"Why would it take so long to just pick someone up? The whole family is waiting to eat! Who hasn't cooked yet at this time?
I think Chen Yubing, you are deliberately delaying time outside. Are you waiting for your wife, me, to serve you and cook for your family? Do you want me to bring the food to your mouth and feed you? ”
Qiao Xinyi could feel that Chen Yubing even stopped breathing for two seconds.
"The child has a head injury. I took him to a big hospital for examination." Chen Yubing explained.
But from her flat tone and expressionless face, it can be seen that she is perfunctory.
Qiao Laiwang got home from work and walked out of the bedroom when he heard some noise at the door.
Like a peacemaker, he smiled and said, "Mom, it's okay. You can eat later. If you're hungry, there are biscuits in the cupboard. You can eat them with some tea."
After saying this, Qiao Laiwang's eyes fell on the unfamiliar young girl at the door.
Seeing the girl's bald head, Qiao Laiwang was obviously stunned and blurted out, "Why is it a bald head?"
Chen Yubing seemed not to have heard what Qiao Laiwang said. She picked up her apron and put it on. She turned around and said to Qiao Xinyi, "Xinyi, sit down and take a rest first. Mom will go cook."
Then he turned around and called out to Qiao Yunbai who was standing behind Qiao Laiwang, "Yunbai, this is your elder sister. Her name is Qiao Xinyi. She has suffered a lot and has a head injury. You and Baihe should help your mother to accompany your elder sister and take good care of her."
"Mom, I know." Qiao Yunbai responded loudly, his eyes still curiously looking at Qiao Xinyi.
It can be seen that Qiao Yunbai is also a very extroverted person. He stood there looking at Qiao Xinyi and scratched his head a little awkwardly, as if he didn't know what to say. It was Qiao Baihe, who came back with Qiao Xinyi, who pulled Qiao Xinyi inside.
After washing her hands, Chen Yubing went to open the cabinet, rummaged around, and looked up to ask Qiao Laiwang, "Qiao Laiwang, where is the meat I asked you to buy before I left this morning? Where did you put it? How can I find it in the cabinet?"
Qiao Laiwang quickly responded, "Mom didn't let me buy it."
Chen Ju followed up, "You just brought a girl back, why buy meat? Do you know how to live like this?"
Chen Yubing opened her lips to retort, but when she thought that this was her daughter's first time home and she wanted to argue on such a happy day, she closed her mouth again, thinking about taking the children to the state-owned restaurant to eat something delicious in the evening.
There was no kitchen in the family housing of the textile factory, so everyone cooked on a coal stove in the corridor.
Chen Yubing tied her apron and turned to go out. Seeing that Chen Yubing didn't say anything, Chen Ju felt that Chen Yubing had nothing to say and that she, as the mother-in-law, was right.
Qiao Xinyi glanced at Chen Ju, then at Qiao Laiwang, who was standing aside with a grin on his face, not even bothering to say "Dad" or "Grandma".
Qiao Xinyi was thinking too well. The two-bedroom apartment of the Qiao family was even spacious enough.
There are two bedrooms and a living room, a kitchen and a corridor. To go to the toilet, you have to go to the shared toilet at the end of the corridor. There is a balcony on the other side of the living room, which has a sink for washing clothes and a clothes drying pole.
There was indeed a bed in the living room, placed next to the dining table, about one meter wide. At this moment, the bedding, pillows and other things were folded into fours and placed at the head of the bed.
Seeing Qiao Baili pulling her to sit down, there was a dining table in front of them, and it seemed that this bed was still used as a chair.
"Who sleeps in the living room at home?" asked Qiao Xinyi.
Chen Ju's ears twitched and she spoke quickly, "Of course it's Qiao Baili, who else could it be?"
It will always be me, the grandmother, who is the elder and sleeps, right? But you still thought it was your brother, a boy, who was sleeping? Who in the family is more precious than Qiao Baili, the girl? ”
After Chen Ju finished her response, she continued, "This bed is for you to sleep in from now on. Oh, right, do you mean that each family will take their children home today? Why is Qiao Baili still in our family? What do her biological parents mean? Do they want her? Do we have to support Qiao Baili in the future?"
Chen Ju's eyebrows were furrowed into a shape of a "川" character. "I used to think that he was ours, and there was no way I could kill him. I could only raise him. Now he is our Qiao family's seed, why should we raise him for nothing?"
Chen Ju's words were very unpleasant to hear. Qiao Baili was so nervous that her body was stiff. She was afraid of being kicked out, so she hurriedly said, "The He family asked me to stay at home for a few more days, and they will pick me up after they have cleaned up the house."
"Did the He family give you money?" Chen Ju looked into Qiao Baili's pocket, "Maybe you and your mother hid the money given by the He family, right?"
Qiao Baili quickly explained that the He family did not give any money. Chen Ju was skeptical and continued to ask.
Qiao Xinyi was too lazy to listen, so she stood up and walked out, standing next to Chen Yubing.
Feeling someone approaching, Chen Yubing turned her head to look, and seeing it was Qiao Xinyi, she smiled at her tenderly.
"It's hot outside, why are you resting in the house? Are you hungry? The meal will be ready soon."
"I'm not hungry, but I just like staying here." Qiao Xinyi pouted, not hiding her love for Chen Ju and Qiao Laiwang at all, and then asked in a low voice, "Among the neighbors on this floor, which auntie is the one who keeps her mouth shut?"
Although Chen Yubing knew why Qiao Xinyi asked this, she still told him quietly.
"It's next door to us. Look to the right. That's Aunt Zhang Hua who's cooking in the corridor in blue."
"It seems like their house is quite lively today. I'll go and visit them." Qiao Xinyi touched the back of her bald head and walked towards those houses.
There are no independent kitchens in the family compound here. Every household cooks in the corridor. It is a convention. Respectable families will visit when other families are cooking, and will even stare at their own pots.
Zhang Hua was cooking braised pork at the moment. When Qiao Xinyi approached, she immediately felt like she was facing a formidable enemy and quickly picked up the pot lid to block it.
But Zhang Hua resisted the urge to talk to Qiao Xinyi out of curiosity.
"You are the daughter that the Qiao family brought back today, right? What's your name?"
"Aunt, my name is Qiao Xinyi."
Qiao Xinyi smiled sweetly, then stared at the steaming pot at home with a particularly greedy expression.
"Aunt, are you grilling meat? Aunt, the meat you grilled smells so good~"
After waiting for Zhang Hua to answer, Qiao Xinyi continued to ask, "Auntie, what does meat taste like?"
Maybe it was because Qiao Xinyi asked and looked, but at least she didn't put her hand into the pot, so Zhang Hua was not so alert.
Especially when she heard Qiao Xinyi ask what meat tasted like, Zhang Hua burst out laughing.
"You asked such an interesting question, what does meat taste like? Is it meat? You asked as if you have never eaten meat. Meat smells so good."
Qiao Xinyi exclaimed, "Aunt, how do you know I've never eaten meat?"
With her simple and honest response and the simple and honest head-scratching movement, Qiao Xinyi at this moment was an honest girl who knew the world well.
"I have never eaten meat since I was a child, not even meat soup." Qiao Xinyi said, "In the past, in the village, the parents who stole me away gave me meat to eat, saying that girls have cheap lives and are not worthy of eating meat or even drinking soup."
"My mother went to pick me up today. On the way, she told me that she was going to get some meat coupons and money for my father, and asked him to buy a piece of meat and cook it for me at noon."
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