Chapter 16 Chapter 16 The Three Musketeers of the Countryside Eggplant, Beans, and Bitter Melon…
When Su Tianli returned home carrying a lot of things——
It was exactly a quarter before six in the evening, and the house was already filled with the aroma of food.
However, Tian Xiu and Su Dejun sat on the sofa in the living room with gloomy faces.
Su Youzi, who was standing by, pretended to read a magazine, but secretly rolled his eyes at Su Tianli.
There were clinking sounds coming from the kitchen. It should be Su Tiancai cooking.
"Mom and Dad, I'm back!" Su Tianli greeted her parents generously, "I've been busy outside all afternoon. I'm so hungry. What are we having for dinner tonight?"
Tian Xiu couldn't help herself first, "You also know that you were out for the whole afternoon?"
"Lizhi, you don't have a job now, so shouldn't you help with the housework? Look, no one is sweeping the floor, no one is washing the clothes, no one is cleaning the house, and no one is cooking..."
Su Tianli interrupted Tian Xiu and asked, "Before I came back, no one did these things?"
Tian Xiu was stunned.
In recent years, she has become accustomed to the absolute position of having the final say in this family.
I have long forgotten that Su Tianli has always been a rebel since she was a child...
Or maybe she didn't forget, she just tentatively launched a new round of obedience test on Su Tianli.
"My elder sister and I are both girls in the family. From now on, I will do whatever my elder sister does." Su Tianli said.
Su Youzi opened his eyes wide.
She glared at Su Tianli angrily, thinking to herself, Su Tianli, are you sick? Why did you drag me out to shoot for no reason? !
Su Dejun asked Su Tianli, "Sister, did you go shopping this afternoon? How much of the ten yuan your mother gave you is left?"
Su Tianli smiled and counted on her fingers for Su Dejun to hear, "Dad, I bought two sets of clothes. I picked the cheapest ones and spent 6.7 yuan! The soap, the washbasin and other things cost 2.1 yuan. I used the remaining money to buy two packs of Double Happiness for you, two hair bands with hair nets for mom, and a new pen for the fourth child..."
Su Tiancai was cooking in the kitchen. When he heard his second sister call his name, he ran out quickly and asked in surprise, "Sister, did you buy me a new pen?"
Su Tianli nodded with a smile and handed him the newly bought pen.
——It is just a very ordinary refill fountain pen, not the cheapest, but not the most expensive either.
Su Tiancai happily took it, and looked at the pen over and over again, his eyes red with joy, "Sister! How did you know that I was in need of a pen?"
Su Tianli just smiled and said nothing.
Is there any need to ask?
My brother's pen might be broken and it probably can't write automatically, so he can only dip it in ink to write.
In fact, Su Tianli didn't quite understand why her brother didn't ask her mother for money to buy a new pen.
First of all, this is for study, it is a serious matter, not for eating and drinking.
Secondly, he is the only boy in the family. Tian Xiu has named her daughters so many and has many children, so she should be fond of the fourth child.
so? ? ?
Why didn’t the fourth child dare to mention even the reasonable minimum requirements for learning to Tian Xiu?
Tian Xiu was also surprised at this time.
She took two hair bands with hair nets from Su Tianli, and was surprised to find that the two hair bands were decorated with different small decorations!
One is decorated with two gray pompoms, and the other is decorated with a black silk bow and beautiful plastic beads!
Tian Xiu is a waitress at the factory guesthouse. The department requires female employees with long hair to tie their hair up and wear a hairnet.
But Tian Xiu was frugal and was reluctant to throw away the broken hairnet, let alone buy a new one, so she used black sewing thread to mend the old hairnet and continued to use it.
But women all love beauty.
Looking at the bright and low-key beautiful hairnet, Tian Xiu couldn't stop smiling!
Su Dejun was also very happy.
Because his daughter bought him a DHS gift!
Still two packs!!!
You know, due to his family's financial situation, the cigarettes he smoked were all loose tobacco leaves bought by Tian Xiu on the black market.
Tobacco is not grown in Guangzhou, but the tobacco factories are still very large.
The factory sends people to Yunnan and Guangxi to collect tobacco leaves, and some of the inferior and discarded tobacco leaves will flow into the black market.
When Su Dejun felt like smoking, he would take out a handful of tobacco leaves from the plastic bag hanging behind the kitchen door, tear off some newspaper, and roll the loose tobacco leaves into the bag...
Such "cigarettes" are spicy and pungent, but they can satisfy your craving to some extent.
Now, Su Dejun actually has a day when he can draw the DHS lottery!
Su Dejun was ecstatic. He took the two packs of cigarettes, took a deep sniff of the cigarettes through the cigarette box, and looked intoxicated.
Su Youzi saw that everyone had a gift...
She waited and waited, but Su Tianli never distributed any gifts. She couldn't help but ask, "What about me?"
Su Tianli ignored her.
Su Youzi said anxiously, "Su Lizhi! I am also a member of the family! You gave gifts to everyone, so what about mine?"
Su Tianli rolled her eyes at her and said, "Big sister, you are really good at teaching me a lesson. But I want to ask you, when you embezzled the money I sent home to support my parents over the years, did you give them a penny?"
"You stole so much money from me yesterday. Did you give them a penny?"
"I'm not as selfish as you. After all, when I have money, I will still think about my parents and my brothers and sisters."
"As for your gift..."
Su Tianli paused and retorted bluntly, "What other gift do you want?"
"You are the eldest in the family. You started working early but you don't pay a penny to your family. You even need your parents to give you pocket money every month! If you are not a waste, what are you?"
"In this family, you eat the most and spend the most! But you don't contribute a single bit to the family!"
"You are a parasite, and you still want a gift?"
"You don't deserve it at all!" Su Tianli said in a loud voice.
The scene was filled with warmth and affection because of the gifts received.
The atmosphere instantly dropped to below freezing!
Su Youzi was stunned.
Over the years, Su Youzi has been complacent about his own good-for-nothingness.
Because this is a manifestation of her mother's pampering and love for her.
After all, in other families, boys are usually favored more;
But in the Su family, she is much more favored than her younger brother.
Doesn't this prove her success?
But today——
Su Tianli mercilessly tore off the veil of her "favored" status!
Su Tianli actually scolded her for being private and called her a waste and a parasite?
And you said she didn't deserve the gift?
Su Youzi started crying, "Mom! Look at Su Laizi!"
“Pah—”
Su Tianli slapped him without hesitation.
So Su Youzi was slapped in the face in public.
Su Dejun, Tian Xiu and Su Tiancai were all stunned.
Su Tianli looked at Su Youzi coldly and said word by word: "I said, if I hear you call me Su Laizi again, don't let me be rude to you!"
Su Youzi was so angry that he went crazy!
She wanted to say that Su Laizi was originally your name!
We all use the names given by our mothers. Why can you change your name but I can’t?
but,
The way Su Tianli looked at her was really scary, and it gave Su Youzi a feeling of "Do you believe I can beat you up every time I see you?"
Su Youzi was scared. She didn't dare to confront Su Tianli head-on. She could only stamp her feet and cry to Tian Xiu, "Mom! Mom, look at her..."
Tian Xiu was very unhappy.
Firstly, she really felt sorry for her eldest daughter.
Secondly, the second child beat the eldest child in front of her, which was clearly a challenge to her authority as the head of the family.
Thirdly, the eldest was beaten by the second child because she just called him by his real name, which proved that the second child really didn't like that real name, but that name was given to the second child by her...
In summary,
It seems like the second brother is deliberately making her angry?
Tian Xiu took a deep breath——
She was about to start scolding the second child,
Unexpectedly, Su Tianli turned around and said to Su Dejun sweetly, "Dad, I bought too many things today. The money Mom gave me was not enough to spend. I even borrowed three cents from Yu!"
"I don't have a penny on me now! I have to go to the city's educated youth station to submit some materials tomorrow, and I don't even have money to take the bus. Dad, please lend me your bicycle!" Su Tianli said.
Su Dejun pondered for a moment, took out a handful of crumpled banknotes from his trouser pocket, counted them carefully, and handed a few to Su Tianli, "Keep this money with you, a girl can't go out without money."
Su Tianli took a quick glance and knew it was two dollars.
Su Dejun added: "I'll give you the bicycle tomorrow as well. It's important to finish your work as soon as possible."
"Thank you, Dad." Su Tianli said happily.
Then Su Tianli turned around and asked Tian Xiu, "Mom, do we have any connections in the Municipal Personnel Bureau?"
Hearing this, Tian Xiu fell into deep thought.
Su Tianli looked at Su Youzi sarcastically, her eyes full of provocation and contempt.
Yes, Su Tianli was deliberately provoking Su Youzi!
She just wanted to cause unrest in this family and pave the way for moving out soon.
Tian Xiu had already started thinking about the question Su Tianli had just raised.
——Yes, although the second brother has all the personnel information and transfer orders, this is a society based on personal relationships. If I don't take good care of it, I'm afraid...
Tian Xiu thought for a long time, then suddenly turned to look at Su Youzi, and said to Su Tianli, "Your eldest sister gets along well with He Wanqian. He Wanqian's mother... seems to have a very powerful family. It might be helpful to go to the He family and visit them."
Hearing this, Su Tianli just smiled and said nothing.
Su Youzi was immediately proud when he heard this. He put his hands on his hips and said to Tian Xiu, "Mom! You don't know, I brought He Wanqian home this morning! Wanqian is also...Su Lizhi's classmate. I heard that she returned to the city, so I came to see her specially."
Then, Su Youzi began to exaggerate how Su Tianli had offended He Wanqian in the morning, and finally said to Tian Xiu smugly, "...Mom, tell me, is it wrong for Su Lizhi to do this?"
"She has offended Wan Xi. Aren't you afraid that Mr. He will make things difficult for you and dad?"
"Now she still wants to follow Wanxi's mother's path?"
"Guess whether they will pay any attention to her!"
Su Tianli was quiet and patient, waiting until Su Youzi finished speaking.
Then he asked, "Big sister, are you and He Wanqian really good friends?"
She is setting a trap for Su Youzi!
Su Youzi puffed out his chest and said proudly, "Of course! Wanxi and I are the best in the world! She listens to me in everything..."
The implication is: Su Tianli, if you want to ask Wanxi's mother for help, you must get past me first!
But what Su Youzi didn't know was that she had already jumped into the pit dug by Su Tianli without hesitation!
Su Tianli asked curiously, "Since you and He Wanqian are the best friends in the world, then when she asked you to change my purpose of going to the countryside from Jiangxi to the Northwest... why did you charge her 200 yuan?"
Su Youzi was stunned.
In an instant, Su Youzi's face turned red.
She had already thrown away the thought of "If you want to ask Wanxi's mother for help, you have to ask me first".
Now she was very frightened - how did Su Tianli know?
"You, don't talk nonsense!" Su Youzi said incoherently.
When it comes to money,
Tian Xiu and Su Dejun's highly sensitive nerves immediately tensed up.
The couple looked at each other.
Then they all saw in each other's eyes the aversion towards Su Youzi:
"What? Even this matter...was done by the boss for money?"
"How much money has the boss embezzled over the years?"
Su Tianli said half-truthfully, "How could I say something without any evidence? There are many family members here this morning, and there are some things I can't say in front of everyone. After all, I have to save some face for He Qianwan!"
The implication is: I have something on He Wanqian.
Su Tianli continued, "So I asked Ah Yu to accompany me to the factory finance office to look for He Wanqian... Based on my relationship with He Wanqian, of course she would tell me whatever I asked! Otherwise... Sister, guess what, I was clearly going to Jiangxi, why did she insist on sending me to the Northwest!"
The implication is: It’s because He Wanqian is really afraid of the evidence I have in my hand!
Finally, Su Tianli said, "Sister, the number of 200 yuan was not said by me, but by He Wanqian herself! She also told me that she was almost fed up with you and didn't want to bother with you at all, but you always threatened her with that incident, saying you liked her bag one moment and her skirt the next... You are too greedy! So, she simply told me clearly that she no longer needs to be afraid of your threats in the future."
Su Youzi was dumbfounded.
She never expected...
Su Tianli actually bypassed her and went straight to He Wanqian!
I didn't expect that they had already told everything clearly!
What she couldn't have imagined the most was that she really thought she and He Wanqian were good friends.
I didn't expect He Wanqian to hate her so much in private???
At this moment, Su Youzi was panic-stricken.
She hated Su Tianli, why did she care about every little thing!
She was afraid that her parents would be mad at her for this - so much had happened recently!
This is all because Su Tianli suddenly came back!
If Su Tianli hadn't come back, my parents wouldn't be angry with her all the time!
Su Youzi screamed, "This is all your fault! Su Tianli, why didn't you die outside? Why did you come back? Why did you come back?"
Upon hearing this, Su Tianli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, she took advantage of the situation and pretended to be heartbroken, and said tearfully, "Sister! How can you curse me like this? I am your biological sister! What good will it do you if I die outside?"
In order to make Su Youzi go even crazier, Su Tianli deliberately provoked her, "At least now that I'm back you still have a place to steal money!"
Su Youzi couldn't stand the stimulation and screamed, "Why do you have to keep dwelling on the past? You still have the nerve to say that you are a lucky star, but when you come back, I am in trouble! You might as well die outside!"
“Bang!”
Another crisp slapping sound was heard.
Su Youzi shut up instantly.
When she saw clearly that it was Tian Xiu who hit her, she was stunned. She covered her face and asked in disbelief: "Mom, you...you hit me?"
"Youzi! How could you say such a thing?" Tian Xiu was really angry, "Hurry up and apologize to your sister!"
No matter how much she doted on Su Youzi, she could not tolerate Su Youzi saying such vicious words.
But this slap hits,
Looking at Su Youzi's aggrieved and tearful eyes, Tian Xiu felt distressed again.
Seeing this, Su Tianli added fuel to the fire, "Dad! Mom! Since this family can't tolerate me, then I'm leaving! I will never come back again! Just treat me as if I'm dead out there!"
After saying that, Su Tianli walked towards the door "crying".
Su Tiancai rushed over and grabbed her arm, "Sister, don't leave! This is your home too... You've been away for five years and you're not familiar with this place anymore. It's almost dark now, where can you go alone?"
Su Tiancai glanced at Tian Xiu again and continued to say to Su Tianli, "Besides, you've only been back for one day and you've been kicked out by your elder sister. How will others laugh at Mom and our family?"
Su Tianli smiled secretly, thinking that her brother was quite smart and was always adding fuel to the fire.
really--
Su Tianli and Su Tiancai fanned the flames.
Su Dejun was furious.
He was greatly stimulated.
At first, Su Youzi embezzled the money that the second son sent home...
The second brother returned to the city and brought back 300 yuan, but it was stolen by Su Youzi again?!
Now it is revealed that when the second son went to the countryside to work as a production team worker, Su Youzi secretly earned another 200 yuan by changing the second son's address? !
Isn't this more than a thousand yuan? !
Su Dejun was so angry that he went crazy!
One thousand dollars?
One thousand dollars!!!
God……
One thousand yuan, and Su Youzi took it all without even saying hello?!
The most infuriating thing is that Su Youzi has no sense of guilt at all? !
She even… Yesterday at noon, as soon as the second son came home, she found out that she had embezzled the money that the second son had sent back;
As a result, she dared to steal the second brother’s money yesterday afternoon!
Is this a case of incorrigibility?
Does this mean that you won’t give up until you reach the Yellow River?
Doesn't this mean that he, the head of the family, is not taken seriously? !
Su Dejun was so angry that he took off his flip-flops and hit Su Youzi in the face!
"I'm going to beat you to death, you ungrateful guy!"
"Who taught you to steal money again and again? And you still don't repent!"
When he ran out of things to say, Su Dejun started to bring up old scores:
"You have been jealous of your brothers and sisters since you were a child! Not only are you jealous of them, you also frame them!"
"When you were seven years old, your grandmother brought the second and third children to Guangzhou. In order to prevent the second and third children from staying, you kicked the second child to death and insisted on kicking them downstairs! If one kick didn't work, you kicked them dozens of times. Aren't you afraid that they would fall to death..."
Hearing this, Su Tianli couldn't help but glance at Su Dejun indifferently.
so? ? ?
Did he see it with his own eyes?
Then he wasn't afraid that Su Youzi would kick his two sisters to death? Wasn't he afraid that his two daughters would fall down the stairs and die, get injured, or become disabled?
Why didn't he stop it?
Was it because he didn't want his two daughters to stay at that time, because from then on there were two more mouths to feed in the family, which increased his burden?
That's why he allowed Su Youzi to do evil!
Su Dejun continued to beat Su Youzi in flip-flops, cursing, "The original policy of going to the countryside was that only one child in a family could stay, and the others had to go to the countryside when they reached adulthood. As the oldest child in the family, you should have gone to the countryside! But you refused and stayed at home... Finally, the educated youth station came to check and said that if you didn't go to the countryside, your mother and I would be punished. You cried and made a fuss, and finally forced your mother to let the second child, who was only 17 years old, go to the countryside, while you, a 19-year-old, stayed at home and ate delicious food and drank spicy drinks! Su Youzi, do you have any shame?"
…
Like most middle-aged men of this era, Su Dejun was doing nothing.
Usually, he doesn't care about anything because he wants to avoid his family responsibilities, and becomes a deaf and dumb boss.
Therefore, he cannot be given the opportunity to succeed.
Otherwise, he would be as talkative as he is usually, but he would become as talkative as he is when he gets angry.
While beating Su Youzi, he brought up the past, starting from the mistake Su Youzi made when he was three years old, all the way to yesterday when Su Youzi stole Su Tianli's money...
Su Tianli had already become impatient.
She motioned to A-di to start eating.
Su Tiancai was in the period of growth. It was already past mealtime and he was so hungry that his stomach was sticking to his belly.
Seeing my second sister said dinner was ready,
Originally, he didn't dare to eat before his parents said dinner was ready.
After thinking about it, he realized that now that he had his second sister, he had nothing to be afraid of!
So he quickly went to the kitchen to bring out the food and bowls, and the brother and sister sat at the table and started eating.
Su Tianli came back yesterday and it happened to be Su Youzi's birthday, so she got to eat the braised pork.
Today, the meals at home have returned to normal.
The three plates on the table were filled with vegetarian dishes, which were obviously produced from their own vegetable garden.
For the main dish, it must be this rural three musketeers!
The Three Musketeers of the Countryside is a dish created by Su Tianli before she went to the countryside. To put it simply, it is just stir-fried vegetables.
But as she gained more experience, she realized that the combination of bitter melon, eggplant and beans was the most delicious.
Don’t think that bitter melon is bitter. In fact, it and eggplant are both vegetables that absorb flavors very well. But it has a bitter taste of its own, and when it is combined with the flavor of the cooked food, it creates a unique salty and fresh taste.
Moreover, the taste of these three vegetables complement each other: the eggplant is soft, the bitter gourd is refreshing, and the beans are crispy.
If you pick up these three vegetables with one chopstick and put them in your mouth like this -
Different levels of soft, refreshing and crispy taste, paired with the aroma of basil and garlic,
So delicious!
Su Tianli squinted her eyes and enjoyed the authentic food from her hometown.
Even if it’s just a vegetarian dish.
Su Tiancai was very happy to see that his second sister liked the dishes he cooked, "Second sister, eat more!"
Su Tianli nodded with a smile, "You should eat more too."
The other two dishes are stir-fried pickled vegetables and stir-fried cabbage.
Su Tianli picked up the plate of Three Musketeers of the Countryside, scooped one-third of it into her brother's bowl, and then scooped some into her own bowl. The brother and sister finished their meal in no time.
While Su Dejun was still beating Su Youzi, Tian Xiu shouted anxiously, "Stop! Stop!"
Su Tianli first called out "Dad" sweetly, and then advised: "Anyway, my elder sister is a person who never changes no matter how many times she is taught, so why bother with that? Dad, come over and eat first, and let my mom discipline my elder sister."
Su Dejun then felt hungry and threw away his slippers to eat.
Tian Xiu comforted Su Youzi with a few words, then pulled Su Youzi over with heartache and sat down at the dinner table.
Su Tianli said at the right time, "Big sister, wash the dishes after eating!"
Su Youzi was so angry that she started crying again, "Mom, look at her!"
Tian Xiu said to Su Tianli with a headache: "Second brother, please stop talking!"
When Su Dejun saw Tian Xiu defending Su Youzi, he got angry and yelled at Tian Xiu, "Shut up!"
Tian Xiu was so angry that his face turned blue.
Su Tianli, who was very satisfied with her meal, sat comfortably on the sofa, watching the three of them cursing, groaning, and crying...
until--
Someone knocked on the door and shouted rudely, "Su Tianli! Su Tianli, open the door for me!"
Su Tianli is very surprised.
She has only been back for one day, how come there are guests visiting?
Su Tianli walked over and opened the door.
The person who came was He Wanqian.
She clenched her fists to protect her chest and angrily asked Su Tianli, "Did you go to see Fu Yan this afternoon? Did you?"
Su Tianli glanced at He Wanqian.
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