The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

After eating the noodles, the mayor asked his subordinates to pay the money, and personally gave the young man a sum of condolence money, saying that it was the money they gave to the young man locally, and said some words of encouragement to the young man, "Be good in the future." Study and win glory for our Pegasus Town."

"Thank you mayor, Mingming will." As for the condolence money sent by the town, if he did not accept it, it would be a disgrace to the other party, so Qiao Minglang had no choice but to accept it.

The mayor completed the purpose of his trip and left with a group of people.

Qiao Minglang sent the mayor and his party off, and returned to the stall to continue working.He didn't pay much attention to the gazes from around him. Regarding the arrival of today's group of people, he could more or less guess the purpose of that man.

However, this does not prevent them from continuing to open stalls for business, and it is beneficial for them to open stalls for business.

Today's incident also made him understand that no matter in his previous life or in this life, scholars are respected and admired by others.He wants to go further and better on his own path. Currently, reading a good book is a shortcut for him, which makes him more determined to continue reading.

What he didn't have the opportunity to do in his previous life, this time, he will seize the opportunity.

***

As soon as the beginning of autumn is over, some people in the village have already started harvesting millet at this time, and the millet in their fields is also ripe, and it is time to collect it.

Since the few of them have been in business together, they have been running outside every day, and they haven't been to the field much. The grass in the field has grown taller than the seedlings.But everyone is so busy making money that they don't care much about the work in the fields.

But when the millet was harvested at this time, the families must first take back the millet, which was the grain they had produced for a year.At this time, there will be a heavy rain, and a year's hard work will be in vain.

"It's better than this. In the next few days, our family will make less tofu and meatballs. In the past few days, we will not go out of the stall. We will stay at home to collect the millet, dry it and then go out of the stall." Uncle Qiao made the decision, stopped selling their stalls, and only did business at the noodle stall, and they stopped selling things.

Turning to his second son, he said, "Mingliang, please tell the boss to take two days off and come back home to help harvest the millet."

"Okay, I'll talk to the boss later." Qiao Mingliang was still working in the restaurant, so he didn't come home to help.

Uncle Qiao didn't have much of a problem with his son working outside and not coming back to help the family.However, harvesting food every year is a major event for their family. At this time, the sons are outside, so they have to come back to help.

Seeing his eldest brother come back to work at home, Qiao Mingliang actually felt a little moved. He wanted to quit his current job and come back to help the family.But thinking that their boss valued him very much, he felt sorry for their boss when he left like this, so after thinking about this matter again and again, he couldn't make a decision, so he continued to work in the store.

"Okay, if that's the case, our Mingjing and Mingzhong will also stay at home to help." Qiao Chunfu asked the two sons of the family to stay and help.

Brothers Qiao Mingjing and Qiao Mingzhong didn't have any objections either. They were all working at home now, and now that their own father had spoken, it didn't matter if they stopped for a few days.

Uncle Qiao said: "There is no shortage of Qingming in the town. I think Minglang's family only has two plots of land, not much. We just help collect it." , the noodle stall will definitely not be able to open.

"Well, that's fine. It's just two pieces of land. Let's move faster and collect them in less than half a day." Qiao Chunfu has no objection to this.

They finalized the matter of harvesting the millet, and did not give the nephew a chance to speak at all.

Qiao Minglang didn't have any objection to this, he knew that he would be indispensable at the noodle stall, and he would still go to the town to set up a noodle stall with the hall brother and uncles.

But at this time, several families collect grain together, and it is not good for them to have no one at all.

Going out from the uncle's house, on the way back to their house, Qiao Minglang said to the two younger ones: "Our family has two pieces of land, and we asked others to collect them. If we don't do it, it won't be good."

"The two of you stay at home for the next few days, harvesting millet with uncle and the others. If there is anything you can do to help, you can help, do you think it's okay?"

"Yes, my third sister and I will stay at home to harvest the millet. Brother, don't worry, we can work." Qiao Mingcheng felt that besides his elder brother, he was also a man in this family and could help the family.

Hearing that her eldest brother asked her to stay at home, it was rare for Third Sister Qiao not to make a fuss. Since they opened the noodle stall, they were too busy going to town every day, and she didn't want to talk when she came back from work.

Hearing that she won't have to go to work in the town for the next few days, Qiao Sanmei felt a little happy in her heart.

"You have to remember that our family is in difficulty now, and it is not a matter of course for others to help us. When others help us, we must remember the goodness of others in our hearts. When you grow up and have the ability, we will also help uncle and the others.

What we can do now is to do what we can and what we can do, don't cheat and be lazy, and be down-to-earth and down-to-earth. "On the way back, Qiao Minglang also told the two little ones the principles of life and doing things.

"Well, brother, I remember." Qiao Mingcheng listened carefully to what his brother said, and kept what he said in his heart.

Looking at his younger brother walking beside him, Qiao Minglang put his hand on his shoulder, wrapped his arms around his shoulder, and led his younger brother and sisters back home.When he got home, there were two small ones and one big one. This was his home, and his family was here.

***

In the next few days, the stalls selling tofu and meatballs were closed, and only the noodle stall remained open. The two uncles did not sell anything, and brought a few cousins ​​to harvest millet at home.

At this time of year, Joe Erbo and his wife don't go fishing, but stay at home to harvest millet.However, there are still people in their village who go fishing. It just so happens that their brother-in-law Chen Rui is in the fish business.

For Chen Rui, this was just a trip, but because it was a relative's business, he didn't make much money.

But on weekdays, he took fish and shrimp from their second uncle, knowing the approximate price, Uncle Qiao would not let his relatives pay them back, and the money was still calculated and paid to others.

"Daddy, let's go."

"Well, you go, be careful on the road."

After getting things ready in the morning, they headed for the town.

The millet that arrives in the field every year is ripe, and at a glance, it is golden.

"Haha, this year's millet grows well. Put this millet away, and we can cook a new rice to eat."

"The rice cooked with the newly harvested millet is delicious."

There were bent over and busy figures in the field. At this time, the men and women in every household stopped their work and rushed to collect the millet in the field.The women working in the fields are still talking in loud voices across a few acres of land. For them, this time of harvesting millet is the happiest time for them.

A sickle goes down, a handful of seedlings are covered with heavy millet.

There are a few threshing machines in their village, which are owned by the public. Whoever threshed the millet will push it to use first, and those who are late will queue up and wait.

The threshed millet is transported to the grain drying field in their village to dry. Several grain fields in the village are full of millet, and some people put the millet at their door to dry.

"Go! Go! Go--"

At this time, it is also necessary to prevent birds, chickens and ducks from eating millet. We arranged for the youngest children in the family to patrol around with sticks. When they saw birds or chickens coming, the children drove them away with sticks. .

The third sister Qiao and the fourth brother Qiao were arranged by their uncle to watch the millet, and they were chasing the birds with a stick in their hand.

Seeing the children who were younger than them chasing the birds, Qiao Xiaofen felt a little uncomfortable. She felt that when they grew up, they should go to the field to harvest the millet instead of looking at the millet here!

"Fourth brother, you stay here and watch, I'll help the aunt." At this moment Qiao Xiaofen wanted to run away.

"Sister, I'll go, you stay here and watch." Qiao Mingcheng grabbed his sister. He felt that he was the man in the family, so he should let him go and let his sister stay at home.

The siblings discussed for a long time, but they didn't come to an agreement.

In the end, Sanmei Qiao suppressed her younger brother on the grounds that she was the elder sister and the other party was the younger brother, and asked him to stay here and watch the millet, "Stay here and watch, don't run away, let the birds steal our millet." In fact, it is not only to prevent the birds from stealing their millet, but also to prevent some greedy people in the village from stealing their millet.

Seeing his sister run away, Qiao Mingcheng squatted under the tree with a stick in his hand, with a look of lovelessness on his face.

Knowing that the family was harvesting millet in the past few days, their manpower was not enough, so Qiao Minglang didn't cook so much soup in the next few days, and when the food was sold out, they came back early to help the family.

When he came back that day, he saw their child squatting under a tree with an unhappy expression on his face, Qiao Minglang walked over to the child and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

"Brother, when did you come back?" Qiao Mingcheng's eyes lit up when he saw his brother.

"Just now, I saw you here." He didn't even return home, so he came here.After asking a few words, Qiao Minglang knew that the child was here to watch the millet, so Qiao Minglang said very unconscionably: "Oh, then you continue to watch here, brother, go and see if uncle and the others want to help."

"..." Brother, you brought me with you!

Qiao Mingcheng looked at the back of his eldest brother leaving, so he had no choice but to stay here to watch Guzi, and couldn't help but sighed again.