There is a little cute baby in the family, fleeing famine is not enough to get rich and busy

Chapter 29 How Cold Was That?
The whole family in the yard fell into silence, except for the crackling sound of burning wood, there was no other movement.

The children who were playing and chasing also felt that the atmosphere was not right at this moment, they all stopped and looked at the adults of each family eagerly.

"Father, what should we do?"

Qi Ercai broke the silence and asked his father.

Following his words, the others all looked at the old man.

Qi Zheng held the cigarette stick, and didn't know whether to take a few puffs or knock it and put it away.

After a long time, Qi Zheng waved to Qi Manman: "Man Baoer, come to Grandpa."

Qi Manman glanced in the direction of the firewood shed, then ran towards Qi Zheng without looking back, with his short legs tumbling upside down.

Yi Meng was afraid that the light would be bad at night, and the child would fall again, so she followed him all the way.

Qi Manman threw himself directly into Qi Zheng's arms, raised his head, and looked at Qi Zheng with watery eyes, as if he was about to cry at any moment.

With just such a small expression, Qi Zheng made a decision in an instant: "Bring Chai Du!"

"Grandpa is so nice! Man Baoer likes grandpa!"

Qi Manman instantly transformed into a smile.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, all a little stunned.

Is that... so decided?

Although their family has five wooden carts, they have a lot of family members and a lot of things, and they are not willing to throw any of them away.

So five wooden carts may not be enough.

Now that there is so much dry firewood to be loaded, at least one wooden cart must be reserved for loading firewood.

This...isn't it too childish?

Qi Dafu scratched his head and said, "Father, we can still collect firewood on the way, or..."

"I said pretend, just pretend, if you don't want to, you don't move!"

Qi Zheng rolled his eyes.

On weekdays, it was Qi Cheng who stared and threw temper tantrums. Although Qi Zheng was the head of the family, he rarely issued orders with such an attitude.

Qi Dafu was shocked for a moment.

Qi Ercai on the side hurriedly smoothed things over: "Father, my elder brother didn't mean not to pretend at all, or wait for us to pack everything up, and then fill the rest of the place with firewood, as much as it can fit, how about it? "

This proposal made everyone else nod in agreement.

Why can't you not bring other things at home just to order firewood?

Qi Zheng actually started to regret it after saying that he had put everything on.

But he couldn't bear to see his precious granddaughter's teary eyes, so he didn't change his words.

What the second child said gave him a step up and made him less embarrassed.

"Cough cough!"

Qi Zheng cleared his throat and said, "Go to bed early! Get up early tomorrow to load the car."

After finishing speaking, Qi Zheng hugged Qi Manman and walked into his room.

Yi Meng was a little anxious: "Father, Man Baoer..."

"Today Man Bao'er is sleeping with me and your mother. Alright, go back to the house as soon as you turn off the fire!"

Qi Zheng left without looking back.

Qi Manman lay on his grandfather's shoulder, looking at his mother, after thinking about it, he still grinned, showing his small teeth, and even waved his fleshy little paws: "Mom, I'm going to sleep with my grandparents today!"

Well, this little girl has rebelled, and she doesn't want to sleep with her mother anymore.

Yi Meng didn't know whether to laugh or get angry for a moment.

But the father-in-law has already spoken, she, the daughter-in-law, can't go to the in-laws' house to snatch the child just to watch the daughter sleep!

Everyone also knows that the matter of Chaihe is to be done according to Qi Ercai's words. In addition, he has been busy for a long day and has to go on the road tomorrow, and everyone has no interest in chatting. go.

The Qi family's yard fell silent.

In the house of Qi Zheng and Qi Cheng.

Qi Cheng washed Qi Manman's face and feet, and let the little guy lie on the kang by himself.

Qi Zheng wiped his feet, waited for the old wife to finish washing, and then went out with the footwashing water.

This is how the old couple lived their whole life, and it was like this when they were young.

Qi Cheng brought water in, and after washing, Qi Zheng took it out and poured it out.

Even if the old couple has children and grandchildren, it is still the same, and they don't need the children to serve them at all.

It is precisely because of their precepts and deeds that the same is true after the sons of the family marry their wives.

No one thinks there is any problem with the old man pouring the footwashing water.

When Qi Zheng came back, Qi Manman was sitting on the quilt watching grandma pack up.

It seems that he should be a little sleepy, and his big eyes are obviously listless.

Qi Zheng was afraid that he would not be able to ask anything if the child fell asleep, so he hurried onto the kang, called the little girl to him, and asked softly: "Man Baoer, tell grandpa, why do you have to pretend Those firewood?"

Qi Manman tilted his head and thought for a while, then yawned a little, and then said in a childlike voice: "It will be cold, very cold, and it will be cold all at once."

"When will it be cold, don't you know?"

Qi Zheng asked again.

Qi Manman couldn't open his eyes more and more, but he still tried his best to answer: "After it rains, it's cold. Grandpa, it's cold, and many people just lay on the ground and fell asleep, calling , I can’t even wake up.”

After finishing speaking, the little guy tilted his body and fell directly on the kang.

Qi Zheng was about to speak again when he saw the little guy snoring lightly.

Although Qi Cheng was packing up his things, he was also listening to the grandparents and grandsons.

Seeing that her precious granddaughter was asleep, she hurriedly put down the things in her hands, carefully laid the little girl flat, covered the quilt, and then looked at Qi Zheng with a sad face: "Old man, they say that every autumn rain and cold, Do you think it could be that after the autumn rain, there will be frost?"

"It shouldn't just be frost."

Qi Zheng couldn't help but picked up the cigarette stick and was about to light it, but Qi Cheng slapped it off: "Smack, smoke! Didn't you see that Man Baoer is still there?"

All his life, Qi Zheng has been used to talking twice when he thinks about things. He was like this when he had a son at home, and he didn't change when he had a grandson.

But now when he heard what his old wife said, he immediately put the cigarette stick aside, and then sighed: "Think about what it's like under the frost, no matter how cold it is, it can't be so cold that people lie on the ground and scream." don't wake up."

After a pause, Qi Zheng glanced at Qi Manman with a complicated expression, and then said in a lower voice: "I reckon Man Bao'er can't wake up when she screams, and someone must have been frozen to death."

"What? Then, how cold is that?"

Qi Cheng couldn't control himself and almost screamed.

Fortunately, she reacted fairly quickly, she only called out "what", and then lowered her voice again.

Qi Zheng sighed: "I don't know exactly how cold it is. But since Man Baoer said so, I reckon it should be the same. Old lady, I think our journey will not be easy!"

As he said that, Qi Zheng leaned against the wall, staring at the roof with a pair of dull eyes, and a sense of sadness permeated his whole body.

(End of this chapter)