stonecrandall Chapter 123, Mid-Autumn Festival
Chapter 123, Mid-Autumn Festival
Chapter 123, Mid-Autumn Festival
"Brother, don't worry, I will." Qiao Mingcheng nodded, it wasn't the first time he was woken up by fright.It's just that it was only him and his younger brother before, and he wanted to protect his younger brother, even if he was afraid in his heart, he still had to force himself to be calm.
"I told my grandpa today, and asked him to help us ask the land next door to the uncle's house to see if others can sell it to us. If others are willing to sell it, we can buy the land and go to the uncle's side to build two houses. , when you live there, you won't live here." Qiao Minglang told his younger brother about this, he was not at home during this time, and he didn't know that there would be these voices at night.
"Okay." Qiao Mingcheng leaned against his elder brother, the fear in his heart gradually disappeared, and then he fell asleep leaning against his elder brother.
Seeing that the two children beside him were asleep, Qiao Minglang was a little unable to fall asleep while lying on the bed.
***
The next day is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
On this day, Uncle Qiao and Uncle Qiao's businesses stopped trading, and no one went out to sell anything. Everyone was preparing for the holiday.In previous years, several families celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in their own homes. This year, Aunt Qiao called the other two families to come over to celebrate the festival with them, and everyone had dinner together.
Before noon, the kitchen was busy.
The fire in the stove is burning, and the dishes in the pot are being fried. Mrs. Qiao is in charge of cooking, and everyone outside can hear her talking in a loud voice, "My fried dishes are not delicious, so don't dislike me Fried vegetables."
"Sister-in-law, if the dishes you cook are not delicious, those of us can't eat the dishes you cook." Huang Yan laughed.
It was rare for the sisters-in-law to get together. On weekdays, everyone was busy with their own affairs. Even if they met, they would say hello in a hurry and then go back to their respective homes.It is relatively rare for everyone to gather together to cook a meal like today.
Everyone unanimously pushed the sister-in-law to take the spoon, and they all recognized Mrs. Qiao's craftsmanship.
"Haha, look at what you are talking about." Aunt Qiao laughed loudly.
In the morning, their aunt came over and brought two big fish to see the two old people, and they left in a hurry.
The sister-in-law in the town came yesterday, brought some things, and went back after sitting for a while.Since her son stopped working at a relative's house, Aunt Qiao no longer felt that her family owed favors to her relative's family, especially after knowing how that relative in the town treated her son, Aunt Qiao didn't like this relative any more. , even with the enthusiasm for this sister-in-law.
Since others look down on them, there is no need for them to show their hot faces to other people's cold buttocks. Instead, it seems that they have lost their worth.
A group of women are working in the kitchen, and the men outside are sitting together smoking and talking.
"Oh, you said how many of our brothers, in a blink of an eye, all of them have white hair." Uncle Qiao sat with the two brothers, looking at the white hair on the brothers' heads, and the hair on the top of his head was even whiter. Most of them are white.
Half a year of life, in a hurry, in the blink of an eye, decades have passed.
"That's right, these days go by so fast, I haven't figured out what's going on, it's been a few decades." Qiao Chunfu looked at the two grandsons of the eldest brother's family, and said enviously: "Brother and uncle, your grandsons will all run away, and my grandsons don't even know where they are."
"Haha, Ming Jing and Ming Zhong are both so old, if Ming'er gets married, he will give birth to a bunch of fat grandchildren for you." Uncle Qiao laughed.
Uncle Qiao's temperament is a bit dull, he doesn't talk much, just sits there and listens to his brothers.
The brothers usually don't have much time to get together, so they finally got together and talked around the old man.
"Wow, beautiful!"
Qiao Minglang was playing shuttlecock with his cousin and a group of younger brothers and sisters. This shuttlecock was made temporarily by his cousin, but it was not worse than the one bought outside.Usually in school, he was dragged to play a few times. He had kicked shuttlecock before, so he knew how to play with it.
A group of cousins kicked shuttlecock together, you kicked over, I kicked over.
There are also a few little ones joining in the fun, and the few little ones are not good at technique, and the shuttlecock flew past them, and they couldn't catch it.
***
It was a festival day, Wu San was ordered to drive to pick up their young master and go back to Zhou's main house early.
As soon as Zhou Xing walked into the door, a ball rolled to his feet.
Zhou Rui, who was chasing the ball, faced his elder brother face to face. The two brothers looked at each other without speaking.Zhou Xing glanced at Zhou Rui, snorted, and went inside.Zhou Rui, who was standing behind, picked up his ball and looked at the back of his elder brother with no expression on his face.
"Ah Xing, it's really great that you're back. I was afraid you wouldn't want to come back." The beautiful woman who came out to look for her son saw her stepson come back. Said with a gentle and kind face.
Today, the woman wore a long white dress, her long hair was rolled up, and a little makeup was applied on her face. She looked ten years younger.
Xu Haimei herself is a very beautiful woman, even though the child is already this old, this woman just looks more charming.Otherwise, she would not have used this beauty to seduce her current husband to cheat in marriage, and even divorced his wife for the sake of their mother and son.
Today, she wears a ruby necklace around her neck, which is even more noticeable at a glance.
"This is my home, I have to ask you what you mean when I come back?" What Zhou Xing hates the most is that women pretend to be gentle all day long, and it's fine to deceive his brainless old man like this. It is impossible to get a good face.
His eyes fell on the ruby necklace on the woman's neck, his face sank, he stretched out his hand to the woman, and said in a cold voice, "Take off the necklace."
"Your father gave it to me." The smile on Xu Haimei's face disappeared immediately, and she reached out to touch the gemstone necklace around her neck. This is something her husband agreed to wear, so why should she take it off.
"If it's not yours, then it's not yours. Do you feel that all these things will be yours if you forcefully occupy other people's positions and snatch other people's things?" Zhou Xing smiled coldly, approached She whispered into the woman's ear and said, "If that man abandons his wife and son for you, he can abandon you for another younger and more beautiful woman."
"Don't believe me? Let's wait and see."
Xu Haimei gritted her teeth, reached out and took off the necklace around her neck, put it in Zhou Xing's hand, took a deep breath, and told him, "It is I, Xu Haimei, who is sitting in Mrs. Zhou's position, and this is enough gone."
Zhou Xing withdrew his hand, and as soon as he turned the necklace in his hand, it fell into the pocket of his clothes, leaving Xu Haimei with a cold smile, and went upstairs.Standing in front of the study door, he reached out and knocked on the door.
"Knock Knock-"
"Come in."
Hearing the voice from inside, Zhou Xing pushed open the door and went inside.
Xu Haimei, who was standing downstairs, looked at her stepson's back, and a sinister light flashed in her eyes.
Zhou Rui, who was holding the ball, stood in front of his mother, looked at his mother with a sullen face, who was no longer the usual gentle mother, and called out "Mom" in fear.
"Ruirui." Xu Haimei came back to her senses, with a smile on her face again, as if she was not the one just now, she smiled and said to her son, "Does Ruirui still want to play ball? Let's go out and play."
"No, I want to play indoors." Zhou Rui refused to go out to play, but wanted to play football indoors.
Looking at the many antique ornaments placed in the house, any broken one would give her a headache, so Xu Haimei chased after her son and asked him to go outside to play.But the more his mother asked him to play outside, the more Zhou Rui wanted to play inside.
"Bam—"
A vase fell from the shelf and almost missed Zhou Rui.
The vase that fell to the ground was torn apart, and the ground was full of debris.Zhou Rui was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his palm just pressed on a piece of broken porcelain, and bright red blood flowed out from the wound where the piece of porcelain was pierced.
"Ruirui!" Xu Haimei's eyes widened, and she shouted with a look of horror.
"Wow..." Seeing the blood flowing from his hands, Zhou Rui burst into tears in fright.
"Come on, come on..." Xu Haimei shouted while hugging her son.The mother and child hugged each other, one was crying, the other was shouting, and the whole house was filled with their voices.
"Madam, please calm down first, you have frightened the young master." Seeing that the young master was bleeding, the servants hurriedly advised their wife to calm down, "Let's send the young master to the hospital as soon as possible."
"What happened down there?"
The old man who was talking to his grandson in the study frowned when he heard the voice outside.
"Grandpa, you are here, I'll take a look." Zhou Xing got up, opened the door of the study, went outside, went downstairs, and saw Xu Haimei, mother and son.Noticed the football on the ground, the broken vase, and Zhou Rui's punctured hand, what did you say?
It is still forgivable for the evil done by the sky; it is impossible to live for the evil done by oneself?
If the mother and son hadn't been together, how could they have made such a fuss.
"Ask the driver to take them to the hospital." Zhou Xing ordered the servant to call the driver over and drive the mother and child to the hospital, and then he went upstairs.
The driver at home quickly drove over, Xu Haimei carried her son into the car, and the mother and son went to the hospital.
When Zhou Jianguo came back from the outside, he didn't see his wife coming out to greet him. Instead, he saw the servants cleaning the living room, saw the debris on the floor, and saw that a vase was missing from the shelf. His voice was filled with suppressed anger. , asked loudly: "Where is the vase above?"
"Old, master... yes, it was the young master who broke the thing." The servants were startled, and they all lowered their heads in response.
The youngest son broke it?Zhou Jianguo looked around the room, but he didn't see the mother and son, and asked again, "Where are they going?"
"It was the young master who accidentally let the fragments pierce his hand, Madam took the young master to the hospital." The servant said.
Hearing that his youngest son had been stabbed, his wife and son went to the hospital, Zhou Jianguo asked which hospital it was, and hurried out again, asking the driver who came back to take him to the hospital.