Chapter 249 Family Portrait

Bai Songzhe was standing outside holding his daughter's coat. He really wanted to go in, but Bai Qingxia yelled at him and wouldn't let him come in to help.

Lu Yuanqiu looked at the girl beside him who was trying hard to pounce on the chicken and asked in surprise: "Aren't you afraid of chickens? I have the impression that many girls are afraid of this thing."

Bai Qingxia shook her head: "Don't be afraid, I'll help you catch it faster."

"Then be careful not to get hurt by their mouths and claws."

"Ok."

The girl responded quickly and soon got into the process of catching the chicken.

Lu Yuanqiu did not rush to act, but just looked at her figure with a smile on his face.

When the four brothers came out of the room, Bai Qingxia and Lu Yuanqiu had each caught a chicken.

But Bai Qingxia obviously had no experience, and Lu Yuanqiu could see that she was actually afraid, but was just pretending not to be afraid.

Lu Yuanqiu didn't laugh at her, but patiently taught her: "Slow down, pull the wings, press the ground, don't get caught."

Bai Qingxia narrowed her eyes, tilted her neck back, and said in a trembling voice: "Okay!"

"Hey, be careful, I'll do it, I'll do it!" Seeing this, Lu Tian quickly rolled up his sleeves and rushed in.

"How many should we catch?" asked the uncle outside.

Erye glared and added, "How many more do you want to catch? Talk about it after you catch them! You are already in your 40s or 50s, but you are not as sensible as that girl. Do you think that being busy with company matters during the New Year is a virtue in my eyes?"

The eldest and second uncles panicked instantly, smiled apologetically to the second uncle, and then rushed into the chicken coop.

Uncle San was not from the company, so the reprimand from the current chairman of the Lu Group was useless to him. He adjusted his glasses and looked at his brothers flying around and clucking in the chicken coop, feeling a little hesitant.

Lu Yuan smiled awkwardly and looked back at his mother: "Mom, with my status... it's not appropriate for you to let me go in and catch chickens. Dou Qing is still watching."

Lu Douqing said blankly: "Come on, Dad."

Lu Yuan: "?"

Mrs. Lu Cao angrily hit him hard with her cane: "Who are you?! You are just an ordinary person in my eyes! How can two or three chickens be enough for so many people today? Why don't you catch them quickly? Do you want me to do it?"

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, I'll go in right away."

Seeing her husband, who was usually efficient and decisive, now acting so timid, Third Aunt tried hard to hold back her laughter.

Lu Yuan took off his coat and went into the chicken coop.

With the help of Lu Tian, Bai Qingxia quickly controlled a female chicken. She proudly picked up the chicken wings and showed them to Lu Yuanqiu, who praised her. The girl was immediately very satisfied.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Five chickens with their throats cut were fluttering on the ground, with blood splattered all over the floor. A total of 17 people in the yard were watching this scene. Lu Tian put his hands up to cover his daughter's eyes.

"Dad, your hands are so smelly, they smell like chicken shit." Lu Yidong said expressionlessly.

Glancing at the crowd around him, Lu Yuanqiu looked back at the chicken flopping on the ground and said abruptly, "How about...taking a family photo today?"

Lu Yuan nodded, thinking that this was a good suggestion: "Okay, then I'll make a phone call to get some people over. It's rare to get so many people together."

Erye smiled. Although he did not belong to this family in a strict sense and was always scolding this junior or that junior, he was the one among everyone present who most hoped that this family could be united.

Bai Qingxia was silent for a while. She knew that Lu Yuanqiu would invite her and her father to join the family portrait, but despite this, the girl still felt lonely... everyone was there, but it seemed as if not everyone was there.

The weather is nice today. The 17 people in the yard each have their own duties and are busy with different things.

The three aunts, Su Xiaoya, and Bai Qingxia were boiling water in the kitchen and preparing various ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner. The four brothers each brought a stool and sat by the basin to pluck the feathers and gut the chicken.

As four kitchen wastes, the four sisters' task is to clean up the inner hall to make room for everyone to sleep and rest.

The floor of the inner hall was very wide. After they swept the floor, they took clean snakeskin bags and clean plastic sheets and spread them on the floor. Then they went to the room and brought out the sheets and quilts that had been prepared in advance and spread them neatly on the floor.

The floor had just been laid and not yet tidied, but Lu Yidong threw himself on it and rolled around mischievously. He became obedient after being slapped on the butt by his eldest sister.

Lu Yuanqiu, on the contrary, became idle, but he stayed by the side to accompany Uncle Bai, otherwise Uncle Bai would run to the kitchen to stick to his daughter, and Bai Qingxia would not be able to concentrate on her work.

As time went by, it was already evening and the ingredients were almost ready.

Lu Yidong volunteered to go to the kitchen to light the fire, but ended up with black smoke all over his face and was laughed at by everyone.

Bai Qingxia tried not to laugh, fearing that Lu Yidong would feel discouraged, because the little girl entered the kitchen with full confidence and claimed that she could control the size of the fire. Although she failed... Bai Qingxia felt that she should be praised.

"Do you want to start cooking?" Bai Qingxia, wearing an apron, ran out of the kitchen and asked Lu Yuanqiu.

"Ask...ask me?" Lu Yuanqiu pointed at himself.

Bai Qingxia nodded.

Lu Yuanqiu turned around to look at the Second Master who was lying in the rocking chair basking in the sun, and said to the girl: "Ask him, he is the boss."

Bai Qingxia looked at the Second Master, and when she wanted to go forward, she tightly closed her mouth, not daring to go over. She asked herself and answered, "It should be OK. It's almost time. There are a lot of dishes..."

After answering herself she ran back to the kitchen.

Lu Yuanqiu came to the inner hall and found Lu Yidong and Bai Songzhe taking off their shoes and rolling around on the floor, both of them laughing happily.

The floor is very large, after all, it is made to accommodate 15 people. My second uncle and grandmother are old and it is not suitable for them to sleep on the floor.

"Don't mess it up, or the old man will get angry... Even though he doesn't sleep, he will still get angry."

As if he heard Lu Yuanqiu's words, the old man lying on the rocking chair in the yard looked back, but heard nothing. Thinking it was hallucination, he lay back down again.

Just then, Uncle San received a call.

He nodded a few times, then said to Lu Yuanqiu, "Xiaoqiu, the photographers from the county have arrived. Tell everyone to put down what they have on hand and come out to take pictures."

"okay!"

It was not convenient for Lu Yuan to open the door, so he called the fourth brother Lu Tian over.

After the door opened, the photographer came in stealthily, bowed to Lu Tian in a low and excited voice, "Hello, leader. Don't worry, I came into the village quietly and didn't make any noise."

Lu Tian frowned: "Why do you sound like a colonel?"

I think you have a bit of a traitor temperament... The photographer looked at Lu Tian, who looked like a comedian, and wondered in his heart whether the person who opened the door for him was his leader...

"Oh yes, your leader is there." Lu Tian turned and pointed in the direction of his third brother.

No wonder, their temperaments are so different... The photographer immediately put away his smile towards Lu Tian like a chameleon, glanced at him strangely and walked into the yard.

“Hey, what’s your attitude…” Lu Tian turned around.

(End of this chapter)

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