After everyone had left, Suti closed the courtyard gate and returned to his usual self.
“This door needs to be replaced, the courtyard wall needs to be raised, and I see the stove in the kitchen is cracked, it needs to be cleaned up properly.”
Wei Baichuan hugged Su Ti with an excited expression. He had a home now, a home of his own with his wife.
Although the house was dilapidated, he believed that it was only temporary and that the Wei family would be better off without it.
"Take your time, no rush. Let's clean the house first." Su Ti didn't expect Wei Baichuan to be so excited.
However, the thought of leaving the Wei family, who had always suppressed him, was indeed something to be happy about.
"Honey, you go inside and lie down first. I'll clean the room a bit." Wei Baichuan thought it was a wise choice for his wife to bring the bed over.
Otherwise they'd have to sleep on benches tonight.
"I was just pretending. You really intend to let me recover from my injury? Let's clean together. I'll tidy up in the inner room, and you can go to the yard and clean the kitchen."
"If I don't go out, no one will notice anything. Once you have some time tomorrow to raise the courtyard wall a bit, I'll be able to walk around in the yard."
Looking at the overgrown weeds in the yard and the cobwebs in the house, Suti couldn't bear to lie down.
"Okay, then take your time, honey, don't tire yourself out." Wei Baichuan thought for a moment and agreed. He still needed to find some firewood, otherwise he wouldn't have dinner tonight.
In Yangliu Brigade, and indeed in Jiang Province, every household has a well in their yard, which saves a lot of trouble.
Their well hadn't been used for a long time, and it was covered in moss.
Wei Baichuan took a bucket, filled it with water, and brought it into the house first. Seeing his wife sweeping the floor, he helped her clean up the spider webs on the roof.
Otherwise, all the sweeping would be for nothing if the dust fell down later. Seeing that the dust was too thick, I sprinkled some water on it.
Suti tidied up inside, while Wei Baichuan busied himself outside, working until it was too dark to see anything before he stopped.
"The yard is almost done. I'll need to work on the kitchen a bit more tomorrow. I'll clean up the last room when I have some free time; no one's living there for now."
Wei Baichuan noticed that his wife had tidied up the place much more meticulously than he had; the house had been completely transformed.
There were also some things he had never seen before, which were probably from his wife's treasure.
"Let's not cook dinner tonight, let's have dumplings. We'll cook dinner later when the kitchen is cleaned up. We'll kill the chicken later and store it in my space."
Suti was also exhausted. The house didn't look big, but it was covered in dust.
The ground was paved with dirty blue bricks, and she carefully wiped it clean. She no longer wanted to celebrate with chicken.
"Okay." Wei Baichuan was originally thinking that the stove looked like it was about to collapse, and if all else failed, he would borrow a stove from the educated youth settlement to cook something in the meantime.
He forgot that his wife had a baby, and there were all sorts of delicious things inside.
"I'm planning to take a day off tomorrow and tidy up at home," Wei Baichuan said to Su Ti while eating dumplings.
He wouldn't feel comfortable going to work until the house was tidy, and he was also afraid that the Wei family would cause trouble.
Wei Baichuan thought he had to do something to stop them from making any more small moves.
"Okay, I don't need to ask for leave. Everyone knows I'm injured and I definitely need to recover." Su Ti thought she would just take a few days off.
The commune will probably take action soon, and Wei Changgen will definitely lose his position as brigade leader.
I don't know who this new captain is, but whoever it is, as long as he's from the brigade, he definitely won't cause them any more trouble openly.
"Yes, honey, you need to rest well. I'm sorry you've had to go through this."
Wei Baichuan thought that since they had finally separated their households, he hoped that his wife would never have to work again, so that he could support the family.
After dinner, Wei Baichuan went to the educated youth settlement to borrow a stove to boil some water. The two washed up and went to sleep peacefully.
This was the most comfortable night Suti had had since she returned; she had successfully taken the first step.
Forget about male and female leads, she made it happen.
Wei Baichuan held his wife in his arms. It seemed that after leaving the Wei family, his mind had become much clearer, and he felt that something binding him inside his body was slowly disappearing.
Both of them slept soundly, more soundly than ever before.
When dawn broke, both Suti and Wei Baichuan felt as if they had been reborn.
"Suti, are you home?" Early in the morning, Wei Baichuan had just gone to the brigade headquarters to ask for leave when two heads peeked out from the door.
Suti saw Wu Xiulan and Guo Lili by the window inside the house before going outside.
"Why are you here? Didn't you go to work?" Suti opened the door and welcomed the two in.
"We're not in a hurry for our work, how are you?" The two of them had wanted to visit Suti last night.
Seeing that it was getting late and there were other people at home, it wouldn't be convenient for them to be there. When they saw the bandage wrapped around Suti's head, their eyes were filled with worry.
"I'm fine." Suti couldn't tell them that it was fake, and she would have to keep bothering them like this for the next few days.
However, the blood on her face has been washed off, so she doesn't look so scary anymore.
"Su Ti, the Wei family has gone too far! They want to kill you!" Wu Xiulan was furious just thinking about it.
They don't treat them, the educated youth, like human beings at all. Yesterday, not only were they angry, but many people in the educated youth settlement were furious.
They had all agreed to submit a joint report, stating that the captain was unworthy of his position.
"It's alright now. We've separated our households, so I can just live my own life in peace."
Suti has always presented herself as gentle and weak in front of everyone; it would be abnormal for her to be laughing and joking like this now.
“Sutti, we were terrified yesterday. Now that you’ve separated, stay far away from that family and never have anything to do with them again.”
"And what did your man say? Those are his parents. If he can't bear to part with them, what are you going to do?"
Seeing Su Ti like this only strengthened Guo Lili's resolve not to marry into this family; they were all unreasonable, violent, and uncivilized people.
“He’s definitely on my side. Didn’t you see yesterday? He also wants to separate the family.”
Suti didn't want them to misunderstand Wei Baichuan, otherwise the two of them would definitely not give him a good look when they saw him later.
"That's true. Yesterday he looked at his parents like they were his enemies. He was probably very angry. That's good."
"But you still need to be careful. After all, they are his parents. Blood is thicker than water. Who knows if he will be fooled in the future?"
Neither of them had any ulterior motives; they said whatever came to mind. If it were Suti back then, she would definitely have been angry, thinking they were trying to sow discord between them.
“I know he’s not favored at home and he’s had a hard time before. This time his father almost killed me. We’ll be enemies with that family from now on.”
"I will definitely keep an eye on him and not let him get distracted again. Also, thank you for yesterday. You were the ones who suggested splitting up the family, weren't you?"
Suti heard it clearly at the time; although Guo Lili's voice was drowned out by the crowd, she recognized it immediately.
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