The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

"Okay, thank you, sir." Qiao Minglang thanked him, put the two bundles of cabbage in the basket and put them away, and took them back with him when he finished selling the things later.

Uncle Qiao watched his nephew buying vegetables, and wanted to say that there were some in their vegetable garden, and he just asked his nephew to pick them at that time.However, the nephew's temperament probably follows his dead parents. The whole family is not a person who likes to take advantage of others. They have what they have in their own yard, and they will never go to other people's vegetable gardens to pick other people's vegetables. For the food, he bought it with his own money.

They sold for a lot of money today, and they could still afford a bunch of cabbages.

"This piece of tofu was accidentally broken, sir, take it home to eat." Uncle Qiao gave the remaining piece of tofu to the old vegetable seller.

In the conversation just now, he knew that the life of the old man’s family was not very good. All the sons and daughters below were married, and the lives of the sons and daughters were also difficult. There is no need to increase the burden on several children.

Isn't the life of anyone's family like this these days?But it's better now than it was years ago.

Uncle Qiao thought of his own father, who was too hard to walk, and his back and legs hurt these past few years, so he didn't go to work in the field.Fortunately, the sons under him have all grown up, and each of them can help the family. Only this youngest son has not found a job, but now that the family has a little business, he can also pull the youngest son out. work.

"Hey, that's a good idea, no need, no need."

"Hold it, don't push things that are not worth a few dollars."

The two pushed back and forth, and finally the old man took it with embarrassment.

The old man wanted to give him food, but Uncle Qiao didn’t want it, so they grew vegetables at home, what to do with other people’s food, and then the mother-in-law at home would say, “I have it at home, I have it at home, look who wants to sell it.” ah."

"Oh, you."

After a while, someone came to ask how the vegetables were sold, and the old man sold out the remaining vegetables and gave them away.

At this moment, the market was scattered, and the hawkers who sold things were all clearing up their stalls, and they were also preparing to go home.The old man put the shoulder pole in the basket, picked up the basket and was about to leave, but turned around and asked, "Are you coming tomorrow?"

"Come on, let's see you tomorrow."

The tofu and fish balls brought today were all sold out, and the money in his pocket was full, and he didn't know how much he sold. Uncle Qiao was happy in his heart, with a smile on his face.

"Chengcheng, I come early every day to help you get a seat." The old man came early every day, and he always set up a stall here.

"That's nice." Uncle Qiao replied with a smile.

Seeing the old man carrying the burden and leaving, Uncle Qiao also carried the things, and was going to take his son and nephew home.

"Father, let's walk back with you."

"You go back by bicycle, and I will walk back slowly behind."

"We're not in a hurry, we'll walk back with you slowly."

Qiao Mingyong blinked at his cousin, asking what he meant.Qiao Minglang nodded with a smile, meaning it was okay, "Uncle, we will walk back with you."

"Hey, you two children." Uncle Qiao had no choice but to agree.

They should be in a hurry when they came, so they rode their bicycles. When they returned, they were not in a hurry. Qiao Mingyong put two baskets on the back frame of the bicycle and tied them, pushed the bicycle, and walked back with his father.

The noon sun was very strong, and they walked through the shadows under the trees of the forest.

Qiao Minglang walked beside his uncle and his cousin. On the way back, his cousin was still excitedly talking about today's business, so he listened with a smile, and listened to the uncle's training on his cousin, who had an expression of grievance on his face. .

Seeing his cousin and uncle laughing, he felt a little envious.

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"We've all been back for a long time, why haven't they come back yet?"

The vegetable market in the village is a morning market. Mrs. Qiao and her aunt Huang Yan set up stalls at the vegetable market in the village. They didn't bring much. When the morning market ended, they sold out and went home.

Today's tofu is easy to sell, and the price of fish balls is more expensive. Everyone is reluctant to buy them. At most, some people buy a few to go back and try them.

Many people in their village go fishing in the river. Fish is not a rare thing in their village, and fish balls are not expensive. At most, their fish balls are better than ordinary people's.But Mrs. Qiao still believes that as long as someone has tasted their fish balls, they will definitely come back and buy from them.

It was past noon, and before the father and son came back, Aunt Qiao told her aunt Huang Yan about them, "I don't know if their things are sold out."

Today is their first day of business, and everyone is very worried that this item will not be sold out and they will not be able to make money.

They were talking when they heard voices coming from outside.

Huang Yan looked out and saw that her man and two sons had come back. She hurriedly got up to help them put down their things, "The vegetable market over there has been closed long ago, why are you so busy now? just came back?"

Qiao Chunfu wiped off his sweat and said, "There are some tofu flowers left, we will come back when they are sold out."

"Yo, it's all sold out?" Huang Yan lifted the lid and saw that the bucket was empty, with nothing in it.Qiao Mingjing and Qiao Mingzhong called "Mom".The second child, Qiao Mingzhong, smiled proudly, and said, "Mom, don't look at who is going to do it. With the three of us, father and son, there is no way we can't sell out all the things."

"Yes, yes, yes." Huang Yan replied with a smile, "You are the best, wipe off your sweat."

"Go to the house and have a cup of tea, your elder brother and the others haven't come back yet."

Aunt Qiao called her uncle and nephews into the house to drink tea. Seeing that her uncle and nephew had come back, only her man, son, and nephew hadn't come back.

"Brother hasn't come back yet? The market has already dispersed at this time. I think they have a long way to go. They just walk slowly. They should be back soon." The three of Qiao Chunfu and his son entered the house, and one of them poured a large amount of water into the house. Put a bowl of cold boiled water in.

"Yes, I should be back soon." Mrs. Qiao replied.

The little thing I ate in the morning, after walking so far back and forth, my stomach is already empty by now.Seeing that the eldest brother hadn't come back yet, and they were hungry at the moment, Qiao Chunfu wanted to go home and have a meal, so he said to his sister-in-law, "Let's go home first, and we'll come back when the eldest brother comes back."

"Just go back, don't sit down for a while, stay for lunch." Aunt Qiao said.

"No, no, we'll come back later." Huang Yan waved her hands hastily, how could she eat three meals a day at other people's homes, and the food at other people's homes was not blown by strong winds.It's not that their own family has no rice, anyway, Huang Yan can't do things like taking advantage of others.

Their families are close to each other, their house is outside, and the uncle and second uncle's house is inside. When the uncle comes back, he will pass by the small door in front of their house.If they pay a little attention at home, they will be able to see if the uncle and the others are back.

Qiao Chunfu and Huang Yan went home with their two sons.

The man in the family didn't know when he would be able to come back. Seeing that the two grandsons were hungry and the two elders were still there, Mrs. Qiao asked the two daughter-in-laws to get some food for the two younger ones, and they all ate first. lunch.

The old lady came out to eat on time, and when she was full, she either sat outside and chatted with people, or hid in her room to sleep.

Since the sister-in-law came the day before yesterday, after the father-in-law said a few words to the old lady, the old lady is still angry with them, and she has a sullen face while eating, and she doesn't say a word to them, as if she is sorry for her daughter-in-law. something like that.

Seeing the calm face of the old lady, Mrs. Qiao felt very uncomfortable.

You said that when you are full all day, you either go outside or hide in the house to sleep. You never help out if there is work at home, and your two grandchildren are still so young, and they never help to take a look.Getting involved with that troublesome sister-in-law every day, and having to make things up for them if nothing happens, is simply very annoying.

Aunt Qiao was so angry that she didn't say anything to the old lady's face.

"Mother, I'll take the jungle to sleep for a while." Seeing that the child was sleepy, Chen Mingzhu was about to take the child back to the house for a nap, and said to her mother-in-law, "Mother, you got up so early today, so go back to the house to lie down."

"Well, you take the children back to the house, and I'll just lie here for a while."

After lunch, the two grandsons played for a while, and then were taken back to the house by their respective mothers to take a nap.

The house became quiet all of a sudden. I got up too early today. At this moment, Mrs. Qiao couldn't bear it any longer. She yawned several times. She couldn't help but lay down on the recliner in the living room, thinking Squint your eyes and wait for the man at home to come back by the way.

At this time, Uncle Qiao and his party walked from the town for more than an hour before returning to the entrance of the village.

"elder brother."

As soon as they returned to the entrance of the village, Qiao Minglang saw the two children of the family running towards them. Seeing their blushing faces, he couldn't help frowning and asked, "What are you doing?" Didn’t I tell you to wait at home after running here?”

"Brother, we, we just want to wait for you."

Seeing the stern face of the elder brother, Qiao Xiaofen and Qiao Mingcheng lowered their heads, a little afraid of their elder brother.The two of them went to the river to catch fish and shrimps in the morning, and when they got home, their elder brother didn't come back, so they ran to the entrance of the village to wait for their elder brother.

"Hey, I think they came here because they couldn't wait, it's okay, it's okay." Seeing that his nephew was training the two younger ones, Uncle Qiao was busy smoothing things over, and said, "Don't stand here when you go back. Bask in the sun, if you have anything to say, go back and talk."

"Let's go back." Qiao Minglang sighed, feeling really annoyed with these two little ones. :