Chapter 03 Chapter 3
Su Tianli walked into the chemical plant’s family compound carrying a small bag.
She went to the public toilet first and took out the money and transfer order from the small bag...
She wanted to hide these two most important things.
But seven hundred yuan is seventy Great Unity notes, a thick stack!
It can't be hidden in the socks.
So she wrapped all the money in a handkerchief...
After thinking for a while, Su Tianli opened the small cloth bag again, took out five big unity notes and stuffed them back into the bag. Then she wrapped the remaining sixty-five big unity notes in a handkerchief again and sewed the cloth bag to the belly of her underwear with a pin.
As for the transfer order and other materials, it was not that she didn't want to hide them, but there was too much information and she couldn't hide it, so she simply didn't hide it.
After finishing all this, Su Tianli came out again with her bag and went to the chemical plant guesthouse without stopping.
Her mother Tian Xiu works here.
It seems that Tian Xiu is not here at the moment.
Work at the guesthouse was very leisurely, with several middle-aged women in staff uniforms all crowded at the front desk chatting.
They were so engrossed in their conversation,
So Su Tianli also heard their conversation clearly:
"Hey, have you heard the gossip coming out of the factory's finance office?"
"What gossip??"
"That is to say, our factory seems to be raising funds recently. The principal is 300 yuan, and the interest is 17%. It will be returned in three months! And the number of places is limited. I heard that it is first come first served. There are only 30 places."
"The principal is 300 yuan, and the interest is 17%. The principal and interest will be returned in three months? How is this possible? Isn't this interest too high?"
Someone picked up an abacus and said, "Let me calculate how much money it is - three times seven equals twenty-one, one plus three equals three, plus two..."
Then he exclaimed, "So the interest for one month is fifty-one dollars! For three months, it's... one hundred and fifty-three?"
Everyone exclaimed in unison.
Someone else whispered, "You are calculating based on simple interest. Only the first month is simple interest. The next two months are compound interest! I have already calculated it. If you calculate based on compound interest, the interest for three months is more than 180!"
The women exclaimed in unison again.
Then they began to lament again, "But, three hundred dollars... who can afford it?"
"I don't."
"Neither have I..."
"Hey, how about this, let's find a way to pool the money together, get 300 yuan, and then when the interest comes, we'll split it in half!"
“That’s a great idea!”
So they happily started discussing how to raise money.
Su Tianli walked up to a middle-aged woman who was eating yellow peel fruit, holding a small bag, and asked, "Hello, Aunt Cao, is my mother Tian Xiu here?"
"Tian Xiu? She's not here! Who are you?" Aunt Cao peeled the yellow fruit while looking at Su Tianli in confusion. It took her a while to recognize her. "You... Oh, you, you are Su Laizi?"
"Su Tianli." Su Tianli corrected Aunt Cao's name and explained her current name.
Aunt Cao looked at the pretty girl with rosy cheeks in front of her, "This is the right name! Your mother is really something, she wants a son too much... What about Youzi, Laizi, Qianzi! It's so ugly! Girls named Litchi or Grape, so much better!"
"By the way, Lizhi, didn't you go to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth? How come…"
Aunt Cao stuffed a handful of kumquats into Su Tianli's mouth and said, "Eat, eat, eat! The kumquats grown in our family compound are very delicious and sweet, but the core is a little big!"
Su Tianli thanked Aunt Cao and peeled a few kumquats and ate them. They were indeed refreshing and delicious.
She briefly described her work situation in the Northwest, and also said that she had returned to the city with a legal transfer order with complete documents.
After hearing Su Tianli's explanation, the aunts watching all exclaimed.
Aunt Cao said happily, "Wow! Lizhi, you are amazing! You can learn a skill by going to the countryside to work as a production team...Wow, where do you want to be a nurse in the future? The Municipal People's Hospital? That's great. If we go to the Municipal People's Hospital to see a doctor in the future, we won't have to wait in line if we come to see you, right?"
The other aunts thought so too.
After all, who doesn’t have a headache or fever?
If you have an acquaintance in the hospital, it would be better than anything else.
Su Tianli smiled and said, "I would like to go to the Municipal People's Hospital, but I don't have the final say. It depends on how the Youth League Office assigns me. I will obey the assignment."
Aunt Cao slapped her thigh and said, "Of course you can!"
"Aunt Cao, my mom is not at work?" Su Tianli asked, "I just went back home, and there was no one at home and I couldn't get in... Where are my dad, my eldest sister, my third sister, and my youngest brother?"
Hearing this, Aunt Cao widened her eyes in shock.
She looked at Su Tianli in disbelief and asked, "Don't you know about your family's situation?"
The aunts also looked at each other.
Su Tianli finally waited for this moment!
Her eyes turned red at the right moment, and she said aggrievedly, "Aunt Cao, I've been away for five years. I wrote to my family every year and every month, but they didn't write me a single letter! Even when I sent money back, there was no news from home!"
When she went to the northwest to work as a sent-down youth, the farm had a rule that new educated youth would not be granted paid home leave during the first three years, nor would their round-trip travel expenses be reimbursed.
Therefore, most educated youth were unwilling to return home to visit their relatives.
The same goes for Su Tianli.
So during the first three years in the countryside, she could only write letters home and send money back home.
Three years later, she did get paid family leave, but her family treated her as if she were dead and didn't contact her at all.
She was so angry that she simply didn't come back and didn't send any money. She just stayed on the farm to cover for her colleagues and earn the wages.
Earn a lot!
Later, when the policy of returning educated youth to the city came out, she came back directly...
"Ah?" Aunt Cao exclaimed, "You said you wrote a letter back and sent money back?"
Su Tianli nodded with tears in her eyes. "I kept writing letters and sending money for the first three years. Later, I saw that there was no response from my family. I was worried that the money would be wasted, so I stopped sending. I saved all my wages... This time I saved more than 300 yuan in total! I thought that if I gave the money to my mother in person, she might be happier."
When the women around heard Su Tianli say that she had saved up 300 yuan to bring back,
Suddenly everyone looked at him with envy!
Aunt Cao was confused and uncertain. "Is there some misunderstanding in your family? Your mother scolds you all day long, saying that you have no conscience, don't write letters to your family, don't send money to your family, and also says that you have been rebellious since you were a child, and you are not like your eldest sister and third sister at all!"
"Your mother also said that your family had a hard time in the past few years. She wrote you many letters, asking you to send your salary back...but you didn't reply to a single letter, and you didn't send any money!"
Then he commented, "You are actually a very good kid. You saved up 300 yuan and gave it to your mother..."
Later on, Aunt Cao began to envy Tian Xiu because she was about to have 300 yuan and could participate in the factory's fund-raising.
Su Tianli remained silent.
However, Aunt Cao put aside the matter of the three hundred yuan for the time being and enthusiastically told Su Tianli about the current situation of the Su family:
Su Dejun is now old. In the second year after Su Tianli went to the countryside, Su Dejun was injured while doing the work of the moving team. His lumbar spine was damaged and he had to lie in bed for two years before he could get up. But he could no longer do the work of the moving team. Now he has been transferred to the logistics team to do sweeping. Of course, his salary has also been greatly reduced.
Tian Xiu's position remains unchanged, still a waiter in the guesthouse.
Su Youzi is now working as a temporary worker in a chemical plant office, mainly responsible for sending and receiving letters, and organizing newspapers and periodicals; of course, the work intensity is not high and the salary is ridiculously low.
In the second year after Su Tianli went to the countryside, when Su Dejun got into trouble, Su Qianzi also went to the countryside to join the production team in order to get the resettlement allowance for the educated youths who went to the countryside to pay for Su Dejun's medical treatment.
Su Tiancai is now a freshman in high school at the factory’s school.
Su Tianli asked, "Aunt Cao, do you know where my third sister went to join the queue?"
Aunt Cao gave a string of addresses and added, "Your third sister is really hardworking. She sends twenty yuan back every month! Wow, she's really good!"
As she spoke, Aunt Cao glanced at Su Tianli and sighed, "But Lizhi, Aunt Cao is an experienced person, so I still have to say something... It is said that a family should stick together through thick and thin, but you young people should still think more about yourselves... Alas!"
Aunt Cao gave Su Tianli some advice intentionally or unintentionally.
Aunt Cao then told Su Tianli, "Your mother is on the afternoon shift today, and it's not time yet, so she's not at work. If no one's home, she might be covering for your eldest sister. Your brother is in school, and your father might be at work too! Why don't you wait a little longer? It's almost eleven o'clock now, and it's time for lunch soon, so someone will definitely be home by then."
Su Tianli nodded.
She had achieved her purpose of visiting Aunt Cao and was now ready to go home.
Aunt Cao stuffed a handful of yellow peel fruits into Su Tianli’s hand and said, “Take it and eat it! It’s very sweet!”
Su Tianli took the kumquat and said goodbye to Aunt Cao with a smile. She ignored the bag placed aside and turned around and left.
When she got downstairs, she pretended to remember that she had forgotten to take her bag, and hurriedly turned around and went upstairs.
really--
As Su Tianli wished, Aunt Cao had already pulled a few people together to talk about the Su family. "Tsk, Tian Xiu still has the nerve to say that her family is in financial difficulty every day. She said that she wrote to the second son to ask for money but he refused to give it to her! But listen to this! The second son wrote countless letters and sent money... but Tian Xiu took the money and refused to acknowledge it!"
"Tsk tsk, based on my understanding of Tian Xiu, she will definitely not let the second son get his wish! Maybe she will sell the second son's job to make some money, and then arrange a marriage for the second son to make more money..."
"She is really greedy and biased!"
Aunt Cao was so excited that her saliva was flying!
When an aunt saw Su Tianli coming back, she quickly poked Aunt Cao with her elbow, signaling Aunt Cao to look behind her.
Aunt Cao seemed oblivious. "...If you don't believe me, I'll make a bet with you! I bet five dollars that she will sell the second son's job! I bet another five dollars that she will find a marriage for the second son...Huh? Lychee?!"
At the end, Aunt Cao finally turned around and saw Su Tianli after being reminded by everyone.
Aunt Cao looked embarrassed.
Su Tianli smiled, took the small bag beside her, lowered her head and walked away as if she didn't hear anything.
I heard the aunts talking behind me:
"Wow, Tian Xiu's second one is so beautiful, it's a thousand times better than her eldest one!"
"She gave birth to four children... The three younger ones were all pretty, but the eldest was the ugliest. But she just loved the ugliest one the most!"
"I just can't stand her naming her daughter Youzi Laizi Qianzi. It sounds so ugly! Tian Xiu's husband originally said that it would be fine for a girl to be named Ahua, Ahong, or Alan, but Tian Xiu refused and insisted on naming her daughter Youzi Laizi Qianzi, saying that this would have a good meaning!"
"You know what, it was quite useful. In the end, she still got her son!"
"His son is called a genius! You don't know...Su Tiancai's grades in every subject are always the worst in the class, yet he is still called a genius..."
"Ah, to be honest, I'm still jealous of Tian Xiu who will soon be able to earn 180 yuan in interest!"
Su Tianli hurried home carrying a small bag.
Anyway, she had spread all the information she needed to spread.
All the information that needed to be found out was found out.
However, when she stood at the door of her long-lost home and raised her hand to knock on the door——
The door suddenly opened from the inside out.
A middle-aged woman walked out of the Su family with a charming smile, and turned back and said coquettishly: "...You bastard, you asked me to come to your house in broad daylight, aren't you afraid that your wife will know?"
Su Tianli was stunned.
This woman...
Not her mother!
Then, her father Su Dejun's voice rang out, "…If she knows, then she knows. I'm not afraid of her at all!"
And then——
Su Tianli, the middle-aged woman, and Su Dejun looked at each other.
The middle-aged woman's face turned pale in an instant.
Su Dejun looked at Su Tianli and was extremely shocked.
Su Tianli looked at her father, then at the middle-aged woman...
She seemed to understand something.
"Dad?" Su Tianli called Su Dejun.
Su Dejun was startled and pushed the middle-aged woman. "Xiao Yu, if you have something to do, go first. I, I won't keep you here!"
The middle-aged woman surnamed Yu agreed hurriedly and was about to leave.
Su Tianli called out, "Aunt Yu, please wait a moment!"
Aunt Yu was stunned and looked at Su Tianli in horror.
Su Tianli smiled and handed over the kumquats that Aunt Cao had given her earlier. "These kumquats are very sweet. Aunt Yu, take them and eat them on the way."
Aunt Yu looked at Su Dejun as if asking for help.
Now Su Dejun just wanted to send her away quickly, so he waved his hand anxiously, "Take it, take it, go quickly!"
Aunt Yu took the yellow fruit handed to her by Su Tianli with trembling hands, and ran away in a panic, crawling and rolling, and almost fell down when going down the stairs!
The smile on Su Tianli's face faded little by little.
She stared at her father whom she hadn't seen for many years.
Her father, Su Dejun, has a ruddy face, a strong physique, and is about fifty years old. He was still very handsome when he was young, but he has been unkempt for many years, and he has no cultural accomplishment, so his temperament can't hold up...
He is just an ordinary old man.
The woman surnamed Yu who ran away just now looked to be around forty years old and had an ordinary appearance.
so? ? ?
At this time, Su Dejun forced himself to calm down, looked at Su Tianli for a moment, and asked in surprise: "...Lychee?"
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