Three or Two Things about Rebirth

"Of course I will help!" The speaker was Zheng Wei. "There's a big scar on her head! Whoever messes with Qiu Luming is going to make trouble for the Seven Weirdos of Jiayang, not the Six Weirdos of Jiayang! We must not let her go!"

Ma Mingjun glanced at the Liu family and led everyone to the Qiu family, "Speak louder so that the whole county can hear it!"

Everyone immediately lowered their voices.

A few of them found some free time and went to the Qiu family to pay New Year's greetings to Qiu Jiye and He Manshu.

He Manshu looked serious towards her daughter's friends and refused to give the red envelopes in her hand.

Qiu Luming snatched it up, gave one to each person, kept one for himself, and stuffed the rest back, "Teacher He, let's continue to pay New Year's greetings!"

After that, he pushed a few people out of the house quickly. Yang Dawei held his heart and said, "Emma Qiu Luming, why is your mother getting more and more powerful? I don't even dare to look at her!"

"Then don't come to pay New Year's greetings next year. Is that the only thing you need?"

"You!" Yang Dawei looked at Qiu Luming's face and shut up decisively.

When Qiu Luming heard Han Meifen's door open, a figure wearing a red hat showed up and then shrank back. She knew that Han Meifen had always been afraid of Qin Huifang, so she didn't call her but just waved in her direction. The timid girl was peeking at them through the crack in the door.

"Where did you go to pay New Year's greetings? Where will you go next? Where are you going to play after paying New Year's greetings?" Qiu Luming asked.

Qin Huifang said, "Your home is the most eastern, so the first house is yours. Next we'll go to Yang Dawei's home. We'll walk along the main road and visit whoever we pass by to wish them a happy new year. The last stop is my eldest brother's home. He and my eldest sister-in-law went to Yi City to celebrate the new year. My mother even scolded him on the phone last night for being a rebel. He spent two of the three years of marriage at his mother-in-law's home!"

"Does your home have a telephone?" Yang Dawei asked.

"It was installed just a few days ago."

"What's your home number?"

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"That's a good number. It's mine."

"Fuck, what a bitch!" Zheng Wei laughed.

"What a joke! I don't think your house can get any good out of it!"

Lu Jiaming suddenly said, "Hey, let's go and pay New Year's greetings quickly, otherwise we will have to go home for dinner after playing a few rounds of poker. If we go back late, my mother will be worried about us again."

"Then don't go!" Qin Huifang said, "When we visit your home, you don't have to come out. Just stay at home and read your comic books!"

"No, I still want to play poker! I have beer and drinks at home. If anyone of you can bring some peanuts and frozen pears, we can play poker and eat something at the same time. Sausages are fine!"

"You're so stingy! You've already taken the beer, so why not take the peanuts and melon seeds as well? Are you still scheming against us?" Qin Huifang spat at Lu Jiaming.

"I can't take it all. My mom will scold me!"

"Your mother, your mother, it's your mother again! I'll kick you to death!" Qin Huifang jumped up and really kicked. Lu Jiaming hurriedly fled, and the two funny guys circled around the other four and started fighting.

Qiu Luming did not sleep well last night, nor did she eat well this morning. She had a premonition that there were undercurrents beneath the calm surface of the Qiu family's life, and that her seemingly happy family was about to experience a major change.

She was dizzy from the two of them, and couldn't help but yell, "Enough! If you want to fight, go home and fight! You're just flirting like a pair of bickering lovers all day long, just be a couple!"

This thoughtless remark immediately froze the two people who were chasing each other, and also shocked the other three people, including Qiu Luming herself. She didn't know why she said such a thing, and coughed in embarrassment and helplessness.

Zheng Wei chuckled, "I just don't see anything wrong with my feet. You two are really a good match! You've been childhood sweethearts and have known each other since you wore open-crotch pants. This is simply a destined marriage!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Qin Huifang suddenly turned hostile, especially towards Qiu Luming. She reached out and pushed her, then turned and left.

"Oh, what a fool!" Zheng Wei held onto Qiu Luming and shouted to Qin Huifang who was walking further and further away, "Old Qin, are you still going to play poker?"

"Beat your mother!" Qin Huifang's angry curse could be heard faintly in the north wind.

Qiu Luming felt a little annoyed, thinking that he was not as calm as his mother and could not suppress the matter at all.

Ma Mingjun blinked a few times. "Well, Lu Ming, Lao Qin is usually carefree and can make any joke, but she can't get around Xu Zhenhua. She even cried when Zhenhua went to Shanghai a few days ago."

"She's crying?" Zheng Wei shouted, "How can this eagle-like woman cry?"

"Huifang doesn't shed tears easily, but she's not really sad yet." Yang Dawei said with a sigh.

Several people lost interest in paying New Year's greetings and looked dejected.

A strange sound was heard in the distance, and Qiu Luming turned his head to look to the east.

"What?" Zheng Wei asked.

Qiu Luming raised his hand to signal him to be quiet.

After a while, a large chestnut horse came galloping from the white mountains in the distance, with white mist puffing out. The remaining snow flew under the horse's hooves. The hem of the man on the horse's coat flew up and down, and the hem of his dog-skin hat also rose and fell with the bumps.

Qiu Luming was a little dazed. It seemed that in just a moment, the big horse arrived near Qiu's house.

“Yu——!” The horse hadn’t come to a complete stop yet, and no one could see how the man flew down from the horse. After landing, he ran towards the steps of the Qiu family’s gate and turned back to shout to Qiu Luming, “Watch me!”

Qiu Luming walked to the big horse in a daze and grabbed the reins.

"What's the matter?" Ma Mingjun followed him into the Qiu family.

Qiu Luming looked at the big horse and recognized that it was the horse of Grandpa Qi who had come to deliver half a pig before the New Year. The horse was not young at all and usually pulled the sleigh slowly. This time, its chest was heaving, and its lips were covered with white frost and a little foam. It stamped its hooves restlessly and paced back and forth.

Zheng Wei asked, "Who is this Lu Ming? He rides so well without a saddle!"

Qiu Luming shook his head, "I don't know."

"You don't know? Doesn't he talk to you anymore?"

"I don't know either." Qiu Luming sighed, "Probably, he came to see my dad for medical treatment."