Chapter Nineteenth: Finding Labor

  Qiu Ye didn't know that at noon, her father and mother had an in-depth discussion about her. She slept soundly for a while and got up refreshed to continue fighting. She decided to sell glutinous rice balls again at the cafeteria entrance tonight, which would be another 60 cents. In ten days, she would have earned 12 yuan, not bad at all, better than staying at home doing nothing.

  Everyone at home went to work or school as usual, and in the afternoon, her mother told her that she would go to the tofu workshop again, so she stayed home alone.

  After getting out of bed, she first went to check her seasonings, which were enough for a few more sales. The meatballs had also been cooked in the morning, so now she had nothing to do.

  Qiu Ye wandered around the house for several rounds, and finally decided that from today on, she would practice yoga to start exercising her body as soon as possible, making it more flexible. She had thought that in a few years, when she had money and a place to learn dance, she would sign up to study, but now she didn't have the conditions, so she could only lay the foundation herself first.

  She pulled out a large plastic sheet from the closet in her room, then spread a thin quilt on it, and used it as her own yoga mat.

  She starts with the most basic deep breathing exercise. She brings her legs together, places her hands on her sides, then interlocks her fingers, bends her elbows, and presses the back of her interlocked fingers against her lower jaw. She takes a deep breath, uses throat breathing, slowly inhales, counts silently in her mind, and slowly lifts her elbows like seagull wings, keeping her fingertips lightly touching both cheeks. After counting to six, she slightly opens her mouth to exhale, also counting to six, while tilting her head back as far as possible, still keeping her fingers pressed against the bottom of her jaw.

  Qiu Ye hadn't practiced yoga for a long time, and in this life she was also a beginner, so she didn't do too difficult movements. Next, she did several basic movements such as Ardha Chandrasana, Vrksasana, Garudasana, etc. Everything should be done step by step, so Qiu Ye planned to gradually deepen and increase the difficulty of her yoga practice.

  At 4 pm, Qiu Ye had everything ready, but the basin was too heavy and she couldn't lift it. She thought that her mother would definitely be back soon, so she decided to wait for her return and ask her mother to send herself over.

  Qiu Ye lay on the cool platform, looking around. She didn't see her mother, but saw her brother lying on the ground and playing with marbles downstairs. She patted her forehead, how could she forget this chore?

  Qiu Ye coaxed and cheated her brother Qiu Feng to come back, but when he returned with a gloomy face, he found out his sister wanted him to do chores, which made him even more unwilling, so he turned around and was about to run away.

  You said your sister has so many things to do, can't she just stay at home quietly? Why does she have to sell those rice balls? Although he hasn't expressed his opinion on this for the past two days, in his heart, he doesn't think it's right. If his classmates find out that his sister is a street vendor, who knows how they'll tease him? At this time, his sister still comes to order him around, which is unbearable.

  So he raised his chin and said, "I'm not going to do it, you just stay at home and be honest." After finishing speaking, he was ready to ignore his sister and go out to play again. Just now, he had lost two glass balls, and now he went to win them back.

  Qiu Ye looked at her brother and knew that if she didn't come up with something, he would never understand, so she started to get emotional and began to sob quietly.

  Qiu Feng was about to open the door and go out when he heard a sobbing sound behind him. He turned his head to see that his sister's big eyes were filled with tears, staring at him, her small hands covering her mouth as if she was afraid of making a sound.

  Qiu Feng's heart softened, his sister looked so pitiful, just like the little cat in his classmate's home. Why not help her? It wasn't a long way, and he could still have time to play after sending his sister back. He looked at his sister's small arms and then at the big basin on the table, thinking that she really couldn't carry it herself. Moreover, his mother had said that he mustn't make his sister cry, or else his father would scold him severely when he came back.

  "Hey, since he's your brother, I'll help out. So I said: 'Don't cry, if you do, I won't help you carry it.'"

  Qiu Ye heard her brother's words and raised two fingers in her heart, she knew that her brother was like their mother, a typical sharp-tongued but soft-hearted person who couldn't bear to see her cry, it had always been this way since she was little.

  She smiled sweetly with tears in her eyes and flattered: "Brother is the best. When I make a lot of money, I'll buy many toys for brother, okay?"

  Qiu Feng nodded and said, "Mm, you still have a conscience." Then he scratched his head in embarrassment, "No need to buy too many, just get a handgun will do."

  "Good." Qiu Ye readily agreed, and since she hadn't said how much money she had, he bought her toys.

  Qiu Feng didn't know that this one misstep would last for several years, and with just one rifle, he sold himself to his sister and became her laborer forever.

  That afternoon, Qiu Feng went to the teachers' cafeteria with his sister. Seeing that there were few pedestrians on the road and fearing that his sister was timid, he reluctantly sat down on a not-too-distant roadside curb to wait for her.

  Qiu Ye looked at her brother's actions and was really moved. Mom always said that her brother didn't understand things, but actually he was the one who valued family relationships the most in this household. In her previous life when she was in elementary school, her brother had never failed to beat up those boys who bullied her, and after coming home, he would be scolded by their father with a broomstick many times, yet still remained stubborn for her sake.

  Qiu Ye made a silent vow in her heart, this life, she would also be very good to her brother.

  Then Qiu Ye started his small hawking career again.

  Afternoon sales are better than morning, maybe the buns sent out in the morning played a role. Several people were repeat customers, and some others bought after eating the buns given by their classmates, feeling pretty good, so they came to buy a few more in the afternoon.

  Qiu Ye still implemented the sales strategy of "buy five get one free", and in just over an hour, they sold out all the water-boiled dumplings.

  Qiu's father came to pick him up after work and saw his son accompanying the girl, so he nodded in satisfaction, this is what a brother should be like.

  Qiu Ye saw her father coming to pick her up, so she pulled her brother and happily carried the empty basin back home with her father.

  "Afternoon business is so good, all the rice balls are sold out?" Mr. Qiu joked to the girl, he had just seen that the girl let people taste for free and tasted more than a dozen rice balls, he estimated that most of the previous ones were also given away for free, and few were sold."

  Qiu Feng whispered to his sister, "It's not good, you didn't spend a single penny on them, they were all gifts from your sister. When I get home, I'll tell mom that my sister is too extravagant."

  Qiu Ye's retort to her brother was both infuriating and amusing, but she still answered their father's question first: "It's not that I sold them all off, many of them were given away as gifts. Brother, this isn't me being wasteful, it's just that I couldn't bear to part with the kids' clothes. Anyway, these buns can't be eaten overnight, and even if we took them back home, we wouldn't be able to finish them by noon. It would be a waste, so when someone came asking, I gave some away. Who knows, maybe these people will become my repeat customers in the future."

  "Haha, okay, my girl is quite clever with her calculations." Qiu Dad used his free hand to rub his daughter's head.

  Qiu Feng listened but curled his lips in disdain at his sister's absurd logic and their father's partiality. If he had done something like this, he would have definitely been scolded by his mother and beaten by his father. But now that it was his sister who did it, everything was different. In other people's families, they always favored sons over daughters, but in his own family, it was the opposite - they had always favored daughters over sons since childhood. He snorted, thinking to himself that he was really unlucky.

  After the three returned home, Mrs. Qiu saw the empty basin and was slightly surprised, but later found out that most of it had been given away to others by the girl for free, so she glared at her and scolded "good-for-nothing".

  Qiu Feng's eyes immediately turned to his sister with a "you're in trouble" look, implying that their mother would definitely scold her for being wasteful.

  But Qiu Feng waited for half a day, and his mother didn't make another sound, how could he just scold him like that.

  Qiu Ye saw her brother's face slowly turning sour and couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

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