Qiao Mingjin stopped when she reached the fence in front of her house.
She was used to looking for her daughter outside her house when she came back from outside.
Wan'er is very well-behaved, and she will follow Qiao Mingjin wherever she goes. But if it is inconvenient for Qiao Mingjin to take her and tells her to play alone at home, her daughter will usually stay at home obediently. Even if someone comes to play with her, she will
Don't go out or go too far from the house.
Qiao Mingjin was used to going to the fence to look for her daughter when she entered the house.
Ever since this child knew that his mother was too busy to take care of the vegetable patch, he took care of it all by himself. He never forgot to water it sooner or later, and he never failed to take care of it.
What does she see now?
My daughter is busy squatting in the vegetable field as usual. She seems to be particularly happy today, and her little mouth is chattering non-stop. And the person next to her is Yue Zhongyao?
When did you come back?
It's impossible for Qiao Mingjin not to know how her daughter has changed during this period. How can a child's emotions be well hidden?
She just missed her father. She was also afraid that her mother would be angry if she heard this, so she would often lie in silence in her arms with her lips pursed, or stare at her with big eyes and hesitate to speak.
Qiao Mingjin never took the initiative to ask her. She always thought that her daughter was still young, so that was fine. Over time, she might forget about it. Even if there were any changes in the future, the child would be able to accept it.
But what is happening now?
The father and daughter were squatting happily in the vegetable field, one was planting and pulling weeds, and the other was watering the ground. The father and daughter were talking while working. The two would look up at each other from time to time, with smiles on their faces.
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Qiao Mingjin felt somewhat complicated.
Is it true that she can't play both the roles of father and mother at the same time?
When Yue Zhongyao turned around and was about to go to the next vegetable field, he saw someone standing at the gate of the fence.
Looking from bottom to top, he saw Qiao Mingjin standing at the gate of the fence with a thoughtful look on her face.
Yue Zhongyao suddenly became a little panicked.
He stood up hurriedly, put his hands together and patted them. But there was still wet dirt on his hands, and there were still black mud marks on them.
He remembered that Jin Niang loved to be clean and couldn't bear to look at his dirty appearance.
Yue Zhongyao hurriedly put his hands behind his back and called out with some confusion: "Jin Niang."
When Xiao Wan'er saw her father standing up, she twisted her body and looked back, and soon saw her mother.
He immediately threw down his things happily and rushed towards her mother.
"Mom, you're back!"
Qiao Mingjin glanced at Yue Zhongyao and didn't respond.
He only caught his daughter's running body. He looked at the mud marks on his skirt, pretended to be angry, and said angrily: "Look at mom's skirt, it's stained by you again. Do you want to help mom wash it?"
The little thing was not at all frightened by his mother's tone. He lay between her legs, raised his head and said with a smile, "Yes. Wan'er helps mother wash. Watching my aunt wash clothes, Wan'er knows how to do it."
Qiao Mingjin patted her head helplessly, held her hand and faced Yue Zhongyao.
Wan'er seemed to have just remembered, and said loudly: "Mom, mother, look, dad is back! Daddy was planting vegetables with Wan'er just now, and even caught a bamboo tube of cabbage worms! Dad also taught Wan'er how to catch cabbage worms.
My child, daddy is so awesome! He knows all the children of such small cabbage bugs. This way they will not turn into big insects and eat our vegetable leaves. Dad is so awesome! Right, mom?"
Qiao Mingjin saw her daughter's face full of admiration for her father, and she didn't know what she felt in her heart.
He glanced at Yue Zhongyao opposite. After hearing his daughter's words, Yue Zhongyao was smiling with his lips raised, and he seemed a little embarrassed, which was a bit funny.
Then he asked: "When did you come back?"
Yue Zhongyao's eyes lit up and he stared at his wife in front of him and said: "I just came back not long ago. I was sent to another county by the magistrate. Things were a little tricky, so I stayed there for a longer time."
Qiao Mingjin saw Yue Zhongyao's anxious expression and glanced at him again.
She had never looked seriously at his face before.
Now I can actually see that there seems to be something different, and it seems to be much darker.
"Mom, mom, dad has become a lot darker, right? He has also lost weight, right? Mom, let's stew a chicken for dad to eat. Didn't mom let my aunt eat the chicken skin? Can we let dad eat it too?"
After Wan'er finished speaking, she looked at her expectantly.
Qiao Mingjin was a little speechless.
She doesn't kill chickens every day. Occasionally she catches pheasants and eats them when she can't keep them alive. Seeing that Mingqi doesn't eat chicken skins, in order not to waste it, she earnestly tells her that eating chicken skins is good for the skin and coaxes her.
Mingqi ate it.
Unexpectedly, this little thing remembered it. But why does her father want to have such good skin? When did chicken skin have the effect of whitening?
Qiao Mingjin looked at her daughter, who looked up at her with an expectant look on her face, and couldn't help but laugh or cry.
"Your father is a man, he is different from us."
The little thing seemed to understand. He rolled his eyes, and soon tugged on the hem of Qiao Mingjin's skirt and said, "Mom, can you let daddy have dinner at home?"
After a pause, he whispered again: "Wan'er has already agreed with daddy." After speaking, she pouted.
Qiao Mingjin touched her head. Seeing that Yue Zhongyao opposite also had a look of expectation, he couldn't bear to touch the child. Then he said, "Okay. Let your father eat at home."
After hearing this, the little thing jumped up immediately, ran to her father's side quickly, and asked for a hug from her father.
When her father picked her up, he happily said: "Dad, look, I think mother will definitely agree. Mom is the best mother in the world, isn't she?"
Yue Zhongyao happily held his daughter in his arms, looked at Qiao Mingjin and said, "Yes. Your mother is the best mother in the world."
Qiao Mingjin's face felt a little hot and she turned around and walked home.
"Wan'er, remember to close the fence door. If you let the chickens and ducks in and eat the vegetables, my mother will spank you."
The little thing lay on her father's shoulder and responded happily: "I know, Mom!"
She turned around and did not get off the ground, so she relied on her father and directed her father to carry the small wooden bucket, the bamboo tube and close the door, etc.
Yue Zhongyao held his daughter in his arms and closed the fence door, then took down a bundle he had placed on it, and then followed Qiao Mingjin into the house with his daughter in his arms.
When Yun Jin saw Yue Zhongyao carrying Wan'er in his arms, he glared at him angrily and said angrily, "Hey, who is this?"
Xiao Wan'er didn't understand the undercurrent of the adult world at all, so she happily struggled to the ground and said loudly to her cousin: "Cousin, this is my daddy!"
The corners of Yun Jin's mouth twitched.
He turned to the little thing and said softly: "Oh, it's Xiao Wan'er's father. Look at your hands, go and wash them. Your aunt seems to be angry, go and have a look. Otherwise, she won't do it next time
I’ll take you to play.”
"Why is auntie angry?" the little thing asked curiously, raising his head.
"My cousin doesn't know either. Would Wan'er want to go see your aunt?"
The little thing nodded repeatedly and ran to the kitchen.
Yun Jin watched Xiao Wan'er run away, turned around to face Yue Zhongyao, and was about to stab him.
Then he saw Yue Zhongyao bowing towards him and giving him a big gift: "Big cousin."
Yun Jin was a little surprised. She opened her mouth and quickly closed it again. Without replying, she waved her hands angrily and walked to the backyard.
Yue Zhongyao saw someone making noises in the backyard, put his baggage into the main room, and followed him.
When Yue Zhongyao came home last time, Qiao Mingjin hadn't decided to make abacus. Later she made abacus, sold abacus, and then decided to dig tree stumps to prepare a root carving workshop. Yue Zhongyao didn't know all this.
So Yue Zhongyao was surprised when he saw so many people in the backyard.
He heard a few quick words from his family members about Qiao Mingjin collecting wooden stakes, and he knew that Qiao Mingjin must be on the mountain, so he did not go up. Instead, he went directly to the house to find his daughter.
In fact, he didn't know what Qiao Mingjin was going to do. He hadn't heard his family mention that there were so many people in her family.
Yue Zhongyao was a little surprised.
When He's father, He Xiaochun and others came to Qiao Mingjin's house, they naturally knew what happened to Qiao Mingjin.
After living here for so many days, I can see what kind of person Qiao Mingjin is. He is a person who would rather eat sweet potatoes or pickles by himself than get some dry food for them.
These days, I have never treated them badly, and the money I gave them was more than they could get from doing carpentry work for so many years. She, Qiao Mingjin, did not treat them as hired workers, but bossed them around. Instead, she treated them as partners.
There was no criticism of their work. Even if they didn't do it well, they were just asked to try again, and they were not accused of spoiling the few raw materials.
The longer we get along, the more difficult it becomes for Qiao Mingjin.
If a woman doesn't really have trouble living, who would take such a young child out to live alone?
So He Xiaochun, He Xia and others didn't have a good look when they saw Yue Zhongyao. They only glanced at him and turned around to do their work. Only He's father nodded lightly to Yue Zhongyao.
Yue Dalei looked at a few people who didn't look at Yue Zhongyao favorably, and he felt a little embarrassed.
His family and Yue Zhongyao were neighbors. Although he was a few years older than Yue Zhongyao, because the two families were close to each other, they had always played together when they were young. Later, because they married wives from the same village, they became even closer.
He was as good as his brothers. When Yue Zhongyao was recruiting soldiers and leaving, he went to his house to ask his wife to take care of Qiao Mingjin.
But he also felt that Yue Zhongyao had done something inappropriate in the matter of equalizing his wife and was unfair to Qiao Mingjin, who had been guarding him for four years. He also had some complaints against Yue Zhongyao in his heart.
However, seeing Yue Zhongyao greeting him affectionately, he could not ignore it.
Then he took Yue Zhongyao and introduced him.
Only then did Yue Zhongyao realize what his wife was doing after finding so many people.
Some unknown emotions welled up in his heart. They were sour and astringent.
These days he is out and about, scrambling to do tasks that others don't want to do. He just wants to save more money for her mother and daughter so that they can live a better life.
But now it seems that my wife is better off without him... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation
