When she returned to the Xu family, Li asked the sisters Ningxiang to steam the rice first and she went to buy meat.

Anan is having a great time with Amu now, because Ningxiang is right in front of him. The little guy didn't insist on letting Ningxiang hold him, and obediently played with his aunt Amu under the eaves. Ningxiang knew that his aunt was going to buy meat, so after putting Anan down, he immediately ran to the west room, took out a string of copper coins from the bag, and chased him to the door to stop Li.

"Auntie, I want to save money to redeem myself. I won't give you money this year, but today I'm going to help us farm, and I have to pay for the money to buy meat." Ningxiang insisted that Li take it. Knowing that the farming season has been busy recently, she deliberately stringed two strings of copper coins before returning home, one string of one hundred coins to prevent Li from having enough money.

"Your land? If you harvest corn in autumn, you won't give it to us, right?" Li glared at her niece and pressed her hand back and said, "Stop talking about those that are not needed with me, put them away. Twenty cents a pound of meat. My aunt can afford it. I will treat it as buying chestnuts for you."

Ningxiang refused, but Li often went to the fields to work and was very strong. He pushed Ningxiang away after walking a few steps and strided towards the family that had just slaughtered the pig yesterday.

Ningxiang stood at the door, looking at the hurried back of the aunt, and decided to leave the money to his younger brother before leaving and ask him to transfer it to Li.

I still had to cook, Ningxiang didn't delay any longer. She turned around and walked in. When she turned around, she suddenly became stunned when she saw the situation in the yard.

She saw Lu Cheng standing in the yard.

A wooden stool was placed under the eaves to the east. Xu Huai walked out with a basin and asked Lu Cheng to wash it first.

Lu Cheng said something with a smile, then rolled up the sleeves on both sides to the top, lowered his head and shook his face.

He stood facing her sideways, and when he raised his hand, the muscles of his left arm were tight. The water droplets hit him, as if they hit a hard stone, splashing out some, and the rest slid down his arm. His skin was yellow, much like the color of the sun that most villagers exposed to the sun, but he was different from Xu Shouliang, a farmer who had been dealing with the farmland for decades. His every move was three-point gentle, and he was not too rush or slow, instead of rubbing his face casually. When washing his neck, he heard Anan opposite calling him father, Lu Cheng looked up and showed a bright smile to the little guy in the bright golden light of the setting sun. The water droplets gathered on his chin and dripped down, reflecting a little bit of brilliance.

"Sister, how many meters did you take?"

In the kitchen, Xu Qiuer suddenly walked to the middle, holding a basin in her hand and asked Ningxiang loudly.

Lu Cheng's head tilted towards the gate.

He looked at himself, Ningxiang was inexplicably nervous, staring at the kitchen, trying not to look at him, and replied loudly: "Four bowls!"

The man has a big appetite and has been working for another half a day, so he must be hungry. If there is any leftovers, he can still keep it for making porridge tomorrow morning.

Xu Qiuer said oh and walked back to the shrunken brown rice bag. She was a little worried that there was not enough rice. She carefully scooped two bowls and found that four bowls should be enough inside, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Ningxiang also came in. Thinking of Anan, who was only one year old outside, she looked at the three rice bags in front of her. The bags containing corn flour were the largest and most bulging. It was the staple food of the villagers. Brown rice is rare. It is usually eaten only when there are happy events at home. The most rare thing is white rice, which is the village chief’s family probably only eats two or three times a month.

The Xu family has white rice because during the Chinese New Year, Ningxiang and Suyue also received two kilograms of white rice from each other. Suyue used rice in the palace and did not have to cook it by herself, so she gave her portion to Ningxiang.

Four kilograms of white rice were taken home at the end of the twelfth lunar month. Now three months have passed, and the bag seems to have not been moved yet, which shows Li's diligence and thrift.

Ningxiang couldn't even imagine what occasion would my aunt have to bear to eat white rice.

"Put two bowls of white rice." Ningxiang smiled and took the rice bowl from her cousin's hand, opened the white rice bag, and wanted to scoop it.

Xu Qiuer nervously stopped her, "Sister, my mother said she would eat it when you redeem it!"

She heard her mother settle the accounts for her cousin and said that her cousin would almost be able to leave the house next year.

Ningxiang's eyes suddenly felt a little sour, and she calmed down before saying softly: "When I leave the house, I will buy rice again. I won't eat these now. What if they are broken next year?" As she said that, she scooped two bowls of white rice.

Xu Qiuer looked at the white and brown rice mixed in the basin, and then looked at her cousin's gentle smile. She also smiled, throwing the scolding that her mother would definitely have, and scooped water to go to the North Garden to wash rice.

Brush the western pot with a fragrant incense and squat in front of the stove to set the fire.

"mother!"

As soon as I broke a piece of firewood, someone next to me suddenly called her a little sneakily.

Ningxiang turned around and saw Anan coming at some point. He held the wall with one hand and looked at her with the other hand. His black phoenix eyes looked at her seriously.

"What's wrong with Anan?" Ningxiang was surprised what the little guy was going to do, so she forgot to correct his name.

Anan stretched out her hand and put it down, touched the little bird in her crotch-open pants, and said seriously: "Stir!"

Ningxiang didn't know that the little guy would do such a move. His eyes instinctively followed him, and it was too late to wait until she regretted it. Although Anan was just a one-year-old child, Ningxiang didn't mind swearing him, but when she saw the little guy pinching it, the fourteen-year-old girl still blushed when she saw it.

Lu Cheng stared at his son's fat hands and his eyes were straightened when Ningxiang couldn't see the place under the eaves to the east.

Of course he knew who his son was doing such a move to!

He quickly glanced at the other side, wondering what he was saying to Amu so that he didn't notice Anan's sister who was walking over with the wall. Lu Cheng pretended to be calm and hung the towel on the clothesline, walked over and lowered his head to ask his son, "Aunt Xiang cooks for Anan, and Anan is not allowed to make trouble."

"Stinky!" Anan looked at her father, afraid that her father would not understand, so she squatted down on the wall after saying that.

Before he could squat down, Lu Cheng took a big hand and walked towards the thatched house next to the pigpen.

Ningxiang was stunned and it took a while to come back to her senses.

After all, Anan is just a child. Looking back, Ningxiang couldn't help laughing.

Li bought meat and Lu Cheng and his son came out too.

Ningxiang first talked to Li, watching her busy work while talking about the dishes she cooked tonight, and also asked Xu Qiuer to help prepare various things, eggs and peanuts. Listening to the sound of water outside the door, Ningxiang looked over curiously, and saw Lu Cheng sitting on a wooden pier holding Anan, wringing a scarf to wipe Anan's face. Anan didn't like it, and moved around and wanted to escape. Lu Cheng smiled and pressed him, wiping his son's face with a gentle expression.

After wiping his face, he wiped Anan's hands. At this time, Anan was no longer naughty and looked at his father obediently.

The father and son sat in the sunset, and the picture was so warm.

Ningxiang took a last look at Lu Cheng's handsome face and turned her head to fill the stove with firewood.

Maybe Lu Cheng is just born with a cheerful heart and still cares about his deceased wife very much, right? So he loves Anan so much.

For example, Pei Jinghan's father, Pei Zheng, was not particularly concerned about Pei Jinghan and Pei Jingrun's two legitimate sons because he favored Aunt Liu. He must pay attention to it. After all, they are all their own sons, but there is less tenderness between the father and son. Pei Jinghan's eyes will be indescribable tenderness when he mentions his mother, and he will be calm when he mentions his father.

After sympathizing with Lu Cheng's wife, Anan, who lost his mother, Ningxiang felt a little sad. Fortunately, the house was lively. Listening to the sound of hot oil when the meat in the east pot was put into the pot, Ningxiang quickly changed her mind.

Li prepared five dishes, a plate of braised pork ribs, a plate of stir-fried peanuts, a plate of minced meat tofu, a plate of stir-fried eggs, and a plate of dried cabbage. The little cabbage planted at the beginning of the month just popped up, and the green layer was too small. Li washed the little cabbage dried during the seedlings last year. This is also the only "dish" among the five dishes...

The eggs were fried last, and the rice was ready. Ningxiang was afraid that Anan would not be able to digest rice, so she specially made half a bowl of rice into porridge for him. There were a lot of rice into porridge, but there were many people in the whole family, so there were no need to worry about the rest.

The food was ready. According to the practice of treating guests from the farmers, Li asked Xu Shouliang and his three masters to sit with Lu Cheng first, and A Tao was waiting to eat with them.

"Aunt, you are so polite, then I will carry Anan away now." Lu Cheng pushed Xu Huai away, refused to lean into the table, and looked at Li's mother and said, "It's almost dark, aunt, you all eat together, go to bed early, and you've been tired all day long."

Li also wanted to persuade them to use it first, but Lu Cheng walked directly to Ningxiang.

Anan knew that his father had come to catch him, so he hugged Ningxiang's thigh and hid behind her, his mouth was no, no.

Ningxiang protected Anan and sincerely advised: "Brother Lu, go and eat first, we are not hungry..."

Lu Cheng didn't look at her or get angry, but he insisted on stealing Anan's face, and he was unhappy no matter how he looked at it.

Li had no choice but to tell Lu Chengdao: "Okay, okay, eat together, see how you scared Anan!"

Lu Cheng looked at his son who was already in Ningxiang's arms, and suddenly smiled and said to Li: "It's not that my aunt is too disgusting."

She actually blamed her on the head again. Li glared at him and watched Lu Cheng walk towards the dining table. She also led the girls over.

The square table was usually spacious, and the four members of the Xu family and Ningxiang were sitting on the table. Now that there were A Tao and Lu Cheng, who was tall and tall, they immediately seemed a little squeezed. Ningxiang wanted to feed Anan to dinner, but Li tried to pick Anan over. After failing, he pinched Anan's little bad face that despised her and moved to the side. She and Xu Qiuer squeezed a little to avoid Ningxiang's inconvenience. He said to his nephew who was sitting on the other side of Ningxiang: "Amu eats honestly, don't touch your sister."

Amu nodded happily and was greedy for the delicious dishes that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

Li smiled and picked up a piece of pork rib for his nephew, and greeted everyone, "Eat it, don't be polite to anyone!"

Lu Cheng smiled and picked up the bowl to eat, but his eyes looked at Ningxiang.

His son was in Ningxiang's arms, and he saw it openly.

Ningxiang used the only small spoon at home to scoop a small piece of tender tofu and was blowing it to Anan.

Anan was already hungry, staring at the tofu on the spoon with big eyes, and pursing her little mouth.

Ningxiang was afraid that the tofu would burn the little guy, so she blew it twice and gently touched it with the tip of her tongue. She was sure it was really not hot, so she fed Anan.

Anan opened his mouth happily and ate very vigorously.

Lu Cheng lowered his head with dry mouth and stuffed a large mouthful of rice into his mouth.

There was a table of food in front of me, and the moment she opened her mouth and stuttered.
Chapter completed!