The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

Chapter 190, 3 more

"Grandpa, I'll do this." Seeing that grandpa was going to get a water bottle to pour water for them, Qiao Minglang reached out to take it, asked the little ones behind if they wanted water, found a bowl and poured them a few bowls of water.

"I'm back." Zhang Mingde said when his grandson asked about the eldest son and the others: "Yesterday your uncle and aunt took the children to their grandfather's house. The road over there is longer, and it may not be until tomorrow." return."

Qiao Minglang didn't know where his eldest aunt was from, but hearing his grandfather say that the road was far away, it might not be so easy to go back and forth, and it's normal to go back for two days.

"Your uncle is still sleeping in the room, I'll go and wake him up." Thinking of his youngest son who was still sleeping in the room, Zhang Mingde was about to go and wake him up.

The grandchildren are back, but the youngest son has not woken up yet, it's really unseemly!

Seeing that grandpa was about to wake up his uncle, Qiao Minglang hurriedly called to his grandfather, "Don't shout, if uncle wants to sleep, let him sleep for a while. We didn't go back so soon, and uncle will get up later."

They went out early today, and came here in a tricycle. They didn't spend much time on the road, and it was only between seven and eight o'clock in the morning.

But at this time Zhang Huaiyuan, who was sleeping in the room, heard the voice outside, got up, found the clothes beside the bed, put on them, opened the door of the room, came out from inside, and called out Dad.

Seeing his nephews coming, he said hello, "Minglang, you're here so early."

In fact, he woke up very early, but it was cold and he stayed in bed for a while without getting up.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Qiao Minglang turned his head and saw his uncle appearing at the door, calling out "Uncle."

The other children hadn't seen their little uncle very much, so they still felt very strange to this little uncle.But when they heard their elder brother calling uncle, they all followed him obediently, looking at this uncle with some curiosity in their eyes.

Only the twins are still young and refuse to call out to strangers.

"Sit down, I'll wash my face first."

Seeing his father staring at him unkindly, remembering the days when he didn't study hard when he was young and was beaten by his old father with a ruler, Zhang Huaiyuan still feels pain in his fingers, so he hurried to get a cup, a toothbrush and a towel. Brush your teeth and wash your face outside.

Seeing the slovenly appearance of his youngest son who just woke up, and thinking of his grandchildren coming today, Zhang Mingde endured so much that he did not open his mouth to discipline his youngest son.Turning around to ask a few grandchildren, "Have you eaten yet? Grandpa just cooked, do you want to eat some together?"

"We came here after eating, no need. Grandpa, you haven't eaten breakfast yet, I'll bring it over for you." Qiao Minglang stood up, knowing that the kitchen of grandpa's house was outside, so he was going to help grandpa make breakfast in the kitchen Come in the house.

"No, no, you sit, and I'll get it myself. You can eat some too. I don't know if you come over today, and I'll go to the kitchen to get more food." Zhang Mingde stopped his grandson, because he didn't know when the grandsons would come. , he didn't cook so much for breakfast.

"We only came here after eating at home. Grandpa really doesn't need to do it. We can make lunch at noon."

Seeing that the old man was stubborn and wanted to bring food by himself, Qiao Minglang had no choice but to follow behind and help bring the food over.

In the morning, after steaming steamed buns and cooking porridge, and bringing them to the table, Zhang Mingde grabbed a few steamed buns and gave them to his grandchildren, "Eat something to fill your belly, and grandpa will cook other delicious food for you at noon."

Seeing the little ones holding the steamed buns given by grandpa, looking at him not knowing what to do, Qiao Minglang nodded and told them to sit down and eat with grandpa, "Eat, we will have dinner at grandpa's house at noon, and we will have dinner later." go back."

Several children sat down around the table and ate the steamed buns given by their grandfather.

Children of this age just don’t know how to be hungry or full. In the past, the family was poor, and they were always hungry and had nothing to eat.Now when they see food, no matter whether they are hungry or full, they want to eat whatever they see.

"Is this the seat reserved for me?" Zhang Huaiyuan came in from the outside and saw that there was an empty seat reserved, so he knew it was for him.

He sat down in the vacant seat, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and ate breakfast.

During the meal, several nieces and nieces secretly glanced at him from time to time. Whenever he looked over, the children quickly turned their heads and pretended not to be looking at him. Zhang Huaiyuan felt like laughing.

He has not been at home very much these years, and it is not surprising that several children are strange to him.

It's just that in the past two years when I knew my sister was gone, the lives of my nephews and nieces without their mothers would be miserable.It's just that he was too busy outside, and he didn't have much time to come back to see his old father and these sister's children. Zhang Huaiyuan still felt a little sorry for his deceased sister, and he also felt a little guilty for these nephews. owe.

After breakfast, they cleared the table, Zhang Huaiyuan went to make a pot of tea and poured a cup of hot tea for the old father and nephews, "Have a cup of tea."

"Thank you, uncle." Qiao Minglang took the hot tea and thanked him.

"Come here and hug one." Seeing the two little guys still staring at him, Zhang Huaiyuan reached out and grabbed one into his arms to hold, then picked up a candy from the table and stuffed it into the child's hand, " Come, eat some candy. Let's chat, don't you know my uncle?"

"Brother, brother—"

Suddenly being taken away by his uncle, Qiao Xiaobao was startled, and was about to struggle to go back to his brother.

Seeing that her twin brother was taken away, little sister Qiao quickly huddled in her sister's arms, fearing that she would be taken away too.

"Don't be afraid, he is our uncle." Qiao Minglang comforted the child and asked the child to give the uncle a hug.

"Yeah, I'm uncle, I'll peel a piece of candy for you to eat, next time uncle comes back, you have to remember him?" Zhang Huaiyuan peeled a piece of candy and put it into the nephew's mouth, and the nephew stopped struggling. let him hold.

Zhang Mingde glanced at his son who was making his little grandson scream, that look seemed to say: "Restrain me a bit."

"..." Zhang Huaiyuan carefully coaxed his little nephew after receiving the loving eyes from his old father.

"You are in the city now, and you are running some business." The last time his grandson came back to visit him, Zhang Mingde heard his grandson mention this matter a few times, but his grandson hadn't been back for so long, and he didn't know how they were in the city. How the store is doing, he asked: "How is the business?"

"is acceptable."

If it was to outsiders, Qiao Minglang would not mention their presence outside.But this is their grandfather, an elder he trusted. He still told the old man about the situation in the store, so that the old man knew that they had a good life outside, so that the old man would not always worry about him.

"Oh, that's good too." Knowing that the business in the store is good, Zhang Mingde nodded, and asked about his grandson's study at school.

Zhang Huaiyuan, who was sitting by the side, was playing with the children, and soon became acquainted with the nephews and nieces.The two twins are still young, and a candy can coax them well, not to mention that he stuffed a lot of candies in the pockets of the two children.

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At noon they had lunch at their grandfather's house, and not long after they heard the sound of a car outside, they knew that Uncle Wu had come to pick them up.

When Qiao Chunfu arrived at the door of Mr. Zhang's house, he still came in to say hello to Mr. Zhang.Seeing someone coming to pick up the grandchildren, Zhang Mingde told the children to go back, "Go back, when you have time, grandpa will visit you."

"Xiaoyuan, I remember there are a lot of bacon and fruits in it, you take some out and give them back to Minglang to eat."

Hearing this, Zhang Huaiyuan went into a room next to the sundries, which contained gifts from others during the Chinese New Year, and he also brought a lot of things home from outside, "There are two bags of bacon here, and a few more. Cans of tea that I brought back, you take them back to drink."

"No need, there is no shortage of food at home." Qiao Minglang pushed and said.

"There are still a lot at home. If you don't take them back, Dad will have to bring them to you later. Dad, I'll take them out." Zhang Huaiyuan took some nephews and nieces out with the things, and helped to hug a few. The child goes up.

Turning around and seeing the elder nephew standing behind, he took out a small package from his pocket, stuffed it into the elder nephew's hand, and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow, here is some money, you can use it for studying. There is also the address and number I wrote to you, if you have anything to do in the future, you can call this number, or send me a message, and I will call you back when I see it."

"Uncle, I really don't need this." Qiao Minglang wanted to return the money to his uncle. Although he didn't have much money, it was enough.

"Here, it's not a lot of money." Seeing that his nephew was going to push it back to him, Zhang Huaiyuan took a step back, waved his hand at the young man, and said, "I'll go to your school to see you when my uncle comes back next time."

Looking up, he saw his younger brothers and sisters lying on the car waiting for him, holding small packages in their hands. He knew that there were at least several thousand yuan in them.Although he didn't know what his uncle was doing outside, he guessed that his uncle might not have made much money, so Qiao Minglang wanted to return the money.

"Go up, you have to study hard, and when my uncle comes back next time, you have to remember him?" Zhang Huaiyuan waved to the children in the car.

"I know, goodbye, uncle."

Several children played with their uncle all morning, and they all knew that this was their uncle and their relatives.

Seeing that his uncle refused to take it back, Qiao Minglang had no choice but to turn around and get in the car. Seeing his grandfather standing in the yard looking at them, he waved to his grandfather and said to his uncle again, "We're going back, goodbye, uncle."

"Goodbye." Zhang Huaiyuan waved to the children.

Seeing the tricycle and nephews leave, Zhang Huaiyuan went into the courtyard and saw his father standing at the door, helping the old man into the house.

The next day, when his eldest brother and sister-in-law came to mess around, Zhang Huaiyuan left home with a small package and headed for the city.

And there, there was another man waiting for him...