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Qiao Mingjin searched the corners of the room, but only found fifteen copper plates.

It was the one she carried with her when she carried her daughter back to her natal home that day, otherwise she would have been searched.

Qiao Mingjin has good embroidery skills. With her embroidery skills alone, she can save some money every month.It's just that she has always been a cold and strong person, and she couldn't bear to hear Mrs. Wu and her two sisters-in-law accuse Sang and Huai of hiding private money.

Every month, the embroidery work is sometimes handed over to them for sale.

She can always bring several hundred cash to the Yue family every month.So Wu didn't make things difficult for her because she didn't go to the fields and only did some work at home.

Sun's and Yu's natal families are also poor, so they can do sewing and mending, but it is impossible to expect them to do some delicate embroidery work and sell it for money.

If Mrs. Wu wanted to make money, she still had to count on Qiao Mingjin's craftsmanship, and a few hundred yuan was more or less a subsidy.There are only a few acres of poor land at home, and they can't eat enough or store food all year round, so they can't starve to death.

Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Yu also knew that their skills were not as good as others, and they complained a lot about Qiao Mingjin's ability to be comfortable and not need to go to the field, and only take care of the children at home without digging in the ground, but they did not dare to say it in front of Mrs. Wu. If my children want to eat better, they have to rely on Qiao Mingjin's subsidy of several hundred cash a month.

This made Qiao Mingjin have a relatively easy life for a few years.

So Qiao Mingjin didn't have any copper coins in her hand, so she used them to buy quietness.

Sometimes Mrs. Wu wouldn't let her go to the market. Most likely, Mrs. Wu took the embroidery work she had done and brought Yue Xiaoman, who was dressed up, to exchange money, and then returned with some rice noodles.

Qiao Mingjin couldn't bear to argue with them about these things, and only wanted to watch her daughter and live a quiet life.

Her daughter is a little cowardly, and she can't live without her.Since her daughter was born, no one has helped her. Even when she goes to the kitchen to cook, she is always wrapped up and placed on two long benches joined together.

If she goes to the field, she has to bring her daughter with her.It's a good eye, maybe my daughter fell into the ditch and died half of her life like she just learned to walk.

The dozen or so copper coins in this purse were given to her by her grandmother secretly when she went back to her natal home last time, saying that it was for her mother and daughter to buy some good food.

Qiao Mingjin was in a daze again when she thought of her natal grandmother...

Her mother gave birth to five children, and her eldest brother, Qiao Mingjue, was 17 years old this year. Like her father, he passed the examination for scholarly talent and then stopped taking the exam. The family really didn't have the money to support the father and son to study.The eldest sister, Qiao Mingyu, is 15 years old. Since Qiao Mingjin got married, she has taken over from her and has been running the house.Nine-year-old brother Qiao Mingheng and younger sister Qiao Mingqi are twins.Lively, cute and sensible, he helped his mother get off the ground at a young age.

Her father, Qiao Jingkun, doesn't know where her hometown is. She only knows that she brought her grandmother to the gate of her mother's house, and was given a bowl of hot soup and rice by her mother. With her grandmother, she settled down in Yunjia Village.

Then the mother married the father.

She always thought her grandmother was the best grandmother in the world. Not only was she good-looking, she could also read, draw, and play chess with her father. good.

She has been liked by her grandmother since she was a child, and she was brought up by her side since she was a child. Not to mention, she never let her mother take her to the fields. She only followed her to do embroidery work at home, and she was taught to read since she was a child.

Even her youngest sister, Ming Qi, is going to go to the ground.

She thought, her grandmother must really like her.Not only because she looks the most like her grandmother, but she also has the same temper.Since she was a child, she also listened to her grandmother the most...

At that time, the grandmother saw her mother and daughter as if they were not full, hugged her and cried, and secretly stuffed her with a dozen copper coins before leaving...

In addition to the dozen or so copper coins, she also had a pair of silver bracelets, which were given to her by her grandmother as a dowry.It's just that her daughter was sick twice, and she pawned them both.There is also a jade pendant of excellent quality, which can be seen as the favorite of the grandmother.Qiao Mingjin took it out and touched it when she missed her mother's house, and was never willing to pawn it...

Now that Qiao Mingjin was holding the fifteen copper coins, her heart felt sour.

She wanted to leave this family and raise her daughter alone, but with these dozen or so copper coins, she absolutely couldn't do it.

My natal family... I can't drag my natal family down.

The eldest brother and the eldest sister are also at the age to say goodbye, and her father is also weak, and sometimes he has to spend some money to take some medicine...

Qiao Mingjin sat on the bed with her purse in a daze, Xiao Wan'er saw her mother ignoring her all this time, she pursed her lips aggrievedly and dragged the bedposts to climb onto the bed, slowly crawled from the end of the bed to the head of the bed and curled up beside her mother.

Qiao Mingjin watched her daughter curl up beside her, feeling a pain like a needle prick in her heart.

It is absolutely impossible to work together with her.Leave Xiao Wan'er at Yue's house...

Who would treat her sincerely?

But I only have these dozen or so copper coins, and returning to my mother's house is also a drag.The sky is big and the earth is big, but I don't know where to go...

Qiao Mingjin's eyes were sore, and a sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart.It was extremely difficult to be a single mother in the previous life, but it is even more difficult here.

Seeing that her mother was only staring at her blankly, Xiao Wan'er raised her head and looked at her mother with tears in her eyes, and found that her mother didn't coax her, so she called out aggrievedly: "Mother..."

The crystal teardrops rolled down the long eyelashes.

Qiao Mingjin's heart ached for a while.He hurriedly brought her over and hugged her in his arms, wiped it for his daughter, and said, "Mother is here." He hugged her tightly in his arms, and his eyes slowly became firm.

At the end of the time, Lao Yuetou, Yue Laoer, and Yue Laosi came back with hoes and agricultural tools. There is not much work in the field now. In the morning, Lao Yuetou took his two sons to the field, and Wu took a few wives It is managed at home. There are more than a dozen chickens and two pigs at home. There is also a three-point vegetable field in the backyard, which also needs to be weeded and fertilized.

Only after lunch did Mrs. Wu take her two daughters-in-law to the field. Yue Xiaoman never went there, and only followed Qiao Mingjin to cook at home and watch a few nephews and nieces by the way.

Qiao Mingjin also helped to prepare the lunch. After the meal was over, Qiao Mingjin was called to the main room by Yue Xiaoman to eat.

When Qiao Mingjin brought her daughter over, everyone else had already sat around the table.Including the four children in the family, there are a total of twelve people. There is no room for one table, so two tables are divided.The three daughter-in-laws each led their children to sit at another small table, while the rest sat at the big table.

Lao Yue watched her walk in and said, "Is your body better?"

Before Qiao Mingjin could reply, he said, "Sit down and eat, it will be cold in a while." After speaking, he picked up the bowl and picked up the rice.

Several people at the table saw that Lao Yue was eating, and they all picked up their bowls, only Yue Lao Si smiled at her.

It was the first time for Qiao Mingjin to see the two brothers of Lao Yuetou and Yue Laosan in so many days.

Lao Yuetou is not very old, he is only 45 years old this year, but he looks a few years older on the surface.He looked like an honest farmer.Yue Lao Er and Yue Lao Si looked more like Old Yue, the two brothers had dark complexions, only Yue Lao Er had sharper eyes, and Yue Lao Si looked more dull and honest.

Qiao Mingjin took Wan'er by the hand and walked to the small table, hugged Xiao Wan'er and put her on the bench, and sat beside her.

There is a bowl of porridge in front of everyone on the table. Most of the porridge is dried sweet potatoes. There is only a large plate of thickly cut wax gourds on the table. They are boiled with water, probably because there are four children in the family. It's a bit squishy, ​​and with a plate of salty radish sticks, there's nothing else.

Qiao Mingjin watched her daughter protect her bowl with her two small hands, and looked at her cousins ​​with purring eyes, thinking that her daughter was over three years old, so she should be able to eat by herself.It's just that seeing her sitting on the bench with only one head exposed, it's really embarrassing for her to eat by herself.Let's wait until she thinks about raising the stool higher.

He took a spoonful and fed it to his daughter.

Over there, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Yu are also feeding their own children.Mrs. Yu is good, she is only a three-year-old Beishu, but Mrs. Sun has two children sitting beside her, one on the left and the other on the right.

Seeing Yu's quick movements to pick up the winter melon on the plate, he was a little anxious, and his four-year-old daughter Linglong said, "Scoop and eat by yourself! Don't you know how to use a spoon?"

Linglong was only half a year older than Wan'er, and even though she was four years old, she was no taller than the table when she sat on the stool.Seeing that her mother only cared about feeding her brother, she pursed her mouth a little bit aggrievedly and gave her mother several glances. Seeing that her mother still ignored her, she started to eat with a spoon.

With short hands, he stretched the spoon into the plate containing the winter melon. After scooping it several times, he failed to scoop out the winter melon pieces. The little girl was about to cry.

Qiao Mingjin smiled at her, and used chopsticks to help her put a few pieces into her spoon. The little girl said to Qiao Mingjin in a childish voice, "Thank you, Third Aunt."

Mrs. Sun also smiled at Qiao Mingjin, and said, "Hello Jinniang, there is only one child, and I am in a hurry. Wan'er is still so obedient, if the older one is a daughter, I don't have to worry so much."

Qiao Mingjin looked at Sun's nervous son. Linglong ate by herself at the age of four, and her six-year-old brother, Donggen, had to be fed by Sun, and wiped his mouth from time to time. Donggen sat on the bench It also looked like a needle was stuck in the buttocks, twisting and turning, and almost fell down several times, making Mrs. Sun so busy that she couldn't even care about eating.

Seeing that he was twisting hard, Mrs. Sun reprimanded him: "Be careful and sit down! If you fall like Third Aunt, you will have to lie in bed for several days and spend money to see a doctor and buy medicine for you!"

Qiao Mingjin just pretended not to hear, feeding her daughter while eating.

Mrs. Yu looked at Qiao Mingjin, but she also knew that this third sister-in-law had always been a taciturn person, and she could not expect her to have a quarrel with Mrs. Sun and watch the show by her side.She also buried her head and concentrated on feeding her son, while on the other hand, she quickly poured vegetables into the bowls of herself and her son...