Chapter 84 I came closer and saw that it was my house
Lu Xing has a new nephew, but nothing seems to have changed.
When I got up in the morning, my eldest nephew helped feed the pigs and chickens, swept the yard, and fetched two buckets of water from the river.
Breakfast was white porridge with pickled vegetables. Because there was one more person, Lu Xing also fried an extra egg.
After eating the porridge, she prepared to go to the field to check on the winter melon. Two days ago, she saw a winter melon that was almost ripe.
Lu Nianjun couldn't leave today either, as he had to go burn some incense for his father.
When they arrived at the field, many people were curious about Lu Xing's nephew who appeared out of nowhere.
"Aunt, I heard that your family suddenly has a nephew. Is it true? Is he a liar?"
"Looking at that guy's size, he looks like someone you don't want to mess with."
Lu Xing: "He really is my nephew. He's leaving in two days. I'm going to make dumplings for him."
Dumplings stuffed with winter melon are not available outside.
To make these dumplings, you must first start by kneading the dough, so that the dumpling skin is tough and thin.
When I got home, Lu Nianjun was still boxing in the yard. Although he had retired, he still kept the habit of exercising.
"Nianjun, are you used to spicy food?"
"Auntie, no need to burn it, I'll just light some incense and leave."
"Well, you've come all this way, I'm going to make sure you're full before you leave."
The custom in Xiaoshi Village is that when distant guests come, they must eat a full meal before leaving. They are asked to eat tea eggs first, and then noodles or dumplings depending on their personal preferences.
Yesterday, people arrived in time, and there weren't many dishes at Lu Xing's house, so he just cooked something simple for dinner.
This morning she went to the fields to pick the freshest vegetables, and asked the village chief to go to the town to chop two pounds of meat.
A pound of fat is used to make oil, and the dumplings are made with vegetarian fillings, such as winter melon and tofu. The rest of the vegetables are added depending on what seasonal vegetables are available. The oil residue is added to the vegetarian fillings to make them more delicious.
Use another pound of bones to make soup at night.
Lu Nianjun had never eaten dumplings stuffed with winter melon before. He dipped them in the seasoning and ate them. The juice exploded in his mouth. The first thing he tasted was the aroma of the oil residue, followed by the umami flavor.
In the past, Lu Xing's family was poor. Other families ate dumplings stuffed with pork, and they also clamored to eat meat dumplings, so her mother came up with this idea.
At least it has some meaty smell.
Moreover, the winter melon is grown at home, and the quantity is large enough to fill you up.
Lu Nianjun is not very good at speaking and doesn't like to talk much. He feels that socializing with others is more tiring than boxing on the stage. However, after eating the dumplings that Lu Xing worked so hard to make, it seems not right not to say something.
"Auntie, your dumplings are so delicious."
"Delicious? Eat more. I'll pack some for you on the day you leave, and you can take it back."
"Um."
After a while, Lu Xing tried to find a topic, "You don't want to box anymore, what are you going to do in the future?"
"I don't know, let me try to see if I can be a coach first."
“That’s pretty good.”
After lunch, Lu Xing took Lu Nianjun to her brother's grave.
Her brother's tombstone was small, with only his name engraved on it. In front of the grave were the cakes that Lu Xing had brought him during the Chinese New Year.
Next to where her brother was buried was the land allocated to her family.
When Lu Nianjun was burning incense, he didn't know what to say to his father who had passed away early and whom he had never met, so he silently burned a few more pieces of paper.
When burning paper, a wind came from nowhere and blew the ashes of the burnt paper high up.
"Brother, Nianjun came to see you and brought back the photos you took back then."
There was no one answering in front of the tomb, only the wind was howling.
Lu Nianjun squatted on the ground and burned paper. As he was burning, he suddenly said, "My mother has been waiting for you for a long, long time."
“后来她被逼着嫁给另一个人，那人不是什么好人，在我长大以前，我和我妈一直是他的挨揍对象。”
"I hate him so much. I hate why he is my dad."
"One day, my mother secretly told me that you are my biological father and even showed me a photo of you two. I instantly breathed a sigh of relief. It was so great! I'm not that bad guy's son."
"That scumbag didn't stay arrogant for long. Once I can swing the stick, I won't just be beaten."
"Later, my mother divorced him, and I dropped out of school because my family had no money. I started boxing to make money."
"I made some money, and life got a little better. My mom didn't have to work so hard anymore. She passed away last year. It was a happy funeral. I wonder if you guys can see her down there."
"I hope you're all doing well down there."
He held up the incense and bowed.
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After Lu Nianjun left, Lu Xing's life returned to normal.
The excavation of the tomb in the town has not been completed yet, and many places in the town have to be demolished. Fortunately, there are government subsidies, so the losses are not too great.
Bai Lu also returned to school to work. She is now the principal. The school is moving, and she has a lot of work to do.
Lu Xing and the others can sit at the village entrance and chat again.
Everyone was very interested in the story of the eldest nephew who suddenly appeared in her family.
But Lu Nianjun had stayed at Lu Xing's house for two days and had hardly talked about his own affairs. Lu Xing really didn't know the answers to the questions others asked.
Seeing that they couldn't get any information, they could only turn to talk about other topics.
"When we were chatting in a new place before, didn't we find a dilapidated house? I don't know whose it was, but it was just left there in such a dilapidated state."
The house was at the back of the village. Lu Xing rarely went to the back and didn't know who owned it. "That house at the back has been there for a while, right? Where's the person who lived there?"
You'd have to ask Liu Hehua about this. She had a good impression of everyone in the village. "That house in the back? It's an old house. The two sons split up and moved out a long time ago."
"And the house was left unoccupied?"
In Xiaoshi Village, many people have split up their families, but there are almost no people who move out and leave their old houses dilapidated without maintenance.
Due to poverty, most people do not have the money to build a second house. Some families still live together even after they separate, simply because they have no money.
Lu Xing asked, "Is this family so rich? After the family split up, they didn't want the old house anymore?"
"No, his family didn't have any money. They couldn't even afford to send two children to school. They had no choice but to let the older one drop out and work to support the younger one."
"The younger son was also very hardworking. He later made money in another place and never came back. The eldest son wanted to split the family property with his father because he hated his father's partiality. He never came to visit after the family split and didn't even help repair the old house when it collapsed."
"A few days later, someone passed by the house and smelled a foul odor coming from the house. That's when they discovered that the old man had been killed by falling bricks."
"Neither of my sons came to the funeral, and no one has been in the house to clean it up."
I don’t know if it was because the old man died so tragically, but after he passed away, no one dared to enter the house to clean it up, so the house became abandoned.
No one usually hangs out there.
"Who is that eldest son? Is he still in our village? He didn't even attend the funeral just because he was partial. That's too much."
Yufen hadn't been out for several days, and she didn't expect to hear such an interesting thing happening in someone else's home as soon as she went out.
Liu Hehua glanced at Yufen who was laughing happily and said, "Why are you laughing? The eldest son is your husband."
Yufen, who had been laughing non-stop, choked up at these words. She thought about her husband's character and said, "Auntie, please don't talk nonsense. With my husband's personality, how could he do such a thing, and I have no idea about it?"
"I'm not kidding, it's really your husband."
Just now, she thought that family was ungrateful, but when she heard it was her husband, Yufen's attitude immediately changed. Her husband must have a reason for doing such a thing. It was not easy for her to lose the opportunity to study and make money to support her younger brother's education.
"My husband's life isn't easy either. His father must be too partial to him. His younger brother isn't a good person either. His brother dropped out of school to work to support him, and he hasn't come back to visit or help out in all these years."
"It's so heartless, not a good thing."
"Why didn't he come back? That guy made some money and came home to show off. I don't know what bad things he said, but your wife beat him up so hard that his face was swollen."
"Then he didn't dare come back."
Liu Hehua saw it with her own eyes when the two men were fighting. They were usually very quiet people, but when they started fighting, they became very fierce.
After hearing this, Yufen felt relieved. "That's fine. As long as I didn't suffer any loss."
As long as her husband doesn't suffer any loss, it won't be a joke if this matter is made public.
【Author has something to say】
I don't know what my mom's secret recipe is.
The dumplings stuffed with winter melon are really delicious!
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