Coming down the hillside, Lu Xu walked forward with his head down. As he walked, he suddenly heard Yan Junqi ask: "Do I want to hug you?"
He turned around and found that Yan Junqi, who was accompanying La Yue, had fallen far behind.
La Yue raised her head and refused with a milky voice, "La Yue will go on her own."
Lu Xu was a little embarrassed. His "close" brother walked quickly, and his neighbor's brother was more considerate than him. He walked back a few steps and stretched out his hand, "I'll hold you."
La Yue's little face was flushed, her eyes were wide-open, and she held one of his fingers in surprise. Her hands were soft and she held them tightly. Lu Xu inexplicably remembered the little native dog that her grandma had fed when she was a child. It had just opened its eyes. The puppy can be held up with one hand, and its two little paws are licking his fingers, humming and sniffing, feeling soft and warm.
He looked down at this cheap sister who was cuter than a puppy, and found that she had to trot twice before she could catch up with him after taking a few steps. Lu Xu slowed down silently.
Lu Xu asked out of politeness: "Do you want me to hug you?"
The little girl who wanted to leave by herself just now said softly "Yeah".
Lu Xu: "..."
well.
He shouldn't have asked.
Lu Xu gestured left and right, bent down to pick up La Yue's belly, and lifted her up. Hmm...how to hold her? They stared at each other for a moment, and Lu Xu pressed her into his arms without any knowledge. He held her in place with one hand and held her butt with the other. The clothes near Twelfth Moon's belly were all pleated, and he quickly hugged his neck with both hands. Lu Xu hugged the twelfth moon like a big vase. His arms ached after a few steps. Fortunately, the speed was much faster than before.
In the twelfth lunar month, the field of vision becomes higher and everything is new, "Brother, flowers." "Brother, birds!"
Lu Xu said expressionlessly: "Yeah."
He didn't really want to see it.
Yan Junqi picked a wild flower and gave it to her.
Lujia Village is next to the river, which is two to three meters narrow and more than five meters wide. It is connected to the county seat upstream, and they rely on the river for irrigation and laundry.
But usually the water for draft is water from the stream flowing down from the mountain.
The stream is shallow and clean.
Lu Xu took La Yue to the stream to wash her hands, and met her cousin Han Lu coming to wash vegetables.
Han Lu has a straightforward and bold personality. When she saw them, she immediately called out, "Brother, La Yue, Yan Dalang, where have you been? Brother, are you okay?"
Lu Xu responded in a deep voice, "Yes."
The twelfth lunar month called people sweetly: "Sister!" She also raised her little paws stained with juice to show others, "Wash your hands."
Yan Junqi said hello back and stepped aside.
They are all fourteen or fifteen years old, at an age where they can avoid suspicion.
Lu Xu didn't pay attention. He put his hand under the armpits of Lu Yue and lifted her up. Looking at the wet stones, he couldn't find a place to put his feet. He carried Lu Yue and walked two more steps and stepped on a piece of water in the stream. Place the Lu Yue on a flat, dry stone.
Han Lu came over with a vegetable basket, "Have you picked raspberries to eat?"
Lu Xu was annoyed: "She picked--" What was it?
Yan Junqi added from a distance: "Snake berries."
Lu Xu: "Snakeberry!"
Han Lu: "Ah? Have you eaten it, Lu Yue? Brother, it's true, snake berries are poisonous. I don't know it, but you don't know it either? Why do you let her pick snake berries?"
Lu Xu: "..."
Sorry, he really doesn't know.
La Yue was considerate and didn't touch him. She raised her hand and called him, "Brother, I've washed it."
"Oh." Lu Xu helped her slip back to the shore.
Lu Yue didn't feel uncomfortable either, crossing his two little arms and pointing, "Little fish!"
Lu Xu also saw a small fish in the stream.
The silver scales are shining with white light, and they look delicious...
He had not eaten meat for three days.
Lu Xu: "Let me catch fish for you."
If you catch it, go home and make soup!
Lu Xu took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs and stepped into the water on the rocks.
But he, a fake native in skin, completely underestimated the real native, not to mention that he was still in the water. The little fish couldn't be caught. As soon as he moved, the fish swung into the crack of the diamond head.
He struggled for a while, but couldn't even touch a single fish scale.
The three people watching the excitement on the shore could not help but just added to the chaos.
Lu Yue: "Brother, brother, behind, behind, behind, in front!"
Han Lu: "Hahaha, you have to go to the river to catch fish, you can't catch them here at all!"
Thank you, he can't be caught in the river!
Lu Xu stood in the stream with an expressionless face, bent down and washed his face. Didn't he catch fish to relieve himself from the summer heat?
He waded ashore and saw two snails on the moss on the shore.
Isn’t there some food here?
Lu Xu caught the snail and brought it up, put it in his hand and showed it to La Yue: "We don't eat fish anymore, let's eat this."
La Yue took his hand and looked at it, and said innocently: "Brother, I have to smash the food for the ducks."
Lu Xu: "..."
Yan Junqi knew that the snails were edible, so he helped Lu Xu catch the snails for a while. This living La Lue can do it, she squatted by the stream, looked left and right, and found a small handful after a while.
Han Lu also wanted to play, but she had to go home to cook. After washing the dishes, she told Lu Xu to remember to give her some to taste before leaving.
As the sun approached noon, Lu Xu wrapped up the snails one by one with a few broad grass leaves and took them home.
His younger brother Lu Zhou was cleaning the chicken coop at home. The teenage boy was only as tall as an eight or nine-year-old boy. He had a sullen face and was sweeping the floor with an old broom.
When he saw them coming back, he stopped and called his eldest brother and sister respectfully. The look in his eyes was a little wary.
Lu Xu was in a complicated mood.
Mainly, the younger sister of La Yue was born to her stepmother. The original Lu Xu actually didn't like her very much. La Yue was often scolded by him when she was a child.
Lu Zhou's biological mother died when he was born. He had a good relationship with his stepmother, so he naturally protected Lu Yue. Looking at their loving brother-sister combination in the past two days, he still didn't let down his guard, as if he would take advantage of others and beat Lu Yue
Lu Xu was wronged.
What is the relationship between that Lu Xu and his Lu Xu?
Based on her looks and personality, he quite liked this pretty girl. A four- or five-year-old baby is the right age to be good-looking and cute. Although she has thin arms and legs, she still has a little bit of baby fat on her face, she has a pink and tender face and big black eyes. , there are two little tuo tuo on his head, the little tuo tuo jumps and jumps as he runs, the most harmless thing is to get close to him, he calls him brother in a sweet and soft voice, and asks him whether the medicine is bitter and whether he is hungry. Hungry, can't drink water. Such a cute, good-looking and sensible little cub, how could he resist?
The little girl also knows how to look at people's faces. She has been scolded a lot in the past, and when she sees someone's serious face, she knows how to hide. Maybe it was because everyone else was busy these two days, and he was the only one in the family to take care of himself. She had no one to play with, so she stayed next to him for two days, but she didn't get kicked away, so she came over again. They all reconciled, and Lu Zhou still guarded his brother as a thief.
Lu Xu was dissatisfied with his younger brother's defensive look, and compared his feelings with his own. If he were the original Lu Xu, he would be upset when he saw that his younger brother preferred his stepmother and her stepmother's children and did not get close to him.
He is not lively at all at such a young age, he looks like a little old man.
The corners of his mouth twitched and he said angrily: "Don't call me eldest brother from now on. I'll call you brother."
Lu Zhou: "?"
For a moment, he didn't understand why his elder brother was so angry.
His eldest brother has always had a good temper as long as he can remember, but after this serious illness, his temper has become more and more difficult to control.
Although he couldn't see what made his brother unhappy again, his years of experience as a peacemaker still came into play. Lu Zhou immediately lowered his head and admitted his mistake, "Brother will always be the brother I respect the most."
Lu Xu: "..."
ah! Oh my god, did this child grow up taking Big Brother brand PUA capsules?
Unable to defeat him, he gave up and Lu Xu picked up the snail and walked away.
La Yue didn't quite understand the turmoil between the two brothers. She liked brother Lu Zhou very much. She ran over: "Brother Zhou, La Yue will help you."
Lu Zhou squeezed out a smile from his worries and said, "No, it's dirty here. You... go play with big brother."
Lu Xu: "..."
Yes, yes, his childish elder brother needs his five-year-old sister to play with him.
Lu Xu ignored his bad brother, carried the snail into the kitchen, threw the snail into the basin and washed it again.
While the stepmother was away, Lu Xu looked at everything in the kitchen one by one.
He didn't think he was greedy. In fact, his pretty little stepmother's cooking skills were not very good. The steamed buns were either hard or sour, and the dishes were always boiled vegetables mixed with some sauce, or steamed buns with pickles. What he was spending these days was soaking hard steamed buns in water - the porridge his stepmother cooked was at best rice water - boiling vegetable leaves in water.
Before he was released, not to mention his mother’s pet dogs, his grandma’s native dogs would not be eaten.
If he wasn't really hungry, he wouldn't eat until his eyes turned green.
After checking around, there was no wok in the kitchen.
Lu Xu disliked his stepmother and was not very particular about food and drink. He had never entered the kitchen where she was in charge before, which made him confused as to whether there was a wok in the world.
He was feeling discouraged when he turned around and saw his younger brother and sister standing at the door of the kitchen, looking at him with confusion, curiosity, and wariness.
It is the younger sister who is curious, and the younger brother who is wary.
He doesn't blow up the kitchen!
Lu Xu waved his hand to his cheap brother, "Come here."
In my memory, Lu Zhou often went into the kitchen. He helped choose vegetables, wash dishes, make soy sauce and buy vinegar when he was three or five years old.
Lu Zhou stood next to him respectfully, looking up at him, "Brother."
Lu Xu asked: "Do you have a wok at home?"
Lu Zhou was confused: "What is a wok?"
It seems not.
Maybe it's not available anywhere else.
Lu Xu changed the question: "Is there an iron pot?"
Lu Zhou shook his head, "Li Zheng's family has a copper pot. Do you want to borrow it, brother?"
Forget it, he was afraid, "No need."
At least there is oil at home.
I don’t know if it’s possible to fry vegetables in a casserole...
You probably have to be careful, right?
Anyway, he just stir-fries a chili pepper and stir-fries the sauce.
The world is in short supply. It is quite scarce. Even if it is not in short supply, it is not in short supply. The seasonings commonly used by ordinary people are already quite mature, such as soy sauce, vinegar, wine, bean paste, black bean paste, etc., as well as spices such as Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, and pepper. However, except for onion, ginger, garlic, and pepper, they are basically used as medicinal herbs. The same goes for peppers. A few are planted in the front and back yards of each house and either pickled into pickles or dried and sold to pharmacies.
Lu Xu doesn't like pickled peppers and insists that only oil and peppers are a perfect match.
He directed Lu Zhou and the twelfth lunar month to wash the snails. The snails by the stream were clean and there was no need to spit out the mud. He had already washed them several times by the water, so now he let them wash them as they pleased. He used scissors to cut off the tail of the snail. After cutting the tail, the dirt is removed and the taste becomes more delicious. It can also be sucked and eaten without a bamboo stick. The only drawback is that it hurts my hands to cut...
Lu Xu gathered together all the seasonings he could find, peeled garlic, cut ginger, piled grass, started a fire, and lit a fire.
The flint worked better than he thought. Lu Xu grabbed some straw and fine firewood and added it. He carefully poured oil into the casserole and added the seasonings. Stir-fry the minced garlic, ginger, chili and Sichuan pepper until fragrant. The kitchen was filled with excitement, and Lu Xu poured the snails in fearfully, stir-fried quickly, added water, poured in some seasonings, and covered the pot.
At this time, he could breathe a sigh of relief and put it aside if it tasted good. At least the pot wouldn't explode.
"You can eat it later." Lu Xu turned around, and this time he saw not only his younger siblings who were so shocked that they opened their mouths, but also the little stepmother who had just returned from the fields with a child on her back and a hoe.
The eyes of the same type as Lu Yue stared at him across the two children as if they had seen a ghost. His little brother, who was less than one year old, was tied to his back with a strip of cloth by his stepmother. He was babbling and waving his paws while talking to him excitedly.
Lu Xu: ...Hey.
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