Mid-July is the birthday of Lin Hui's mother, Wang Qiuying. The Lin family did not hold a big banquet, but only prepared two tables of food, and asked the daughter to bring the children back to have dinner together.
Lin Hui asked Qiao Zhenjun to carry the fabric and twenty eggs that he had prepared earlier in the morning, and then took Da Qiao and Xiao Donglin to her natal home.
Da Qiao supported her mother, her eyes fell on her round and big belly, and she couldn't help asking curiously: "Mom, how long will it take for the younger brothers to come out?"
Xiao Donglin kicked his little short legs and followed closely, and asked in an obedient way: "Yeah, when will you come out? The toffee I saved is going to melt!"
Because Da Qiao said that he would prepare a gift for his unborn younger brother, the other children in the family responded immediately when they heard about it, and they all got ready, and a few small groups also joined in the fun.
Xiao Yiming likes painting very much, so he still chooses to paint this time. Xiao Donglin originally wanted to show his younger brother a set of "Kung Fu", but was told that his younger brother couldn't understand, so he had to save the candy and give it to his younger brother.
It's not good for everyone to disappoint him again, so they can't eat his candy without telling him.
Lin Hui looked at the two lively and lovely children, and the corners of her mouth curled up: "Soon, it's been more than seven months now, and the younger brothers and sisters will be able to come out in more than a month."
Da Qiao raised her head and smiled sweetly: "That's great! Mom, I've prepared gifts for my brothers, and I'm just waiting for them to come out!"
"Sister Da Qiao, what gift are you preparing, can you tell me?" Xiao Donglin asked curiously.
Da Qiao shook his head: "No, it's a secret, you'll know when the younger brothers come out."
Xiao Donglin: He fell out of favor before his younger brothers were born, what will he do in the future qaq
Walking halfway, he suddenly met Fang Xiaojuan across the road.
Fang Xiaojuan has been waiting for Meng Hongguang's letter. It was supposed to arrive last week, but the letter did not arrive for a long time. She was very disturbed, and she was afraid that Meng Hongguang would break up with her because of this.
The letter still hadn't arrived until yesterday, so she couldn't wait, so she went to the post office herself, but unexpectedly she made her wait. Meng Hongguang's letter had just arrived, but the postman was too late to deliver it, so she took the letter away.
It was just because she didn't know many words, and she was in a hurry to go back to let Xiao Qiao read the letter to her, but she didn't want to meet Qiao Zhenjun's family.
Seeing their happy family, this scene hurt her eyes, but when she thought that she would soon be an official wife in the city, she snorted coldly and walked away from them with her chin held high.
Lin Hui and Qiao Zhenjun looked at each other, and the latter said, "Let's go, Mom and Dad should be waiting for us."
Lin Hui nodded, but didn't take this matter to heart.
As soon as they entered the Lin's house, Lin Hui's sister-in-law and third sister-in-law immediately welcomed them in. When the Lin family's children saw Da Qiao, they also gathered around.
"Sister Da Qiao, you are finally here, we are waiting for you!"
"Yes, we have prepared a lot of delicious food for you, come in and eat!"
"Sister Da Qiao is so pretty, her skin is as white as tofu."
"I don't think the tofu is as tender as sister Da Qiao's!"
Everyone in the production team said that the Lin family had good feng shui. Wang Qiuying gave birth to five sons in a row. Three of the five sons were married and all had boys. She envied those families who could not have sons.
But from old to young, the Lin family wanted a soft and tender girl. No, as soon as Da Qiao came over, he immediately entered the monk's temple with the little fairy, making the Lin family a group of boys very rare.
Xiao Donglin's red mouth was flattened, and she shouted in a childish voice: "Big cousin, second cousin, third cousin, don't you all like me?"
The eldest cousin of the Lin family turned around and pinched his little cheek and said, "Of course I like it."
Look how perfunctory this attitude is!
Xiao Donglin's mouth pouted even higher: "Go away, this is my sister, mine!"
A few brats from the Lin family poked him in the face: "You are right, Da Qiao is your sister, but she is also our sister!"
Xiao Donglin suddenly became angry like a puffer fish.
Seeing that the Lin family's children liked Da Qiao very much, Lin Hui felt relieved.
While supporting her, the sister-in-law said enviously: "Everyone says it's hard to be a stepmother, if there is such a delicate and soft stepdaughter as Da Qiao, I want to be a stepmother too!"
The second sister-in-law of the Lin family laughed and said, "Then sister-in-law should divorce elder brother immediately!"
Everyone: "..."
Some people may not have any malicious intentions themselves, but whenever she opens her mouth, she either offends others or kills her immediately.
The second sister-in-law of the Lin family is such a person.
Fortunately, the sister-in-law of the Lin family has long been used to her character and doesn't care about her.
Lin Hui is getting older, and her married daughter is a guest when she returns to her natal home, so when she came here this time, the sister-in-laws didn't ask her to help, but Qiao Zhenjun was dragged to chop firewood by the brothers-in-law.
Seeing that her daughters-in-law were busy in the kitchen, Wang Qiuying hurriedly dragged her daughter into her room. In order not to make people suspicious, she did not close the doors and windows, but acted very sneakily.
She made sure no one was outside, so she crawled under the bed, pulled a brick off the ground, and took out a wooden box from inside.
Wang Qiuying's mouth was so tight that even Lin Hui didn't know that her mother hid such a wooden box under the bed: "Mom, what do you want to hide like this, it can't be gold?"
She was just joking at first, but when her mother opened the wooden box and took out the contents, she was stunned, it was really gold!
It's not a gold bar, nor a gold ring, it's a round gold ball the size of a little finger. It must have been hidden for many years. The color is not very good, but it still holds a lot of weight in your hand.
There are not many golden balls, only eight in total, but if converted into money, it is not a small sum.
Lin Hui was shocked: "Mom, where did you get these things?"
Wang Qiuying said: "These are left to me by your grandma. Your grandma used to be the maidservant next to the official lady. The two grew up together and had a very good relationship. Later, when things went bad, the official lady's family wanted to run away. Your grandma didn't want to go with her, so the lady from the official family gave some gold to your grandma, and when I got married, your grandma gave some to me."
Lin Hui knew that grandma used to be a maid, but it was the first time she had heard about gold: "Mom, why haven't you exchanged gold for so many years?"
Wang Qiuying gave her daughter a blank look: "Why not? Otherwise, where do you think the things in this house come from? It's just that mother told you that no matter how much a woman loves her husband and children, she should leave a way out for herself. Even if your father wants to divorce me with all this private money, I have nothing to be afraid of!"
Lin Hui was amused by her mother's appearance: "If my father knows that you have hidden so much gold just to guard against him, he will probably be very angry!"
Wang Qiuying thumped her daughter: "Don't take it seriously. Before you married twice, I was afraid that you would be overwhelmed, so I didn't give you the gold. Now it seems that the Qiao family treats you very well, so I can rest assured that the gold will be handed over to you."
Of course, it was impossible to give all of them to Lin Hui. She still had five sons and four or five grandchildren. Of course, she couldn't keep nothing, so she took two small golden balls for her daughter.
Lin Hui didn't want it, so she pushed the little golden ball back and said, "Mom, you keep these things for yourself, I don't need them."
She was married twice, and her family had already prepared a lot of dowry for her. To be a human being, she must know how to be grateful and content. She can no longer take things from the family, otherwise if her sister-in-laws find out, they will definitely feel uncomfortable.
Wang Qiuying didn't allow her to refuse and stuffed the little golden ball over: "Take it! Zhenjun's job has been stolen, you can take the gold and exchange it for money, or just give it away, go and see if you can Will get work back."
The son-in-law was able to work in the town as a worker, so she was naturally happy and proud to be the mother-in-law, but she didn't expect to be driven back after only a few months. Recently, many people in the production team saw jokes.
There were also some people who came to her deliberately to make sarcastic remarks, but she scolded them all back one by one, but she couldn't swallow this tone.
Of course, it's not entirely for the sake of gaining popularity, but if the son-in-law can become a worker, the daughter and unborn grandson will be more secure in the future. She is such a girl, so she naturally hopes that her life will get better and better.
Lin Hui held the little golden ball in her hand, her eyes were a little sore, she hugged her mother and said, "Mom, thank you, it's great to be your daughter!"
Wang Qiuying patted her daughter twice, gently pushed her away and said, "Okay, don't be nasty, put your things away quickly, and don't let your sister-in-laws see it."
Lin Hui didn't hold back either. In the future, when the family situation improved, she would always find a chance to be filial to her mother.
The daughters-in-law of the Lin family are hard-working people, and soon they prepared two tables of good food, one for the adults and one for the children.
The Lin family's daughter-in-law's cooking skills can't be compared with Xue Chuan's, and it's not even as delicious as Da Qiao's cooking, but the Lin family is full of sincerity. There are three meat dishes on one table, and everyone eats them deliciously.
Fang Xiaojuan returned to the thatched hut with the letter, saw Xiao Qiao feeding the chickens, and called her in quickly: "Come here and read this letter for me."
As soon as Xiao Qiao heard that her mother had got the letter, she quickly dropped her things in. She wiped her hands clean before unfolding the letter.
Fang Xiaojuan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. As soon as Xiao Qiao opened the letter, she couldn't wait to ask: "What's in it? Did your Uncle Meng say anything about my severing ties with that evil?"
Xiao Qiao frowned and said: "Uncle Meng said that since the relationship has been severed, then forget it, but...he made another request."
"any request?"
"He asked me to sever ties with the Qiao family." After Xiao Qiao said this, she felt an indescribable discomfort in her heart.
Fang Xiaojuan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, raised her eyes and saw Xiao Qiao's appearance, raised her eyebrows and said, "Why, you don't want to?"
Xiao Qiao pursed her lips and said softly, "It's not a question of willingness, but I don't think it's necessary."
She didn't like the Qiao family very much, and the Qiao family also said in front of her that they wanted her to sever ties, but as long as they didn't write the severance letter for a day, the Qiao family still had the obligation to support her.
What happened to Wang Xinsheng last time told her not to just look at the beauty in front of her, but to leave a way out for herself, so she didn't want to cut off the Qiao family's way out.
If something unexpected happened to the Shanghai stock market, or Meng Hongguang was found to be unreliable afterwards, she could still go back to Qiao's house and let them support her, but if she wrote a letter of renunciation, this option would be gone.
Therefore, she didn't want it in her heart, but she couldn't say it in front of her mother.
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking! Don't you just want to cut off the Qiao family's back road? But if you regard the Qiao family as a back road, the Qiao family will treat you as their child? Do you think that if it's true? If something happens to you, they will go all the way to the Shanghai stock market for you? Stop daydreaming!"
Fang Xiaojuan punctured Xiao Qiao's daydream straight to the point.
She was worried just now that Meng Hongguang would ask her to abduct Da Qiao away, but now she heard that Xiao Qiao was only asked to sever ties with the Qiao family, which in her opinion was not a problem at all.
It's just that seeing Xiao Qiao's reluctance at this time made her feel uncomfortable.
This child is really a chicken thief. On the one hand, she wants to follow her to the city to enjoy the blessings, but on the other hand, she also wants to keep Qiao's family as her backdoor. She has all the benefits!
Xiao Qiao still pursed her lips and made no statement.
Fang Xiaojuan had no choice but to use strong medicine: "If you don't want to sever ties with the Qiao family, then you can stay in the production team, and I will go to the Shanghai stock market alone!"
Hearing this, Xiao Qiao also knew that she had no other choice: "I know, if this is the case, then I will sever ties with the Qiao family."
Choosing the day is worse than hitting the day. Fang Xiaojuan was worried that Xiao Qiao would have something wrong, so she dragged her to Qiao's house on the spot.
Halfway there, he bumped into Lin Hui and his party who were coming back from her mother's house.
Lin Hui sighed in her heart, "the road to the enemy is narrow".
Da Qiao glanced at her mother, but didn't say a word, and the group was going to walk over as if they didn't see it.
Unexpectedly, she was stopped by Fang Xiaojuan: "Qiao Zhenjun, stop!"
Qiao Zhenjun didn't turn around, but still supported Lin Hui to walk forward.
Fang Xiaojuan gritted her teeth angrily, and said loudly: "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear me when I told you to stop? I want Xiao Qiao to sever ties with you and the Qiao family!"
Qiao Zhenjun finally stopped this time.
Da Qiao was also shocked by her mother's words.
She didn't understand what severing the relationship was before, but brother Huo Chi explained it to her in detail and gave her many examples before she understood.
After she understood it, she felt a little bit of sadness in her heart, but her family was so kind to her, and this sadness was quickly forgotten by her.
But she didn't expect her younger sister to sever ties with her family!
The nearby villagers heard the noise outside and immediately ran over to watch.
Qiao Zhenjun didn't look at Fang Xiaojuan, but focused on Xiao Qiao, and said in a deep voice, "Little Qiao, you've been smart since you were a child, I think you should understand what it means to sever ties, do you really want to sever ties with the Qiao family?"
The last time his parents warned Xiao Qiao in private, he only found out afterwards, and felt very helpless after knowing it, but as long as he didn't really sever the relationship for a day, in his heart, Xiao Qiao was still his child.
Everyone was shocked and excited when they heard Qiao Zhenjun's words.
"What? You want to break off the relationship again? Last time it was Big Qiao, this time it's Little Qiao, tsk tsk tsk, your Qiao family is really interesting!"
"That's not to say that in all these ten miles and eight villages, there is no one who has severed ties so frequently!"
"I can't find a family with so many divorced children!"
In everyone's eyes, no matter how good the Qiao family is, no matter how wealthy the family is, it is still a miracle!
A family of five children and three divorced, Qiao's second child is even more weird, a pair of twin daughters, each cut off ties with their parents, tsk tsk tsk, this gossip is enough for them to chew for a long time!
Xiao Qiao lowered her head and said, "Uncle Meng in Shanghai said that if I want to be his daughter, I must sever ties with the Qiao family."
At this point, Xiao Qiao still wants to leave her a way out as much as possible, and she wants everyone to know that she was forced to sever the relationship.
Sure enough, when everyone heard her words, they discussed again, but most of them expressed that they could understand why Meng Hongguang made such a request.
"It's understandable for Meng Zhiqing to do this. No one wants to raise children for others!"
"That's right, it took a lot of hard work to raise her. If Qiao's family asks her to go back after she grows up, wouldn't it be a waste of hard work?"
Some people curled their lips and said, "Then you don't need to go to the Shanghai stock market, and you can stay at Qiao's house, wouldn't it be fine?"
Xiao Qiao looked up at her father with tears in her eyes, then lowered her head again, looking aggrieved and pitiful.
Fang Xiaojuan snorted: "You think she doesn't want to, but Qiao's family doesn't welcome Xiao Qiao. Last time, in front of Xiao Qiao, she told her not to step into Qiao's house in the future. Do you think there is such a grandma?"
"Ah, Xiuzhi really said that?" Everyone was shocked.
Fang Xiaojuan hummed again: "Can I still lie to you? They clearly promised..."
Fang Xiaojuan wanted to tell everyone about the fact that the Qiao family promised to give meat and eggs three times a month, and then backtracked, but was stopped by Xiao Qiao.
"Mom, stop talking!" Xiao Qiao said with tears in her eyes, "It's because I don't like my sister, it's my fault that grandma doesn't like me, don't blame grandma."
"Oh, this child is so sensible and obedient. Seeing her like this makes me feel sore."
"Qiao Xiuzhi used to blame Fang Xiaojuan for being eccentric, but she herself is not eccentric. She gives everything that is good to Da Qiao. She is so strict with Xiao Qiao. She will regret it in the future!"
Qiao Zhenmin didn't want to hear other people discussing his parents, so he asked Xiao Qiao again, "I'll ask you again, do you really want to sever ties with the Qiao family?"
"Dad, you have Aunt Hui, sister, and others by your side, but Mom is the only one by my side, so I want to stay with Mom, I'm sorry Dad..."
As he spoke, the tears that were in his eyes just now rolled down at the same time when the last word came down.
If this acting skill is put into the present, it will be a proper candidate for the Golden Horse Best Actress Queen!
"In this case, let's go to the production team to write a severance letter." Qiao Zhenjun sighed, and turned to Da Qiao after speaking, "You go home with mom first."
Da Qiao glanced at her own mother and sister, nodded and said softly, "I see."
Lin Hui glanced at Qiao Zhenjun and said in a low voice, "My child and I are waiting for you to come back at home."
When Qiao Zhenjun heard this, the depression in his heart could not be dissipated immediately: "I see, you go back with the child."
Fang Xiaojuan looked at the picture of the two of them loving each other, feeling uncomfortable all over her body, and said in a sharp voice: "I want to go home and make out, in front of so many people, you are shameless, and I am ashamed for you!"
Everyone laughed.
Lin Hui's face flushed red.
Qiao Zhenjun raised his head and glared at her fiercely. Just now he felt a little sorry for Xiao Qiao, but now it has completely dissipated.
He strode towards the production team, and then, under the witness of several cadres of the production team, wrote four severance letters to sever the relationship between father and daughter just like last time.
Fang Xiaojuan took the renunciation letter and left without looking back.
This matter once again became the topic of the production team's dinner, and the Qiao family was incomparably popular for a while.
Since the death of her little grandson, Mrs. Fang's mental state has deteriorated a lot. She wanted her daughter to take a grandson to the Shanghai stock market before, but now she doesn't want to.
A few days later, Fang Xiaojuan led Xiao Qiao with the letter of introduction issued by the commune, and under the envious eyes of everyone, she officially embarked on the road to the Shanghai stock market.
Everyone in the village is very envious, especially those widows whose men have died. They all imagine that one day they can find a powerful man like Fang Xiaojuan to remarry.
For the Qiao family, after Fang Xiaojuan and her daughter left, their ears became much cleaner and they felt more comfortable physically and mentally.
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Less than five days after Fang Xiaojuan left, something happened to the Tian family and the Qiu family.
On the day of the accident, Tian Jianming and Tian's mother were discussing Tian Jianming's marriage at Qiu's house. These days, it is not easy to buy three rings and one ring, and most people can't even buy one of them.
But this matter was nothing to Qiu Xinyong at all. He waved his hand, and soon bought all three turns and one ring for his nephew.
Mother Tian grinned from ear to ear: "Jianming, this time you owe everything to your uncle, and you must honor your uncle well in the future, do you hear me?"
Tian Jianming smiled and said: "Mom, it's up to you to say something that makes you unhappy. In my heart, uncle is closer than you and dad!"
When Qiu Xinyong heard what his nephew said, he also laughed with satisfaction.
At this moment, there was a loud noise from outside, the door was knocked open, and a flurry of footsteps ran in from outside.
"This... what happened here?" Grandma Tian Jianming was so frightened that she almost had a heart attack.
Tian's mother hurried back to hug her, and comforted her: "Mom, don't worry, with the second brother here, he will take care of it!"
Qiu Xinyong stood up with a dark face, and was about to see which bastard dared to come to his house, when he saw a group of people running in, and went up and grabbed him without saying a word.
The person who arrested him was wearing a uniform green uniform and carrying a gun on his body. This is a member of the armed forces!
Qiu Xinyong's heart was beating wildly: "You... what are you doing?"
Seeing these people, he knew something was wrong in his heart.
A man who looked like a military officer walked in, looked down at him and said, "Qiu Xinyong, the Municipal Committee received the report materials about you, and we will send people to investigate and investigate to prove that what the report materials say is true! Come here, give us all the inside and outside of the house. Search it clean!"
The female relatives in the house screamed in fright, and Tian Jianming's grandma even fainted from fright.
Tian Jianming quickly shrank into a corner when the pedestrians grabbed his uncle, his heart beating like thunder.