With the efforts of my aunt and sister-in-law, the small kitchen was quickly cleaned up, and Lu Fanghai was called to come over and move the cupboard, make room for firewood, add a lid to the water tank, and the stove room was brightened.Du Wenxiu went to the east wing room to see, sprinkled water and cleaned it again, sure enough, the dust did not fly all over the sky, a big kang occupied one-third of the space, and there was a high and low cabinet with a broken leg in the corner of the wall, and the bottom was against a piece of wood, which was quite stable.The end of the kang was next to the window, and there was a dusty lampstand in the window.Du Wenxiu smiled and squinted her eyes, nodded and looked at Lu Fanghai appreciatively, looked at the tall man with shame, and slapped the ashes on his body and turned towards the courtyard."
Those chicks, let's build a chicken nest and raise them, it's not enough to just keep them in this cage for a long time."
Du Wenxiu shouted behind him."
Well, I'm going to chop some bamboo to build."
After speaking, he went to the west chamber and took a rusty machete and walked towards the courtyard gate."
Hey" Du Wenxiu hurriedly stopped him, a little crying and laughing."
Where is it so urgent, now that it's dark, you have such a rusty knife again, and you can't cut down a single tree until it's dark."
Looking at the machete in his hand, Lu Fanghai lowered his head and touched his neck, and said with a smile: "I have a lot of strength." ”"It's not good to have a lot of strength, they all say that sharpening a knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter, you sharpen it today, it's sharp, and you will naturally work fast tomorrow."
Du Wenxiu smiled and took the knife from his hand, put it aside, drew a basin of water, wet the hand towel in it, and handed it to Lu Fanghai to wipe the ashes on his face.After he roughly wiped it, the water in the basin turned black, Du Wenxiu splashed the water, called Qiao'er to come over to help make a fire, and prepared to cook by himself.It was getting dark outside, and Fang didn't light the lamp or speak in the hall, quiet as if there was no one like her.When cleaning today, Du Wenxiu had already found that there was nothing in the house except salt, and there was no oil, so he had to stir-fry.There was still half a piece of tofu left at noon, so she had to cut it to make shallots and mix tofu, and she was willing to put salt for Fang's, which naturally tasted better.Cook some more millet rice, wait until the heat is almost ready, chop the cabbage, add it and roll it gently, and sprinkle a little salt, the aroma is overflowing.Du Wenxiu heard Qiao'er's voice swallowing saliva, and he couldn't help but be greedy.After cooking the meal, he set up a small table at the door of the kitchen, Qiao'er ran in and asked Fang Shi, who was lying on the kang, to get up and eat, and Du Wenxiu took everyone's food and put it over.Reluctantly, Fang slowly moved out of the dark room, and saw the thick rice in everyone's bowl by the moonlight in the sky, only to feel that the corners of his eyes suddenly jumped."
You ruined daughter-in-law, you cook like you, where do you live these days?
The rice in this bowl can be enough for us to eat for two days, look at you" Fang's eyes darkened, and he shook his body, Lu Fanghai and Qiao'er hurriedly put their hands on them and helped them.How the lunch was cooked, Du Wenxiu also knew that it was not surprising to see that the Fang clan would have such a reaction.He smiled and said: "Mother, don't be annoyed, husband, he has to cut bamboo tomorrow, Qiao'er is also growing her body, how can you do it if you can't eat enough."
In the future, my husband and I will work harder, earn money well, make our family live better and better, and eat as much as you want" Before she finished speaking, Fang Shi looked at her eyes as if she was about to breathe fire, and bent down at lightning speed, took off a shoe, raised her hand, and threw it at her.Although the incident happened suddenly, Du Wenxiu was young in the end, and he avoided the first time, and was a little stunned for a while: Do you want to pretend to cry or scold back?"
Mother!"
Lu Fanghai lost Fang's arm and walked over to pull Du Wenxiu: "You haven't been smashed, have you?"
”Du Wenxiu reacted at this time, didn't answer, forcefully pushed away Lu Fanghai's hand, walked to the table with a cold face, and picked up chopsticks to eat."
If my mother doesn't want to eat, then don't eat it, let my husband and Qiao'er each eat more, tomorrow Qiao'er and I will go digging wild vegetables, there are men in the family who can work, and women also have hands and feet, and they are afraid of starving to death?"
Du Wenxiu didn't look back, and said in a cold tone.Hearing her words, Fang's hands trembled with anger, when will it be your turn to call the shots in this family?
pointed at her back and wanted to scold."
Mother, sit down and eat, Xiuniang is also kind, and what Xiuniang said is right, I am back, and I will not let my mother and sister suffer in the future."
Lu Fanghai's lips pursed for a long time, and finally held back such a sentence, so he also sat down to eat.Qiao'er gently tugged Fang's arm, Fang's face turned red, thinking about what his son said at lunch, coupled with what he said just now, did he dare to scold.She stood still, and Qiao'er didn't dare to go over.Du Wenxiu was angry in his heart, and he was also hungry, so he ate quickly, and he bottomed out in a few bites.Turning his head to look at Qiao'er, he said loudly: "Qiao'er come and eat, if my mother doesn't eat, and if you don't eat either, I'll eat one more bowl, and I just haven't eaten yet." ”Hearing her say this, Fang's temperament came up again.If the extra bowl of rice is eaten by her son and daughter, it will be fine, and if she eats it, she is afraid that she will not be able to sleep tonight.took a few aggressive steps, "snapped" and knocked off Du Wenxiu's hand stretched out to his bowl, and as soon as he sat down and picked up the bowl, he "purred" and picked it up in his mouth.Du Wenxiu hissed, rubbed the position of the beaten hand on his hand, and was not annoyed, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he squinted his eyes at Qiao'er who was covering his mouth and snickering: "I haven't come to eat yet." ”Qiao'er responded, ran over and sat down with a cigarette and picked up the bowl."
Mother, don't worry too much, when I came back, the army once sent down the salary for these years, although it is not much, but it is enough for our family to support some days, and then I find a job to do, and the family will slowly get better."
Lu Fanghai said softly to Fang Shi.Fang didn't look at him either, lowered his head to eat, and for a long time, he said a soft "um", indicating that he knew.After eating and cleaning up, Qiao'er and Fang's went to the hall, while Lu Fanghai and Du Wenxiu went to the East Chamber.Both of them are a little embarrassed, although they are husband and wife both nominally and legally, but they still don't know each other very well, and they are quite strangers.Du Wenxiu is the soul of a modern person inside, but at that time, he didn't look very good, and he was focused on his career and saving money.Now that she is in the same room with her legal husband, she can't help but feel a little panicked, should she take the initiative or be reserved?
The Lu family is really poor, they can't even light a lamp, Lu Fanghai took off his clothes and went to the kang in the dark, pulled a broken list and covered himself, only to feel nervous and out of breath.Whether it was Du Wenxiu in the past or Du Wenxiu now, they didn't know that Lu Fanghai had actually seen her a long time ago and put her in his heart.