stonecrandall Chapter 126, The Arrival of the Cousins
Chapter 126, The Arrival of the Cousins
"Ah Xing, you're here too. Isn't your school on holiday? Why did you come back so soon?" Qiao Mingshan saw Zhou Xing and came with him. They often meet and everyone is familiar with each other. It was very straightforward and nothing beat around the bush.
"I have nothing to do at home, so I came back earlier."
Zhou Xing handed over the bag in his hand and said, "We just came out of the back door of the school, and we brought some food for you cousins by the way, there are biscuits and tea eggs. You should eat something to pad your stomach first, and bring your cousin some food in the evening. You go and have a good meal."
"There's no need to be so polite, no need, we'll go to the store later, and we'll just fire up there at night." They are all grown-ups, so there's no need for a half-grown boy to invite them to dinner Ah, let's say they invited this classmate of their cousin to have dinner together.
Qiao Mingshan took the bag and saw a big bag of biscuits, at least a dozen or twenty, and so many tea eggs, he asked in surprise, "Have you eaten it? Why did you buy so many. "
"We've eaten it, it's for you cousins." Qiao Minglang replied.
The two followed into the room, and Zhou Xing saw two people sitting in the room.
Qiao Mingyong and Qiao Mingzhong were sitting in the room, both of them looked curiously at the big boy who came with his cousin.
"Come to introduce you to two people." Qiao Mingshan introduced to Zhou Xing: "This is my little brother Qiao Mingyong, and the one in the past was my cousin Qiao Mingzhong, the son of my uncle's family." He turned to his two younger brothers Introducing Zhou Xing, "This is Zhou Xing, a classmate with Minglang, you all know each other."
"Oh, so it's Minglang's classmate. Hello, I'm Qiao Mingyong, you can just call me Ayong." Qiao Mingyong stood up and greeted Zhou Xing, looking at his cousin's classmate curiously.
Qiao Mingzhong also stood up and greeted Zhou Xing, "I'm Qiao Mingzhong, just call me Ah Zhong."
"Zhou Xing." Zhou Xing greeted the two of them.
"Sit down, come on, Ah Xing, sit on this stool." He had a small place and didn't even have an extra stool. Qiao Mingshan moved the stool he was sitting on just now to Zhou Xing to sit on, and he himself sat down at the end of the bed.
It seems that I have to buy two stools when I go out later, otherwise there will be no place for two more people to sit.
"Thank you." Zhou Xing nodded with a smile, and sat down on the stool.
"Cousin, you have something to eat, don't worry about us. Have you packed your things?" Qiao Minglang sat down on the vacant seat on the bed and asked.
"There's nothing to clean up. I'll go out later to see if there are any beds for sale. I'll buy another bed." Qiao Mingshan opened the bag, took out the biscuits and tea eggs, handed them to his two younger brothers, and asked Qiao Minglang, " Do you eat?"
"We don't need it, just eat it." Qiao Minglang replied.
Qiao Mingshan took a sesame seed cake and sat down to eat it. While eating, he said, "Let's move that table to that position, and put the bed we bought next to the window. I have rented this house for half a year. Let’s just make do with living here for a few months, and then rent a bigger house when the time comes.”
He rents here for half a year, and he has mortgaged one month's rent. If he doesn't stay in advance, he may not get the money back.So they definitely want to stay here until the expiration date, and get the deposit back before checking out.
In this small room of less than 1.8 square meters, a few men with a height of [-] meters can be accommodated at once, and the space of the room suddenly seems very cramped.
Zhou Xing looked at Qiao Minglang's cousins, and found that he and his own cousins didn't look alike at all.His cousins are all tall, tall and strong, with tanned skin, and they look like people who often run outside.
And Qiao Minglang has a slender figure, gentle and fair appearance, sitting among several cousins, like a little sheep sitting in a wolf's den, he couldn't help but be amused.
Seeing Zhou Xing suddenly smiled, Qiao Minglang glanced at this person with some doubts in his eyes, what are you laughing at?
Facing Qiao Minglang's eyes looking at him, Zhou Xing had nothing on his face.
Qiao Minglang glanced at this person, then turned his head and continued talking to his cousin, "Cousin, please see if there are any vacant houses nearby, and rent another room." He thought the house was still too small, and the three of them lived together. There's not even room to turn around here.
"Okay, let's take a look." Qiao Mingshan didn't pay much attention to this matter, anyway, when the brothers were young, they all fell asleep in the same bed and grew up.It's just that after he got married, he slept in the same room with his wife, and never slept in the same bed with his brothers.
They went to work in the store during the day, only came back to sleep at night, and went out early the next morning.If you rent an extra house, you need to pay an extra monthly rent. If you can make do with it, you can make do with it, and you can save a lot of rent in half a year.
The three brothers ate up a large bag of sesame seed cakes and a few tea eggs, and everyone went out to the shop.
They went home for a few days, and the store was closed for a few days.
"It's here." Qiao Mingshan opened the door with the key, and the seats inside were stacked together. He took off the stacked chairs and put them on the ground, talking to the two brothers about the store, "I I usually come here at [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] in the morning to buy vegetables and prepare to open for business.”
Qiao Mingyong and Qiao Mingzhong followed into the store, both of them were here for the first time and were not very familiar with it.
"Brother, your shop is really well organized." Qiao Mingyong looked at this place and felt that it was much better than their stall in the small town.
"Haha, it's okay. I bought wall paint and painted the wall above, and cleaned it up." Qiao Mingshan talked about cleaning up the shop with his cousin Qiao Minglang when he first opened the shop.
Otherwise, the walls would be dark, and they wouldn't be as white and comfortable as they look now.
"So you were here to do this these two days?" Zhou Xing whispered in Qiao Minglang's ear. He still remembered the time when Qiao Minglang returned to the dormitory covered in dust and sweat. Where did I go and what did I bring back with a whole body of ashes, so I came here to paint the walls.
Qiao Minglang glanced at Zhou Xing, then moved a little further to the side, creating a little distance between the two of them.
Zhou Xing didn't see the other party's dislike for him at all, so he moved over and continued to ask, "Why didn't you ask me to come and help together? Don't you even consider me a friend?"
Fortunately, he also risked being criticized by the school every day to help this man climb over the school wall, but this man never treated him as a friend.
"No." Qiao Minglang raised his head and glared at the man. Seeing his aggrieved face, he couldn't help sighing in his heart. He didn't know why this man kept asking him this question, "I want If I didn’t treat you as a friend, I wouldn’t have brought you here today.”
Didn't I threaten you by myself, I won't help you over the wall if you don't bring me here, did you bring me here?Zhou Xing remembered very clearly that he was the one who blackmailed the other party, so the other party brought him here.
However, he was very happy to hear Qiao Minglang admit that he was his friend. The corners of his mouth curled up a little, and he smiled happily, looking a little silly.
"People will come to have breakfast in the morning, and there are more people who eat at noon. After two o'clock in the afternoon, there are not many people coming. Usually, they pack up their things and prepare to close the door by three or four o'clock in the afternoon." Qiao Mingshan is still talking with The two younger brothers talked about the situation in the store. Like the stall at home, they do business in the morning and noon, and they don't open in the afternoon and evening. "
"Before, I was too busy to do it alone. Mingming still had to go to class. I couldn't be here often, so I hired another aunt to wash the dishes and tidy up. She would go home after finishing her work in the afternoon, and she came over the next morning..."
He also thought before that if they had enough people, they could open a supper stall at night.Now that there are three of them, they can discuss this matter and ask people to do morning and noon business, and people to do afternoon and evening business, so that they can save an extra share of money.
"Oh." Qiao Mingyong nodded understandingly, similar to how they opened a stall at home, where they got up earlier in the morning and had to walk so far to the town.In this comparison, the road they have traveled here is still a bit shorter.
"So we are also busy at noon?"
"Well, yes." Qiao Mingshan turned over several overturned cauldrons, pointed to the door, and said, "There are now two tables outside the door, and there should be two more tables outside. There are four tables, and when the business is at its best, the store is basically full.”
Qiao Mingyong looked outside, "Then you are not too busy to come here alone. We have three or four people working at the stalls in the town, and sometimes we are not too busy to come here, let alone two of you here. Xiao Lang still has to go to class, not here every day."
"Yeah, no, we just want you to come here together." Qiao Mingshan said with a smile.
"Are you still making your own tofu here?" Qiao Mingzhong asked.
"I haven't done it. I can't spare so many people to make it. The tofu is bought outside. I haven't made fish balls for the time being." Qiao Mingshan wants to make tofu and meatballs by himself. He thinks that the tofu bought outside Not as tasty as what they make themselves.
But tofu is a lot of work, and the price of buying it outside is also cheap, and it can be bought back with a little bit.But it would be better if they did it by themselves.
Several people talked about the store for a while.
"Where shall we go for dinner at night? I invite you to eat outside. How about the one we ate last time? Or change to another one. Do you eat spicy food? I know a Hunan restaurant is also good." Zhou Xing asked. He wasn't very interested in what was being discussed over there, he was more interested in what to eat for dinner, and he leaned close to Qiao Minglang's ear and bit his ear.