The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

After a while, a young apprentice from the store came over and walked up to Qiao Mingshan, hesitant to speak.

Qiao Mingshan looked up at the other party and asked, "What's the matter?"

The other party said hesitantly: "Brother Qiao, yes, it was the boss who asked me to watch you collect things."

He also sent someone to watch him pack up his things, so he was still afraid that he would steal things!

With a breath stuck in his heart, Qiao Mingshan swallowed the breath back into his stomach and nodded, "Okay, okay." Looking around, he found that he had been working here for several years. There is nothing to take, and the tools I usually use are all things in the store.

"Okay, I'll go now."

He casually picked up his drinking water bottle and a thin shirt hanging on the back of the chair, and the young man strode out without looking back.

Seeing the person leave, the little apprentice went into the back room and reported to their boss, "Boss, the person has already left."

"He didn't take anything from our store?"

"No, I saw him with my own eyes."

"Huh, that's good. Don't come back and beg me to come back if you have the ability." Feng Dongliang snorted, thinking that in a few days, the other party will definitely come back and beg him to go back to work in the store. Give some color to the other party to see.

Don't think that you can get Joe from him if you are a relative, what the hell!

Now that you're gone, don't even think about coming back to work in their shop in this life.

Feng Dongliang didn't know that once Qiao Mingshan left, he never thought of turning back.

After returning home, he saw the woman at home, and in front of the woman at home, Feng Dongliang scolded him for half an hour, implying that he looked down on that relative.Qiao Jiaolan gritted her teeth in her heart, still coaxing the men in the family with a smile on her face, and she still hated her natal nephew for not giving her aunt such face.

Because of this incident, Qiao Jiaolan never went back to her natal home for a long time afterwards.

***

"It's delicious, come back next time."

"well."

Uncle Qiao gave the tofu to others, collected the money and put it in a bag. When he looked up, he saw his eldest son standing in front of the stall. He couldn't help being a little surprised, and asked, "Hey, Mingshan, why are you here again? Your uncle's shop Are you busy here?"

"Abba." Qiao Mingshan yelled "Abba", but his face was a little silent.

"Brother, you're here, are you coming to see us again?" Qiao Mingyong was quite happy to see his brother coming, and he took a special look at his brother's hand, and saw that his brother was holding only a bottle and A piece of clothing, I was a little disappointed that I didn't bring them food today.

But it doesn't matter, when the things are sold out, they can ask his father to buy them something to eat when they go back.

"Big brother." Qiao Minglang was careful, and sensitively noticed that the expression on his cousin's face was not quite right, and seeing the things he was holding in his hand, he felt a little strange in his heart.

Qiao Xiaofen and Qiao Mingcheng followed their elder brother and called out "Brother Hall."

"Yes." Qiao Mingshan nodded to his cousin, glanced at the things on display at their stall, walked around the stall, stood beside his father, was silent for a while, and said, "Father, I quit my job." .”

"Why didn't you hear about this, why did you resign from your job?" Uncle Qiao looked at his eldest son with scrutiny.

His son knew it well. If it wasn't for some reason, or if he worked hard, his son wouldn't just stop doing it, so it must be because of something.

Qiao Mingshan didn't talk about the gap with his relatives, but said: "I want to come back and sell things with you, so I don't want to do the work there. I had this idea before, and I haven't had time to discuss it with you. "

Indeed, this is also a reason, otherwise, no matter how difficult the boss is, he would not dare to say quit.

Now several of their families are working together in business. He resigned his job there, and he can still come back home to help.As long as you are not afraid of hard work, no matter what you do, it is definitely not a problem to support your wife and children.

That being the case, why does he continue to look at the faces of his relatives, do a lot of work, get less money, and be so angry every day, why don't he do it, come back and help the family.

"Since you have made a decision and want to come back to help the family, then come back." Uncle Qiao knew that his son was not telling the truth, and it should be one aspect of wanting to come back to help the family.The son quit his job without telling them in advance, there must be other reasons.

Uncle Qiao knew what kind of person he was without his relatives over there.

In the past, there was no other business in the family, and the whole family counted on a few acres of land to eat. There were many children in the family, and it was common for them to not have enough to eat. A craft, so you won't be hungry in the future.

Now that my son has quit his job, Uncle Qiao didn't say anything, just said: "If you quit, you can quit. It's fine to come back home to help. Our own things, whether we do more or less, are all our own."

"Brother, you want to come back and sell things with us?" Qiao Mingyong knew that his brother had resigned from his job, so he squeezed to his elder brother's side and asked happily.

"Well, yes." Qiao Mingshan nodded.At this time, someone came to buy things. He saw that his younger brother was proficient in selling things to others, and he still looked decent when selling things. It turned out that the youngest brother had grown up unknowingly.

After the shopper left, he half-jokingly said: "You guys have to teach me how to sell these things, brother, you don't understand yet."

"Hey, it's simple." Qiao Mingyong had a simple expression on his face, as if he forgot that he had stood here for several days before he learned how to do business.Now it's his turn to teach his elder brother how to do business, and he straightened up, looking proud, and told his elder brother the price of the things they sell, how much they sell per catty, and how to sell them.

"oh oh."

Qiao Mingshan listened carefully, keeping the prices of these items in mind. He had never done any business, and he didn't even know how the items were sold.

A smile flashed across Qiao Minglang's eyes as the little cousin was explaining to the big cousin how to do business.

For the eldest brother to come back home to help, he is very welcome in his heart.Perhaps it was because the big cousin was the first person he saw after waking up. In his heart, this big cousin was a little different from other cousins.

After the day's sales were over, they went home together.

Seeing that the two children came back together, Mrs. Qiao still felt a little strange. After asking, she found out that the eldest son had resigned from his job in the town. Why don't you do it?"

When their family didn't do business in the past, they relied on the work of the eldest son to get some money.

Women think more than men. The two of them are relatives. The eldest son resigned from his good job. He was afraid that the relatives would have some opinions on their family. I just sent you to work in Uncle's shop, you quit now, your sister-in-law..."

Isn't this embarrassing for their sister-in-law at her husband's house?

"Okay, if you don't do it, don't do it. If you come back home, you can also help the family." Uncle Qiao interrupted the mother-in-law at home, and didn't let the mother-in-law continue talking.

Seeing that the man in the family had spoken, Aunt Qiao stopped talking, because she felt that the father and son did not discuss things with her, Aunt Qiao felt a little unhappy, and went into the kitchen with a sullen face to pack things.

Qiao Mingshan glanced at his wife, and Chen Mingzhu saw his son playing over there, and followed her mother-in-law into the kitchen.

Some things are not easy for men to talk to women, but it is easier for women to talk to women.

"Hey, I'm not really angry, even if they have something to do, they don't tell me." Seeing her daughter-in-law coming in to coax her, Aunt Qiao was not a temperamental person, besides, one of the two was her man, and the other It's her own son, so there's nothing to be angry about.

He also said that you are not angry anymore, Chen Mingzhu muttered in her heart, with a smile on her face, coaxing her mother-in-law to be happy.

"Okay, okay, don't get so close to me, people will see you later." Aunt Qiao smiled and pushed her daughter-in-law away, wondering what it looked like to be so close.Chen Mingzhu hugged her mother-in-law's arms with both hands, and said: "We are a family, you are my mother, and the grandmother of the jungle, what if we get closer."

"You, it's our Mingshan's good fortune to marry you." After being coaxed by her daughter-in-law, Aunt Qiao reached out and tapped her forehead with a smile on her face.Chen Mingzhu said with a smile: "It is my blessing to be able to marry Mingshan, and it is also my blessing to meet you, Aniang."

No, among the sisters in the family, she is the one who married the best and lived the most comfortable life. The men in the family love her, and her mother-in-law has a good temper. It is indeed her blessing to marry into such a family.

After dinner in the evening, it will be dark soon, and the family took turns to take a bath, and then went back to their respective houses.

Before going back to the house to sleep, Aunt Qiao took a look at the soaking soybeans in the bucket, covered it with a lid, and put several big stones on top to keep the mice from opening it and running in to steal food. If the beans for making tofu are harmed by rats, they will not be able to make tofu tomorrow.

The mouse in the house is bigger than a cat, and it runs so fast that they can't catch it even if they try to catch it, which is really a headache.

It was getting dark outside. Uncle Qiao had just gone to take a shower and returned to the house. He was taking off his clothes when he heard the sound of the door opening behind him and asked, "Is the lid covered with something?"

"Well, it's suppressed." Mrs. Qiao replied, took off her shoes, and lay down on the bed.

The husband and wife lay on the bed and talked about the eldest son's resignation. Mrs. Qiao was not incomprehensible about her son's resignation.The husband and wife talked about the relative in the town. They all knew what kind of person the relative in the town was. The son must have suffered a lot from working there all these years.

After all, Mrs. Qiao still felt sorry for her son, and said, "Hey, if you don't do it, don't do it. It's good to come back home."

"I've already resigned, so I won't mention this matter. Go to bed, and I have to get up early tomorrow morning." Uncle Qiao didn't say anything after all, he let out a breath, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Seeing that the man was asleep, the woman also closed her eyes and fell asleep together.

***

There was one more person in the team they set off the next day.

With a burden on his shoulders, Qiao Mingshan followed his father and went out, starting his first day in business.Uncle Qiao walked ahead, and looked back at his son from time to time, fearing that his son would be tired after carrying such a long distance for the first time, and asked his son if he wanted to stop and rest before walking.

"I'm not tired, Dad, let's go quickly."

"Okay, if you are tired, just say, let's take a rest before leaving."

Until many years later, Qiao Mingshan still remembered the first time he went out with his father carrying a load. He remembered his father's hunched back, walking steadily while carrying a load.It was also from that day that he secretly made up his mind that he must work hard to make money in this life so that his parents at home can live a good life.