Chapter 23 The Qiao Family Farce
Here, Qiao Yun is busy making money.

Qiao Hua and Zheng returned to their hometown, Baihe Village, before the road was frozen solid by heavy snow.

For the third child to go home, Lu is naturally very happy.She has been married to Qiao's family for decades, and has given birth to two sons and one daughter for Qiao's family. The three sons, Qiao Hua, and the youngest daughter, Qiao Zaohua, are the ones she loves the most.

Qiao Hua was her last son, and he was smart since he was a child. The Lu family had always dreamed of marrying his wife, so he squeezed out all the money in the family for Qiao San to study.

Speaking of Qiao's family, the village chief sighed, a good family has become like this!

Baihe Village is backed by mountains and forests. Qiao Da was also famous in the village for being strong and strong. The money he earned from hunting was enough to feed and clothe the whole family.

But all the money handed over to Mrs. Lu was divided into two by her, half of which was used to fill Qiao San's bottomless pit, and the rest was used to subsidize the dowry for Qiao Zaohua who was waiting to marry and eat money.

Because of this, don’t look at the fact that when Mr. Qiao was alive, the Qiao family could build the strongest adobe house in the village. The roof of the house was not thatched but tiled; A meal of pork, and you can even occasionally buy some snacks for the children to have a teeth-beating festival; don't look...whatever it was when Mr. Joe was around, isn't the whole family tightening their belts now?

But Qiao Hua was really good at studying. He was just [-] this year, and he was selected as a scholar the year before last.

You know, another scholar in the village was admitted at the age of 54!

When Qiao San and his wife came back, Qiao Lin, the second child of the Qiao family, was outside making barriers.

Seeing Qiao Hua come back, Qiao Lin stopped what he was doing, with a simple and honest smile on his face: "The third brother is back!"

Then he yelled loudly into the room: "Mother, the third brother is back!"

Qiao Zaohua was the first to run out to greet him: "Third brother, you are back. What good things did you bring me this time? Oh, is such a big basket heavy? Let me carry it for you. "

Seeing the basket covered with blue linen in Qiao San's hand, she laughed so much that the fat on her face squeezed her eyes, and rushed to lift the basket into her hand.

She knew that the third brother would bring her delicious food every time he came back!
Zheng Shi secretly rolled his eyes.

She really doesn't like my sister-in-law's style!It's okay for her to bring some New Year gifts back to honor her husband's family, but why does my sister-in-law always look like all these things are honoring her alone?

Lu Shi also came out.

"Oh, my son, come back as soon as you come back, and still carry these things." Lu's heart aches for Qiao San, she glanced at Zheng, just about to ask why Zheng asked her son to carry such a big basket, raised her eyes Seeing Zheng holding his grandson in his arms, he was speechless.

Qiao Zaohua had already taken the basket, so she just stepped forward to hold her son's hand: "Quickly, come in. Auntie has boiled eggs in sugar water for you."

Mrs. Zheng was too lazy to talk to this family, her eyes were all about the precious son in her arms.

When they arrived at the house, Mrs. Lu and Qiao Hua all sat down on the kang, and Mrs. Zheng carried her son, walked up to Mrs. Lu, and bowed: "Daughter-in-law, I have met Auntie, please greet Auntie. "

In this way, Mrs. Lu is very useful.Aren't all the wives in the play like this?When I sit like this, my daughter-in-law and grandchildren have to greet me like this!

Mrs. Zheng gave her a taste of the sweetness of being an imperial wife in advance, and only then did she realize that Mrs. Zheng is not a village woman, but the wife of a scholar's family in the county!
Mrs. Lu hurriedly grinned and laughed: "Oh? What is this? Hurry up and knock the child carefully!" As he spoke, he quickly reached out to help him sit back on the kang.

Qiao Baoer, the son of Erfang Qiao Lin, was just at the age of running around the yard, and he also rushed in with Qiao Zaohua.But he couldn't lift the basket, so he tore off the cloth covering it.

What I could see in the basket were two pieces of bacon, two pieces of frozen fish, about twenty eggs, two neatly stacked ruler heads, one white and one orange.

The head of the ruler is bright and beautiful, it is silk!Although it is plain plain silk with no pattern and not worth a lot of money, it is an extremely bright orange-red color, which is eye-catching in the cold winter months.

Qiao Zaohua's eyes turned red immediately, she has never touched silk at this age!
Lu's satisfaction with Zheng's has increased a bit.

How nice this daughter-in-law is, she brings rice noodles and rapeseed home during the holidays!And this good ruler, I put it in the dowry for Zaohua, and when I go back to my in-law's house, I will raise my face.

Ordinary people would be grateful for being given such fine silk, but Qiao Zaohua was different from others.

what is this?The third brother and the third sister-in-law live in a large tiled house with green bricks in the county, and their mother always sends so much money to the third brother, their family must not like chicken, duck and fish anymore!This year when I came back for the Chinese New Year, I brought just such a few things. Last year, I also brought a gourd chicken from the big restaurant in the county!
She took a look at Mrs. Zheng, and felt a little relieved when she saw that Mrs. Zheng was still wearing simple and coarse clothes.

Since ancient times, sister-in-law and sister-in-law have not dealt with each other, especially since sister-in-law is so greedy and bitter, it is even more impossible for the two of them to get along now.Zheng is well aware of this.

Fortunately, this mother-in-law is content. She brought these things back just to win over the mother-in-law so that she can live more comfortably in her in-law's house during the Chinese New Year.

Seeing this, Qiao Bao'er was still not satisfied, so she reached out to rummage in the basket, and accidentally knocked over the basket.

Such a big basket rolled from the kang to the ground, the meat and silk in it fell to the ground and was stained with dust, and the eggs rolled all over the floor.

A few packets of snacks fell out of the basket.

Qiao Baoer quickly grabbed a bag and opened it, and immediately howled: "Grandma! I want some snacks!"

When Qiao Zaohua saw the paper bag, her eyes widened.Is that white pastry feta?Goat's milk mixed with caramel, boiled flour and let it cool, it is rich and sweet, and it melts in the mouth!

Qiao Hua and Mrs. Lu hurried to help the basket. Seeing that all the eggs in the basket were still in good condition, but one or two were cracked, Mrs. Lu was very distressed, and hurriedly picked up the two eggs.

This is two pennies!

"Prodigal stuff! You obsessed with rough-eyed foodies! You know how to eat all day long! It's nothing but a bag of dim sum, so you're reincarnated as a starving ghost?" Lu Shi rushed forward and slapped him. The slap on Qiao Baoer's face made a crisp sound, and Qiao Baoer burst into tears immediately.

Cracked eggs cannot be kept for a long time, so they can only be cooked and eaten at noon.

Lu held the basket anxiously, and Qiao Baoer's howling like a pig in her ears added fuel to the fire. She got up and slapped his ass again, cursing at the top of her throat: "You're so rotten!" Yes! Howling for your mother’s funeral! Three-bedroom, why don’t you drag out your son of a bitch!”

Mrs. Li came over after hearing the sound: "Damn bastard, you will only make trouble for your grandma! You don't even look at it. Your uncle and aunt are still there, so you just reach out to pick up other people's things. It's embarrassing! It's not bad for you. Cry ass!"

First, he scolded his son without pain, and then he said something nice with a smile on his face: "Mother trained well, what does his child know? You should teach him like this! But it's pitiful, your grandson I haven't eaten snacks for a year, so you can break some for him to taste."

At this moment, Mrs. Lu regretted that she had just hit Qiao Bao'er twice. Qiao Bao'er was her eldest grandson, and she was always in pain. It was just that she was so distressed by the two eggs that she lost the severity of her attack.

Mrs. Zheng knew what Mrs. Lu was thinking, so even though her face was as black as the bottom of a pot and she hated the uneducated Qiao Baoer, in order to please her mother-in-law, she had to open another package of oiled paper without waiting for Mrs. Lu to speak. , broke out half a piece of sugar cake from the inside, stuffed it into Qiao Baoer's hand, and said with a smile: "Children are gluttons at this age, just give them a little snack."

Specially want to look virtuous and generous.

Mrs. Lu was very satisfied with Mrs. Zheng's sensibleness, so she pretended to scold Mrs. Li: "Bringing such a greedy pig who has no eyesight, he knows how to eat greedily all day long. He doesn't do much work, so he knows how to be greedy all day long! Get the hell out of here and play, don't hang out in front of me, disgusting things."

Qiao Baoer struggled a bit when she was dragged out by Mrs. Li, he didn't want to eat this foolish sugar cake, the pack of snacks he opened just now contained white, fragrant and soft sheep's milk cake!

But seeing Zheng's almost murderous eyes, he flinched and went out with the sugar cake.

Mrs. Zheng handed the half sugar cake to Qiao Zaohua: "Sister-in-law, this half sugar cake doesn't look good on a plate, you should eat it first, I have something for you."

Qiao Zaohua hated it in her heart, Qiao Baoer broke off half of this cake just now, isn't it just the leftovers from Qiao Baoer's eating?She, Qiao Zaohua, never eats leftovers from younger generations!But for the sake of the orange-red silk, she decided not to argue with Mrs. Zheng.

So he obediently took the sugar cake, and while eating, he looked at what else she had.

Mrs. Zheng took out a hairpin from the basket. The hairpin was made of silver. A flower was carved on the head of the hairpin, and five pearls were buckled on the five petals.

Why do you say it is a petal?Because these pearls were improperly preserved and broken, but it was a pity to discard them, the craftsmen ground the parts that were still intact into petals.There is also a small agate carved into five petals dotted in the middle of the petals—this agate is still not very good and leftover scraps.

The craftsman of the silver building is a skillful hand, so after such a carving, those flaws can't be seen.

It wasn't that Mrs. Zheng was fooling Qiao Zaohua, it was because this hairpin was cheap, and after buying the New Year gift with the budgeted money, it was only enough to buy this hairpin.

"I'm thinking that my sister-in-law has reached her age, so it's time to wear some jewelry. I specially picked these for my sister-in-law from the silver building."

Qiao Zaohua, a lazy bastard who can't wait to stay at home every day and eat and sleep, how can he have any knowledge?Sure enough, when he saw this hairpin, he laughed so hard that the flesh on his face squeezed out of creases.

"Oh, this bead hairpin is so beautiful! A few days ago, my mother took me to the county to buy two silver bead hairpins, but they are plain silver, not as good-looking as sister-in-law's one inlaid with pearls and agate!" No culture Qiao Zaohua felt that the name "zhuchai" was taller than "hairpin", so he insisted on calling hairpin "zhuchai".

Mrs. Zheng despised Qiao Zaohua again in her heart, and it was not that she had not corrected it before. The one with two strands of hairpins is called a hairpin, and the one with one strand can only be called a hairpin, but Qiao Zaohua just doesn't listen.

Zheng Shi didn't bother to correct it, and it wasn't her embarrassment that would be lost in the future.She then smiled and chatted with Qiao Zaohua: "What kind of hairpin is that? I prefer plain silver hairpins. Can you show it to my sister-in-law? If it looks good, I'll go to the silver building to buy one later."

Qiao Zaohua took out a small box from the bed beside the pillow, and opened it. Inside were two jasmine flower hairpins and a pair of hollowed-out silver bracelets carved with jasmine flowers, which were not the same ones that Qiao Yun sold to the pawn shop!
Mrs. Zheng held the jasmine hairpin, looked left and right, and liked it very much: "The craftsmanship of this hairpin is really excellent, and the jasmine flower is so beautiful! It's just that this sterling silver hairpin looks a little mature, and my sister-in-law can't wear it now. Wait." In the future, if you open your face and wear it again, you will be able to suppress it.”

After saying that, he put the hairpin back, but he said in his heart: This silver jasmine hairpin is much better in workmanship than the defective one she bought, my sister-in-law still hates it!You bastard with no eyesight!

Qiao Zaohua nodded: "I thought so too! I don't know what kind of family I can marry in the future, but it would be great if it were those young men from the county! Auntie has saved me dowry money for many years. With this money, it should be enough to say something like the eldest son of Chi Yuanwai in the county!"

Chi Yuanwai is a well-known wealthy family in Quwo County, and the eldest son of his family can be considered to be well-looking, although he is not very handsome, he is good-looking.

Mrs. Zheng knew this person, because Mr. Chi and her husband were studying in the county school together, so they were also classmates.

When Qiao Zaohua said this, there was no shyness on her face.

Mrs. Zheng despises her again, the little lady who is not yet as good as Ji, is not ashamed at all when talking about her marriage!He also brazenly asked the young masters outside the ranks to climb up, and he didn't even look in the mirror to see what he looked like when he was born!
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