The situation of the Qiao family has always been poor. They are also immigrants from Yunjia Village. Not to mention that the house is built on the outskirts of the village, because Qiao's father has spent a lot of money on medicines over the years. The house at home is not very good, but fortunately it has not been good in recent years.
There was no heavy wind or snow.
The Qiao family has not renovated their house in so many years. The roof is often repaired immediately when it is broken. So looking at the patches here and there, it is as mottled as the patches on clothes.
The layout of Qiao's house is similar to the one Qiao Mingjin bought.
There is also one main room, with the hall on the left and right sides in the middle, and one room above and below each, for a total of four rooms. The door of the upper room opens in the main room, and the door of the lower room opens outside the main room.
One of the four rooms is occupied by grandmother Lan, one is occupied by father and mother Qiao, and the two lower rooms are the rooms of the fifth siblings.
The five siblings each had two beds in the lower room. Mingheng and Mingjue slept in one room, one each. The other lower room also had two beds. When they were young, Qiao Mingjin slept with her younger sister Mingqi. Later,
Qiao Mingjin got married, so Mingyu and Mingqi each slept in one bed.
In the past, when Qiao Mingjin and her son-in-law came back, Qiao's father and Qiao's mother would give up their rooms and sleep together with their son and daughter. Otherwise, Mingheng and Mingqi would be driven to their grandfather's house to sleep one night.
Later, Qiao Mingjin and Wan'er came back. The mother and daughter slept in the same bed, and the two younger sisters slept in the same bed.
My family never had enough money to build a house. We only had a few taels of silver to build a few side rooms, but we still couldn't afford it.
Now, Yue Zhongyao came to help, and he was very efficient in his work. He could do two more labors for one extra worker, and most of the work in the fields was eliminated in one afternoon.
Everyone worked until dark. After finishing work, Qiao Mingjin listened to her daughter acting coquettishly to her father: "Daddy, Wan'er will sleep with daddy tonight."
Only then did she remember, where did Yue Zhongyao sleep at night?
It seemed that she was the only one in the family who was considering this issue. Looking at everyone's unobjectionable faces, she decided to pretend she didn't know.
Before it got dark, Qiao's mother sent Qiao Mingjin back to help her grandmother Lan's cook. She was unhappy. She didn't want Yue Zhongyao to think that he valued him too much.
Seeing that she could not be moved, Mother Qiao had no choice but to send Mingqi back.
Ming Qi now looks down upon her brother-in-law.
I wasted no time, looking for puddles in the field, slowly washing my hands and feet, and looking left and right to see if there were any snails in the field to pick up. After Qiao's mother grabbed a handful of black mud and threw it on her butt.
.So he had no choice but to go back angrily.
After work was done, it was not dark yet in Qiao's yard, so there was no need to light oil lamps. Everyone washed their hands and feet and chatted in the yard while waiting for dinner.
Xiao Wan'er happily sat on her father's lap and talked to her father.
"Dad, are you tired?"
"Dad, you're not tired."
"Dad, can Wan'er help you with your waist?"
"Haha. Okay."
"Dad, how long can you stay at home this time?"
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Qiao Mingjin took one look at the affectionate father and daughter and got into the kitchen to help.
After a while, I heard Mother Qiao's voice in the courtyard: "Mingjue Mingheng, take your brother-in-law to take a bath first and then come back for dinner."
"Okay, mother." Mingjue responded.
Then he asked Yue Zhongyao: "Brother-in-law, have you brought any clothes?"
"Bring it."
So the three of them went to the river outside to take a bath together...
When they come back, they will have food.
The whole family sat together to eat. There was no separate table, they just ate around a big table.
Yue Zhongyao watched this family eating happily around a big table. They didn't have two tables like theirs. The whole family was very affectionate and warm. You brought me food and I served you soup. It was very warm.
.Yue Zhongyao was very touched after seeing it.
He frequently casts fiery glances at his wife.
It's a pity that Qiao Mingjin didn't respond to him. Instead, Xiao Wan'er sat next to him and yelled, asking him to pick this and that. The atmosphere was actually lively.
After dinner, after Qiao Mingjin had finished washing up, the rooms had been allocated at home. Yue Zhongyao was asked to sleep on a bed alone, while brothers Mingheng and Mingjue slept on the same bed.
No one had any objections, but Mingheng gave Yue Zhongyao a hard look. He was not happy to sleep in the same room with his ex-brother-in-law.
This child had seen Qiao Mingjin's hard work in the early days. He had always been angry with Yue Zhongyao. But he didn't cause any trouble. This child was very afraid of Qiao's father's glare.
Before Qiao Mingjin went to bed, she handed Yue Zhongyao the purse that he had given her for safekeeping during the day.
Yue Zhongyao didn't answer.
"Please save it for me." He looked at Qiao Mingjin with a very gentle look.
Qiao Mingjin stared at him for a while, and when he didn't answer, she had to grab his hand and force the purse into his hand.
I turned around and wanted to take Wan'er to sleep.
This girl was holding her father's leg, determined to sleep with her father. Qiao Mingjin glared at her several times, but did not let her put down the hand that was holding her father.
Qiao Mingjin had no choice but to let her go.
Yue Zhongyao watched his wife enter the room and close the door, then sadly took his daughter back to the room.
After catching mosquitoes in the mosquito net for a while, he carefully covered the mosquito net, covered his daughter with a quilt, and then talked to his daughter while lying on the quilt. Wan'er took his hand and asked him what was in his wallet.
"This purse contains Daddy's most precious things."
"What is that thing? Does daddy always carry it with him?"
"Well, daddy always takes him with him..."
After his daughter fell asleep, Yue Zhongyao took out the contents of his purse in the dark night.
In addition to a few silver horns, there is also a hidden pocket inside.
The secret bag contained the marriage certificate between him and Qiao Mingjin. There was also the black hair knot that he twisted out of their wedding night.
After so many years, even on that battlefield where the flames were raging and blood flowed, he kept wearing this purse close to his body. In the dead of night, he took it out to take a look...
Yue Zhongyao came for three days, and the Qiao family's fifteen acres of rice fields were harvested on the second day of his arrival.
He also helped the first and second uncles of the Yun family harvest their rice.
Not only did he cut the rice quickly and efficiently in the rice fields, but he also helped with carrying burdens, threshing, winnowing, plowing and drying, and transporting millet to the house... He was eager to do all kinds of work, doing everything quickly and working hard without complaining.
But he won the praise of many villagers in Yunjia Village. They said that Father Qiao and Mother Qiao had found a good son-in-law for Jin Niang.
Someone who knew about it came to the house to persuade Qiao's father, Qiao's mother, and Qiao Mingjin. He said that it was helpless for him to marry an equal wife. It was a sign that he was responsible and knew how to repay his kindness. He said that he treated his benefactor's daughter like that.
Qiao Mingjin, who had guarded him for four years and gave birth to a daughter for him, was even more perfect...
Qiao Mingjin just listened and didn't react.
The night before Yue Zhongyao left, Qiao Yun and his family had finished their work in the fields, so they gathered together for a meal in the spacious courtyard of Qiao's family.
Even a few good friends who were having dinner together during busy farming days and said they wanted to come and share the meal were invited to join us.
The Qiao family also killed two chickens, bought some pork belly and some meaty bones, pulled fresh vegetables from their own vegetable field, and cooked several tables of fairly hearty farm dishes.
We ate from before sunset until dark and lit the oil lamps. Only then did everyone disperse with satisfaction.
After breakfast the next day, Yue Zhongyao hugged his tearful daughter and looked at his wife who was with everyone to see him off but didn't say a word to him. He sadly returned to the city.
Also going there were Ming Jue and Ming Heng.
Not long after, Qiao Mingjin had breakfast and took her daughter back to Xiahe Village. Mingqi did not follow her back. Qiao Mingjin asked her to stay at home for two more days to wait for the rice to dry and close the warehouse, and to wait until Yunjin went to Xiahe Village.
Pick her up.
When Qiao Mingjin returned home, she was busy messing around with her home. She wanted to move the extra bed in the room to the wing, but she couldn't move it. She had to move some furniture, chairs and other things there.
Went around the workshop again.
The workshop covers an area of ten acres. An ordinary workshop would not be this big. But the things she makes are different, and the wooden stakes are bigger.
A room may not be able to fit even one wooden stake, and there must be room for craftsmen to move around and create art. There must also be a large warehouse to store unprocessed and processed finished products.
In addition to workshops and warehouses, several rows of side rooms were also built. They may be single rooms, large rooms or full-storey rooms. In the future, craftsmen who want to make wood carvings here cannot go home every day. They must live here.
The room must be arranged well. You may live in a bunk bed or a single room. If there are special circumstances, you may be able to arrange a large room for a couple or a family.
But now the room is very empty. It has just been dried and the moisture has dissipated. No one has been hired to make furniture, beds or anything else.
Father He and others were afraid that they would have to live in her house for a while.
Fortunately, Father He and others are accustomed to carpentry work, so making a few beds, chairs and simple furniture is not a problem for them.
Two days after Qiao Mingjin returned from Yunjia Village, Zhou Yanqing finally came to visit.
Qiao Mingjin looked at him with a bad look on his face and looked tired, thinking it was because the shampooing chair was not going well.
When this guy saw her, he was not in a hurry to explain, but was interested in playing with Wan'er.
"Kekeke, lift it higher, raise it higher, kekeke..."
"Ah, I'm dizzy, Uncle Zhou is dizzy, Wan'er is dizzy!"
Zhou Yanqing held up the Wan'er and threw it twice, then held the little thing and spun it around on the ground a few times. The little thing screamed and said it fainted before Zhou Yanqing stopped.
"Uncle Zhou, just wait, Wan'er will get you some delicious food!" As soon as he got off the ground, the little thing stomped into the room with short legs.
After a while, I took out an oil paper bag.
"This is the peanut cake fried by my great-grandmother. It's delicious, fragrant and crispy. Give it to Uncle Zhou."
The little guy stuffed a peanut cake for Zhou Yanqing, not forgetting the coachman and the boy in the courtyard, which made the two young men thank the little man again and again, looking inexplicably touched.
The wages in the Zhou Mansion are high, but where is the master who remembers little people like them when eating?
Zhou Yanqing took a palm-sized piece of peanut cake and looked at it in his hand. It was a small round piece with about a dozen peanuts embedded in the middle. It was golden and looked good. It looked like a lotus pod holding lotus seeds.
When I took a bite, it was crunchy and had the fragrance of peanuts.
"Not bad." Zhou Yanqing said without hesitation.
The little thing immediately leaned over with a smile on his face: "Is it delicious? My mother-in-law fried it. I brought a big bag back to Wan'er." He even gestured with his hands as he spoke, for fear that others wouldn't know how big the bag was.
"Your mother-in-law loves you very much." Zhou Yanqing pinched her nose.
"Well, my great-grandmother loves Wan'er very much. There are also grandmothers, uncles and aunts. Many people in Yunjia Village love Wan'er."
While Zhou Yanqing was eating, she was teasing the little thing. She learned a lot of information. She also learned that her father went to help with the farm work when he was busy.
When he looked over, Qiao Mingjin asked: "What, isn't things going well?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.
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