Chapter 214 The Beginning of the Tragedy
After returning from Aunt Tang's house, Qin Suisui told Pei Jiuyan, who was cleaning squid by the well in the backyard, that she wanted to ask Su Yunyi to go to the black market to buy some medicinal herbs to help Aunt Tang's health, and then she went out.
Pei Jiuyan naturally had no objections. He was happier than anyone else that Qin Suisui could have close friends and things she liked to do here.
Qin Suisui did indeed invite Su Yunyi to the town, but her main purpose was not to buy medicinal herbs or anything like that, but to buy melon seeds at the department store.
The more than one pound of sunflower seeds that Chi Donglin brought a couple of days ago has already been eaten up by her at home. Sunflower seeds are really delicious, and if we don't buy more to eat during the New Year, it feels like something is missing from the holiday.
Although resources are not as abundant now, as the Lunar New Year approaches, people will still buy some New Year's goods within their means to celebrate the occasion and reunite with their families. These include things like melon seeds and rice candy, which are loved by both adults and children.
Su Yunyi is not going home for the Spring Festival this year. Her parents sent her a lot of things and some money, just in case she couldn't have a good Spring Festival alone here.
So Su Yunyi was originally going to town today, but Qin Suisui came to find her, so the two of them went together.
While waiting for Su Yunyi at the post office, Qin Suisui asked out of curiosity, "Comrade, could you please check if there are any mails for Qin Suisui?"
The staff at the counter were very helpful. After checking, they nodded and said, "There are two registered letters and two packages. Please wait a moment."
A short while later, the post office staff brought out two packages, one large and one small, along with a specially made money order envelope and a regular envelope.
Qin Suisui took the envelope and saw that it was sent by her mother-in-law. There was also a letter inside, which said that her mother-in-law had helped her collect the money for the beauty pills from before. Her mother-in-law probably thought that sending the money to the military region would have a bad influence on her, so she simply sent it to the town.
Qin Suisui counted the money; the thick stack contained a whopping 836 yuan and over 20 bottles of beauty pills, making her a profit of over 800 yuan!
Qin Suisui took the money without feeling guilty at all, after all, the formula for her beauty pills was priceless, and the ingredients she used were all top-quality, making it absolutely worth the money.
In the letter, the mother-in-law also mentioned that if they enjoyed the food, they might buy more. In other words, this income was continuous.
Qin Suisui wasn't short of money, but having extra income made everyone happy.
Another ordinary envelope, signed by someone Qin Suisui didn't recognize, was sent by the Yunnan tea merchant she had met at the Canton Fair.
In the letter, he wished Qin Suisui a Happy New Year in advance and thanked her for helping him translate the materials, which enabled their mountain tea to be exported abroad smoothly, boosting the economy of several production brigades in the mountains.
To express his gratitude to Qin Suisui, and with the Spring Festival approaching, he specially sent some fine tea produced in their area.
At the end of the letter, he also left his team's phone number and then sincerely invited Qin Suisui to visit them for sightseeing and guidance when she had time.
After reading the letter, Qin Suisui felt a little embarrassed. She had helped translate those documents because the organization had assigned her the task. She was paid to do the work, so naturally she wanted to do it well and be worthy of her salary.
I never expected that they would remember me for so long and express their sincere gratitude so sincerely.
Qin Suisui opened the small package and sure enough, she saw two large tea cakes, one raw Pu'er and one ripe Pu'er, as well as a large bag of high-quality Yunnan black tea in a kraft paper bag. The white tea and jasmine tea must be new varieties from their area this year, and each type was packed into a large bag for her.
Qin Suisui picked it up and smelled it. Although the packaging of these teas was simple, they smelled of excellent quality.
She carefully put the envelope away, determined to pack some local specialties to send back when she got back. If she had the chance, she really wanted to visit the tea plantations in Yunnan Province and see the thousands of miles of tea mountains he described in his letter.
The second package was also sent by her mother-in-law. It contained nothing more than pastries, snacks, fabrics, and other things that Qin Suisui liked. Whenever her mother-in-law accumulated a little something nice, she would always think of sending it to her.
Qin Suisui felt that there was no daughter-in-law in the world more fortunate than herself.
On the other side, Su Yunyi also finished picking up her package. The two of them first stored their things at the post office, and then went to the department store to grab some melon seeds.
As luck would have it, a batch of sunflower seeds had just arrived at the department store, and they immediately joined the queue. Because of their youth and agility, the two of them were right in the first three in line.
In this era, sunflower seeds were mostly roasted, primarily salty, and simply roasted with salt.
Besides sunflower seeds, there were also watermelon seeds and pumpkin seeds. Qin Suisui bought some salty and savory watermelon seeds and some plain pumpkin seeds. She didn't really like these two kinds, mainly because her tongue would get blisters and hurt a lot after eating watermelon seeds, so she didn't like them.
But considering that Pei Jiuyan and the others also needed to eat, I still weighed out a little.
After buying the melon seeds, she also bought some pastries and candies, since these are basically consumables at home with children.
On my way back, I ran into Shen Shen at the entrance of the family compound.
Shen Jian is his younger brother, and Tu Saozi is his wife. As a party involved in the case, Shen Shen was naturally "forced to take leave".
Several days later, Qin Suisui still only remembers the expression on his face when he saw Tu's already rotting corpse on that small island.
It felt like tragedy, and also like something unacceptable.
What can't I accept?
Wasn't Tu's sister-in-law's death caused by him?
As a man, he allowed his family to bully his wife who bore him children time and time again, and pretended not to see her situation. This allowed his mother to use "illness" as an excuse to call Tu's wife back from the family compound to torment her from time to time.
In the six months since Qin Suisui arrived, Tu's mother-in-law had already called her back three or four times under the pretext of "illness," and this time she even lost her life.
Marrying such a man was the beginning of Tu's tragedy.
Qin Suisui didn't speak to him, but walked straight past him into the room.
When he got home, Pei Jiuyan had already cleaned the fish and shrimp and was preparing to dry them.
Seeing that her basket was full of things, he hurried over and asked, "Did you buy mutton?"
Qin Suisui rummaged through her basket and pulled out the beef and mutton she had taken out of her spatial storage earlier, presenting it to him like a treasure: "I bought some! And they're all sliced! I'll call Brother Donglin, Brother Yunlai, and Sister Yunyi over later, and we'll have hot pot together!"
Seeing her excited expression, Pei Jiuyan chuckled: "You should have said so earlier. I should have called them over earlier to help me gut the fish."
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