would call her mother again, so she called out first, ran over and picked Anan up, and whispered: "Don't call her mother, Anan called her aunt and aunt don't like you anymore."
A two or three-year-old child often hears this threat of "I don't like you if I don't do anything". Anan raised his head and observed Ningxiang with his swollen eyes. Seeing that she didn't seem to tease him, the little guy nodded obediently, hugged Ningxiang's neck with great reliance, leaned against her shoulder with grievance, "Hug."
Ningxiang's heart suddenly turned into water, and she kissed his face and said, "Well, aunt likes Anan the most."
"Uncle and aunt." At this time, Lu Cheng had already walked over and his eyes quickly swept over Ningxiang and the nun hugged each other. He greeted Xu Shouliang and his wife first, and said unexpectedly: "When I came back at noon, I heard from the eldest girl that I would like to farm in the afternoon, but I didn't expect that her home was also here." After saying that, he looked into the distance, "How far is it?"
Xu Shouliang and his wife looked at each other.
Amu ran to his own field with a smile, stomped under his feet and said, "This is our place!"
Lu Cheng looked at Xu Shouliang and his wife in disbelief.
Li smiled and said, "What a coincidence, it's actually next to your land. Are you going to farm today?"
Lu Cheng obviously hadn't come back to his senses yet, and he was stunned for a while before saying, "Tomorrow, my second and third brothers went to someone else to help. I just came back from the city, so I will plow the land first..." As he said that, he looked at the big pickaxe in the hands of Xu Shouliang and his son, and suddenly said, "Let's do this, I'm not in a hurry anyway, I'll help you plow the land first."
Ningxiang heard this, hugged Anan and walked over, and stopped him with Li, "No need..."
"It's okay, you only have two acres of land, and you will be plowed in a while." Lu Cheng said as he walked into the ground, walked out for a while and turned around and shouted to Xu Huai, "Come and help me lead the donkey, the two of them plow faster."
"This..." Xu Huai looked at his mother inquiringly.
Li shook his head with a funny look, "Go, Lu Cheng is so enthusiastic, I remember that Liu Quan's wife often praises the three brothers next door to be diligent, but they are just Lu Cheng and the other brothers." These three brothers can grow so well without father or mother. They are really born with good seedlings.
Xu Shouliang was a little prejudiced to Lu Cheng, but because of Liu Quan's praise, he was willing to help others when he knew Lu Chuang. He looked at his niece who was tightly held by Lu Cheng's son, but he didn't think about it. He said to Li: "Then I'll go dig the ridges, and you two follow them and order the seeds, they plow quickly."
Li responded, put corn seeds in a coarse pottery pot, and asked his daughter to go to work. Before leaving, he told Ningxiang to look at the three children.
Amu refused to stay obediently and ran to Lu Cheng and Xu Huai to watch them plow the field.
Someone helped coax his nephew. When A Tao saw that there was a big bowl next to the sack of corn planting in Xu's house, she grabbed it and put the seeds to help. It was Ningxiang's bowl. Ningxiang hurriedly stopped him and said, "A Tao, come and coax Anan..."
"No!" Anan hugged her tighter, glanced at her short aunt, and turned her head in disgust.
"Hmph, I don't want to coax you!" A Tao slapped his nephew's ass in anger and ran away with a bowl.
Anan rubbed Ningxiang and saw that there were only the two of them left on the ground. The little guy slowly relaxed and pointed to the donkey cart to signal Ningxiang to go over.
Ningxiang walked over helplessly, lifted the coarse cloth that Anan pointed at, and saw a white porcelain bowl underneath, with a big egg placed inside.
"Hey!" Anan said with his head down, and when he opened his mouth, his saliva flowed down.
I was angry at noon and didn't eat. The little guy was hungry, but he was angry with my father, which didn't mean I didn't pay attention to my father bringing eggs into the car.
Chapter completed!