Chapter 107: Knitting

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu Qingjiu started preparing for the winter. I didn’t have any experience last year, and the preparations were a bit late. The winter in Shuifu Village is more difficult than imagined. This year’s situation may not look better than last year, so it is better to prepare all the things at home earlier. .
It's just that the weather hasn't completely cooled down at this time, and some foods can't be stored for the time being. Lu Qingjiu first stocked up dry goods and other materials that are easy to preserve, such as oil, salt, vinegar, coal and other daily necessities that are sure to be used.
The generator that Lu Qingjiu wanted to buy didn’t exist in the town, so he had to go to the city and bought one. He bought it with the generator as well as diesel for the machine. Lu Qingjiu bought a lot. Use it until February next year.
In addition to the most important generator, Lu Qingjiu bought a lot of items such as quilts, duvets and down jackets for the family, as well as coal for burning the kang. He directly ordered a truckload of goods with the coal boss in the town. Pull home when you arrive. Lu Sake does not buy small things like candles, batteries, desk lamps and flashlights, just to avoid any malfunction of the generator, and the house will not be blackened.
Hu Shu in the town saw Lu Qingjiu pulling big bags and small bags to his house. It was a bit strange that they were all these unusual daily necessities. He said it was still early in winter. What are you doing? Is it the end of the world? Stock up?
Lu Qingjiu said: "Isn't this, you remember to stock up more to eat."
Hu Shu said in horror: "Really? Are you kidding?" If someone said this, he would treat it as a joke, but Lu Qingjiu said it, because Lu Qingjiu helped them so much before. They also saw that Lu Qingjiu's identity was unusual. As soon as he said this, Hu Shu immediately became nervous, "Is it the end of the world?"
Lu Qingjiu originally squatted on the ground to choose duck eggs. Hearing Hu Shu's tone so nervous, he said, "What are you doing so nervously?"
Hu Shu said: "Of course it's the end of the world, I am nervous."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't you think I was joking with you?"
Hu Shu: "..." He was silent for a moment and asked carefully, "Are you really kidding me?"
Lu Qingjiu looked helpless. He could only explain the situation in Shuifu Village, saying that after snowing, he would not be able to come to the town, so he had to prepare a lot of supplies for the winter. If it was really the end of the world, it seemed that there was nothing wrong.
Hu Shu was relieved after listening, and enthusiastically said to Lu Qingjiu, if there is anything that can help, let Lu Qingjiu speak.
Lu Qingjiu waved his hand to indicate that he could go. He hadn't chosen the duck egg yet.
The best duck egg for making salted duck eggs is sea duck eggs. If you insert the chopsticks into the salted duck eggs, the red oil will pop out. You can make preserved eggs with ordinary duck eggs. Lu Qingjiu likes preserved eggs. However, Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun are not very interested in this kind of eggs that look like moldy, which is relatively rare.
In addition to duck eggs, Lu Qingjiu also purchases a lot of dry goods from the town. Dried seafood is a must. What kind of squid, sea cucumber, shrimp, rice, kelp, I bought a lot of mess, in addition to dried seafood, what kind of fungus vermicelli, in a word , He has all the things with a longer shelf life.
In order to buy these things, Lu Qingjiu spent almost 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. Among them, he bought a better type of generator, plus diesel and spent a full 30,000 yuan. Fortunately, their family is not short of money, and because of the increase in the production of hair growth water, the numbers on the passbook are more beautiful.
Yinxun looked at Lu Sake as busy as a moving little ant, and said, isn't it two months before winter? Why is he busy?
Lu Qingjiu said who knows, if winter comes early, if they don't prepare anything, wouldn't they freeze to death in Shuifu Village? Yin Xun said yes, but the autumn harvest festival was about to arrive, so he asked Lu Qingjiu if he was going.
Lu Qingjiu thought for a while, and decided not to go. He went last year to make good relations with the villagers. This year, he found that the villagers had no one alive, so he always felt it was weird to worship with them. Yin Xun also understood this, so when it was almost the autumn harvest festival, Lu Qingjiu organized an autumn harvest festival of their own at home. He also went to the town to buy a big pig's head, moved home and put it at home, put in incense and began to worship Yin Xun, who is a mountain god.
Yin Xun was a little embarrassed about being by Lu Qingjiu next to him.
After the pork festival was over, Lu Qingjiu marinated it and ate it. The taste was very good. This year, the family didn't have trouble raising pigs. Lu Qingjiu plans to raise two pigs next year. After all, the pork at home and the pork outside are quite different. In addition to pigs, he plans to raise two more lambs. By this time next year, he should be able to eat his own fat roast lamb.
It was the National Day in a blink of an eye. Zhu Miaomiao wanted to come over to play, but she had to work overtime, so she could only meet next year in tears. National Day is the last holiday to come to Shuifu Village. By the time of New Year's Day, Shuifu Village has been covered with snow, and people can't get out or get in.
Autumn is a very satisfying season. The crops and vegetables in the ground are mature, and the trees are full of fruits. The most beautiful thing is to count the plump and round persimmons, which grow in the east of the village, which entices people. Go picking. Lu Qingjiu found a nice afternoon and went to pick persimmons with Baiyuehu. The two picked two large baskets. Lu Qingjiu wanted to say how much he could eat, and he used the rest to make persimmon cakes. As a result, I glanced at the White Moon Fox, who was eating persimmons by the side without peeling the skin. Finally, he said: "Fox, you can save some, let's make more persimmons."
"Good." Baiyue Fox agreed quite simply, "I'll just eat a basket."
Lu Qingjiu was relieved now.
Dried dried persimmons are easy to preserve and eat. Fortunately, there is not much rain this year and the sun is very good, so there should be no problem with drying. Lu Qingjiu advanced everything he should have done in November, bought meat and casings, and prepared to start making bacon and bacon. This year he also plans to use beef to make bacon. Beef bacon is much more fragrant than pork. The important thing is that it can be eaten directly without cooking a little steaming. The meat is savory and chewy. It is also good as a snack while watching TV.
In addition to bacon, Lu Qingjiu also makes a lot of cured pork ribs. These meats can be kept at home for a long time without worrying about spoiling.
After working for a whole month, Lu Sake, who turned into a hamster, finally stuffed their home so full that there was no gap in the refrigerator compartment. After filling it up, Lu Qingjiu cleaned the cellar again. He planned to wait for the temperature to cool down and buy cabbage in the cellar. I bought too little last year and I had to eat less. I must buy more this year. It is uncomfortable to get no food to eat in the end. In addition to cabbage, sweet potatoes are also indispensable. This kind of food is easy to store and very hungry. The point is that almost all the people in the village are grown by themselves. During the few days of harvest, the white moon fox was carrying a few sacks to the house, and finally collected all the sweet potatoes in the field.
All the preparations were prepared, and the rest had to wait for the temperature to be more suitable. In late October, Lu Qingjiu miraculously came to rest.
After he had nothing to do, he started to watch TV with Yin Xun every day. Bai Yuehu was not very interested in this kind of entertainment. He would rather lie in the yard and bask in the sun without thinking.
"It's so boring." Yin Xun lay down on the chair, "Can't we have some thrilling and exciting activities?"
Lu Qingjiu glanced at Yin Xun: "What thrilling and exciting activity?"
"I don't know." Yin Xun said, "It's all so boring now. If it snows, we won't have to die."
Lu Qingjiu said: "I have prepared a lot of books, do you want to read it?"
"No." Yin Xun refused.
Lu Qingjiu felt that Yin Xun was dying, and glanced at him obliquely: "Then I will teach you an activity that can kill time and make money."
Yin Xun: "What is it?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "You wait."
The next day, Lu Qingjiu went to the town to buy tools and put them in front of Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu. When Yin Xun saw this thing, everyone was stunned, but Bai Yuehu didn't recognize it. He reached out and poked the ball of thread and two needles in front of him and said, "What is this?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "Sweater line."
"Why are you buying a sweater line?" Yin Xun asked, "Do you know how to knit sweaters?"
Lu Qingjiu said that he didn't know anything about knitting, but it didn't matter. He also prepared a complete book of knitting patterns. If Yin Xun was willing to even download a tutorial online, all in all, the method is more difficult than the difficulty.
"Look, if you are bored, you can knit sweaters. When the spring starts, the sweaters can be sold in the town." Lu Qingjiu explained very understandingly. In fact, he really thinks Yin Xun. The look of idle is very awkward.
Yin Xun: "..."
Yin Xun, who felt that his masculinity had been insulted, strongly rejected Lu Qingjiu's proposal. Lu Qingjiu didn't mind it either, but put the sweater needles and yarn in a conspicuous position.
On the third afternoon when Yin Xun refused, Lu Qingjiu took a long nap, got up from the bed in a daze, and saw what Yin Xun was doing with his shoulders shrinking. He walked in and found that Yin Xun was studying patterns. Hearing his footsteps, he immediately wanted to put down the things in his hands, but it was too late.
"Do you have anything to say?" Lu Qingjiu asked him.
"It's so fragrant." Yin Xun said sadly while pinching his sweater.
The weather is cold and there is a lot less need to be done. There will be no weeds in the yard and no trace of insects. The ground does not need to be planted or watered. As the temperature drops, the order of the entire world seems to gradually stagnate.
Winter is also a season of rest for nature, everything is quiet, even the air is exuding a lazy breath.
Lu Qingjiu had been waiting for the first snow. He thought that the first snow would fall at the end of November just like last year, but he didn't expect it to fall until the beginning of November. Because of this snow, Lu Qingjiu hurried to the town, bought all the vegetables and fruits that should be bought, and dragged them home and kept them in the cellar. It's just that this light snow is not accompanied by the upcoming tranquility, but another fire.
There was a fire in the urban area. The place where the fire started was a relatively remote warehouse. Fortunately, there were no casualties. But this fire is different from ordinary fires. It is said that Zhu Rong found traces of the dragon at the scene of the fire. At first they thought that the trail was only for the candle dragon, but after the white moon fox went there, they found that not only the candle dragon, but also Lu Qingjiu's grandfather boilun.
However, I don't know why the two of them appeared in the same place at the same time, and why the fire was caused.
Lu Qingjiu hadn't heard from his grandfather for a long time. Ever since his grandfather was cut off by Zhu Rong, he disappeared from everyone's sight. No one knew where he was going.
The fluttering snow soon dyed the world in front of him into the same color. Lu Qingjiu wore thick clothes, but still felt cold.
Before the mountain was closed, Zhu Rong came to Shuifu Village and gave Lu Qingjiu a large bag of tea, which is said to be very special. Baiyuehu said that this tea combines the power of Zhu Rong and can warm people’s body and let Lu Qingjiu's winter is not so difficult.
Lu Qingjiu shrank into a ball, and said, "It's really early for the snow to come down."
Bai Yuehu said: "Well, it's quite early."
Lu Qingjiu said: "I haven't eaten lamb this year, but it doesn't matter. I have a lot of it in the refrigerator, but it's not as delicious as fresh."
Bai Yuehu said: "It's okay, I like them all."
The first snow was not too big, and the mountain road could barely pass. Lu Qingjiu was still grateful, but the first snow stopped for one day, and the second snow fell.
The snow is very big, fluttering like a curtain, shrouding the whole world, standing outside, you can't even see people five meters away. As the snow fell, Shuifu Village fell into a weird silence, and no villager was seen outside. Lu Qingjiu was really curious about where the villagers had gone, so he cheeky crawled into Li Xiaoyu's house next door, wanting to see what their family members were doing in winter.
Because the clothes were too thick, Lu Qingjiu finally climbed over. He fell into the snow and left a complete mark in the snow. He got up and looked at Li Xiaoyu’s house. In the yard, it was certain that there was no one in Li Xiaoyu's house at all—there was no trace of trampling on the snow in the yard. He walked to the window and took a look, and saw that there was no light in the house.
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" Lu Qingjiu yelled twice, and naturally no one answered. He stretched out his hand and pushed the door, only to find that the door of Li Xiaoyu's house was not locked. He pushed it and pushed it. opened.
Yin Xun, who was onlookers by the fence, asked hurriedly, "Is anyone in the house?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "No one, but his door is not closed."
Yin Xun said, "You want to go in and see?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "It shouldn't happen." Isn't Bai Yuehu still at home? It's just that he has no interest in participating in Lu Qingjiu's behavior that is as idle as Yin Xun's painful pain. He took the fried melon seeds and sat in the yard, watching Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu mess around.
"I'm going in." Lu Qingjiu mustered his courage.
He pushed the door in and saw that the room was dim and it didn't look like a human being. At this moment, there was no power outage in the village. Lu Qingjiu touched the switch on the side wall. After turning it on, the room was covered by warm lights.
Although there was light, there was still no figure. Lu Qingjiu thought that the Li Xiaoyu family had disappeared like this, until he walked near the bedroom and looked inside and was startled by the scene in the bedroom. I saw a few people lying upright on the bed in the bedroom. Those few people were wearing thin autumn clothes without any cold-proof clothing. They just lay on the bed. These people are clearly Li Xiaoyu's family. It seems that the villagers of Shuifu Village did not disappear in the winter, but just lay on the bed for the whole winter, until the warm spring breeze dissipated the cold snow before they would get up and continue their activities.
Lu Qingjiu saw this scene, turned around and left, and hurriedly crawled back to his home from the fence.
Yin Xun said, "What did you see?"
Lu Qingjiu rubbed his frozen red hands and described the situation in the room.
Yin Xun felt a little uncomfortable, saying that they were lying in the house for a winter...
"Yeah." Lu Qingjiu said, "No wonder the whole village is so quiet in winter. I thought last year that everyone was afraid of being cold and unwilling to go out..." He was talking, and the white moon fox sitting next to him stretched out his hand. , Wrapped Lu Qingjiu's cold hands in his palms. His palms were hot. After slowly rubbing them, Lu Qingjiu's hands quickly returned to temperature.
"Enough playing?" Bai Yuehu asked.
"Enough." Lu Qingjiu answered obediently.
"If you have enough, go back to the house and leave." Bai Yuehu said, "It's too cold outside. It will snow again later."
Lu Qingjiu answered, but his feet didn't move. He worried that if it snowed, he might not even be able to get out of the door. It would be better to take advantage of the current temperature and stand outside to inhale fresh air. Bai Yuehu couldn't see Lu Qingjiu's careful thoughts. When he bent his arm, he hugged Lu Qingjiu directly. Lu Qingjiu was startled by Bai Yuehu's movements and said hurriedly: "Don't... I will go by myself!"
Bai Yuehu didn't listen at all, so he entered the house holding Lu Qingjiu, and closed the door with one hand.
Yin Xun stood outside the door, feeling that he was really cold. It's body is cold, so Bai Yuehu and Lu Qingjiu have to feed him dog food, so that his fragile heart is also cold.
Being carried into the house, Bai Yuehu stuffed Lu Qingjiu with a big bowl of soup, and then under Baiyuehu's stare, Lu Qingjiu could only drink it all. Although Baiyue Fox usually doesn't care about anything, he is not at all sloppy when it comes to Lu Qingjiu's health.
Lu Qingjiu's body warmed up quickly, and red on his cheeks, he put the bowl down and said, "When will this winter be over." To be honest, thinking of having to take most of the whole months When time was left in the house, he felt uncomfortable.
Bai Yuehu said: "This winter will be a bit longer."
Lu Qingjiu sighed.
Bai Yuehu said: "But I will always be with you."
Lu Qingjiu couldn't help laughing when he heard the words. At this moment, Yin Xun came in from outside the house, and he said casually: "Oh, the children are so old. You still say this, don't be ashamed."
Yin Xun: "???" You two are endless.
Soon, the generator they bought came in handy, and within a few days of snowfall, their public power supply was cut off. The TV signal and network cable crashed together with the public power supply, less than one. Within a month, they were completely isolated from the world.
Yin Xun became the one who found his interest, knitting a sweater with gusto, and even took out a tape ruler and said that he would measure Lu Sake's height to knit a sweater for him.
Lu Qingjiu is in a complicated mood. Is knitting so much fun?
"Would you like to try?" Yin Xun said, "It's really addictive."
Lu Qingjiu: "...try it?"
Yin Xun: "Come on, let me teach you, let's start with this first..."
Baiyue Fox sitting next to him: "..." Is it really fun?
Just over a month later, when Zhu Rong came to Shuifu Village for something to look for Baiyue Fox, he knocked on the door and no one answered. After entering directly, he saw three sitting on the kang with their heads down. Happy big man knitting sweater. They raised their heads when they heard the sound, and three pairs of eyes fell on Zhu Rong at the same time.
"...Excuse me?" Zhu Rong didn't know what to say.
Lu Qingjiu silently put down the sweater in his hand. He is trying to knit a pair of earmuffs for the white moon fox's furry ears these days. He is knitting vigorously. At this time, he can only pretend that nothing happened. Said: "No, no, just tell me if you have anything."
Zhu Rong was silent for a moment: "It's nothing serious."
When Bai Yuehu heard that there was nothing serious, he continued, focusing on the sweater needles in front of him. He planned to knit a sweater for Lu Qingjiu. The money at home was made by Lu Qingjiu, and he usually brought blood and freshness at most. When I came back from my food, I had nothing to give to Lu Qingjiu. Now I suddenly found out that I had a special gift for my lover. I was naturally very happy. As for what Zhu Ronglai did—it didn’t matter.
The room was quiet for a while, and the atmosphere became more embarrassing. In the end, Lu Qingjiu couldn't stand it anymore. He smiled awkwardly and got up and asked Zhu Rong if he wanted to have lunch before leaving. He was just planning to do it.
Zhu Rong thought about it, but agreed.
Bai Yuehu was a little unhappy when he heard that Zhu Rong was going to have lunch here, but Zhu Rong was invited by Lu Qingjiu, and he couldn't drive him out directly, so he glanced at him with bad eyes. Zhu Rong had long been used to Baiyue Fox's food protection, and he didn't care about it at all, and even naturally sat down next to Lu Qingjiu.
"Let’s eat pork stewed vermicelli today." Lu Qingjiu calculated the recipe, "Add another shredded kelp and stir-fry bacon..."
Zhu Rong said: "It's all right, you are free, how simple it is."
"Then you guys talk first, Yin Xun, come and help me." Lu Qingjiu called Yin Xun and left the house alone to Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun.
"Do you like life in the human world?" Zhu Rong asked after Lu Qingjiu left.
"Don't you like it?" Bai Yuehu asked back.
Zhu Rong smiled, and he said: "Naturally like it." Otherwise, he wouldn't work so hard to maintain everything.
"What happened?" Bai Yuehu asked.
Zhu Rong sighed, tired between his eyebrows. He said, "It's nothing big."
Bai Yuehu frowned slightly and didn't believe Zhu Rong's answer, but Zhu Rong didn't intend to continue speaking. The two were silent until Lu Qingjiu came in and said that the meal was ready, breaking the silence.
"I'm glad to see you like this." Zhu Rong said at last, "It would be great if all the dragon races could meet the right people like you."
Unfortunately, if miracles happen all the time, they are not miracles.