stonecrandall Chapter 188, New Year 2
Chapter 188, New Year 2
The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when a married girl returns to her natal home.
On the morning of this day, many married girls in their village brought their husbands and children back to their natal homes with their big and small bags.
"Oh, why hasn't this man come back yet?"
This morning, Mrs. Qiao ran back to the intersection to see how many times, waiting for her girls to come back.
Mrs. Qiao gave birth to two daughters, and both daughters are married and have children. Usually, everyone is busy and has no time to come back, but on this day every year, the daughters will definitely come back.
"Yeah, I've come back at this time in previous years, why haven't I seen anyone this year?" Qiao Erniang followed behind Aunt Qiao, and the two mothers were looking forward to their daughter's return.
Qiao Erniang gave birth to three daughters, and all three daughters were married. They went to other people's homes to spend the Chinese New Year, and they would only return to their mother's home on the second day of the new year.
She also wanted to have another son back then, but she gave birth to three or four girls in a row. At that time, the family was poor and could not afford so many children, so they sent away one daughter to be raised by another family.Now thinking of the daughter who was sent away, Aunt Qiao felt sorry for that daughter in her heart.
At that time, people were poor and life was hard. Women had big bellies and had to go to work in the fields when they were about to give birth. It was at that time that she gave birth to a child and hurt her roots, and she was never able to conceive a child again.
The couple worked hard to raise their daughters, and never thought about having a son. Later, the daughters were all married, and they were the only ones at home.
The child is always the mother's heart, and the mother's heart is always thinking of the girl she married.It's just that the daughter married to someone else's family and became a member of someone else's family. When she wanted to see her daughter, it was no longer like the days when her daughter was still at home. She could see her whenever she wanted to, but she couldn't see her until the girls came back.
"Here we come." Seeing two familiar figures walking towards them, Aunt Qiao shouted happily.
"mom--"
The two sisters saw their mother standing at the intersection waiting for them to come back from a distance, and shouted loudly.
"Hey, I'm back, why are you two sisters bumping into each other?"
"The ones who met at the entrance of the village came in together."
"Oh, let's go, let's go home first, sit down and drink some water."
When the mother and daughter met, the two women took the hands of their daughter and grandson, followed by the son-in-law, and led them back home.
The people behind came back one by one until almost noon, and the married girls all returned to their natal homes.
On this day, several of their families gathered at the aunt's house to cook. A group of women were cooking and cooking in the kitchen. After a while, several tables of meals came out, and everyone sat together for lunch.
After dinner, the men sat outside the living room drinking tea and chatting, and the women went inside to talk behind closed doors.
The children were running around and playing outside the yard, and the crying of the children was heard from time to time outside, and one could tell that there was another reason for the fight.
Usually, the cousins didn't bring their children back, so there are a group of children in their family, and now there are a few more, there are more than a dozen children, and the yard is full of children's noise.When so many children play together, they start to fight when there is a disagreement, and cry when they are hurt. One can imagine how lively this voice is.
"I'll go take a look outside." Hearing the crying outside, Qiao Minglang got up and went outside, and saw a boy fell to the ground crying, he remembered that this was the child of his fifth cousin's family.
It was the kid from his big cousin's family who pushed people down. This kid was also very domineering, and he usually fought with their twins a lot.
"!" After seeing this little uncle's eyes, Qiao Conglin just stood there, not daring to move.
Qiao Xiaolan heard her child's crying in the house, and when she came out of the house, she saw the little cousin helping her up her son, and started to discipline her child regardless of whether her child was right or wrong. , "What's the matter, I've been crying all day long."
"Sister Wu, it's not your child's fault, it's the jungle that pushed people down." Seeing that the cousin scolded her own child without any explanation, Qiao Minglang grabbed the boy from his brother's family in the lobby, and pushed the culprit out.
The culprit who was pushed out had a frightened expression on his face.
"It's okay, I just fell such a small fall. It doesn't break the skin or bleed. Let's go play and play." Seeing that it was the boy of his elder brother who did it, Qiao Xiaolan taught the boys a few words, which was not good. Teach other people's children, let the two children play with theirs, and said: "Don't do it anymore, anyone who dares to do it will be punished."
"understood."
After receiving the pardon, the two boys ran away quickly.
They were still fighting just now, but now they are standing on the same front, holding hands and running away, and they got together again after a while.
Only then did Qiao Xiaolan turn her head to look at this little cousin. She heard her mother talk about this little cousin in the room just now, and she knew that this little cousin was so capable.
She hasn't seen this little cousin for nearly a year. Qiao Xiaolan found that this cousin has grown so tall. The woman smiled and said: "Mingming has grown so tall. I saw you last time when I was a child. Now They're all adults."
"I heard that you are studying in the city. Are your grades good?"
"It's okay." Before that, Qiao Minglang had only met two cousins, and it was only today that he met all of these cousins and their wives.
This fifth cousin, Qiao Xiaolan, looks like his aunt. She is tall and strong, with a smile on her face. She is a cheerful and smiling woman.She was married to Waicun, and her husband, Xu Ping, seemed to be an honest and dull man. The couple had a two-year-old child, a little boy.
There are quite a few children in their family, and the cousins are much older than him, and they got married early, and the impression of the cousins is not deep in the boy's memory.
However, after seeing a few cousins today, Qiao Minglang had a good impression of the cousins and their husbands.
Qiao Xiaolan talked to her little cousin outside, and seeing that there was nothing going on outside, she went inside.
Seeing that his cousin had left, Qiao Minglang was still standing behind, looking at the children running wildly in the yard, including their twins. He was afraid that some children would start fighting, so he simply stayed outside and stared at the group. Small, lest they make a little noise from time to time.
Sure enough, with him sitting here, the group of boys had to take a look at him before making a move, and they didn't dare to start a fight.
Qiao Mingshan came out of the house and saw his little cousin sitting outside, he asked with a smile, "Looking at them here?"
"No, I just want to sit here." Qiao Minglang didn't know a few children from his cousin's family very well, and he hadn't even seen some of them.Seeing the big hall brother standing beside him, he pointed to a few unknown children and asked, only to find out which family these children belonged to.
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After two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the girls who came back to their mother's house were ready to take their children and husbands home.
"Are you going back? I'll drive you back." Qiao Chunfu was the only one who could drive the tricycle at home. Seeing that the married nieces who came back were going home, I knew they were walking. Qiao Chunfu said he would drive everyone back.
"It's too troublesome. We can just walk back, so we don't need uncle Wu to send them off." Several girls said that they don't need uncle to send them off.
"No trouble, no trouble, there are so many of you, I can do it twice, it's faster than you walking back by yourself. If you want to hurry back, come out first, and if you don't hurry back, just sit for a while .” Qiao Chunfu let the one who came home come out first, and he took the key to drive the tricycle out.
"Your fifth uncle will send you off, so you don't have to have a few children to go with you." Seeing that the uncle wants to drive his daughter and grandchildren back in a tricycle, he doesn't need his daughter and grandchildren to travel such a long way back, Aunt Qiao asked which girl was going first, and took a packed gift for the girls to take home.
"There are too many things, so there is no need for so many." Seeing that the bag was full of things, more than what they brought back to their mother's house, the girls pushed it.
"Hold it, hold it, it's the Chinese New Year, how can I let you go back empty-handed." Aunt Qiao couldn't help but put things into the hands of several girls, not only her own girls, but even the second uncle's. There were several girls, and they even sealed a red envelope for each of the group of grandchildren.
Qiao Erniang also prepared gifts for her daughter and several nieces to go home.
The girls gave them so many things after they knew that their natal family was doing well, and they accepted it.
"Mom, let's go."
"Well, go back, come back when you have time."
There is always a bit of reluctance to part, seeing the girls leave, Aunt Qiao and Erniang Qiao feel reluctance in their hearts.
It was not easy to come back to my mother's house, and I had to leave after half a day, and the girls were also reluctant to part with A Niang.It's just that there are still children and husbands over there, and there are still parents-in-law at home. After they came back for a short trip, they had to go back to their husband's house again.
Qiao Chunfu made two trips before sending these nieces and nieces and sons-in-law home.
In the afternoon, all the girls from her natal family had left, and Third Aunt Qiao saw off her own girls, then hurried back to her natal home, brought her things back, sat for a while, and then went home with her husband.
Miss Qiao, who married to the town, did not come back to her natal family, but no one asked about her that day.
The red sun hung in the west, and the girls who rushed back to their natal homes early in the morning, carrying big and small bags of things in their hands, followed their husbands and children back to their husbands' homes.
The daughter and grandchildren all went back, and the house suddenly became quiet.
While clearing the table, Aunt Qiao secretly wiped the corners of her eyes with her hand. In the end, she was really a girl who was reluctant to go to someone else's house...