The children of the Qiao family

Chapter 47

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That day Er Qiang bought tofu for more than an hour. When he got home, Xiaomo's mother had a very bad face, and she put Er Qiang down for a whole night, saying that not only was he not good enough for business, but he was not good enough for such a trivial matter as buying a piece of tofu. If you can’t do it well, ask him to buy two yuan, but he bought such a pot, and he can’t make money or save money.

After scolding, even the matter of breaking up with Xiaomo back then was involved.He said that he had known that Er Qiang was such a useless person, so he would have split up at the beginning, and no matter what, he would never marry his daughter to such a person, and let Xiaomo suffer with him.

The strange thing is that Erqiang didn't seem to listen to her words at all, but there was some disdain and contempt in his expression that he didn't usually have.Xiaomo's mother didn't like to see him like this, so she cursed loudly.In the end, it was Sun Xiaomo who was upset. She loudly told her mother to stop talking, and the mother and daughter also quarreled.

After going to bed at night, Er Qiang remembered Xiao Mo's brows and eyes changed with anger just now, so he persuaded her a few words.Xiao Mo's face darkened, and she was silent for a long time and suddenly said: My mother was right, if you weren't so useless, I wouldn't be tired of being so angry!
As he spoke, he turned over forcefully and gave Er Qiang a back.

It was late at night, Xiao Mo was fast asleep, but Er Qiang couldn't sleep.

It turned out that Ma Suqin was still in Nanjing, so she hadn't left, which was great, at least she was still by his side, and when she was there, he seemed to be able to bear anything and not be afraid of anything.Er Qiang thought.

After all, Ma Suqin divorced her man. It was the man who proposed it on his own initiative. At that time, he had already lost the last little savings of the family, and even paid for his son's tuition.The child stopped studying for a year, and when Ma Suqin finally borrowed money to send his son back to school, the 13-year-old son was sitting in the sixth grade classroom with children nearly two years younger than him. The others are a head above, and the young students have learned to look at people who are different from them with contempt.

Ma Suqin's man knew that his son hated him, and his body also collapsed. When he raised his fist at his wife again, his son was no longer a poor little boy hiding behind his mother.He stood in front of him with a stiff neck, the veins on his forehead were protruding, and his fists were clenched tightly, as if as long as he dared to move, he would pounce on him and fight him to the death, his eyes were like a little leopard.

Ma Suqin's man filed for divorce after the Spring Festival of the second year. His son followed Ma Suqin. The man left the city soon and went back to his hometown in Northeast China. I heard that there was a Northeast woman walking with him. .

Ma Suqin did not expect to meet Qiao Erqiang again on such an ordinary day.

That day, the two of them stood face to face for 5 minutes in a daze.

Er Qiang opened his mouth first and called out: Master!

Ma Suqin looked at the person in front of him, he had grown up, his face no longer had the boyish look of the past, he had also grown a lot taller, his shoulders were wider, and he was stronger.

He is no longer a child, but there is still the childlike longing in his eyes, which makes people want to pat him on the head.He was still as honest as before, so honest that he was a little silly, he could only call master master master, and he couldn't say a word of other words.

Ma Suqin asked: Er Qiang, are you okay?
Er Qiang said: Master...

Ma Suqin smiled: I'm fine, now that I have this shop, the business is pretty good.

Qiao Erqiang still said: Master.

Ma Suqin suddenly felt all the bitterness welling up in her heart, but it was unexplainable.

She turned around and filled a pot full of tofu for him, and handed it over.

Er Qiang took over the pot.Ma Suqin said you should go back quickly, it's almost dinner time, you haven't eaten yet.go back, huh?

Er Qiang responded: Oh.After carrying the pot, he turned around like a fool and wanted to leave, then suddenly turned around and said in one breath: Master, where have you been?I can’t find you anywhere. I searched for many vegetable markets. They told me that you sell vegetables in the vegetable market. There are so many vegetable markets in Nanjing. I have searched all over but I can’t find you. Why don’t you tell me where you went, master? ?Master, I miss you so much.

Er Qiang cried like a child with tears and snot all over his face, and he wiped it all on his sleeve.

Ma Suqin took off her apron and handed it to him to wipe it off, and said: Why are you still as unclean as you were when you were a child?

Ma Suqin asked: Er Qiang, have you started a family?Do you have any children?

Er Qiang nodded and shook his head.

Ma Suqin said: Go back.

The second strong replied honestly: Oh!

After taking two steps, I turned back: Master, I'm still coming, okay?

Ma Suqin nodded, Er Qiang went happily.

In the early morning of the next day, Ma Suqin rode three rounds to open the shop, pulling the tofu that had been made early in the morning, and saw Qiao Erqiang squatting in front of the shop, huddled like before.Then, Qiao Erqiang raised his head and said happily: Master, are you here?

Qiao Erqiang suddenly felt that the day was brighter and happier, like the sun came out in the winter, which made people feel warm all over, so warm that people wanted to cry out.Er Qiang really screamed out, riding three rounds, seeing no one in front of him, took off his hands, straightened up, and screamed, as if possessed by his young self, he was really happy at that time Ah, I only want to be with that woman, I can't think of the future and the past, and I only have the days with her day by day in my eyes.

Er Qiang comes to help Ma Suqin whenever he is free every day.

Ma Suqin sold a morning market in the morning, and found that some dual-career workers had no time to buy vegetables in the morning, so she started selling the evening market again. It was even harder than before, but her small shop business was getting better and better.The post office where Qiao Erqiang works happens to be not far from Ma Suqin's small shop, and Erqiang will come over to help her whenever there is a little free time in a day.At noon, I also brought a meal to eat with the master.

Ma Suqin saw that there were always some stale dishes in his lunch box, which seemed to be leftovers from the night before, so she brought more home-cooked dishes every day.Er Qiang ate the braised pork prepared by his master, looked up at the master and smiled, his mouth was greasy from eating, and he pouted, as if time had flown back.

Er Qiang no longer felt bored at Sun's house. From time to time, when he was doing housework, he would raise the corners of his mouth and laugh, making Xiao Mo's mother puzzled. She told Xiao Mo that Qiao Er Qiang had been a little bit lately. Something is wrong, is there something wrong?
Xiao Mo's mother felt that Er Qiang's situation was so strange that she even forgot that the word "something wrong" was a little pain in Xiao Mo's heart, and she couldn't mention it.Xiao Mo threw the cup in her hand on the table resentfully, and said: How did I know him, isn't he always stupid?Having problems is not a matter of a day or two. Why did we two people with problems get together in the first place?
On that day, the biggest rain of the summer fell, and it didn't look like a rain at all, like a big basin of water poured from the sky.

Qiao Erqiang and Ma Suqin were blocked in the small shop together. Ma Suqin was very anxious, afraid that his son would be alone at home and there was no phone in the shop. Sleep, close the doors and windows and don't be afraid.Ma Suqin didn't stop the first one, but the second strong man really ran out, and the heavy rain swallowed his figure in an instant.

After a while, Er Qiang came back, drenched, dripping water dripping from top to bottom, and even his eyelashes were covered with raindrops.

Er Qiang blinked his eyes vigorously, his teeth were chattering from the cold, but his voice was full of joy: I have called, I knocked on the door of his store, and the little boss is really a good person, I also called and went home .

Ma Suqin told him to take off his wet clothes quickly, but there was nothing to change in the store, so he had to wrap Er Qiang with a piece of thick felt that was usually placed under the bamboo plaque.

Ma Suqin wiped Er Qiang's hair with a towel, Er Qiang squatted in front of her like a big obedient dog, lowered his head and let her handle the wiping.

Ma Suqin raised his head and saw Er Qiang's smiling face.

Ma Suqin said: Why are you still acting like a child, smiling silly or not?

Er Qiang tightened his grip on the felt, and the thick felt rubbed against his skin, making it itchy.

Er Qiang put his hands on Ma Suqin's lap, looked up at her, and said: Master, I want to live with you.

Ma Suqin was stunned.It took me a long time to come back to my senses, and stroked the still wet hair of the top two: You are married now, and those who have married should live a good life, don't learn from your master, and make your life a mess.You should live well.

Er Qiang simply put his head on Ma Suqin's lap: But I want to live with the master, we two make a family, I think I can live well.

Thunder suddenly exploded in the sky, and the thunder seemed to roll over their heads, and kept rolling away far, far away.

Ma Suqin covered her face and said: This is not possible, this is not possible.There was such a scene back then, and you even lost your job. If there is another scene now, what crimes do you have to suffer?

Er Qiang said: Master, I am not afraid of anything.

Qiao Erqiang felt that he had never been so brave in his life.

When Er Qiang asked Sun Xiaomo for a divorce, Sun Xiaomo looked at him blankly, as if she didn't know him anymore.

It was Xiao Mo's mother who rushed over and slapped him screaming.

What do you mean?She hit the top two without thinking, how dare you say divorce?Just you?
Just rely on me!The second strongest is also called, just rely on me, just want to leave!
Then you go!Going out naked, our Sun family's advantage, you don't even want to take advantage of it!

Er Qiang moved back to Qiao's old house from Sun's house.

Qiao Yicheng hurried home and asked him why he suddenly brought up this matter, did he lose his mind?

Erqiang said that his mind is not broken.

Er Qiang said that his brain is smarter than ever.

Smart with it!
Old man Qiao rushed up and slapped the second strong man on the head and face: You are smart!You're eating shit to your heart's content!If you want to leave your wife and go with that old woman, let me tell you, there is no way!

Yicheng rushed over to block old man Qiao's slap again: Don't you always care about your children's affairs?When did you see you become so responsible to your son and daughter?Let me tell you, I raised them one by one, and I have more qualifications than you to beat them.

Old man Qiao spit on the ground with a mouthful of thick phlegm: Bah bah bah!You ask him, he said it himself, he wants to leave and marry his master.I'm going to die here today. I won't let her in. I will never count a person with a foreign surname as the grandson of the Qiao family in my life. Grandson!
Yi Cheng asked Er Qiang: Is what he said true?When did you find your master?
Er Qiang straightened his neck and said firmly: I just found her, and I just want to marry her!No one can stop the big brother!

Old man Qiao jumped up on his feet, cursed two very dirty words, and said: Don't even think about it, there is no door, there is no door!
Er Qiang wiped the line of blood from the corner of his mouth, and actually smiled, with a sense of humor that he had never seen before: It doesn't matter if there is no door, if there is no door, I will go to the window!I just like to pick up a ready-made father, so what?

Bah bah bah!Old man Qiao slapped himself on the face: Shameless!
Er Qiang laughed again: You don't need to be ashamed for me, the disgraceful things you did behind my elder brother's back are the ones that are shameless, and have humiliated our Qiao family.I just plan to live for myself, don't be ashamed!
The second strong finally got divorced. Here we have to say that Sun Xiaomo's mother played a great role in promoting her. She hardly let her daughter speak, and she kept yelling: "Li Li Li, Li Li Li, I'm afraid to find you if you leave this useless wretch." Not better than him?

Qiao Erqiang really left the house without leaving the house, and left everything to Sun Xiaomo.

The Sun family said, told him to leave immediately, and he was only allowed to take away his old tattered clothes, and he could not take away any clothes and accessories that the Sun family bought for him, not even a thread of cloth or a screw.

Er Qiang only packed a shriveled bag, which contained only two pieces of his old clothes.

It was Xiaomo who secretly stuffed another down jacket in his bag, and it seemed that it was winter.

Qiao Erqiang carried such a bag, walked into Ma Suqin's small shop, sat down and let out a sigh of relief, grinning and said: Master, this time I really made a family with you!
(End of this chapter)