The children of the Qiao family

Chapter 49

But not long after, Er Qiang was still notified that apart from the work of moving goods, if he wanted to stay at the post office, he had to "do business".

The so-called "doing business" is to attract people to participate in some kind of book club. The post office sets quotas for each person.

In Qiao Erqiang’s more than 30 years of life experience, he only knew that he had to buy books and go to bookstores. He never thought that buying books could also be done by making a phone call and asking people to deliver them to their door and pay for them. This made him feel very confused, and a thought came to him However, in the future, if everyone doesn't go to the bookstore and just sits at home and buys books on the phone, won't Xiaomo and the others lose their jobs?
Qiao Erqiang didn't realize that he was not a thick-skinned person until he got this new job. He was embarrassed to open his mouth to others and asked them to join the book club. Among the people he knew, there seemed to be no one who loved reading. .I had no choice but to start with my sister. Simei was the first to be persuaded by Qiao Erqiang to join the book club. Simei asked if there were any other cheap things to buy besides books after joining the club. Erqiang thought about it carefully. Thinking, it seems that you can buy some small jewelry, bags and household items, so I honestly answer: Yes.So Simei happily joined the club, but who would have thought that from then on, she would have to buy books once a quarter, making Simei full of grievances, and Er Qiang was also embarrassed.

Sanli knew about it and teased Er Qiang, saying: How did you remember that, second brother?Simei, a girl with a human head and a pig's brain since she was a child!The combination of Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages ​​can only give you [-] points, so you will be fooled like this!She thought that the discount was a bargain to take advantage of!If you can't make it in time to join the meeting, I'm afraid that if you are a step too late, others will take advantage of it!Second brother, you might as well call me if you want her to join the club. At any rate, my grades were better than hers when I was young, and I was the captain of the red scarf squad. My son is about to go to school. By the way, does your book club have any teaching materials for elementary school students? Discount?
The second strong blushed and honestly admitted: no.

Oh, Sanli laughed again: What kind of books are they selling?

Er Qiang thought for a while and said hesitantly: novels, oh, and prose.

Sanli smiled and bent over: Romance novels?prose?I haven't watched Qiong Yao since I turned 20!

Simei was so annoyed by Sanli's teasing that she interjected: Oh, you are mature and elegant, don't you watch "My Fair Princess" every day with your arms around you!

Sanli laughed again: I don’t want to watch that anymore, I watch Japanese TV dramas, and I can buy pirated DVDs to watch. On the street, 20 yuan can buy [-] or [-] episodes!
Qiao Erqiang was very embarrassed, and said coyly: If you don't want to buy the book, Simei, then don't buy it, and don't bother with the letter from over there asking you to buy it.

Simei said angrily: I don't want to talk to them, but I haven't bought a book for three months, and they sent the book to my door and asked me for money!I've never seen anything like this when I was growing up.

Er Qiang blushed, hesitating and speechless.

Sanli took over the words: "I got it, Simei, you don't want to buy it, just give me that card. My son has to read some books anyway after he goes to school. Let me see if there are any good books for children to read." Buy it for him.

Simei became happy now: I know that Yiding's business is doing well in your family now, and it really makes people happy when they are rich.

Money is good!Pie!

Sanli poohed her.

When Qiao Yicheng came home, he heard the chatter and laughter in the room, his heart suddenly relaxed, and he felt better for no reason.After all, it is his own sister and brother, no matter how incompetent, no matter how hard life is, as long as he can laugh happily, he is not in vain to worry about being a big brother.

Qiao Yicheng came back to the old house because Wang Yiding wanted to treat his brothers and sisters to dinner.

Yiding's business is on the right track, and he has indeed made some money. Yiding is very happy. Taking advantage of the weekend, he insists on inviting everyone to eat in a restaurant, saying that he has booked a private room, and asks everyone to come to the old house and set off together. .

It's not a year, it's not a festival, it's not a marriage. This is the first time that Qiao's family eats together in a restaurant on a very ordinary day. Everyone is a little childishly excited. Sanli Simei even changed into new clothes and put on makeup .Ma Suqin was also called, she came a bit late, still hesitant to step into the yard of Qiao's old house.

Qiao Yicheng thought for a while and said, I'll ask her to come in.

Ma Suqin came in behind Qiao Yicheng. Old man Qiao saw that his eldest son had brought this woman in, so he dared not say anything he wanted to scold.The older he got, the more he was afraid of this eldest son, which made him feel that the older he was, the more imposing he was in front of him, and he had already overwhelmed him by more than one head.

Yiding drove over in an old Iveco and took the family to the hotel they had reserved earlier, which turned out to be a very high-end place.Simei straightened her clothes as soon as she got out of the car, and said, "My good fellow, thanks to the fact that we wore two decent clothes, sister, you are really doing well now, enjoying the blessings!"As he spoke, he affectionately walked into the restaurant with Sanli on his arm.

During the banquet, everyone was happy, and Qiao Yicheng said to Yiding through drinking: live a good life, and remember one thing: no matter when and where, don't forget your roots.

Yiding toasted him and replied: Definitely, brother, don’t worry!
The goal of the top two was finally completed, thanks to the help of his cousin Chang Xingyu.

Er Qiang thought for a long time before realizing that his cousin and sister-in-law are serious scholars, and they might have some hope in getting them into the book club.It's a pity that the eldest brother has not had much contact with them, the relationship is indifferent, and the second strong really feels that it is difficult to speak.

Seeing that the time is coming, if the target cannot be completed, the second strong will not be able to stay at the post office.There was really no other way, Er Qiang went to find Chang Xingyu.

Without further ado, Chang Xingyu joined the club, and Qi Weimin also applied for a card. Chang Xingyu also mobilized her friends to join the club together. Everyone took the promotional materials and thought it was good to be able to buy books while sitting at home. They are all love People who read books are willing to spend that money.With the addition of Qi Weimin's friend, Qiao Erqiang completed the target at once, and even slightly exceeded the quota.Er Qiang was naturally very grateful, Chang Xingyu said with a smile: Why are you thanking the family, just a little, don't say in front of your elder brother, I feel uncomfortable looking at his neither salty nor bland face.But it's also strange, all of you brothers and sisters are full of flesh and blood, why is it that he is weird!
Qi Weimin smiled and said to Er Qiang: Don't blame your cousin, we, Chang Xingyu, speak quickly, and we will misunderstand people who are slower and calmer.Don't take it personally.

Qiao Yicheng, whom Chang Xingyu called yin and yang, has become more yin and yang recently. He has vaguely heard some rumors that a rich young businessman is passionately pursuing Xiang Nanfang.

7
This gossip was spread by a reporter from Qiao Yicheng's station. This person specialized in publicity in the city, and he had a heated fight with the people in the city's Propaganda Department.People from the Propaganda Department said that Xiang Nanfang will return to Nanjing soon. This time, he will be promoted, and now they are promoting young female cadres. Besides, Xiang Nanfang's background is there. He went to the countryside at the time The exercise is also with the purpose of promoting her.

The reporter said: Now, Qiao Yicheng of our station is going to shake up even more. A husband is worth more than a wife. Maybe he will go up another promotion. With this momentum, he will be the director of the news department or even the director of the station. thing.The officer in the publicity department smiled ambiguously, and said, if you want me to say, one has to give up something in order to get something, and it is worthwhile to give up his wife for a high position.The reporter heard that there was something to be said, so he asked carefully, and only then did he know that there was a very important investor in the city who was pursuing Xiang Nanfang. A large piece of land, to build the largest commercial center.The reporter spread the gossip on the stage, and by the time Qiao Yicheng heard it, everyone knew it.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Qiao Yicheng said strangely that he looked away.He told Song Qingyuan that if it was fate that he should not have a long-term fate with the south, then he had no choice but to accept his fate.This idea was disdainful by Song Qingyuan, Song Qingyuan took a deep breath and said: If anyone dares to gossip about my private affairs behind my back, look at me, I won't beat him so hard that he can't find his way!You are born to be angry!
Qiao Yicheng looked at Song Qingyuan's red hot face with anger, and thought about the question he had thought about countless times. If Song Qingyuan married Xiang Nanfang, maybe there would be no gossip. Saying that the theory of blood is dead?Who said marriage doesn't need to be matched?However, Song Qingyuan said that he and Xiang Nanfang are too familiar, homogeneous people will not attract each other, but they may be a perfect match, heterogeneous people often attract each other, but it is like a big hat on a small head, Unspeakable awkwardness and discomfort.The so-called love, marriage, and family are nothing but a mess that will take a lifetime to untie, or be trapped to death by the mess.

Let it go, Qiao Yicheng collapsed on his own bed, let him go.Besides, the South should not be like that.

However, people, Qiao Yicheng thought, people are subject to change, and they are the most fickle.

Qiao Yicheng really turned his life into a mess.

Before he could sort out the mess a little bit, the south really returned to Nanjing.At the beginning of [-], Nanfang received a new task and was really promoted.

On New Year's Eve of this year, the south visited low-income households, and Qiao Yicheng was also on duty in the station. The two of them didn't return to Xiang's small courtyard until early in the morning. Aunt Sun made a table of fresh dishes for them. , Be sure to ask the young couple to have a reunion dinner.As the two ate and ate, they heard the slight rustle outside the window.

It's snowing.

The snow in the south is often not a climate when it falls. Small and thin snowflakes, mixed with freezing rain, slap the windowpanes.

Nanfang went to the window to look, turned around and said to Qiao Yicheng: Now that it snows, I have to get busy again. If there is a heavy snowfall like the winter of [-], the houses of some low-income households will be in danger. This year, let's not even think about it.

Qiao Yicheng looked at Xiang Nanfang.

In the past two years, Nanfang has become a little plumper than before marriage, her eyebrows and eyes have not changed much, but her temperament has become more calm and atmospheric.

Qiao Yicheng suddenly felt a rush of words rushing out of his heart, straight to his throat, and warming his eye sockets, Qiao Yicheng blurted out: "Nanfang, let's have a baby."

Nanfang's cell phone rang suddenly, she answered the phone hastily, and talked for half an hour. After hanging up, Nanfang asked Yicheng: What did you just say?
Yicheng said: Forget it, let’s talk about it after the new year.

Unexpectedly, an unintentional saying in the south turned out to be true. On the day of the first day of the new year, the snow started to grow heavy. In the afternoon of the first day of the new year, the snowflakes were as big as the palm of a baby. Looking at the momentum, it will take a while I can't stop.The sky and the earth suddenly turned into a vast expanse of whiteness, and thick snow accumulated on the ground. The dead branches of some old trees could not bear the weight of the snow and broke, and the roofs of some houses were crushed and collapsed.Because the weather had been very good years ago, the snow came so suddenly that traffic and people's livelihood were greatly affected. The South and Yicheng were very busy until the eighth day of the lunar new year.

Nanfang and Yicheng suddenly lost a lot of weight, their faces were tired, the corners of their mouth and eyes drooped, and the nasolabial folds on Yicheng's face became much deeper.Nanfang caught a cold and caught a cold, and gave another [-]%. Both of them had a fever, and lay side by side on the bed, touching each other's protruding thin ribs, feeling indescribably tired.That's it, a year has passed.

As soon as the beginning of spring passed, the city's unique cold weather appeared. A large pile of snow was piled up on the side of the road. It was frozen and dirty. so beautiful.

For Qiao Yicheng, this is really a bad spring.

For Qiao Simi, this is simply a black spring.

Qi Chenggang's old problem happened again.

This time, something went wrong!

The business of the small bookstore that Qi Chenggang and his friend run together has been pretty good. They can't make a lot of money, but they are not short of money. Simei is quite content.

Their daughter Qi Qiaoqiao also ran all over the place. The bigger the little girl is, the more beautiful she is. Grandpa and grandma love her so much that they don't know what to do. They wish they could have four eyes on her body. , Qiao Simei is a mother who is very leisurely, and Qi Chenggang has become the shopkeeper of the family. The most important thing every time I see my daughter is to pick up the little girl and throw it up, and then catch it, which makes the little girl angry. Shouting and laughing so loudly, even the saliva dripped on Dad's hair.

Qi Chenggang’s small bookstore invited a little girl from Anhui to look in the store more than half a year ago. The girl originally came to Nanjing to work as a babysitter, but within three months she changed three or four families, and she just said she was waiting for her. People's work is really not done by people, and I don't want to do it anymore. When I was looking for a job in the labor market, I ran into Qi Chenggang who was looking for a buddy there.

Qi Chenggang saw that the girl was eloquent, clean-born, and not too thin to move around, so he thought it was suitable, so he brought her back.

The girl's name is Meng Guizhi, and she is really smart. Since she came, the sales of the store have increased a little, and the store has been cleaned up by her.The kid was also quite clever. He said that he saw many students coming to the store, reading books instead of buying books, and had a lot of books curled up, so he suggested setting up one or two bookshelves to rent books for them to read. Don't charge too much money, it's an income.Qi Chenggang and his friends agreed to follow suit, and the effect was really good. Qi Chenggang was happy and said that he wanted to give Guizhi a raise in wages, but Guizhi said no, saying that if brother Qi really wanted to take care of her, it would be better to put the staff behind the shop. The palm-sized cubicle let her live in it, and she also saved a lot of money for renting a house.

There used to be a small compartment at the back of the small bookstore, which was used for stacking goods, but at some point Meng Guizhi cleared it out of a palm-sized space. Qi Chenggang went over to look at it and found a camp bed and a small bedside table.

Qi Chenggang still hesitated, saying that it's really unsafe for you to live here alone with a girl's family.

Meng Guizhi smiled all over his face, and said neatly: "It doesn't matter, Brother Cheng Gang. Anyway, the shop will be closed at night. I have been courageous since I was a child, so I am not afraid."

Meng Guizhi really lived in this palm-sized place, and after she settled down, she became more intimate with Qi Chenggang. Brother Cheng Gang, who was before and after, could not stop screaming, and a young and plump girl called Qi Chenggang loudly. Looking at his "brother", Qi Chenggang felt comfortable all over.There are still some faint shadows in his memory of the events of the past few years. When he is full of enthusiasm, the thin shadows float out, like ghosts, Qi Chenggang is not afraid, the ghosts are just ghosts on the screen, It can't hurt anyone, but it still has a somewhat scary effect.What trouble, Qi Chenggang thought.

Meng Guizhi didn't understand Qi Chenggang's thoughts, and she didn't know when she started smiling when she saw Qi Chenggang, and she couldn't control her own eyebrows.This man who pulled her out like a carrot from a bunch of country girls in the labor market was really handsome, a ray of sunshine shining in front of her eyes, she liked seeing him and smelling him, he was careless Yes, I often joke with her, ask for a little advantage, and look happy, like her classmates in middle school, those young and hot boys, but they know how to be gentle and considerate than those boys.He often helped her move the dead piles of books together, snatched the books from her hand, rubbed his fingers on the back of her hand, a kind of covert contact, quickly, like some kind of small The tentacles of the insects made people feel itchy inexplicably.He would buy her some snacks and slip them into her hands, as if to say, only yours, no one else's.That kind of childish intimacy made Meng Guizhi recall it for a long time alone in the dark night.

That day, it was raining all day, Qi Chenggang came over in the evening and said, close the store early tonight, there won’t be any business in this weather, after finishing talking, he stayed in the store and did not leave, and said with a smile that he wanted to see Guizhi’s "Little Boudoir".

Meng Guizhi was amused by his statement, and as if by accident, she slapped his bare arm with his sleeves rolled up, accusing him of talking nonsense.

But he still let him into the palm-sized space. Qi Chenggang's tall frame filled the small space to the brim. He laughed and said, "Oh, you actually stuffed a simple wardrobe in there." Here, I want to see what fashionable clothes are in there.

As he spoke, he opened the zipper on the front of the plastic wardrobe, and saw a pink bra hanging in front of him.Qi Chenggang gave a soft yuck, pulled the zipper up again, turned around, and collided with Meng Guizhi who came in, and the two of them were wrong, you let me, I let you, but just like the book said, "Huang Ying Grab the kite by the foot - both 'buckled'".

Seeing that he didn't move away, Qi Chenggang suddenly stretched out his finger and flicked Meng Guizhi's forehead, and Meng Guizhi blushed suddenly.

That night, Meng Guizhi felt that this small space was filled with the smell of Qi Chenggang's body, and this smell condensed into a solid body, lingering around Meng Guizhi.

After this day, Meng Guizhi looked at Qi Chenggang's eyes completely changed, and Qi Chenggang's body was covered with heat wave and fine hair.Qi Chenggang was not unhappy, but he was still a little anxious.Trouble, trouble, he thought gaily and uncomfortably.

(End of this chapter)