I live in the countryside

Chapter 2 Severe back disease, mean grandma (editing)
Qiao Zongming stopped his wife, "Ranran just came back, aren't you a joke?"

Chen Mei was so angry that her back hurt: "You just get used to her, you are the one who got used to her self-willedness!"

"Hey...you..." Qiao Zongming looked stupidly, looked at his wife and then at the door, heyed, went to open the door, pulled the box with one hand, and pulled his daughter's arm with the other, with a simple and honest smile: "Ranran , what are you doing standing there, come in, your mother is just kidding you."

Qiao Churan smiled helplessly: "Dad..."

Qiao's house was built in the 80s of the last century with adobe bricks and tiles. The front and back halls are connected with side rooms on both sides, and there is a large patio in the middle. At this moment, Chen Mei is sitting in the front hall, not saying a word, with a very ugly expression on her face.

Even Rhubarb and Wangcai obediently lay at the door of the front hall, not daring to say a word, but when Qiao Churan walked by, his tail swept her calf, as if to comfort her.

Qiao Zongming could only act as the peacemaker between the mother and daughter: "Okay, okay, my daughter is back now, what else can't I talk about, why should I be angry?"

Chen Mei made a big move just now, and now her back hurts badly. Thinking about her daughter resigning without saying a word, she felt angry. She glanced at Qiao Churan, turned her head away, and said, "You think I want to be angry, but you don't even look at your daughter, what kind of stupid things you did, and you have been reading for nothing for more than ten years!"

"Mom..." Qiao Churan said cautiously, "Don't be angry, I'm not a child, I know what I want to do."

"Can I not be angry, and come back to farm with me, not to mention your college diploma, and you don't even look at it. You have farmed with me several times since you were young, and you can't even tell the difference between rice and weeds." You still want to come back to be a farmer, but these days, it’s not easy to be a farmer, let me tell you.”

Qiao Churan: "..."

She couldn't refute this, and Chen Mei was right. She is not like other rural women who force their children to work in geography. Chen Mei focused on letting her study hard, and basically seldom asked her to work in the fields, so compared to other girls of the same age in the village, Qiao Churan was born with delicate skin and tender flesh, delicate and gentle, not at all like the girls who came out of the countryside.

"You are self-willed, you are used to it!" Chen Mei said, her face suddenly turned pale: "Ah, ah, my waist..."

She leaned on her waist, her face wrinkled into a ball.

Qiao Churan's face changed greatly in fright: "Mom!"

"Mom, how are you!"

Chen Mei couldn't take it anymore after a lot of tossing just now, and Qiao Zongming and Qiao Churan helped her to the bed.

This has been going on for a long time, Qiao Zongming neatly poured the medicinal wine and rubbed Chen Mei's waist.

Qiao Churan never knew that Chen Mei had a back problem. She only found out when Chen Mei made a slip of the tongue when she called last week. Later, she called her younger sister, Qiao Yuzhu, but she couldn't say anything perfunctorily.

After kneading for a while, Chen Mei got better and lay down on the bed to rest.

Qiao Churan followed Qiao Zongming out: "Dad, why didn't you tell me about my mother's waist? This situation looks so serious. How can it go on like this?"

Qiao Zongming sighed: "It's not like you don't know your mother's temper. Last time, if the pain didn't get worse, she wouldn't go to the hospital. Now that you're back, persuade her."

Qiao Churan pursed her lips, she came back for this matter.

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Chen Mei and his wife had three children together. Qiao Churan was the eldest daughter and had been working outside the home for the past two years. The second daughter, Qiao Yuzhu, failed to pass the high school entrance examination. After graduating from junior high school, she went to work in Guangzhou Province. The son lives in the city. The youngest son of the Qiao family is Qiao Yiyao, who is not yet 15 years old. He is currently in junior high school. He stays at the middle school in the town on weekdays and only returns home on weekends.

There is also Grandma Qiao in the Qiao family. Grandma Qiao has four sons and one daughter. Aunt Qiao married and went to the town. Uncle Qiao is teaching in the county. Uncle Qiao has gone out to work. She lived in the newly built two-story brick building next door to Qiao Churan's house. Uncle Qiao worked in the county, and Grandma Qiao lived with her second son, Qiao Zongming's family.

At the dining table, Chen Mei felt much better after resting for a while before the meal, and the family ate around the table.

She was originally a quick-tempered person, but after this incident just now, she spoke to Qiao Churan in a much better tone now.

What's more, if it's your own child, you can't really drive it out.

"You go home and stay for a few days to see that I have no problem with your dad. I won't say anything else. The Chinese New Year is only a month away. After the Chinese New Year, you go back to the city. Don't stay at home. I'm annoying .”

Qiao Churan lowered her head to pick up the rice, but didn't speak.

This is the meaning of refusal, Chen Mei stretched out her hand and patted her arm: "Did you hear that, anyway, you don't agree to your coming back."

"Let's talk about it when the time comes..." Qiao Churan responded wholeheartedly.

Grandma Qiao glanced at Chen Mei, and said displeasedly: "You are so strange. Ranran comes back as soon as she comes back. There is no home outside. When she comes back, there are many people who will help you to work in the field, not to mention how old she is. , and it's time to get married, it's just in time to come back, let her aunts see a few young people, get married early, now she's 24, she's an old girl, who can still fancy her?"

"Mom..." Chen Mei put down her chopsticks, not willing to listen to Grandma Qiao's words: "I support her to go to college just to prevent her from coming back to farm with me. You said that she has been studying for ten years in vain. Come back doing what?"

Grandma Qiao's tone was mean: "I told you back then, what's the use of studying for a girl? In the future, she's not going to get married. It's better to go out and work as soon as possible. Look at the village. Yanli, Qiurong, and Lihua didn't go to junior high school. After that, I went out to work, who came back to farm, and now they are all married, even married to people from the city, and gave subsidies to the family early, who is like Ranran, who has not married yet at 24?"

"That's not what I said. Others are others, Ranran is Ranran, and Ranran is my daughter. Can I stop her from reading? What's the point of being illiterate? You compare someone who can't read with Ranran. What kind of?"

"Oh, you mean, I'm not good to Ranran, just because you are her mother, I'm not her grandma?"

Chen Mei and Grandma Qiao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a bad relationship, and they often quarrel without saying a word.

Seeing that there was going to be another quarrel, Qiao Churan was about to persuade the quarrel, when a dog barked outside the courtyard, and then loud laughter came into Qiao's house.

The smell of gunpowder that had just risen was firmly suppressed, and Grandma Qiao was the first to react: "Oh, her aunt is back!"

　The content of this chapter has been revised, 2020, 11, 21
　　Do you know what kind of mud brick and tile houses in the southern countryside look like?
　　The big one is the style of the upper and lower halls, with a large patio in the middle, and the left and right sides of the upper and lower listening rooms are wing rooms, some of which are one room, and some are two rows of rooms. There is a space in the middle of the upper and lower wing rooms, which is usually used as a kitchen. of.

　　
　
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