Chapter 267 Uncle Su Lianshan
After work, Su Man went from the dance troupe to the studio.
She has a class tonight.
Halfway through the class, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed outside the window. In an instant, a loud thunder exploded in the sky with a huge bang.
Just now the sky was filled with sunset glow, but it changed in an instant.
It started to rain outside.
Su Man lifted the curtain and saw a car parked downstairs. It looked familiar; it belonged to the Shen family.
In other words, it was Uncle Su Lianshan’s car.
Su Man sighed and ignored it. When she turned around, she saw a person standing outside the glass door of the dance studio.
Looking inside through the glass window on the door, he saw Suman saw him, and a shy and flattering smile appeared on his anxious face.
Su Man told the students to continue practicing and went out.
"Uncle, why are you here? It's raining without an umbrella?" Su Man saw that Su Lianshan's body was wet.
"Manman... look at your aunt's situation..."
"Auntie went to cause trouble for Xiao Beisheng's wife herself. She has to bear the consequences for doing such a thing. Who is Xiao Beisheng? Will she have a good ending if she offends someone he cares about? It's not that I don't want to help, but I have no other choice. Besides, Auntie should also suffer a little so that she can learn a lesson." Su Man was very angry.
It would have been fine if Shen Qing had gone to the dance troupe and made a scene in order to stop Su Man and Xiao Beisheng from getting divorced.
This time he even ran in front of Luo Yan to make trouble. I don’t know what’s wrong with him.
What role does Luo Yan play?
Xiao Beisheng came from the outside, and Luo Yan came from the inside, which was enough to make the Shen and Su families suffer.
Su Lianshan waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, this time I came to ask you for help, it's not a business matter. Uncle also knows that your aunt is too reckless, so you don't need to help with business matters. But Xiao Beisheng's people took your aunt away, and I must make your aunt kneel down and apologize in public."
Suman: ...
Su Lianshan said, "Your aunt knelt and apologized, but it happened to rain heavily, and your aunt knelt in the rain like this, making people laugh. That would have been fine, but Xiao Beisheng's wife insisted that your aunt kneel until the rain stopped."
Su Man lowered her eyebrows slightly.
Su Lianshan said: "Your aunt has never lost face like this..."
He was used to being humble, and even when facing Su Man, he always kept his eyebrows down and looked submissive.
"But I know she deserves it! But, Manman, your aunt isn't feeling well either. We don't know when this rain will stop. It's already dark. If it rains all night, do you want your aunt to kneel outside the Xiao family's gate all night?"
Suman fell silent.
After a brief pause, she said, "Okay. I'll go to the Xiao family and plead for my aunt. But, that's all I can do. If Xiao Beisheng doesn't accept... I don't know what else I can do."
"Okay, okay." Su Lianshan repeated several "Okay"s, his eyes blooming with smiles. "I knew you wouldn't stand by and watch someone die, Manman. Your aunt and I didn't raise you in vain."
Su Man forced a smile.
Su Man was indeed raised by Shen Qing and Su Lianshan.
They have no children and treat Suman like their own daughter.
Even though she is just a "daughter" who is cultivated as a tool to achieve their own goals.
But it is undeniable that they did raise Suman.
When Suman was little, she was abandoned by her gambling father. If it were not for her aunt and uncle, Suman would have died.
Compared to Shen Qing, Su Lianshan treats Su Man better.
Probably because Suman is his brother's daughter.
Su Man and Su Lianshan have the same blood.
Until now, Su Man can still remember some things from her childhood.
At that time, Shen Qing forced Su Man to learn various musical instruments, including the guzheng, violin, and piano. After school every day, she spent the rest of the time practicing. Su Man's fingers were rubbed with blisters, and her shoulders were so painful that she couldn't lift them. She would cramp if she exerted a little force.
Su Man was young at that time and didn't know how to express her pain. She only knew how to cry when it hurt and resist attending classes and practicing the piano.
Shen Qing thought she was pretending to be sick.
"Why are you crying? I spent so much money hiring foreign teachers and buying you top-notch instruments, and you're so ungrateful! You're pretending to be sick to avoid practice!"
"Auntie, it really hurts..."
"Well, you still don't repent!"
Shen Qing threw her into the storage room in the basement, closed the door, and said only: "Reflect on yourself! When I figure it out, I will let you out. Before that, don't even think about eating a bite of food!"
The basement was narrow and dark, with only a tiny bit of light coming through the crack in the door. This was the only warmth Su Man could feel.
She hugged herself tightly, her small body curled up between a pair of miscellaneous items.
It was winter.
If there is no air conditioning in a room in the south, the deadly cold will penetrate into people's skin and invade their bone marrow.
She felt that this was quite comfortable.
Rather than pressing the strings and playing the piano with her blistered fingers, she felt that staying in this narrow and cramped space was not a punishment but a kind of rest.
I don’t know how long it took, but she fell asleep holding me in her arms.
When she woke up again, her mouth was dry, her stomach was hungry, and her toes and knees were so cold that they hurt.
But there was no water to drink and no food to eat.
Su Man rubbed her arm, which was still very painful. If she went out now, her aunt would definitely force her to practice the piano, but she couldn't even play a complete measure.
After a long while, she judged the time by the changing lights outside the door.
Late at night the next day, someone quietly came to the basement door.
The door creaked open.
Su Lianshan was holding a bowl of rice and a cup of hot milk.
Sneaking into the small space.
Su Lianshan was handsome, 1.86 meters tall. He had to bend his waist and legs to squeeze into this small room, like a giant entering a cave. It was a bit funny, but in Su Man's eyes, she thought her uncle was very handsome. She could feel the warmth and fatherly love in Su Lianshan that she had never experienced from her own father.
Su Lianshan knelt in front of little Su Man, first touched Su Man's forehead, and then put Su Man's little hand in his palm.
As soon as he touched Su Man's cold hand, he frowned worriedly: "Why are you so cold? Manman, are you cold?"
He placed Suman's hand in his palm, rubbing it and blowing on it.
The broad palm was warm. Su Man remembered the touch, rough and dry, but very reassuring.
A tall, handsome man, thoughtful and warm.
Just like a father.
In Su Man's heart, she had long regarded Su Lianshan as her father.
"Uncle, I'm hungry."
"I'm hungry... Come, uncle has served you a lot of your favorite dishes. Eat them while they're hot. Oh, by the way, you should drink some milk first to warm your stomach. You've been hungry for so long, it's not good to just eat rice... Are you starving?"
Su Lianshan picked up the cup of milk and fed her.
He picked up the bowl again and picked up some food for Suman.
Watching Su Man eat the food bite by bite, he felt satisfied and distressed at the same time, "Eat slowly, remember what your uncle said, chew your food slowly and thoroughly."
Suman was very obedient. Even though she was extremely hungry, she still ate slowly, chewing the food in small bites.
Seeing that Su Man had almost finished eating, Su Lianshan asked tentatively:
"Manman, why don't you want to practice the piano?"
"My hand really hurts." Su Man hadn't chewed the food in her mouth yet and hadn't swallowed it yet. When she mentioned this, she cried again in grievance, tears welling up in her eyes, sour and bitter.
Su Lianshan looked at her hands carefully. Su Man was only four or five years old, and her palms were not even a quarter of the size of Su Lianshan's. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find the blood blisters at all.
Upon taking a look, Su Lianshan discovered that Su Man's hands and knuckles were covered with calluses and blisters.
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