That afternoon, after Yun Jin left, Mingheng and Mingqi stayed behind.
Qiao Mingjin arranged the room on the lower left for Mingqi, but she didn't want it. She insisted on sharing a room with Qiao Mingjin and Wan'er. Wan'er clapped her hands and jumped happily, so Qiao Mingjin let her go.
Mingheng was arranged in the upper right room. The rooms of the sister and brother were facing each other.
There are no beds in either room, just a few bricks raised from the floor, wooden boards put up, and mattresses laid out, and this is a bed.
In the afternoon, the three siblings settled in the house again. There was no need to go back to the Yue family, and no one came there.
But not long after lunch, Yue Zhongyao arrived alone, said a few words to Xiao Wan'er, and then started working in silence. I don't know where he dragged a few wooden boards from, unloaded the courtyard door and started banging it.
The door was repaired on the ground.
Qiao Mingjin didn't stop him either. Now they are inseparable. They are still husband and wife, and he is still Wan'er's father.
After Yue Zhongyao arrived, Xiao Wan'er ran to him from time to time and squatted beside him to look up at him. Yue Zhongyao occasionally turned his head and smiled at his daughter, teasing her to say a few words, and his mood gradually improved.
Qiao Mingjin felt sour in her heart when she saw her daughter like that.
Come to think of it, the daughter also longs to have a father. It's just that there has been no contact for such a long time, which is different from the intimacy of other children. The closeness in blood and blood and the instinct are still there.
In the afternoon, Wu also came over.
She looked inside the door and saw Yue Zhongyao repairing the door. She cursed a few times. Even with Yue Zhongyao blocking her, she couldn't get in, so she just kept leaning forward at the door and looking in. The worse Qiao Mingjin's life, the happier she became.
This son came running over without even bothering to eat. She was so angry that she felt choked up.
Wu yelled at the door: "Yue Laosan, why didn't you go back to the city this afternoon? I plan to invite a matchmaker to the Liu family tomorrow to propose marriage!"
Yue Zhongyao ignored him.
Seeing her babbling next to her, Xiao Wan'er was so frightened that she hid with her mother, and her mood became even more irritable.
He also stood up and shouted: "It's my business when I go back! It's up to me to decide whether to propose marriage or not. If mother insists on mentioning it, then let's talk to the second brother and fourth brother. Anyway, we are not separated, I
This life is not mine alone. Since they saved me, they just want someone to rely on. No matter who you marry, you are not marrying me!"
Sun and Yu who were following behind Wu were so frightened that their hearts beat wildly.
They don't want to attract a coquettish wife from the city.
I hurriedly pulled Wu around and persuaded her all the way back.
Qiao Mingjin didn't even get up.
Seeing that there wasn't much to do in the courtyard, she handed over the remaining work to Mingheng and Mingqi, and asked them to take care of Wan'er at home. She picked a pair of baskets given by Sister Xiu and prepared to go to Songshan
Rake some pine hair under your feet and pick up some sticks to light the fire.
Because it was getting late, Qiao Mingjin did not go into the mountains. She only raked pine hair at the foot of the mountains and picked up some dead branches that fell on the ground.
Although this pine mountain is not high, the crown trees are extremely dense and there are no large wild animals. Small hares, pheasants, and some roe deer are common. It’s just that Qiao Mingjin doesn’t have that skill, so he only watched the frightened pheasants running around for a while to watch the excitement.
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She does know that there are some ways to gain favor, but now she has nothing and can only talk about it in the future.
Qiao Mingjin walked to the place where the pheasant had just flown, and took a closer look at the crown bush. Fortunately, she saw a few white eggs that had just been laid!
There were five of them! Qiao Mingjin was overjoyed and hurriedly picked them up and stuffed them into the loose hair of the basket frame. She looked around again, but found nothing else.
After raking for a while, I pressed down the loose hairs as hard as I could to make them more compact so that I could pack more. The other basket contained some dead branches, and this load was enough to burn for several days.
Already.
Qiao Mingjin walked around the area and found a clean place to sit down, quietly thinking about her mother's future life...
It wasn't until Yue Zhongyao came over from the other side that she was shocked.
Yue Zhongyao looked at her intently. Just now he saw her sitting alone on the ground in a daze, and his heart felt like a dull knife pulling at her.
He calmed down and handed a lame pheasant in front of her.
Qiao Mingjin looked up at him.
"Take it. No matter what, I will never reconcile. You are still my wife, and Wan'er is still my Yue Zhongyao's daughter. I will raise Wan'er from now on."
Qiao Mingjin looked confused and felt a little sour in her heart.
He got up and silently picked up the pheasant, put it in the basket, tied it slightly with the hemp rope of the basket frame, and headed home with the load on his back.
Yue Zhongyao hurriedly walked up and took the pole, pursed his lips, picked it up easily, and walked down the mountain.
Qiao Mingjin looked at his back silently for a while before following him...
The dinner that day was very sumptuous. The pheasant was fried in two large plates, and there were two fresh vegetables that Yunjin brought this morning. Five eggs were left.
The four of them ate with their mouths full of oil. Not to mention Qiao Mingjin, even Mingheng and Mingqi rarely ate such meat.
The two siblings and Wan'er screamed and competed to eat. Wan'er no longer needed to be fed by Qiao Mingjin, but she grabbed a spoon and ate happily. She grabbed a chicken leg and gnawed it until her mouth and hands were full of oil...
In the evening, after the four of them washed up, they sat on Qiao Mingjin's bed and talked.
Qiao Mingjin saw that the three nephews and uncles were having fun, so he ignored them.
The oil lamp in the house was given to me by my uncle. It was just this one. There wasn't much oil in the lamp, so it probably wouldn't last for a few days.
You can still eat the oil and salt for a few days, and you can only eat the fresh vegetables until the day after tomorrow. There are also two jars of pickles brought by Sister Xiu. The rice and noodles can be eaten for about half a month.
You can't always let your mother's family support you, right?
The yard is very big. This time Yun Jin brought a lot of rapeseeds. Tomorrow she will take Mingheng Mingqi to the mountains to dig out some rotten leaves and mud, and then open up a few acres of the yard to plant rapeseeds for future vegetables.
Then you can be self-sufficient.
She has no land, and therefore no food, and will have to buy it from now on.
But now she only has fifteen copper coins plus the two silver dimes given by her two uncles yesterday. A total of two hundred and fifteen coins.
Just buy some rice, noodles and items needed at home and it will be gone.
It takes more than a month to grow vegetables at the earliest...
Qiao Mingjin has never been as worried about money as she is now...
After the lights in Qiao Mingjin's house were turned off, Yue Zhongyao, who was lingering outside the house, left sadly...
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Thanks to "Yue Shang Ruo Li" and "Xin Ren" for the reward. Dear friends, happy Mid-Autumn Festival, eat well, drink well, have fun, be safe, and be reunited. What a group.
