Chapter 43 Chapter 43 This kid has quite a few things...
Su Yan knew that most of these people's enthusiasm was directed at Qin Zhanwu, not at herself, but she had no intention of offending anyone. She smiled and said, "There's no friction between us. It's all about the matter, not the person."
This gave Sister Feng a way out. She said to Su Yan, "Please let me know when the date is set. I don't have anything nice to give you, but I will definitely go and help."
When she returned to the office, the door was closed tightly. It was not locked from the outside, but locked from the inside. Su Yan knocked on the door, but no one responded, but it was obvious that there was someone inside.
Su Yan knocked on the door again and asked, "Is Mingfan in there?"
Ming Fan finally said, "Sister Yingzi, I'm here." He then opened the door. Su Yan saw that she looked fine, though she seemed to have been crying again. She asked, "Why did you close the door? I thought something had happened to you."
Turning around, she saw Jiang Dayan standing off to the side. Su Yan glanced at the two of them and decided to pretend she saw nothing. "Dayan's here too. Is he delivering some documents?"
Jiang Dayan nodded at Su Yan with a cold expression. "Yingzi, I heard you're getting married? Is it to that Deputy Captain Qin? I should have known earlier. You said you didn't want to get married, but it turns out you've had your eye on him for a long time, right?"
Su Yan glanced at him and didn't care: "Whether it is or not, it has nothing to do with you."
Jiang Dayan looked at Su Yan fiercely, but he was discussing with Ming Fan: "Ming Fan, Yingzi is only a few years older than you, and she's about to get married. Why don't we both get the marriage certificate and find a date to get married?"
Su Yan turned her head to look at Ming Fan, and saw tears falling from her eyes. She ran over and pushed Jiang Dayan hard: "What nonsense are you talking about? I will never marry you no matter who I marry." After that, she covered her face and ran out.
Su Yan was speechless. She looked at Jiang Dayan and said, "A person who doesn't even respect his own comrades is truly a person without noble character. Just because Ming Fan likes you, you insult him like this. It's really contemptible."
Jiang Dayan turned pale after hearing this and gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't insult her. I really want to marry her."
Su Yan smiled and shook her head: "I hope it's fake, because you are not worthy of Ming Fan at all." After that, she didn't care what Jiang Dayan thought, she pushed open the door and went out, leaving him alone in the office.
Although Su Yan didn't want to get involved in the affairs of these two people, she was worried that Ming Fan, the little girl, would do something bad, so she had to chase after her.
Ming Fan didn't run far, but hid in the bathroom and cried. When he saw Su Yan leaving, he wiped his tears and said, "Sister Yingzi, I'm fine."
Su Yan handed her a handkerchief and advised: "There's really no need to be sad about this kind of person. If you really get sad, you'll be at a disadvantage."
Ming Fan nodded, tears streaming down his face again. "Sister Yingzi, I won't marry Brother Dayan. His family looks down on me. I must find someone better than Jiang Dayan, someone my parents will respect."
Su Yan smiled: "You are still young!"
After a long moment of comfort, Ming Fan finally recovered, washed his face, and walked back to the office arm in arm with Su Yan. Just as he poured a cup of hot water, the phone rang. It was Uncle Song from the security department. "Yingzi, we went to your sister-in-law's place, and she admitted it. She said she took all the things, including the food coupons. When we went there, she said we could return the things."
This was simply abnormal to the extreme. Su Yan asked, "Uncle Song, my sister-in-law is a person who will make trouble even if she is unreasonable. How can it be so easy this time?"
Uncle Song said, "Didn't you go on a business trip to the countryside last time? Your sister-in-law took both children away, saying that as a mother, she had to raise her own children. I won't talk about Xiaogang, but I think Yan Zi is inseparable from her mother. When I said I would take them to your place yesterday, Yan Zi started crying and crying."
Finally, he concluded, "She probably wants Yan Zi's monthly food rations. She said you still have so much food and food coupons at home this month. You must be taking advantage! I don't know who told her that whoever raises the child gets the pension. Isn't this causing a commotion?"
Su Yan hadn't been particularly fond of children since arriving in this place. She'd raised two children simply because they hadn't been raised by their parents, out of humanitarianism, and not much affection. Hearing Uncle Song's words chilled her heart. However, blood ties were inseparable, and Su Yan couldn't sever them.
Su Yan said to the other end of the phone: "Uncle Song, what are the plans for the two children? I have to ask you to accompany me to my sister-in-law's house. No matter what, you must at least be a witness."
Uncle Song agreed: "Okay, I'll go with you after work."
After hearing this call, Su Yan couldn't muster the energy to work for the whole afternoon. When she finally got off work, she went to the security department to find Uncle Song. Uncle Song was working with someone to issue a certificate and stamp it. After waiting for a long time, he finally pushed his bicycle out.
On the way, she kept reminding Su Yan, "When you see the child, don't lose your temper with him. Even though you're his aunt, you've only been back a few months. They're mother and son, mother and daughter, raised since they were babies. The bond between them can't be compared for now."
Su Yan had a gloomy face the whole way, and the more people tried to persuade her, the angrier she became. It turned out that she had been taking care of these two people for several months. Although she didn't treat them as her own children, she did her best to take care of them. She provided them with food, drink and clothing, and never treated them badly in any way. But why did she go to the countryside, only for two or three days, and let Sister-in-law Lu Yingzi take them in, and she didn't want to come back.
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law's family home was far from the machinery factory. It took half an hour to get there by bike, and it was already in the suburbs of Jiangzhou. Her sister-in-law's brother worked at the coal refinery, and the roads in this area were all compacted dirt roads, covered in black coal slag.
Su Yan didn't know which house they lived in, so she took a step back. Uncle Song then walked in front to lead the way. "Yingzi, your sister-in-law's family is having a hard time right now. Just talk to them nicely and don't get angry."
Su Yan had no choice but to answer: "Don't worry, even if the two children don't want to follow me, I will accept it."
Arriving at the back room on the second floor, I saw several children playing sandbag throwing in the hallway. Most working families didn't have kitchens at this time, so they set up tables in the hallway and cooked over coal stoves. The hallway here was narrower than elsewhere, and at this hour, every household was home from work and preparing meals, making it incredibly crowded.
Uncle Song had to lean sideways to get through. The doors to the rooms were all open, and Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law was busy at the door. A neighbor asked her, "Hey, are you having noodles today? What a feast! A few days ago, I saw you having three cornmeal buns for every meal. Is this a salary increase or a promotion?"
Yan Zi was playing with a group of children. Her clothes were still clean. She was smiling and trying to grab a sandbag. She looked like she was having a good time. However, Xiao Gang saw Su Yan at a glance and ran over to hold her hand: "Auntie, you're here."
Yan Zi heard it and turned around to run over, but she heard her sister-in-law cough: "Yan Zi, go get some snacks from the cupboard and share them with everyone."
As expected, Yan Zi turned around and ran back, leading the group of children to cheer: "It's time to eat egg cakes, it's time to eat egg cakes."
Her sister-in-law then said, "Yingzi is here. Section Chief Song, please sit inside. I'm kneading dough and can't free my hands. Please wait a moment."
Su Yan watched coldly. There was no need to ask. These flours, egg cakes and snacks, and the cornmeal buns from the past few days were all bought with his own money and his own food.
Section Chief Song said bluntly, "Lu's wife, don't be so shameless. We're here to give you a chance. If you don't obey us, we'll take you to the police station. Just because you went in and rummaged through someone else's house, you'll be sent to a labor camp at the very least."
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law then put down her work, invited someone into the house, poured tea, and said, "Section Chief Song, I didn't take these things on my own. It was Yan Zi who asked me to take them. She said her aunt had food at home. I thought Yan Zi also needed to eat and drink when she was with me, so I took some. It wasn't much, just a pound of cornmeal. Yan Zi said she wanted to eat noodles, so I took some food coupons and money. How can this be considered burglary? Ying Zi is my sister-in-law, and I went in with the key. I'm not afraid of anything."
At this time, Yan Zi also came over and took Su Yan's hand and said, "Aunt, Mom and her family have no food. I asked her to go home and get it. Please don't blame her, okay? Don't put her in jail."
Su Yan forced a smile, almost choking with anger. She asked, "Have you been having a good time with Mom these days?"
Yan Zi smiled and nodded. "Okay, Tongzi and the others will play with me, and I'll sleep with my mom at night. That's great. Aunt, I'll live here from now on, okay? My mom said that since I start elementary school tomorrow, it's very close and I can play with Tongzi and the others every day."
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law spread her hands and said, "Yingzi, look, did I lie?" She waved her hand, and Yanzi ran over and threw herself into her arms, "Mom, I want to go out and play."
Su Yan took a deep breath and asked Yan Zi: "Now Auntie asks you once, do you want to follow Mom or Auntie?"
Yan Zi glanced at Su Yan, then turned to look at her mother. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I want to stay here. Aunt, please don't be angry."
Section Chief Song asked Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law, "Don't even think about the pension. It's not much, and it won't last three to five years. If you had abandoned these two children back then, and now you have to raise them, they'd be a lot of things. You can take them if you want, or give them away if you want."
Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law said, "It's not that the child's father passed away so suddenly that I didn't come to my senses. Now I think about it. I have to raise my own child. I can't say I will raise him well, but at least I can support him so that he can be relied upon when I'm old. I don't plan to remarry. What will I do when I'm old without a child?"
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