The same thing happened today.
After wandering around for a long time without finding any job opportunities, Su Changyi went to the attic in a dejected mood. On the way, someone spoke to him, but he was in a daze and didn't hear clearly.
When I got to the door of my house, I found that it was not locked, and then I realized that Su Hua was there.
He was surprised: "Xiaohua, why did you come here yesterday?"
Su Changyi glanced at the broken alarm clock on the table and asked in surprise, "It's only noon, not even eleven o'clock, and the vegetable market is already closed?"
"No." Su Hua explained: "I was a little busy yesterday, so my boss gave me a day off."
Su Hua didn't dare tell others that he had been admitted to university, for fear of upsetting Su Changyi.
After all, Su Changyi also signed up for the college entrance examination, but he failed twice in a row.
Su Hua thought, let's lay the groundwork first, and then tell him slowly.
Su Changyi didn't think much of it and asked her, "What's the matter? Why are you asking for leave? My salary isn't high to begin with, and taking a day off means I have to deduct a day's pay. How embarrassing!"
Su Hua ignored him and asked, "Brother, I kind of want to call Dad, but I can't find his number. Do you have his number?"
"Yes." Su Changyi said, "Wait, I'll find it for you."
"Yes." Su Hua nodded.
Su Changyi walked to the side of his bed and dug out a backpack from the messy bed. He opened the backpack and found a black hard cover notebook. He flipped through it for a while, turned to a certain page, and handed it to Su Hua: "Here, this is the second one on the page."
Su Hua took a look, nodded, took the notebook and put it in his arms: "Thank you, I'll go out first, I'll return it to you after I finish the call."
Su Changyi asked her, "You haven't told me yet, what do you want from our dad?"
"I'll tell you later." Su Hua said.
Su Changyi glanced at Su Hua's departing figure and muttered, "What's going on? He's being so mysterious."
Su Hua heard it, but ignored it.
Su Changyi thought of something and stopped her again: "Xiaohua, wait a minute."
Being called by his name, Su Hua could no longer pretend not to hear.
She stopped, nodded, and asked, "What?"
"It's almost lunchtime. When you get back from your call, bring me some lunch." Su Changyi chuckled, "It's on my way. It saves me from having to go out again."
Su Hua nodded and said, "Okay." He held out his hand again and said, "Money and food coupons."
Su Changyi's face darkened: "You help me with the cushion first, and I'll give you the top."
"No, you have to give it to me first." Su Hua said, "My salary is low, and the food coupons are rationed every month. It's not enough for me to eat."
Su Changyi's face darkened, and his tone was somewhat negative: "We are brothers and sisters, yet you are telling me the difference so clearly. Even if you paid for it first, how can I not pay you back?"
Su Hua was not afraid of his bad face.
She had lived alone in Shanghai for so many years since she was twelve years old, and had long since developed a heart of steel.
She is no longer the pitiful little girl who used to be timid and lived according to her family's wishes.
Now Su Changyi wants to control her by putting on a sour face, which is simply a dream.
Su Hua said, "Even brothers should settle accounts clearly. Give it to me first, otherwise I won't help you."
"That's enough!" Su Changyi's face was gloomy. He reluctantly took out three cents and two taels of food coupons from his pocket and handed them to Su Hua, saying, "I don't have much money on me. I don't want to buy good vegetables. I'll just buy mixed grain rice for dinner."
Two taels of food coupons can only buy two taels of white rice, but you can get an extra tael of mixed grain rice.
"Just give me thirty cents, and the food won't be very good." Su Hua said bluntly.
The cheapest vegetarian dish in the cafeteria is only 30 cents per serving, so she would not pay out of her own pocket to buy him good food.
Su Changyi was so angry at Su Hua that his liver hurt. He waved his hands and said, "Hey, hey, you can beat me up. It doesn't matter what you buy. I'll eat whatever you buy."
Su Hua nodded: "Ye."
Su Hua left the attic and went downstairs to the grocery store at the entrance of the Railway Bureau to make a phone call.
The grocery store at the entrance of the Railway Bureau is the largest store in the vicinity and has several public telephones.
In Su Hua's eyes, Yun Qiao had a higher priority than Su Kang. She would always remember the two dollars of life-saving money she sent from the Northeast every month when she was in the most difficult time.
It can be said that she almost had no food to eat several times, and it was those two dollars that saved her.
So Su Hua first called Sister Yunqiao in Beijing. After talking to Sister Yunqiao on the phone, he opened the notebook Su Changyi gave him and called Su Kang in western Sichuan.
After waiting for half an hour, the person who answered the phone was the operator from Su Kang's unit. Su Hua waited for more than ten minutes, but the person who finally answered the phone was not Su Kang, but his second wife.
Su Hua said "Hello" and called out, "Dad."
A moment later, a woman's voice came from the receiver, "Is this Xiaohua? I'm your Aunt Chen."
Su Hua lowered his eyes with some disappointment, pursed his lips, said "hmm", and said: "Aunt Chen, hello."
Then he asked, "Where's my dad? Isn't he home?"
The other party smiled and explained, "Yes, it's a bad omen that you called. Your father is not at home. He just went into the mountains with the maintenance team for maintenance this morning."
Su Hua asked: "When will my father be able to come?"
"It's hard to say. It depends on how smoothly the maintenance goes." The other party said, "If everything goes smoothly, they can be here in two or three days. If not, we'll have to eat and live in the mountains, so it's common for them to take seven or eight days."
"All right."
The other party said, "Xiaohua, what do you want from your father? If it's urgent, you can tell me. I'll find a way to ask someone to pass a message to your father."
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