Qiao Erqiang is a bit slow, and it's not just that he can't learn well.
It's not good at sports either. They all have the same hands and feet when walking in line. It's also not good at music. I'm tone-deaf, can't sing in tune, and can lead people off track. In the class chorus, no one dares to lead Qiao Erqiang to play.
"Second Qiang, think about it, do you have any special skills?"
"My second brother has a good nose."
The little clever Qiao Simei said again, this child was quite cute when he was a child, so don’t mention it when he grows up.
"I do have a good nose. Brother Niu Ye, I can tell you what your family eats every day just by smelling it in our yard."
"I guess this is your only specialty."
Niu Ye sighed and said.
After thinking about it, Qiao Erqiang, the remaining advantages are hard work and down-to-earthness. In the future, working in a state-owned enterprise with good returns, security, and peace of mind at work is the best way out.
However, the academic performance of the top two is not comparable to that of a high school or technical secondary school diploma.
Without any options, it is quite difficult to enter a state-owned enterprise with good profits.
Ordinary small businesses are meaningless, waiting for the fate of reorganization and layoffs.
Qiao Erqiang, the last option may be to be trained as a cook.
Although he is not the most talented person with a keen sense of taste and an outstanding sense of smell, he is somewhat of a chef's talent.
I originally wanted to give Qiao Erqiang a recipe book, but after thinking about it, I gave up because Qiao Erqiang could barely reach the second grade education level. Qiao Erqiang needed to learn literacy for two more years.
After the primary school students go on winter vacation, there are actually only a few days left before the Spring Festival.
In this day and age, the most affordable snack for children is popcorn.
Use a few kilograms of corn or rice, add a few spoons of sugar, and spend one or two cents.
Ask the popcorn popper to give him a furnace of popcorn.
Of course, if you don’t want to spend money and want to eat popcorn, there’s nothing you can do about it.
You can make popcorn at home, it's not difficult at all.
Pour some oil, then pour the corn into the pot and stir-fry, then add the sugar and continue to stir-fry.
After the corn has popped in the pot, cover the pot and simmer over low heat for a few minutes.
In short, popcorn, a cheap and delicious snack, is available in almost every household.
At this time, the Qiao family became an exception again.
Since the Qiao family's children lost their mother, most of the people who cook in the Qiao family have become Qiao Yicheng.
It's just a twelve-year-old child with no one to teach him. If he can cook a decent meal, he's doing pretty well.
The skill of popcorn is beyond Qiao Yicheng's grasp.
The yard was filled with the sweet aroma of popcorn, and the greedy Qiao Erqiang couldn't bear it.
The neighbor had just popped popcorn, and the second Qiang got smart and went to grab a handful.
"Qiao Yicheng, do your children still have tutors? Look at you two, you haven't eaten anything, right? He stole a handful of our freshly fried popcorn."
The neighbor's family is not well-off either. Financially, it is about the same as the Qiao family. It is a little better than the Qiao family. The adults are here, so the women can take care of the housework.
The children at home had never eaten any snacks. Qiao Erqiang stole a handful. How could they be willing to accept it? The neighbor women started to jump to the door of Qiao's house and started to curse.
"You have no control over whether our children have tutors or not. Why do you have the nerve to say that your son, the second best in our family, also took other people's things..."
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Niu Ye also had a glimpse of the fighting ability of Qiao Yicheng.
You can avoid falling behind by shouting insults at the women in the courtyard.
Speak some curse words, mean words, and expose people's shortcomings.
In terms of scolding, she is not inferior to the middle-aged women in the courtyard who have been through battles for a long time.
Niu Ye and the nearby neighbors finally saw that Qiao Yicheng was not easy to mess with.
Qiao Yicheng fought one after another and set up a deterrent in the courtyard. Everyone knew that Qiao Yicheng was not easy to bully.
The effect is good, no one dares to bully the Qiao family's children as motherless children.
The initiator of the trouble, Qiao Erqiang, was naturally unavoidable, and Qiao Yicheng gave him a lesson.
Compared to Qiao Zuwang, Qiao Yicheng is more like the father of the three children of the Qiao family.
We were fighting and making noises, and the Spring Festival came quickly. After all, it was already 78 years ago.
Jinling's development in all aspects is actually pretty good, including the residents' lives.
Although it doesn't reach a very high level, it's actually not too bad.
Every household has at least one or two workers, and these adults usually wear work clothes.
Therefore, every household's cloth coupons can be saved. When the Chinese New Year comes, the children will always need to make a new set of clothes.
During the Spring Festival, most of the children in the courtyard wore new clothes.
Niu Ye naturally has no shortage of new clothes. When Niu Ye's father came back, he brought Niu Ye new clothes for the four seasons of the year.
In this era, Niu Ye has already started to wear down jackets. There are only a few children in the Qiao family, and those who are older during the New Year still wear old cotton clothes.
Children grow up very quickly. After a year, when they put on the old cotton clothes, the wrists of several children in the Qiao family were exposed.
"Second Qiang, try on the clothes in this cabinet, pick something you can wear, and wear it."
All Niu Ye could do was give Qiao Erqiang one of the clothes he didn't wear.
Even for a family like the Niu family, which is not short of money, it is rare to give away cotton-padded clothes.
Both the fabric and the cotton inside are rare things.
They are all things that can be recycled and reused. Even ordinary relatives would not give them away like this.
When Niu Ye gave it to Qiao Erqiang, he was inevitably lectured by Niu's mother.
But Niu Ye could only deal with Qiao Erqiang. The other three children still had to look to their second aunt.
Wei Shufang brought some rags and helped Qiao Sanli and Qiao Simei pick up a section of the cuff.
The stubborn Qiao Yicheng was resentful because the Qiao family's cloth tickets had to be paid to the Qi family, so he refused his second aunt's help.
Still wearing cotton clothes with one wrist exposed.
At this time, Qiao Yicheng was still a little childish.
The Qiao family itself was when Qiao's mother gave birth to Qiao Qiqi.
He owed the Qi family a sum of medical expenses and had no money to pay back, so it was understandable to compensate the Qi family with his own cloth receipts and industrial vouchers.
Wei Shufang herself is a shrewd person who knows how to calculate. Otherwise, when Wei Shuying and Qi Zhiqiang were both engaged, she would not have forced her to marry Qi Zhiqiang, who had better conditions.
Wei Shufang definitely has some debts and feelings towards the children of the Qiao family, but it is not certain whether they are more or less.
There is no problem in taking care of her and doing some work, but asking her to spend money on the Qiao family is not something that the stingy Wei Shufang is willing to do.
It's also to blame that Qiao Zuwang, a scumbag father, lived too carelessly in his childhood. The father drank wine and ate meat, and didn't care about the children. How could the second aunt be willing to subsidize it.