Chapter 478 I got into high school!
He thought about their dining style and realized they seemed to have a good relationship.
He glanced at Su Laosan with a hint of envy.
Ever since his father passed away, his close relatives—uncles, aunts, and uncles—have been so afraid of them coming to their door begging for food that they'd rather not even know them, let alone his mother's cousins.
Zhu Jialiang really envied the family atmosphere that Su Laosan had.
He glanced at Su Laosan and changed the subject, "Why haven't I seen your aunt and her child? Doesn't your uncle live nearby? Why didn't they come over?"
"...My uncle is not married."
Su Laosan frowned and sighed regretfully, "From what he said, it seems that he won't get married if he can't win over the person he likes."
Zhu Jialiang suddenly realized.
She felt a pang of regret, thinking, "At his age, his sweetheart is probably already married. How can he still want to protect her..."
The word "people" stuck in Zhu Jialiang's throat.
this……
Zhu Jialiang's expression suddenly turned strange.
Song Yuanzhi is good in every way, but... this love for a married woman is probably not a good thing!
He turned his head and looked at the courtyard several times.
"What are you looking at?"
Zhu Jialiang opened his mouth as if to say something to Su Laosan, but then swallowed his words back, afraid that he would get scolded by Su Laosan, Song Yuanzhi's nephew. After all, no matter how good their relationship was, they weren't blood relatives.
Now that Song Yuanzhi is in charge of this area, if Su Laosan finds out about their secret and they start arguing, what if Song Yuanzhi gets angry and embarrassed...
Zhu Jialiang imagined a scene in his mind where Su Laosan's grocery store was overturned by Song Yuanzhi in a fit of anger, leaving him homeless and miserable.
"Hey!"
Su Laosan asked a question but received no response. He then noticed that Zhu Jialiang was staring at him blankly, his gaze shifting from strange to shocked to sympathetic. Finding this somewhat amusing, he raised his hand and waved it in front of Zhu Jialiang's eyes a few times.
"Zhu Jialiang!"
Zhu Jialiang snapped out of his daze, blinked, coughed lightly, and patted him on the shoulder. "Brother, be good to your uncle from now on. I'm leaving, don't bother seeing me off."
After saying that, he pushed his bicycle, pushed off with his long legs, and quickly sped off.
Su Laosan, "..."
He frowned as he watched Zhu Jialiang's furtive figure disappear into the distance, feeling that something was off.
"Why are you being so superstitious... Do I need your instructions? If I dared not treat my uncle well, my mom would break my legs! Aren't the living examples of Su Xiaosi and Su Hongmei shocking enough?"
Su Laosan clicked his tongue twice and shook his head.
I feel like I must be crazy to not be good to my family or anyone else.
outsider……
He just doesn't like studying, it's not like he's being unreasonable.
Who knew that Su Xiaosi and Su Hongmei would talk about each other so much?
At this moment, Su Hongmei ran to Tsinghua and Peking Universities to find Su Xiaosi, "Fourth Brother, Dad won't give me money, I haven't saved enough for tuition yet, and school starts in two days, could you..."
"cannot."
Su Xiaosi frowned as she looked at the crooked patches on Su Hongmei's clothes, her disdain deepening. "Weren't you working part-time? From the end of the high school entrance exam to the start of the new semester, you haven't saved enough in several months? What are you doing?"
"I'm working really hard!"
Su Hongmei's eyes reddened as she held out her hand to Su Xiaosi. "I wash and chop vegetables every day, my fingers are all swollen from being soaked in water. They treat me like a man, making me carry baskets of vegetables. I'm so tired I can't even straighten my back. I only get two yuan a day, I can't save enough for my tuition! Fourth Brother, money is so hard to earn..."
Su Xiaosi glanced at it and then looked away.
He said, “I can’t help you. I don’t even have enough to live on myself. I’m going to take the entrance exam for Professor Song Weizhen’s graduate program next year. The students he’s taking on all come from families better off than mine. I have to save a little bit of my food money every day to buy gifts for the other senior students so they can look up to me. I don’t have any spare money for you. You should think of another way.”
"Fourth Brother..."
Su Hongmei pouted, feeling sad and about to cry, but Su Xiaosi turned around and said, "Aren't my eldest brother and third brother richer than me? Why did you come looking for me? They can all make money, but I still have to spend money! Okay, I have something to do, I'll go back first. You can leave, don't come looking for me again."
After saying that, he walked quickly towards the school.
"Fourth Brother!"
Su Hongmei chased after her for a few steps, but seeing that Su Xiaosi was walking faster and faster, she bit her lip and stopped.
But hope still lingered in his eyes as he stared at Su Xiaosi's retreating figure.
Unfortunately, Su Xiaosi didn't turn around even once until she was out of her sight.
The hope in Su Hongmei's eyes was shattered, turning into despair.
She gritted her teeth, turned around abruptly, and strode back the way she came, her steps getting longer and longer until she started running.
She only took a few hours off and had to hurry back, otherwise she would be penalized.
When Su Hongmei returned home that evening, the front door was ajar. She opened it and went inside. The yard was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything clearly. Suddenly, she stepped into a hole that hadn't been there during the day, and screamed in fright.
The lights in the room were instantly switched on, and Su Youfu yelled at the outside, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? What are you yelling about? If you're not going to sleep, get out!"
Su Hongmei didn't dare to say a word back. She covered her mouth, closed the courtyard gate, and went inside.
The two rooms were divided between the mother and son. Su Hongmei simply put a few benches together in the living room, placed a wooden board on top, and made it into a bed.
Su Hongmei sat down, feeling her way along the edge of the bed. In the darkness, she looked outside, tears silently falling from the corners of her eyes.
Before dawn the next day, Su Hongmei got up, washed up, washed the dirty clothes at home, cooked, and finally cleaned the yard. She was quick and efficient, and finished everything in less than an hour.
This was the condition Su Youfu allowed him to live here; she took care of all the housework.
After cooking, she ate her portion, kept the rest warm in the pot, and hurriedly left to catch the early bus to her part-time job.
But when she arrived at her part-time job location, she hesitated and didn't get off the bus.
Instead, they went to Su Laosan's general store.
When Su Laosan received a call from his cousin at the shop, he frowned. "What is she doing now?"
"The little girl looks quite pitiful. Come over and take a look for yourself," my cousin sighed.
Su Laosan had no idea what Su Hongmei was up to, so he took a taxi over.
He paused for a moment when he saw Su Hongmei for the first time.
She was wearing faded white clothes, with her wrists and ankles exposed, clearly ill-fitting, with large patches all over her knees and elbows. She stood in front of his general store wearing this outfit, saying she was looking for her third brother.
When the cousins saw the situation, they knew that Su Hongmei had followed Su Youfu and had caused a scene at the store before. But the girl looked so pitiful now, so they quickly called over Su Laosan.
Su Laosan called the person to the small storeroom in the back, frowned and asked, "Su Hongmei, what kind of trouble are you planning now?"
"Third brother, I got into high school! School starts in a couple of days."
Su Hongmei's eyes lit up as she looked at Su Laosan, her brows and eyes brimming with smugness.
Su Laosan was somewhat surprised, but seeing that Su Hongmei didn't seem to be lying, he nodded and said, "Yes, congratulations."
Su Hongmei smiled, but her expression changed the next second.
She said dejectedly, "...Dad took early retirement due to illness. He's only willing to give me five yuan a month for living expenses. That's not enough for me to eat and drink, let alone pay for books and tuition. The part-time job I found only pays sixty yuan a month. I can't save enough money to go to school. Third brother, can you support my studies?"
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