Chapter 09 Chapter 9
After get off work, Tian Xiu happily went to the company cafeteria and bought another serving of braised pork.
The chef who served the food asked with a smile, "Tian Xiu, your family's living conditions are pretty good these days. You have one serving of braised pork at noon and one serving of braised pork at night!"
Before Tian Xiu could answer,
Aunt Cao at the side quickly replied: "...Tian Xiu is going to be rich soon! Because her second child is back!"
Tian Xiu gave Aunt Cao a half-smile and rolled her eyes, then raised her chin proudly and left with the braised pork in a lunch box.
The chef who served the food was still a little confused and asked Aunt Cao, "What do you mean? She's rich now that her second son is back? Wait, didn't her second son... go missing for a long time?"
"Yeah, her second child came back this morning!"
As she spoke, Aunt Cao stared at the lunch chef with wide eyes and asked incredulously, "Didn't you go to Tian Xiu's house to watch the fun at noon today?"
The chef rolled his eyes at Aunt Cao and said, "Don't I want to go to work?"
"Well, let me tell you!" Aunt Cao immediately started gossiping with interest, "...it turns out that Tian Xiu's second child didn't go to Jiangxi to work in the countryside, but went to the Northwest! She is now a nurse, and she responded to the policy of returning to the city with a transfer order...I guess she will work in the Municipal People's Hospital in the future!"
The chef who served the food exclaimed "Wow" with envy.
Aunt Cao continued, "That's not all! Her second son also brought back three hundred yuan..."
What?
Three hundred dollars?
The chef who was serving the food exclaimed "Wow" with envy again.
Aunt Cao added: "Do you think it's just three hundred yuan?"
The chef: ???
Aunt Cao said mysteriously, "Well, our factory is raising funds recently, with an interest rate of 17%, 300 yuan for three months! Only for the first 30 people who sign up! They have already calculated the accounts! 300 yuan for three months with a compound interest rate of 17% can earn more than 180 yuan!"
The chef's eyes widened. "The capital is three hundred! I only make one hundred and eighty in three months!"
This time, the waiter was so jealous that his eyes turned red. "Why don't I have 300 yuan? If I had 300 yuan, I could also earn this much!"
Aunt Cao snorted, "Who doesn't want to make this money? But the key is whether you have the three hundred yuan capital!"
The chef racked his brains and thought, "Then I will ask for leave right away and go home to borrow money! I will ask someone to borrow it, and then ask my wife, my son, my daughter-in-law, my daughter, and my son-in-law to borrow it! My whole family will go out to borrow it! I don't believe I can't borrow three hundred!"
Aunt Cao sneered, "By the time you borrow it... it will be too late! I heard that there is only one spot left!"
When the chef heard this, he slapped his thigh in annoyance and said, "Oh! It's really too late. My wife has gone back to her parents' home... I'm not destined to be rich!"
Tian Xiu, who had not walked far, heard their discussion clearly and could not help but reveal a smug expression.
She returned home briskly, carrying the braised pork.
At this moment, Su Dejun was cooking in the kitchen, while Su Tiancai was doing his homework at the dining table in the living room.
After Tian Xiu walked in and looked around, he asked his son, "Old Four, where is your eldest sister?"
"I don't know why he hasn't come back yet." Su Tiancai said without raising his head.
Tian Xiu muttered: "It's already this late, why haven't you come back yet..."
Then he asked, "What about your second sister?"
"Still asleep!"
After hearing this, Tian Xiu walked to the door of the second bedroom.
There was no light in the room.
Due to the poor layout of the tube building, the lighting in the house is poor and it is dark, just like at night and you can't see anything.
But Tian Xiu heard her daughter snoring as she fell into a deep sleep.
She left the room and muttered, "Could this guy have been sleeping since noon?"
"Mom, just let my second sister sleep!" Su Tiancai said while doing his homework, "She came back alone with such an important thing, she must have been too worried to sleep the whole way."
Tian Xiu was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Do I need you to tell me that? I am mainly worried that she sleeps too long during the day and won't be able to sleep at night."
Su Tiancai thought it made sense, "I'll call my second sister to eat after I finish my homework."
Tian Xiu smiled and went to the kitchen with the braised pork.
Su Dejun had just finished frying the poached eggs and was now frying the cabbage when he saw his wife coming back with the braised pork...
Although he also likes to eat braised pork,
But I had already eaten one portion at noon.
Buy another one in the evening?
Su Dejun felt distressed and started to curse, "You spendthrift woman! You spent half of my day's salary just on meat!"
Tian Xiu said excitedly, "After all, we are celebrating the return of our second son! By the way, didn't I buy potatoes at noon? I will wash and cut the potatoes, and you can cook them. Simmer the potatoes and the braised pork together, and we will have something delicious tonight."
Su Dejun thought that this was a good idea - the potatoes were soaked in the flavor of the braised pork, which not only tasted good but also made the portion seem larger.
"Okay!" he agreed.
At this moment, Tian Xiu peeled and cut potatoes;
After watching Su Dejun stew the potato cubes and braised pork in the pot,
Tian Xiucai told the factory that they wanted to raise 300 yuan.
When Su Dejun heard that he could get 17% interest for raising 300 yuan for three months, his eyes widened immediately, and even his hair was clamoring for making money.
Then, when he thought of the 600 yuan that Su Youzi had embezzled, he felt extremely angry.
At this time, Tian Xiu said: "The second child came back in the morning. She knocked on the door and no one answered, so she came to my workplace to look for me..."
Hearing this, Su Dejun was stunned for a moment.
His face turned pale and he was so frightened that he could hardly hold the spatula.
Tian Xiu was so immersed in the joy of earning 180 yuan that she didn't notice anything wrong with her husband.
She continued with a smile, "When Sister Cao and the others were giving directions to Lao Er... they heard Lao Er say that this time when he returns to the city with a transfer order, he can be transferred to the Municipal People's Hospital to be a nurse! Look, how respectable!"
Su Dejun forced a smile with all his might.
As for this, he heard it from the second brother himself. Otherwise, why would he specially cook and fry eggs to reward the second brother today!
Finally, Tian Xiu said, "There is one more thing you definitely don't know - the second child brought back her savings from the past few years' salary! Sister Cao said that the second child brought back exactly 300 yuan..."
Speaking of this, Tian Xiu could hardly hide his joy.
Su Dejun's eyes lit up and he said happily, "There is always a way out!"
——As long as you hand over the three hundred yuan to the factory’s finance department for fundraising, you can earn back one hundred and eighty yuan in three months!
You know, before Su Dejun was transferred from the transport team, his monthly salary plus various allowances was only sixty;
Later, after he was transferred to the Logistics and General Affairs Department due to a back injury, his salary dropped to more than 40 yuan!
But he had an old injury, and one-third of his salary was used to buy various plasters for his waist. When the south wind came and the seasons changed, his waist hurt so much that he couldn't get out of bed!
As for Tian Xiu, her salary remains unchanged at 46.7 yuan...
As for the two children at home, Su Youzi had to buy new clothes and skirts every month;
Su Tiancai went to school, and he had to pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees. He also had a huge appetite, and it seemed like he could never get full.
The couple seems to be both working, but with their meager salaries, they live a hard life!
Now, relying on the 300 yuan capital brought back by the second brother and handing it over to the factory finance department, he can earn 180 yuan in three months, which is equivalent to 60 yuan a month!
Isn't this improving life?
Besides, the second child will work as a nurse in the Municipal People’s Hospital in the future!
How respectable!
Thinking of this, the couple smiled at each other.
At this moment, the couple who had been at odds with each other for years finally became united in hatred of the same enemy... no, they became solid allies who shared weal and woe!
It's half past six.
The meal has already been prepared.
But Su Youzi hadn't come home yet, and Su Tianli was still sleeping soundly.
Tian Xiu decided not to wait any longer.
She took a bowl, left a dish with more meat and less potatoes for Su Youzi, and asked Su Tiancai to call Su Tianli to get up and eat.
As a result, it took Su Tiancai more than ten minutes to wake up Su Tianli.
After Su Tianli got up, she squatted in the toilet for another ten minutes...
It was not until a quarter before seven that the whole family sat down at the dining table and started to eat happily.
Tian Xiu picked up a piece of braised pork and put it into Su Tianli's bowl, "Come on..."
"Su Tianli, my second sister's name is Su Tianli!" Su Tiancai corrected Tian Xiu's words.
Tian Xiu: ...
She was so stunned,
Su Dejun on the side had already taken the lead in expressing his feelings, "Sister, have an fried egg!" As he said that, he picked up a fried egg he had made himself and put it into Su Tianli's bowl.
Su Tianli said "Thank you, Dad" affectionately and took a bite of the golden and slightly burnt fried egg.
This egg must be fried with lard. It has an extremely rich and delicious flavor. It’s so delicious!
Su Tianli squinted her eyes happily.
Su Dejun looked at his children with a smile, "...How is it? Is dad's fried eggs better than braised pork?"
That's not the case.
However, Su Tianli took a look at the big bowl of braised pork with potatoes. It was filled with a large bowl of potato cubes, with only three or four pieces of braised pork on top...
Su Tianli nodded repeatedly, "Yes! My dad's fried eggs are the best in the world!"
Su Dejun was so delighted that he even put his own fried egg into his daughter's bowl, "Sister, eat as much as you like!"
result--
As soon as the fried egg was given up, he felt distressed again and quickly grabbed a piece of braised pork and stuffed it into the rice in his bowl.
Tian Xiu felt a little jealous when she saw the loving father and filial daughter, so she simply lowered her head and ate her meal.
After eating a few mouthfuls of food, she couldn't help herself and looked up and asked Su Tianli, "Come..."
As soon as the word "come" is spoken,
Su Tianli and Su Tiancai stared at Tian Xiu eagerly.
Tian Xiu changed her words at the right time, "Come on, come on, sister, eat some vegetables!"
Su Tianli saw that her brother only took potato cubes and not even a piece of braised pork...
She unceremoniously put all the braised pork on the potato cubes into her brother's bowl, complaining, "Brother, you are already fifteen years old, why haven't you grown taller yet?"
"When I was in the Northwest, young men in the north could grow to 1.8 to 1.9 meters tall by the age of 17 or 18!"
"Look at yourself, are you 1.6 meters tall?"
"If there is meat, eat meat; if there are eggs, eat eggs...Eat more nutritious food so that you can grow taller."
As she spoke, Su Tianli put the fried egg that her father gave her into her brother's bowl.
Su Tiancai stared blankly at the three pieces of braised pork in the bowl, and his eyes gradually turned red.
He nodded repeatedly, holding back his sobs and eating quickly.
Then Tian Xiu watched the friendship between her two children...
I feel very uncomfortable.
Finally, I couldn't help but mutter, "Your eldest sister also likes to eat fried eggs."
No one paid any attention to her.
Su Tianli didn’t have a big appetite and finished her meal in no time.
She looked up at the wall clock - was it already past eight o'clock?
In this era, the government no longer regards setting up stalls and selling goods privately as a scourge as it did five or six years ago. People who are caught will be convicted, and in serious cases will be shot!
But the government does not encourage it - if anyone is found daring to set up a stall outside to sell things for money, they will be reported, and then the police or urban management will confiscate the goods and drive the vendor away.
The chemical plant is located in the wilderness, so there is basically no nightlife.
I thought that Su Youzi, who had been hiding outside for the entire afternoon and had spent all the sixty yuan, should be back soon.
Su Tianli put down her bowl and chopsticks with a smile, "Mom, Dad, brother, I'm full."
When Su Dejun and Tian Xiu heard this, they looked at each other, and their four eyes were shining!
——Now, it’s time to take out the three hundred dollars, right?
Only Su Tiancai, who didn't understand what was going on, said, "Sister, there's still a lot of food in the kitchen."
Su Tianli smiled and said, "I won't eat anymore. You eat more."
She stood up, walked to the door of the room, took the small bundle from the door handle, walked back to the dining table and sat down, opened the small bundle, took out a thick document, handed it to her parents, and explained:
"Mom and Dad, look, this is my personnel file... This is my transfer order, and this is my letter of introduction. The state has regulations that for anyone who goes to Tibet and Xinjiang to provide construction assistance, work, serve in the military, or join the production team, one year of service will be counted at twice the rate. For anyone who goes to the five northwestern regions to provide construction assistance, work, serve in the military, or join the production team, one year of service will be counted at 1.5 times the rate."
"I worked there for a total of five years. The first year doesn't count because the farm sent me to the county town to study at a nursing school with pay. I returned to the farm the following year and that's when my service was counted. So I actually worked for four years, but when I was transferred back, it was converted to six years..."
“Plus, during the years I worked on the farm, there weren’t any large-scale epidemics on the farm, not even influenza!”
"I am responsible for the basic medical care of this farm, including five villages in the area, with a total of about 5,000 people. No one has died from illness, so I have been named a model worker for three consecutive years..."
"I am now a deputy section-level cadre!" Su Tianli said with a smile.
When the family members heard this, they were all happy.
Su Tiancai couldn't help but straighten his chest, feeling proud and said, "Sister, you are so good!"
Su Dejun was also very happy. You know, he had been a worker all his life, and now he had a daughter who was only 22 years old and was already a deputy section-level cadre!
How could he not be happy?
Tian Xiu was also laughing.
But the smile did not reach his eyes.
"Come... sister, take a look, this is your good fortune! If you had really gone to Jiangxi, you probably wouldn't have been able to become a nurse, nor would you have received this seniority benefit, let alone become a model soldier or a cadre!"
Tian Xiu said earnestly: "Don't blame your elder sister anymore. You won't lose anything anyway - going to Jiangxi to work in the countryside is no different from going to work in the countryside in the northwest!"
The smile on Su Tianli's face faded little by little.
Su Tiancai was unhappy, "Mom! That's not what you mean!"
"It's because my second sister is very outstanding, so she can make a career wherever she goes!"
"Why don't you think about it, if my second sister went to Jiangxi, maybe she could have a better career?"
"My eldest sister is such a bad person! What she is doing is cutting off my second sister's contact with the family! Mom, do you really not care about my second sister's life or death?"
"I only regret that I was ignorant at that time. If I knew that my second sister might die on the way and die in the northwest where there is a lack of medical care, I would rather be the one to go!"
"That's enough!" Tian Xiu was furious. "Your second sister is fine now. She's sitting here eating two fried eggs! Su Tiancai, I'm warning you, don't say anything that is detrimental to family unity in the future!"
Su Dejun tried to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, my sister just came back, why are you guys arguing?"
Then he tried his best to say to Su Tianli in a friendly manner: "Sister, it's like this... We all know that you have been wronged. When your elder sister comes back, I will beat her up to vent your anger!"
Hearing this, Tian Xiu glared at Su Dejun fiercely.
Su Dejun changed the subject -
"But your mother does have a point. As a family, living under the same roof, how can we not quarrel?"
"Your mother is also doing this for the good of the family..."
"Sister, you have been sensible since you were young, don't take it too seriously!"
After hearing the second half of Su Dejun's words, Tian Xiu's expression eased a little.
Su Dejun was afraid that the night would be too long and he simply said to Su Tianli directly: "Sister, now it's like this, your mother has a way to make money now - our factory is raising funds..."
Tian Xiu also took over the topic and carefully explained to Su Tianli how safe and profitable this project was.
Su Tianli smiled and said, "So, I have become the lucky star of my family! Look, as soon as I come back, good things happen one after another at home!"
Su Tiancai nodded repeatedly.
Su Dejun said anxiously: "Then, then... Sister, you, you..."
Su Tianli smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dad. I have the three hundred yuan! When you make one hundred and eighty yuan, return the capital to me, and the interest will be divided equally among our family of six, okay?"
Little did he know that the smile on Su Dejun's face suddenly collapsed.
——What? She wants to take back the capital?
Of course not!
He is the head of the family! All the capital and interest must be his!
When the time comes, he will buy a whole box of Shiwan Daqu, and then he will drink a little wine every night. That will be a very comfortable life!
Oh, by the way, make a silver bracelet for Xiaoyu...
Tian Xiu also looked unhappy.
——What? The interest is shared equally among the whole family?
What are you thinking about!
Of course...
All the capital and interest belong to her as the head of the family!
Otherwise, isn't she responsible for everything in this family, including eating, drinking, defecating and urinating?
Su Tianli seemed unable to see the calculation in her parents' eyes.
She opened her bag with a smile and looked for money.
Searching and searching...
Su Tianli's face gradually turned pale.
"Ah? Where's my money? Where's my... three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents?!"
"Gone?"
"It's gone! Really gone?!"
"Dad! Mom, my money... is gone!" Su Tianli shouted in panic.
Hearing this, Su Dejun, Tian Xiu and Su Tiancai were all panicked.
"What's going on, sister? Look for it again! Was it stolen by a pickpocket on the road?"
"Did you put it in the wrong place? Did you put the lychee under your pillow?"
"Second sister, can you really not find it? Was it taken away by eldest sister again?"
At this time——
With a creaky sound, someone pushed the door open.
It turned out to be Su Youzi, wearing a brand new beautiful dress and looking very happy.
The Su family members all stared at Su Youzi.
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