Good Luck in the Year of the Pig - Chapter 24

    New Year’s Eve, the cloudy and rainy day finally ushered in the sun. The streets were crowded with people, men and women, young and old, coming in and out to work for the New Year.

    At this time, only Lu Ying and Boss Yang were left in the bakery, and the others had already gone home for the holidays. There is not enough manpower, and Boss Yang doesn’t want to recruit part-time jobs during the New Year. He takes Lu Ying to teach and watch the store every day. The products sold are subject to purchase restrictions. The heads of households grabbed the first batch in less than an hour. Then he made and sold all the time, and Lu Ying learned a lot in a short period of time. The key is that Brother Yang doesn’t seem to be busy recently, so he stays in the store every day with apprentices.

    “Are you out of cranberry cookies again?”

    “Sorry, the last jar just sold.”

    “Ah, ah, it’s late…”

    Lu Ying went to Lijian, carrying customers behind her back to wrap a pile of nougat, various nut snacks, seaweed rolls, spicy rice noodles, and self-fried cantaloupe seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon There are plenty of snacks such as pudding, pudding, etc. This is the New Year’s goods specially prepared by the two for the Chinese New Year. Usually everyone is busy outside, but on New Year’s Eve, they will come back to the mountains one after another. Except for Gou who is special, he rarely comes back for the New Year. The rest of the people will meet again no matter what. Sometimes in their Qixia Mountain, sometimes in the “Songhe Mountain” on the other side of Caifeng City, this year is Qixia Mountain’s turn.

    At noon, Brother Yang hung up the closing sign in front of the store, and the two closed the door and continued to work.

    “Brother Yang is great, this pot of pumpkin seeds is delicious.” Lu Ying was amazed by tasting the milk-sweet pumpkin seeds that had just come out of the pot. Compared with the previous pot of salty melon seeds, he prefers sweets. The sweets handled by Brother Yang are even more unique, no matter how much you eat, you will not feel tired. Unlike the desserts in the cake shops outside, even if he and Cub Zai are never picky eaters, they can eat the food from those cake shops once or twice, but they don’t want to eat them at all the third time.

    Yang Sigu chewed the nougat in his mouth and smiled: “Anyway, everything in your mouth is delicious, and your ears can hear calluses.”

    Lu Ying laughed and scratched her head: “I’m telling the truth.”

     “After today, we will officially enter the Year of the Pig, do you have any plans?” Yang Sigu asked.

    Lu Ying was stunned for a moment, and answered honestly: “I have no plans, it is not like this. Now I have put down other work, and I will concentrate on the store in the future. As long as Brother Yang doesn’t drive me away, I will keep doing it. down.”

    “You can master everything I teach very quickly. After the first half of the year, you will be able to stand on your own, so you don’t want to be your own boss?”

    “Ah… open a store by yourself?” Lu Ying never thought about it, he felt that he was still a newcomer, and opening a store required a lot of costs. Don’t look at Brother Yang’s bakery business is very good, but he invested a lot in the early stage. For example, this shop was bought by Brother Yang. Usually, he never chooses cheap parallel products for the ingredients. . The water and electricity bills, labor costs, and other expenses of the store are very large. If it were him, don’t even think about buying a storefront, where would it be cheaper to rent one? It’s not practical to open a store.

    The most important thing is that he has to accompany the cub at night. If you become a boss, you will be more tiring and busy than working part-time. Brother Yang is now stable, so he is lazy. In the early days, he was still too busy to see anyone.

    Lu Ying thought a lot for a moment and shook her head: “It’s not possible in a short time, as soon as the new year starts, the cub will be six years old. It’s a primary school student in September. I heard that the current elementary school is very stressful. Big, many homework needs to be personally tutored by parents every day. Teachers assign homework directly in the mobile phone WeChat group, and some have to use mobile phone software to complete. If the grades are not good, another training class needs to be found… It’s terrible.”

    Lu Ying trembled with lingering fears. During kindergarten, as long as she saw her child happily going to school, everything would be OK. Anyway, his son is a solid skin. There is this concern, and a hundred poisons do not invade.

    If kindergarten is Angel mode, elementary school is normal mode, junior high school is hard mode, and high school is **** mode. He is Alexander, worried that his son who is not good at math will read elementary school into difficult mode o(╥﹏╥)o.

    Yang Sigu frowned when he heard the words: “Raising children is so troublesome?”

    “Otherwise, what do you think…” Lu Ying couldn’t help rolling his eyes. Although Brother Yang is quite old, he always enjoys life freely, and it is estimated that he has never had much contact with children at all.

    Yang Sigu sighed: “I also think that it would be trivial if you are short of money, and I will lend you if you are short of money.” Although he has never raised a child, he 100% believes that the child needs the company of the parent. A parent who is busy every day is dereliction of duty, unless there is another guardian at home, but Lu Ying is a single parent.

    “I said, didn’t that daddy come to find you? It seems that he has an unforgettable old love for you, why hasn’t he come for a long time?” Yang Sigu thought to himself, if he was irresponsible The scumbag, the next time I see you, I’ll kick him out.

    Lu Ying lowered her head to put things, and muttered in a loud voice: “I don’t need…” No one came, but there were many text messages, but he never replied.

    Yang Sigu glanced at him, “I don’t think you can completely let him go.”

    “…” Lu Ying did not dare to speak.

    “Okay, it’s not urgent anyway. Let me know if you need any ideas in the future.”

    “Thank you, Brother Yang.”

    Hearing the noise outside, Yang Sigu knew who was coming without looking up. Lu Ying hurriedly opened the door and looked at the companions who came together with a smile.

    “Little Pig Lu, I haven’t seen you for a long time! Haha, it’s so cute.” Brother Wang, the biggest one, rushed over and grabbed Lu Ying’s head, “You are busy all day. What, I haven’t seen your posts in the circle of friends.”

    “Wang, Brother Wang, Brother Hou! Sister Tu! Ah, Xiaotu is here too, are everyone else here?” Lu Ying couldn’t stop laughing.

    Ji Xiaofeng nodded: “You still have a lot of face, this time all the work, some others are on the mountain, some go out to the market to buy things. We will come to pick you up and Brother Yang, and make delicious food. Ok?”

    “Okay, I’m packing.” Lu Ying nodded hurriedly, and asked incredulously, “Brother Gou is back too?”

    “Back.”

    “Wow!” Lu Ying was overjoyed. It’s not easy for everyone to get together. I didn’t expect to get them all this year. The last time we gathered was on the day the cub was born.

    There are many people and great strength, everyone quickly packed all the food and loaded them into the car, and before night fell, everyone returned to Qixia Mountain. The cold mountain forest, with the deepening of the night, was unconsciously covered with thick fog.

    Qixia Town.

    Every house in the community is brightly lit, and the fragrance of the reunion dinner permeates everywhere, pervasive. Smelling the lingering aroma of food, in front of a dark door, a man standing alone was smoking a cigarette, leaning on the closed door and looking up at the sky. After five minutes, the man took out his cell phone and dialed.

    ‘The call you are calling is out of service…’

    Irritably put out the cigarette, the man continued to call, over and over again. New Year’s Eve with children away from home, where did you go? There was no one in the shop, and the house was locked. The phone is not in the service area…

    Suddenly, the man thought of a place, Qixia Mountain.

    It must be there!

    The man was very pleasantly surprised. He pulled his legs and was ready to leave. After thinking about it, he stopped. He took out a pen and paper from his briefcase to write a message, and stuffed it through the crack of the door so that if the owner came back, he could see it. Come, don’t miss it.

    Leaving the community, the man walked straight towards Qixia Mountain, not even realizing that he was no stranger to the road leading to Qixia Mountain, as if he was familiar with it.

    On New Year’s Eve, I walked alone on a winding country road. There should be a small village in front of me called Lujia Village. Most of the people have the last name Lu.

    Walking, he saw the lights, and the village was still there.

    The man strode into the village.

      Bring out the New Year’s weapon, red envelopes!

    As the smallest existence, Lu Zaixi took the lead in collecting the big red envelopes!

    “Thank you, Uncle Hou, thank you Uncle Gou, thank you Aunt Tu…” The red-faced Lu Zizai thanked one by one, and put all the red packets in his arms to his father Lu Ying: “Dad, my red packets are all Here’s to you~”

    “Haha, the cub is so good and well-behaved.” Aunt Tu sat next to Lu cub and chatted with him from time to time.

    Lu Ying said a few polite words, also took out the prepared red envelope from her arms, stood up and handed it to Sister Tu’s only son: “Xiaotu, this is the New Year’s money for you, I wish you good luck in the Year of the Pig , study well.”

    The young man Qin Xiaotu took the red envelope and politely thanked: “Thank you Uncle Lu for your blessing.”

      Know where in the forest.

    Only two juniors and Xu Lao are left.

    Elder Xu, the housekeeper, took out a bunch of fireworks from the house and greeted the two children: “Come, come, let’s blow up the fireworks.”

    The elder brother Qin Xiaotu took the younger brother Lu Zizai and cheered around.

    At the foot of Qixia Mountain, Lujia Village.

    The person he is looking for must be there.