Rebirth: Don’t be a coward and be a mother’s baby

Chapter 9
It was almost evening when Xie Jianjia left Huang Qiaoxiu's house.

The only bus in the town was dragging a lot of passengers, staggering towards the way home. People were rushing back and forth with their luggage on their backs. The shouts of people killing fish and selling vegetables on the roadside were louder than the other. Many shops closed early. Returning Drinks are served at home to welcome the ancestors.

Huang Qiaoxiu took Xie Jianjia's hand and sent her to the door of the small restaurant where Zhou Chunyan worked.

Xie Jianjia let go of the hand held by Huang Qiaoxiu.

"Sister Qiaoxiu! I'm going to find my mother. Please be safe on the road!"

Huang Qiaoxiu smiled and nodded, then turned and left when Xie Jianjia came in.

As she trotted to the kitchen, she saw her mother busy washing dishes from behind. Xie Jianjia felt warm in her heart and nuzzled up to Zhou Chunyan, thinking of helping her wash the dishes together.

When Zhou Chunyan saw her daughter, she immediately beamed. The weight of life seemed to disappear. She wiped her hands clean with a clean rag and stroked Xie Jianjia's little head.

"Jiajia, be good, mom won't get off work for a while."

At this time, the restaurant proprietress came to the kitchen after serving the food. When she saw the mother and daughter, she said to Zhou Chunyan:

"Yanzi, you should get off work early today. There is only one table left. The dishes can be washed early tomorrow. You can take Jia Jia out to play. I heard that there is a big opera singer in the town tonight."

The proprietress is a kind woman who has never had children in her life. She and her boss, who were both cooks for generations, supported each other and opened a small restaurant. The restaurant has been doing well in recent years. The two originally planned to work until they were 50 years old and save enough money for retirement. After retiring, their boss was diagnosed with cancer five years ago. Spending a lot of money could only extend his life, and their life began to become difficult.

After all, I couldn’t survive this year and left three months ago.

The death of the boss brought a heavy blow to the wife of the boss, and with it came great pressure in life.

When the boss was undergoing chemotherapy and treatment, the boss's wife borrowed money from all the relatives and friends around her. Now that the boss is gone, the boss's wife has to pay off the debts one by one.

So after settling the boss's affairs, the proprietress reopened the restaurant. She was not proficient in cooking, and she only learned a few things through years of exposure to the boss, but these skills were enough for the proprietress to survive in the town for a few more years.

When I was busy and couldn't take care of her, I thought of recruiting someone to help me, and I happened to meet Zhou Chunyan and her daughter.

Zhou Chunyan smiled gratefully at the proprietress and promised to come to the restaurant early tomorrow morning to clean up.

The winter evening is not too late. In the blink of an eye, it changes from a clear sky and a bright day to thousands of lights, the sound of firecrackers and the sound of trumpets and the roar of the crowd.

Zhou Chunyan held her daughter's hand tightly, fearing that her daughter would be swept away by the crowd.

The mother and daughter did not stay long. Zhou Chunyan took out all the money she had and bought a comfortable sweater for Xie Jianjia at a clothing store, and then took Xie Jianjia back home.

After returning home, Xie Jianjia took the shredded white radish and dried steamed sausage given by Yao Cui. The mother and daughter were extremely satisfied.

After eating and drinking, the mother and daughter nestled in the small bed, listening to the crackling of firecrackers outside. Xie Jianjia hugged her mother's arm and said hesitantly, "Mom, I met someone in the past two days."

Zhou Chunyan looked curious, "Who is it?"

"A sister seems to be an aunt, but not after the Chinese New Year."

Zhou Chunyan was a little confused when she heard this, "What do you mean?"

Xie Jianjia briefly talked about her meeting with Huang Qiaoxiu and Huang Qiaoxiu's purpose of approaching Zhou Qiang.

There is no need for Xie Jianjia to speak ill of the Zhou family and the two conspiring against Xie Dahai.

After listening to Xie Jianjia's words, Zhou Chunyan couldn't help but patted her heart, "I'm afraid that girl doesn't really want to marry into the Zhou family." Yao Cui and Zhou Chunyan have already been buried in the fire pit of the Zhou family, and they really can't bury the second one again. Three women.

Xie Jianjia was confused, "Mom, aren't you angry?"

Zhou Chunyan shook her head and took her daughter into her arms. Her rough, calloused hands were filled with warmth at the moment.

"You have such a young and lively girl. The Zhou family is not a wealthy family, and your uncle and your father-in-law are not good people. She got married for no reason. When your grandmother told me, I was worried about her. , not to mention her family conditions are so good."

As he spoke, he touched Xie Jianjia's hair. Under the dim light, he used his hands to break off the ends of Xie Jianjia's split hair due to malnutrition and threw it aside.

"I'm worried that she was deceived by your uncle. After all, your uncle is tall and not ugly." Zhou Chunyan mentioned Zhou Qiang. On the surface, it sounded like a compliment, but her tone was slightly disgusting.

Looking at the immature daughter in her arms, Zhou Chunyan couldn't help but have tears in her eyes, "When we Jiajia get married in the future, my mother will help Jiajia choose the right person. We must not choose the wrong person."

Xie Jianjia nestled in her mother's arms and shook her head.

Regarding marriage, Xie Jianjia's heart was filled with more panic and fear than expectation and yearning.

There are all kinds of blood-drenched examples of the mother who died twice in her previous life, the grandmother who was oppressed all her life, the junior high school teacher who was later pregnant and miscarried by domestic violence, and the aunt who was forced to give birth to a second child before her daughter recovered. , which makes people shudder.

Thinking of this, Xie Jianjia hugged Zhou Chunyan tightly and said urgently: "I don't want to get married in this life, I want to be with my mother forever!"

Listening to her daughter's childlike tone, Zhou Chunyan naturally thought of the situation between herself and her mother Yao Cui, and sighed, "It's okay not to get married. You can live freely without getting married."

Xie Jianjia nodded obediently, sniffing the delicious scent of her mother's soap locust on her nose, "Mom, I will be successful in the future. We will definitely be able to leave here, leave Ningli County, leave Yunlu City, and go bigger and further. The place!"

Her daughter's words soothed Zhou Chunyan's slightly sad heart. She nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, from now on, mom and Jia Jia will leave here and go to a big city."

The mother and daughter chatted for a long time, thinking about a better life in the future, until there was no more firecrackers outside and everything was silent, and they could hardly fall asleep.

Early the next morning, after Xie Jianjia finished dressing, Huang Qiaoxiu was still waiting outside in her Volkswagen. Huang Qiaoxiu directly called people into the house.

With pickled cowpeas and salted duck eggs, Huang Qiaoxiu finished two large bowls of porridge.

"Sister, with your skills, it would be a pity not to open a breakfast shop!" Huang Qiaoxiu blew a rainbow fart while swallowing the porridge.

Zhou Chunyan was amused by her, "No way, the pickled cowpeas and salted duck eggs were all bought from the vegetable vendor at the street corner."

After saying that, he looked at Huang Qiaoxiu and then at Xie Jianjia, "Jiajia calls you sister, you call me sister, and Jiajia calls me mom. Isn't this a mess?"

Huang Qiaoxiu also followed suit.

"I'm not bragging. You didn't make these two things. You always cooked the porridge, right? If the porridge wasn't so fragrant, could I have eaten two big bowls?"

He took a breath and said, "Besides, I call you sister because you look like 20 years old and are younger than my stepmother. Let's do it this way. Let's talk about it ourselves. Jiajia calls me sister, and I Call you sister, we are all sisters anyway."

Zhou Chunyan thought that the three of them were about ten years apart and it was really hard to say this title, so she nodded and agreed with Huang Qiaoxiu's call.

The three of them laughed again.

　overtime today!Posted a little late!Chapter 1 today!Thank you Tong Yan Jie Dan Qing Ke Feng for the recommendation vote! ··There will be another chapter later!
　　


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