Chapter 140 Chapter 140 The bacon platter is salty and delicious (Chinese...
In order to make room for Su Qianzi and Tan Weiming,
Su Tianli and Cheng Yu, as well as Su Dejun and Su Tiancai, stayed at the small playground until it was almost dark.
Then he slowly walked back.
The house is already filled with the aroma of food.
——The special aroma of steamed cured meat is particularly strong.
Su Qianzi was wearing an apron and was busy at home.
Tan Weiming has disappeared.
Su Tianli and her family looked at each other.
Su Dejun asked Su Qianzi, "Third sister, where is Ah Ming?"
"He's gone?"
"It's already this late, why are you letting him go?"
"Keep him down for dinner!"
Su Qianzi answered without even looking up: "You all know that you have to come back to eat after dark... He is also a human being. It's New Year's Day, shouldn't he go home to eat after dark?"
Su Dejun was irritated and stopped talking awkwardly.
When inviting guests to lunch at noon, there was half a plate of steamed cured meat left, which Su Qianzi stewed in the rice.
Then she used the ingredients at home to stir-fry a dish of shredded potatoes, and made a soup with egg skin, cabbage leaves and bean curd.
Dinner is so simple!
Despite this, the food was still very delicious.
Steamed cured meats are made by mixing various cured meats, such as cured sausage, cured meat, cured duck, cured fish, etc., with shredded ginger and green onion and steaming them together.
There are many varieties, each with its own fragrance.
The taste is salty, fragrant and delicious, especially good with rice!
In particular, even the rice is soaked in the oil from the cured meat, becoming salty and greasy, it is so delicious!
If it's too salty, have a sip of the light egg skin and vegetable leaf soup...
Su Dejun, Su Tiancai and Cheng Yu had big appetites and loved to eat cured meats. When the three men started to eat, the clinking of their bowls and chopsticks made them look like they were sitting in a row.
Su Tianli eats a small amount, so she treats every meal as a wonderful enjoyment.
However, Su Tianli ate slowly while looking at Su Qianzi worriedly.
It was obvious that Su Qianzi had no appetite at all.
She held the rice bowl, looking as if she couldn't eat.
Perhaps he wanted to fit in, so he ate it sporadically.
Sometimes I eat rice for several mouthfuls in a row.
Su Tianli looked at her sister like this and was hesitant to speak.
In the end, she still didn't say anything. She thought she would find another opportunity to talk to her sister, so she continued to eat with her head down.
After Su Dejun had finished his meal, he told his children: "Stay at the table, I have something to announce."
Then he went into the house and came out with a bunch of things.
Su Tianli saw her father’s account book at a glance.
Su Dejun took his food and sat back at the dining table, looking at Su Qianzi with a smile, "Third sister, when you were not at home..."
Just when he said this, Su Dejun was stunned for a moment and changed his words, "After your second sister came back, our home has changed a lot!"
"First of all, your mother and I are divorced—"
"Let me emphasize first that this is actually a happy event!"
"Since your mother and I divorced, life at home has been getting better and better..."
Then, Su Dejun told the story of how Lizhi had taken him to various trade unions, streets, and neighborhood committees to apply for special hardship subsidies.
And told Su Qianzi,
Because he had enough money and time to see a doctor in the past six months, he is now recovering well.
The doctor said that as long as he followed the doctor's advice, took medicine seriously, received physical therapy, rested, and did rehabilitation on time, he would be able to recover in about half a year.
Of course, recovery doesn't mean he can return to his previous peak form.
All we can say is that Su Dejun can live a normal life and do some less strenuous physical work in the future.
"What your sister meant is that she hopes that after my health improves, she will stop the subsidy for the extremely poor. If I recover, I don't want to take advantage of the collective anymore!"
Then, Su Dejun continued to say to Su Qianzi:
"Secondly, our family has begun to slowly become wealthy under the leadership of your second sister!"
"Hey, Third Sister..."
"This share of money is what you deserve! When I divorced your mother, she gave me compensation... I listened to Lizhi and divided it equally between you three siblings!"
"You were not here at the time, so I asked Lizhi to go to the bank and open a time deposit slip in her name. I keep the slip with me."
"Now that you're back, I'll give you this deposit slip. When the bank reopens after the New Year, you and your sister can go to the bank to change the deposit."
When Su Qianzi heard this, her eyes widened in surprise!
Then, she looked at the amount on the deposit slip...
For a moment, Su Qianzi rubbed her eyes in disbelief, and stared at the amount on the deposit slip with wide eyes, "This..."
Su Tianli laughed loudly, "Qianqian, you just can't believe it... one day, this family will not suck your blood, but will create some blood for you?"
Su Qianzi nodded repeatedly, "I really didn't expect that you would help me with Chen Jing's matter like this."
“And this money…”
As she spoke, Su Qianzi clenched the deposit certificate in her hand, her eyes reddened.
During the three years she worked in the countryside, her monthly salary was 35 yuan at the beginning, and later she was promoted to manager, with a monthly salary of 57 yuan.
I would send twenty yuan back home every month without fail.
It was not until later that Su Tiancai wrote to her, saying that her second sister had returned home, and told Su Qianzi not to send money home anymore...
In half a year, Su Qianzi saved two hundred yuan.
Besides that, she really had no savings at all!
Now, Su Qianzi feels that for the first time in her life she feels the meaning of "home"!
At this time, Su Dejun spoke again, "Finally, I have one more thing to tell you - today Cheng Yu's family came to our house to propose to Li Zhi, and you all participated in it and knew about it."
"I would also like to express my opinion here - I have decided to give Lizhi a dowry of one thousand yuan!" Su Dejun said with a proud expression.
Su Tianli looked at her father with a smile.
She knew everything about her father's mental journey.
From the beginning, I was excited.
Later, I recognized the reality.
When he heard that Chief Xu was coming to his house in person to propose marriage, he felt very nervous and even planned to prepare a dowry of 3,000 yuan for Su Tianli!
Now, he had probably gotten the confirmation that Commander Xu would give Lizhi a betrothal gift of 888 yuan.
Su Dejun finally felt relieved.
He happily adjusted his daughter's dowry back to one thousand yuan...
How to say it,
Just like what my younger brother said when he teased my father, "Dad has finally grown up and started to develop his brain and become scheming."
Su Tianli even felt that her father’s petty-bourgeois mentality was quite interesting.
Compared to Su Tianli's calmness,
When Cheng Yu, Su Qianzi and Su Tiancai heard Su Dejun say that he would give Lizhi a dowry of one thousand yuan, everyone widened their eyes in shock.
You know, in this era, wedding gifts are not that high.
What about ordinary families:
Generally, the man provides the wedding room and the woman provides the furniture;
The man provides three turns and one ring, and the woman's dowry is eighty-eight yuan or ninety-nine yuan.
People with worse conditions:
If the man cannot afford to provide a wedding house, he will live with his parents and brothers;
If the woman does not provide furniture, she can bring a few sets of bedding, new basins and buckets, and some new clothes;
The man pays a gift of 48 or 68 yuan;
The woman would bring back 28 or 48 yuan in cash as a dowry.
This is also marriage.
When Chief Xu came to the Su family to propose marriage, he put forward conditions according to the highest standards.
This represents the Xu family's importance to Cheng Yu and Su Tianli.
Now,
Su Dejun wanted his daughter to bring a dowry of 1,000 yuan in cash.
This is him trying to support his daughter.
Su Tiancai said: "Chief Xu gave so much dowry, it is only natural that our family should give Second Sister a little more dowry."
Su Qianzi nodded repeatedly, "The Xu family gave 888 yuan, and we can collect another 100 yuan to give to the second sister...it will also be glorious."
Su Dejun held his head high and said proudly, "I don't want a penny of the 888 given by the Xu family. I'll give it all to Litchi!"
"I mean, I'll give Lizhi an extra thousand dollars as a dowry!"
Su Tiancai: ???
Su Qianzi: ???
The brother and sister really wanted to say: Dad, where did you get so much money?
Then Su Dejun added: "They all say that parents in a family with multiple children are usually partial to one child."
"This bowl of water cannot be balanced."
"I don't accept it, I want to be fair!"
"Well, maybe I will be a little biased - Ah Cai is a boy after all, and I will rely on him for my old age. Maybe I will be a little more biased towards him."
"But I will give Lizhi and Qianqian one thousand dowries!"
"When Qianqian gets married in the future, I won't take a penny of the betrothal gift from her future in-laws. I'll give it all to you."
Su Tiancai:!!!
Su Qianzi:!!!
The brother and sister couldn't help but ask at the same time:
"Dad, where did you get so much money?"
"Dad! My second sister is going to marry into a wealthy family, so you should prepare more dowry for her. We all agree on this! But for me and my third sister... uh, you can prepare a dowry of one thousand yuan for my third sister, but I don't need it."
Su Dejun was very stubborn, "I said one thousand per person, that means one thousand per person."
Then he said happily, "I have already prepared Lizhi's one thousand yuan dowry!"
He explained to Su Qianzi, "Your second sister found me a way to make extra money - by being the first flower!"
"This job is quite profitable. I have to work four or five hours a day and can make about ten pieces... I can earn about fifty cents for each one, which means seven or eight dollars a day!"
"Of course, not all the hair flowers can be sold, and sometimes there will be a backlog, but making a hundred yuan a month is still okay."
"Third sister, you just came back. If you don't have anything to do for the time being, you can follow me to make hair flowers."
Hearing this, Su Qianzi looked stunned.
——She looked at her father, who was strong and sturdy, and couldn't imagine that such a rough middle-aged man could make hair ornaments? And he could earn 50 cents for each hair ornament?
Why are hair flowers so expensive?!
Su Tiancai had already run to get the small basket that Su Dejun used to make hair ornaments, and handed it to Su Qianzi, "Look, Third Sister! The hair ornaments made by my father are very beautiful, with high-end color matching and meticulous workmanship. They are very popular."
Su Qianzi took it and looked at it. She first saw about seven or eight semi-finished products, and then found two finished products.
At a glance——
Wow, the needlework, color matching, and embroidery of this flower...
Including fabric, feel...
It looks really good!
Su Qianzi was stunned, "Dad! You are so awesome!"
Su Dejun laughed, "I'm still a hundred yuan away from Lizhi's one thousand yuan betrothal gift."
"But it doesn't matter. By the time Lizhi gets married, I should have saved enough money."
"Third sister, you'd better wait a year before getting married! Give me some time to prepare..."
"Don't worry, Cai. You're still young. I'll save up for your tuition first..."
"Anyway, now that your mom and your elder sister are gone, our family is getting better and better!"
"Third sister, your elder sister has already opened a company, and she will start to make efforts after the New Year! As for your father, he will also work hard after the New Year. I want to be a millionaire!" Su Dejun said with a look of pride on his face.
Su Qianzi was dumbfounded.
Then Su Dejun told Su Qianzi, "Third sister, when your mother and I divorced, it was a very ugly scene!"
"Later, your mother brought her old lover to see me... She wanted me to support her and her old lover!"
"Of course I disagreed, and then your mother went to make trouble with Litchi again."
"So I don't allow you to help your mother or your elder sister!"
"If you don't listen to me, I will be angry." Su Dejun said seriously.
Su Qianzi was stunned for a while, then laughed, "I... I am not without family now, so of course I won't care about them anymore!"
Speaking of which, her character is indeed not as strong as her second sister's.
So when Tian Xiu asked her to send twenty yuan home every month, she obeyed.
After all, when she was in such a harsh environment, even Tian Xiu and Su Youzi in her memory became kind and gentle.
At least after she sent the money back, Su Youzi would write her a letter every now and then...
Now? ? ?
Now her family treats her so well.
She must have been a slut, so she took the initiative to look for Tian Xiu and Su Youzi!
Su Dejun said proudly: "Yes! Third sister, we will never pay attention to them again!"
Su Tianli said to Su Qianzi: "Dad is right. Mom and Big Sister are two quagmires that hold us back."
"If they leave, we will be away from the quagmire, and we will never be dragged down again."
"The wrong environment and the wrong people will only drag you down. No matter how hard you try, there will be no improvement. It will even make you doubt yourself! Leave as soon as possible so that you can break free from the shackles and soar into the sky." Su Tianli said.
Su Tiancai nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes! Third sister, what the second sister means is that after you leave the project team and leave that bastard Chen Jing... your life will only get better and better!"
Cheng Yu also sat quietly aside, listening attentively to what his family members said, and looked at Lizhi from time to time with gentle and affectionate eyes.
Su Qianzi fell into a daze.
After a long time, she looked at Su Tianli with red eyes.
She hesitated to speak.
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