101, help
101, help
“Knock knock—”
After reading for the whole morning, Lu Mingfei came to the kitchen to cook lunch for his family. Just as he finished cooking, he heard a knock on the door.
"It must be my mother and the others who have returned. You take the things into the house first, I'll go open the door." Knowing that his father and mother had returned at noon, Lu Mingfei handed the heated dishes to Zhang Qi to take to the main house, and then he came over to open the door.
"Here I come, Dad and Mom, are you back?"
"Oh, it's us." Liu Sanniang outside replied.
Hearing this, Lu Mingfei opened the gate to the courtyard. As soon as the gate opened, he saw his mother in front, his father leading the donkey behind, and two other people following beside them.
When the three of them looked at each other, Lu Mingfei recognized that these two were his cousins.
"Mingfei, look who's here? Do you remember them?" Lu Youtian asked his eldest son with a smile.
"I remember." Lu Mingfei looked at his two cousins, nodded, and called out with a smile, "Fifth brother, Sixth brother." Last year, he and his father went back to the village and met these two cousins, so when they met again, he recognized his two cousins at a glance.
"Hey." Lu Wulang paused and responded quickly.
Lu Liulang looked at his little cousin who was smiling at them, rubbing his hands nervously.
"Everyone, come in first." Lu Mingfei opened the doors on both sides and asked his mother and father to drive the donkey in first. He then invited his two cousins to come home and asked them, "Have you had lunch? I just heated up lunch and was about to eat it. If you don't mind, come up and eat with us."
"No, no, we just had dinner at Aunt San's stall and came here." Lu Wulang waved his hands and said hurriedly.
Lu Liulang looked at his little cousin, dressed in a white shirt and exuding the air of a scholar, and he tugged at the patched hem of his own shirt, feeling a little inferior. It was only at this moment that he realized clearly that he and his little cousin were already from two different worlds.
Lu Mingfei didn't know what his cousins were thinking, but he still stood there talking to his two cousins, asking them how they had time to come to the city.
"We heard that you, my seventh brother, passed the examination and became a Tongsheng student, so we wanted to come and congratulate you." After saying this twice, even they themselves believed it. Lu Wulang no longer stuttered when talking to his little cousin.
"You are so thoughtful." Lu Mingfei said with a smile.
He knew his two cousins had come all the way to the city to see them, surely not just to congratulate him, but also to visit their family for something else. Even after all these years, the micro-expressions they made when they lied were still the same as when they were little. He was just being kind and not exposing them.
Seeing the smile on their little cousin's face, Lu Wulang and Lu Liulang always felt that their little cousin knew what they were thinking.
***
Lu Youtian untied the donkey's rope, pulled it into the shed, tied it up, gave it some water and some hay, and said to his eldest son, who was still standing outside, "Mingfei, take your brothers upstairs to sit."
Lu Mingfei replied "OK", but before he could take his two cousins away, his younger brother ran out.
"Dad! Mom!" Lu Mingrui, who was in the house, heard the sounds of his father and mom coming back outside, so he stepped over the threshold with his short legs and ran out.
"Mingrui, come here to daddy." Lu Youtian clapped his hands at his youngest son and called him over.
Hearing this, Lu Mingrui called his father and ran over.
Lu Youtian picked up his youngest son and introduced him to his two nephews: "This is Mingfei's younger brother, Lu Mingrui. You two probably haven't met him yet. After he was born, his mother and I have been busy with business and have not had the time to bring him back to the village to meet everyone."
"Mingrui, this is your fifth brother, this is your sixth brother, call for help."
"Fifth brother, sixth brother." Lu Mingrui looked at the two brothers he had never met with curiosity in his beautiful eyes.
"Hey." Lu Wulang and Lu Liulang responded in unison.
They looked at their eighth cousin who looked somewhat similar to their seventh cousin. The child had a pair of big, bright eyes, and looked different from the members of their Lu family. These two cousins looked more like their third aunt (third uncle's mother).
In fact, Lu Wulang and Lu Liulang both knew very well in their hearts that their third uncle (third uncle) said he had no time to return to the village because their family had done something too extreme back then, which led to their third uncle (third uncle) and his family leaving the village and rarely returning.
In all the years since their third uncle and his family moved to the city, the only time they'd returned to the village was last year when their eldest cousin got married and brought their younger cousin back. That time, their eldest cousin deliberately embarrassed their third uncle in front of so many people, and before the banquet was even over, their third uncle took their younger cousin and left, never to return to the village again.
"Youtian, take everyone upstairs to eat. I'll clean up here." Liu Sanniang said to her husband who was holding their youngest son.
"Put it here first, I'll come out to clean it up later." Lu Youtian said.
"You go in first." Liu Sanniang waved to her husband with an expression that said, "Go in quickly and don't get in the way of my work."
"Come on, let's go upstairs." Lu Youtian had no choice but to take his two nephews and two sons to the main room first.
"Uncle." Lu Mingcong and Zhang Xiaobao stood at the door and called out.
Seeing three more children in the house, Lu Wulang and Lu Liulang felt a little strange. Didn't their uncle and aunt only have one child? Why were there three here?
Zhang Qi, who was in the house, saw the adults and elder brother coming back, so he said, "Uncle, elder brother, it's time to eat." Seeing two unfamiliar people following behind them, he looked at the two people with a little curiosity and inquiry in his eyes.
"These three are children of our friends and they often play at our house." Lu Youtian introduced the other three children in his family to his two nephews.
When Zhang Qi heard this introduction about him and his brother, he was surprised and at the same time, he felt an indescribable shock. At that moment, his eyes were sore and he almost cried. He had always felt that he and his brother had an awkward position in this family. They were two homeless beggars who were picked up by their kind brother and brother and taken in by two kind adults.
But now the adult who took the two brothers in said that they were children of a friend, instead of saying that they were homeless little beggars.
Seeing that there were two sets of bowls and chopsticks missing from the table, Lu Youtian said to his eldest son, "Mingfei, go get two more sets of bowls and chopsticks."
"I'll go, I'll go." Before his brother could respond, Zhang Qi quickly walked out to the kitchen to get the dishes.
There was a dining table in the main room, and on the table was the food for the family's lunch, a large bowl of rice, and a large bowl of stir-fried pork with sauerkraut and scrambled eggs with sauce.
Lu Mingfei had just cooked all these dishes in the kitchen, but his mother had left the rice for them that morning. Although his family ran a braised food business, they had been eating braised food for eight or nine years, and even the best food would get boring after so many years. So, since he had been studying at home, he had taken over the cooking chores for the past two days.
As for the tasks of clearing the table and washing dishes after dinner, they were left to Zhang Qi.
If Zhang Qi's cooking wasn't so bad, he would have wanted to let Zhang Qi do the cooking. However, after trying Zhang Qi's cooking, he decided not to torture his stomach and would rather spend ten minutes every day to stir-fry two side dishes to go with his meal. It just so happened that his father and mother would be home in the afternoon after finishing their morning sales, so the whole family would have lunch together.
He would rest at home for a while at noon, and then his father and mother would go to the pancake shop to make sausages and bacon in the afternoon. So the noon hour was the time for the family to eat lunch and rest.
However, there were two more guests at home today, so after lunch, Lu Mingfei and his father had to spend time here to entertain the two cousins.
Knowing that the two cousins must have encountered something when they came to the city to find them, and they didn't have the time to beat around the bush with the two cousins, Lu Mingfei asked the two cousins directly: "Fifth brother, Sixth brother, if you have any problems coming here today, just tell us and we will find a solution for you."
He did not promise right away that he would definitely help you solve any problem you have, and they may not have the ability to help others solve any problem.
Lu Mingfei couldn't say he disliked these two cousins, who had played together as children and had a fairly good relationship. However, they hadn't been in touch for so many years, so to say they had a close relationship would be a lie. However, as brothers, if the two cousins really encountered any problems, he would be willing to help them find a solution and solve it together.
"I, we..." Lu Wulang didn't expect that his cousin had already seen that they came here today for something. When he thought about the poor excuse they had just used, it turned out that his cousin and their uncle and aunt had already known about it, and his face flushed.
Lu Liulang rubbed his hands nervously, not knowing what to say, and just looked at his fifth cousin who came with him.
The two brothers exchanged a glance. Lu Wulang then looked at his uncle and cousin before him, lowering his head and saying, "Third uncle and seventh brother, you all know the situation at home. Liulang and I are getting older year by year, and we don't have any proper jobs. We just help the family farm and occasionally do odd jobs for the landlords. The money we earn doesn't even reach us..."
"So, we are thinking that since you are so smart, can you help us find a way to make money?" Otherwise, they have grown up year by year, and now their second and fourth rooms have no spare money, and their grandparents seem reluctant to spend money to marry them off. Author's gossip: Thanks to Bole 9492239 (9492239) for supporting me, mua! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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