The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

"I just went to help grandpa boil some hot water. Grandpa, you can soak your feet for a while. I'll get the water in the tank for you. You don't need to fetch water tomorrow." Qiao Minglang put the wooden basin on grandpa's bed , Walking all the way back just now, he noticed the movement of the old man stretching out his hands and patting his legs, and knew that the old man must have pain in his legs and feet.

In the past, when the old man's legs and feet hurt, he would boil a pot of hot water for the old man to soak his feet every night before resting. After waking up the next day, his legs and feet would be more comfortable.

Qiao Minglang didn't care about the water on his hands, he wiped it on his clothes casually, and was about to go back, "Grandpa, I'm going back."

"You child." Zhang Mingde didn't know what to say, and was moved in his heart. He thought the child just went back, but he didn't expect that he ran out to fetch water for him to boil.

Seeing that it was getting late outside, Zhang Mingde thought that there were still a group of young children over there, and Zhang Mingde couldn't let his grandson stay here for a night before going back, so he had no choice but to say, "That's okay, you should go back quickly, and I'll go back later." It was getting dark, and the way back was not easy.

Go back as soon as you can still see the road. "

"Okay, grandpa, I'll go back. I'll put the water here for you." Qiao Minglang said to his grandpa, and was about to go back, "Grandpa, you should rest well at home. I'll come to see you again in a few days when I'm free."

"Hey, you go back, grandpa is fine here, so you don't need to come here on purpose." Knowing that his grandson still has to go to the town to sell things every day, and it's already late when he comes back, he has nothing to do here, so Zhang Mingde didn't want his grandson to come here The one who ran over said, "Grandpa is fine. Grandpa will visit you when he has time."

After saying goodbye to his grandfather, Qiao Minglang hurried back home.

At this time, the sun was about to set, and there was still a faint red sun in the west. When he went back, he walked faster, and he rushed back home before it was completely dark.

Fortunately, none of the children at home ran out, and they were all at home waiting for him to come back.

On the way back just now, he was still worried about whether a group of children would run out, but when he came back and saw a group of children at home, the worry in his heart disappeared.

"elder brother--"

"Brother, why have you been away for so long?"

"Send grandpa home."

When a group of children saw him coming back, they all ran towards him. The twins hugged his legs from left to right, and hung on his body.

With a smile on Qiao Minglang's face, he reached out and touched the two little heads, and then led a group of younger brothers and sisters back into the house.

***

As soon as I fell asleep at night, I heard the sound of arguing from the next door.

The little guy beside him was already soundly asleep, so he took the quilt to cover the little guy's body, Qiao Minglang got up and went outside.Seeing that the room next door was still lit, and there were scolding and crying from there, Qiao Minglang frowned when he thought of seeing the bruises in the corners of the woman's eyes that day.

Just two steps forward, he stopped.

This is a matter of other people's family. What name is he going to go by at this time?It's hard for an upright official to decide on housework, not to mention that he is a foreigner, how can he manage these things in other people's houses.

Qiao Minglang stood outside the yard, the night wind came out with a hint of coolness, he looked up at the sky above his head, the sky here seemed to be no different from the sky where he lived in his previous life.But the people here are different from the people he knew in his previous life, and he is not alone here. There is his family behind him, which is his home.

He now has a home, and someone to protect.

The woman in the room was sitting on the floor at the end of the bed crying, and the man sitting on the bed had his crutch in his hand, and when he said something wrong just now, the man beat his wife with the crutch in his hand.

Chen Fang raised her head, her forehead was bruised and swollen by the man, the wound was bloodshot, and there was a clear slap mark on her face.The woman looked at the man with resentment in her eyes, and asked the man: "What can I do to you? If you are in a bad mood, you take it out on me and beat me like this?"

"Ah, tell me, you told me, if there is anything wrong with you, I will definitely correct it!"

"For this family, I worked from morning to night. When I came back from the outside and returned to this house, I didn't even have time to sit down and drink a sip of water. I was about to start serving you two, the work in the field, and the laundry at home. I do everything. Chen Jianqiang, feel your conscience, since I married you, what have I done to you?"

"I……"

When the woman looked at him, the man came back to his senses and realized what he had done just now. He threw the crutch on the ground in panic, opened his mouth, and subconsciously wanted to defend himself, "No, no……"

"Daughter-in-law, I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to hit you...Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, forgive me, forgive me." Seeing the woman so far away from him, the man wanted to go over, and accidentally fell off the bed. The whole person fell to the ground.

The old lady who was peeking outside the door saw her son fall, pushed the door open, and ran in from the outside, trying to help her son back to the bed, "Oh, my son, what are you doing? ? Why didn’t you be careful, what if you broke it?”

"What are you still looking at, why don't you come over and help?"

The old lady tried hard for a long time but couldn't help her son up, and seeing that the woman sitting there didn't come to help, the old lady yelled, "Are you dead, come and help your man up if you are not dead! "

The man lying on the ground looked at his wife with a pitiful expression, and called out "Daughter-in-law."

The woman looked at the mother and the child coldly, and looked pitiful at the man. Even though she was very angry, the woman wiped the tears off her face, got up, and helped the man to bed with her mother-in-law. , and went outside.

When she saw someone, she left just like that. The old lady let out a hey and shouted, "Come back!"

"I'm not dead yet..."

"Mother, don't shout, you go to sleep." Chen Jianqiang gave his wife a hand to stop scolding her daughter-in-law.The old lady got angry when she saw her son's useless appearance, and said a lesson: "You are such an honest person, that woman will ride on your head. You don't look at her just now, is it?" Do you put us two in your eyes?"

"Mother, stop talking." Chen Jianqiang looked down at the crutch in his hand, and stopped his mother from continuing.

The man glanced outside, but he didn't see his wife, so he held his wife's hand again, and begged, "Mother, go and help me find out where Ah Fang has gone, and call her back for me."

"Just now It was my fault. I shouldn't have hit her."

Even now, this man is unwilling to really believe that it is true that his wife hooked up with other men outside and cuckolded him.

"If you don't obey, you will be beaten! If you don't get a house call for three days, this kind of woman will not be tolerated." Seeing that her son is so useless, the old lady asked her to invite that woman back?The man supported the bed with one hand and looked outside, but he couldn't see anyone, so he panicked, took the old lady's hand, and begged: "Mother, you go, call her in.

"You... I really owed you all in my previous life!"

Although she was angry in her heart, who told this to be her son, the old lady was so angry that she helped her son go out to find that woman.

Qiao Minglang, who was standing outside the yard, heard the sound of the door opening from the next door. After thinking for a while, he stepped back, closed the door gently, turned around and went back inside, lay down on the bed, and closed his eyes. .

"Eh-"

The door of the house opened, the woman went out, stood outside the yard, raised her hand to wipe the tears on her face, her heart was filled with endless sadness.Behind her is that home, where there is her man, and her mother-in-law who dislikes her all day long.

Ever since she married into this family, Chen Fang knew that her mother-in-law didn't like her. Before her man's leg was broken, the man treated her well, and they lived a good life for a few days.But since her man's leg was broken, his temper has completely changed, and he would lose his temper and beat her every now and then, and the number of times he beat her was too many to count on his fingers.

The men in the family can't do the work, and she does all the work in their fields, the housework, washing clothes and cooking.When there is work outside, she goes outside to work for others. She does all kinds of work, and she is not afraid of hard work.Back at this house, she washes clothes and cooks, serves men and mother-in-law, carries water and chops firewood, and everything else is done by herself. Mother-in-law never uses her mouth to move her hands. Seeing that she is not doing so fast, she still uses her mouth to scold her. How ugly How to scold.

Even so, she still thought that if she endured this day, she might get better.

But now she asks herself in her heart, can this day really get better?Is that man still the man who treated her well before?Beating her and scolding her has become commonplace.The mother-in-law doesn't like her, she doesn't like her all day long, she points at the tip of her nose and scolds her every day...

How long will she live like this?How long can she live?Not only did she ask herself in her heart, how long would she live like this?

She really, is about to die, can't survive, who can come and save her, help her...

"How long are you going to stand outside here, can't you come back to sleep? You ran out in the middle of the night, and those who didn't know thought you..." You went out to meet other men!The old lady didn't say the following words, she retracted her mouth.

Looking at the yard next door, I saw that it was already dark and the other people's house had already gone to sleep.

"If you don't come back, I'll close the door, and you'll sleep outside tonight." The old lady made a gesture to close the door to prevent women from outside from coming in. If you can, sleep outside and don't go back to this room!

The woman lowered her head, and two lines of tears fell down.