The children of the Qiao family

Chapter 16

Maybe when people are in their teens or twenties, they will always get a little confused.

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Meeting Teacher Wen again and becoming a teacher and student again made Qiao Yicheng feel that there are lights and shadows floating in his life. He is slowly getting closer to the person he has always admired and loved. Maybe in the near future, he will become Teacher Wen. same person.

Wen Qinghua is very popular among the students. He is less than 30 years old, which is the best age for a man. He has a good education, a good family background, and a calm and gentle personality. He has won the love of many female students, young female teaching assistants and lecturers.He's not married, and there doesn't seem to be any indication that he has a girlfriend.Slowly, some people will say that he is somewhat weird.He lives in the dormitory of the school's staff, and he doesn't see him back to his father's place on weekends, and he always walks alone.

Whenever there is a little gossip about Teacher Wen, Qiao Yicheng is always the first to put on a stern face and ask people to shut up. He maintains Teacher Wen's reputation as he defends his own reputation, and cannot bear a little stain. On the most upright and ideal existence in his mind.

The school strictly forbids dating, however, that kind of young, abundant, exuberant, and restless vitality cannot be stopped no matter what, Qiao Yicheng already has several couples in his class, and several couples are from foreign departments. classmate.Everyone tacitly protected each other, as tenacious as weeds under a stone.

In comparison, Qiao Yicheng is a very boring person. Although he has a good face and good grades, girls will think he is gloomy and not very close to him. He seems to live in a mezzanine. Don't rely on it.

Qiao Yicheng was the first person in the class to find temporary workers to supplement daily expenses.In the summer vacation of his sophomore year, he found a job as a kitchen handyman in a small restaurant. He worked every other day from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] every night. On busy weekends, he would go there at noon. There will be more.

When Qiao Yicheng was in his junior year, there was a bookstore opened by the back door of their school. Qiao Yicheng often went to read books.In this way, it is inevitable to meet classmates or teachers, and then everyone realizes that he lived in isolation and went to earn money.Because the money is not easy to come by, the class sometimes organizes some activities or the like, and some extra activity fees are required. Most of Qiao Yicheng will not participate. him.

Even though Qiao Yicheng put himself out of his peers, he was still happy.

He's a bit like a thermos, boiling hot inside but always cold to the touch outside.

Teacher Wen looked at the child coldly, at the little estrangement between him and his classmates. The child was still guarding his own small world with an awkward posture just like when he was a child.

Wen Qinghua always consciously or unintentionally went to that small bookstore to look for books and chat with Qiao Yicheng during the two days when he was visiting the store.

One weekend, after Wen Qinghua bought the book, he casually talked about the excursion organized by his class. Qiao Yicheng said that he knew that he was going to Yangshan Monuments to play. Wen Qinghua asked Qiao Yicheng why he didn't go. Cheng said that there are still things at home.

Wen Qinghua laughed and said: Your younger brothers and sisters are not young, are they?
Qiao Yicheng said: Actually, she is still young, my little sister is only twelve.

Wen Qinghua seemed to suddenly remember it, and took out two rolls of film and handed them to Qiao Yicheng: "It's ready-made at home. If you don't use it anymore, it will expire. It's just for you. You can go and play with it."It is not good for people to be too close, but it is also not good to be too far away.

Just like when you look at a painting, if it is too close, it will be deformed, if it is too far away, it will be blurred, and only when it is neither far nor near can you see the light and dark.

Qiao Yicheng agreed, but in the bottom of his heart, there was a subtle touch. It seemed that Teacher Wen shouldn't be such a careful person.He always remembered that when he was young, he looked at the teacher outside the window, and the smiling face when the teacher turned to face him was gentle and peaceful, defenseless and infinitely accepting.

From this day on, Qiao Yicheng accepted Teacher Wen's suggestion and began to get closer to the students. Halfway through the semester, when the class committee changed, Qiao Yicheng was elected as the class life committee member.

At the age of [-], he finally joined the factory as an apprentice and got rid of the embarrassing status of unemployed youth.

Speaking of which, this time it was really thanks to Qiao Zuwang.

Qiao Zuwang ran into an apprentice that his father took when he opened the barber shop. This person was considered to be Qiao Zuwang's senior brother. He married early, and the eldest son was almost thirty.Qiao Zuwang begged the senior brother to find a way to arrange a job for the second son, the senior brother patted his chest and agreed, and a month later, it was indeed arranged for the second son.

Qiao Zuwang falsely reported to Qiao Erqiang that he was one year old, and sent him to a printing machinery factory as a fitter.

Qiao Zuwang was very proud of this, and said while drinking: "Look and see, you still have to rely on your old father, right?"Your father is not considered to be very capable, but Ye Luzi still has two.

17-year-old Qiao Erqiang became a worker.

The factory arranged a master for each of these young people who came in recently. Er Qiang’s master was a woman. On the day of the official meeting, she came late and watched other people respectfully follow her master away. Er Qiang was alone. Standing in the open space of the workshop with his hands tied tightly, he waited for someone to lead him.

The masters who came and went asked: This child, who is your master?
The top two answered: Ma Suqin.

Those old workers just laughed and said: Hey, this kid is quite lucky, to be Yizhihua's apprentice.

While Er Qiang was wondering, a woman ran over from the workshop gate. She was tall and thin, and her face could not be seen clearly even with the backlight. She was wearing sleeves on her arms and a hat on her head while running.

When she got close, the woman looked around, and someone shouted: "A flower, your apprentice has been waiting for you for a long time, take him away quickly, look at the young man who has been waiting so long that his neck has grown."

The woman came over, looked Er Qiang up and down, and said in a low voice: Let's go.

Er Qiang obediently followed the woman to the fitter's workshop, not daring to raise his eyelids to look at her. He kept his head down. He only saw the woman wearing a pair of old black cloth shoes with loops. He cut a little and wore a pair of purple acrylic socks with dark patterns.

Contrary to the expectations of the second strong, most of the fitter workshops are women.Someone had already brought over two new young workers just now, they were both young girls, and suddenly a boy came over. There was a commotion in the workshop, and the women gathered around one after another, giggling and their voices were crisp. And bright.

Ma Suqin, good luck, you are assigned such a tender-looking little apprentice, a male baby head, so you will save trouble in the future!
That's right, Ma Suqin, you old cow gnaws tender grass!

Wahaha burst into laughter.

Qiao Erqiang's newly cut hair, the green part between his slender neck, his slender eyes, his narrow face, his white shirt and blue trousers are not ugly at all.

Another man interjected: Ma Suqin has a young man, let alone our old cabbage gang!

That is, the eyelids will not pinch you!It was that wow-ha-ha woman's voice from before.

Erqiang was used to hearing such common sayings in the neighborhood since he was a child, but he was still embarrassed. He had nowhere to hide, and felt that even his hands and feet were redundant, and he was like a scarecrow planted in the field for people to visit.

Ma Suqin also laughed, but her voice was much lower: Are you jealous?Let me tell you, this is not envious.

It was a mouthful of northern dialect.

Er Qiang mustered up the courage to peek over, and saw a fair, slender face, with slightly raised eyes, with two minutes of shallow marks from the years, but it can be seen that it was once bright.

Er Qiang gasped.

According to the rules in the factory, the young workers were given dark blue denim overalls. The second strong man was so excited that he didn't want to take them off after work, so he went home directly.

As soon as I got home, I ran into Qiao Yicheng, who had just come back, and said, "Brother, I have a master in the factory, she is a woman, who do you think she looks like?"

Qiao Yicheng joked with him squinting: Like Liu Xiaoqing?Still like Li Xiuming?
Er Qiang said: Like Mom!

Er Qiang laughed after he finished speaking, and Qiao Yicheng scolded him for being wrong, and kicked his ass, and the two brothers had a happy fight for a while.

Qiao Erqiang gets up early to go to work every day, very happy, and what makes him even happier is that "half" is back.

The little things Er Qiang picked up from the garbage dump in the early years disappeared after two days of raising them, and now they are back again.

Er Qiang recognized it at a glance, it has grown into a slender big cat, with the missing half of its tail wagging gently and flexibly.

The young worker Qiao Erqiang knelt down, stroked its dirty hair, and said, "You hate the poor and love the rich!"back again?

It is said that the family has a surplus of food to raise a cat. The cat's return shows that the economic conditions of Qiao's family are really better.The top two can get 13 yuan a month.

Here Qiao Erqiang was happy, but Qiao Simei experienced the pain for the first time in his life.

As soon as she got out of school that day, she threw herself on the bed and cried, which shocked all the brothers and sisters.

Sanli asked her: What's the matter with you?
Simei buried her head in the pillow, crying indistinctly: Rong'er is dead!How could she die!How can you die!
Qiao Yicheng was terrified: Which one died?your classmate?
Simei ignored her eldest brother, beat the bed and continued to cry: That bastard man, that bastard man, he killed Rong'er!kill it!
Qiao Yicheng was so anxious that his head was on fire: What are you talking about?Who killed whom?
Sanli stopped Yicheng and said: It's okay, brother, just leave her alone and let her have convulsions.

Qiao Yicheng asked: Who died?

Sanli said: Weng Meiling is dead.

Qiao Yicheng suddenly let go: Weng Meiling died, why are you crying?Can you cry?
Simei continued to cry: She is my idol, the cutest person in the world, how can she die?

The three brothers and sisters squatted in a row by the bed and watched Qiao Simei cry on her stomach, holding back her laughter and almost causing internal injuries.

Simei cried with sincerity, and gradually infected her brothers and sisters. Qiao Erqiang said: "Alas, I actually like Weng Meiling too. Her rabbit teeth are so cute."

Sanli said: The acting skills are not bad either.

Qiao Yicheng waved his hand, and drove away a gloomy dark cloud: Forget it, don't think about it, you are so beautiful.

Qiao Yicheng thought that with Qiao Simi's temperament, he would forget about the matter when he turned around, but he didn't expect that this girl was sad for a month, crying almost every day.Qiao Yicheng didn't understand, but he was afraid that something might happen to her, so he told Sanli to keep an eye on her.He read in the newspaper that there were indeed young girls who followed Weng Meiling's example and killed themselves.Qiao Yicheng felt that he was going to grow another gray hair.

Not bad, after two months, Qiao Simei recovered by herself, wrapped all the photos of Ms. Weng Meiling she had collected in her beloved silk handkerchief, and hid them at the bottom of the box.

She was obsessed with Qiong Yao's novels, and she didn't do her homework every day, even peeking at them in class.

Then, Qiao Yicheng realized that the girl didn't wear braids or ponytails anymore, so she loosened all her hair.

Simei's hair has been fluffy since she was a child, but when she draped it like this, she didn't seem to be flowing, but it was messy. Looking from behind, her head seemed to be a big circle.

She also became fond of wearing white dresses, and she got a thin-necked vase from somewhere, and put some wild flowers and grasses in it at the bottom of the wall every day.There are many "wow, ah, ah" interjections in the words.

It was the weekend, and the brothers and sisters sat together to drink big bone soup, which was stewed with fresh radishes, and it was Er Qiang's specialty.

While drinking, Sanli scooped up the soup with a spoon and handed it to Er Qiang: "Second brother, what are you putting in here?"Like duck feathers.

Er Qiang looked at it carefully for a long time and didn't know what it was.

Sanli could tell: Don't be Lu Wei, right?
Two days ago, Simei and her classmates specially picked a large handful of reeds from the suburbs to put them in bottles. Unexpectedly, these things would float in the wind, and they were everywhere in the house.

Qiao Yicheng said: Simei, you threw that thing away and it flew around, annoying.

Simei said: Don't you think it is so elegant and elegant?so beautiful!So chic!
Qiao Yicheng heard her come and go, goosebumps immediately appeared on his arms, he curled up his fingers and tapped twice on the table: Qiao Simei, Qiao Simei!speak English!

The second strong laughed: You are so sour!
Simei called out in a high-pitched voice: You guys are so vulgar!So moodless!
Erqiang said: You are the most emotional, the top and skirt are different white, do you know that this cannot be matched?

Simei was so angry that she forgot what happened: it was better than wrapping an old piece of white silk around your neck pretending to be Xu Wenqiang.

Er Qiang said: I have improved now, and I will stop doing that kind of thing a long time ago.

Sanli made a sound and said to Er Qiang: Huh?Second brother, I found that your vision is much better now than before!Have you been influenced by some little girl?

Er Qiang's face turned red.

They didn't care about Qiao Yicheng, Qiao Sanli.

Er Qiang has always been so muddle-headed, heartless and heartless. For such a person, his blush is just a sign of refreshment. If it turns yellow, it must be wax to prevent cold.It probably has nothing to do with love, love, or whatever.

Only later did Qiao Yicheng realize that he was wrong.

Simei is only 12 years old, but she is well-developed. She has pumped, her small breasts are straight, and she is dressed a little beyond her age. From a distance, she looks like a girl.

Young girl Qiao Simi fell in love early!
When Qiao Yicheng received the news that the teacher invited him to go to school, he heard the buzzing sound of his white hair on the top of his head.

(End of this chapter)