Hearing Lu Weiguo say that he wanted to clean the old house, Mr. Lu quickly stopped him.
"You don't need to do this. On the day you came back by train, your father called and told you about this. Your second aunt and your two sisters-in-law had packed it for you, and the quilts in the cabinet were also dried for you. Yes, the kang has been cleaned and burned several times in advance.”
The second aunt the old man was talking about was Lu Erming's daughter-in-law Wang Yueji, and the two younger sisters-in-law were the two daughters-in-law of Uncle Lu's family.
Uncle Lu has two sons. The eldest son is called Lu Weibing and is a police officer. He is 27 years old and one year younger than Lu Weiguo. The younger son is called Lu Weijun. He is 24 years old and is the accountant of the brigade.
Mr. Lu's two sons have a good relationship with their families, so if Lu Daming cannot take care of them on weekdays, Lu Erming will help.
The old house has been unoccupied for many years. If it weren't for the Lu Erming family who helped clean and maintain it from time to time, it would have been ruined over time.
After listening to the old man's words, Lu Weiguo stopped talking about cleaning.
The second uncle's family should be at work now, so they didn't bother them and just waited until the evening to visit the second uncle's house.
When the old man saw that nothing happened, he asked them to go back to the old house to tidy up. The Chinese New Year would be coming in a few days, and the two of them did not need to return to the county seat.
Moreover, this house in the countryside is much more spacious and comfortable than the one in the county town.
Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo said goodbye to their two elders and returned to their old house.
Parking the car in the open space in front of the gate, Shi Tingyu got out of the car first and looked in through the crack in the door to look into the yard.
This courtyard is very big, at least much larger than the family courtyard of their military region.
On one side of the yard next to the kitchen are firewood piled high and neatly, and a lot of it has been split. The pile of firewood is also covered with a layer of waterproof plastic sheeting. The other side of the yard should be a vegetable patch, but now it is above it. There is no food.
After Lu Weiguo got out of the car, he took out the key from under a brick in front of the door and opened the door.
He also saw the firewood in the yard and knew that these must have been prepared by his second uncle's family.
The vegetable field next to it is usually grown by my second uncle's family, and they are all farmers. No one thinks there is too much land.
Moreover, the vegetable garden cultivated in his own yard is not owned by the public, so Lu Daming decided to give the vegetable plot in their yard to the second uncle's family next door.
Lu Weiguo put all the daily necessities back into the house.
As soon as you enter the house, you can still feel the temperature difference.
Lu Weiguo made a temporary nest for Li Jian with dry straw, and asked Shi Tingyu to get on the kang first, while he went to the kitchen to light the fire.
The Lu family's old house has three rooms. One room is on the east side and is connected to the kitchen through a wall. The other two rooms are connected together and share a stove.
Because Lu Weiguo is not at home usually, Lu's father, Lu's mother, and Lu Jianguo's family always live in two rooms connected to the west when they come back for the New Year. At that time, they can just burn the stove in the main room.
The stove is connected to the kang in the two rooms.
It's just that the kang in the inner room is not as hot as the one outside.
It's just that it's not as cold here as in the three eastern provinces, so the kang is enough to keep it warm.
Separated from the stove in the kitchen is Lu Weiguo's room.
The family usually cooks on the stove in the main room, but now that they are back, both stoves have to be fired up, and the cooking will be faster.
Soon Shi Tingyu felt the heat on the kang, and Lu Weiguo also came in.
After putting away the toiletries, he was going to go to his second aunt's house to get some food.
But before he could go out, Aunt Lu came over from work early.
Seeing a car at the door, Aunt Lu knew that Lu Weiguo and his wife should have arrived home.
She left work early this time to deliver food to Lu Weiguo.
Their family has been planting the vegetable garden for so many years, and they haven’t received a penny from them. So every time the boss and his family come back, the vegetables are provided by their family. When they grow a lot of vegetables, they will go to town from time to time. Send some to everyone.
Aunt Lu carried a bamboo basket in her hand, which contained a Chinese cabbage, a few potatoes, a few radishes, as well as fermented bean sprouts and tofu. There was also a piece of meat next to it, as well as other onions, ginger, garlic and other condiments. Some came over.
Mr. Lu doesn't have these seasonings, so if you send them all at once, it will be fine for at least a few months.
Hearing the call outside the door, Li Jian shouted 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 it was quite strange to see him.
After handing the vegetable basket to Lu Weiguo, Aunt Lu couldn't help but ask, "Where is your wife?"
Lu Weiguo moved people into the room, "Xiaoyu is on the kang, it's too cold here."
Aunt Lu just wanted to go over and have a look. Not to mention that the younger generation must come to see the elder. The other party is now on the kang, so why let him get dressed and come down again.
But before she and Lu Weiguo reached the main room, Shi Tingyu came out.
She had just heard Lu Weiguo say that the person calling the door was Second Aunt, and when she saw the person, she also called her Second Aunt.
Second Aunt Lu looked at Shi Tingyu and was stunned. She didn't even hear him call her Second Aunt.
Lu Weiguo smiled, coughed slightly and said, "Second Aunt, Xiaoyu is calling you."
Aunt Lu patted her thigh and said, "Oh, I have never seen such a beautiful girl. I was stunned for a moment. Look, she is so handsome."
Shi Tingyu said: "Second aunt, come in quickly and warm yourself up."
At this time, Aunt Lu remembered that she had to go home to cook for the whole family, so she stopped sitting.
"The gentlemen in the field are still waiting for dinner. We won't sit down now. We will wait for you and Wei Guo to come home for dinner in the evening."
After saying that, the person left in a hurry.
Lu Weiguo looked at her with a smile on his face, "My second aunt is very similar to my mother in temperament. They are both cheerful and fast-moving people."
This is also the reason why the two sisters-in-law get along well.
"Pretty good." Shi Tingyu said, it was more comfortable to deal with such people.
Looking at what Aunt Lu brought, Shi Tingyu knew that Uncle Lu's family should have a good relationship with theirs.
Nowadays, everyone is at work, and the women at home will come back to cook when it is almost time for dinner, so there is no time to get together at noon. Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo can only cook alone.
Lu Weiguo and Shi Tingyu were busy in the kitchen together, making fried pork slices with potatoes and stewed tofu with Chinese cabbage.
The portions of both dishes were quite large, and the two of them enjoyed eating them.
Shi Tingyu ate on the kang for the first time. It was very novel and she found the atmosphere quite enjoyable. However, when she was cleaning up the kang after dinner, she wiped it carefully for fear of accidentally dripping oil on the kang. .
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Weiguo felt that Shi Tingyu was a little absent-minded and knew that she missed her parents, so he got up and got dressed and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see them from a distance."
Shi Tingyu's eyes lit up and he quickly put on his clothes, as if he was ready to 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 smiled happily when he saw the two coming over. They had all played with Lu Weiguo when they were young.
Looking at Shi Tingyu again, she knew that this must be her second sister-in-law. Lu Weijun got busy calling people, pouring water and grabbing fried peanuts.
Lu Weiguo quickly held the person down and said, "I came here to ask you which piece of land the people in the bullpen are working on now?"
