Once Su Fuqiang finds that there is a child in the village who is better than her, she will immediately compare him with her.
From childhood to adulthood, she has been constantly trying to catch up with others through comparison.
"Look at Guo Yunyun, she can cook and wash clothes for the family at the age of 12. How capable!"
"Look at Guo Huaiqiang. He can write essays at such a young age. He will definitely have a great future!"
"Look at Su Qiuyun, who works in the county town, earns a few dozen yuan a month, and eats commercial grain. Look at you! Can you make some progress?"
She finally made it through, graduated from junior high school and worked in a textile factory, earning about ten yuan a month, and received food and meat coupons, and could occasionally eat commercial grain. As a result, Su Luo, who had always been stepped on by her, rose up again.
Su Lili collapsed on the ground and cried loudly: "Why don't you just kill me? Why do you always have to compete with others? Why do you always have to compete with others?"
Su Fuqiang just watched her making a scene with a cold eye. When she was tired of crying, he lit a pipe of cigarette, puffed and blew out some smoke rings, and looked at her with great disappointment: "You are so old, why are you still so ignorant? You can't tell right from wrong. Is this a comparison? We are doing this for your own good, so that you don't live in a muddle. When you are young, you must have hope, direction and goals. If you don't compare with others, you will fall behind in the future and you won't be able to catch up with them even if you catch up! If it wasn't for your own good, do we need to worry so much and pressure you to work hard every day?"
Su's mother finished processing the pork. When she came in, she saw Su Lili collapsed on the ground after crying herself tired. She felt distressed and helpless: "Lili, you are right to listen to your father. Don't you know what kind of personality you have? If your parents hadn't forced you to study, would you have been able to finish junior high school? You have no ideas or perseverance in doing anything, you can't endure hardships, and you are not good at anything. If you had your own ideas and opinions, would we have to force you like this?"
"Who said I can't do anything? Who said I can't finish junior high school!" Su Lili yelled indignantly: "Didn't I finish junior high school? Didn't I get assigned to work in a textile factory? What right do you have to say that to me? No matter how well I do, you are blind and can't see it!"
"How dare you!" Su Fuqiang slapped him again. "Have you read so much? Who taught you to talk to your parents like that? You are such an uneducated person!"
Su Lili sobbed again: "I hate you! I hate you! You always think that I can't do anything, and that everything I do is your credit, and that if I don't do well, it's because I didn't work hard. Why? Why? Now even a slut is better than me in your eyes!"
Su's mother shook her head in disappointment. "Don't be so stubborn. Su Luo is more perseverant than you in doing things. She can do things well without being pressured by others. Can you do that? Look at how fat Su Luo was before. There was a pothole every time she stepped on the road. But now? She has lost weight without saying a word and has become more beautiful. Look at yourself again. How many times have I told you to eat less? You are so fat that it will be difficult for you to get married in the future. Did you listen? Can you lose weight?"
"I've been fat since I was a child! I get fat even when I drink water! How can you expect me to lose weight? Do you want to starve me to death?" Su Lili yelled at her hysterically.
What she hated most was the way these two people looked at her with such disappointment, as if she had committed some unforgivable crime and as if neither of them had done anything wrong.
Mother Su frowned. "If you can't even control your own mouth, what else can we expect you to accomplish? If we don't suppress you, you might not even be able to finish elementary school now, and you'd be working in the fields every day. How could you work easily in a textile factory?"
Su Lili glared at both of them angrily: "I don't want to say it anymore."
She wiped her tears, turned around and went back to her room, locking the door.
Su Fuqiang and his mother ignored her upon seeing this.
We have quarreled so many times since we were little.
They didn't take it to heart.
I will cook the pork belly tomorrow and I will come out again when I smell the aroma of the meat.
The second day.
The news that Su Luo had become a writer and made a lot of money spread throughout the village.
It was naturally the work of Su Fuqiang.
The news that Su Luo's family would come to the ancestral hall to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival also spread.
When Su Jincai and his family heard the news, they couldn't sit still.
Su Huang said quickly: "Dad! The whole village has heard that Su Luo has made a lot of money. You see, we shouldn't have split up the family!"
Guo Xiu also had a look of regret on her face, "I knew that damn girl had no good intentions when she wanted to divide the family."
Su Jincai said coldly, "So what if we split up the family? She is no longer a member of our family after the split up? We raised her for more than ten years in vain? Doesn't she have to give back to us when she makes money? People who don't care about their parents after the split up will be criticized by others!"
Guo Xiu also nodded: "That's right! Even if the family splits up, we are still her family. We raised her with great difficulty. Now that she has made money, she wants to get rid of us? It's not that easy!"
Su Jincai suddenly said, "But, that money-loser has made so much money. Even if we split up the family, we have to find a way to win her back, right? She's 23 years old and has three children, so what? She can make so much money, who wouldn't want her? If she marries someone else, who knows who will get the advantage!"
Guo Xiu looked at him suspiciously: "What do you mean..."
Su Jincai said: "We have to find a way to get her to marry into our family and get the money back to us."
Guo Xiu frowned: "But, how can there be anyone suitable for marriage in our family? They are all relatives, this is not appropriate, right?"
Su Jincai snorted: "Why do you have to have relatives? There are so many bachelors in the village!"
Guo Xiu couldn't think of anyone who would be suitable: "What kind of family do you want to tell her about?"
Su Jincai took two puffs of his cigarette and narrowed his eyes shrewdly: "Isn't the son of the old Zhu family just at the age of marriage?"
Guo Xiu thought for a moment and said in surprise: "He?! That child is... an orphan. It's not an exaggeration to say he is an orphan, right? Old Zhu died of a stroke last year. His wife divorced him ten years ago and ran away. He only has a son who is idle in the village all day. Marry him?"
Su Jincai nodded: "That boy is skinny and just a second-rate guy. I have met him several times at the gambling table. He is easy to control. We can coax him to marry Su Luo. After all, women are easy to control once they have a man. Let the boy bring Su Luo back to live with us. He has no parents, so it is legitimate for us to intervene and help manage his family affairs."
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