Chapter 42 Chapter 42 The pork with preserved vegetables is sweet, fragrant and tender.
Su Tianli knew that she was in for a treat today.
——Tian Xiu bought pork with preserved vegetables in the cafeteria.
The palm-sized braised pork is neatly placed on the surface of the lunch box, with pickled mustard greens soaked in sweet oil underneath.
The amount of braised pork is not much, no more than ten slices.
There were five people in the Su family eating, and each person could get less than two slices.
It doesn’t matter. Su Tianli inserted her chopsticks and took away four pieces directly.
Su Dejun quickly snatched a piece away.
Tian Xiu also snatched a piece,
Su Tiancai realized it belatedly and snatched a piece away.
Then--
There is no braised pork in the lunch box.
Everyone turned to look at Su Youzi.
Su Youzi was humming a song while combing her hair in the bathroom.
Tian Xiu came back to his senses and glared at Su Tianli.
Su Tianli pretended not to notice and gave one of the four slices of braised pork in her bowl to Su Dejun, "Dad works hard and has become ill because of overwork for this family... He deserves to eat better."
Then he gave a piece of braised pork to Su Tiancai, "Brother, you have to do all the housework and study... You are so hard-working at such a young age! Eat more meat to nourish your body and grow taller!"
As a result, there were only two slices of braised pork left in Su Tianli's bowl.
She stuffed a piece of braised pork into the rice - in this way, the fat that had been stewed till soft would automatically melt into the rice, and it was so delicious!
As for the other piece of braised pork, of course you have to savor it carefully.
Su Tianli took a big bite of the braised pork.
Regardless of whether this pork with preserved vegetables tastes good or not,
Just the pleasure of eating meat makes people feel satisfied.
What's more, as long as the dish of preserved vegetable and pork is cooked well, there is no chance of failure.
Here, the pork belly is 50% fat and 50% lean, a square piece of meat bigger than a brick, fried in oil until the surface is crispy and slightly charred. Then cut into pieces one finger thick, neatly arranged at the bottom of the bowl, and topped with plenty of pickled mustard greens.
Of course, the pickled must be washed in advance, squeezed dry, and then stir-fried with ginger, onion, and garlic until dry and fragrant.
Then, a bowl of pork with preserved vegetables stuffed full can be steamed.
It takes at least two hours to steam the braised pork, and the rich gravy makes the preserved vegetables delicious...
It's simply addictive!
Su Tianli pursed her lips, feeling the delicious taste of the braised pork in her mouth, her eyes narrowed into slits with happiness.
However, such a peaceful and tranquil moment did not last long.
Su Youzi finally tidied herself up, sat happily at the table, and picked up the chopsticks...
“Ahhhhhhh?”
Su Youzi screamed, "Kourou! Mom, where's my kourou?"
After that,
Su Youzi first looked at Tian Xiu's bowl - there's meat?!
Look at Su Tianli’s bowl again—there’s meat!!!
There is meat in Su Tiancai’s bowl???
There is meat in Su Dejun’s bowl too!!!
so? ? ?
Is she the only one without meat?
Su Youzi exploded, "Mom..."
Su Tianli said coldly: "It's ugly when you scream and make a fuss for meat."
Su Youzi shut up instantly, his face flushed red.
But everyone had meat to eat, except her...
That won’t work!
You know, she is the little princess of the family.
From childhood to adulthood, all the resources in this family are destined to belong to her!
But since Su Tianli came back, everything has changed.
Su Youzi glared at Su Tianli.
Su Tianli squinted her eyes and continued to savor the delicious food in her mouth, revealing an exaggerated expression of happiness.
Su Youzi was so angry that he took a few deep breaths... and then started crying like a loser.
When she cried, Tian Xiu felt distressed and quickly transferred the braised pork in his bowl to Su Youzi's bowl.
Su Youzi's anger turned into joy. He glared at Su Tianli with a smug look, then sobbed and said to Tian Xiu, "Thank you, Mom!"
Tian Xiu looked at Su Youzi with tender eyes.
Su Tianli watched coldly and took it all in.
She smiled and asked Tian Xiu, "Mom, has my dad gone to the hospital to check his waist recently?"
Hearing this, Tian Xiu looked at Su Dejun. The tender look in her eyes suddenly turned into disgust, but she quickly controlled it, "Why are you asking me, ask your dad?"
Su Tianli doesn't really care about her father.
Just testing it out.
Now, she probably understood - Tian Xiu probably never took Su Dejun seriously at all.
Su Dejun was flattered by his second daughter's sudden concern, and quickly and repeatedly described his back pain symptoms in detail...
Su Tianli didn't take it seriously and just made a big promise, "Don't worry, Dad. After I sell the transfer order and get the money, I will take you to the hospital for a checkup!"
Su Dejun: ...
In fact, he felt that after the second brother's transfer order was sold, the money obtained should be his!
After all, he is the head of the family!
But, what the second brother said was really thoughtful.
After all, he has four children, and except for the one who can't come back, the other three are with him.
Only the second child cares about him.
But after Su Tianli mentioned the transfer order,
Tian Xiu immediately asked, "Second Brother, have you sold the transfer order?"
"No!" Su Tianli replied, "Mom, I came here today to ask you, have you found a buyer for me?"
Tian Xiu remained silent.
Su Tianli looked at Su Youzi out of the corner of her eye.
At this moment, Su Youzi was eating braised pork with pork belly and looking at Su Tianli with a haughty look.
Based on Su Tianli's understanding of Su Youzi,
It is estimated that Su Youzi has already started to think about the transfer of Su Tianli!
Su Tianli said nothing.
I thought to myself, if I don’t mention it, you’ll be so anxious!
In response to Su Tianli's question, Tian Xiu said no.
Su Tianli began to perform, "Ayu introduced me to someone that day, but I didn't agree because I felt the offer was too low."
Su Dejun asked anxiously: "How much?"
Tian Xiu also became anxious and asked repeatedly, "Who is he from and how much is his offer?"
Su Tianli smiled secretly in her heart, but pretended to be serious on the surface, "I don't know where he is from. When I heard that the other party offered 450, I didn't want to mention it anymore."
Su Dejun was anxious, "Sister, what's the difference between four hundred and five hundred and five hundred? They are almost the same!"
Su Tianli pretended to be hesitant, "Really, Dad, do you really think four hundred and fifty is okay?"
Su Dejun nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay!"
After a pause, he tried to explain, "The most important thing is to get the money."
Su Tianli looked thoughtful, "Well... okay, I'll go find Ah Yu later and ask for - four hundred and fifty is fine?"
Su Dejun smiled happily, "Yes, yes, that's right!"
Su Tianli also smiled and said, "Dad, when I get the money, I will definitely take you to the hospital..."
Su Tianli was talking to Su Dejun, but she was actually observing Su Youzi out of the corner of her eyes.
Sure enough, Su Youzi was winking at Tian Xiu impatiently.
Tian Xiu cleared her throat and said, "Second brother, you...how about you give the transfer order to your eldest sister?"
After hearing this, Su Tianli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Very good!
It was worth it for her to ask A Yu's sister-in-law to mobilize her connections to spread the word to Su Youzi.
Now it’s done!
Su Dejun was very angry, "Didn't we agree to sell the transfer order? Why are you using it to subsidize this loser?"
When Su Youzi heard his father call him a waste, he refused to listen and said, "Mom, look at my dad!"
Su Dejun was able to turn a blind eye to Tian Xiu's partiality in the past because no matter how partial Tian Xiu was to Su Youzi, it would not affect his interests.
But it’s different now.
Now this is...the duck in hand is about to fly away!
So Su Dejun angrily said: "What did I say wrong? If you are not a waste, what are you? The eldest son of other families is a child of the poor and has to grow up early. You, the eldest son, are as useless as a waste!"
"Look at the second child. Before she went to the countryside, she took good care of our family! At that time, your mother and I had hot soup and rice to eat as soon as we got home from work. We never had to do housework at home. We really relied on her for everything, inside and outside..."
"The second son went to the countryside, and the burden of the family fell to the third son, who was only sixteen years old at the time!"
"After the second and third children went to the countryside, you would rather rely on the fourth child, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, to do the housework, but you never did it!"
"Oh, by the way, you are not vague at all when it comes to eating, drinking, having fun, and stealing money!"
"Su Youzi, tell me yourself, are you good for nothing?"
"I didn't bother to tell you about the bad things you did in the past. After all, the money can't be recovered... But now, you want to steal the transfer order of the second brother?"
Su Dejun roared, "Su Youzi, don't even think about it this time!"
Su Tianli used chopsticks to pick up the braised pork in her bowl, ate the delicious gravy and rice, and watched the excitement with relish.
Su Youzi lowered his head deeply, like a little quail that was angry.
Tian Xiu finally spoke, "Old Su..."
Su Tianli opened her eyes wide, wanting to listen again carefully to how Tian Xiu turned the situation around.
Tian Xiu said: "Lao Su, I don't deny what you said. Youzi... is indeed a waste."
Su Youzi suddenly raised his head and looked at his mother in surprise, his eyes suddenly turned red.
Su Tianli gave Tian Xiu a thumbs up in her heart: first agree with Su Dejun's words, calm Su Dejun's emotions, stabilize the situation, and then start preaching... This is first suppressing and then praising, not bad.
Sure enough, after Su Dejun heard what Tian Xiu said, his expression didn't look so ugly anymore.
Tian Xiu continued, "Lao Su, what you just said... the second, third, and fourth brothers are all more capable than the eldest brother. I agree with that, too."
"You all say that I favor the eldest brother..."
"Yes, I admit that I am partial to her."
"But don't you want to ask why?"
Su Tianli once again gave Tian Xiu a thumbs up in her heart: High, really high! Look! This little hook is used... It just arouses people's curiosity, right?
At this moment, whenever Su Dejun asked why,
You will unknowingly follow Tian Xiu's thinking!
Then, Su Tianli heard Su Dejun mutter, "Why?"
Su Tianli just smiled and said nothing.
Tian Xiu sighed, "Lao Su, we are not young anymore. We will retire in a few more years. You should know that we are just ordinary workers, and our retirement salary is not as high as that of working employees."
"Just think about it, with our salaries now, our lives are already very hard..."
"After retirement, my salary will be even lower than it is now. How will I live?"
Su Dejun fell silent.
Su Tianli looked at Tian Xiu with a smile.
Tian Xiu continued, "You also said before that the second, third, and fourth children are all well-behaved and capable...but the eldest child is stupid and dumb and has accomplished nothing."
"Look at how amazing our second daughter is! She went to the countryside for a few years, and after she came back...she knew her profession and skills, got a stable job, and was even promoted to a higher rank! Even if she sold her transfer order, what would it matter? She can still find a job and make money!"
"I'm not worried about the third child. She may not be able to surpass the second child, but she is definitely better than the eldest child."
"The fourth child is still young, and he has his own destiny..."
"So, Lao Su, look, is it only the eldest daughter that we should worry about? She is already 27 years old this year..."
Su Youzi protested again, "Mom, I just celebrated my 24th birthday!"
Tian Xiu raised her eyelids and said, "You are talking about the age in years, I am talking about the age in lunar years."
Su Youzi was so angry that he whined.
Tian Xiu continued to say to Su Dejun: "... Old Su, look at this little loser, she is still a temporary worker! If we retire and she is fired, who will take care of her? Do you want her to rely on us for our old age? But our salary... can't even support ourselves, right?"
Hearing this, Su Tianli almost applauded Tian Xiu.
Look! What an excellent brainwashing formula!
If Su Tianli had not already recognized the true colors of her parents, she would probably have been moved by this helpless and suffering mother who worked so hard for her family.
But Su Dejun was really convinced.
He sighed deeply and said, "This family... probably all the money and everyone's life would be at stake, and if they were all given to Su Youzi, it would still not be enough for her to spend."
Tian Xiu scolded: "Old Su, stop talking nonsense!"
Then, Tian Xiu turned and looked at Su Tianli.
Su Tianli understood instantly that it was her turn to take the stage.
And she had to stage a full-scale fight in order to take the opportunity to break off with her original family and make sure Tian Xiu and Su Dejun would never have the face to look for her again.
"Mom, I don't agree to give my transfer order to Su Youzi." Su Tianli slowly controlled her emotions, and her eyes turned red little by little.
Tian Xiuzhi frowned.
Su Tianli said word by word: "Mom, I don't want to hear what you said to my dad."
"You and my father have the responsibility to raise Su Youzi, but I don't. I am Su Youzi's sister. Even if sisters need to take care of each other, she is the older sister who takes care of me. And I have no responsibility or obligation to support her and take care of her when she grows old."
"If you believe that between siblings, the more capable one must help the less capable one... then I want to know - since grandma is sick, why are you and my dad, as the most capable ones, unwilling to take on more responsibility for supporting the elderly on behalf of the other two uncles?"
"And then - Su Youzi has become a complete waste. Is this my fault? Did I spoil her like this? Whoever spoils her will bear the responsibility for the rest of his life. After all, she is the one you love, isn't she?"
"Mom, why are you using the transfer order I fought so hard for to support Su Youzi?"
"If you must do this, then what kind of equal benefits are you prepared to offer me in exchange?" Su Tianli said without leaving any room for negotiation.
When facing Su Dejun, Tian Xiu could still pretend - after all, Su Dejun was not smart and was easy to fool.
But Su Tianli is now...
It's a straight ball!
Tian Xiu had no way to avoid it.
So her face suddenly became gloomy.
Seeing that Tian Xiu wanted to fight back, Su Tianli immediately spoke up again, "Mom, I've been wondering - why are you so partial to my eldest sister?"
"Does that mean that only the eldest sister is your biological daughter, and me, the third and fourth sisters are all children you stole from outside?"
"Nonsense!" Tian Xiu shouted.
Su Dejun also clarified, "Don't talk nonsense, you are all my children."
Su Tianli quickly said, "That is - Su Youzi's father is not the same as the father of the three of us!"
"Otherwise, how can I prove my mother's partiality?"
"Su Youzi has been eating meat, eggs and milk every day since he was young. The third child and I were thrown into the countryside to play in the mud since we were born! Moreover, my mother insisted on not giving us a penny to live on, leaving me and the third child to look at the faces of our uncles and aunts in our hometown..."
"Su Youzi has accomplished nothing, but my mother insisted on covering for her. I just wanted my mother to find a way to get some connections and use them to arrange for my job acceptance...but my mother didn't agree!"
"Mom, do you really not want to do this? Or do you just not want to?"
"Although I was young, I still remember that my grandmother and my two uncles also had some connections. Otherwise, why would they send you, a junior high school graduate, all the way to Guangzhou to recruit a job?"
A dye shop opened on Tian Xiu's face.
When Su Tianli questioned that the four children had different fathers, Tian Xiu was horrified and his face turned pale!
When Su Tianli talked about how she and the third child were sent to the countryside as soon as they were born and were not given a penny for living expenses, Tian Xiu blushed with embarrassment.
When Su Tianli talked about her grandmother and uncle, Tian Xiu's face turned pale...
"In short," Su Tianli reiterated her point of view, "I will never give my transfer order to Su Youzi!"
"If you really want my transfer order, just buy it with money!"
"Otherwise, I would rather transfer it to someone else for free than give it to Su Youzi!"
"Mom, you can try to beat me to death, poison me, or push me down from the building... Maybe if you kill me, you can give my transfer order to Su Youzi without spending a penny!" Su Tianli said in a sonorous and powerful voice.
Tian Xiu was so angry that he was shaking all over.
after all--
She has not yet come out of the shadow of "Su Tianli questioning the four children's different fathers".
I heard Su Tianli's resolute words.
Tian Xiu stared at Su Tianli with wide eyes, "You——"
Su Youzi couldn't take it anymore, "Su Tianli, you are spreading rumors about me! I..."
Su Tianli sneered, "Why, didn't you look in the mirror for a long time before dinner? You are a woman who is almost thirty years old... Haven't you figured out that you don't look like us three siblings at all?"
"The third and fourth children, I and everyone else look like dad!"
"You all look different..."
"No wonder mom favors you!"
"Su Tianli, shut up!" Tian Xiu was furious. "How can you say that about your own mother?"
Su Tianli stood up and looked at Tian Xiu with her chin up, her face full of grief and stubbornness, "Have you fulfilled your responsibility as a mother to raise me?"
"You didn't!"
"So why do you ask me to fulfill my responsibilities as a daughter?"
"Just because you gave birth to me? You are my mother?"
"No! You're not!"
"You are not my mother at all! You are a human trafficker! I am not your daughter at all! I am a child you stole from somewhere else, so you dare to bully me like this..." Su Tianli started to make trouble.
Su Tianli said this actually to anger Su Dejun and to intensify the conflict between Tian Xiu and Su Dejun.
Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to escape.
This family cannot be broken up!
In fact, Su Dejun was also already angered.
He was like a Spanish bull about to be released from the pen. Not only was his face red with anger, his eyes were bigger than bells, his nostrils were almost spitting fire, and his teeth were bared...
On the other side, Tian Xiu was already furious, and was ready to pounce on Su Tianli with his teeth bared.
Of course Su Tianli was unwilling to suffer any loss.
She walked towards the door crying, "Since this family can't accommodate me, then I'm leaving! From now on... I will never come back again! You guys will just live with that loser Su Youzi for the rest of your life!"
After saying that, Su Tianli rushed out.
Tian Xiu yelled behind her, "Su Tianli, stop right there!"
Then--
Su Dejun also spoke up, "Tian Xiu! Stop right there! Tell me clearly... Is the boss my child?" Tian Xiu was stunned and became angry. "Are you crazy? Don't you know whether she is your child or not?"
Su Dejun, "The second, third, and fourth children were all born after you were pregnant for ten months! And the three of them really look like me. Only the eldest was born after you were pregnant for only seven months... The eldest doesn't look like me at all!"
Tian Xiu was so angry that her whole body was shaking, "Su Dejun, Su Dejun...you, you actually doubted me?"
Su Tianli stood by the door and eavesdropped for a while.
Then I heard the sound of fighting...
as well as--
The neighbors upstairs and downstairs have already started to look around.
Su Tianli knew that it was really not appropriate for her, the explosive barrel that set off the scene, to stay at the scene any longer, so she ran downstairs "crying loudly"...
A neighbor called her, "Lizhi, what happened to your family?"
Su Tianli cried and said, "My mother wants me to give the transfer order to Su Youzi!"
When the neighbor heard this, he gasped, "Your mother is so confused..."
Su Tianli had already run far away.
However, there are even more explosive things to come.
When Su Tianli ran to the gate of the family compound, she suddenly saw a circle of people gathered there.
Faintly, I seemed to hear someone talking about Su Youzi or something...
Su Tianli ran to the crowd and suddenly saw a... very familiar middle-aged man.
This guy...
Looks like a male version of Su Youzi?!
The most typical signs are light eyebrows, single eyelids and pointed chin!
At this moment, Su Tianli’s brain almost exploded!
Her first reaction was: This middle-aged man...could it be Tang Hui?
Was it because she sent a photo of Su Youzi to Tang Hui and deliberately left an vague address, so Tang Hui came directly to her?
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