Chapter 124 Brothers are one family
Hearing Lu Weiguo say that he wanted to clean up the old house, Grandpa Lu quickly stopped people.
"You don't need to do this. Your father called and told you about this on the day you came back by train. Your second aunt and your two sisters-in-law have cleaned up for you. The quilts in the cupboard have been dried for you, and the kang has been cleaned and heated several times in advance."
The second aunt the grandpa was talking about was Wang Yueji, the wife of Lu Erming, and the two sisters-in-law were the two daughters-in-law of Lu Ershu's family.
Uncle Lu has two sons. The eldest is Lu Weibing, a public security officer, 27 years old this year, one year younger than Lu Weiguo. The younger is Lu Weijun, 24 years old this year, and the accountant of the brigade. The
two sons of Grandpa Lu have good relationships with each other, so Lu Erming will help out when Lu Daming can't take care of them on weekdays .
The old house has been uninhabited for a long time. If it weren't for Lu Erming's family helping to clean and maintain it from time to time, it would have fallen into disrepair over time.
After listening to his grandfather, Lu Weiguo didn't talk about cleaning anymore.
Uncle Lu's family should be working now, so they didn't bother them and waited until the evening to visit Uncle Lu's family.
Seeing that there was nothing to do, the old man asked them to go back to the old house to tidy up. The New Year would be here in a few days, and the two of them didn't need to go back to the county town.
Moreover, this house in the countryside was much more spacious and comfortable to live in than the one in the county town.
Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo said goodbye to the two elders and returned to the old house.
After parking the car in the open space in front of the gate, Shi Tingyu got out of the car first and looked inside the yard through the crack of the door.
The yard was very large, at least much larger than the one in their military compound.
On one side of the yard, next to the kitchen, there were neatly stacked firewood, and a lot of it was chopped. The pile of firewood was covered with a layer of waterproof plastic cloth. The other side of the yard should be a vegetable field, but there were no vegetables on it now.
After getting out of the car, Lu Weiguo took out the key from under a brick in front of the gate and opened the door.
He also saw the firewood in the yard, knowing that these must have been prepared by his second uncle's family.
The vegetable plot next to it is usually cultivated by his second uncle's family, and they are all farmers, so no one complains about having too much land.
Moreover, the vegetable garden reclaimed in their own yard is not considered public, so Lu Daming decided to give the vegetable plot in their yard to his second uncle's family next door.
Lu Weiguo put all the daily necessities back into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, he could still feel the temperature difference. Lu Weiguo
made a temporary nest for Li Jian with dry straw, and asked Shi Tingyu to go to the kang first, while he went to the kitchen to light a fire.
The old house of the Lu family has three rooms. One is in the east, connected to the kitchen by a wall, and the other two are connected together with a stove.
Because Lu Weiguo was not at home on weekdays, Lu's father and mother and Lu Jianguo's family would stay in the two rooms connected together in the west during the Chinese New Year. At that time, they could just light
the stove in the main room. The stove was connected to the kang in the two rooms.
But the kang in the inner room was not as hot as the one outside.
But it was not as cold here as in the three northeastern provinces, so it was enough to light the kang to make it warmer.
Lu Weiguo's room was separated from the stove in the kitchen by a wall.
The family usually likes to cook at the stove in the main room, but now that they are back, both stoves have to be lit, so cooking will be faster.
Soon Shi Tingyu felt the heat on the kang, and Lu Weiguo also came in.
After putting his toiletries in order, he prepared to go to his second aunt's house to get some food.
But before he could leave, his second aunt Lu came over after work.
Seeing a car at the door, Lu knew that it must be Lu Weiguo and his wife who had returned home.
She left work early this time to deliver food to Lu Weiguo.
Their family has been cultivating the vegetable garden of the old family for so many years, and they have never charged a penny, so every time the old family comes back, they are responsible for the vegetables. When they grow a lot of vegetables, they will go to the town from time to time to send some to the old family. Second
Aunt Lu carried a bamboo basket with a Chinese cabbage, a few potatoes, a few radishes, sprouts and tofu, and a piece of meat next to it. Other seasonings such as onions, ginger, garlic, etc. were also sent over.
The old family of Lu did not have these seasonings, so they were sent all at once, which would be enough for at least a month.
Hearing the knock at the door, Li Jian called out first.
Lu Weiguo knew it was his second aunt from the voice, and hurried over to open the door.
Second Aunt Lu hadn't seen Lu Weiguo for a long time, and she was surprised to see him.
After handing the vegetable basket to Lu Weiguo, Second Aunt Lu couldn't help asking, "Where's your wife?" Lu
Weiguo asked her to go into the house, "Xiaoyu is on the kang, it's too cold here."
Second Aunt Lu was just thinking about going over to take a look. Not to mention that the younger generation must come to see the elders, why did she ask him to put on clothes and come down from the kang when she was already on the kang.
But before she and Lu Weiguo reached the main room, Shi Tingyu came out.
She just heard Lu Weiguo say that it was Second Aunt who knocked on the door, so when she saw him, she also called Second Aunt.
Second Aunt Lu was stunned by Shi Tingyu's face, and she didn't even hear the other person calling her Second Aunt.
Lu Weiguo smiled and coughed lightly, saying, "Aunt, Xiaoyu is calling you."
Aunt Lu slapped her thigh and said, "Oh, I have never seen such a beautiful girl before. I was stunned for a moment. Look, how pretty she is."
Shi Tingyu said, "Aunt, come in and warm up quickly." At
this time, Aunt Lu remembered that she had to go home to cook for the whole family, so she didn't sit down.
"The masters in the field are still waiting for dinner. I won't sit down now. Wait for you and Weiguo to come home for dinner in the evening."
After saying that, she left in a hurry.
Lu Weiguo also smiled and said, "My aunt is very similar to my mother in character. They are both straightforward and do things in a hurry."
This is why the two sisters-in-law get along well.
"Very good." Shi Tingyu said, it was more comfortable to deal with such people.
Looking at the things brought by Aunt Lu Er, Shi Tingyu knew that Uncle Lu Er's family should have a good relationship with their family.
Nowadays, everyone is working, and the women in the family will come back to cook when it is almost time for dinner, so there is no time to get together at noon, so Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo can only cook and eat alone.
Lu Weiguo and Shi Tingyu worked together in the kitchen, making fried potatoes with pork slices and Chinese cabbage stewed with tofu.
Both dishes were quite large, and the two of them enjoyed the meal.
It was Shi Tingyu's first time eating on the kang, and she was very curious and enjoyed the atmosphere. However, when she cleaned the kang after dinner, she wiped it very carefully, fearing that oil would drip onto it accidentally.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Weiguo felt that Shi Tingyu was a little absent-minded. Knowing that she missed her parents, he got up and dressed and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see them from a distance."
Shi Tingyu's eyes lit up, and she quickly put on her clothes, looking like she could leave at any time.
Lu Weiguo took Shi Tingyu to the brigade headquarters first and found his cousin Lu Weijun, who was an accountant.
Lu Weijun saw the two people coming over and smiled happily. They all played behind Lu Weiguo when they were kids.
When he saw Shi Tingyu again, he knew that this must be the second sister-in-law. Lu Weijun hurriedly called for people to pour water and grab fried peanuts.
Lu Weiguo quickly held the people down and said, "I came here to ask you where the people in the cowshed are working now?"