Chapter Seventy-Three: A Hard-Mouthed and Soft-Hearted Grandmother

Tang Qinger helped her mother put the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen and washed them into the house, seeing that Tang Jiaoer had not woken up yet, she put her little hand that was a little purple and frozen, and put her little hand on her neck.

Tang Jiao's little face was flushed, and when she saw her mother's figure, she began to howl, which frightened Li and Tang Qing'er for a moment, and when she reacted, Tang Qing'er hurriedly patted her little sister's shoulder and said, "The eldest sister is wrong, the eldest sister is wrong, don't cry anymore, otherwise my mother will talk about me in a while,"

Even if Tang Qing'er apologized, Jiao'er was still howling, and when Li finished the work in her hand and picked her up, Tang Jiao'er's eyes really began to drop golden beans, and Tang Qing'er couldn't help but give a thumbs up in front of Tang Jiao'er when she saw this admiration.

Where did Tang Jiaoer know what it meant, but when she saw her mother, she changed the anger of the eldest sister from fake crying to real crying, and saw her mother walk over, slapped the eldest sister on the back, the sobbing sound was gone, and she began to laugh, but when Tang Qinger was about to reach out to take her, she hugged her mother's neck and didn't let go.

Li was helpless, turned his head to Tang Qing'er and said, "Why are you provoking her again?"

"No, it's just because my hands were cold after brushing the dishes, and I saw that Jiao'er was sleeping soundly, so I put my hand on her neck and prepared to make her wake up early, who would have thought that it would be so intimidating, but it scared me," Tang Qing'er said pitifully with wide eyes.

Li heard that his daughter had washed all the dishes, and heard her say that her hands were cold, and she was distressed, at this time, Jiao'er arched into his mother's arms, and Li hugged Jiao'er and comforted her: "Sister teasing you, don't cry, my mother will take you two sisters to grandpa's house to play in a while, okay?" ”

Tang Jiaoer didn't care who she went to, but when she heard the words, she opened her mouth and said, "Play, play, now you have to play, go, go, play," and struggled out in her mother's arms, wanting to get out.

Li hugged her and said, "Then do you have to get up, get dressed and eat, so that your mother can take you out of the house to play, come, let your eldest sister help you get dressed, and your mother will clean up the bedding in the house,"

"Sister, eldest sister, hurry, hurry, get dressed, go out to play," said Tang Qing'er while standing and stretching out his hand into a large font.

Tang Qing'er saw that Jiao'er was so cute, and gently patted her ass and said, "You little grinder." ”

Half an hour later, Li took the basket and took Tang Qing'er and the sisters to the uncle's house, and the uncle began to separate the family after the children were married, so there was not so much right and wrong in his house.

The eldest aunt saw Li and said with a smile: "Come here!" I just told your uncle when you are coming? "Li took his two daughters to pay New Year's greetings to the eldest uncle and aunt.

The eldest aunt waved her hand and said, "I'm old, and I don't feel like the New Year, alas! Another year old, the more soil on this body will be, and sooner or later it will be buried,"

Li symbolically spit out and smeared: "Auntie, what are you talking about during the New Year, uncle, you don't talk about aunt,"

The uncle of the Tang family was a stern person who didn't talk much, and when he heard the words of his nephew and daughter-in-law, he didn't show too much of it, so he could see and agree with what the old woman said.

In previous years, Tang Tiezhu and his wife came to visit the New Year with their babies, but this year, why did the Li family bring two daughters over, the Tang family uncle felt very surprised, so he asked: "Why didn't Tiezhu and two boys come?"

"Today, the head of the family took his two sons to pay New Year's greetings to Master Zhou and sent this year's bundle money, and I can come over after a while, uncle, you are sewing clothes for the uncle, I have nothing to do, and I will help you sew while talking to you and the uncle." As he spoke, he took the work in the hands of the eldest uncle.

After a while, she patted her thigh and said, "Look at my memory, the buns that were just made in the morning are still in the pot, just wait for you to come over, I'll go and get a few for the Qing'er sisters." ”

Every year in the third year of junior high school, Tang Tiezhu will bring the whole family to the uncle's family to pay New Year's greetings, in previous years, the babies were small and not full, every time they came here to pay New Year's greetings, the uncle asked the uncle to prepare some food for the babies, and this year is no exception.

When the eldest uncle brought five or six into the house, Tang Qing'er felt that her eyes were green, although the family earned money this year, but the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten in the main room, and the second year of junior high school went to her grandmother's house, and her own family did not eat a few meals at all, saying that her grandmother was still peeping at their house, and did not dare to eat the meat buns blatantly, and suddenly saw the meat buns brought by the grandmother, and the worms in the stomach sounded twice unconsciously.

The eldest grandmother touched Tang Qing'er's head and said, "Hungry, take one to eat, this is specially left for you by the eldest grandmother,"

Tang Qing'er was not polite, reached out and grabbed a hot meat bun and took a bite, thinking that the taste was really delicious, she stretched out to her mother's mouth and said, "Mother, you can also taste it, the bun is really delicious," and pinched a small piece with her little hand for Jiao'er to taste.

In fact, this bun is not all meat, and there are some minced meat residues after the fat meat is consumed into oil, but it is already delicious for Tang Qing'er, who has not eaten the bun for a long time.

Li shook his head and said to her, "Mother doesn't eat, you and your sister can eat," and said to the eldest uncle: "Uncle, this basket is for me and the head of the family to honor your two elders," and handed the basket that he brought in when he came to the eldest uncle.

The eldest aunt didn't look at her tense face and said: "What else do you want to give me here, there are so many babies in the family, which mouth doesn't ask for money, stay here for a while, and take the things away for me when I leave, do you know it?" ”

Li put down the work in his hand, covered his mouth and said with a smile: "Uncle Niang, you, you are still so hard-mouthed and soft-hearted," I think that when I just married into the Tang family, Tang Tiezhu took her to greet the uncle's family, and the uncle was lukewarm to her.

Later, when she was pregnant, Zhang's bullied her even more, and let her carry water with a big belly in the winter, and the eldest aunt couldn't stand it when she passed by, and quarreled with Zhang, and since then Li has been close.

"Alas! As long as you have this heart, the eldest aunt will not hurt you in vain," the eldest aunt said and patted Li's hand.

Tang Qing'er saw that the atmosphere was a little solemn, thinking of her mother's previous suffering, she felt a little difficult to swallow when she ate the buns in her mouth, and for the interest of many people, she said crisply: "Grandma, waiting for our family to become more and more prosperous, no one will dare to bully us at that time, look down on us,"

The folds on the grandmother's face were about to smile, and she hugged Tang Qing'er and said, "My good grandson, you have ambition, grandma is waiting, and when we can earn money to buy food for grandma in the future,"

"Uncle, you keep these things, there is still some money at home, the family made some money by selling shoes and self-brewed jujube wine a few years ago, I wanted to buy more expensive filial piety to you and uncle, but I want to move out of the main house and live my life behind closed doors, and the babies don't have to be angry with us from time to time," Li is really afraid of the days before the separation.

"You've finally come out," the eldest uncle said earnestly, and felt unrelieved, and scolded hatefully: "Zhang's old wife, sooner or later she will have retribution,"

Tang Qing'er found that the grandfather had said a word since he entered the house, and he didn't squeak, but when the grandmother scolded Zhang, she coughed unconsciously, and the grandmother raised her eyes and said, "What's the matter, I said something wrong,"

The grandfather didn't squeak, but he could see his meaning from the expression on his face: "Don't say something you shouldn't say in front of the babies, especially the elders of the babies." ”

The eldest grandmother didn't care about this, and continued to say to the Li family: "Now that the stone and wood are going to school, the burden on you and the iron pillar is getting heavier and heavier, fortunately, Qing'er, this girl is big, and she can help you share some housework, if the family money is not enough, come over, although your uncle and I are old, we still have some self-defense money,"

"The three generations of our old Tang family have never had a single student, and we have to let one of the wood and stone go to school in difficulty," Uncle Tang, who had been silent, finally said the second sentence of their entry into the house.

"Uncle, that's what the head of the family and I think, I don't want my sons to live in the fields like us, I want them to know Braille, at least go to the town in the future to find an easier job, so that they won't be as tired as we live." Li told Uncle Tang about her and the idea of being in charge.

"Good! Good! What can adults do if they suffer a little, as long as the babies will live better than anything else in the future, which is in response to the sentence: the hardships of eating are the masters, and what the ancestors said is reasonable. Uncle Tang hopes that the old Tang family can produce a champion and shine on the lintel.

Li did a quarter of an hour at the uncle's house, thinking about the housekeeper, so he said goodbye to the uncle, before leaving, the uncle asked Li to take the things away, saying that he would not accept anything, the two of them excused themselves several times, the uncle was made by Li had no choice but to accept it after all, while Li was talking to the old man, he secretly went to the kitchen to get a dozen meat buns and put them in the basket that Li brought to the basket.

When Li found out, he couldn't shirk it, so he could only go home with a basket of meat buns.

Tang Qing'er found that this grandmother was really a cheerful and enthusiastic person, much stronger than her milk, oh, yes! Her grandmother is not her own grandmother, how can she be good to her.

When the three of them arrived at home, Tang Tiezhu had not yet returned, so Li put the two daughters in the house, and she went to the kitchen stove to put some firewood and boil some water, so that the kang in the house could be hotter.

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