Chapter 9 Rebirth to Protect Family
"Dad, don't always criticize my brother. He's quite good, no worse than Shao Ting'an."
Su Danian glanced at his son and said, "Ting'an is a university graduate with a formal mechanics degree. Your brother is only a technical school student, after all. How can you compare yourself to him?"
Su Mingde curled his lips at his sister, "Listen, is this my biological father? Even a stepfather wouldn't slap me in the face. It hurts so much."
Su Danian burst out laughing when he heard this. "My dear son! I'm just trying to make you face reality, so that you won't be so frustrated by your stubbornness."
Su Li was deeply touched when she heard her father talking. He always took her feelings and life into consideration.
The Shao family is of high status. When the two got married, Su Danian always felt resentful about the obvious disdain in the eyes of the Shao family's parents.
So he treated Shao Tingan as his own daughter, even better than his own son, just hoping that Shao Tingan would always be good to his daughter.
He felt bad when he thought about the girl he had raised having to look at other people's faces.
In her previous life, she hadn't heard what her sister-in-law said, and she had no idea that Shao Ting'an would suppress her brother in the factory...
Live your life again, take revenge and protect your family.
"Dad, your daughter is already married, and our family still has to rely on Comrade Su Mingde, so you have to be nice to my brother."
Su Li looked at her father with a smile in her eyes, and the long-lost warmth and happiness filled her heart.
"Brother, you like tinkering with machines, but your design skills are definitely not as good as Shao Ting'an's. I'll find you a teacher in our school who can teach you. Then you can enroll in night school to improve your skills in this area."
Su Mingde was quite interested when he heard his sister say that. "That's great! I really want to learn. If you can help me find a teacher, it would be a great help to your brother."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
Su Li sat on the bench, leaning on Su Danian's arm, looking like a well-behaved and lovely little girl.
Su Danian turned to look at his daughter, a kind smile tinged with pride. "See? You're my precious daughter, a university teacher. I've introduced you to a useless person like you. Don't waste the teacher's time."
Su Mingde opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and then smiled and said, "Okay, your daughter is the best. I, a useless guy, will go and make fire for my mother."
Su Li looked at her brother and laughed. This was her home. The love and care given to her by her family who treated her as Mingzhu had never diminished even a little bit just because she got married.
Watching Su Mingde leave, Su Li was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Dad, I want to discuss something with you."
She wanted to buy a camera but couldn't let Shao Ting'an know, so she had to raise money from different places.
"Why would you even bother discussing anything with an old man like me? Just tell me what you want to do, and I'll support you."
Su Danian dotes on his daughter and always grants her requests.
"I need some money now. I want to continue my studies. Can you lend me some first? I will pay you back later."
Su Li spoke hesitantly, saying that her parents were ordinary workers, and their combined salary was only fifty or sixty yuan, and they could not save much money in their entire lives.
When Su Danian heard his daughter wanted to use the money, he said softly, "What belongs to your mother and me is now yours and your brother's. If you want to use it, just take it. You don't have to pay it back."
He slowly stood up and said, "Wait, Dad will get it for you."
Su Li's nose felt sore, but she suppressed the sourness and smiled, "Dad, don't worry."
"Oh, how much do you want? Your mother and I have a total of 400 yuan. Is that enough?"
It was definitely not enough, but Su Li didn't want them to worry, so she smiled and said, "It's enough, it's enough."
"Okay, let's go inside with Dad to get it."
Su Li looked at her old father with gray hair and followed him in, holding back her tears.
Su Danian crouched under the bed, lifted a floor tile, and whispered, "Your mother and I put our money here. When we're gone, you have to remember this spot."
Su Li had been able to suppress her emotions, but after hearing what Su Danian said, she couldn't hold it back any longer and her tears flowed like a flood.
Su Danian took out a bottle of clinker, took out a plastic bag from it, opened a yellowed handkerchief, and handed a roll of money wrapped inside to Su Li.
"Why are you crying? My daughter is so beautiful. She can't cry. It won't look good if she cries."
Su Danian grabbed his daughter's hand and patted it.
"Dad, I'm sorry. I'm already this old and still spending your money."
"Silly girl, who are your parents living for? It's you and your brother. You've just started a family, and a lot of things haven't been sorted out yet. You need money a lot, so you can't always ask Ting'an for it. Otherwise, he'll get upset over time. You're right to come to Dad."
Su Li wanted to say something, but something was stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter a word.
She leaned on her father's shoulder and sobbed silently.
Su Danian was actually getting uneasy. "Girl, have you encountered any difficulties? If you have any problems, tell your parents. We are all here!"
Su Li was afraid her father would worry, so she sniffed and said coquettishly, "What kind of problems can I have? I have you, my mother, and my brother at home to protect me. Ting'an treats me very well now. I just feel so lucky. I'm so old and still have my father to give me money to spend."
Su Danian chuckled, "Little girl, no matter how old you are, you are still the little girl in Daddy's heart."
Su Li wiped her tears and smiled, "It's all your fault. You said all those words about death and made me cry. If my mom asks me about it, I'll say you scolded me."
Su Danian raised his hand and tapped Su Li's forehead. "If you tell me, will your mother believe it? Everyone in the street knows that you are my, Su Danian's, treasure. How could I bear to scold you?"
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Su Li looked at her father acting coquettishly and laughed heartily, just like the carefree girl from the Su family before she got married.
But in my heart, I was thinking about finding a way to pay my parents back as soon as possible, as their pension money could not be touched.
Now the medicine in her bag seemed to give her a good reason.
Thinking of this, Su Li felt that Fu Jinzhou had helped her a lot this time.
Su Li stayed at home until the afternoon. Her mother kept urging her to go back. "Xiao Li, hurry back. It's time to cook dinner when you get home. You can't let Ting An come home from a busy day to a cold dinner."
Su Danian also agreed, "Your mother is right. Ting'an treats you well, so you should also be virtuous and not be the same as you were at home."
Facing her parents' instructions, Su Li smiled helplessly, "Okay, I'll leave. Now they'll dislike me if I stay at home any longer."
Mother Su patted her and smiled dotingly, "Child, do we dislike you?"
Wen Yu took out two pairs of shoes and said, "I've never seen a girl as blessed as you, spoiled by your whole family. Here, these are the shoes Mom made for you and your brother-in-law. The soles are covered with many layers of fine cloth."
Su Li took the new shoes and smiled. She had been spoiled since she was a child and complained that the linen soles of the shoes made by her mother were too hard on her feet, so Liu Guilan always had to put a few more layers of soft cloth on them.
"Mom, don't do it anymore. It's not the right time to buy shoes that are nice and comfortable to wear."
Su Li said this on purpose. Only by saying this would her old mother not stay up late and waste her eyesight sewing shoe soles.
"You're such a heartless person!"
Su Li smiled foolishly and pushed her bicycle away.
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