Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 158
When Luo Tiandu came to Beijing, he brought a lot of gadgets from his hometown, among them was the old-fashioned popcorn machine that was made with great effort.

The family has been busy before, everything was not going well, and it is easy to get angry in autumn, and the alley where we live is usually very quiet, Luo Tian has never used this popcorn machine, because he is afraid of disturbing the neighbors, Provoking complaints.Now, years ago, when there was nothing to do in the alley, someone would come out to set off a couple of firecrackers, and it was noisy all day long. Luo Tian felt that his home was deeply polluted by noise, and he was considered one of the sufferers, so he was no longer afraid, and would The ashes-covered iron bump that was thrown in the miscellaneous room was taken out, and after cleaning it, he started to pop the popcorn.

Uncle Gu was getting old, and he didn't dare to work on him when he had family affairs. He was quite free, and when he saw Luo Tian coming over with this thing, he immediately became interested.He is used to this. When he was in Luojia Village, he used to fry dozens or even hundreds of pots every year.This thing is effortless, burn it for a while, take the pliers and knock on the belly of the iron stove, and the popcorn will come out by itself. It is really interesting. The only drawback is that it is a bit expensive. Fortunately, Sheng Lun took a break from the army on the last trip. When they came back, they saw that Luo’s family didn’t have much firewood, so they got up early and went outside the city to chop two carts of firewood. They were chopped into small pieces and piled up in the firewood shed for half the room. Now there is no need to worry about burning until the beginning of next spring.

Cheng Qing and Cheng Sheng are no strangers to this iron bump, but the newcomer Xiang Lan Xiqiao and Zi Shu have never seen it before. They are very curious. While adding firewood, Bo shook the handle, shaking his head very proudly.

When the heat was estimated to be enough, Uncle Gu wrapped the handle with a thick rag, and lifted the iron gourd up. Luo Tian hurriedly covered his ears and jumped back two steps.Uncle Gu put on the burlap bag, and hit the iron gourd's stomach with the pliers, only to hear a loud "bang", and the popcorn rushed into the bag along the airflow.

Both Luo Tiandu and Luo Ming had already made preparations, and they didn't feel any discomfort. Xiang Lan and Xiqiao were helping Fang's fire and stir-fry the New Year's goods in the house. They were so frightened by the sound that their hearts almost jumped out, thinking that something happened , guarding Fang in a panic to go into the room, only to see Luo Tiandu and Gu Bo cheerfully holding a cloth bag in the yard, pouring rice flower into the basin.

Luo Tian could not help raising his eyebrows and asking, "What's wrong?"

Xiang Lan rushed up quickly, pushed her to the ground, and threw herself on her, covering her firmly, saying: "Be careful, little lady, the mountain is blown up."

Luo Tian was suddenly thrown on the ground by someone, and the back of his head hurt from the knock, he said, "What mountain is being bombed? This is the inner city of Shangjing, where is the mountain for you to bomb?"

Only then did Fang understand, and couldn't help laughing: "Xiang Lan, that's Uncle Gu frying popcorn, not a mountain." After finishing speaking, she grabbed a handful of popcorn from the basin and said, "It's pretty good to eat. It's delicious, try it."

Xiang Lan was a little skeptical, took it, put two pills in his mouth, chewed, um, it was really delicious, but his mouth got dry after eating too much.After she saw Uncle Gu stir up another pot with her own eyes, she finally felt relieved, realized that she had made a joke, and immediately felt a little embarrassed, with an embarrassing expression on her face.Seeing that Luo Tian was still rubbing the back of his head, she walked over to take a look, good guy, he's swollen a lot.

Xiang Lan suddenly panicked, hurriedly rubbed her with his hands, and kept apologizing: "It's all a slave's fault, I'm beating the little lady."

Luo Tian was very angry when she was fine and fine, but she was a little moved when she thought that Xiang Lan thought it would blow up the mountain and used herself to protect her without saying a word, so she didn't care about it. It hurts a bit.

Daughter is easy to get, but loyalty is hard to find.

"It's okay, I know Sister Xiang Lan is doing it for my own good." Speaking of this, she turned to Fang Shi again and said, "Mom, let's cook more Mier candy this year, Eldest Sister loves it."

"Okay." Fang readily agreed, "The cake you made last time, please bake a little more, the whole family loves it."

"Yeah." Luo Tiandu also responded readily, and in this regard, Shang Fang's and Luo Tiandu's personalities are quite similar.

The mother and daughter were discussing what to buy for the new year when they suddenly smelled a burning smell in their noses, and there was thick smoke billowing from the stove.

"Mother, what are you frying, it's all burnt." Luo Tiandu yelled, God, didn't you burn the house down.

Fang patted his forehead, and then remembered that he was frying melon seeds, and ran to the stove to clean up the pot of melon seeds.The sunflower seeds in a pot were all charred, and Fang couldn't help nagging, wasting money.

Just as he was thinking, Zishu came over with a name sticker: "Little lady, there is someone outside who claims to be from the Gu family, and handed over the sticker."

Luo Tiandu took a look at the post, it was full of content, but at the end he could only recognize the three characters in the signature: Gu Changxiu.

She frowned and thought, the people from the Gu family really came to the door.

Since he is a member of the Gu family, he still needs to discuss it with Uncle Gu.Uncle Gu threw away the tongs, took a look at the post, frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he had an expression of sudden understanding: "Gu Changxiu? The baby who snatched sweets with a runny nose back then is now an official." Oh, hello! Up to now, there is only one old thing, and it is only a fifth-rank, so worthless." His young master Sun is only in his early thirties, and he is already a sixth-rank. The family village has been thrown away for more than ten years.

"Uncle Gu, do you know him?" Luo Tian listened to Uncle Gu's words very interestingly, he clearly called him a baby boy, but then called him an old man, tsk!This resentment is deep enough.

Uncle Gu snorted, and said: "The Gu family is just their family, and they turned into ashes. I still remember that when the master was prosperous, they often came to take advantage of it. Later, when something happened to the master's house, those people turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone. Back then Those who lead people to the Gu family to rob things, this old man's family is the most aggressive!"

Gu Bo is quite vengeful.

"Then let's just ignore it." Luo Tian felt displeased when he heard this, not to mention Mrs. Zuo had warned her in advance.This matter of the Gu family, if you can stay away from it, you should try your best not to get involved. Besides, Luo Baisu is the grandson of the Gu family. Only a few close people know about this matter, and they have no way to understand it. The past is over.

Luo Tian didn't even think about having anything to do with the Gu family, so he quickly forgot about it.A few days later, Luo Baisu and Xunxiu, together with Xunxiu, are on spring break, so Luo Baisu can rest from the 25th of the twelfth lunar month until the fourth day of the first month of the new year. When Luo Baisu came back, he brought a large stack of Luo Tian Du asked for the characters in the painting, which made Luo Tian very happy.

This time she bought two large boxes of wooden signs, but she didn't have any paintings to paste, and she was busy in the twelfth lunar month, so she couldn't let Luo Baisu find a colleague to paint this again, but she didn't expect Luo Baisu to be a daughter-in-law. I took the initiative to find someone to solve this problem.

Luo Baisu was very happy to see Luo Tian, ​​he was so beautiful in his heart, his little daughter is not so easy to please, give her something, choose the expensive one, his little salary is not enough for her to use her own brain She earns a lot of money, cheap rouge powder, etc. She doesn't like it either, and she thinks the smell is too strong and chokes her nose, and she doesn't allow her family to use this. Luo Baisu can only ask her to pay attention to what she lacks and needs, and then Try to get it for her.

He was planning to take a rest at the end of the year and enjoy the family happiness, but he was abruptly interrupted.

When Gu Changxiu saw the post, no one in the Luo family took it seriously, so he couldn't hold back anymore and sent someone to the door.

It stands to reason that he, a fifth-rank official from other places, really didn't pay attention to Luo Baisu, a sixth-rank writer who had just entered Beijing, but he couldn't help it, he was very close to the Zuo family.Zuo Qingzhi's birthday, how many serious senior officials of the fourth grade wanted to go to celebrate his birthday, but they couldn't find a way. Zuo Qingzhi was notoriously clean and honest, and he didn't accept gifts. People don't even post.

When he posted the post, he was still in the room with his legs crossed, waiting for Luo Baisu to come to his door.The Gu family is so famous, and it is also a century-old family. Although it has declined in recent years, a small official from a commoner background in Luo Baisu can't keep up with it. Hurry up and catch up.Gu Changxiu was still in the room thinking about how Luo Baisu should be flattering, but he waited and waited, but he didn't wait for Luo Baisu to come to the door.Seeing that the Chinese New Year will be in two days, he is still waiting to find someone to do activities, improve his grade, and find a real shortage of outsiders who will make a fortune for two years, but when Gu Ziqian's family had an accident, they did too much They rushed to the door and didn't think about arranging the funeral, but only focused on looting the Gu family's belongings, completely offending him.

Pooh!Who knew that Gu Ziqian had been a great Confucian all his life and brought out many senior officials of the third and second ranks. His family was so poor that he didn't get anything valuable, and he even offended Gu Ziqian's students to death. Now When people heard that it was them, they wouldn't even let them in.

Asking him to take the initiative to curry favor with a small Beijing official whose background, qualifications, education and official positions are much smaller than his, Gu Changxiu was extremely depressed. However, after all, the future is important. After thinking about it at home, he finally put down his airs and went to Luo's house the gate.Of course, he was not so stupid as to come to the door himself, so he ordered his wife, Mrs. Shan, to bring her maid to visit Luo's family in the name of relatives.

He is the eldest son of Gu Ziqian's cousin, in terms of seniority, he is also Luo Baisu's cousin.His original plan was to let Mrs. Shan come to the door first to find out the attitude of the Luo family. If the Luo family is soft-tempered and easy to handle, he will use the name of the elder to justifiably ask Luo Baisu to match him up and take a walk around the old Gu family. old relationship.

He had a good plan, but the Shan family was the most greedy and greedy for money. When Gu Changxiu took the lead in looting the Gu family's property, there must be a reason why the Shan family was behind the scenes.It's good that Mrs. Shan didn't come, but once she came, the whole Luo family was annoyed.

(End of this chapter)