Chapter 4 White Moon Fox(1/2)
All the rooms that need to be used in the old house were mostly taken care of, but there were only a few rooms left. Lu Yuejiu had not moved. Those rooms were disrepaired and the roof was a little broken. Besides, he couldn't use them normally, so he thought to find someone to completely repair the entire house when he was free.
After Lu Qingjiu arrived here, he almost dripped into the bed, and the insomnia that had troubled him in the past disappeared again.
The air in the countryside is good, especially in the morning, Lu Yuejiu got up at around 7 o'clock. After a simple breakfast, he took out the beans soaked in advance last night from the water, and carried a large bag of beans to the big millstone at the entrance of the village.
Today he and Yin Xun agreed to grind some beans and eat them. The beans were taken out from his house yesterday.
Most people in Shuifu Village knew about Lu Yuejiu's return from the city. Along the way, the villagers greeted Lu Yuejiu warmly and were very intimate. They seemed to like this college student who came back from outside. Lu Yuejiu also responded one by one. He had to live here for a long time, and it was not a bad thing to establish a good relationship with the villagers.
When he arrived at the millstone, Yin Xun was already sitting next to the millstone, holding a handful of fried winter melon seeds in his hand. When he saw Lu Xiujiu coming, he stood up and greeted him: "Come on?"
"Yeah." Lu Xiujiu said, "Are you so early?"
"I didn't sleep well yesterday," Yin Xun said, "I only got better when I woke up in the morning."
Lu Yuejiu looked at Yin Xun and found that his face had indeed swelled down, so he felt relieved and said, "You put the beans, I'll push the mill."
"Okay." Yin Xun didn't argue with Lu Qingjiu either.
So the two divided the work and quickly grindled the beans.
This millstone has been in the village for decades. When Lu Yuejiu was a child, he had the memory of climbing onto the millstone and playing with being twisted by his grandmother and spanking. When he was a child, he was so naughty that he followed a group of friends to run around the mountains and fields, almost running around every corner of the village. But now almost all the friends in the village have gone almost all, and only Yin Xun, a child, is still staying in the village.
The beans were grown by Yin Xun's family. They are of good quality. The soy milk they grind is white and fine, exuding the fragrance of beans. They will be taken back for boiling later, then light the brine. When the soy milk condenses into pieces, the tofu is ready.
A pot of beans turned into milky white soy milk. Yin Xun also put the bean dregs into a bag. The bean dregs are a good thing for feeding pigs, so they can't be thrown away just like that.
One in front of the two, Yin Xun returned to the old house with bean dregs and Lu Xiujiu and soy milk.
"I'll go feed the pig." Yin Xunyangyangyang the things in his hand.
"Go." Lu Yuejiu thought for a while and said, "By the way, the neighbor's child named the two little wild boars yesterday."
Yin Xun said: "Li Xiaoyu? What name did he give the pig?"
"The big one is called Xiaohua, and the small one is called Xiaohei." Lu Yuejiu replied.
"Why is it called Xiaohua?" Yin Xun said, "Do you insist on bringing up my sad things?"
"It was taken by the child, so I can't compete with him." Lu Qingjiu explained helplessly with Yin Xun.
"Oh." Yin Xun didn't say anything after hearing this, but said with a vicissitudes of life: "That big one must be more delicious than the smaller one..."
Lu Yuejiu: "..." Please shut up quickly.
Taking advantage of Yin Xun's time to feed the pigs, Lu Yuejiu poured the soy milk into the pot, then lit the heat, boiled it over high heat, and then slowly cooked it on low heat, adding brine to it while cooking, and then compacting it with a spoon. Ordering the tofu is a technical job. If the tofu is too old, the tofu will not be formed if the tofu is pressed lightly, Lu Yuejiu has also made it at home before, so he is quite experienced. A pot of soy milk has begun to slowly turn into solid state.
While making tofu, Yin Xun's shout came from the yard: "Save wine! Someone is looking for it!"
"Who?" Lu Yuejiu replied, "Who is looking for me?"
"You will know when you come out." Yin Xun replied.
Lu Yuejiu pressed the fire down and turned to the yard. She saw Yin Xun standing in the yard. However, the man next to Yin Xun was attracted by his eyes.
"Hello...hello." Lu Yuejiu wanted to say hello to him, but she was still holding a spoon in her hand, so she could only wave the spoon in her hand awkwardly.
"Hello." The man spoke. His voice was very light, but he could hear it very clearly.
"Is there anything you have?" Lu Yuejiu became inexplicably cramped by being stared at by the man like this. The man looked very beautiful, still the lazy look he had seen a few days ago. His eyes were unique phoenix eyes, his nose was high, and his whole person was filled with classical beauty like ink.
"I said I will come to you." The man said, "I'm here."
Lu Xiujiu: “…”
He remembered the man's name was Bai Yuehu, and also remembered what the man said when the two met in the market before, but he didn't expect that he would come to him.
"Why, you forgot?" Bai Yuehu stared at Lu Yuejiu's eyes.
"No, I haven't forgotten." Lu Qingjiu said, "Come on... I'll come when I come. Do you eat tofu?"
Bai Yuehu said: "What is bean flower?"
Lu Yuejiu said: "The delicious food... do you have luggage? Put it in the house first?"
Bai Yuehu nodded.
Lu Yuejiu took him to the newly cleaned guest room. When he saw Bai Yuehu entering, he felt relieved.
Yin Xun was stunned by the sight of the side, reached out and pulled Lu Yuejiu, and whispered: "Hey, have you invited someone in like this?"
"He is a good person." Lu Xiu said.
"How do you know?" Yin Xun glared.
Lu Yuejiu said: "Because he looks good."
Yin Xun: “…”
Lu Yuejiu was of course joking. In fact, he dared to call the Bai Yuejiu into the house because of the cloth bag that Bai Yuejiu gave him. The gecko tail in the cloth bag confirmed some of Lu Yuejiu's conjectures. Everything that happened that night was not a dream, but a real fact. If there were no man, he might have become the food on the plate of the huge gecko.
"Don't worry about me, I am a big man, what can happen to me?" Lu Yuejiu patted Yin Xun's shoulder and comforted his friend.
Yin Xun glanced at Lu Yuejiu, then looked at the man in the room, and muttered: "What's wrong with men? Men are not safe these days, although the one that is not safe is not necessarily you..."
Lu Yuejiu was shocked: "...what do you mean?"
Yin Xun: "You heard it wrong and I didn't say anything."
"I'm too lazy to tell you that the tofu is still in the pot. You go and cut the meat. I'll stir-fry the meat back in the pot later." Lu Yuejiu took Yin Xun back to the kitchen.
This meat was bought by Yin Xun in the morning. The authentic pork belly is used to stir-fry the meat very fragrant. Lu Yuejiu ordered the tofu, and then cut the pork belly into a uniform three-finger width. After heating the oil, it added garlic sprouts and beans to stir-fry. After the meat and oil come into contact with the oil, it emits a unique aroma of meat. The white fat meat part was fried out of oil and turned into an attractive golden color. The whole slice of the pork belly curled up, and you can tell that the taste is definitely good before you taste it.
Yin Xun couldn't wait to pick up a piece with chopsticks, chewed it for a few times and sighed: "It's so delicious, this meat is so fragrant."
"Take it out and I'll cook another cabbage egg soup." Lu Yuejiu reached out and wiped the sweat beads on his chin and said, "Put the rice and tofu as well. I'll make some tofu ingredients later."
"Okay." Yin Xun went to do things happily.
Lu Yuejiu got the rest of the things, and the two people outside were already sitting in front of the table, waiting for him with a gaze. It was fine for Yin Xun, but Lu Yuejiu could actually see the smell of expectation on Bai Yuehu's face.
Lu Yuejiu put the things in her hand on the table and said, "Eat."
Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu next to him picked up the chopsticks together and went for the meat.
Lu Yuejiu also picked up chopsticks and tried it and found that the taste was really good. His cooking skills were actually quite average. But he didn't know if it was due to the ingredients. The cooked pork meat made was particularly fragrant. The fat meat on the pork belly was not greasy at all. Instead, it was very soft and glutinous, and it was so fragrant.
Lu Yuejiu tasted some tofu and made them very successful. It was soft and solid. It was very prepared with some specially prepared ingredients. Lu Yuejiu could eat a big bowl alone.
After eating two bowls of rice, he was almost full, and Yin Xun also ate about the same food, but seeing Bai Yuehu's posture was not about to stop at all. The most strange thing was that his meal was quite elegant, as if he was not eating some home-cooked side dishes, but about some exotic delicacies.
Yin Xun touched his belly and said, "I'm full."
"I'm full, too." Lu Yuejiu said, "Yuehu, you wash the dishes later."
Bai Yuehu nodded naturally when he heard this, as if he had completely integrated into this collective family.
Lu Yuejiu didn't think there was anything wrong with letting him wash dishes. Although he didn't know why he wanted to live here, since he moved in, he must have to get used to doing these things.
Yin Xun was full, so he got up and said he wanted to go home to take a nap.
Bai Yuehu picked up the bowls and chopsticks, rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen. Lu Yuejiu was about to sleep for a while, so he moved a chair to the yard to sleep in the sun. The sun in early spring is much gentler than summer, and when the clouds shine on people, he feels warm all over.
Lu Yuejiu was sitting on the lounge chair and was about to fall asleep, but she felt something dripping on his face. He woke up suddenly and found that the originally brilliant sun above his head disappeared, leaving only a dark cloud. Small raindrops fell from the clouds and dripped on his cheeks.
It was going to rain? Lu Qingjiu reached out and touched the tip of his nose and felt a little wet. He got up from the chair and was about to walk into the room, but he heard a strange sound... Touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, it seemed like someone was smashing something with a stone. The thing should be meat or something, because Lu Qingjiu clearly heard the sticky sound after the meat was smashed.
Lu Yuejiu's footsteps slowly moved. He walked around the corner of the wall and saw the back yard shrouded in the rain. A man turned his back to him, holding a heavy stone in his hand, with bright red blood stains on it. He bent over and hit the things in front of him hard. Although Lu Yuejiu was far away, he also saw clearly what he was smashing. It was a person who was already bloody and flesh. The man could not see clearly. His long hair and the crushed meat mixed together. The man would definitely not be alive.
Seeing such a terrifying scene, Lu Yuejiu took a breath and shouted loudly: "What are you doing!"
The man's movements were obviously heard of Lu Qingjiu's shouts. He slowly turned his head and let Lu Qingjiu see his face. It was no longer a human face. It was covered with dense black hair, and only blurred facial features could be vaguely seen. The man screamed loudly after seeing Lu Qingjiu. Then the black hair became longer and longer, and finally completely wrapped the man covered in blood.
Thump! Another sound of heavy objects falling into the water, Lu Yuejiu felt like she was being beaten up by someone, and she woke up instantly. Only then did he realize that he was still lying on the bench, and Bai Yuehu, who had washed the dishes, was standing next to him, looking at him expressionlessly.
"I seemed to have a dream." Lu Yuejiu said vaguely.
"Yes." Bai Yuehu said, "You have a dream."
Lu Yuejiu said: "I dreamed that there was a dead person in the backyard well."
Bai Yuehu looked at him without saying anything.
Lu Yuejiu said: "Is there really?"
Bai Yuehu was silent for a moment and asked replies without answering: "Then why are you back here?"
Lu Yuejiu frowned: "I just feel very tired in the city and want to come back."
Bai Yuehu said: "It's just that?"
Lu Yuejiu shut up. In fact, he didn't want to mention the reason why he returned here, because it was too absurd, as if it was a joke when he said it.
Lu Qingjiu didn't say anything, Bai Yuehu didn't ask. He looked at the sky, said it was going to rain, and turned around and went back to the house.
Lu Yuejiu looked around the yard and suddenly felt the spring cold was biting.
He stood up from his chair and walked to the backyard, but saw a black well standing in the empty backyard. Lu Yuejiu saw this scene, nodded and returned to the house.
As expected, as Bai Yuehu said, a drizzle began to float in the sky soon.
Spring rain is as precious as oil, and it is even more so for farmers. Lu Yuejiu looks at the rain moistening everything, and feels like she has also learned a little bit of Zen.
But Bai Yuehu, who was sitting next to him, obviously didn't think so. He stretched out his hand at Lu Yuejiu and said, "Give me some melon seeds too."
To be continued...