Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

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. Your 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 won't 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 someone else. I didn’t want to be sold to someone else, 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 at first, 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, "If I 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. He probably 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 his 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 just when I saw this situation that I felt that I couldn't stay, because if I stayed, I would definitely be sold by my father, 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.

's 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, Qiao can become himself, escape from the home that disgusts him, obtain 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 ideas and secretly took a bunch of

I got my certificate and went to the guest house to find the family.

But he did not 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 replacement for the benefit of my sister, but in fact it is because I want to escape that poor home and live a good life, and I want 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 they were of no use at all.

It was this experience that made Qiao Yicheng determined to go to college and change his life through self-reliance and never ask for help again.

Of course, this same experience made Qiao Yicheng feel a little ashamed, so he later became more concerned about his younger siblings and was not selfish at all.

All in all, Qiao Yicheng's character is 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."

"Yeah." 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 treat you as 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 messed up!"

"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 treat you as your sister, just like your elder 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 get 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 he 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. You don't want to be here anymore."

This is so boring."

"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’ll 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, but not one of them.

Thanks to policy issues, the department store in Beiping City has quite a complete range of goods, and almost all the good stuff that comes from all over the country can be found here.

Especially if you want to buy various household appliances and the like, only department stores have the most comprehensive range.

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 some 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 basically don’t use cloth tickets anymore 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 though she had been to Huaihua many times before, she had always just passed by and had a look, and had never dared to buy anything here.

Without him, 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 before, he couldn't compare with what he had 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 and 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 receipts 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 in brocade clothes at night, 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 had long wanted to make a big purchase, but this time there were two more people, which made it more lively.