The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

Chapter 043, Aunt Qiao

The night in summer is slow, and the sky is still bright after the family has dinner.

After eating, everyone sat in the yard to enjoy the cool and talk. The old man was holding his hookah in his hand, and he wanted to take a puff from time to time.Just as the dining table was being cleared, Mrs. Qiao saw her eldest sister-in-law and uncle coming in. She invited people in with a smile on her face and said, "Have you eaten yet? I'm going to cook some dishes. You and your eldest brother have a drink."

"No, no, no, we came here after eating, so don't bother." Qiao Jiaolan replied with a smile, handed the bag to her sister-in-law, and said, "The pomegranate tree in our yard has produced a lot of pomegranates. Seeing that they are familiar, I will pick a few for you."

"Oh, come as soon as you come. They are all from my family. What else do you bring? Come in and sit, come in and sit." Aunt Qiao took a big bag of fruits. Let me mention some, they can eat the fruit from the pomegranate tree in the yard of the aunt's house every year.

There are two aunts in their family. The younger aunt married in the town, and the older aunt married in the village.

This elder sister is generous, every time she comes back to her mother's house, she always carries a big bag of things, and she always only has more and no less.

"Every year, as soon as the pomegranates in the yard are ripe, the birds from Kazuki will come and peck at the ones that are ripe. Few of Kazuki's pomegranates are good. If you catch these tricky creatures, you will have to stew them. Okay." Qiao Jiaolan said with a smile.

There is a pomegranate tree planted in the yard of their house, which bears fruit several times a year. Birds peck the fruit as soon as it is ripe, and many of the fruits on the tree are pitted by the birds.

It happened that the crop of fruit on the tree was ripe, so she hurriedly let her youngest son go up the tree and picked a lot of fruit, so as not to let them all be pecked.The ones that have been pecked by birds are eaten at home, and some good ones are picked up, packed in bags and brought to her mother's house.

Seeing that these fruits were all good, Aunt Qiao knew that this aunt must have picked good ones and sent them here. Although it was only a few fruits, the most important thing was her heart. This aunt has always known how to behave better than the younger sister.

"Haha, birds are very delicate, and their noses are sharper than people's." Knowing that pomegranates are not durable when they are ripe, Aunt Qiao asked her daughter-in-law to wash them, put them in a basket, and brought them for everyone to eat.

"Abba, big brother." Qiao Jiaolan saw that her father and big brother were here, and went to call for someone.

"Come on, sit down." Uncle Qiao saw his sister and brother-in-law coming, and asked them to sit down and drink tea.They are all in the same village, but the two families have different surnames.

This sister-in-law's surname is Chen, and his single name is Rui.

Chen is a minor surname in the village, and those with the surname Chen are those who moved to the village later to settle down.

But now everyone doesn't divide these things very much. They all live in the same village, they all know each other, and they all know the basics. Otherwise, Uncle Qiao would not have agreed to let his sister marry into the Chen family.

There are only a few common surnames in their village. People of the older generation say that they come from the same ancestor, which is true in fact. Therefore, people with the same surname in the village could not get married before.But these things are not talked about much now, and people with the same surname will get married, but it is only a small number.

People who get married in the same village are usually married to people with different surnames.

"Dad."

"Well, sit down."

Chen Rui is tall, thin, with long hands and feet, and a long face, but he is a good person. He loves to smile when he sees everyone, and the creases at the corners of his eyes are deep when he smiles.After greeting his father-in-law, he sat next to his eldest brother, drinking tea with him, and gossiping.

"Jungle, my aunt is here, hurry up and call my aunt, my aunt brought pomegranates here, shall we thank my aunt?" Chen Mingzhu saw the third aunt and uncle came to the house, brought her son and asked him to come and call.

"Jungle, I've grown taller again, come and give my aunt a hug." Third Aunt Qiao liked the eldest daughter-in-law of her sister-in-law's family very much. All passionate.There is also this child, who looks like a tiger, and looks like the son of their Qiao family.

The child obediently called out "Auntie."

"Hey, dear. See what my aunt brought you?" Third Aunt Qiao also liked the little grandchildren of her elder brother and sister-in-law's family very much. Every time she came, she would bring candy for the children. Sugar, one child gave two.

"Mom." Seeing the candy in aunt's hand, the child subconsciously glanced at his mother.Chen Mingzhu nodded and let the child hold it.

Seeing the mother nodded, the child dared to reach out to pick up other people's things.As soon as he got the candy, the child rolled his eyes with a smile.

"Oh, why is this child so obedient? Mingzhu, why did you teach the child to be so sensible, you have to nod to take a candy." The third aunt Qiao saw her nephew and grandson looking at her mother, and remembered There is a group of leather monkeys in the family, none of them can compare with this nephew.

I don't know how other people can teach children to be so obedient and sensible.

"How can I teach it? This child has been sensible since he was a child." Chen Mingzhu laughed.

The children had sweets to eat, and their mouths became sweeter. Every time they ate one aunt, they ran to the aunt's arms to hold her.

Seeing her son being abducted by her aunt for a candy, Chen Mingzhu couldn't laugh or cry.

After teasing the two children of her nephew and grandchildren, Qiao Jiaolan sat next to the sister-in-law and asked about the family affairs of the sister-in-law, "I heard from people in the village that you made tofu for sale today, how is it going, is the business going well? "

On weekdays, Qiao Guerlain also went out to do some small business, and it was almost dark when she got home.

She came back from outside today and heard people talking about her natal family, so she thought of visiting her natal family.Don't let her daughter know what happened to her natal family at that time, and she has to learn it from outsiders.

"Yeah, I just started doing it today, and I haven't had time to tell you about it." Aunt Qiao briefly told the aunt about the family affairs, and said with a smile: "We are doing this on the first day today. Everyone is in a panic, and they don't quite understand how to do these things, but fortunately there is that child Mingming."

"I was thinking about sending you two pieces of tofu tomorrow so that you can try it."

"Hey, no need, you just keep the selling money." Qiao Jiaolan hurriedly waved her hands, preventing her sister-in-law from bringing things home.

Her own family also has many daughters. The older sons and daughters are all married, but the youngest son is still unmarried.The son and daughters-in-law are still living together, and there are quite a few people in the family. Otherwise, she would not be so busy every day that she would not even have time to go back to her mother's house.

The two aunts and sisters-in-law were talking, and Qiao Jiaolan asked about the younger sister's return to her natal home that day. Knowing what the younger sister did when she went back to her natal home, she couldn't help but sighed, and said, "The fourth sister has a lot of things to do, and the sixth brother's family The two little ones were bought by the mother in exchange for her life, she was ashamed to ask someone to give the two children away as soon as she opened her mouth."

"Don't say that the sixth brother is gone, even if the sixth brother is still there, people may not be willing to give the child away."

Even if she married into someone else's family, Qiao Jiaolan still regarded these nephews from her mother's family as her own family in her heart, and she would not be willing to give away her own children.It's not that there is no one in their old Qiao's house. They really want to give their children to outsiders to raise them. What do people in this village think of their old Qiao's house?

They lived in the same village, and Qiao Jiaolan was aware of what happened to her natal family. She heard people in the village say that the young lady went back to her natal home to encourage her nephew to send his younger siblings to others, and her face was blushing. Only her sister could do it.

The two sisters have been at odds since childhood, and Qiao Jiaolan also doesn't like her sister's kind of person, and feels that her sister's mind is unclear.My younger sister married to the town, and as an older sister, she only went to the town to sell things, and she seldom went to sit at her younger sister's house.She went there twice before, and didn't even get a glass of boiled water, so she simply stopped going.

The two sisters seldom move around except when they come back to their natal family.

"Hey, she might be kind too." Mrs. Qiao didn't even want to mention the little sister. The two sisters didn't look too good to imagine. If you say that the eldest sister looks more like her father-in-law, the younger sister looks more like her mother-in-law. The two aunts have completely different personalities and personalities.

When Qiao Jiaolan was young, she went fishing with the men in her family. In the following years, the husband and wife collected fish and sold them.

In fact, Qiao Jiaolan is only in her early fifties this year, but if she stands with her younger sister, Qiao Jiaoling, the two sisters look like they are ten years apart in appearance, but in reality, she is only two or three years younger than her younger sister. Even with this eldest brother, there is a difference of five or six years.

Qiao Jiaolan has a good relationship with the sister-in-laws of her natal family, and everyone can chat with each other when they sit together.

The two of them chatted a few gossips about my sister-in-law, but Mrs. Qiao couldn't say anything.

Seeing that the eldest aunt asked about her mother-in-law, Aunt Qiao glanced at the men at home out of the corner of her eye. Seeing the men talking, she lowered her voice and said to the eldest aunt: "My father said something to my mother that day, and my mother is still angry. , you will go talk to your mother later, so that the old lady will not be able to hold everything in her heart, and her body will not be well if she is suffocated."

Even if she didn't like her mother-in-law in her heart, Mrs. Qiao didn't want to say that seeing her mother-in-law was really angry and made her sick.Taking a step back, if the mother-in-law is sick, it's not her daughter-in-law who has to wait by her side, so everyone must be good, and the family is really good.

Although the mother-in-law lives in their house, the relationship between Mrs. Qiao and her mother-in-law is not as good as that with her own mother.The old lady didn't say which daughter-in-law she liked to her daughters-in-law, and she had a good relationship with that daughter-in-law.

To put it bluntly, the old lady just likes money, whoever sends things to her every day, maybe she can have a smiling face.But I don't see that sister-in-law giving something to her mother-in-law. The sister-in-law can hold her mother-in-law's heart firmly, which makes Aunt Qiao feel strange.