After thinking about it, he couldn't think of anything. Early the next morning, Liang Yuanque planned to ask Brother Jiao around the corner.
Country people usually get up very early, especially in this summer, so they have to seize the time to work before the sun comes out.
When Liang Yuanque passed by, Brother Jiao was already chopping firewood in the yard. He was a little surprised to see him.
"Hey, little brother, why are you up so early?"
"Ang, I've always been used to getting up early." Liang Yuanque smiled.
"It's really good. This is a good habit." Since he came over, Brother Jiao temporarily stopped what he was doing to take a rest. "Nowadays, many young people are getting lazier and lazier, and they all like to sleep in."
After saying that, he asked Liang Yuanque again, "Little brother, aren't you old?"
"Uh, Ang, it's the sixteenth year of the new year." Liang Yuanque really didn't expect that he would ask this, so he was caught off guard and casually mentioned an age.
"I think so. You are a little younger than my brother." Brother Jiao wiped the sweat on his forehead with the towel hanging around his neck.
Liang Yuan Quexin said that I was planning to ask about your brother, so you brought it up yourself, so you just continued on the topic,
"Brother Jiao, where does your brother work? Does he never go home?"
"Just give him a job as a helper at home," Brother Jiao said. "He helped in the jade mine when he was a child. People saw that he was quick and easy, so they introduced him to the Lin family. He has been working in the Lin family and only came back during the Chinese New Year."
Brother Jiao said, remembering something,
"Oh, you people from out of town don't know that the Lin family is the largest wealthy family in our town. Working in their family will give you good pay, but the problem is that their family is not peaceful right now."
Liang Yuanque thought to himself, that's really good, especially your brother, I will never forget it in my life.
Liang Yuanque had suffered various injuries in his life, and this was the first time he was almost beaten to death with a shovel.
Liang Yuanque nodded casually, "As long as the treatment is good, it's none of our business if the master's family is not peaceful."
"That's right," Brother Jiao smiled and continued to work, "People like us just have to live our lives well."
After hearing what he said, he really wanted to tie Xiao Linzi over immediately and listen to what his brother said.
Just live your life well. If your master asks you to kill someone, will you kill him?
He'd better have some brains. If they run away this time, he should stop chasing them and go home to recover.
Then Liang Yuanque thought again, what if Xiao Linzi was outnumbered and was killed by another wave of people?
Seeing Brother Jiao in front of him, he still couldn't bear it. If his younger brother died in such an unknown way, the elder brother would be very sad.
But even if he was worried about these things, he couldn't change anything.
Liang Yuanque was silent for a while, watching Brother Jiao start chopping firewood again.
After he finished chopping the firewood in one go, Liang Yuanque pretended to have just remembered and took out the photo from his fumbles.
"Hey, Brother Jiao, I suddenly remembered something to ask you."
"What?" Brother Jiao looked over.
Liang Yuanque pointed at the photo in his hand,
"Brother Jiao, I found this when I was cleaning the dust in the cabinet last night. Is it a photo of your home?"
Brother Jiao looked at it and immediately smiled,
"How can it be that she belongs to my family? Your sister-in-law is the only woman in my family now. This doesn't seem right at all!"
"Could that be a photo of an elder from the past?" Liang Yuanque guided him.
"Hey, maybe, let me take a closer look." Brother Jiao frowned and came over to take a closer look.
"Hey, does she look a bit like my aunt?" Brother Jiao was still a little hesitant, so he turned to call his wife who was cooking in the room,
"Hey, bastard, come out and take a look!"
"What are you looking at? You woke up so early in the morning and started shouting!"
Mrs. Jiao muttered, wiping her hands with her apron as she came out, "What is it?"
"Let's see if it's our aunt." Brother Jiao pointed at the photo.
Liang Yuanque then took the photo to Sister-in-law Jiao. While looking at it, she asked Brother Jiao,
"Which one do you think is our aunt?"
"They both look alike to me." Brother Jiao scratched his head and thought.
Sister-in-law Jiao looked at her carefully for a while and then said, "I see that the person sitting in front of me is our aunt. She has a rounder face and a smaller mouth."
Brother Jiao stared at the photo and thought for a while, and felt that what his wife said made sense.
"Don't worry, my aunt was very beautiful when she was young, but why have I never seen this photo?"
Liang Yuanque explained, "I found this from the cabinet beside the bed. It was covered with a layer of dust."
Brother Jiao thought for a while, "After my aunt left, I packed up all the belongings in her house. Maybe the photos were too small and I left them behind. Thank you, little brother. If you didn't find out, I would have put them away." ”
"It's okay," Liang Yuanque smiled slightly, "I think it's something from the elders' past. It's quite commemorative. Please put it away."
Then he changed the subject, "Hey, since the person in front is your aunt, then who is the person in the back?"
"Hiss," Brother Jiao frowned again, "I don't know about that."
"She's my aunt's sister. She looks quite similar." Unexpectedly, Mrs. Jiao on the side intervened.
"How did you know?" Brother Jiao looked at her in surprise.
Sister-in-law Jiao smiled slightly, with a little pride on her face, "We ladies have chatted with each other, but you, man, have never served our aunt personally."
Sister-in-law Jiao looked at the photo of her aunt wearing a satin cheongsam and a pearl necklace and sighed,
"Oh, it turns out that my aunt didn't lie. Her family was really rich in the past."
"Oh, it's a pity that there is nothing left." Brother Jiao sighed.
After catching this message, Liang Yuanque immediately asked, "Sister-in-law, what did my aunt talk about before?"
"I have occasionally said that she used to be everyone's young lady. You can also see it in daily life. My aunt can read and write, which is different from ordinary women."
My sister-in-law couldn't stop talking about her deceased aunt.
The more she talked, the happier Liang Yuanque naturally became. In order to keep her talking, he added a few words, pretending to be curious.
"Wow, it sounds like my aunt is a very powerful person. I like hearing stories like this. Sister-in-law, can you tell me more?"
Auntie seemed to be a very important figure in their family. Not only the sister-in-law, but also Brother Jiao was very proud to see him being so interested.
"My aunt is very powerful. When I was young, my family was poor. She taught some of our brothers how to read and write, and she also sent my cousin to a school in the city."
Brother Jiao was talking with great joy when he suddenly stopped, as if he thought of his cousin and had some grudge in his heart.
The more he behaves like this, the more curious Liang Yuanque becomes.
"Of course, what happens next, brother?"
Sister-in-law Jiao quickly came out to smooth things over and said to Liang Yuanque,
"Hey, let's not stand outside and talk. I've made the noodle soup. Let's go inside and talk while eating!"
