After finishing the busy work on Baoshan, the Chu family's old house returned to its leisurely days. There are four festivals in a year related to sacrifices. After the Ghost Festival, it is the Winter Clothes Festival on the first day of October. In between, paper money The shop's business is considered off-season, so Chu Yi plans to keep the shop open for a while this year.
After hearing Chu Yi's plan, Shen Luzhu didn't feel anything wrong, but felt a little guilty: "Of course, Chu Yi, are you too tired recently? Since I was pregnant, all the work at home and in the shop has been exhausted. It’s you who are doing it, so it’s okay if the shop is closed for a while, so you can take a good rest!”
Chu Yi shook his head and smiled: "How could it be? Now we don't have to make coffins or farm the land. When the shop is busy, everyone will come over to help. How can we be tired? I just think it's too hard for you to be pregnant. Let's not stop now." The door is open, I will stay with you at home."
Shen Luzhu grinned, and then said firmly: "Chu Yi, you are simply a model husband! I probably did some great deeds in my previous life, such as sacrificing my life for the country and saving lives with my own efforts. The kind that took over the entire country!"
After being married for so long, Chu Yi has long been accustomed to some strange words from his wife, but occasionally Shen Luzhu will still be stunned, shaking his head and laughing: "Why the previous life?"
Shen Luzhu was stunned for a moment. Sure enough, pregnancy will affect IQ. She accidentally said it right just now, because she still remembered what happened in her previous life: "Well... because I have done good things in my life, and I can't replace you!"
Regarding his wife's love words from time to time, Chu Yi has now changed from being shy and shy at the beginning to being complicit: "Well, then I must have done good deeds for ten lifetimes!"
Shen Luzhu laughed so hard that Chu Yi was afraid that she would bump into something, so he stretched out his arms to hug her. He didn't have to do anything, just looked at her like this, and felt happy and satisfied.
After laughing enough, Shen Luzhu seemed to suddenly remember something, and suddenly said "Hey": "Chu Yi, you said that if we always talk like this, our children will become some kind of love experts in the future, specializing in using sweet words to deceive others. Feelings, the kind that don’t want to be responsible!”
Chu Yi was stunned when he was asked. He didn't understand why his wife suddenly had such an idea!
"It's prenatal education! I heard that when children are in grandma's belly, they can hear what daddy and grandma are saying, and they can not only hear but also learn. Isn't our prenatal education a little bad? ?」
Chu Yi experienced the period when Cui was pregnant with Chu Li when he was a child. He saw Cui talking to little Chu Li who was still in her belly at that time, and also saw Chu Li when the fetus was moving. There was no doubt about this. He said, "Our child will definitely follow his mother-in-law, who is smart and kind. Besides, he is still young, so he will be fine."
Shen Luzhu thought about it. This child is probably still a little pea. His ears may not have developed yet, so he probably won't be able to understand anything. It seems that there is no need to worry about raising a little scumbag or a little scum for the time being. Female!
Although the paper money shop in the Chu family's old house has stopped, the work of Chu Ping and Zhao Cheng's family in making copper coins and burning paper and making paper ingots in the workshop has not completely stopped. Everyone is still preparing for the Winter Clothes Festival in more than two months. The preparation is just because the shop is not open, but there is no need to work against the clock every day like before, and there is no need to go to Chu's house to deliver goods every day.
The shop was closed, all the farmland in the family was hired out, and Aunt Han was hired to help cook every day. The young couple was completely idle and spent their days doing nothing or taking advantage of the lack of sunlight in the yard. Wandering around, or visiting the homes of relatives and friends, or staying in the house reading some travel notes, or when Jiang Juan, Yuan Shuang and others come over, playing cards in the guest room in the west wing, and living a good life. That's called comfort.
Sometimes Shen Luzhu would suddenly have a whim, and he and Chu Yi would get together to study how to make something. Thanks to Chu Yi's carpentry skills, many novelties that no one else had heard of quickly appeared in the Chu family yard. object.
For example, a baby crib that can be placed on the kang is surrounded by a low wooden fence. The bottom is made into a semicircle with a very small arc by Chu Yi. It will gently sway on the kang with a little force. The crib has no Bed legs, so that even in winter, the rocking bed can be placed on the warm stove.
Another example is that one day Shen Luzhu saw someone walking on a cane in the yard.
Uncle Chu, he suddenly remembered the wheelchair. Now the yard at home has been renovated. Without the dirt, it is flat and smooth. It would be so convenient if the wheelchair could be given to Uncle Chu.
So he hurriedly told this idea to his husband-in-law, who was very skilled in craftsmanship: "It's like a chair. People can sit on it. It just replaces the four legs of the chair with two big wheels. There is a circle of handles outside the wheels." , so that Uncle San can sit on it and push the wheelchair by himself without using crutches, and he can go wherever he wants to go!"
Although Chu Yi had never seen it, after listening to his wife's description, he could already imagine that if he really made it, Uncle Chu would be able to sit on it and come and go freely, so he hurriedly put it in the wheelchair while nothing happened. in development and production.
Although Shen Luzhu said it was simple, just replace the four legs of the chair with wheels, but when it was actually done, it was completely different. For example, how to make the wheels where to make them, and how to level a chair without legs stably. Putting it on two round wheels, it will not tip over. For example, how can Uncle Chu, who is sitting in a wheelchair, easily push the wheelchair he is sitting on?
Fortunately, Chu Yi is a good carpenter, and he has loved to play with small gadgets made of wood since he was a child. Finally, he finally made a wheelchair based on an armchair in his main hall and the wheel of his family's ox cart. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, I gave it to Uncle Chu as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift.
Uncle Chu had already known the purpose and appearance of the wheelchair from the young couple, but he was still very pleasantly surprised when he saw the real thing. He looked left and right around the wheelchair and couldn't put it down for a long time. Finally, under the urging of everyone, he let it go. Chu Yi helped him sit on it, and then followed the method taught by the young couple, gently holding the armrests on both sides of the wheel and pulling it backwards. The chair actually rolled half a foot forward!
Uncle Chu was as happy as a child sitting in the wheelchair: "This thing is so amazing! How did you two think of it? You can sit on it and you can move with a slight pull. This is much easier than using crutches." !」
Although Chu Yi had tried this wheelchair many times during the previous production process, seeing his third uncle sitting on it today, he still felt like he was dreaming. It was very magical: "It's all A Zhu's imagination." It came out, I didn’t expect it to actually be done!”
Shen Luzhu smiled sheepishly. Every time like this, she had the illusion of being caught stealing something in public: "I didn't think of it, I just read it in a book before. It’s all thanks to Chu Yi’s superb craftsmanship that it was made. Otherwise, how could it really come true just by relying on my imagination!”
Uncle Chu was sitting in his wheelchair and smiled even more amiably: "It's all good, all is good, you two are great, you are indispensable, hahaha!"
"Third uncle, please move a little more and see if there is any discomfort in this wheelchair?"
"Okay, okay, I'll take a walk around the front and back yards and take a look!"
Seeing Uncle Chu's back happily playing with the wheelchair, Shen Luzhu thought of another thing that was somewhat similar to the wheelchair, and that was the baby stroller!
However, it would still be a long time before the child in her belly was born. Even if she was born, she couldn't push him out for a walk right away. What's more, according to her own calculations, the child should be born in the coldest month of the twelfth or first month. I haven't been able to use the opportunity for a while, so I'm not in a hurry.
What is even more urgent now is the Mid-Autumn Festival that is about to come. Ever since she married into the Chu family, Shen Luzhu has spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous years with Mr. Chu, his mother-in-law, and Uncle Chu’s family, with people he hates. Not to mention it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, just telling her that she suddenly got a thousand taels of silver would probably reduce her excitement and happiness. This Mid-Autumn Festival is the first Mid-Autumn Festival after the family separation, so naturally it needs to be a lively one.
When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes and osmanthus wine are indispensable. Shen Luzhu first asked Chu Yi and Chu Ping to build a new stove specifically for baking mooncakes in his yard, and then shared the various filling recipes and mooncakes he thought of. I taught Aunt Han, who is an excellent craftsman, how to make it. There are all kinds of bean paste fillings, fruit fillings, bacon fillings and salted egg yolk fillings.
In addition, Shen Luzhu also took Yuan Shuang to make a lot of snow-skin mooncakes with glutinous rice. Although he still couldn't touch oily things at the moment, he still wanted them for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In addition to mooncakes, he also went to town to buy several jars of fine osmanthus wine. Shen Luzhu also prepared osmanthus honey for himself and the children at home who couldn't drink, and used the glutinous rice left over from making mooncakes to make osmanthus flowers. ball.
The young couple invited the grandfather's family next door in advance to spend this year's Mid-Autumn Festival together in their yard. Early that morning, everyone was busy working in the yard of the Chu family's old house. The yard was full of Shen Luzhu and Chu's old house. Yi bought lanterns from the town, and also prepared a lot of notes with lantern riddles written on them, and hung them on the persimmon trees in the yard. He also specially bought several clay sculptures of Lord Rabbit wearing armor, with small flags on their backs and long sticks in their hands. As if placed in the yard, the lanterns and colorful decorations seemed to be more lively than the Chinese New Year. .
The two families had a lively dinner. After the sun set, they set up a round table in the yard. While eating mooncakes and sipping osmanthus wine, they watched the moon and guessed lantern riddles.
After playing and making trouble, the group of people walked out of the courtyard with each other looking around. Under the light of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they strolled along the river bank in front of the village. Finally, they returned to the courtyard of the Chu family’s old house and held hands with each other. The Mid-Autumn Festival ends successfully when the Kongming lanterns with blessings written on them are placed.
