Chapter 28 Chapter 28

Su Hongpei patted Su Rui's hand and said, "My mother has been preparing to welcome the military officer son-in-law recently. It seems that they want him to come and settle the marriage."

Su Rui remained silent and said, "Do they also want me to split up the family?"

Su Hongpei said: "You know what's going on in your mind. When you go back to see them in the evening, just agree to what they want."

Su Rui said, "I know, don't worry. Otherwise I would have to think of a reason to ask them to separate the family."

In the middle of the day, Su Rui received too much information.

In the afternoon, she was busy applying fertilizer to the rice fields, sweating profusely. She went back to the ridge of the field, untied the cloth strip wrapped around her watch, checked the time, and felt happy. After checking, she tied it back on to prevent mud spots from splashing on it.

The token of love cannot be damaged by labor, and when she is 80 years old, she will pass it on to her granddaughter. This is called inheritance.

Su Rui sat on the edge of the field, took off her rain boots and exposed her feet to the sun.

Wanzi ran over from the end of the field and stuffed a piece of shrimp crisp into Su Rui's mouth.

"Where did you get those shrimp pastries?" Su Rui's mouth was filled with the crispy and sweet scent, sweeping away her previous fatigue.

Wan Zi said: "Your partner gave it to you!"

Su Rui covered her little mouth, looked around and said, "Who gave it to you?"

Wan Zi hunched his shoulders and covered his mouth with his hands, laughing: "I saw it all from the tree, you two were holding hands in the car, and it looked like you were about to kiss. Uncle Fang and Brother Fang asked me not to tell anyone yet, and gave me a bag of shrimp cakes as hush money."

The corners of Su Rui's lips twitched. She felt that Fang Chiye didn't give Wan Zi the secret to keep her mouth shut, but really wanted Wan Zi to call him brother.

But she still wanted to correct Wan Zi: "We didn't want to kiss."

The little devil said: "It's only a matter of time~"

Su Rui was embarrassed by a six-year-old kid.

I returned home feeling awkward all the way and instantly sensed that something was wrong at home.

Su Hongpei held firewood and winked at her. Su Rui suppressed her emotions, went to the stove, picked up the vegetable bowl and prepared to cook.

Su Chang'e glanced at Su Yuqin. Su Yuqin stood at the threshold and said, "Old Third, what happened between you and the labor reform prisoners? I heard that a labor reform prisoner is about to be released. I wonder if he will come to our house?"

Su Rui deliberately said, "It's only natural that he came to our house. I've always wanted to find a live-in son-in-law, so he must come to our house."

Su Chang'e stamped her feet and said, "Mother, you see, I knew she had bad intentions. She sentenced herself to labor reform, and she wanted to drag our whole family down with her."

Su Yuqin snatched Su Rui's vegetable bowl, stuffed it into Su Hongpei's hand and said, "Go out and pick some vegetables. You have nothing to do here."

Su Hongpei responded submissively and walked out with her head down.

Su Rui leaned against the window frame, and Su Chang'e stared at her and said, "Su Rui, you are a beautiful girl, and the prisoners are devoted to you. I think it's not right to drag our whole family into this. Otherwise, why don't you just live alone?"

Su Rui said expressionlessly, "He has been reformed by the government and has become a good man. I believe that he will not stab anyone again after he comes to our house. He promised me that he would take good care of his parents and live a good life with me."

Stab someone?

Su Yuqin cried out, "He is a murderer?!"

Su Rui said: "I didn't kill anyone. No, I should say I didn't succeed in killing anyone."

Su Chang'e was so frightened that her face turned pale. She grabbed Su Yuqin's arm and said, "Mom, we can't bring people like this into our family. What did I tell you? Su Rui has no good intentions."

Su Rui said coldly, "How can I have bad intentions? Isn't it good to have an extra worker in our family? Don't you always think that Dad is useless and force him to go fishing on the sea all day to supplement the family income? Now there is one more person to make money, why are you not happy?"

Su Yuqin said angrily: "Your father is a waste. It's fine if you find a waste, but you want to find a murderer! You want to use him to step on my head. I tell you, my second son-in-law is a military officer. If you dare to make trouble, I will ask him to shoot you!"

Su Chang'e chimed in, "Okay, Su Rui, are you thinking of asking my target to help look after the prisoner? You can't handle him yourself, so you want to ask my target to help you?"

Su Rui suppressed her sneer in her heart and added fuel to the fire by saying, "I'm also afraid that he will chop our whole family to pieces if he's unhappy. He learned how to chop people from me before, and he said it was just like chopping carrots, one by one. If I don't rely on my future second brother-in-law, how will I live in the future? I have a brain to sleep but no brain to get up."

"No, this family must be divided." Su Chang'e looked at Su Rui's charming face, fearing that her military officer partner would be like the previous man and fall in love with Su Rui in an instant. This kind of thing has happened more than once or twice!

Su Yuqin said earnestly, "Third brother, you know our family is not easy either. You can't harm our family. Tell me, what conditions do you want to split up?"

Su Rui pretended to cry and said, "I can't go out by myself. At least let my father go with me. Otherwise, if the prisoners beat me up, I won't have anyone to help me."

Su Chang'e said hurriedly: "Mom, let Su Li go with her. Su Li is getting less and less able to work, and we can't let the two of us be supported by others."

Su Yuqin said hesitantly, "If Su Li is not here, I can't let him divorce me."

Su Rui said, "My father told Sister Zhao that if you want a divorce, please ask Sister Zhao to agree directly. I can handle it on your behalf."

Su Chang'e said doubtfully, "Really?"

Su Yuqin pulled her aside and whispered in her ear, "Who cares if it's true or not? Sister Zhao and Su Rui have a good relationship. It's easy to get a divorce certificate. If Su Li comes to make trouble later, we can just close the door and not let him in."

Su Rui felt disappointed for her father after hearing what they said. After more than ten years of hard work, he raised two ungrateful people.

Su Rui also said to them: "My father still has savings in your hands. We can't live on relief with nothing, right?"

Su Yuqin had more than 200 yuan in her hands, part of which was the embezzlement money given to her at the end of last year, and part of which was the salary of Su Li and Su Hongpei.

She said with disdain: "Your father's food, drink and shelter are all mine, and he hasn't saved any money in all these years."

Su Rui said, "Since we have no money, my father and I don't have to leave."

Su Chang'e turned around and went back into the main room, opened the wooden box and searched. Su Yuqin followed her in and asked hurriedly, "Do you really want to give her money?"

Su Chang'e said, "She won't leave unless you give her money. I know her. Mother, we can't catch a wolf without sacrificing our children. When your son-in-law comes, he will earn you a lot of money. Why do you care about this little change?"

Su Yuqin sat on the edge of the kang in annoyance. In the room on the left was Su Chang'e who was searching, and standing at the door on the right was Su Rui.

The more she looked at Su Rui, the more she disliked her. She should have strangled her to death when her father was out working. Who would have thought that this child could survive in the middle of winter by drinking cold rice soup!

Su Chang'e found Su Yuqin's private money and opened it. There were numbers written by Su Yuqin on it. Su Yuqin knew a lot of the big characters, but she couldn't remember the others. However, she could remember some of the family account books.

After Su Chang'e asked Su Yuqin about the amount, she handed the eighty yuan to Su Rui and said, "That's all I have."

Su Rui hesitated and didn't want to take it.

Su Chang'e said even more irritably, "What else do you want?"

Su Rui said, "Can we not write a separation agreement? If we write it down in black and white, we will truly become two families."

This reminded Su Chang'e, and she immediately shouted to Su Yuqin: "Mom, put on your clothes quickly and follow me to the village committee. I want to find Sister Zhao as a witness. Today, this family is divided!"

Su Rui quickly stuffed the money into her pocket and held onto the door frame, refusing to move: "How can you just divide it up like that?"

Su Chang'e said angrily: "You have taken the money, what else do you want?"

Suri said, "Where should I live?"

Su Chang'e said, "I don't care where you live! Get out of my house tonight!"

Su Rui said with tears in her eyes, "Then you have to give me the furniture in my room, and I have to take all of Daddy's things with me."

Su Yuqin felt bad about the 80 yuan and was about to object when she heard Su Chang'e yell, "I'll give it all to you. Get out of here right now!"

village committee.

Sister Zhao checked the broadcast script needed for tomorrow and handed it to Huang Bei.

After Huang Bei left, Sister Zhao got up and prepared to go home after get off work.

Before she went out, she heard a noisy sound outside.

Huang Bei, who had already left, came running back and said excitedly, "There's trouble at Su Rui's house! Her stepmother wants to kick her out of the house!"

Sister Zhao rushed out and saw Su Rui crying and being escorted to the village committee by Su Chang'e. Behind them followed a group of women, all of whom were fighting for Su Rui.

Su Chang'e and Su Yuqin's mother were determined to separate from Su Rui and Su Li and divorce them, refusing to listen to any advice.

What’s going on?

Sister Zhao helped Su Rui, who was crying her last, to sit aside. She first taught Su Yuqin and Su Chang'e a lesson, then turned around to comfort Su Rui and found that she smiled slyly.

Sister Zhao's worries were immediately relieved...

Thinking of what Su Li had said the morning before on the day he went to the sea, Sister Zhao was unable to persuade Su Yuqin, so she took out the divorce certificate with Su Li's red handprint in front of the onlookers.

"What? On what basis did he write the divorce papers first?" Su Yuqin was shocked and felt something was wrong.

Instead, Su Chang'e crossed her legs, admired Su Rui's sobbing face, and said with a smile: "Is he trying to force us to divorce? Let's do as he wishes and get a divorce."

Su Rui came to Sister Zhao and pointed to the paper with her father's red handprint and said, "This is his divorce application. I am applying for a divorce on behalf of my father."

After saying this, she turned to look at the people gathered at the door, clasped her fists and said, "Fellow villagers, please bear witness that it was Su Yuqin and Su Chang'e who could not tolerate us, so we had to separate."

Aunt Song took the shovel and wanted to smash Su Yuqin's head into pieces.

Wanzi held Sha Si'er's thigh to prevent her from going in and beating people.

Sister Zhao asked Su Yuqin: "So should we go through the divorce procedure now?"

Su Chang'e said, "Sure, we gave them 80 yuan, we must leave."

Su Yuqin touched her chest and said, "Let's get divorced. She's useless anyway."

Su Rui swallowed and watched Sister Zhao write the divorce certificate herself.

These days, the village committee can act as an agent to carry out civil affairs work, saving rural people from having to go to the city to get certificates.

The divorce certificate is just a piece of paper with Sister Zhao's signature on it.

Su Chang'e saw Sister Zhao put down her pen, came to her side, handed the pen back to Sister Zhao and said, "Please write a certificate of division of the family property."

Sister Zhao said, "I can just be a witness."

Su Chang'e smiled and said, "It's better to sign in black and white. Otherwise, some people will find our family because they can't survive and remember that we are all surnamed Su. From now on, we will go our separate ways and become two families."

Su Rui said coldly, "Your mother raised me when I was a child, so I must be filial to her."

Su Yuqin said hurriedly, "Forget it. I don't dare let you and that person fulfill my filial piety."

Sister Zhao hesitated for a moment before asking Su Yuqin, "Are you willing to give up Su Rui's obligation to support you?"

Su Yuqin said: "I am not her biological mother. It is enough for her not to cause me trouble. No matter how prosperous she becomes in the future, I don't need her to support me even if I have to sleep in a chicken coop."

Su Chang'e was eager to break away from Su Rui as soon as possible, and quickly said: "I also promise that it is enough for me to support my mother. I will never cause trouble for her. And she must also promise that she will support Su Li and not come to my house to take advantage of him."

Su Rui pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and said to Sister Zhao, "That's it. Since she won't let me raise her, I'll just avoid her in the future. I just hope she won't regret it."

Su Yuqin was amused by her. She had a son-in-law who was a military officer, so how could she expect to be supported by her son-in-law who was a labor camp prisoner?

She said firmly: "Don't worry, with Sister Zhao and other villagers as witnesses, I will never cause trouble for her in the future."

A question came from outside: "What if you are looking for it?"

Su Rui and others looked in the direction of the voice and saw it was Grandma A Xi.

Su Yuqin said: "I swear, I will never let Su Rui support me. She has no obligation to me! I will press my fingerprints now, and you will bear witness."

Grandma A Xi said slowly, "Okay, okay, there are 20 or 30 people here to be witnesses. Hurry up and press your fingerprints."

Sister Zhao waved her hands and said, "In that case, I will write the agreement for you and you can sign it."

Su Chang'e and Su Yuqin signed their names happily. Su Chang'e even pushed Su Rui to ask her to sign quickly.

Now Su Li's divorce, the division of the Su family, and the custody agreement are all settled.

Su Rui signed her name "helplessly", and the corners of her lips couldn't help but curl up.

Before leaving, Su Chang'e urged, "Hurry back and move the things."

Su Rui stopped pretending, put her handkerchief in her pocket and said, "Okay, you guys go back first, I'll find a place to stay and move right away!"

Seeing Su Yuqin almost tripping over the threshold, Su Rui smiled and said from behind, "Auntie Su, please slow down."

Su Yuqin: “…”

This crazy girl, I know she is nothing!