During the Chinese New Year, this kind of thing happened. It really affects people's mood.
Back home, there were only three members of their family, and the Yu family and his wife went back for the New Year.
"Are you hungry? Do you want to cook noodles?" Zhou Chengkang asked with a smile.
When you are in a bad mood, eating delicious food will make you feel better. But now the two of them just ate the New Year's dinner over there and were not hungry at all, and Zhou Chengkang was still drinking even before the quarrel.
"Not hungry." Li Qinghe shook his head.
Zhou Chengkang dragged her to the kitchen, "I'm not hungry now, but I'm sure I'll be hungry when the noodles are ready."
Also, making a meal of noodles does not take a little time.
Li Qinghe took Xi Yu to light the fire, the sun was about to set, and the room was a little cold, so I didn't feel it when I kept the fire burning in front of the stove, the mother and son watched Zhou Chengkang kneading noodles in front of the stove.
The family chatted occasionally, and when the noodles were ready, it would be dark outside, and the family of three sat around in a warm room, with the smell of meat specially fried by Li Qinghe on the noodles, which smelled delicious and looked delicious Appetite, the three of them whispered and laughed from time to time, and the atmosphere was warm.
While eating happily, someone knocked on the door outside. Zhou Chengkang got up, but Li Qinghe held him down, "I'll go."
When I opened the door, it was indeed the Zhou family, so I guessed that the boss Zhou would come to apologize.
"Qing He, what are you doing? You don't open the door for a long time?" Mother Zhou was about to enter the door while talking.
Li Qinghe stopped, "We are having dinner."
Mei stepped forward with a smile, "We haven't eaten yet."
Actively speaking, there is the meaning of submissiveness.
She is willing to give in, but why should Li Qinghe continue
"It's inconvenient to celebrate the New Year today. Let's talk about it another day." After she finished speaking, she raised her hand and was about to close the door.
"Hey, what do you mean?" Mrs. Mei stepped forward, "We are all a family, it's fine if we don't make dinner for us, and the family doesn't care about it. But why don't you let us in?"
"Why aren't you allowed in?" Li Qinghe sneered, "Don't you know? Others can come in after today, but you, my family won't welcome you in this life."
"Qing He, we are all one family. Your elder brother is indeed a bit impatient and said some unpleasant things, but that's because he was anxious because the child was lost. Don't worry about it. I brought them here specially to let your elder brother Sister-in-law apologizes to you." The smile on Zhou's mother's face was still flattering, and Li Qinghe felt a little sour, but this time she didn't intend to back down, and she still blocked the door, "Mother, we can talk about it another day. I'm having dinner, I don't want to make everyone feel uncomfortable every New Year's Eve."
After speaking, he raised his hand and closed the door.
The door was closed, and Mei's voice was heard outside, "It's too outrageous, how can I shut my mother out?"
Li Qinghe picked up the broom next to him, opened the door violently, and beat Mei Shi, "I'm shameless, you are shameless, every year because you have a bad life, I don't know what to do!"
The broom was originally on the ground. Although it was dry, there was a lot of dust on it.
Mei screamed, Li Qinghe stopped after patting several times, and looked at Boss Zhou, who was silent at the door from beginning to end, "Don't say I'm too much. You are too much. I have a good New Year. Who did I provoke? "
She softened her tone and looked at Mother Zhou, "If you want to stay, mother, you can come in. Don't let us celebrate the new year together next year. I used to let you guys quarrel, but from now on I don't plan to bear it." , the year must have been bad."
"Ugly words are up front. You can come in if you want, but don't say good things about big brother. If you want us to love big brother, you can't do it."
Zhou's mother was a little annoyed, "You child, why are you so stubborn?"
Li Qinghe asked back, "Isn't it okay for me to fight for my man? A four-year-old child is thrown into the old forest. Not to mention encountering a wolf, even a fall is enough." She looked at Boss Zhou, "We all forgot. Speaking of this matter, my eldest brother still remembers, this can be regarded as murdering an enemy, right? It’s all like this, how can we still communicate?”
Zhang Haiyao followed behind, gloating, "I'll tell you tomorrow, you insist on coming today. Who wouldn't be angry when this happens? It's normal if you can't get in!"
Li Qingmiao also hid behind her and didn't show her head or speak.
Boss Zhou looked ugly, "What about the fourth child, I'll explain it to him personally. If you don't explain what happened today, everyone will have lumps in their hearts for the rest of their lives."
"It's late." Li Qinghe said seriously, "Since you dared to do that at the beginning, you already had bumps. From now on, let's just be ordinary relatives."
After speaking, he raised his hand and closed the door.
On New Year's Eve, unless you are very close, only those who can be regarded as a family will celebrate the New Year together. They... keep them outside.
Back in the house, both father and son looked up at her, and Zhou Chengkang pulled her to sit down. Although she shut his brother out, he knew that it was all for him.
He comforted in a low voice, "Qinghe, don't be angry. Actually, I really forgot."
"Don't talk about it," Li Qinghe put away the bowls and chopsticks, "Grinding the ink, let's practice calligraphy."
The next morning, there was another knock on the door early in the morning. Li Qinghe slept so late last night that she couldn't even open her eyes. Zhou Chengkang who was next to her went to open the door, but came back to lie down with her soon after.
Li Qinghe closed his eyes and asked, "Who is outside knocking on the door so early?"
Zhou Chengkang hugged her in his slightly cool arms, "It's so cold outside, there's no one, go to sleep."
The first day of the new year was going back to her parents' house, and the two of them didn't sleep for long. After getting up and washing up, they returned to Li's house with the new year's gift.
When they arrived, Lan Hua and the two had already returned, and they had dinner soon.
Li Fu was very happy, especially these two sons-in-law were very fond of him, not to mention helping with work, they were also good to his daughter, especially Zhou Chengkang, seeing that life was getting better and better, and his daughter didn't need to worry about it after she got married.
People in the village still knew what happened to the Zhou family yesterday. They all knew that Boss Zhou's child was missing, and it took him a long time to find it.
Li Fu asked with a smile, "Where did that kid hide yesterday?"
Yesterday, when they heard that they had found the child, they went home without asking where the child was hiding. Zhou Chengkang said casually, "The child is playful, so he came out by himself."
Li Fubie just asked a casual question, and brought out some wine for his two sons-in-law to drink with him.
This drink lasted until noon, and Liu Shi asked in a low voice, "Qing He, is Fifth Sister coming back?"
"Probably." Li Qinghe helped wash the dishes, not in a hurry at all.
Seriously speaking, the first day of the new year is indeed the day when a married girl returns to her natal family, but the Zhou family has already separated, and the fifth younger sister should prepare four gifts when she returns to her natal family, one for several brothers, one for each family.
As a result, I still prepared a copy last year, so I went back to Zhou's house. In fact, this is also okay, only Zhou's mother has it, and it is reasonable for a few brothers not to have it. But Li Qinghe didn't want to get involved with them anymore, there were a lot of people right and wrong. From now on, if Fifth Sister is willing to get in touch with her fourth brother, she can come to the door herself.
Seeing that she was not in a hurry, Mrs. Liu did not ask any further questions.
Zhao Dashan had no other relatives in his family, so he would have stayed here until dark. Last year, Li Qinghe's family left early, but this year they stayed until the afternoon and didn't leave.
There was a knock on the door. On a day like today, even the neighbors would not easily come to the door.
Lan Hua went to open the door and brought in Li Qingmiao.
Li Qingmiao came to find them on purpose, and said in a low voice, "Fifth Sister is here, Mother told me to come and find you and go back quickly."
Li Qinghe pointed to the main room, "I'm still drinking here, so I can't go back."
"Are you really angry?" Li Qingmiao pulled her aside and said in a low voice, "Boss and the others are not good, but mother is pretty good, and she is an elder. It's the New Year's Eve, so don't make such a fuss and upset the old man .”
If Zhou's mother was happy, she would have to wrong herself. Li Qinghe would give in to some people, such as Zhou's mother, but she didn't have no bottom line to let her arrange.
Li Qinghe said calmly, "I didn't do anything wrong. If she is unhappy, I can't help it." Looking at the person in front of her, it wasn't just her second sister-in-law. The two often played together when they were young. She lowered her voice and said, "I don't want to get involved with Big Brother and the others anymore. When they were attacked by thieves, we ran back and forth to help. What happened?"
Mei insisted that the thief was because they let Zhao Tianfu go, and no one mentioned it in this meeting, but it doesn't mean that Li Qinghe has no idea.
Others didn't know about these things, but my family knew about them. That time, Li Qinghe and Li Qinghe turned their heads and left without speaking.
Li Qinghe said in a low voice, "If it weren't for the fact that he is the eldest brother, we would never associate with him."
"Okay." Li Qingmiao didn't want to be persuaded, "I have to go back, I'm different from you, your second brother is barely a half-married girl..." She thought for a while, "In the afternoon, we will go back Go to your home."
This meant that he wanted to bring an annual gift to the door. Li Qinghe couldn't help laughing, "We are so close, so don't worry about it?"
Li Qingmiao also laughed, "That won't work, the feelings are coming out. Remember to go back and cook, we have to treat us to a good meal."
This is just a joke.
After seeing off Li Qingmiao, Liu asked in a low voice, "Did the Zhou family quarrel yesterday?"
"It is." Li Qinghe nodded.
Since the young crops over there are going to come to the door, it is not appropriate to stay longer. The two said goodbye and went home, and began to prepare meals.
As a result, not only Qing Miao's family came, but also Fifth Sister with their children.
The child is not yet one year old, and it is time for trouble. There were a few children there, and the atmosphere was very good. During the period, the fifth younger sister hesitated to speak a few times, but was pulled down by Zhao Liyuan. Once she opened her mouth, she was also interrupted by him.
It could be seen that Zhao Liyuan didn't let her get involved in the affairs of her natal brothers.
In fact, no one is good to talk about this kind of thing. The grievances between Zhou Chengkang and his eldest brother, to put it bluntly, if they are not brothers, they will be severed for a lifetime.
In the evening, the two families were sent away without mentioning what happened yesterday.
The weather this year was good, and there was sunshine in the morning of the second day of junior high school, so the two simply took their children to the field. Not only them, but most of the people in the village started to work in the field. The main thing was to look at Li Qinghe's field. Although there were many people invited, as long as they started to work, they could work for several days and earn a lot of money. At least a few catties of meat can be eaten.
Therefore, when Zhou's mother came, there was no one at home, and she went around to the field behind the house to see a family of three. She smiled and stepped forward, "I still said where did he go? You are holding on tightly, but you can't finish so much on your own."
"You count as much as you do." Zhou Chengkang said casually. He didn't ask her why.