"Mom, have you eaten your noodles?" Su Xingran asked her mother, looking at the noodles and egg in the bowl. "Mom has eaten breakfast. You should eat quickly; eggs are nutritious, and you need that right now." "Mom, I'll share some with you. I can't finish this bowl of noodles by myself."
You're not hungry, child, you don't need to eat. Eat quickly, it'll get cold. I'm going to cook lunch and take it to your father in the fields. I've asked the brigade leader for a few days off. Once you wake up and there's nothing else to do, I'll go back to work.
Su Xingran felt a pang of sadness looking at the noodles and eggs in her bowl. She knew her family's situation; her parents worked to earn work points, and when her father wasn't working in the fields, he would do odd jobs in town to supplement his income. But her grandparents would come to their door every few days to take things and ask for money. If they didn't give them anything, they would accuse her parents of being unfilial, and even say that her mother was a barren hen who couldn't even give birth to a son, and demand that her father divorce her.
My parents are filial and honest people, but they always end up being bullied to the point of helplessness. My father did try to resist, but my grandmother took a rope and threatened to hang herself at the front door of our house. Some people in the village gossiped about it, and some malicious people and those who took advantage of their age would accuse my parents of being unfilial, forcing my father to accept it.
This made the already impoverished family even worse off. They could only afford eggs and wheat flour a few times a year, and her parents would always give her the best food and supplies first. She took a breath, picked up her chopsticks, and started eating her noodles.
She had medicine in her spatial storage to help her recover quickly, as well as plenty of food. However, she couldn't use it yet; she still needed to use her current weak state to expose Su Wenli's lies to her parents. She also couldn't take out the food for the time being, or her parents would become suspicious.
As she ate her noodles, she recalled her past life and the events that occurred after she woke up. She remembered that in her previous life, she had also been unconscious for three days. The day after she woke up, her aunt came to her door saying that her cousin, Su Wenli, had saved her and demanded a hundred yuan from her parents as a token of gratitude. She said that if it weren't for her cousin saving her, she and her husband would have lost their daughter long ago.
The parents were very grateful to their cousin for saving their daughter and planned to give her some gifts and make her a new set of clothes as a token of their gratitude. However, their aunt asked for 100 yuan, a sum the family couldn't afford, let alone 20. Their annual income was no more than 50 yuan.
The parents were stunned. They didn't have a hundred yuan to give. They said they didn't have any, and then the aunt started throwing a tantrum, cursing and yelling that the parents were heartless. She said her daughter had kindly saved their daughter, and now that the girl had woken up, they were ignoring her. Later, she even called the grandparents over to pressure the parents for money.
Finally, the parents had no choice but to borrow money from the village chief and the brigade leader to give to the eldest aunt. The eldest aunt even took the only hen in the house. The family, like Japanese invaders, looted everything and swaggered away.
Su Xingran knew why her aunt asked her parents for 100 yuan. Her older cousin, Su Wenxing, was getting married, and the bride price was agreed to be 100 yuan. The woman was from the city and worked at the same factory as Su Wenxing. Su Wenxing was a temporary worker who hadn't been promoted yet, and the woman's father was the workshop director. She didn't know how Su Wenxing had tricked the family into agreeing to marry their daughter.
Thinking of all this, Su Xingran's eyes turned cold. Tomorrow, she would wait for them to come up and put on a good show, and she would definitely make that family lose face.
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