The children of the Qiao family

Chapter 11

This Sunday, Qiao Zuwang went out early in the morning with Sanli alone.

They went to the famous Tongwang Tower, where the steamed stuffed buns are very famous. Qiao Zuwang ordered two steamed buns, put them in front of Sanli, and asked Sanli to eat them.

Sanli narrowed her eyes happily and smiled: Give it all to me?

It's all for you, Qiao Zuwang said.He watched his daughter eat, and vaguely felt that this child was not what he used to be.

Sanli gobbled it voraciously, not afraid of the heat, and pouted her mouth vigorously, eating heartily and recklessly, until she didn't even need chopsticks, she just grabbed it with her hands.After eating ten small steamed buns in one go, Sanli burped a lot, and suddenly said out of nowhere: "Buy another steamed bun for my brother."

Qiao Zuwang really bought a basket of buns and took them home.

Looking at the situation, Qiao Yicheng somewhat understood in his heart, and decided that his father had gained some great advantage, so he remained silent like this.

Qiao Yicheng didn't even touch the steamed stuffed bun, only two strong and four beautiful, didn't understand anything, he ate it happily, his mouth was full of greasy.The second strong also called frequently: Brother, come and eat, if you don’t eat, you will have nothing.

Qiao Yicheng yelled at him angrily: Eat you bastard!
The second strong wronged and wronged: scolded me again, scolded me again.

Qiao Yicheng thought that from now on, he would never call this man Dad again.

He doesn't deserve it.

He doesn't deserve it!
In the next few decades, Qiao Yiguo really never called Qiao Zu to look at his father again.

When facing him, Qiao Yicheng would not call him by name.

When carrying him behind his back, Qiao Yicheng called him: that person.

After eating the buns, Yicheng took his brothers and sisters to wash the quilts. After washing, Qiao Yicheng grabbed one end by himself, while Erqiang and Sanli grabbed the other end and wrung it dry. , Brother, come on, sister, come on, come on.

Nothing seems to have changed.

Qiao Yicheng said, "Sanli, comb your hair well. You haven't combed your hair for several days. How messy is it?"

Sanli ignored her.

Not long after the quilt was out in the sun, when the neighbors poured the washing water into the gutter in the yard, they accidentally splashed some sewage on the sheets of Qiao’s house. There was a big stain like a baby peeing. The bed was still stained with a piece of yellow cabbage leaf.

Qiao Yicheng was not happy to argue with his neighbors, and the neighbor's woman was not easy to talk to, and she said that Qiao's bed sheets were hanging on their land.

Qiao Sanli jumped out suddenly, and cursed at the woman.

Qiao Yicheng looked at his nine-year-old elder sister in surprise. The formerly quiet little girl stood in the yard and hopped and cursed. A string of obscene words came out of her mouth. He bowed his head, his face was flushed red, and his expression was painful and tangled.

Qiao Yicheng felt lonely like never before. He thought, there was no way he could pull this sister out of this quagmire.No more.

Qiao Yicheng and Qiao Erqiang ran outside Li Heman's house that afternoon and smashed Li Heman's semi-old permanent bicycle with bricks to pieces.Erqiang was so addicted to smashing that he threw a brick on the window of their house, and the glass shattered. The next day, Li Heman's youngest son's head was wrapped in gauze.

When Qiao Yicheng fell asleep at night, he thought to himself, what a jerk!Such a father!

He has such a selfish father, he can only survive if he learns to be more selfish and ruthless than him.

Soon, Qiao Yicheng had a selfish opportunity.

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Sanli became very talkative, but she was different from Simei's noisy.Simei is a beaming little magpie, but Sanli is like a restless little starling.The speed of her speech became very fast, one sentence followed one another, and one sentence after another, so much that Qiao Yicheng was in despair.

Qiao Zuwang also occasionally looked at this daughter with scrutiny. When he met Qiao Yicheng's eyes, he would smile a little embarrassedly and say, "It's okay, she doesn't remember much, and it's lucky that she didn't let that bastard Eggs succeeded.

Qiao Yicheng looked at him bitterly.

Qiao Zuwang was stared at by the eldest son full of hatred, his scalp was a little numb, and he was also angry, but for some reason, he didn't dare to beat the child again, and only cursed a few words in a low voice: "Why do you want to climb on my head?" ?

After the New Year in the Gregorian calendar, Qiao Yicheng found that the second aunt moved around more frequently, and she didn't seem to be asking for money. Twice, she brought a friend of hers, one with a round face and wearing a ridiculously deep Aunt in glasses.

They first had a soft and mysterious conversation with Qiao Zuwang in the back room, and then they called Sanli and Simei in, but they didn't know what to do.

Qiao Yicheng asked Sanli when he was sleeping at night: What did they ask you to do with Simei?
Sanli said: Don't do anything, just look at us.

see you?What's so good about it?Joe was puzzled.

Look at our faces, look at our eyes, look at our noses, look at our mouths, look at our ears, look at our hair, look at our legs...

Qiao Yicheng stopped his sister's chatter, covered her with the quilt and told her to sleep quickly.

Sanli suddenly took her elder brother's hand and called: "Elder brother, elder brother, stay with me."

The voice was not from the noisy Sanli, but from the quiet little girl Sanli who was there not long ago.

Qiao Yicheng stood silently in the dark for a long time, letting Sanli hold his hand tightly, full of things he wanted to say, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't know what to say.

At Qiao Yicheng's age, it is the time when boys' hearts and minds are the most isolated. At this time, they often refuse to have physical contact with others. In addition, Qiao Yicheng is a somewhat cold child. He doesn't know what to do. To comfort this little girl, even if this little girl is his own sister born of his own mother.

After standing for a long time, Qiao Yicheng felt as cold as if immersed in icy water. With a slight struggle, Sanli let go of her hand. Qiao Yicheng thought that she must have fallen asleep.

Qiao Yicheng lay back on the bed, he had a bad feeling, he was afraid that something would happen.

Actually, there is something wrong.

However, it doesn't seem so bad.

The second aunt came over again the next night. This time, in addition to the round-faced auntie with glasses, she also brought two people, a man and a woman, like a husband and wife.

Qiao Yicheng was very, very strange. In his opinion, these two people really didn't seem like friends that Second Aunt would have.

They are gentle and quiet, dressed in simple but not simple clothes, and they look like well-educated people.

The couple greeted Qiao Zuwang very politely, and the man even extended his hand to shake Qiao Zuwang.Qiao Zuwang held his hand awkwardly and shook it twice, he was really not used to this way of greeting.

The woman took out candies and picture books from her bag and distributed them to Qiao Yicheng and his younger siblings.

Qiao Yicheng reservedly picked a piece of candy from her hand, but Er Qiang and Si Mei rubbed against the strange aunt like puppies smelling the smell of meat.

The aunt's eyes were firmly fixed on Sanli and Simi, shuttled back and forth, and exchanged glances with her lover from time to time.

Qiao Yicheng saw everything in his eyes, but he still couldn't understand what this situation meant.

Several people were sitting in the main room, talking one after another.Even though Qiao Yicheng was still a child, he could tell that the couple was just playing tricks on Qiao Zuwang. Qiao Yicheng's sensitive heart was slightly ashamed of this delicate state.

Qiao Zuwang didn't care at all, and continued to introduce the advantages of his two daughters, how well-behaved, sweet-talking, capable, and how they looked like their mother, very delicate.

As if to verify his father's words, Simei obediently moved to the woman little by little, looked up at her flatteringly, and said, "Auntie, your hair is permed so beautifully."

The woman smiled, a very cultivated smile, very kind, but not very close.

She stroked Simei's thin braids and said: Really?Thank you.Your braids are beautiful too.It's an extremely gentle Jiangsu accent.

Simei shook her head triumphantly and said: I made it up myself.My sister is not as good at weaving as I am.

The woman laughed again, oh, this is great.she said softly.

She suddenly added another sentence: Simei, would you like to let auntie braid your hair in the future?Auntie can wear beautiful braids, four strands.good or not?

Simei replied repeatedly: Yes, yes.

For a moment, a vague thought came to Qiao Yicheng's mind, but it was so light, like a cork floating in the water, it rose up for a while, then sank a little bit for a while, and he couldn't distinguish it.

After sitting for a while, the woman motioned to the second aunt and the auntie with round face glasses, and they stood up together, said goodbye to Qiao Zu, and walked out the door.The woman looked back at Simei again, and smiled kindly at her.

Simei obediently called: Auntie, goodbye!
After sleeping until midnight, Qiao Yicheng remembered a North Korean movie he had seen before.

In the blink of an eye, the driftwood-like thought in Qiao Yicheng's mind became clear.

That couple may be adopting a child from their family.

That child might be Simei.

Sure enough, the next day, Second Aunt and Qiao Zuwang announced the news to the children.

The couple came from Suzhou, both of them were high school teachers, and their family used to have some background, but they had no children and wanted to adopt one, so they fell in love with Simei.

Qiao Yicheng thought, why not Sanli?Why?
If their family is going to take away a child, Qiao Yicheng hopes that Sanli will be taken away. Although it means that it will be difficult for him to see this younger sister again, he thinks that if possible, let Sanli jump out.

At this time, Sanli said in a high-pitched voice: I won't go, I don't want to go, I won't go if you ask me to go.

Simei laughed at her: Which one please go.

Sanli retorted unceremoniously: You go, you go, they are all teachers, they tell you to do your homework every day, they will kill you!

Simei is also welcome: write as soon as you write, and when I go, I will eat white rabbits every day and perm my hair!I hate you! I hate you!
If you don't, I won't!
Qiao Yicheng was disturbed by the noisy noises of his sisters, and his heart skipped a beat.

Is the little magpie Simei leaving?He never saw her again after that?

Qiao Yicheng's eyes flicked past his siblings one by one, he thought, could he lose any of them?
The adoption process went quickly, and the couple visited Simei twice later, bringing her new clothes each time. Of course, the other children also had small gifts.Erqiang was very happy, but Sanli didn't take it seriously, and often rolled her eyes at the couple.

Simei wore new clothes to and fro at home, speaking Mandarin in a coquettish voice.

She also has a new name, Shen Jingyi.

Qiao Yicheng was so preoccupied these days that his brows were knotted into knots, and even the most careless No. [-] could see that something was wrong with his elder brother.Qiao Zuwang thought to himself, maybe this child is reluctant to part with his sister, this child is really... not easy.

No one knew the dark thoughts in Qiao Yicheng's heart, only Qiao Yicheng suppressed the pain for it.

In two days, Simei will really leave with the Shen couple.

Qiao Yicheng lay in bed for a long time and couldn't fall asleep. In the middle of the night when no one was around, the dark thoughts in his mind were like ink stained on the paper, and the blackness expanded and flooded little by little.

He thought of the elegant couple of teachers, imagined their lives, and thought of the neat and spacious desks and piles of books they might have in their home. That kind of life was what he yearned for, but it belonged to Simei.

He endured sore teeth, and he made up his mind.

The younger brothers and sisters slept soundly, and Simei's new clothes and schoolbags were placed on the small cabinet beside the bed.She always thought that this time was like going to the countryside to visit relatives in the past, and after playing for a while, she could come back.

Qiao Yicheng thought about his siblings, and if he never saw them again, his heart would be pierced.

But pain returns to pain, and that pain cannot resist the temptation of a new, better and beautiful life.He had thought a few days ago that if he wanted to be a more selfish and ruthless person than that person, he might be able to live a better life.

The next day, it was a Sunday, Qiao Yicheng went out early in the morning.

He wore his best coat and went to the hotel where the Shens lived. He heard from his second aunt about that place. He didn't want to take a car, so he walked all the way to give himself more time to think, or, regret.

However, he didn't regret it.

He walked to the hotel, asked the front desk for the room number, and finally sat in front of the Shen couple with a dignified expression.

Mr. Shen looked at the young man in front of him, with a thin face and slightly frowned brows, and asked kindly: Are you [-]%?What's your business?

Qiao Yicheng bowed his head and remained silent for a long time.

Mr. Shen was very strange and couldn't help but look at his wife. She shook her head and signaled him not to worry.

Qiao Yicheng suddenly raised his head and said to the Shen couple: Please adopt me.My grades are better than Si. I am a member of the league or a class leader, and I can do everything.

The Shens were completely stunned, they looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Qiao Yicheng had already spoken, but he became calm and determined.

He repeated: Please, adopt me.

Mr. Shen said: Sorry, ten percent, but we only want to adopt a girl.

Tears slowly welled up in Qiao Yicheng's eyes, and he tried his best to endure, struggling with pain in his heart.

I, can do well, I will be competitive, I miss many books, I can earn living expenses by myself, I just want to study in a good environment.Please.

Ms. Shen poured Qiao Yicheng a glass of water and handed it over: Yicheng, I understand how you feel.There are some things you don't know.We had a daughter before, but she died of illness when she was six years old.When we saw Simei, we felt we hit it off. She even looked a bit like our daughter.So, you see, ten thousand, there are lotuses in the flowers, and people can grow out of the mud without being stained. If you work so hard, you will definitely become a useful person in the future.

Qiao Yicheng stared at the small tabletop and gritted his teeth.

Ms. Shen kindly brought him a cake to eat.

Qiao Yicheng chewed the cake, and slowly, tears flowed down the back of his hand drop by drop.So hot.

Qiao Yicheng cried bitterly.

He wasn't sad because he was rejected.

He cried because of the guilt in his heart.

No, no, Qiao Yicheng thought, not all people can be so selfish, so unscrupulous, and so brazen.

This sense of guilt is heart-biting.

Why are you so bad and so bad?He really deserves to be Qiao Zuwang's son, Qiao Yicheng thought.

The Shen couple were helpless, they didn't know how to appease this young man.

Qiao Simi finally left with the Shen family.

When we left, it was a half-cloudy weather, and Simei seemed to realize suddenly that this trip was unusual, struggling, crying, lying on the ground in brand-new clothes, rolling around.

Finally, she was coaxed away, and kept turning away her crying little face, looking at her brothers and sisters, and walked away.

Everyone thought that Simei could live a better life from now on, but no one thought that after only two months, Simei was sent back by the police.

Eight-year-old Qiao Simi ran out from Shen's house, asked people all the way to Suzhou Railway Station, and asked the people at the station to let her board the train back to Nanjing.When I arrive in Nanjing, my elder brother will pay for the ticket.she says.

The marshals thought she was an abducted child and sent her all the way to Nanjing, then called the police station where Qiao Yi's family was located and sent her home.

Qiao Simei was fluent since she was a child, and she clearly stated her home address and the names of her father and brother.

(End of this chapter)