Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 275 Tell me, am I an outsider?

"Oh, so this is our third sister. It's better to meet each other than to be famous, and it's better to be famous than to meet!"

"Our Zhiqiang praised you a lot when he was in front of me. I didn't believe it at first."

"But when we meet today, I really believe it!"

"You really are well-educated and sensible. The little beauty I feel pity for is simply the combination of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. If you grow up, I don't know how many young people will be fascinated to death."

Hearing Cao Jiajia's continuous praise, Cao Lili was embarrassed by the praise, blushed and lowered her head and said, "Sister, you are joking, I am not that good."

"Okay, okay!" Cao Jiajia smiled and grabbed Cao Lili's hand, "Look at this little hand, it's white and... Huh? Why are there so many calluses?"

Speaking of this, Cao Jiajia looked at Cao Lili with gentle eyes again: "Lili, it doesn't matter if I call you that?"

"It's okay." Cao Lili shook her head.

Cao Jiajia nodded and sighed: "Why are there so many calluses in your hands? It seems that you have done a lot of work and your life is very hard, right?"

Speaking of this, before Cao Lili could speak, Cao Jiajia turned around and scolded Cao Zhiqiang:

"Zhiqiang, what's the matter with you? How do you take care of your sister?
You yourself are white and clean, and you don't have many calluses in your hands, but you let your sister have a handful of calluses?
What do you eat?Do you always let her take care of you?You just enjoy the happiness at home? "

Cao Zhiqiang, who was eating bear's paw with his head down, was taken aback for a moment, and quickly put a large piece of braised bear's paw into his own bowl, then put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Where is it, I actually..."

"Actually, I don't blame the second brother." Cao Lili said suddenly, "The cocoon in my hand didn't come from here, it was there a long time ago. I started it in the original home. The second brother is very good to me and really takes care of me. Me, sister, stop scolding him."

"Did you hear that, big sister?" Cao Zhiqiang said with a chuckle, "You are wrong to blame a good person, how can I be willing to let her work and take care of me, the reverse is not the same."

"I don't know you yet." Cao Jiajia continued with a cold face, "You have been lazy and clever since you were a child, and you were asked to take care of others unless the sun came out from the west."

"Yes, eldest sister is wise!" Cao Zhiqiang simply smiled, "So, I'm not good at taking care of people, so I just don't take care of people. I try to make money, and then spend money to let others take care of me and my sister. OK?"

Cao Jiajia was taken aback, and was about to refute, but suddenly thought of Cao Zhiqiang's status at this time, and the fact that his family could return to the capital all depended on his younger brother's help, so he swallowed the reprimand again.

This hard swallowing seemed a bit blunt and embarrassing.

Fortunately, Cao Lili was by Cao Jiajia's side, and picked up a piece of braised pork with her chopsticks with great eyesight: "Sister, I heard from my second brother that you like braised pork the most. Come try this and see how it tastes."

Interrupted by Cao Lili, Cao Jiajia took advantage of the slope to get off the donkey, and immediately picked up a pair of chopsticks to eat cheerfully, then nodded with a smile, expressing that it was delicious.

Afterwards, Cao Jiajia kept talking to Cao Lili, not Cao Zhiqiang.

On the contrary, Cao Lili chatted with Cao Jiajia for a while, and talked with Cao Zhiqiang for a while, and no one was left in the cold.

Well, this is the official family banquet of the Cao family, and the place is the east wing of the ancestral house in the old quadrangle of the Cao family's ancestral house.

The reason why we eat here, not in the main room of the North House, is because the East Wing Room is the ancestral house of the Cao family.

Eating here is more ceremonial.

Besides, Cao Jiajia, Cao Zhiqiang and Cao Lili were the only ones dining in the east wing of the ancestral house.

Because according to Cao Jiajia, these three people are the serious Cao family.

As for Cao Jiajia's two biological children Xia Wenfang and Xia Wenxuan, as well as Cao Lili's sister Qiao Simei, since they are not from the serious Cao family, they can't eat here at this time, but open a small table outside.

As for the food here, of course He Yuzhu cooks it himself.

However, because this was a rare family dinner for the Cao family, He Yuzhu withdrew after finishing the meal, leaving no chatter.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang didn't care about this kind of thing. His original plan was just to meet each other, have a meal, and get to know each other.

Including Cao Jiajia's two children, as well as Qiao Simi, they can actually eat together at the table.

However, Cao Jiajia insisted that the Cao family's main banquet should only be served by the Cao family, and even took the lead in not allowing the two children to eat at the table.

As the eldest sister, Cao Jiajia set an example by not letting her own children eat at the table, so Cao Lili, as an adopted daughter, naturally has no right to let Qiao Simi, who is not surnamed Cao, eat at the table.

So it became like this, with a large table full of dishes, but only three people ate.

No one else, just because this is a meal for six people.

Of course, although it was just a family banquet, because Cao Zhiqiang was not short of money at this time, and he also gave out system sign-in rewards from time to time, the quality of this family banquet was quite good.

Leaving aside He Yuzhu's cooking skills, the ingredients of these meals are all quite exquisite.

All abalone wings and belly are standard configurations, even humps and bear paws.

Let’s not talk about the hump, let’s talk about the braised bear’s paw, which is very difficult to eat in later generations, because it is not allowed to eat in China.

But in the early 80s, although bear paws were still rare, they were still available in domestic capitals, but the price was so expensive that most people couldn't afford them.

In fact, in the early 80s, just talking about the word "eat" may not be as varied and exquisite as the dishes of later generations, but when it comes to rare and rare dishes, they are really awesome.

What kind of bear paws and monkey brains can be eaten at this time, and they have not been explicitly banned.

As for abalone's wings, belly, hump, elephant, etc., there is no need to talk about it.

Of course, despite this, Cao Zhiqiang is not the kind of person who is particularly interested in Qizhen.

Let’s just say that the paws of the American grizzly bear and the hump of the Egyptian dromedary here are not bought by Cao Zhiqiang, but signed by the system.

Also, in China at this time, it is easier for you to say that you want to eat the paw of a Northeast black bear or the hump of a Gansu Bactrian camel.

But if you want to say that in China at this time, it is quite difficult to eat the bear paw of the American grizzly bear and the hump of the Egyptian dromedary.

Otherwise, why did Cao Zhiqiang ask He Yuzhu to do it instead of hiring a chef from outside?

Is it true that without He Yuzhu there is no good cook?
Isn't it just because He Yuzhu has a cooperative relationship with him, and his mouth is strict.

"Anyway, Zhiqiang, I have to treat my little girl better in the future!" Cao Jiajia sighed, "It's not easy for this child."

"Yes, I know." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, then turned to look at Cao Lili and said, "She has always been with me in my most difficult times, I am very grateful, and I have always regarded her as my own sister, anyway, with me One bite, one bite of her is indispensable, don't worry!"

"That's about the same." Cao Jiajia nodded in satisfaction.

Well, Cao Jiajia is really satisfied at this time.

I don't think it's because Cao Lili is a good righteous sister.

But she could see that Cao Zhiqiang was really emotional.

He can even treat a righteous sister like this, let alone his own sister.

Cao Jiajia thought that when her man was transferred later, she could live a decent life with the help of her younger brother.

Can you not be happy when you think that you can go back to the capital to live a good life and be able to endure all hardships?

"By the way, big sister, I have a small matter to discuss with you." Cao Zhiqiang said suddenly.

"What's the matter?" Cao Jiajia laughed.

"It's about Qiao Simi, Cao Lili's own sister." Cao Zhiqiang said, "It's like this, let me tell you slowly."

Next, Cao Zhiqiang told Qiao Simei's specific identity, how she came here by herself, how he found a relationship to let her borrow here temporarily, and how this situation could not last for a long time.

To say ten thousand and ten thousand is to want Cao Jiajia to adopt Qiao Simi as an adopted daughter. In this way, Qiao Simi's household registration can be legally transferred here, and then she can go to school in the capital.

This is Cao Zhiqiang's idea from the beginning, and this time he has the opportunity to say it.

However, when Cao Zhiqiang was talking about Qiao Simei with Cao Jiajia, what he didn't know was that Qiao Simei was having an argument with two children at the small table outside.

The reason is very simple, that is, Qiao Simi is not very old, even one year younger than the youngest Xia Wenxuan, but because she is Cao Lili's own sister, she always sells her elders and asks them to call her aunt.

"Come on!" Xia Wenxuan was the first to be unhappy, "You are one year younger than me, you should call me brother, why should I call you aunt?"

"That's right!" Xia Wenfang also supported her younger brother, "We are all older than you, you should call me sister, brother brother!"

"Nonsense!" Qiao Simei pursed her mouth, "Although I am not as old as you, but I am older? My sister is your uncle's sister and your mother's sister, so tell me, should you be called My aunt?"

Xia Wenxuan hesitated a little, but Xia Wenfang was old and knew more things, so she immediately curled her lips: "Come on, your surname is Qiao, not Cao, and you are not from the Cao family, so why should you be our aunt?"

"I, my sister is your aunt!" Qiao Simi said loudly.

"Yes, that's right." Xia Wenfang raised her chin again and curled her lips, "But don't think I don't know, she was adopted by my grandma, and she has already changed her surname to Cao, so she is a member of the Cao family, so she is called Third Aunt. We admit it.

But you are different, you are not from the Cao family, you are still from the Qiao family.

So even if you and the third aunt are sisters, you are not from the Cao family.

Since you are not from the Cao family, you can't be our elders. Is there a problem? "

"Nonsense!" Qiao Simi was angry, "Who says I'm not from the Cao family?"

"You are not!" Xia Wenfang pointedly said, "Your surname is Qiao, and you are a child of the Qiao family, not a member of the Cao family!"

"I am!" Qiao Simei stood up directly, pinching her waist with her hands and looking down at Xia Wenfang who was sitting on the bench, and said, "I am your aunt, that's right!"

Xia Wenfang also stood up, pinched her waist with both hands, and took advantage of her height to look down on Qiao Simei:
"You're not! You're not from the Cao family. If you were, you wouldn't have dinner with us, but you should come in and serve the table!"

"That's right!" Xia Wenxuan also stood up and said in a united front with his sister, "Only the elders of the Cao family can enter inside, not even us, and you can't enter either, it means you are not from the Cao family, you are outsider!"

"No, I'm not an outsider!" Qiao Simei burst into tears suddenly, "Although my surname is Qiao, I am from the Cao family! My sister is your aunt, and Brother Cao will marry me in the future. You, you... You are unreasonable, I will not tell you!"

Speaking of this, Qiao Simei threw the chopsticks away, and then ran to the east wing crying.

Seeing Qiao Simi running in, Xia Wenxuan was startled, and pulled Xia Wenfang's clothes: "Sister, she seems to be going to sue, will mom be angry, will she scold us?"

"How could it be?" Xia Wenfang frowned, "We're telling the truth, and we didn't swear. Isn't her surname Qiao? Isn't her surname Cao?"

"That's what you said." Xia Wenxuan frowned, "But her own sister is our third aunt after all."

"Hmph, don't be afraid!" Xia Wenfang waved her hand, "What third aunt, fake! She has no blood relationship with us. The only blood relationship with us is mother and uncle.

Therefore, not only that Qiao Simei is an outsider, but the third aunt is actually an outsider as well.

They are all outsiders, and there is also a close relative, right?
Although our surname is not Joe, we are also related to uncle by blood, right?

It's impossible for uncle to be indistinguishable from relatives and distances, he's on the side of outsiders and not on our side! "

"Yeah, that's right." Xia Wenxuan nodded, "Sister, you are really amazing. You can analyze it so clearly that I can't even figure it out."

"Of course." Xia Wenfang raised her chin, "Why don't I be your sister, hehe."

"Oh, let's stop talking, eat this soup quickly." Xia Wenxuan picked up the spoon with a smile, "This is abalone and sea cucumber soup, I heard it is a good thing, but unfortunately we are children, each of us only has one abalone, so we can't open it It's a pity that I didn't eat it."

"Okay." Xia Wenfang also sat down with a smile, "It's good to eat some. From now on, we can eat it every day. Even if not, we can eat it often. After all, it belongs to uncle."

"That's right, uncle's stuff is mom's stuff, and mom's stuff is naturally ours, right?" Xia Wenxuan said.

"That's right." Xia Wenfang smiled and nodded, "You're right, that's it!"

While Xia Wenfang and Xia Wenxuan were comforting themselves, Qiao Simei broke into the banquet, and then cried into Cao Lili's arms.

"What's wrong?" Cao Lili was stunned, and quickly put down her chopsticks to hug Qiao Simei, "Okay, why are you crying?"

"Wow!" Qiao Simei cried louder, "Sister, someone bullied me!"

"Bullying you? Who?" Cao Lili asked curiously, "Who can bully you in this place?"

"Wait!" Cao Zhiqiang frowned suddenly, "You just had dinner at the table with my two nephews, could it be that they bullied you?"

"It's them!" Qiao Simi immediately got out of Cao Lili's arms, and nodded fiercely at Cao Zhi, "It's them who bullied me!"

"Wenfang and Wenxuan?" Cao Jiajia was also shocked, "Simei, you are all the same age, and my daughter and son have always been very obedient, well-educated, and never bully others. How could they bully you? Is there some misunderstanding?"

"No, there is no misunderstanding!" Qiao Simei roared with tears streaming down her face, "They, they teamed up to bully me, saying that I am not from the Cao family, and that I am an outsider!"

Speaking of this, Qiao Simei remembered the sad things and cried again: "You say, am I an outsider? Am I from the Cao family? Tell me, tell me..."

(End of this chapter)