"That's right! What a moral character! Su Luo can't make any money, and she has such a big child. As a father, do you have to do such an ugly thing for 20 yuan? No wonder Su Luo was so depressed a few days ago that she wanted to die. I saw her jumping into the river. Fortunately, she didn't drown, otherwise you would have been very happy, right?"
Su Luo stood up and said, "Dad, let's settle the accounts today in front of Aunt Niu and everyone else."
"Settle a score?" Su Jincai glanced at her sarcastically, "You dare to settle a score with your father? Well, come on, I want to see what score you want to settle with me?"
Su Luo really wanted to settle accounts with him.
She stood up and said, "If it were me, I would not bother to settle with you, but this account is one by one, and I can't let you just let it go. In order to raise those three children, I borrowed 20 yuan from you. The money was secretly given to me by my younger brother, but I still wrote you an IOU. Later, you came to me and asked me to give you 10 kilograms of wild vegetables every other day to pay off the debt. Everyone in the village knows this, right?"
"So what?" Su Jincai didn't care. He even got angry when he talked about this: "If you, an ungrateful bastard, hadn't taken advantage of your brother's young age and tricked him into giving you money, would I have been able to lend you so much?"
Su Luo didn't argue with him about this matter, but continued: "We started digging wild vegetables on Yi Yi's fifth birthday when you came to my house to make trouble. Today is exactly two and a half years, a total of 912 days. I'll round off the number and make it 900 days. Ten pounds of wild vegetables every other day, that is 450 days of 10 pounds of wild vegetables every day, that is 4,500 pounds of wild vegetables. The wild vegetables are taken to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for money, all at 1 cent per pound. The wild vegetables that Yi Yi has dug in the past two years are enough to sell for 45 yuan."
Su Jincai's face changed. He couldn't figure out the accounts at all. He refused to do it on the spot after hearing this: "Don't give me that. How can I dig so much? Are you trying to trick your father? You can make 40 or 50 yuan by digging two wild vegetables? If no one does business, can we make money by digging wild vegetables to support the whole family?"
Su Luo refused to give in: "You will know if you go back and do the math yourself. From that day on, Yiyi will give your family 10 kilograms of wild vegetables every other day. The whole village has seen it, so don't think of denying your debt. I am not going to settle accounts with you because you are my father and Yiyi's grandfather. The extra 25 yuan is a tribute to you. If you come to my house to make trouble again about the 20 yuan, then we will go to the village chief to seek justice!"
Su Jincai's eyes flashed with guilt, and he snorted coldly: "Don't mess with me about these things! Forget about the money. I won't make it difficult for you. We'll talk next time!"
He turned and walked away, his steps somewhat hurriedly.
Aunt Niu was happy and gave Su Luo a thumbs up: "Your father must be anxious to go home and settle the accounts!"
Su Luo said, "I just found out last night when I calculated. What 20 yuan? I paid it back long ago! He took advantage of our Yi Yi so much, I will get it back sooner or later. It's okay for him to take advantage of me, I will just consider it as him giving birth to me and we're even. But those are Yi Yi's money, my son can't continue to be the one who takes advantage of him!"
She lowered her head and patted Gu Yi's little head: "Baby, let's not dig wild vegetables anymore!"
When Gu Yi was called "baby" in front of so many people, her ears turned red. She wanted to respond but was too embarrassed. She pouted her lips but didn't utter a "hmm".
Seeing that nothing was wrong, Aunt Niu and the others said goodbye to her and left.
Su Luo thanked these enthusiastic neighbors one by one, watched them leave, and then took Gu Yi back to the house.
The mother and daughter worked together to clean up the things that Su Jincai had messed up.
Gu Yi suddenly asked, "Do you really want to do business with Aunt Niu?"
Su Luo blinked: "Guess."
Gu Yi was a little anxious: "Then what you just said...I..."
Su Luo knew what he was going to ask, but she deliberately didn't say it, forcing him to ask it.
Gu Yi was really embarrassed facing Su Luo, but he wanted to know too much, so he mustered up the courage to ask shamelessly: "You...really going to send me to school?"
Su Luo nodded with a smile: "Of course, your mother is a great writer, and she raised an illiterate son who can't read a single word. Wouldn't that be hilarious?"
Gu Yi couldn't help but grin, but then he felt embarrassed and tried to hold it back, forcing himself to be expressionless: "I think what you said makes sense."
Su Luo laughed out loud because of his amusement: "You are so pretentious. If you want to laugh, just laugh. If you are happy, just laugh as much as you want. It's not against the law to be happy. How are you going to find a wife in the future if you are so thin-skinned?"
Gu Yi blushed at her blunt words and said quickly, "I don't want to laugh! I went because you told me to." He paused and said, "I can help you first. If you want to do business, I can run errands and carry things. I'm very strong."
Su Luo sneered and punched his shoulder: "Alright! Stop being so serious. A brat should act like a brat. Just have fun."
She hooked her arm around Gu Yi's neck like a brother, put their faces together, and said with a smile: "Just focus on your studies, don't worry about anything, I can take care of the money. Have you forgotten that I write books to make money? Not only will I support your studies, but I will also find your brothers and sisters, so that we can reunite as a family, eat meat together, and drink together! I will protect you, and I will keep my word!"
"Really?!" Gu Yi was overjoyed and couldn't hold back this time: "Are you really going to get them back?"
Su Luo said firmly and optimistically, "Of course not! Mom can make money now, so she can afford to feed a few more people. Bringing them back won't starve them to death! When Mom gets a few more royalties and saves some money, she will find a newspaper to post a missing person notice and bring them back. We will have a lively New Year this year!"
Gu Yi widened his beautiful peach blossom eyes and stared carefully at the expression on Su Luo's face, afraid of missing even a single detail.
Su Luo looked at him openly and frankly with a smile on her face.
Gu Yi's nose suddenly turned red, his mouth pouted, and he threw himself into her arms.
A crying voice came out from her arms: "Don't lie! I believe you."
Su Luo was bumped by the soft and warm little body in her arms, and an unknown warmth spread through her heart. She couldn't help but hug the little guy: "Don't lie, don't lie. If I lie, let God punish me by making me poop in the pit every day and unable to get up, okay?"
Gu Yi was amused by her curse, and responded sullenly, then came out of her arms embarrassedly and wiped his tears. He looked at Su Luo with emotion, and the word "Mom" came to his lips, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, feeling a little shy.
Seeing his shy look, Su Luo rubbed his furry head lovingly: "Baby, your porridge is mushy."
"Porridge? Ah!!! Porridge!" The shyness on Gu Yi's face was replaced by panic, and he almost stumbled and fell when he ran out.
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