Why can't my family have this kind of luck?
Su Yu had just gotten home and changed her shoes when Liu Mei ran back after her. Seeing Su Lin still outside watching the bicycles, she knew her chance had come. She quickly ran in to get hot water for her sister to soak her feet, and then poured her some hot water to drink.
While soaking her feet and drinking hot tea, Su Yu said, "Liu Mei, when our family moves next year, you should also take some classes in continuing education. If you don't keep up with your education level, your future career path will be limited. You don't necessarily have to graduate; just studying for a while will give you equivalent qualifications."
Liu Mei immediately perked up. She knew her older sister's abilities, so there was no point in talking nonsense. "Sister, what should I learn?"
Su Yu said, "Learn whatever you want, as long as you can absorb it."
"Sister, what about the housework..."
"You can talk to her and offer her compensation so she can help you with it. But that's up to you two to figure out."
"..." Spending a little money each month means I won't have to do laundry or clean anymore, which seems pretty good.
Su Yu yawned, wiped her feet, and went to bed, where she leaned back and began to read and review.
Next time we eat out, she insists on picking a good day; this freezing weather is truly awful.
The Song family home in the municipal party committee compound.
Secretary Song leaned against her bed, holding a photo album in her hand.
The few photos inside had already turned yellow and white, and the people and scenery in them were starting to become blurry.
In one photograph, several soldiers, dressed in old-fashioned modified uniforms, stand by a pond, holding fishing nets and grinning as they display their spoils.
In the blurry photo, everyone is grinning.
"Dongzi, you're the smartest! Go ask Uncle Yao to take a picture of us. We caught twelve fish today!"
"From now on, we should take pictures every time we have a harvest."
"Dongzi, you're the oldest, you'll definitely outlive us. When the war is over, you must take pictures and burn them for us. I want to know what our communist days are like."
"Yes, if communism comes into being, Dongzi, you have to eat more, eat our share too."
"Dongzi, we've grown up! We can take guns and fight the enemy now. We're going to liberate the whole country!"
"Then what should I do?"
"Keep catching fish, and lead the other kids to catch fish. We'll come and eat the fish you caught after we're off the battlefield."
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Secretary Song closed the photo album, wiped her eyes, and got up to open the door.
Seeing his red eyes, Song's mother asked in surprise, "Dong, what's wrong? Did you suffer some injustice?"
Secretary Song pouted and said, "I was angry."
Song's mother was even more surprised, "Who is so capable of making my son so angry?"
"Someone invited me to dinner, but they didn't want to treat me to something nice, so they lied to me and said the restaurant didn't have any available."
Outside the door, Song's father chuckled happily, "Well done, this is the spirit of hard work and simplicity."
Mrs. Song frowned and said, "This is not right." She then asked Secretary Song, "I have to criticize whether it's a male or female colleague."
"Female comrade!"
"Oh, so you're a woman. Dong, you should bring her over so I can give her a good talking-to. How could she do something like this?"
Secretary Song: "..."
Song's mother smiled and pulled him along, "Alright, don't be angry anymore. Come out and get something to eat. Mom just made you some egg dumplings. Do you want some?"
"I'm not eating, I'm too angry to eat. You guys eat, I'll look at some documents." Secretary Song closed the door.
Song's mother turned to Song's father and said, "Comrade Yuanshan, our son is sad again."
"When I was fighting, a regiment had to replace its soldiers almost every month."
“Can a child be compared to an adult? I suggest we find him a comrade-in-arms as soon as possible. Doesn’t he like gentle and virtuous women? Let’s arrange it that way.”
...
On the second day back to work after New Year's Day, Su Yu got on her bicycle.
Comrade Su Zhi was definitely bolder and more skilled at riding a bicycle than Su Dazhi. So the honor of riding to work by bicycle for the first time fell to Su Zhi.
Watching Su Zhi ride his bike to take Su Yu to work, Su Dazhi was incredibly envious.
On the way, Su Yu sat on the back seat, wrapped up tightly, with her hands tucked into her sleeves, and kept reminding, "Zhi, ride slowly, don't let your hands freeze off."
Su Zhi was so excited that he didn't feel cold at all; instead, he felt hot all over. "Sister, don't worry, I'm perfectly healthy."
"That's true, you ate all the good food at home. Otherwise, would my health be so bad now?"
"...Sis, I'll give you all the good food I can have from now on."
When the siblings arrived at the factory, they quickly attracted a lot of attention.
Then, under everyone's envious gazes, Su Yu got out of the car, instructed Su Zhi to park the car in the guardhouse, and then went to work.
The stares she received along the way made her feel like she had bought a sports car, not a bicycle.
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