Chapter 1 Fighting for the eldest sister to return to the city
It was July of 1982, the height of summer, with cicadas fluttering their wings on the trees by the roadside and pink water lilies blooming in the small pots in the yard. The summer heat can easily make people irritable, and if this person gets angry, it will be even worse.
"Are you my biological mother or my stepmother?"
"We finally got back? Are you going to ask us to go back to the countryside?"
"You have never been to the countryside, so you have no idea how difficult life is there."
"I'm telling you, I'm back and I'm not leaving!"
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At this time, many educated youth came to the city from the countryside. Some of them abandoned their husbands and children, wives and children, while others brought their husbands or wives back to the city.
Amelia Su just brought her husband and daughter from the countryside to the city. There were only three rooms in the Su family. One room was where Old Mrs. Su slept, one room was where Su's father and mother slept, and the other was where Amelia Su's third brother and his wife slept.
Amelia Su's second sister got married and no longer lived in her parents' home. Amelia Su's younger sister, Xueqing Su, was admitted to Nancheng University last year and will be a sophomore in the second half of the year. Xueqing Su just turned 18. When school started, she lived in school and lived at home during the summer vacation. Xueqing Su did not have a separate room at home, but slept on a single bed in the living room.
The single bed also has an upper bunk. In the early years, Amelia Su's brothers and sisters were not married yet. Her second sister and youngest sister slept in the same room, sleeping on the bunk bed and the lower bunk, and her younger brother slept in the living room. After her second sister got married, her third brother had not yet married, so her youngest sister lived in the room. When Amelia Su's third brother got married, Su Xueqing moved to the living room.
The Su family was helpless. Old Master Su passed away years ago, and the Su family originally wanted Su Xueqing to sleep in the same room with Old Madam Su. But Old Madam Su was an old lady after all, and she inevitably smelled a bit old, so Su Xueqing did not sleep in the same room with Old Madam Su.
"It's not that we don't want you to stay, but you can see that there is no place to live at home!" Su's mother had a headache.
"We just need a place to shelter from the wind and rain. I didn't ask you to give us the room." Amelia Su said, "We can live in the living room."
"That's your little sister's bed." said Su's mother.
"Didn't she get into college?" Amelia Su felt that her mother was partial to her, "Let her live in the school dormitory."
"It's summer vacation now, everyone is back home, she..."
“You just value her.” Amelia Su gritted her teeth.
Su Yamei is almost 15 years older than Su Xueqing. She is the eldest sister in the family. When she went to the countryside as an educated youth, Su Xueqing was still very young. The Su family loves boys, and then they love their little daughter even more.
"Mom, I'm going to live in the school dormitory." Su Xueqing was extremely beautiful, with a pair of big watery eyes that were particularly lively. She was very cute when she was very young. Not only did her family like her, but even her neighbors often praised her for being cute and were very nice to her.
Amelia Su has been in the countryside for more than ten years, and she has been through a lot and looks much more haggard. Yes, if it were in ancient times, Amelia Su could almost be Amelia Su's mother. Amelia Su saw Amelia Su and felt a little guilty, but then she straightened her back.
"I've suffered so many years in the countryside, and now I can finally come back. Little sister, you won't argue with your elder sister about this, right?" Amelia Su said, "You originally lived in the school dormitory, and in South City, you don't have no place to live."
Amelia Su knew that the Su family had few rooms, but as long as she could come back to the city, she would never stay in the countryside. When she was on the train, Amelia Su thought that Su Xueqing had a place to go, not that she had no place to go. If it really didn't work, then let Su's father and mother think of a way.
Su Xueqing is the biological daughter of Su’s father and mother, but am I not?
Amelia Su had resentment towards the Su family. No one gave her the job, so she couldn’t stay in the city.
At that time, Mr. Su was a soldier and retired due to illness, and Mrs. Su had no job. Father Su, the head of the family, could not give his job to Amelia Su. Mother Su waited to see if she would give her job to her son. With so many mouths to feed in the family, Mother Su did not dare to give her job to Amelia Su. If she gave her job to Amelia Su, what would happen to her second daughter and third son?
In fact, Su Xueqing had been back for a while. She heard Su Yamei's voice and the words Su Yamei said when she was standing in the yard. Su Xueqing was shocked to realize that she had crossed into a book. Although she did not say that she would not let her eldest sister and brother-in-law live with her niece at home, she came home a little late. When she got home, Su's mother and her eldest sister had a fierce quarrel, so her eldest sister and her husband took the child out, and the child was lost by them.
After the child was lost by the eldest sister and her husband, they blamed Su's mother, who lived with guilt for the rest of her life. This is the cannon fodder family, full of misfortunes.
Since Su Xueqing already knew all this, she couldn't let it happen again.
"Xueqing, you..." Su's mother frowned. She already felt that her younger daughter was very wronged.
When Grandpa Su was alive, he praised Su Xueqing, saying that Su Xueqing was the most educated person in their family. Even Grandma Su, who had never loved her granddaughter very much, treated Su Xueqing well.
"Mom, our school's dormitories are pretty good." Su Xueqing said with a smile, "Our school allows students to live in the school during winter and summer vacations, and the cafeteria is still open."
"Living at home and living at school are not the same," Su's mother said, "your grandma even said she would make steamed egg custard for you to nourish you..."
“I see that my little sister is fair and tender, what does she need to supplement?” Amelia Su said, she worked hard in the countryside, while these people lived so well in the city.
"Are you a hedgehog?" Su's mother was displeased. "This is your biological sister, not your enemy."
"Did she go to the countryside as an educated youth?" Su Yamei asked.
"That's just bad luck for you. You are the oldest, you..."
"Mom." Su Xueqing pulled her mother and said, "The school is close to us, just across the street. I used to come back often for dinner. I live in the school, not somewhere far away. Big sister, this is a single bed..."
“This is the living room, your brother-in-law and I can’t do anything else.” Amelia Su said, “We are not shameless people.”
"..." Su Xueqing's mouth twitched slightly. She didn't mean that. "These are upper and lower bunks. After tidying them up, people can sleep there."
There were no heavy objects or basins on the upper bunk. The Su family valued Su Xueqing very much. They felt that letting Su Xueqing live in the living room was already unfair to her, so they should not put messy things on the upper bunk. The upper bunk could not hold so many things, and the backyard and kitchen could also be used to store some things.
The backyard is small and connected to the kitchen and bathroom. The front yard is for everyone to use, and the space is a little bigger, but it is a public area, and individuals cannot occupy that space to build a house.
“It just so happens that your eldest brother-in-law will sleep on the upper bunk, and your niece and I will sleep on the lower bunk.” Amelia Su said, “We are not ignorant people. When we have a job and a house, we will move out.”
To rent a house, you need money.
Amelia Su and her husband have been in the countryside for so many years, and they don't have much money. If they want to stay in Nancheng, the best way is to live in the Su family. As for how long they will live, it's hard to say.
If you say you want to wait for a job, that also depends on how much the salary is. As for a house, that also depends on whether the company provides housing.
If Amelia Su lives in the house, I’m afraid it will be impossible for her to move out for a while.
Su Xueqing knew after a little thought that the atmosphere at home was going to become very tense. Brother Su San and Sister Su San had not come back yet. If they knew that Sister Su and her family of three were going to live at home, they would probably feel bad.
Although Su Sansao could tolerate Amelia Su living in the living room, it was because Amelia Su was an unmarried girl, and she had good grades and was admitted to a good university, so Su Dasao treated Amelia Su well. Su Sansao also thought that when Amelia Su got married, the living room would not be so crowded.
Now, Amelia Su and her husband moved into the living room with their children. How could Third Sister Su be happy?
Su Xueqing couldn't care less. In the original book, the eldest sister and her husband's child was lost, and the eldest sister and her husband blamed the Su family. Su's mother felt guilty. She thought that if she had let her eldest daughter and her family of three live at home for a few days, these things wouldn't have happened. So Su's mother inevitably gave Su Yamei a little more subsidy, and Su Yamei also said unpleasant things to Su's mother. Su San's wife was naturally unhappy when she learned that Su's mother subsidized Su Yamei a lot of money. In this way, Su's mother was not a good person.
"Little sister, you don't think that my elder sister can't find a job, do you?" Amelia Su said, "I graduated from junior high school after all. If I hadn't had to go to the countryside, I might have been the one to go to college. I am the first college student in my family, so it wouldn't be your turn. We have the same parents, you don't think you are smarter than me, do you..."
"Okay." Su's mother couldn't bear to hear it any longer. "Your second sister and third brother didn't go to college. Whether you went to college or not, whether you are the first college student, you are not ashamed to say this."
"My grades were still okay." Su Yamei was unwilling to give up. Life in the countryside was too hard. Su Yamei looked at her younger sister, who had fair skin and a beautiful face. The fire of jealousy in her heart was rising. She had become so old, while her younger sister was so beautiful and spiritual.
One is a dead fish eye bead that emits a foul smell, and the other is a vibrant existence surrounded by stars.
How could Amelia Su not be jealous? "Mom, you are biased towards my younger sister. My name is Yamei, you hope I will die, my second sister's name is Yanan, you hope she is a boy, and when it comes to my younger sister's name, she will be called Xueqing, how nice, you..."
When Su's mother heard this, she couldn't help but wanted to raise her hand, but before she could slap her, Su Xueqing grabbed Su's mother's hand.
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