Mr. Wu said with a smile: "Ah Qi is still young, siblings don't have to be too strict with him! Hehe, children, what nature doesn't love to play!"
Miao Cuilan smiled politely and said, "You, don't speak for him, if you help him again, you'll have to go to the house to uncover tiles!"
After talking, the three of them laughed, and Lu Zhong smiled and invited him to sit in the room, and said with a smile: "You came when you came, why did you bring something again!"
Mr. Wu raised the two pheasants in his hands and smiled, "I'm here to trouble my younger siblings again! I went up the mountain today and my luck was not bad. I'm too lazy to deal with it by myself, so this is just here! That's right, I heard that you adopted a little girl, so come and have a look!"
Miao Cuilan had just returned from selling tofu, and when she heard the words, she smiled and stepped forward to take the two pheasants and said, "What trouble is it? Look at what you said! You sit in the room, and I will fix the food! It will be ready soon." !"
On the kang in the house, Lu Xiaoshu had already opened his big black eyes and was listening to the movement outside. This Mr. Wu, it sounds like his father and mother are very familiar with him, and they respect him a lot!
Lu Xiaoshu felt that his father was already gentle, and it could be said that he was polite to Mr. Wu because of his nature, but to get his mother to speak in a respectful and polite tone, tsk tsk tsk, that would be great!
In a blink of an eye, two figures entered the room one after another, and Lu Xiaoshu tried his best to open his eyes wide. The strange man next to Dad was slender and slightly thin. He was in his early thirties, wearing a half-new navy blue gown, with a bronze complexion, well-defined facial features and slightly deep, straight and high bridge of nose, and a pair of long and narrow eyes. Squinting slightly, hiding the brilliance in the eyes, there was a faint smile on his face, adding a little softness.
He is a person who looks very comfortable, and has a feeling of being a bit out of the world, as if he is surrounded by an invisible layer of fresh air, and all the filth and filth in this world cannot be approached. In other words, it is very temperamental, which makes people dare not underestimate or neglect.
Subconsciously, Lu Xiaoshu felt awe, thinking that Maple Leaf Village is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, his father doesn't talk and act like ordinary rural fools, and this Mr. Wu is even more impressive. I heard that he is the teacher of this village. Could it be that he is a hermit
Lu Xiaoshu unconsciously looked at him a few more times with great interest. After living for so many years, he finally knows what a hermit looks like! Really stylish...
"Hehe!" Mr. Wu laughed, walked towards the kang and sat down casually on the edge of the kang, and smiled at Lu Zhong: "This child is not afraid of life, he only looks at people with his eyes open."
Lu Zhong sighed with a smile: "Yes! This child is very sensible, and he doesn't cry much on weekdays. As long as he is not asleep, his eyes will move around, curious about everything!"
Mr. Wu leaned over to look at Lu Xiaoshu, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, she is a little girl who admits she likes her, she is full of energy!" Mr. Wu said, seeing that her pink face is really cute, he couldn't help stretching out his fingers to pinch her. He pinched her cheek and poked again.
Lu Xiaoshu was very annoyed, spitting small bubbles in his mouth, turning his head and waving his hands in protest, he said angrily in his heart: You are a hermit, why don't you have the slightest demeanor of a hermit? Respect yourself! Respect yourself, do you understand? Why do you like to poke my sister's face like that kid! Sister Kui was so respectful to you just now, I am so disappointed, what a fart!
Mr. Wu couldn't help laughing out loud, and said, "This little girl has quite a temper!"
Lu Zhong smiled and said: "That's not true, the little girl is like this. She doesn't like others to touch her the most, and she would rather lie on her own in a daze."
"..." Lu Xiaoshu was so overwhelmed by her father's words that she wanted to cry without tears. She has the soul of an eighteen-year-old girl, and she can like others to treat her like a baby and hug and pat her ass to coax those "beautiful", Cruel words like "Baby"? In contrast, of course she would rather lie obediently - not in a daze in a daze! God knows how bored she is!
After listening to Lu Zhong's words, Mr. Wu poked the little baby's face with his fingers slightly stiff, and withdrew his hand with a smile. Seeing that Lu Xiaoshu was slowly calming down, he shook his head and smiled, and turned to talk to Lu Zhong. Others come.
Lu Xiaoshu strained his ears to listen, he thought they would talk about poetry, poetry or other knowledge, or music, chess, calligraphy and painting - don't all hermits love this tune
Unexpectedly, there are all kinds of things like "the rice in the field is growing well, it seems that this year is another bumper harvest", "yuba and dried tofu are selling well, you can make more next time", "the reeds in the reed marsh in the east are also growing taller. Many, I will cut some in a month or two and come back to weave bamboo mats" and other ordinary farm routines, mixed with some gossip about the owner and the west, Lu Xiaoshu felt very bored, and his impression of the hermit was completely shattered in his heart. up.
Miao Cuilan's movements were very agile, and she quickly processed the two pheasants. One was marinated with salt, packed and covered, placed in a wooden barrel and hung in the well to keep fresh, and kept for tomorrow night. Ask Mr. Wu to come over to eat, and only eat the fatter one tonight.
The country people don't pay much attention to it, and the freshest wild animal is delicious with the simplest cooking. She chopped the pheasant into pieces and put it in the pot, mixed it with bamboo shoots, yuba, soaked mushrooms and fungus, and added ginger , green onion, garlic, whole red pepper, star anise, and cooking wine are fried together, and finally sprinkled with parsley, filled a large pot full with a large porcelain sea bowl with a carp held by a baby, and then fried a garlic lettuce, mixed with A cold tofu and a cold bean are served on the table.
Smelling the strong aroma of food, Lu Xiaoshu was so greedy, it's a pity, a toothless child can't eat anything!
In the blink of an eye, it's August, and Lu Xiaoshu is almost half a year old. He can roll over and sit up at will, and occasionally stand with his hands on the wall. Small baby teeth.
Finally bid farewell to the days of lying around all day doing nothing, Lu Xiaoshu was still full of joy and anticipation in his heart, there was not a single day that he did not look forward to being able to walk, jump and run. Elder sister Lu Xiaoxue has already put on the small cloth shoes made by her mother on her little feet, and she can walk unsteadily with the support of her parents.
Lu Xiaoshu actually likes this pretty sister, she treats her well and is very kind, but Xiaoyu robs the little puppet that her sister refuses to let go, but generously offers to play with her. For this reason, Lu Xiaoshu decided to protect his sister well in the future. My sister looks like Lin Daiyu, needless to say, she must be a bully master!
Unlike that annoying little kid who kept calling him "big sister" and "second sister", Lu Xiaoshu got annoyed every time he heard it, and thought to himself that you are only "second"!
On August 15th, a full and full moon hangs in the sky, pouring moonlight all over the ground, and Cheng Liang’s moonlight shines down, and the branches and leaves of cherry trees, jujube trees, loquat trees, and persimmon trees in the yard are fully visible, walking from the opposite side People can also see clearly.
After dinner, the Lu family set up a table in the yard. There were moon cakes, candied melon seeds, peaches, oranges, freshly picked grapes, etc. on the table. The family and Mr. Wu sat and watched the moon.
Lu Xiaoshu and Lu Xiaoxue also sat on a chair. Lu Xiaoshu was very skinny, and she was sitting in a baby bamboo rocking chair that couldn't move. She was very depressed about this, but she didn't dare to protest after several reprimands from her mother. Like Lu Qi, she was subconsciously afraid of the aggressive mother.
Mr. Wu pulled Lu Qi to point to the moon in the sky and asked with a smile, "Aqi, what does that look like?"
Lu Qi blinked and said, "It's like a pancake just baked by my mother!" Everyone burst into laughter.
Hearing this laughter, Lu Qi seemed a little bit that way, and felt a little embarrassed for no reason, so he also smiled and asked, "Am I not right?"
"Yes, yes! Like big cakes, haha, big cakes!" Mr. Wu laughed again.
Lu Xiaoshu secretly rolled his eyes, contemptuously saying that the idiot brat knows how to eat! If Mr. Wu asks me, I will definitely say that it is like a jade plate. The jade plate is very valuable. If you sell it, you can buy a lot of delicious and interesting things. It is much better than flatbread...
"You know what to eat!" Miao Cuilan said Lu Xiaoshu's heartfelt words, she gave Lu Qi a smile and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of Mr. Wu's jokes!"
Mr. Wu pulled Lu Qi to sit next to him, but said with a smile: "Ah Qi is not wrong, he is still young!"
"This kid, I'm used to being wild!" Miao Cuilan took the opportunity to laugh and said, "I think next year when the two girls are older, I don't need him to watch them, so let him also go to school to study with Mr. Wu, I don't know. Does Mr. Wu think it's okay?"
Lu Qi will only be six years old next year. In rural areas, it is a bit too early to go to school at such a young age. Many children do not start enlightenment until they are ten years old or even older. But Miao Cuilan was eager for her son to become a dragon, so she asked this question.
Mr. Wu glanced at Lu Qi and said with a smile: "Of course! This knowledge should be started at an early age, and the earlier it is determined, the foundation can be laid more firmly! The children of the rich and noble families who are particular about it start to be enlightened at the age of two or three."
Miao Cuilan was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly got up and saluted Mr. Wu, "Really! That's great, thank you sir!"
"Siblings, don't be so polite, hehe, in my eyes, Aqi is the same as my own nephew, even if you don't mention it today, I will mention it in a year or two!" Mr. Wu hurriedly stood up and returned the salute.
On the spur of the moment, Mr. Wu smiled and pulled Lu Qi to teach him to read a poem. The recitation was "Moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground; raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think of your hometown." Bright moonlight, thinking of hometown, but Mr. Wu taught him that it was hard for him not to learn, so he followed each sentence, and it was very difficult to read.
Miao Cuilan didn't understand either, but since it was "poetry", it was something only scholars could understand. Looking at her son from the side, she felt a little nervous, for fear that Mr. Wu would think him stupid.
As he read, Mr. Wu's voice gradually became slightly imperceptibly melancholy, his eyes dimmed, and he sighed softly. Lu Xiaoshu listened with his head tilted to the side, but he couldn't help giggling when he suddenly thought of the "pig's head looking at the bright moon, bowing his head and tearing his crotch" which was made up by someone.
"This silly girl, you're being silly here again!" Her laughter attracted everyone's attention, and Miao Cuilan couldn't help laughing.
Lu Xiaoshu's "ah" protest: how can she be a silly girl, why is she so silly
Mr. Wu chuckled, then closed his mouth, and patted Lu Qi on the back lightly: "Go, play by yourself." Lu Qi cheered "Oh", stood up and slid off the stool, ran Went to catch crickets in the grass under the tree.
"Mr. Wu is homesick? Hehe, speaking of which, we have been neighbors for so many years, and we still don't know where Mr. Wu is from!" Lu Zhong asked with a smile.