Chapter 40: The Truth About Hurting Your Feet, Going to the City to Sell Bacon
Ai Qiaoqiao has always been by Lan's side, except for helping Ma in the yard to do some work to feed the pigs and chickens, she rarely leaves the yard.
After three days, Ma Shi finally couldn't help it, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai in the yard.
"You can't even open a charity hall when you only eat it, and you still have to support you who eat idle food!"
Lan Linyan heard Ma's scolding in the house, and his face turned white with fright.
Ai Qiaoqiao smiled, "Mother, don't be afraid, this is grandma looking for an opportunity to improve your food." ”
Lan Lin Yan didn't know why, Ai Qiaoqiao went out and entered the upper room.
"Master." Ai Qiaoqiao smiled obediently when he entered the door.
The Lan family was born with a good appearance, she was naturally not bad, she raised her mouth and smiled, and her bright smile made Ai Mingshan not feel any dissatisfaction.
"Qiaoqiao, you can come over for lunch today." Ai Mingshan ignored Ma's swearing in the courtyard.
"No, I'll eat in the house with my mother." Ai Qiaoqiao grinned, "Thank you for your concern, I came here because my mother heard that my milk was angry, she felt that she was injured and couldn't move, and she couldn't help eating white porridge every day." ”
Ai Mingshan was stunned, "White porridge? ”
Ai Qiaoqiao looked at the oily stewed eggplant on the table, with an innocent expression, "Yes, I'm fine, but my mother is still injured, and she only eats white porridge every day. ”
Ai Mingshan's face sank, and when Ma Shi came in, he asked, "Did you send the meal prepared for the Lan family?" ”
Ma snorted disdainfully, his eyes staring at Ai Qiaoqiao, "I knew that there was another person who ate idle food for nothing." ”
Ai Qiaoqiao pretended to be aggrieved and stood up, "Master, I think it's better to forget it, I'm just talking." ”
Ai Mingshan was unmoved, and said with a straight face: "Bring the Lan family's food and let Qiaoqiao bring it back by the way." ”
It is false to say that Qiaoqiao will take it back, and Ai Mingshan has to see it with his own eyes to be true.
Ma's eyes rolled, and after a while, Zhong picked up the curtain and came in, holding a bowl of semi-cold porridge left over from last night, as well as a small plate of sauce.
After Ai Mingshan saw these two things, his face changed at that time, and he raised the crutch in his hand and slammed it on the ground.
"The Lan clan eats this kind of thing every day?"
Zhong was frightened, she was completely unprepared for the old man's trouble, her hand shook, and the white porridge was directly detained.
Ma Shi cried out distressedly, "You it, you have to scare the younger generations for a good life, these meals can be fed to the chickens and they can eat a full ......"
Ma Shi sprinkled it.
Ai Mingshan pointed to the oily eggplant on the table, and said to the Zhong family, "Send this dish to the Lan family." ”
Zhong's eyes widened in shock, and he peeked at Ma from time to time.
Seeing this, the old man Ai was even more angry in his heart, "It's really upside down, if you don't learn, you can learn to be bitter and mean, no matter what happened to the Lan family before, she is now the third daughter-in-law of our family, and Qiaoqiao is my own granddaughter, if you are mean, they are not afraid that the third child will be sad and sad in the sky!" ”
Hearing this, Zhong's face changed, and he picked up the dish and said in a muffled voice: "Dad, don't be angry, I'll just deliver it." With that, she went out first.
Ai Qiaoqiao glanced at the mixed noodles steamed buns on the table again, and deliberately swallowed saliva.
Ai Mingshan directly took the plate and stuffed three steamed buns into Ai Qiaoqiao's hands.
"Let your mother take care of her injuries with peace of mind, and now that the autumn harvest is far away, don't rush to let her work."
Ai Qiaoqiao responded happily, and at the end, she thanked Ma Shi with a shy face, "Thank you grandma for letting us have a full meal." ”
Ma's heart hurts, and the family has a plate of sauce and shallots at noon, not to mention how bad it is.
Ai Qiaoqiao had a beautiful meal of oily eggplant with Lan's beauty.
After lunch, Zhong and Qiu were driven to work in the vegetable garden by Ma, and Ai Qiaoqiao secretly took time to leave the Ai family's compound and go to find Zhang Wu.
Zhang Wu hadn't seen her for a few days, and he was very anxious.
"Qiaoqiao, is your mother okay?"
Ai Qiaoqiao briefly told her mother about it, and finally asked Zhang Wu, "Brother Xiao Wu, you are more familiar with the people in the village than me, can you help me inquire about what happened on the day my mother's feet were smashed?" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Wu's face instantly became a little ugly, and he was stunned.
"Qiaoqiao, in fact, I have already inquired clearly, if you don't come, I would have wanted to secretly go to your place tonight to give you a ...... of the war"
Ai Qiaoqiao looked at him in confusion.
"It's the incident where your mother's foot was injured...... I know that your family treats you and your mother badly, so I went to find someone to inquire, and some people said that they saw your mother quarreling with your second aunt Zhong in the field, and Zhong seemed to be forcing your mother to ask what was going on......
Ai Qiaoqiao frowned, "Is my eldest aunt Qiu also there?" ”
"Yes, but she just stood aside and watched coldly, didn't help, didn't do anything, and finally your second aunt Zhong was annoyed, raised her hoe and smashed your mother's foot......"
Ai Qiaoqiao bit her lip tightly.
Even though the Qiu clan didn't do it or help, she still helped the Zhong clan cover up the matter.
Does Ma also know the inside story? The last time the shopkeeper Xu left, Ma cursed in the house, and the most puzzled thing for her was that Ma said that her mother had abducted her third son, and what happened to our family's heirloom baby.
It's a pity that Ai Mingshan didn't let Ma Shi talk about it anymore.
Zhang Wu saw Ai Qiaoqiao's tight little face, thinking that she was scared.
"Qiaoqiao, don't be afraid, we sold vole meat this time, I don't want my share of the money, you can take your mother away."
Hearing this, Ai Qiaoqiao almost burst into tears.
"Brother Wu, you are such a good person." Regardless of whether this method works or not, Zhang Wu's sincerity alone is enough to move Ai Qiaoqiao.
Zhang Wu saw her tears, and she was even more at a loss, and finally simply made a grimace, which made Ai Qiaoqiao laugh.
Ai Qiaoqiao smoked vole meat with lychee wood, and Zhang Wu watched from the side, and learned it after a while.
The rest of the vole meat was smoked by Zhang Wu himself, and it was dried for a few days, and finally it was time to go to Huai'an City for delivery.
That morning, Ai Qiaoqiao went to her grandfather, Ai Mingshan, to borrow their flatbed truck.
"I'm going to take my mother into the city and go to Yicao Hall to thank Xu, the shopkeeper." Ai Qiaoqiao hid the matter of the miracle doctor's death at night, and only mentioned Yicaotang.
Ai Mingshan frowned, "You are single and weak, can you pull a flatbed?" ”
Ai Qiaoqiao nodded heavily, "My mother's body is light, I can pull it." ”
Ma Shi snorted disdainfully after listening to it, "With this strength, you might as well go to work in the field, what kind of Huai'an City did you enter." ”
Ai Qiaoqiao said, "The people of Yicaotang saved my mother, they didn't ask for my medical fee, they are kind to us, and now my mother's foot injury is almost healed, I have to take my mother to thank them, my father often said to me when he was alive, to be a man with clear grievances, to be good to us, to repay a hundred times a thousand times, behind the harm to us, we must not be merciful." ”
Hearing this, Ma's face changed, "What nonsense are you talking about, what is the ...... behind you?"
Ai Mingshan's face was not very good-looking, and he glared at Ma Shi as if warning.
"Since you want to go, let's go."
Ai Qiaoqiao thanked Ai Mingshan, pulled the flatbed car out, helped Lan Shi to get into the car, and pulled the car out of the Ai family's compound with difficulty.
With her size, it was indeed difficult to pull a flatbed car, but not far from the entrance of the village, she met Zhang Wu who was waiting there.
Zhang Wu brought all the bacon they had made these days with him and strung them together with a string.
"Let me do it." Zhang Wu rolled up his sleeves.
Don't look at Zhang Wu is only a few years older than Ai Qiaoqiao, he is a boy after all, and his strength is much greater than Ai Qiaoqiao.
He put the bacon on the car and pulled Lan effortlessly.
Ai Qiaoqiao wanted to help him pull the car at first, but later, Zhang Wu let her get into the car too, and pulled the two of them by himself.