Pastoral little master

Chapter 184 Xu's Worries (Third Watch)

"Duo, come quickly and meet your Aunt Guirong." Seeing Qiduo coming back, Mrs. Xu smiled and waved.

The eyes were terribly red and swollen.

Although Mrs. Kang's eyes were a little red, they were not as swollen as hers.

Qi Duo became suspicious.
Mrs. Kang only cares about her old relationship with Mrs. Xu, but she doesn't mention that she met Qiduo before.

So Xu regarded it as the first meeting between the two of them.

Qiduo walked over with a smile, and said softly, "Hello, Aunt Gui Rong."

Mrs. Kang took her little hand affectionately, looked it up and down carefully, and smiled, "Girl, you don't look very similar to your mother, otherwise, I should have recognized it at Mrs. Shen's house before. If I hadn't seen you Your eldest sister looks very much like your mother, I left in a hurry, and really missed the chance to meet your mother."

"Why, have you seen it?" Xu asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Qi Duo nodded with a smile.

Talk about the encounter between the Shen family and Mrs. Kang.

"If Qiyatou hadn't mentioned the lotus root at Mrs. Shen's house, we don't know when we would meet each other." Mrs. Kang said with emotion.

This is half true.

The main purpose of her coming to Qiduo's house is to see Erxia.

But without the excuse of buying lotus root, Zheng Wanru might not agree to bring her here.

If you don't come, how can you meet Mrs. Xu?
Xu said with a smile that this is all fate destined by heaven.
However, neither Qiduo nor Mrs. Xu thought that Mrs. Kang would come to the house because of the pair of shoes Erxia made.
Qiduo smiled and asked Mrs. Xu, "Mother, where does Aunt Guirong live now? You need to move around more in the future."

The old lady fell out with her grandfather's family and had no relatives to leave. I don't feel anything on weekdays. Especially during the holidays, there are relatives walking around in every family. Only the old mother has no mother to leave. The feeling is really uncomfortable. .

Therefore, she sincerely hopes that the old lady can have some friends and can walk around with each other.
Mrs. Kang smiled and replied, "In the future, of course we will have to move around. Our family is now in the county, running a grain and oil store. I heard that you will send lotus roots to the county in the future. When the time comes, let mother bring your whole family to our home as a guest."

"Okay, I will definitely bother you." Qi Duo responded with a smile.

"You child, I haven't responded yet, but you should hurry up. The family is so busy right now, how can we get away, and we will go there later when we are free." Xu smiled and annoyed.
Mrs. Kang immediately glared at Mrs. Xu feigning anger, "Look at what you said, what is the relationship between us, why can't we go. Things at home are busy every day, when will I have free time? It's better to be cheerful."
"Hey, it's up to mother to decide everything." Qiduo grinned happily and said to Madam Kang, "Aunt Rong, sit down first, I'll cook."
What kind of relationship between Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Kang, Qi Duo is still unclear, and it is not easy to persuade Mrs. Xu.

After Qiduo left, Mrs. Kang said with a smile, "Mingxiu, among the three girls I found out, Qi is the most lively girl, who loves to talk and laugh. Mrs. Shen seems to like it very much."

"Sister Guirong, your eyes are hot. You are right. Duo has a carefree temper, which is a bit like a boy. It doesn't matter if you are young now. I am worried that when I grow up, I will still be so careless. Temperament, what should I do?

However, it's a strange thing to say, Mrs. Shen likes her very much, she is really closer to her than her own daughter, the food is delicious, she will never lose her share, and she always treats her like her own child , This is also a good fortune for this girl. " Xu replied.

There is pride in being a mother in her tone, but there is also some hidden worry.

This worry is not completely unreasonable, Qiduo has many advantages of a man, and it is first-rate to give advice, but as a woman, the red needlework that a woman should know is also unreasonable. What should I do when we talk about marriage in the future? Woolen cloth?

Mrs. Kang comforted, "You are thinking too much. Mrs. Shen said that Qiyue will be able to do great things in the future. If she has such a petty temper, how can she do great things."

Xu smiled and said nothing.

Deep down in her heart, she didn't want Qiduo to do big things, and hoped that Qiduo, like Liuju and Erxia, could do housework, make shoes, sew clothes, embroider and just do it.
But Qiduo earned the family's life today, and she has to plan for the future. Without her, everything would be messed up.

Thinking of this, she felt guilty, it was useless to be a parent, let the children show up in public, and worked hard to host the middle school.

When it was almost time to eat, Tan Dejin came back from Patriarch Tan.

He greeted Mrs. Kang first, and exchanged a few polite greetings.

Then he called Qiduo to Tan Debao and told her that the matter had been implemented, and someone in the village had already started to go to relatives' homes to implement it.

Every household has straw, and every family can take some out and sell it to the family for a penny and a hundred catties.

This price is of course very cheap, the price is what the patriarch said, he said that Qiduo's family is very kind, whether it is digging lotus root, or the wages set this time, are far higher than other families, when Qiduo needs help now, let Everyone helps, the straw is like collecting some money for a fee.

Almost every family in the village digs lotus roots at Qiduo's house. Although it is tiring, the wages are really enviable, and every now and then, Qiduo will ask everyone to bring a catty or two of lotus root back to taste.

Thanks to the favor of the Qiduo family, everyone naturally accepted the opinion of the patriarch willingly. Anyway, each family only sells five hundred catties, so there is not much to lose.

Tan Debao also came back, and almost completed the construction of the house. After lunch, he sent a few people to dig the foundation and piling, and then he prepared to go up the mountain to cut trees and bamboo.

"Father, who is that Aunt Gui Rong?" Qiduo asked Tan Dejin in a low voice after finishing the business.

Tan Dejin shook his head, "I don't know him either, maybe it's a friend your mother knew before."

Qiduo nodded, that's the only possibility.

Mrs. Kang was surprised when she saw that Tan Dejin took Qiduo outside to talk about things as soon as Tan Dejin came back. This child's status in the family is not ordinary.

She didn't know whether it was Tan Dejin who loved Qiduo too much, or whether Qiduo really had the ability to make her father treat her like an adult.
During the meal, Zheng Wanru was called.

There is meat and vegetables at noon, and after being cooked by Qiduo's skillful hands, Mrs. Kang is naturally very satisfied, and her impression of Qiduo has changed, thinking that this child is really capable.

After eating, Mrs. Kang sat down for a while, and then said goodbye.
When we were parting, naturally we had to struggle for a while because of the three taels of silver.

Mrs. Xu was unwilling to accept the money, but Mrs. Kang insisted.

Later, Mrs. Kang couldn't pull it back, so she had to take back the money, took lotus root and bean sprouts and left, and told her to go to her house as a guest the next day.

After sending Mrs. Kang away, Mrs. Xu still had a smile on her face, and she was really happy.

"Mother, who is Aunt Guirong? Why haven't you mentioned it before?" Qiduo asked with a smile, taking advantage of her mother's good mood.

Xu's smile faltered slightly.

After she pondered for a while, she said to Qiduo, "Duo, Aunt Guirong is a good friend I knew before. When your eldest sister's father left early, she lived next door to our house. Come talk with me. In those years, thanks to your Aunt Gui Rong, who helped me everywhere, otherwise, my mother would really not be able to hold on.

So, from now on, you have to respect Aunt Guirong as much as you respect your mother, you know? "

This is the first time she has told her daughter about her life at her ex-husband's house.

Although only a few words.

But it is not easy.

That period of the past was painful, and she didn't want to touch it again.

It was Qiduo who asked the question, if it was Erxia or Liuju, Mrs. Xu might not be willing to say it.

From Xu's words, Qiduo can guess that her life in her ex-husband's house was not comfortable, most likely it was suffering.

But what kind of life is it, Qiduo is a daughter, it is not easy to ask, it is not to expose the scars on the mother's heart.

Don't say that Mrs. Xu is her mother, even if it is an outsider, she will not ask again.

"Well, mother, don't worry, we will. Since you are such a good relationship, you finally met, you should walk around more in the future, we also have many relatives." Qi Duo responded with a smile, and gently shook Hold Xu's hand.

Xu nodded and smiled.

Tan Dejin took people to Luhuapo to discuss building a house, and Tan Debao took people to help cut trees and thatch.

Tan Dejin and the others have more experience than Qiduo in these matters, so she didn't go with her, and sorted the lotus roots with Xu and the others at home.

The lotus roots in the inverted house were all dug a few days ago. In order to ensure that Mr. Huang's lotus root can be stored for a longer period of time, Qiduo decided to give Mr. Huang five thousand catties of the lotus root dug today and tomorrow.

The lotus root here is temporarily raised in water.

Tan's front yard.

In the upper room, Mr. Tan was calling Tan Decai and his wife and Mrs. Yang about the recruitment of Qiduo's family.

What Mr. Tan meant was to ask Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Yang to go back to their natal homes to ask if any brothers or nephews would like to come to work, or people from the village would do as well.

And asked Tan Decai to go to Tan Meihua and Tan Hehua's house to ask if someone came to help.

At the same time, Sanlang and Erlang were asked to help build the house in the afternoon, and they had already followed Tan Debao up the mountain.

It is said that Qiduo's family is in urgent need of help, and everyone in the family should help.

Wu Shi and Yang Shi nodded in agreement and left the upper room.

Yang told Tan Deyin these words after returning to the house.

Tan Deyin's face suddenly sank, and he said to Yang, "I guessed correctly, the old man really bought that mountain."

"Why are you so sure?" Yang asked very puzzled.

She really didn't see any clues.

Tan Deyin glared at her, "You stupid thing, let me ask you, can't you forget how the old man and his mother treated the boss in the past. But now the old man and the others want to help the boss in this way, it has changed too much, you Don't you think it's weird?"

After his reminder, Yang immediately nodded, "Well, after you say it like this, it's really the case."

"No, I have to ask the old man about this." Tan Deyin became more and more worried.

The white silver, I feel pain all over my body when I think about it.
When he was about to ask Wu Xing to call Mrs. Tan, Wu Xing came in instead, saying that Mrs. Zhao called Mrs. Yang, and asked her to go to the room.
Yang looked at Tan Deyin.

"Go and see what's going on." Tan Deyin waved his hand.

(End of this chapter)