Qin Junyao walked out of the room, and Zhao Liangcai followed her immediately. Qin's mother and Granny Ma looked at each other, not knowing what had happened. Only Fuzi giggled, covering his mouth with his small hands.
In the courtyard, Qin Junyao took a deep breath, telling herself it wasn't worth arguing with the scoundrel.
The stool leg and the carrying pole were already gone. Qin Junyao was just thinking she could finally have some peace, when unexpectedly, Zhao Liangcai followed her out.
It didn't matter that Zhao Liangcai followed her out, Qian Duo and Zhao Rui also arrived in the courtyard.
"Miss Qin, greetings. Long time no see," Qian Duo greeted Qin Junyao, stopping Qin Junyao, who was about to return to Granny Ma's room.
Qin Junyao couldn't neglect her manners, but she didn't want to talk much with Qian Duo and the others. Zhao Liangcai alone was enough of a nuisance. "Miss Qian, hello. We met yesterday. Please speak with your cousin. I'll stand aside."
Zhao Liangcai quickly grabbed Qin Junyao's arm, preventing her from moving away.
The anger in Qin Junyao's belly finally accumulated. She raised her foot and kicked Zhao Liangcai's knee, causing him pain and to let go. She turned and walked to the doorway, ready to step over the threshold and leave the Zhao family at any moment.
"Zhao Liangcai, I need to talk to you," Zhao Rui stood in front of Zhao Liangcai.
"Talk to your mother if you have something to say."
"I'm only talking to you about this. Tomorrow, Yan Bai's brother is getting married. You'll take me."
Zhao Liangcai bypassed Zhao Rui and sat by the stone table. "I won't."
Zhao Rui followed behind Zhao Liangcai and slapped the stone table, hurting her hand. She said with considerable force, "You must take me. If you don't, I'll tell Mother."
"Whatever."
"Cousin," Qian Duo stopped Zhao Rui, who was about to explode. "Cousin, we just want to congratulate the newlyweds. We won't cause any trouble. We've already prepared the gifts."
"No," Zhao Liangcai was unmoved. The thought of him taking Zhao Rui anywhere was out of the question.
"Ah~~ Aunt Qin, don't go, ah~~."
Qian Duo was about to speak again when Fuzi's unusually loud cries suddenly came from Granny Ma's room. Zhao Liangcai immediately entered the room.
As soon as he entered, he saw Fuzi tightly hugging Qin's mother's neck, crying loudly.
"Fuzi, what are you doing?"
"I don't want Aunt Qin to go." Fuzi, who had been fine moments ago, started acting up again.
Qin's mother gently patted Fuzi's arm. "Fuzi, be good. Aunt Qin needs to go home to cook. My family is waiting for me to return for Xiao Nian."
"Then I'll go home with Aunt Qin for Xiao Nian. Brother, you accompany me to Aunt Qin's house for Xiao Nian."
"Okay," Zhao Liangcai agreed readily.
"Okay, what okay? You have your own home, why would you go to my house for Xiao Nian?" Qin Junyao stood behind Zhao Liangcai, gritting her teeth.
"Jun Yao, you can't speak to General Zhao like that."
"Fuzi, do you really want to go home with Aunt Qin?" Qin's mother asked Fuzi softly.
"Yes, I'll go to Aunt Qin's house with Brother."
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Qin Family Kitchen
Qin Junyao stood with her arms crossed, her eyes fixed on Zhao Liangcai, who was chopping lamb for Qin's mother, and the second brother who was hovering around Zhao Liangcai. There was no one more shameless in this world.
Qin Xiaoyu stood at her room's entrance in the same posture as Qin Junyao. She watched Fuzi and her third brother playing with Rubik's cubes with the Hou family's twins, having a great time.
She herself couldn't play with those wooden blocks at all.
"Third Brother, take them to your room to play," Qin Xiaoyu said. Since she couldn't participate, she didn't want them playing on her kang either.
Fuzi shook his head. With only one hand usable, he was helping Hou Shan fit the wooden blocks.
"I don't want to. I'll just play on Qin Jie's kang."
"That's my kang."
"Qin Jie's kang."
The older Hou Liang, rarely speaking up for Fuzi, said, "Qin Xiaoyu, let us play here. You go help with the cooking. Shantao is already cooking at home."
"Besides, Fuzi is so pitiful. His hand is injured, and his mother is also injured."
"My mother isn't injured." Although Fuzi didn't like Qian Shi controlling him, he didn't want others to speak ill of his mother.
Hou Liang, fumbling again with the Rubik's cube in his hand, felt discouraged. "Your mother really is bad. The lamb your brother gave to Qin Xiaoyu's family was taken back by your mother."
Hou Shan added, "She also had Granny Sun take away Qin Xiaoyu's family's cured meat."
"That's right. It was Qin Uncle who went to their door to get it back."
"Your mother also ate Qin Xiaoyu's family's cured meat, and she compensated with copper coins for what she ate."
"Exactly. When we eat at other people's houses, we don't take food home."
"Hou Liang, Granny Sun said that cured meat belonged to Fuzi's family. It's different from her coming with us to freeload."
"Hou Shan, you're not calling me brother. Watch out!"
The twins, who had been speaking in unison moments ago, suddenly started fighting. Qin San Niu pushed Fuzi and the wooden blocks on the kang aside, watching the twins fight.
Fuzi was pushed into a corner. He twisted his small body to face the wall, unhappy.
He believed that Hou Shan and Hou Liang wouldn't lie to him. His mother at home wasn't the mother in his heart, and his sister wasn't the sister in his heart. Fuzi suddenly wished he could send Qian Shi and Zhao Rui back.
Then they would become the good mother and good sister from the letters again.
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The Xiao Nian feast at the Qin family's was exceptionally rich, with pork and lamb brought by Zhao Liangcai and rice prepared by Qin Junyao long ago.
Except for Qin Junyao, everyone else ate their fill.
Qin Junyao wasn't displeased because of the food; it was because whenever she treated Zhao Liangcai poorly, everyone from Qin's father to Qin Er Niu would remind her to be polite. Sudancf.com.
It was infuriating.
Therefore, after everyone went to sleep that night, Qin Junyao spent the entire night digging trees in her spatial dimension.
She used a wood-cutting saw, an axe, a hoe, and a shovel. She successfully dug out three trees, each with a trunk about two people's embrace thick.
She didn't recognize what kind of trees they were; they were saplings she had dug up in the forest during the famine and had grown.
The next day, looking listless, Qin Junyao didn't accompany Qin's mother to the banquet. The wedding banquet for the stool leg was attended by military men, and it was inappropriate for Qin Junyao to go.
Moreover, Qin's mother's main purpose, besides attending the feast, was to help. Qin Junyao would only be a hindrance if she went.
Qin Junyao, mustering her strength, went for a walk in the nearby mountains and informed Qin's father of the discovery of three dead trees.
While Qin's father and Qin Lin enlisted the help of the Hou family to carry the leafless trees from the mountains, Qin Junyao was fast asleep at home.
Wasn't it because Zhao Liangcai said she was lazy?
Then everyone must be too tired to speak.
When she woke up, the house was much tidier, thanks to Aunt Qin Er's cleaning. Qin Junyao learned from a conversation between her second aunt and Qin's mother, who had returned from the stool leg's house, that Zhao Rui had privately attended the stool leg's wedding banquet. Yan Bai, the stool leg's younger brother, had been so frightened that he hid at Suozi's house and didn't even watch his own brother's wedding ceremony. This also caused Qian Duo to miss an opportunity to test her medicine.
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Eating tofu, braising meat, bathing on the twenty-seventh to wash away bad luck, and steaming date flower buns on the twenty-ninth.
A few busy days passed, and it was New Year's Eve.
Other families would be sacrificing to their ancestors on this day, but the Qin family had no ancestors to worship.
"Mother, are we not offering sacrifices this year either?" Qin's father asked Granny Qin, rubbing his shoulder. He had been suffering from shoulder pain from carrying the large trees for the past few days.
"Who should I worship? Your father? Second Brother's father? Or Third Brother's father?"
"What if they weren't dead?"
"Mother, we worship our ancestors."
Granny Qin put down the piece of cloth in her hand. "If Father is gone, where are the ancestors? How about this."
"Not dead? Not dead?"
Granny Qin called the yellow dog, Bu Si, into the house. "Then, you worship him. Your father is related to him."
The yellow dog Bu Si wagged its tail and barked, "Woof."