Chapter 250 She saw the face in her memory clearly!
"It's already been decided, let's forget it! If we mess it up again, it will be bad for their reputation." Su Shengxue was afraid that Su Mei would worry about him, so he smiled at Su Mei after he finished speaking.
"I just don't know her well enough yet. Maybe we'll be happy after we get to know each other better.
But Fifth Brother may have to break his promise to you. I promised you not to get married and wait for you to take me out to see the world."
"No wonder your fifth brother refused to go on a blind date no matter what. It turns out that you told him that you would take him out?" Bai Xiaofang heard what Su Shengxue said and interjected.
Su Mei nodded after hearing this and said, "We do have that plan. The country is opening up step by step. At the end of this year, I heard some rumors in Yanjing that the individual economy may be gradually opened up next year.
The country has just started to develop. As long as we seize the opportunity in the early stages, the motherland will be full of gold. I don’t want my fifth brother to be confined to this deep mountain for the rest of his life.”
"My dear daughter, what is individual economy?" Su Xuanhu raised his head and asked.
"Individual economy means allowing individuals to open shops and factories, and handing all economic power back to the hands of the masses. By then, the large collectives in the countryside will be dissolved, and everyone will live on their own abilities. Capable people will become wealthy." The people Su Mei had come into contact with in Yanjing were of relatively high level, and she had indeed heard some of the outlines.
So she could only say some things in front of her family, but she emphasized after she finished speaking:
"My master heard this from his old friends, and it has not been announced to the public. We can talk to our family members, but we can't tell anyone else."
After all, there is still a year before the specific policy is opened up, and speaking out these words may cause unnecessary trouble.
Knowing that her mother's family members were trustworthy, Su Mei dared to speak out in front of them.
Su Xuanhu became a little worried after hearing what Su Mei said: "If free development is allowed, the gap between the rich and the poor will widen again, and the rich will become landlords again.
The landlords have finally been defeated, and now we have to let them grow stronger. What is the point of fighting the landlords?
Besides, is this economy reliable? Don’t let the policy change every few days and arrest the business people and put them in the cowshed again.”
"That's not the case, Grandpa." Su Mei knew that Su Xuanhu was frightened by the criticism during those years, so she patiently explained:
"The new era is different from the old society. The old society exploited the people and did not treat them as human beings. But in the new era, everyone is equal. Rich people who find poor people to work for them must pay a reasonable salary.
In the past society, landlords were local tyrants. But it is different in the new era. Even if those bosses run their own factories, they are still under state control.
There is no need to worry about being criticized again. Our country is a developing country. It now needs capable and motivated ordinary people to lead the motherland to progress.
That’s why I don’t want my fifth brother to get married early and trap himself in his family and in the mountains. I hope he can get out in the future.”
"If you have the opportunity, you should develop well. I have no skills and no education. I won't make much money if I go out. It's better for you to start a family and build a career early. It's also a good thing to get married early, otherwise it will be difficult to find a partner when you are older. It doesn't matter who you marry, you will have to marry her anyway." Su Shengxue took over Su Mei's words.
He looked tired. He was a wild man, but now he had an attitude of resignation.
But Su Mei felt that marriage was not something that could be easily accepted. "How could it be different? Of course it is different. If you marry someone who understands you, you will live a peaceful and happy life.
If you marry someone who doesn't know your heart, your life will be ruined by marriage."
"When you married Huo Jianguo, wasn't he also unwilling? Aren't you two living well now?" Su Shengxue used Su Mei as an example. He didn't want to marry Yang Suhua at first, but he remembered how his sister looked when Huo Jianguo was reluctant to marry Su Mei at first.
He softened his heart when he thought of it. His own sister is a person, and other people's daughters are also people. If Huo Jianguo can take on that responsibility, then he must take it too. He was afraid that if he rejected Yang Suhua, she would have a hard time in the future.
Seeing that Su was determined to continue his studies, Su Mei didn't know what to say. She thought she had to find an opportunity to contact Yang Suhua and understand her thoughts.
The family sat idly for a while, then washed up and went back to their rooms to sleep.
Because she had been traveling by train for several days, Su Mei got up very late the next morning. When she got up, everyone in her family had gone to the fields, leaving Su Xuanju alone at home.
Su Mei took out the newspapers where she had advertised, stuffed them into Su Xuanhu's hands and showed them to him, smiling and saying to him:
"Grandpa, take a good look at me. My granddaughter has not embarrassed you in Beijing. She is very promising."
There was a photo of Su Mei in the newspaper, and Su Xuanhu was holding the photo in her hand with a big smile on her face: "You are worthy of being my, Su Xuanhu's, granddaughter... You were very smart when you were little, and I thought at that time that you would have a great future when you grew up.
Unfortunately, you got sick and became dull after you woke up. I thought your life was ruined, but you grew up and turned back into your old self."
"You keep saying this every time I come back, and my ears are almost ringing like cocoons." Su Mei said, with a guilty tone.
Although she had wholeheartedly treated the Su family as her own relatives, when Su Xuanhu mentioned this, Su Mei could not help but remember that she was a soul from another world and was now occupying someone else's body.
After putting away the newspaper, Su Mei went to the kitchen and started preparing lunch.
When the meal was ready, the three people who had gone out to work returned home. After they washed their hands, the family began to eat together.
After eating and resting for a while, when the drum sounded for the team to assemble, Su Yongcang, Bai Xiaofang and Su Shengxue went out again.
Not long after they went out, Su Mei found the teacup shared by Bai Xiaofang and Su Yongcang in the kitchen. Perhaps they left in a hurry and forgot to take the water cups out.
Su Mei had nothing to do anyway, so she asked Su Xuanhu and the others where they worked, then took the cup and walked towards where Bai Xiaofang and Su Yongcang worked.
Although Su Mei didn't remember the original owner's memory very clearly, she still recognized the general route. After walking for a while, she saw the villagers working in the fields.
An older uncle saw Su Mei and said with a smile:
"Hey, isn't this a college student from the Su family? How come he has time to come to the field to inspect the work?"
It was not the kind of malicious teasing, but rather the kind of friendly teasing that elders would do to younger ones, with a smile on their faces and a gentle tone.
"Uncle, I'm here to bring water to my parents! Have you seen where they are?" Su Mei asked.
The uncle smiled and pointed Su Mei in a direction: "Go up, to the area facing the rock slab.
Following the direction pointed by her uncle, Su Mei indeed saw a rock slab. She was originally smiling, but the smile disappeared unconsciously the moment she saw the rock slab.
Because that piece of rock seemed to suddenly collide with certain fragments deep in my memory.
But the feeling of collision was so fleeting, so fast that Su Mei didn't even catch it before she had already walked up the hillside with the teacup in her hand.
Sure enough, she found Bai Xiaofang and Su Yongcang there, and Su Mei handed the teacup to Su Yongcang.
After talking to her parents for a few words, Su Mei turned around and prepared to go back.
They had only taken a few steps when a few raindrops suddenly fell from the sky. Bai Xiaofang was afraid that the rain would get heavy and Su Mei would catch a cold if she got wet, so she stopped Su Mei and asked her to hide under the stone slab first.
The slab is a natural formation, sitting like a mushroom on the mountain, creating an area below that is not wetted by rain.
That area is smooth and clean because people who work often take a break there.
Su Mei sat down obediently, but no one who was working stopped. A few small raindrops did not affect their work, and they would not go back unless it rained heavily.
Some rains are not heavy, just a few drops and then nothing happens.
After sitting under the stone slab for a while, Su Mei saw that the rain was gradually dying down, so she stood up and prepared to go back. As soon as she stood up, her head hit the stone slab above.
After this collision, Su Mei was stunned where she stood.
A picture suddenly appeared in her mind: a woman was hiding from the rain under a stone slab with her five-year-old baby. When the woman stood up, she accidentally bumped into the stone slab.
The little girl felt sorry for her mother, so she asked her mother to squat down:
"Mom, squat down. I'll blow on you and it won't hurt!"
This scene had circled in Su Mei's mind many times before, but she could never remember the woman's face.
At this moment, that face suddenly became clear in Su Mei's mind...
That clear face made Su Mei's thoughts become extremely painful in an instant, and she even fell to the ground.
The blurry face in my memory suddenly took on a contour.
Bai Xiaofang, who was far away, was the first to spot Su Mei falling to the ground. She put down her hoe and ran over, shouting:
"What's the matter, youngest daughter?"