8. Lu An is here again
In spring, everything grows, and the crops in the fields are all the same day. In a blink of an eye, the seedlings start to rise and the rapeseeds come out. Du Ruofang saw that it was a small cabbage. The tender yellow leaves stretched out under the sun. He was happy to see it. The green onions, garlic and radish also emerged. It was so green that Du Ruo felt much more at ease. At least he wouldn't be hungry if he had these.
Du Ruo was at ease when he saw the Lu family's carriage coming up the road. He couldn't help but frown and thought to himself, what is Lu An coming to do? Didn't that old man leave?
Lu An didn't want to come either. Although he was not a good person, he didn't want to do anything. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent the mute lady over that day. He just wanted to leave a way for this person to live. No matter when he was alive, he was better than death. Who knew that this person was not lucky. The old man came to the grave and somehow remembered that he came. Yesterday, he said that guarding the tomb requires people to serve. Which family rule, he could only bring the mute lady back. As for the absence of the mute lady, how could the second grandma live in this wilderness, it was not something he could do.
Lu An was stunned when he got off the car. He changed a lot in just a few days. A fence was built outside the hut and surrounded it into a small yard. The green seedlings in the rice fields under the fence had already risen half a foot high. The tender yellow cabbage, radish seedlings, green onion and garlic seedlings were arranged neatly on the vegetable bed. The huts and sheds in the yard have also been renovated, and there were a few rabbit skins and badger skins hanging on the bottom of the shed.
Lu An pushed open the fence door and heard a giggle. A chicken coop was set up next to the shed, and two colorful pheasants were raised inside. There were duck cages on one side of the chicken coop, and there were about ten duck cubs. Lu An was a little jealous when he lived this life.
Du Ruo was feeding the two pheasants. Du Ruo wanted to slaughter the pheasant, but later he caught another female and put it in a cage. The male first became honest and the two chickens got along harmoniously. In just two days, the female lay a nest of eggs, and Du Ruo was reluctant to slaughter them. And now he doesn't lack meat to eat, so he simply kept it as a laying hen.
It's easy to raise anyway, so I can eat some aquatic plants or moss in the pond in the lower head, which makes me very happy. As soon as Du Ruo threw the aquatic plants in his hand into the chicken coop, Lu An came.
Lu An bowed: "Second grandma, okay."
Du Ruo clapped his hands: "You are polite butler. Why is the butler so idle today? Could it be that the uncle is coming to visit the grave again?"
Lu An coughed: "Second grandma is joking. This Qingming Festival has passed, and there are no people visiting the graves."
Du Ruo: "That's why the old man is here to visit the grave, so who is the butler here?"
Lu An: "I'm not hiding the second grandma, the mansion has been busy recently and I can't get enough people. The old slave came to take the mute wife back to the mansion."
Du Ruo couldn't help but look at the mute woman who was watering the vegetable field over there. Although she had not been together for a long time, the mute woman was the first person she met when she came over. Moreover, Du Ruo always thought that she would depend on her mute woman in the future. She didn't expect that the mute woman would have to leave after only one month.
From the bottom of my heart, Du Ruo didn't want the mute lady to leave, but she knew that for the mute lady, returning to the Lu Mansion might be much better than here. She liked to live such a life of returning to the countryside, and the mute lady might not be willing. Moreover, the mute lady is a slave of the Lu Mansion, so she can't decide whether she will stay or not.
Her second grandmother is just a decoration and has no use at all. However, Lu An said that there was not enough manpower, and Du Ruo didn't believe a word. Just look at the show of visiting the grave that day, he also knew that the Lu Mansion was a big mansion, and there were hundreds of servants. What could a mute woman do, a rough woman, and she would not do anything without her. She would think she was stupid and would believe such a ridiculous excuse.
However, Lu An is a kind person. He probably took his face into consideration and couldn't just say that he wanted to take the person away, so he found an excuse that he should appreciate it.
Thinking of this, he nodded: "Since the mansion is not enough, the mute woman should go back with the butler."
Lu An called the servant to come back and told the story of taking her back to the house. The mute was stunned at first and then looked at Du Ruo worriedly. Du Ruo smiled and said, "Mobile, the mansion is not enough, you can help you when you go back. You don't have to worry about rice and vegetables, and these chickens and ducks, so you don't have to worry about anything in the future. When the mansion is busy, you can free up your body before coming back." In fact, Du Ruo knew very well that the mute would probably not be able to see him in the future after leaving.
The butler was a little sad when he heard it. The second grandmother had never said a few words in the mansion over the years. She didn't want to say this to make people feel sad.
The butler: "Don't worry, Second Grandma, Erxi will deliver things on a monthly basis in the future, and will never forget it."
Du Ruo: "Then thank you, the butler, for your care."
The mute woman packed her things and followed Lu An down the mountain. Du Ruo stood in the yard and watched the carriage disappear and did not enter the house. Until it got dark and it started to rain, Du Ruo was busy packing up the duck cage and chicken coop with oil cloth. Just as it was still a little brighter, he heated up the remaining bamboo shoots and porridge at noon, washed up and lie down.
She hadn't developed the bamboo couch, so she could only put a few more layers of straw under it. The bedding was newly bought by Erxi, which was much more comfortable than before. But thinking that the mute lady Du Ruo still couldn't sleep, and the mute lady could come here with her, which means that she was not welcomed in the mansion. Why did she suddenly remember that the mute lady was coming? Without thinking, she knew that she wanted to squeeze herself out by getting the mute lady away.
Du Ruo remembered the situation he had just passed through. Could this second grandma had offended someone in the Lu Mansion and killed her so much? Du Ruo knew very well that if he had not changed his core and left this second grandma here to fend for herself, he would probably not have survived.
I don’t want to do this, anyway, I don’t go back to the Lu Mansion. Even if someone doesn’t like him and wants to kill him, the trick I can come up with is to get the mute lady back. Do you think she can’t live alone? She insists on living a more comfortable life than anyone else.
Thinking of this, she closed her eyes and fell asleep in a short while. The rain still stopped. Du Ruo did needlework in the house. Although her needlework level was incomparable to that of the mute lady, she made rapid progress. She could even make simple clothes in daily life, but she could not make shoes. Thinking of the sewing basket that the mute lady gave her before leaving, maybe she looked like shoes. She could learn by comparing and maybe she could do it.
Thinking of putting down the needle and thread in his hand, he took out the Yama's needle and thread basket, and saw a pair of newly made shoes inside. Du Ruo measured the size of his feet, which was exactly his own size. I don't know when Yama made it.
Du Ruo was stunned for a long time with his shoes. The relationship between people was very strange. When people were in front of him, they didn't feel anything. Once they left, they would never be able to leave.
Du Ruo sighed and suddenly heard the pheasant outside crowing. The two pheasants were extremely clever and would clatter as long as someone came in. This is another reason why Du Ruo was reluctant to kill them. He could be used as a watchdog.
Du Ruo looked out and saw that it seemed that Brother Hunter was standing outside the fence door. Du Ruo was stunned and quickly put down his shoes and walked out: "Why is Brother Hunter coming?"
Hunter stood outside the fence door and looked at Du Ruo for a while and whispered: "Didn't you go up the mountain?"
Du Ruo: "It's raining, what are you doing up the mountain?" Seeing that the rain had wet his clothes, he hurriedly said, "Brother Hunter, why don't you come in to take shelter from the rain first." Du Ruo let him into the yard, but it was difficult for him to enter the house. He moved a bamboo stool for him to sit on. The bamboo stool was made by Blacksmith Feng last time. Although it was not good-looking, it was strong.
Du Ruo lit the mud stove and boiled water and poured a bowl of it for him: "Do you drink a little hot water to warm up your body. On such a rainy day, even the beasts in the mountains will not come out, and the hunter will run away in vain when he comes." Seeing that his clothes were dripping with water, he couldn't help but say, "I'm going to be sick like this. Why don't you come to the stove and roast your clothes."
The hunter brother really moved. Du Ruo added a handful of firewood to the stove and picked up the fire more. He prepared lunch, cooked a pot of rice, cooked a bamboo shoot and wild vegetable soup, and put it on the table. The table was the original root of the tree in the house, which was picked up by the mute lady from the mountain. Du Ruo saw the surface flat with a saw and moved it to the shed as both a chopping board and a table.
Du Ruo served the rice and handed the chopsticks to the hunter: "There is nothing to be entertained in the mountains. Brother Hunter will eat it with you. It's better than being hungry."
The hunter glanced at the food on the table and looked at Du Ruo. He took the chopsticks and started eating. Du Ruo had ate two bowls of porridge in the morning. Now he was not hungry yet, so he just ate half a bowl of rice and became full. While holding the bowl of soup, he looked at the man opposite him. After a while, he ate all the rice soup.
Du Ruo looked at him in shock. His appetite was really amazing. No wonder he had to go into the mountains to poach. Such an appetite was ordinary people who insisted that he was poor.
Du Ruo packed up the dishes and washed them. Seeing that the rain was still not stopping, he couldn't help but look at the hunter. The rain kept going, and he couldn't drive him away. How long would he have to sit with him in this shed?
Just as he was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw the tart cloth on the chicken coop. After getting an idea, he went into the house and took out the cloak that the mute had sewn with the tart cloth and handed it to him: "This is the tart cloth, which is not afraid of the rain. If you cover it up and down the mountain, you won't be able to get wet."
The hunter took the cloak, put it on his shoulder, looked at Du Ruo, walked away, went out of the fence gate, but went up the mountain instead of going down the mountain. After a while, he disappeared on the mountain road.
Du Ruo wondered, could there be a shortcut to the mountain on the mountain? Or was he skilled and brave, and had a good road to walk, but he liked to walk on cliffs. Suddenly, he just asked himself why he didn't go up the mountain. He wasn't he waiting for him on the mountain?
Du Ruo shook his head, how could it be possible? Who would be so bored when it rained heavily?
Chapter completed!