??79: Chapter 79: Road Idiot_1
79: Chapter 79: Road Idiot_1
Qin Jin, flush with the success of the spring breeze, had to look dashing.
“So-so,” he replied nonchalantly.
Li Qiao bared his teeth, isn’t he modest.
Qin Jin was bursting with excitent after learning sothing new and couldn’t stop practicing.
Li Qiao yawned suggestively, “Jin, you’re still going at it?
I’m getting kinda sleepy.”
All of Qin Jin’s thoughts were on martial arts practice.
Although he used to win fights, he would also get hurt.
If he could master technique, soon he’d be the only one throwing punches.
“I’ll be back later.
There’s a hot water bottle I bought a while ago in the suitcase, fill it with hot water and warm up the bed.
I’ll co ho late.”
Li Qiao was intrigued—was there a hot water bottle at this ti?
When she got ho, she searched and found a green plastic bag, about the size of a math book, which she filled with hot water and placed in the bed.
As soon as her feet touched it, warmth spread through them.
The corners of her mouth involuntarily spread into a sweet smile.
When she woke up, daylight was already streaming in.
She was alone in the room.
Li Qiao put on her clothes and went outside.
There was no sign of Qin Jin in the courtyard, and his brand-new bicycle was also missing, so she asked Old Mrs.
Qin who was feeding the rabbits.
“Grandma, did Jin go out?”
“Yeah, he went out on a long trip.
Early this morning, Liu Er ca looking for him, and they seed to be discussing sothing.
He made a point of telling
to let you know.
He’ll be at most half a month away.
Today, I’m going with you to visit relatives; look, I’ve even prepared the at.”
Li Qiao felt a sudden emptiness in her heart—it’s going to be half a month?
She’s already started missing him, what should she do?
…
The grandmother and granddaughter got everything ready, left instructions for the aunts working in the house, locked the door, and set off to visit relatives.
Reaching a three-way fork in the road, Old Mrs.
Qin muttered, “Which way was it to go, Qiaoqiao, which direction should we take?”
Li Qiao: “…” This…
she struggled, “I have no sense of direction, I can’t rember the way to my sister’s house.”
Old Mrs.
Qin couldn’t believe it.
You can co top in exams but can’t rember the way to your sister’s house?
In crucial monts, you have to rely on yourself.
She was about to just pick a direction at random.
Li Qiao waved excitedly, “Big brother-in-law.”
“Grandma, big brother-in-law is here to pick us up.”
Old Mrs.
Qin glanced sideways, just in ti.
“Old Mrs.
Qin, Qiaoqiao, what brings you here?
Where’s Jin?” asked Song Lin.
Old Mrs.
Qin replied, “Jin has gone away on a matter.”
Li Qiao hung the net bag filled with at and eggs onto Song Lin’s car handlebars.
Song Lin’s eyes held a trace of inquiry.
His sister-in-law used to co empty-handed and even scavenge so from her sister, disregarding him.
But now, she called out ‘big brother-in-law’ willingly, sent at through Qin Jin, and even carried gifts.
This was indeed a rare occurrence.
After walking for a while, Song Lin suddenly said, “Old Mrs.
Qin, I’ll take you first, and then co back for Qiaoqiao.”
“Qiaoqiao says she can’t rember the way, I’m not comfortable leaving her alone.”
Song Lin said, “It’s normal for her not to rember if she hardly ever visits in a year.
It’s fine, just follow this road straight to the end, take a left, and it’s the third house on the corner.”
Li Qiao listened silently.
Her older sister’s house—a place she barely visited once a year.
Was the relationship not good, or what could it be?
Considering her sister’s attitude, she seed quite good to her younger sister.
Old Mrs.
Qin said, “Alright then, Qiaoqiao, I’ll go with your brother-in-law first, you follow slowly.”
Li Qiao replied okay.
On the way, she t her eldest sister, Li Jiaoyang, who said affectionately, “Qiaoqiao, tired from walking, right?
I thought you ca with Jin.
Grandma said he’s gone on a trip; where did he go this ti?
I hope he’s not out there poaching chickens or dogs.”
Li Qiao smiled wryly, “Impossible.” With a proper business at ho and no worry about food and drink, would he go tarnish his reputation?
And he had promised her personally that he would change his old ways.
Most likely, he was dealing in antiques again.
The bronze knife might have been sold by him too.
Because she had searched everywhere in the house where sothing could be hidden, and had not seen that knife.
He was able to distinguish antiques and could comprehend martial arts after only two attempts.
This person could really be soone important in the future.
Otherwise, Jinhua would not be envious.
But what could he do in the future?
He lacked education and capital.
Li Qiao was lost in her own thoughts, even her sister’s voice had been filtered out.
“Qiaoqiao, Qiaoqiao,” Li Jiaoyang called out twice before Li Qiao ca back to her senses: “Huh?
Big sister, I didn’t quite catch what you were saying just now.”
Li Jiaoyang sighed helplessly, “You, I was asking if it was Qin Jin who hit your face.”
Li Qiao touched her still-tender cheek: “No, it wasn’t him, but he caused it, last night he climbed onto the bed to kill a gecko, and the bed leg broke…”
Li Jiaoyang couldn’t help but burst into laughter, but then she got angry again: “Actually, Dong Lai should have brought a new bed as part of her dowry.
She took so much betrothal money from the Qin family, but only brought a trunk and quilts with her.
To put it bluntly, she’s shaless.
It’s lucky for you that your grandma and Jin didn’t mind.
In another family, you wouldn’t have a peaceful life.”
She was setting an example.
The dowry Dong Lai prepared for her was also two trunks and four quilts.
Whenever Mrs.
Song got angry, she would complain that other people’s daughters brought large dowries and returned with a significant amount for their dowry chest, while the bride her son married didn’t bring anything, and the parents-in-law had to pay out.
Li Qiao echoed: “Not only that, but when my grades improved, she actually wanted
to give my scores to Li Jinhua.”
“How dare she!
I’ll fight her when I get back,” Li Jiaoyang chid in angrily.
Li Qiao: “I won’t agree to it either.” She didn’t want to discuss Dong Lai and changed the subject: “Big sister, did Jin tell you that our family got an approval slip from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative to make woven vases?”
“An approval slip from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative?
He’s quite capable to have gotten that, and he didn’t even tell us.
What’s this about making woven vases?
How are you doing with it?”
Li Qiao explained in detail: “I was thinking of asking you to learn it with .
It pays one yuan and sixty cents each, and soone skilled can make seven or eight a day, easy to do even while looking after children.”
“Really?
That’s not bad.
Teach ,” Li Jiaoyang pondered.
At one yuan and sixty cents each, making five a day would earn her eighty cents.
Definitely more relaxing than farming.
Li Qiao: “Co back ho with
later, and I’ll teach you hands-on.
Once you’ve learned, you can teach your second sister.”
“Sure,” Li Jiaoyang grinned.
“You’ve grown up and are helping to pull us up.
It was worth fighting with Dong Lai tooth and nail.
That damn evil stepmother, she wanted to use my dowry just to fund Li Jinhua’s studies and not support her sister’s.”
Li Qiao: “We are born of the sa mother; if I have a bowl of porridge, you have half.”
Li Jiaoyang smiled contentedly, her eyes curving into crescents: “I’m very happy as long as you and Jin get along well.”
As the sisters caught up, they didn’t notice the length of the journey and soon arrived ho.
Li Qiao first greeted her sister’s parents-in-law and then played with her three little nephews.
She also inquired about the grades of the two girls who went to school.
Li Jiaoyang was disheartened: “Their grades are so bad it’s outrageous.
Not one of them passed the monthly test.
Your brother-in-law said they might as well co ho and work after studying for two or three years.”
Li Qiao: “Maybe they are just playing too much, and you guys don’t have the ti to tutor them.
I’ll help them catch up on their lessons during sumr vacation.
Girls need to be educated; if they go to university, their own children could escape the farm life.”
Every ti she didn’t want to study, she reminded herself that the alternative was having to dig river ditches.
Mrs.
Song said: “You studied, but it didn’t get you a husband with a university degree.”
With one sentence, she offended two people.
Old Mrs.
Qin, Li Qiao.
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