60s Splendid Life

"You're here. I was just about to tell you guys to stop cooking tonight. We'll prepare some for you later." Lu Jin, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard his grandfather say Someone came to borrow something, and he stretched his head out to take a look, and it was the new neighbor he met today when he was delivering something.

Hearing that the man came to borrow buckets to fetch water, he took two buckets from his home, and a small bucket for fetching water, and opened the cover of the well with a key, explaining to people: "Our children Many, because they are afraid that they will come here to play, so the well mouth is locked, and we usually lock it when we don’t fetch water. We are basically at home from afternoon to night. If you fetch water, come over after dinner in the evening , we will be at home basically. If we are not at home, you can also go to the next door to Captain Lu’s house to fetch water. Their house also has a well, so you don’t have to go too far to fetch water.”

Seeing a stranger coming to their house, Lu Qinglian and Lu Haochen looked at him curiously.

"It's so embarrassing. I'll just go home and do it myself." Murong Zhende saw that there were still a few children in the yard. Today they heard the laughter of children from time to time next door, and they knew this yard. There are several children in it.

After Yu Wenchang woke up in the afternoon, he heard from his grandson that someone lived next door. He thought this was the new neighbor next door. He saw that Murong Zhende's appearance and temperament didn't look like an ordinary countryman, and he didn't know. How could such a person come to the country.But knowing that this person is the neighbor who will live next door with several grandchildren in the future, and he also wants to get along with people, he said with a smile: "You just moved here and there is nothing, and it is not convenient to cook. It's just a Regarding the meal, we will be neighbors in the future, and we will inevitably interact with each other."

"My surname is Yu, and my name is Yu Wenchang. I don't know what your name is?"

"My surname is Rong, you can call me Lao Rong." Murong Zhende did not tell the other party his real name, he was afraid that his name would cause unnecessary trouble to them in the countryside.

"Oh, old Rong, all right, all you have to do is call your name." Seeing that the other party didn't tell him his full name, Yu Wenchang knew that the other party deliberately concealed his name, and he didn't intend to go any further.He also met all kinds of people in the first half of his life, and he knew that some people had their own concerns, so he didn't think too much about it.

It's just that he didn't know the identity of the other party. Such a person moved to live next door to his grandsons. Yu Wenchang was a little worried when he thought that he would go back after living here for a long time, and there was no adult at home.He was thinking about moving to the countryside to live with his grandchildren in the future, but he had to discuss this matter with his son after he went back.

Murong Zhende didn't know the other party's worry, so he asked Yu Wenchang, "I wonder if you can buy things here. Our family lacks a lot of useful things. I wonder if they can be bought in the village."

Yu Wenchang didn't know much about this either, and subconsciously looked at his grandson.

"Here, it depends on what you lack. See if there is any extra in our house. You can take some from our house and use it first. We have extra wooden barrels in our house. You can take these two wooden barrels home. Go and use it, you don’t have any firewood for cooking, take two bundles from us and go home later, tell me what else you need, and I’ll see if I can get it together for you.” Actually, don’t He said that he wanted to buy things in the countryside, even if he wanted to buy things in the city, it was not so easy to buy. Lu Jin told him that there was a carpenter in the village, and he could order some things from the carpenter.

Murong Zhende had just come to the village and was not familiar with the people in the village. He didn't know where the old carpenter Lu Jin mentioned lived, so he asked Lu Jin to help him find the old carpenter to order some furniture. He took out a piece of ten yuan and gave it to Lu Jin, saying: "I don't know how much it costs to make these things, if there is still a lot, come back and tell me, and I will make up for you."

"No need to make up, there's too much, I'll return the rest to you in due time." Lu Jin didn't refuse, and took the money from the other party. Last time he ordered more things from the old carpenter, so It also cost more money, but this time the neighbor asked him to order a few pieces of furniture, which should cost less than ten yuan.These days, the purchasing power of ten yuan is still very strong. Unlike later generations, ten yuan can only buy a small plastic bench, but it is more than enough to buy a few pieces of ordinary furniture.

Seeing that this new neighbor couldn't even fetch water, Lu Jin could only ask his grandfather to teach others how to fetch water. He was still thinking about the dishes he was cooking in the kitchen, so he ran back to cook after saying a few words in a hurry went.

At noon, he fried the meat, and in the evening, he only needs to cut the meat into slices and put them in the pan with preserved vegetables for steaming, which saves a lot of work.Fry two more dishes, make a cold salad, cook a soup, and their dinner is ready, and it takes less than an hour before and after.

Today's dinner was made for two more people. When his grandfather helped the neighbor fetch water to go to the next door, their dinner was also ready.

"You take it to Uncle Rong next door, and bring grandpa back to eat, be careful not to spill it on the floor." Lu Jin used three large bowls to fill a large portion of vegetables, a large portion of rice, and a portion of soup. Put the vegetables and rice in the basket, let Chenchen hold the soup with her hands, let her sister carry the basket, and let the siblings go to the next door to deliver the rice.

As for little Bao'er, he drove his brothers and sisters to the door in a small car, and the child was poking around at the door, not daring to follow the brothers and sisters.Lu Jin looked at it from behind and thought it was funny again. He called out "Baby boy" and waved his hands. Hearing his voice, the child galloped back to him on his bike.

Looking at the children rushing back towards him, Lu Jin sometimes felt like raising a puppy who could understand human language and talk, haha...

When Xiao Baoer saw his brother smiling, he also laughed happily.

"Stupid, you don't know what I'm laughing at, so you just laughed with me." Lu Jin looked at the silly child, tapped the tip of the child's nose with his finger, took out the towel around his neck and wiped his forehead and Sweat on the body.

Seeing that the child was sweating all over without doing anything, Lu Jin took out the sweat towel on the child's back, wiped the sweat from the child's forehead, chest and back, and asked the child: " Why are you sweating so much?"

Little Bao'er sighed decently, and told her brother, "Brother Rene."

Lu Jin couldn't help but smile, and replied with a serious face: "It's summer now, it's hot, and it won't be so hot until the summer is over."

"When will summer be over?"

"Well, after the melons in our yard are all picked and the leaves wither, summer will be over."

"what……"

Seeing the child open his mouth wide and looking at the green melon vines in the yard, Lu Jin felt it was funny.

The siblings came back with their grandfather not long after they went out, just as he brought all the dishes to the table outside, and several of them washed their hands and went to the table to eat.

While Lu Jin and his family were eating, Murong Zhende and Qi Yu next door also had a meal. The neighbors sent them meals and dishes, which saved them from making them themselves. The two of them ate for such a long time. First meal since time.

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The time after dinner in the evening is the time for neighbors to rush to each other.

The two sons in the family must go to Lu Jin's next door to play after eating every day. After packing up the dishes at home, Wang Xiumei also came out to find her son, and asked Lu Jin about the people living in the yard next door. Ask him if he has seen anyone.

"I've seen it. Uncle Rong came to fetch water at our house today." Just as Lu Jin washed the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen at home, he saw his sister-in-law Xiumei also came, and saw his sister-in-law Xiumei's face Curious, he told his sister-in-law Xiumei that the other party came to fetch water from their house today, and he didn't say much about the rest.

"Oh." Although Wang Xiumei was curious, she heard that there were two big men living in the yard next door. As a married woman, she couldn't just go to the yard where two big men lived. She just asked Lu Jin about it. After two sentences, I didn't ask any more.

Several children clamored to go swimming in the river, but Lu Jin brought not so many children into the water by himself. Brother Bowen and Brother Bocheng have been busy in the past few days, so they have no time to go to the river with them For swimming, he would not dare to bring so many children to play in the river by himself. If one is not careful, he will not be able to pay for any missing one.

So he rejected the children's proposal to play in the river, and let a few children play in their yard.

The two big geese had already run outside without waiting for the owners.The few hens in the family will not run too far, and usually crawl around in front of and behind the house.

"Sister-in-law, you play here. I'll be back after I go out for a while." Lu Jin didn't forget that his neighbor asked him to help find a carpenter to make furniture. A person went out.

The few children in their family are not very clingy except for Xiao Baoer who likes to follow him. At this moment, there are a few brothers and sisters playing with him, and grandpa is at home, so Xiao Baoer is not very clingy. Stick to him.

Walking on the road, people from the village greeted him along the way, and Lu Jin would respond to others with a smile. When people asked him where he was going, he only said to go to the third master's house.As for which third master it was, he didn't make it clear. If anyone wanted to ask anything, they would have already walked away.

When he arrived at the third master's house, the third master's house had just had dinner, and when he saw him coming, he greeted him with a smile and asked him if there was anything wrong.

"I want to ask the third master to help you make a few things." Lu Jin explained his purpose of coming. The third master and the third grandmother are no strangers to him. The third grandmother brought a stool and asked him to sit down, and he told him to bring him a stool. The third grandma who came thanked her and sat down.