The Zhao family has a large yard, surrounded by cucumbers, vegetables and tomatoes. They also have a hen that can lay an egg every day. Niu Niu is responsible for picking up these eggs. When she has picked up a basket, she can exchange fruit candies with Li Guifang.
It was a rare day off. Hua Cui lay paralyzed in the room for half a day. Zhao Qiming had already prepared lunch and was waiting for the others to come back. As soon as they had gathered together and put the dishes and chopsticks on the table to start the meal, two unexpected people came.
A tired couple stood at the door, carrying large and small bags in their hands. Upon closer inspection, the woman's eyebrows were somewhat similar to Zhao Qiming's.
"Second sister, brother-in-law." Zhao Qiming was stunned for a moment. After recovering, he quickly welcomed the person in, "Why are you here?"
"I'm sorry, Qi Ming, your sister and I are busy at work. We didn't even make it to your wedding yesterday. We just got back today."
Zhao Qiming shook his head and said it didn't matter. He knew that his second sister and brother-in-law were busy with work, and he and Huacui were indeed in a hurry to organize the banquet.
Li Guifang held the bowl and said in a calm tone: "Since I know that you are busy at work, it's not like you can't change your job. Why don't you just change to another job? My own brother gets married and doesn't even have time to come back."
As soon as she spoke, the air around her seemed to freeze. Zhao Fuguo pulled her sleeve to signal her to say less.
Hua Cui was curious about Li Guifang's tone and attitude, and her intuition told her that Li Guifang was angry for another reason, not only because Zhao Qilan failed to catch up with her and Zhao Qiming's banquet.
But now is obviously not the time for her to be curious. Hua Cui followed Zhao Qiming and called sweetly: "Second sister, brother-in-law, how are you?"
The frozen air began to circulate again.
Zhao Qilan's expression was still a little unnatural, and she forced a smile: "It's Cuicui, it's our first time meeting, and the second sister doesn't have anything good, so these are just the meeting gifts."
She put the prepared gifts into Huacui's hands. Behind her, her husband Zhou Hao also handed the things in his hands to Zhao Qiming and said awkwardly: "These are the modest thoughts of your sister and I, just accept them. I wish you a happy wedding. ”
Hua Cui accepted the gift unceremoniously, smiled brightly, and said crisply: "Thank you, second sister and brother-in-law!"
Zhao Qilan smiled and nodded, feeling satisfied that her sister-in-law looked upright, had a down-to-earth personality, and looked decent.
"You're welcome, then you eat first and we won't disturb you." She turned around and said stiffly, "Mom, dad, brother and sister-in-law, Zhou Hao and I will leave if we have anything else to do."
Hua Cui blinked, feeling that the next development might not be friendly.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Li Guifang put down her chopsticks with a bang: "Are you going home or visiting a neighbor's house? Do you still have me and this family in your eyes?!"
Zhao Qilan had a stiff face and said nothing. Zhou Hao smiled and stood in front of his wife, saying with a smile: "Mom, don't be angry, Lan Lan just talks in anger."
"I think she just wants to make me angry! Haven't you suffered enough? Do you want me to worry every day?!"
Zhao Qilan's lips moved, but in the end he didn't say a word.
Zhao Fuguo sighed and came out to smooth things over: "Okay, what are you arguing about? Have you eaten? If not, just stay and finish eating first."
Zhou Hao: "Thank you, Dad, we have just eaten."
In the end, the two of them left without eating.
Li Guifang remained silent and didn't say anything to save her, but it was obvious that she was in a bad mood all afternoon.
Zhao Fuguo was helpless: "Okay, it's not like you don't know Qi Lan's character, why are you still stubborn with her?"
"Am I being stubborn with her? Is it me? Huh? Didn't she just follow your bad temper!"
".Yes, yes, it's all up to me."
Hua Cui didn't know much about Zhao Qiming's second sister, Zhao Qilan. Today was the first time the two met, and the deepest impression left on her was that she was generous and gave away many good things.
From Zhao Qiming's description, Hua Cui understood why Li Guifang had a strange attitude, mainly because she was dissatisfied with the couple's work.
Zhao Qilan's first husband was a truck driver, who was introduced by a matchmaker. Originally, everything went smoothly for the couple, but the driver often came and went, and Zhao Qilan followed her husband around the world over the years.
It wasn't until an accident happened that the couple encountered a landslide and had a car accident. The husband died on the spot. Zhao Qilan himself was seriously injured and was sent to the hospital. Only then did he know that there was a little life in his belly. Of course, the child was not saved in the end, and Zhao Qilan was miserable. Get back a life.
During that period, Li Guifang cried every night, feeling sorry for her daughter's fate, but secretly glad that it was someone else who died and not her own daughter.
After recovering from her injury, Li Guifang was ready to let Zhao Qilan return to live in the countryside, but she refused and decided to join the team as a female truck driver.
The risk of being a driver is so great. How can Li Guifang agree to her continuing to do such a dangerous job? She firmly disagrees!
So the mother and daughter had a big fight, which ended with Zhao Qilan "running away from home" and joining the team.
Zhao Qilan also met her current husband, Zhou Hao, in the car racing team, but Li Guifang had a hard time because of this and was extremely dissatisfied with their work. In her heart, her daughter could have a more comfortable job and a better choice. I just want to be the driver of Nalaoshizi!
As for Zhao Qilan, her travels over the years have broadened her horizons a lot, and she has also seen many things that she could not see in Qingshan Village. She is very happy to be a driver. She is not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and she yearns to visit various places. .
Mother and daughter, you don't understand me, and I don't understand you, isn't it because there is a gap?
Hua Cui didn't express any opinion on this. Li Guifang and Zhao Qilan didn't do anything wrong. They just had different ideas and were stubborn. No one could convince the other.
She doesn't get involved in this kind of thing.
"Brother Xiao Ming, the second sister is such a good person."
Hua Cui was sitting by the bed, opening gifts. She said that although drivers in this era were hard-working and risky, they did make money. This could be seen from Zhao Qilan's hand in giving gifts.
It turns out that the second sister is still a bitch~
"Well, the second sister is not a bad person, and she has been kind to us since childhood."
Zhao Qiming responded, feeling a little strange in his heart. He always felt that he had heard this sentence "he is a good person" countless times, and she seemed to say it to everyone.
It's an illusion.
It must be.
"Wow, there's a pen too." Hua Cui took out a pen from a pile of gifts and asked curiously, "Brother Xiao Ming, can you write my name?"
Zhao Qiming only had a primary school diploma. After junior high school, he helped with household chores and stopped studying. This made him unable to hold his head high in front of the "student tyrant" Hua Cui, so he nodded awkwardly.
"Then you write it. I want to see you write my name. I haven't seen your handwriting yet."
Zhao Qiming nodded and obediently wrote the word "Huacui" on the paper.
The font is not ugly, but it is not beautiful either. It looks like it was written stroke by stroke by a primary school student comparing it to a textbook. Hua Cui subconsciously showed a bit of contempt and disdain. Although she was not good at studying, she was good at writing. She was forced to take calligraphy classes when she was a child, so her skills were still there.
Zhao Qiming's hand holding the pen tightened slightly. His contempt for Hua Cui thought he had hidden it well, but it still inevitably came out.
He was embarrassed and at a loss.
Huacui commented: "Not as good as Zhou Haiwen."
Zhou Haiwen's handwriting is also good, only a little worse than hers.
Of course, Hua Cui said this on purpose. She wanted to see how Zhao Qiming would react.
"I'm sorry, Cuicui." Zhao Qiming opened his mouth, and after hesitating for a long time, he realized that this was the only thing he could say.
He was ashamed and annoyed.
"Why are you apologizing? You didn't do anything wrong." Hua Cui pretended to be confused. She kissed the left side of Zhao Qiming's cheek and said with a smile, "Although Zhou Haiwen's handwriting is prettier than yours, I still like you."
Zhao Qiming never understood why Hua Cui chose him instead of Zhou Haiwen between himself and Zhou Haiwen.
He nodded dullly: "...Yeah."
Huacui took a pen and added "favorite" in front of the word "Huacui". Her writing was smooth and flowing, and the words she wrote were also thin, strong and solemn, with a sense of elegance and freedom, which matched the primary school student font of Zhao Qiming next to her. A sharp contrast.
Zhao Qiming was even more ashamed.
"Brother Xiao Ming, don't be discouraged. Although you are not good at this, you can still work hard in other areas." Hua Cui tried to PUA him, "And no matter how bad you are, I will still like you."
"I'm not good enough, I, I will try my best."
Hua Cui shook her head sincerely and said: "No, no, no, no matter how hard you try, you are still not worthy of me."
"..." Zhao Qiming was stunned into silence and lowered his head in despair.
He found that he could not refute this sentence. In his heart, Hua Cui was indeed a human being in heaven and on earth. Even if he came close, he would worry about whether her existence would be tarnished.
Hua Cui burst out laughing. She touched his head as if to soothe a puppy: "Okay, I'm teasing you. Do you see the words above? Read it out loud quickly."
On the paper are the five characters "I like Huacui the most".
Zhao Qiming read it carefully with red ears.
"Yeah, I like Huacui the best too." Huacui nodded in agreement, showing a cute and playful smile.
Zhao Qiming gently opened the corner of his mouth and smiled, but his heart was not relaxed. He didn't know what was wrong with him recently. He always felt that Huacui was so close to him, but yet seemed to be so far away from him like clouds in the sky.
When he stretched out his hand, he realized that the two of them were tens of thousands of miles apart. He was like a kite, constantly rising and falling, but he could hardly tell whether it was the wind that made him rise or fall, or the Huacui pulling the rope underneath.
He was somewhat evasive and unwilling to dwell on these things.
"Brother Xiao Ming, why are you still in a daze? Go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow to help me move things."
Huacui got married and moved from the educated youth camp to Zhao's house. She just finished packing her belongings today, but the things left at the educated youth camp haven't been moved back yet. Zhao Qiming plans to move those things here early tomorrow morning.
"...Hmm."
(End of chapter)
The author said: I like Huacui the most~
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