Su Yan planned to wait until the incident was over and all the tenants moved out, and then she would hire someone to renovate the courtyard house.
The valuable antique furniture was kept, and all the broken furniture was chopped up and used as firewood.
The worthless furniture used by tenants was given to relatives in the countryside, and matching furniture was remade in each courtyard.
Build a glass greenhouse in the front yard to grow orchids, plant hydrangeas and roses in the west garden, and plant peonies in the east garden...
Old Dalu Yiming lives in the east courtyard, and his daughter Lu Yiru will be arranged to live in the west courtyard in the future. Lu Yian and Lu Yining will live in the front courtyard, and Su Yan and Lu Ting will live in the main courtyard.
Su Yan thought of the fruit trees in the yard. They had produced a lot of fruit every year over the years, but Lu Ting didn't have time to pick them, so the tenants ended up eating them all.
"Lu Ting, you said we planted so many fruit trees, but it seems like you never went to pick them in the summer."
"Yes, they were not ripe when I went there, and when they were ripe, they had already been picked by the tenants, even the fruits in the backyard were not spared.
They almost wanted to dig up the pomegranate and cherry trees we planted, so I simply let them divide the fruit among themselves, but each family had to share the fruit equally, the trees could not be moved, and they had to actively help water and fertilize the trees.
"They still want to move the tree?"
"They have never seen cherries this big. The pomegranates we grow are different from those grown out there."
Soft-seeded pomegranates are definitely different from ordinary pomegranates today. Even the golden candied dates grown in the backyard are sweeter than ordinary dates today.
There used to be persimmon trees in the backyard, but they were eventually cut down. Now we plant golden thread candied dates and apple trees. We didn’t plant pear trees because they were considered unlucky.
"When the tenants move out, you must keep an eye on them and prevent them from damaging the fruit trees."
"Okay, I will never let them destroy the fruit trees."
The fruit trees in the space are more than ten years old. Su Yan was worried at first that their fruit-bearing rate would decrease, but it turned out that the fruit trees did not change at all, and they were still the same as before.
Su Yan planned to wait until the day when the fruit trees in the space no longer bear fruit, then she would cut down those trees and plant new ones.
Some small saplings several dozen centimeters tall have been cultivated in the fields. They should grow into large fruit-bearing saplings in a few years. When the time comes, they can be grafted. Maybe those fruit trees will really bear fruit.
A few years ago, Lu Ting took Su Yan to Jinshi, and Lu Yiming stayed at home with his younger brother and sister.
The young man is growing very fast and is now almost 1.8 meters tall. Su Yan suspects that if Lu Yiming continues to eat like this, he will definitely grow to 1.9 meters.
She is 1.7 meters tall, Lu Ting is 1.82 meters tall, and as long as Lu Yiming gets enough nutrition, there will be no problem for him to grow to 1.9 meters. After all, he is only twelve years old.
He spent five years in elementary school and two years in junior high school. He was in the first grade when he was less than six years old, and he skipped a grade. Who would have thought that he was already in the first year of high school when he was just over twelve years old.
Lu Fengnian carried a piece of donkey meat and walked towards his eldest son's house. He knocked on the door and entered the house to find that his daughter-in-law and his wife were not there.
Lu Fengnian asked Lu Yiming, "Where are your parents?"
"My dad took her to meet his friends."
"Where are you going to meet your friends?"
"Tsu City."
Lu Fengnian felt that his son was hiding something from him. Why did he and his wife go to Jinshi every year? Could they be secretly doing something in partnership with someone?
When his son comes back, he will definitely ask him about it. Although the situation has eased in the past two years, he still cannot make mistakes on issues of principle.
"You guys eat the donkey meat tonight. You don't need to leave any for your parents. Donkey meat should be eaten fresh."
I only managed to get five pounds of donkey meat, kept three pounds at home, and gave two pounds to my eldest son. But I didn't know they didn't have the pleasure of enjoying it and were not at home.
When Su Yan left, the family left behind two pieces of bacon, a grass carp, an old hen, a basket of eggs, a few white radishes and a bunch of green vegetables, which were enough for the children to eat for two days.
Lu Yiming didn't hesitate and stewed the donkey meat with white radish that night. He didn't know how to roast the meat.
The next evening, Lu Ting and Su Yan returned with two large bags of seafood: one bag of dried goods and one bag of fresh seafood.
Lu Yiming and his three siblings were so happy because they knew that their parents would bring back a lot of delicious food every time they went out.
Lu Ting used buckets and basins to separate the various seafood. Lu Yirou pointed at the bamboo clams and asked:
"Dad, what are these?"
"Bamboo razor clam."
"Oh, they look so weird. Dad, should we give this bag of seafood to Grandpa? My brother and I can take it over."
Lu Ting looked at the dozen pounds of seafood in the bag: shrimp, swimming crab, octopus, and a little yellow croaker. This should be enough for them to have a meal. There was still a lot of seafood in the space. He would send them some for the New Year and keep the rest for them to enjoy slowly.
"Okay, you go with your sister."
Lu Ting handed the wet fresh seafood to Lu Yiming, and took out a big bag containing two dried hairtail fish, five pounds of dried shrimp, three pounds of clam meat, and a bunch of dried kelp.
"Come, carry these over together."
"Dad, let's have a seafood dinner tonight. I won't stay at grandpa's for dinner then."
"Okay, you can deliver the things over there. Go early and come back early."
Lu Yiming carried two bags of seafood and took Lu Yiru to the Lu family. Lu Yian and Lu Yining were at home doing their winter vacation homework.
Su Yan felt a little nauseous after being outside in the wind, so Lu Ting asked her to go back to her room and lie down while he was busy preparing dinner.
When Lu Fengnian learned that Lu Ting and his wife had returned, he came directly with his grandchildren.
As soon as he went upstairs, he stood by the stove, watching Lu Ting cook rice, and asked, "I heard you went to Jinshi these past two days."
"Well, my friend's wife gave birth to a son, and I took her there for the full moon banquet. There were some red eggs in the cupboard, and I planned to peel them all and make fried eggs. Dad, don't leave, just eat at our house."
His friend did give birth to a son last month, but the full moon banquet was held two days earlier. However, he brought his wife there, and his friend also prepared a bag of red eggs for him.
Seeing that Lu Ting's answer was flawless, Lu Fengnian wondered if he had guessed wrong. No, it was definitely not a coincidence that it happened every year. He decided to stay and take his son back to his grandson's room for a good chat. He would ask him what he had been doing in Jin City all these years.
"Okay, then I'll eat at your place tonight."
After dinner, Lu Fengnian pulled Lu Ting back to his room to ask some questions. Su Yan felt it was inconvenient to listen, so she took the children downstairs to fetch some water.
"Ting'er, just tell Dad the truth. You've been going to Jin City all these years. Are you secretly colluding with someone to resell supplies?"
Lu Ting knew his father was suspicious of him, but he would never admit it, "Dad, where can I go to resell supplies to them?"
"Then why do you go to Tsu City at the end of every year?"
"My wife loves the sea. I'll take her to a small fishing village for a walk and meet some friends during my two-day break at the end of the year."
Lu Fengnian sneered, "Oh, even if you don't tell me, I know that you must be reselling supplies with your friends outside. If you don't have the source of goods, then you must have invested money.
You are a soldier, you must be worthy of this uniform. I advise you not to do some things, so as not to ruin your future."
"Okay, Dad, I know my limits, don't worry."
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