Chapter 138

The full moon wine is not as big as a marriage. Only relatives and close friends came, and also invited the waist-hugging woman and husband that day. There were not many people, and there were only four tables in the courtyard. A table that is still a child, even so, it is very lively in the country.

It costs money to invite others to take charge. The full moon banquet is important, but there is no need to invite someone specially. Wei Lanxiang called Zhou Xiangjun to help with cooking the banquet. Lu Gu and Chen Xinlian ordered to wash and cut the vegetables. Relatives didn’t come early in the morning. They were busy in the kitchen, preparing things in advance.

The snails are fat, so there must be one on the mat. This is what Lu Gu and Shen Yan touched in the river, and they brought back two bamboo baskets, which are definitely enough to eat.

The fish were caught by Shen Yaoqing, and the pheasants and rabbits were caught by him and Shen Xuanqing together, so that there was no need to slaughter the livestock at home.

There are also bacon and fresh pork, not to mention vegetarian dishes, those grown by themselves are enough, just looking at the noodles is enough to see the sincerity of their family’s hospitality.

Ji Qiuyue’s mother’s family is the main event today, and she wants to give the child a safe lock. Besides, it is her mother’s family, and Shen Yaoqing respects it very much.

It’s been a year since Lu Gu came to Shen’s house, and the relatives he should know have already recognized him, but he doesn’t see each other a few times throughout the year, so it’s inevitable that he’s a little unfamiliar.

The family was very noisy, the children were playing in the courtyard, the adults were sitting in the main room or in the courtyard having tea and chatting, and some had to go to the new house to have a look, so Shen Xuanqing led the way, Shen Yaoqing stayed behind Stay home with other guests.

Knowing that there will be children coming from relatives, the hounds are more vicious after all, so Lu Gu took them to the new house last night.

Wei Lanxiang’s mother’s family also came. She was busy with her work, wiped her hands on the apron, went out to chat and laugh for a while, and distributed cakes and fruits to the children by the way.

Lu Gu stood in front of the chopping board and cut bamboo shoots. Shen Yaoqing went to the mountain yesterday to dig a basket of bamboo shoots and came back.

In his hand, the kitchen knife slashed very neatly, and sometimes when he heard laughter outside, he raised his head and looked out the window, with a slight smile on his brows and eyes.

Only their relatives came here today. Chen Xinlian, who was washing vegetables next to her, was not familiar with it, so she didn’t say much.

To be honest, he has no relatives himself, and has cut off contact with the Lu family. After his mother died, Lu Daxiang married Du Hehua. The so-called grandfather’s family a few years ago was Du Hehua’s natal family.

His grandfather and grandmother died before his mother left, and his uncle was a gambler. Before his mother died, he ran away in debt, and his aunt remarried.

There are two aunts and one uncle, Lu Dahe, but he was sold to Shen Xuanqing when he left the Lu family, so naturally there will be no contact.

Wei Lanxiang sat down with her nephew Wei Chengzhi and said a few words, then they laughed until their mouths closed, and boasted: “We Chengzhi deserve to be scholars, look at this sweet mouth.”

The yard was lively and lively, and the fourth uncle of Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing was punching and drinking.

Lu Gu can see the outside from the window as soon as he looks up. He knows three uncles. According to Shen Xuanqing’s words, the fourth uncle is an alcoholic. As expected, not long after entering the door today, he pulled Ji Qiuyue’s family to drink and punched It sounded noisy.

He also saw the unpleasant look his uncle looked over there. The drunkard likes to make trouble when he is drunk. He once heard Shen Xuanqing say that the fourth uncle sometimes beats people and goes crazy after drinking, regardless of the occasion, the eldest uncle As an older brother who has studied books and pays great attention to reading and etiquette, and he has had quarrels with his fourth uncle in the past, so this behavior is the most despised.

The crowd looked different. This was the first time that Lu Gu had noticed all kinds of expressions, and suddenly he felt something in his heart. Although he was standing in the kitchen far away from the crowd, he felt it was very strange, but this mood soon dissipated, Shen Xuanqing After bringing a group of relatives into the door, the tall and big man appeared in front of him, making him smile even more.

Under the sun, the man who was punching and shouting sprayed foam from his mouth, splashing on the wine cup and pastry, and he could see it clearly. Shen Xuanqing and Shen Yaoqing didn’t drink much, and both of them liked cleanliness, so even if they punched, they wouldn’t drool.

He was a little distracted, and unconsciously thought, fortunately, he is not a man, so he doesn’t have to sit and eat with the fourth uncle and the others.

But this kind of thought is a bit outrageous. If someone knew that he disrespected his elders, he would definitely be scolded, so he didn’t dare to think about it any more, confessed his sin in his heart, and didn’t dare to look around again.

The sun was running really fast. Seeing that it was almost noon, Wei Lanxiang got up and came in to cook with a happy face.

The oil pan sizzled, and the aroma of meat and vegetables soon emerged.

They were all relatives from their own family, and there were no outsiders. Shen Xuanqing was afraid that Lu Gu would not be able to eat, and excused him and Chen Xinlian to accompany his aunt and aunt to eat. Both of them took their seats. Take a few bites.

The female family and the husband are sitting together, next to the children’s table, and they have to take care of them from time to time to save the children from crying and fighting over stuttering.

It was sunny and windy at noon. Ji Qiuyue wrapped the baby in the swaddle, and Shen Yaoqing took it out to meet relatives, so that her parents could put a safety lock on the child in front of everyone.

The milk doll has grown for a month, her face is fleshy, and she is delighted when she looks at it. She has no shoes on, but she wears a small tiger head hat. , Anyone who sees it has to praise the exquisiteness.

The child was too young, so he took him back when he came out to meet people. Compared with relatives, Lu Gu hugged his little nephew almost every day and helped him coax a few times. It smells like milk, but that doesn’t stop the family from loving dolls.

After eating the full moon wine, the relatives took a break and left one after another. Lu Gu and the others packed up the dishes, tables and chairs in the courtyard.

Shen Yaoqing wiped the cleaned table again, it was borrowed from a neighbor’s house, and he was going to return it later, he said with a smile: “I thought Fourth Uncle was going to get drunk again today, worry about it for me, been paying attention. He never thought that he would be kind to our family.”

“He.” When Wei Lanxiang mentioned this fourth brother, she snorted softly and said, “Your aunt told me that before you came today, your uncle explained to him that this is a wedding banquet, and we have children, no Make him get drunk and go crazy.”

“That’s the way it is, I’ll just say it.” Shen Yaoqing laughed, the fourth uncle was an elder, and when he came to be a guest, he couldn’t stop him from drinking as much as he wanted, so he didn’t have to worry about his junior.

Lu Gu scooped up water and sat in the kitchen to wash the dishes. Shen Xuanqing brought in a stack of dishes and squatted across from the wooden basin.

“Are you full?” Shen Xuanqing asked him.

He nodded hesitantly, but didn’t say the word “full”. Seeing his appearance, Shen Xuanqing laughed.

Lu Gu had to whisper: “With a few aunts and aunts here, how can I eat more, making them full is the way to entertain guests.”

It is not easy for the country people to sit on the table, and some of their relatives are poor. They have eaten all the food on the table, and there are not a few mouthfuls left. Shen Xuanqing glanced at the snails and bamboo shoots in the wooden basin on the ground, and said, “Wait. I’ll fry some bamboo shoots for you, and chicken soup?”

“Yes, I simmered all three of them, one big pot was not finished, and the rest of the meat and soup were still stuffed in the pot.” Lu Gu nodded. In fact, he just thought of heating himself a bowl of chicken soup. To eat, at home is determined not to starve him.

He asked again: “Then are you still eating? I saw that neither you nor Yuping had a few bites.”

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said, “Of course I want to eat.”

Lu Gu’s brows and eyes twitched all of a sudden, his eyes were bright, and he said, “Then you are still talking about me, and you are not like that.”

Zhou Xiangjun just left at the end, brought a large bowl of chicken soup and a bowl of rice to Shen Yuping and went home to eat, and he could rest after eating.

Outside Wei Lanxiang heard what they said about being full, and said: “Guzi, wait for the chicken soup in the pot to heat up, and then fry some bamboo shoots for us. There are many guests today, so I didn’t even put down a few chopsticks.”

As soon as these words came out, even Shen Yaoqing nodded.

They treat guests by themselves, and they will naturally be more reserved when they go to the table. This is the custom, and almost all villages in Shili Baxiang are like this. After the guests have left, they can eat the rest of the food, and they can be considered to clean the dishes.

Shen Xuanqing came back with three pheasants, chopped them into pieces and simmered them in soup. In order to make the relatives eat well, they all simmered, and there was still a small half pot left.

No one could be so hungry that Ji Qiuyue was so hungry that Wei Lanxiang specially picked out a bowl of meat and vegetables for her, including rice and a bowl of chicken soup, and brought it into the room for her to eat, so Lu Gu and several people ate chicken soup. She didn’t come over during the meal, and coaxed the child to sleep in the room.

Since the birth of her child, Wei Lanxiang’s waist has become more straight in front of women of the same age in the village, especially in front of the two women who have chewed their tongues, her eldest grandson is her eldest grandson. As soon as it came out, who would dare to say that their family Qiuyue could not give birth, and Ji Qiuyue was a son all her life, and she called her a face, not to mention the country, even a son born in the town is different, only after there is a male in the family will not be bullied.

If it weren’t for the fact that the child was too young to be carried out, she would have to take it out for a walk every day.

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It was overcast, and I didn’t know when it would rain. Lu Gu and Shen Yan came back with two baskets of grass by the river. It was not easy to go out when it rained. They took out the grass from the bamboo basket and dumped it in the main room to avoid getting wet in the rain.

I was busy when I heard Wei Lanxiang talking to someone outside.

“Sister-in-law, I went to the field, but haven’t been to Yutao’s side for a few days?” Wei Lanxiang brought a basket of miscellaneous buns and put them here to feed the dogs. Zhou Yunzhi stopped to say hello.

Zhou Yunzhi was carrying the hoe, and when she heard the words, her face was a little bad, but she still said, “No, I will see Yutao in a couple of days for someone to tell me.”

Wei Lanxiang didn’t know that she was disliked by Yutao’s daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law often lived in the town, and her parents were also in the town. Shen Shunde went to town.

She didn’t care about Zhou Yunzhi’s face. When she was holding the full moon wine that day, Zhou Yunzhi said in front of her relatives that their son’s name was not according to the family tree. Fortunately, that day was from her family and Ji Qiuyue’s family, so she didn’t pay much attention to Zhou Yunzhi’s nonsense.

But she remembered it and said with a smile: “I just said why you didn’t go, thinking that if you go to town, Yutao will take you to eat Hongqiao, and also take me to taste it, it’s not the season, last year you Said that Yutao was busy, and I was too busy to go there, think about it, this Hong Qiao said that I haven’t eaten for a year.”

Zhou Yunzhi frowned, her eyes became vigilant, obviously to prevent Wei Lanxiang from taking advantage of their family, a plate of red and pretty expensive, cheap ones cost fifty cents, she didn’t eat it this year, Wei Lan Xiang, who sees money and has an eye for it, doesn’t know how high the sky is, so she actually asks her what she wants to eat.

The more she thought about it, the more angry she became. The sentence “Don’t even think about it” could hardly hold back in her mouth. Fortunately, she endured it in the end and endured the fire in her heart. She sneered from her nose and said: “How do I know, how easy is it for Yutao to make money in the town, and his wife and children to support, I don’t dare to cause trouble for him.”

Wei Lanxiang said curiously: “I said the elder sister-in-law, who doesn’t know Yutao’s filial piety, if you say you want to eat Hongqiao, he can’t do it, besides, Jiaojiao is also reasonable and filial to her in-laws. If you really go, remember to call me and let me touch the light of our Yutao too.”

Being filial to her parents-in-law, Zhou Yunzhi wanted to spit when she heard this, and when Wei Lanxiang spoke so vigorously, her eyes became contemptuous, for fear of being cheated on, she quickly made an excuse: “I still have something to do, your elder brother is waiting at home. cooking.”

After speaking, he hurried away without even looking back.

Wei Lanxiang watched from behind, she could be considered a sigh of relief, and with Zhou Yunzhi’s stingy and stingy temperament, she would definitely not dare to come to their house from the back. .