The children of the Qiao family

Chapter 32

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This year is [-].

The 25-year-old Er Qiang of the Qiao family and the 22-year-old Sanli are planning to get married.

Because Sanli and the others lost money in the factory, they were a bit tight on money, so they discussed that instead of serving wine, the two of them traveled and got married, and they couldn't travel far when they came back from a trip to other places, so Suzhou would be fine.Yiding felt a little wronged by Sanli, and Sanli smiled and said: Suzhou is not bad. I heard that the gardens are very beautiful, and the entrance fee is [-] cents per person. Here, Xuanwu Lake is as big as it is, and the entrance fee is only [-] cents.

I heard that they were going to travel and get married, but Yiding's family agreed to it very quickly, which is a bit strange for Sanli.

Qiao Yicheng surreptitiously gave Sanli a passbook, and Sanli opened it and immediately wanted to give it back to Yicheng.

Yicheng said: I have been saving this since you were 15 years old. At first I could only save [-] yuan a month, and if you add up, you don’t have to push it. The top two and the four beauties will have a share, and I will not hide it. You, the amount of money is different, and the elder brother really doesn't have that much power.Why didn't we have a good dad.He laughed again and said: Don't let Simei see it.

Sanli said: Sister-in-law doesn't know, does she?If she found out, would she be angry?
Qiao Yicheng thought for a while: Then keep her from knowing.

Sanli was silent for a while, opened her mouth a few times, and finally said hesitantly: Brother, there is a sentence that I shouldn't say.However, I always want you to be happy.Brother, when two people live together, they must have one heart, otherwise, how can they live for such a long time.

Why do you think I don't have one heart with your sister-in-law?
Sanli blushed: No, I just wanted to...

I just thought, besides putting most of your heart at home, where else do you put it?
Where did you put it?To whom?
Yicheng said gently: You don't have to worry about it, live your life well.Didn't the old man say, our family, let's take care of each other first.

Sanli and the others don't serve wine, but the Sun family must serve wine for their daughter.

However, Xiao Lang told Yi Cheng that she might not be able to attend the wedding of the second strong man, and that she would go to Shanghai to apply for a visa.

Yicheng was a little surprised: Didn't he fail the TOEFL test this time?I thought you would take the exam again. Didn't you say that if you do better in the exam, you will get a scholarship?
Xiao Lang said: I didn't do very well in the exam, but I can choose a second-rate school and go to a second-rate school first. If I don't have a scholarship, I can get a part-time job first, and I can always get through.

Yicheng sighed, and said: The marriage of the second strong will not be so fast, the Sun family takes it very seriously, the family is so busy, it will be good if it can be done at the end of the year, there is always time.

Xiao Lang looked at Yi Cheng's face firmly and said: If I sign the contract this time, maybe I will leave soon.

One intentionally jumps up and down: Are you serious?
Really.

Xiao Lang looked at the silent Qiao Yicheng, and inexplicable emotions surged up in his heart, like rising sea water: Are you silent?You don't want to keep me?
Yicheng said: I told you not to go out, we stayed in the country, and it is not difficult to live. How many people have not gone abroad and have a good life?

Xiao Lang sighed: But I just want to go out and broaden my horizons. If I don’t go to a wider place, I will feel suffocated.

Xiao Lang suddenly became sad, leaning on Yicheng and said: "Look at my eyebrows, are they far away from my eyes?"My mother has said since I was a child that a girl with such eyebrows and eyes will marry far away.I married from the north to the south.

Yicheng touched her short hair, which was thick and hard, and said: Marrying is not too far away, walking far away.

Xiao Lang went to Shanghai.

There is one more person who is leaving too.

It's Qi Weimin.

After graduating from graduate school, he was assigned to a municipal agency as a clerk.

At that time, the office was still a Qingshui yamen, but the second aunt was very satisfied. After all, it was a public unit, and my son was now a real public family.

Not long after being assigned to the unit, there was a document in the city saying that young cadres had to go to poor areas to train for three to two years, and Qi Weimin was one of the first batch of people to go to the countryside.

Qi Weimin asked Chang Xingyu out and asked her: Xingyu, would you like to wait for me for two years, and when I come back, let's get married, okay?

Chang Xingyu blurted out: Why wait?
Qi Weimin laughed, wrapped Chang Xingyu's hands in his own to warm them, and joked: Silly girl, you have to be arrogant about this matter, and I have to beg you!

Chang Xingyu laughed loudly: I don't want to put on such empty airs, I want to be with you, and I can get married anytime.

Qi Weimin laughed and said: Get ready and fight for the cause of communism for life!

Chang Xingyu raised his fist to his ear, and said crisply: Always be ready!

Both of them laughed, and Chang Xingyu lay affectionately on Qi Weimin's shoulder, happily biting him through his clothes.

Qi Weimin said: Seriously, I want to save a little more money so that we can have a good wedding.

Chang Xingyu said with a smile: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it's simple.He said in a tone of voice: there will be, there will be bread, there will be everything!Suddenly he leaned over again, and said mysteriously: Hey, my dad is rich, he will give me a dowry, let's go to the ends of the earth to play.

Qi Weimin said gently: My father passed away early, and he kept telling me that men are not allowed to use women's money.A man wants to hold up a house for a woman, and keep his wife and children together in the house, out of wind and rain.Xingyu, you keep the dowry your father gave you, and I will save the money myself. After we get married, I will take you to the ends of the earth.

When Qi Weimin wants to leave, the one who is most reluctant is not Chang Xingyu.

It's Qiao Qiqi.

16-year-old Qiao Qiqi graduated from junior high school.

However, he failed to pass the high school entrance examination. During the few days of the high school entrance examination, Qiqi developed a high fever. Since childhood, he had a problem, and he would have some problems as soon as he took the examination.In the first two days of the senior high school entrance examination, Qi Weimin was well prepared, and he was fed medicines and nutritional products one after another. During that time, he was in good health, and his grades did not improve much, at least not worse.However, it was impossible to guard against, and before the exam, Qiqi still fell ill.

It can be said that without any surprise, Qi Qi fell off the list.

The news that elder brother was going to leave made Qiao Qiqi even more depressed than the fact that he failed the ranking.

Qi Weimin told Qiao Qiqi that he contacted him with an evening high school, where he studied for three years, and the country recognized the diploma, and it was not as hard as a regular high school.

Qiqi lowered her head almost to the third button, and whispered that she didn't want to read, brother, I want to go to the countryside with you.

Qi Weimin said: Xiaoqi, don't shrink in the corner, it's cold, you can't sit on the ground.It’s not that elder brother won’t take you there. The conditions there are really tough. The children have to walk dozens of miles to go to school. You have been in poor health since you were a child, so it’s not suitable for you to go.I told your elder sister that she will take care of you, and your elder sister said that you can live in her house.

Qiqi said: I don't want it.I will stay here.Brother, when can you come back?
Qi Weimin hesitated for a moment, and said: It will take two or three years to go.Qiqi, after you graduate, elder brother will come back.

Qiao Qiqi suddenly buried her head on her knees and sobbed.

Qi Weimin was heartbroken: Qiqi, I often have holidays, and I will come back to see you when I am on holiday.When you are at home, you have to listen to your second brother, elder sister, and elder sister.

On the day Qi Weimin left, Chang Xingyu took Qiqi and Chang Youyou to see him off.

Youyou has grown into a 14-year-old tall and straight young man. He has been practicing dance in the Children's Palace for two or three years. When he walks, his waist is straight, his legs are exaggerated, and he looks a little out of character. He is arrogant and laughs all the way. Qiao Qiqi who doesn't show up: Qiao Qiqi, dripping cat piss, looks ashamed.With that said, there was a somersault.

The train moved slowly, amidst the huge roar, Qiqi endured the tears all the way, and finally fell down, really dripping cat urine.

Qi Weimin got off the train and took a car for another day, bumping in the flying dust for a long time before arriving at the place.

This is really a poor county. There is only one decent house in the entire county, which is the county auditorium built during the "Cultural Revolution".

Two months later, when Qi Weimin went down to the following villages and just returned to the county party committee, someone told him that someone from Nanjing came to see him.

Qi Weimin ran back to the dormitory and saw Chang Xingyu standing under a tall locust tree, wearing a bright red scarf and gloves of the same color, covering his mouth, only showing a pair of shining eyes looking at him laugh.Another person slowly came out from behind Chang Xingyu, staggering, his expression was not very good, it was Qi Qi.Both of them had gray hair with a layer of gray on them.

In the small courtyard of the county party committee cadres' dormitory, Qi Weimin fetched hot water and helped Chang Xingyu wash his hair in the afternoon sun.Qiao Qiqi, who was suffering from motion sickness, was lying on the bench under the porch, basking comfortably in the sun.

Chang Xingyu tilted his head with the foam on his head, and pointed at Qi Weimin. The bubble gum in his mouth blew out a big bubble, which popped and stuck to her face.

Qi Weimin was full of tenderness in his heart.

Two months later, Qi Weimin returned to Nanjing on vacation, took Chang Xingyu to the streets, and bought a simple gold ring in Baoqing Silver Building.

Chang Xingyu and Qi Weimin got married, and they agreed to save up their wedding leave, and there were three days left on November [-]st, and use it together to go to the ends of the earth to play.

The two children of the Qiao family are also preparing for their marriage.

A thunderbolt struck from the blue, breaking their day.

The leader who led old man Qiao and the others to raise funds ran away with a huge sum of money, and the remaining few fools became scapegoats.

In the past two years, the wind of fund-raising has blown people around them into a dizzy state. Many people have invested all their life savings in it, and all of them are gone in one fell swoop.

A large number of neighbors flocked to the door of Joe's house, and the two thin wooden doors could not stop the crazy and angry people at all.

Qiao's house was almost demolished by them.

All the valuable things in the house were taken away, including the two wedding clothes that Sanli had made.

When Qiao Yicheng received the letter and hurried home, what he saw was a mess.

The removed refrigerator in the main room left a slightly collapsed square on the ground, the boxes and beds in the room were lifted, the tea cups and dishes were all broken on the ground, and there were tiles everywhere, crunching underfoot. It sounded like the ground was screaming in pain.

Sanli and Simei hugged and cried together, Erqiang and old man Qiao were both bruised and swollen.

The anger in Qiao Yicheng's heart burned into a flame, and he rushed straight to the old man Qiao. He raised the chair leg and rushed straight to his father, but was hugged by the second strong man.

Anger is anger, as a son, there is no reason to watch his father being hacked to death.

Qiao Yicheng and his siblings put old man Qiao on the train overnight.The dim light in the carriage reflected the old man's face, old and desperate, like a disheveled rag.

The train played its flute, wrapped in the cold winter air, and covered the brothers and sisters of Qiao's family. They lined up in a row. Similarly, in this dark night, they re-experienced the panic and uneasiness when their mother died many years ago.

Old man Qiao said that he was going to go to the countryside with a godbrother whom he worshiped many years ago.

The marriage between Erqiang and Sanli had to be put on hold for now.

Fortunately, [-]% of the money saved for Sanli was hidden by Sanli in the old books and was not searched.

There are still piles of people at home every day, and if there is nothing to move, they will refuse to leave, and they must ask for an explanation.A large white paper was pasted on the gate of Qiao's house, with black characters saying: Pay back the debt!Return my hard-earned money!The ink is thick and glossy, and the handwriting is completely disorganized, with teeth and claws baring, like a monster that is about to rush out of the paper at any time.

There was no way they could live in the house anymore, so Qiao Yicheng was so cruel that he took all his younger siblings home.

Ye Xiaolang returned to Nanjing from Shanghai, and as soon as he stepped into the house, what he saw was a room full of people crowded in the small house.

(End of this chapter)