After dinner, no one dared to provoke Su Yu; some took showers, others washed the dishes.
Su Yu took twenty yuan and gave it to Liu Mei as a reward for her hard work in handling this matter.
She was never stingy with those who could do things for her. Even the emperor wouldn't starve his soldiers; you have to pay them to fight. Without pay, even the emperor couldn't command them.
Su Yu's idea regarding Liu Mei was to nurture her properly. Compared to the other girls in the family who were either cowards, impulsive, or simple-minded, this sister-in-law clearly had some potential.
They can be temporarily developed into my personal assistant. As for the issue of becoming a full-time employee, that remains to be seen.
Liu Mei was terrified. "Sister, you keep the money, I don't want it." Isn't this some kind of compensation for lost youth? How could we dare take it?
"Take it. My word is my bond, and my promises are as good as gold! Don't make me lose face, take it."
Su Yu simply and generously put it in her pocket.
She patted her on the shoulder and said, "Very good. Keep up the good work, and you'll get plenty of benefits in the future. When the opportunity arises, I'll help you find a job too. No one in our family can be an apprentice; it's shameful. We should all be full-time employees."
Liu Mei's eyes lit up immediately, incredulous, "Sister, can I really do it?"
"That's a must. I'm quite busy lately, so let's do it later. Anyway, it'll definitely be done. And don't do the steelworker job anymore. It's too hard for a woman like you to work on the front lines of a steel plant. If you're going to do something, do something comfortable."
Anyway, it doesn't need to be realized right now; let's just keep drawing up the pie in the sky first.
In the past, Liu Mei would never have believed it, but now her brother-in-law's situation was a stark example. Even someone like him managed to get a good job and become a permanent employee. There was no reason why she wouldn't have a chance.
"Sister, I don't know how to express my gratitude. If you ever need my help in the future, just let me know."
"It doesn't matter if it's useful or not, we're all family. We should help each other out." Su Yu patted her shoulder. "Meizi, you're the eldest daughter-in-law of the Su family, and I value you highly."
Liu Mei looked excited.
Luckily, she handled things well this time, otherwise why would her sister treat her so well?
After giving her instructions, Su Yu sat on the bed and started taking out the ration coupons. "Alright, you can go do your own thing now. I need to count how many cloth coupons I have. Sigh, and there are industrial coupons too. It's really not easy to buy a piece of clothing."
Liu Mei: "...Sister, I have a few industrial coupons and cloth coupons here. I'll give them to you first." She then scurried to her bag and managed to pull out a few coupons.
Su Yu smiled, her eyes crinkling. "Meizi, I've got you covered. You're the smartest in the family. Smarter than all of them. I have high hopes for you."
Liu Mei: "..." Yours is so obvious, how can I not do it?
Because of Su Yu's 'heartbreak,' no one in her family dared to upset her, and they didn't even dare to raise their voices.
While sleeping, the whole family would watch their older sister sit on the bed counting cloth coupons.
As she counted her cloth coupons, she kept muttering, "I want to wear pretty clothes too, I want to dress up nicely, so that no one will look down on me."
"..." Is my sister upset?
Not only was she upset by the family's misfortune, but the union members also became more attentive to her. They were all secretly observing her. Seeing that she remained quite silent, they were all a little worried.
Committee Member Hu didn't even assign Su Yu much work, just wanted to let Su Yu relax for a couple of days.
It's really tough. They'd been dating for over five years, and then this happened, wasting so much of their youth. Both their relationship and their youth are gone in an instant. What a huge blow that is.
Su Yu was happy to finally relax. She was heartbroken now; how could she act like nothing was wrong? From this moment on, she was going to change, to let herself go.
The first step is to buy clothes.
After all, clothes make the man, no matter the era. Don't think that simplicity equals beauty; that's just deceiving the common people. If you walk down the street and one person is dressed in rags while the other is dressed in a Lenin suit, tell me who is treated better.
Even if patching becomes fashionable in a few years, it's still just patching new clothes; that's considered stylish. If someone wears tattered clothes and sews on a few patches, that's considered poor and stingy.
Humans are just so adorably superficial.
"Fang, let's take a day off tomorrow and go shopping together."
When it was time to leave work, Su Yu pulled Yan Fang aside.
Yan Fang was taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded, "Okay, okay, I'll talk to Committee Member Zhang later. We didn't get any rest last week, and we have a competition this weekend, so we should get some rest early."
Su Yu sighed, "After my younger siblings found out about my situation, they advised me to tidy myself up. A large part of the reason why Wu Guozhi looked down on me was because of myself. If I don't take care of myself, it's no wonder that others look down on me."
"Don't be like that. Clothes are just an external thing. You're such a good person, that beast was blind to your true nature."
"Sigh, who knows? Like my sister, she's not pretty on the outside, so who has the patience to look at whether I'm beautiful on the inside? People still need to change a bit..." she said wistfully.
Yan Fang felt a chill run down her spine; something was wrong with Sister Su Yu.
She decided to go along with Su Yu's suggestion, "Then let's go buy some fabric tomorrow to make clothes, buy a lot, and I'll help you dress up."
"I need to buy ready-made clothes." Su Yu sniffed, her nose stinging. "I need to buy Lenin suits and dresses. We need to wear nice clothes too." It's pathetic how difficult it is to even buy a dress these days.
"Okay, okay, let's buy ready-made clothes. The malls in our provincial capital have everything."
Yan Fang quickly said.
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