Hearing Su Lin mention his family, Su Hua's face became a little unnatural: "Dad... Dad was sent to inspect the railway, and my second and third brothers went to the countryside."
"All sent to the countryside?" Su Lin raised her eyebrows, a hint of sarcasm flashing in her eyes: "Dad is willing to do that?"
"What can I do if Dad doesn't want to let me go?" Su Hua pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly: "Because of Mom's situation, our family has been listed on the street, and all the paths to job assignments are blocked. If we don't go to the countryside, our whole family will starve to death if we stay in the city."
Su Lin felt extremely happy when she heard this.
In order to protect the twins, Su Kang did not allow his two precious sons to go to the countryside, so he forced her to board a train to the Loess Plateau.
The conditions on the Loess Plateau are particularly harsh. Lack of food and clothing are minor issues there, but lack of water is a major concern. The village she visited didn't even have a well; if they wanted water, they had to fetch it from a well at the foot of a mountain a mile away.
The water picked out is still muddy and mixed with mud and sand. If conditions permit, it can be purified with alum. If not, you can only use wood ash, or even drink it directly after clarifying it.
She was nauseous and retched at first, but eventually drank it all without changing her expression. The pain she went through in between was simply unbearable to recall.
In such a miserable place, besides her, there were only three other young men sent there in the whole city of Shanghai.
Even the clerk from the Youth League Office who sent her to the car hesitated to say that the place was not suitable for girls.
She cried and begged, almost kneeling before Su Kang, but what did Su Kang do? He pried her fingers apart one by one, dragged her arm, and dragged her onto the train.
Su Yichang and Su Yixing just watched coldly without saying a word.
Only Wang Chunyin, although he loved his son more, still showed some tenderness towards her.
She wiped away her tears and stuffed ten yuan into her hand through the train window, saying that it was not good to be without money when traveling outside, and asked her to keep it for herself.
Thinking of Wang Chunyin, Su Lin felt very complicated.
She loves and hates Wang Chunyin.
She hated her for mistakenly switching her with Yun Qiao. If she hadn't deliberately switched her with Yun Qiao, she, as the only daughter of the Ye family, wouldn't have had to go to the countryside.
As for love... to be fair, Wang Chunyin has been very kind to her over the years.
Wang Chunqi felt that she was blessed. Her arrival saved her marriage and brought her a pair of twin sons, allowing her to stand up straight in the Su family. Therefore, he did not only pamper her but also obeyed her in everything.
She wanted to live in a room of her own, so she ignored everyone's opposition and partitioned off a small room in the living room, which was not spacious to begin with. Although the room was very small, so small that it could only accommodate a bed and a cabinet, it was still a separate room, and a special treatment that made the twins envious.
She loved to be coquettish, so all the fabrics in the house were used by her. She could only have two sets of clothes a year, while the twins and her little sister Su Hua could only wear old clothes picked up from relatives' children.
Although Wang Chunqi had committed a crime, he valued his own son more in his heart, and she had also treated her honestly. She had indeed grown up carefree and spoiled for the first sixteen years of her life.
If it were the Ye family, she would never have lived a carefree and peaceful life for the first sixteen years of her life.
Not to mention her father who died young and her mother who remarried, she couldn't stand the several times she was away from home over the past decade or so.
Su Lin was in a complicated mood and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is Mom still okay?"
Su Hua shook his head and said honestly, "I don't know. I haven't seen her since she was arrested by the police at home. Now she has been sent to a labor camp in Qinghai. I have no idea what her specific situation is."
Su Lin was stunned. "From the time she was arrested to the time she was sent down to the countryside and left Shanghai, such a long time had passed. Didn't you ever go to see her?"
"Dad won't let me," Su Hua said. "He told us to cut off all ties with Mom and draw a clear line. He doesn't allow us to visit her, saying it's unfair to us."
"If he says no, you won't go? Su Hua, that's your mother! She is your mother!" Su Lin said angrily.
She didn't know what she was angry about, but she was just angry.
Su Hua looked at Su Lin strangely. "I know she is my mother, but she is also a bad person. Dad didn't let us go to see her because of us."
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