When Cao Zhiqiang took a group of people to eat steamed buns at a nearby restaurant, Huaihua also began to continue asking about Cao Lili and Qiao Simei.
"That's right."
After listening to Cao Lili's statement, Huaihua said thoughtfully.
"So Lili, your original name was Qiao Sanli. In addition to this sister, there are two older brothers, a younger brother and a father in the family. Mother is gone?"
"Yeah." Cao Lili nodded.
Huaihua added: "So, you were sold by your father back then..."
"Cough!" Cao Zhiqiang suddenly coughed.
Huaihua was stunned for a moment, then realized that she had just asked something she shouldn't have asked, and stuck out her tongue, feeling a little embarrassed for a moment.
"Here, have another bun." Cao Zhiqiang picked up another bun and handed it to Qiao Simei.
"Thank you, Brother Cao." Qiao Simei called out sweetly, picked up another bun and started to chew on it.
"Simei." Sophora japonica said again, "It's not what my sister said about you. Even if you miss your sister, you can't come alone? It's so far from Jinling to the capital. It's too dangerous for a child like you to come here alone. Why don't you tell your father and ask him to bring you here?"
"Dad will not bring me here." Qiao Simei said while chewing the buns, "He is afraid of spending money and has no time, so he can't bring me here.
Not only that, he wanted to sell me to others. I didn't want to be sold to others, but I was afraid, so I ran over alone to join my sister. "
"Ah?" Huaihua said subconsciously, "Your father wants to sell you?"
"Yes." Qiao Simei said while eating steamed buns, "A strange uncle and a strange aunt came that day. They kept looking at me and asking me questions.
I didn't know what was going on, but later my second brother secretly told me that my father wanted to sell me, just like he sold me to my sister.
I don’t want to go to a stranger’s house and be someone else’s daughter, and I saw a letter from my sister saying that the food and drinks here are delicious, there is endless meat to eat, endless milk to drink, all kinds of weird fruits and snacks, and There are endless new clothes and shoes to wear, and there is also a separate room and a separate big bed. I am so jealous.
I saw that my sister was doing so well, so I wanted to come find her. "
Speaking of this, Qiao Simei said: "Sister, I don't plan to leave once I'm here. You have to take good care of me. If you have delicious food and drinks, remember to share some with me!"
Cao Lili frowned and said: "Fool, if you really come, how worried should the elder brother be? By the way, have you told the elder brother that you came to me?"
"No." Qiao Simei shook her head, "I want to tell my eldest brother, he will definitely disagree. By the way, my eldest brother knew that I was going to be sold, so he seemed to go to the family who wanted to buy me. It was probably the family that wanted to buy me. Beg them not to buy from me.
However, when my eldest brother came back later, I saw that he was so angry that he threw away all the previous certificates and was depressed all day long. He must have failed to negotiate well, and he knew that I was definitely going to be sold, so he was very angry.
It was when I saw this situation that I felt that I couldn't stay, because if I stayed, my father would definitely sell me out, so I secretly came to find my sister alone. "
"That's right." Cao Lili, or Qiao Sanli, sighed faintly, "It's really hard for my eldest brother."
Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang squinted his eyes and looked at Cao Lili, hehehe, but said nothing.
Well, if the TV plot Cao Zhiqiang watched in his previous life is correct, or if the history here is not too different, then Qiao Simei's current situation is most likely to be adopted by a family named Shen in Suzhou. The plot.
If that's the case, then the reason why Qiao Simei's eldest brother went to that family was probably not to prevent Qiao Simei from being sold, but to sell himself on his own initiative so that the family would accept him instead of Qiao Simei.
In this way, once Qiao becomes himself, he can escape from the home that disgusts him, get a better life and support, and have a better future.
Cao Zhiqiang still remembers that in the plot of the TV series, when Qiao Yicheng found out that Qiao Simei was going to be adopted, and that the family was very rich and well-established, he was very angry on the surface, but in fact he had other thoughts and secretly took a bunch of I got my certificate and went to the guest house to find the family.
But he didn't advise that family not to adopt Qiao Simei or separate them, but he hoped that they would adopt him, Qiao Yicheng, instead.
At first glance, this seems to be a kind of substitution, for the benefit of my sister, but in fact, it is to let myself escape from that poor home and live a good life, and to rob my sister of opportunities.
It's a pity that that family only liked Qiao Simei, and said that Qiao Simei looked very similar to that family's dead daughter. In fact, they just didn't like Qiao Yicheng, which made Qiao Yicheng angry. After returning home, he took away all the certificates. I threw them all away, thinking that those things were of no use at all.
It was this experience that made Qiao Yicheng determined to enter college and change his life through self-reliance and never ask for help.
Of course, the same experience made Qiao Yicheng feel a little ashamed, so he later became more concerned about his younger brothers and sisters and did not care about them selfishly.
All in all, Qiao Yicheng's character was pretty good, at least much better than his scumbag father.
"Alas!" Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang couldn't help but sigh, "It's not easy."
"Yes." Huaihua, who had no idea what Cao Zhiqiang was thinking, also sighed, "It's indeed not easy. I never thought there would be such a father."
Having said this, Sophora japonica looked at Qiao Simei lovingly: "Simei, you are so pitiful."
"No." Qiao Simei looked at Cao Zhiqiang and said while chewing the buns in her mouth, "Don't you feel pitiful?
In fact, I was a little hesitant at first, because I was afraid that the brother Cao mentioned in my sister's letter was ugly, but I couldn't bear to look at such ugly people.
But Brother Cao is very good-looking, even better than the eldest brother, which is not bad, I am very satisfied.
Well, Brother Cao, if you treat me as well as your sister said in her letter from now on, I will be your daughter. What do you think? "
Cao Zhiqiang couldn't laugh or cry: "Hey, Simei, right? Your sister is my sister. If you were my daughter, wouldn't you have to call your sister aunt? This generational hierarchy is in chaos!"
"Ah?" Qiao Simei was stunned, "Yes, this is a problem."
But soon, she smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, then you can just treat me as my eldest brother. I will be your sister just like my sister. Anyway, you just need to take good care of me."
I don’t have high requirements. I just need to eat meat once every two or three days. It’s best if I can change into two or three new sets of clothes a year. That’s enough. It’s easy to maintain. "
Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: "We'll talk about this later. Now that we've come to the capital, let's eat, drink and have fun first, and do the rest slowly. Maybe as time goes by, you'll feel homesick and want to go back. Don't want to be here?" This is stupid."
"No!" Qiao Simei shook her head, "I don't want to go back. If I go back, I will be sold."
"That's right." Cao Lili nodded, "My father can definitely do such a thing!"
Immediately afterwards, Cao Lili looked at Cao Zhiqiang: "Brother Cao, how about you accept my sister.
Anyway, you don’t need this little money now anyway. You only need to give half of what you gave me to my sister. That’s enough. It doesn’t matter if I eat less. "
Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, and then said with a smile: "Lili, this is not a matter of money.
If it's just more mouths, it's nothing to me, it's just more pairs of chopsticks.
Even if she comes, our food standards will not be lowered, but will only be improved.
Didn't I tell you earlier? In my Cao family, the least thing we need to worry about is food and clothing.
The problem is, this is not something I can just accept. It’s very complicated.
To put it simply, I am too young and single. Legally speaking, I am not qualified to adopt a child. Even if I have the ability, do you know? "
"But, but..." Cao Lili frowned.
"Let's eat first." Huaihua suddenly smiled and said, "There will always be a way. We will discuss it slowly when the time comes. Don't be in a hurry.
Today is a good day for you sisters to reunite, let’s not talk about the unhappy ones! "
"That's right, that's right." Cao Zhiqiang immediately followed, "Today is a happy day, don't mention these spoilers, there will be a road to the mountain, and there are always more solutions than difficulties.
You guys eat quickly and take a shower after you finish eating. Then I will take you shopping. Let’s go to Wangfujing for a one-stop shop of eating, drinking and having fun! "
Next, Qiao Simei quickly finished her steamed buns and beans, and then led Cao Lili and Sophora japonica to a bathhouse to take a bath.
Cao Zhiqiang was not idle either. He also took a shower and rubbed his back.
After everyone had finished taking a shower, Cao Zhiqiang called two more tricycles and took the four of them to Wangfujing.
Yes, at this time in Peiping, when it comes to shopping, the first choice is Wangfujing, and the first choice in Wangfujing is the Beiping City Department Store.
At this time, the Peking City Department Store was still the best shopping mall in the entire capital, not even one of it.
Thanks to policy issues, Beiping City Department Store has a complete range of goods, and almost all the good goods from all over the country are available here.
Especially if you want to buy various household appliances and the like, only department stores have the best selection.
Of course, if you just go shopping and buy clothes and other things, department stores may not be the best and most fashionable places. Some nearby time-honored brands are better.
For example, Ruifuxiang's silks, Neiliansheng's cloth shoes, Donghua's ready-made clothes, Meiqi's suit shop, etc., are all excellent.
Cao Zhiqiang’s plan is to first visit time-honored stores and buy outfits for everyone, and finally go to department stores to buy electrical appliances.
In the spring of 1983, although the cloth ticketing had not been completely cancelled, it was not far away.
In fact, when buying imitation clothing at this time, except for places like department stores, most clothing stores no longer require cloth tickets, and just pay them directly.
Obviously, Qiao Simei was dazzled by the prosperity here. She had never been to such a prosperous place before.
Even Sophora japonica, although she had been here many times before, she had always just passed by and had a look, and had never dared to buy anything here.
Otherwise, it’s too expensive and I can’t afford it.
However, Cao Zhiqiang and Cao Lili were both calm. After all, they had shopped here several times before.
It's just that before Cao Zhiqiang brought Cao Lili here, he only bought some mid-to-low-end clothing with high cost performance. He had never bought high-end goods like now.
There was no way around it. Although Cao Zhiqiang had earned a lot of royalties in the past, it was nothing compared to what he had done before he published his collection of poems, so he didn't dare to spend lavishly. He always looked for bargains with high cost performance.
It's different now.
Ever since Poetry Magazine helped contact the Writers Publishing House, they published a collection of personal poems for Cao Zhiqiang.
In just over half a month, Cao Zhiqiang received a royalties of 96,000 yuan, plus various tickets including industrial papers.
So at this time, Cao Zhiqiang is really not short of money.
Now that you have money, why not quickly start the prodigal mode of buying, buying and buying.
If you don’t spend money, it’s like walking at night in brocade clothes, it’s so unprofitable!
He, Cao Zhiqiang, is not an ascetic or a miser, so he will not treat himself badly in life.
Therefore, he has long wanted to make a big purchase, but this time there are two more people, making it more lively.
