106. Landlord

"You little clever ghost."

Shana sighed with a smile, and pinched Lu Yun's cheek again. She couldn't help but leaned over and kissed her fiercely again. She took turns kissing her little cheeks several times.

Xia Yuan saw her daughter being squeezed by her elder sister and still able to keep a smile, she couldn't help feeling jealous and urged, "Xiaoyun hurry up to eat, don't you want to follow your father and Shishi to the train station to pick up something?"

"Okay, Mom." Lu Yun suddenly smiled apologetically at her aunt as if she was in an amnesty, and broke free from her clutches.

She ran to the dining table and secretly wiped away the cold sweat. The aunt in her life was so enthusiastic that she felt that she could not bear it.

Climbing into the chair, she saw only a familiar bowl of pumpkin and millet porridge, a plate or two of cornmeal noodles, and a large fried dough stick on the table.

"Have you all eaten?"

"Yes, this is reserved for you. Pumpkin and millet porridge is the most delicious to eat with wotou. Your aunt specially made this. Your grandmother used to like to eat it together. "Xia Yuan's eyes showed a bit of nostalgia. My mother is from the north, and she often said that millet porridge is the most nourishing, and it is best to drink it in the morning.

Xia Na walked over and shook Xia Yuan's hand, her eyes were full of melancholy, but she smiled and said, "What are you talking about? Let the children eat the porridge before it's cold."

She got up early this morning and cooked the pumpkin and millet porridge, and then brought it here with an aluminum pot and heated it again; the wotou was also made yesterday and brought here. Reheating here. So both are still warm at the moment.

Only the fried dough sticks were bought when she passed by a food store. She was worried that Xiaoyun, like her two sons, didn't like millet porridge with wotou.

"Delicious."

Contrary to Shana's surprise, Lu Yun didn't touch the fried dough sticks. Seeing her take a bowl of pumpkin and millet porridge, she took a bite of the porridge.

Lu Yun only felt that her mouth was full of familiar flavors.

It is no wonder that after the conditions in the previous life were improved, the breakfast at my aunt's house was most often pumpkin millet porridge with corn nest, which has remained the same for many years. The two cousins ​​complained more than once in private that they were tired of eating, and their opinions were useless. In the end, only the uncle and her were the most supportive.

She didn't feel anything because she had few days to eat breakfast at her aunt's house. Still the uncle is the most powerful. After more than ten years of cheering, he can still show that kind of enjoyment every time, just like he is having a big meal. It is impossible to let the two cousins ​​admire him.

"It's delicious! Your uncle also likes it, but unfortunately I don't have the conditions to make it often. This millet is from the north and it's not easy to buy. It's the two stinky boys who dislike it. Hmph, some people will even dislike it. I'll have the conditions in the future. Cook it every day. If they dislike it again, they will have to wait until they are old enough to marry their daughter-in-law back, and then split up and start a business with their own couples and then change their taste." Shana's face was arrogant.

Lu Yun almost didn't laugh, her aunt was really cruel. She was silently waxing for the two cousins ​​in her heart. With her variable in this life, my aunt's house will definitely be able to live the days of pumpkin millet porridge and corn nests in advance. The resentment of the two cousins ​​in their previous lives will soon be brought forward, hahahaha.

"Sister, so you are the stepmother?" Xia Yuan was stunned at first, and then she was overjoyed.

Lu Yun smiled and buried her head in the bowl, and once again secretly wailed for her two cousins. Aunt and mother really are twin sisters, aunt is like this, mother does not try to persuade, but even gloats. If the two cousins ​​knew that the newly arrived aunt was so "cruel" to them, how could they be so embarrassed?

After eating, Shana was a little reluctant to take Lu Yun to the train station to pick up the checked items, and tried to stop her. Xia Yuan smiled and said, "Let's go with her. She has never been to Haicheng before, so it's when she is very curious. If she can't stay at home, it's better to let her follow. We can talk more freely."

After thinking about it, Shana didn't insist on stopping, mainly because she was afraid that if she stopped Lu Yun again, she would have opinions on her, which would destroy the beautiful atmosphere between the two now.

Until she went out with her father and Shitou on the road, she couldn't help laughing a few times from time to time, causing Lu Aiguo and Shitou to look sideways several times.

Lu Aiguo also looked at himself secretly, and asked aloud when he didn't feel anything wrong.

After listening to Lu Yun's explanation, the two looked at each other, both of whom expressed sympathy for Lu Yun's two cousins ​​who had not met, and laughed out loud.

After walking for more than half an hour, while no one was around, Lu Aiguo and Shishi were alert, Lu Yun quickly took out the scooter. For the next journey, Lu Yun sat on the scooter and was pushed by Lu Aiguo all the way to the train station.

After picking up the checked items, Lu Yun used another trick to steal the dragon and turn the phoenix, replacing the heavy items with lighter items. The three of them arrived home easily before ten o'clock.

At the door, the three met face-to-face with Gu Tianming, who was supposed to be working in the factory by now.

"Are you back?"

Gu Tianming greeted them embarrassedly, looking like he was in a hurry to leave, "I actually forgot the necessary things for the water tank and bucket, which caused you to have no water yesterday. Hey, that's not true. Today, I quickly took a two-hour leave from the factory and bought everything. Your sister knows the location of the well. I'm too late. I have to go back to work now. "

I'm sorry, brother-in-law. Brother-in-law, hurry up, don't waste time." Lu Aiguo didn't dare to pull him to speak, he dragged the scooter and quickly turned sideways.

"What is the family talking about? I'm leaving. We will talk slowly when we go to the house for dinner tomorrow." Gu Tianming looked at the watch in his hand, and didn't dare to talk any more, so he left quickly.

As soon as they pushed the trolley into the yard, the three of them found that there was a bulky large water tank in the shed of the "kitchen", and there was a large wooden pot lid on top of the water tank. There was also a pole and two buckets next to the water tank, and one of the buckets also had a circle of green, long nylon ropes scattered in it.

Not waiting for Lu Aiguo and Shito to move things into the house together. Suddenly someone came in at the door, "Are you busy? Oh, why is there such a big cart?"

"Who are you?"

Lu Aiguo, Shi Shi and Lu Yun all looked at them and said. It was Lu Aiguo who asked the question.

The visitor was a woman in her fifties, wearing a blue shirt and black trousers, with a shrewd look on her face. A pair of eyes with scrutiny, kept looking at them and the things on the trolley.

"This is my house. I just came to see. Did you arrive last night?"

107. Snobby

"It turned out to be Auntie. Yes, we arrived yesterday. These items were consigned by train, and we just went to pick them up this morning. Auntie sits in?"

Lu Aiguo quickly put a smile on his face when he heard that it was the landlord, politely Get people inside.

"Don't call me Auntie, we don't like to call it that in the city. My surname is Tao, and everyone calls me Big Sister Tao." The woman waved her hand and said with a look of disgust at them.

"You are from the country, right? Our city is no better than the country. You usually pay more attention to maintaining hygiene, and don't make it dirty and messy. Also, you can't bring people back home for the night, and it's better to have less. Bring someone back. Another one, don't turn on the lights too late at night, the electricity bill will be charged. Of course, you can't speak loudly, or make any noise to make the neighbors rest. If you don't follow these, here I am But it's not good to keep you all."

"It's Sister Tao who is here. Let me introduce you. This is my sister, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, and my little niece. They will be living here in the future, and you will usually take care of them. "

Xia Na and Xia Yuan, who were making dumplings in the house, came out and saw that, Shana smiled at the woman who claimed to be the landlord.

"They rented here with me, and I should take care of them."

The elder sister Tao changed her face to Shana, "I heard the voices of you and your lover in the house last night, and I guessed it was probably Your sister's family is here. It's not easy to come and say hello at night, but it's not just that you will hear a movement at the door, so come over and recognize someone."

"Yuanyuan, this eldest sister Tao is a warm-hearted person. If there is anything unfamiliar nearby, you can ask her." Xia Na smiled at Xia Yuan, and gave the landlord a small hug.

The elder sister Tao was really happy when she heard Shana's praise: "If you have anything in the future, just come over and shout, there are usually people in our family. What should you pay attention to when you live here, I was with their two gay men just now. I said it. I'll leave if I have nothing to do, and you can call me if you have anything."

"We've just come here. I really don't think we'll have trouble with Sister Tao in the future." Xia Yuan also had a smile on her face. When she heard the other party was about to leave, she quickly held back, "Sister Tao, please wait for a while."

She then She turned around and went back to the house, and quickly took out a small basket, which contained about a pound or two of yam, she walked over and handed the basket to Sister Tao, "This is a wild one that grows in our mountains. The yam, I just brought it back to my eldest sister to try it out."

"Oh, why is it so embarrassing? It's not easy for you to bring something from afar, and you are so polite."

Sister Tao took the bag and smiled a lot sincerity. She looked at the yam again and only felt that the thing in her hand looked extremely ugly, the shape was irregular, not to mention gray, with short roots growing on the outer skin, "This thing is rare in our place, what should I do? Eat it?"

"In fact, just peel off the skin and cook it in a common cooking method. Whether it is fried, steamed, used for stewing meat for soup, or porridge, it is very good. You If you think it's too troublesome to eat raw with sugar, it's also good. This yam is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica, and it is the most clearing and detoxifying."

Xia Yuan explained in detail with a smile, "But once the yam goes inside the skin, it will The sticky doesn't hinder it, just put it out of the pot immediately, or it will be dark, and the color will not look good, like an eggplant."

"Thank you, I will ask my little grandson to bring you back the basket." The landlord, Mrs. Tao nodded, and quickly left with something to thank.

"It's alright, eldest sister, walk slowly. The basket will be delivered when you are free. Don't worry." Xia Yuan replied with a smile.

When they were far away, Lu Yun whispered "complaint" to her mother and aunt.

"You didn't see that the old landlady was so fierce, and asked if we were from the country. She told us a lot of rules, what to pay attention to keeping clean, don't make it dirty and messy, don't bring people back for the night, Don't turn on the lights too late at night, the electricity bill will be charged."

Lu Yunxue was vivid and made everyone laugh at once.

"Little clever ghost."

Shana first smiled and pinched Lu Yun's little face, and then showed a helpless look, "I haven't been here many times, and I really don't know this person, but it seems that this person is a little bit. The problem of snobbish eyes."

Lu Aiguo and Shitou have been out all year round, and they have seen a lot of people of all kinds, so how could they be stabbed by such innocuous words from the landlord, Sister Tao? He smiled indifferently, and the stone on one side was also calm. Both of them obviously didn't take those few words to heart.

Shana immediately felt that Lu Aiguo and Shitou were not impetuous at all, and their favorability increased a bit.

"It's a pity that the time is too fast. Gu Tianming and I have to go to work again, and there are only limited places to inquire. In fact, this place is really not suitable - the main reason is that the children are too far from school. You can only live temporarily, me and Gu Tianming will ask more to see if there are other suitable places?"

"It's already very troublesome for my sister and brother-in-law. Otherwise, how can we have a place to stay once we come to Haicheng?" Lu Aiguo gratefully said. laughed.

"It's not troublesome, you don't have to be so polite with us." Shana waved her hand.

In fact, Xia Yuan had already communicated with her on this topic just now, and Xia Yuan was also worried that she would move to another place without saying a word, and her sister and brother-in-law would have trouble in their hearts, so she said it first.

Even sisters, sometimes they can't ignore each other's emotions too much in details.

Shana originally felt that this residence was far from the school and was not suitable. Hearing what my sister said, if you didn't even think about it, you should promise to help you find the right place.

At this moment, she watched another performance of Lu Yun's imitation, and suddenly added a feeling that the landlord of this family was not good. At the same time, she also felt a sense of guilt in her heart, which is why she treated Lu Aiguo so badly. Say.

She was relieved when she saw that Lu Aiguo's grateful expression didn't seem to be fake, and then saw the high pile of things on the trolley they pushed back, fixed with thick hemp rope, and couldn't help but say, "There are so many things? You too You have the foresight to even consign the scooter?"

"Hey, I found a lot of good things on the mountain this time. They have been processed and are ready to be sold." Lu Aiguo laughed twice, in fact, they consigned. There are really not so many things, these are the look goods.

"It's just right, let's help bring it in together. If I knew you had so many things in your consignment, you should have asked Gu Tianming to take a half-day leave and help you move back together." Shana said angrily.

"I don't need your help. Shitou and I are used to doing these things, and we can move things in in a while." Lu Aiguo was taken aback when he saw his sister-in-law was about to roll up her sleeves to help out. , quickly jump out to stop it.

108. Relief