Chapter 5 A Promissory Note
Sewn on the back of the pocket was a promissory note and a black-and-white photo!
The person who sewed this thing into the cotton shirt was very careful and wrapped it tightly with waterproof oil paper. Even if the original owner liked to wash the cotton shirt thoroughly, the things inside would probably not get wet.
The IOU clearly states the borrower's name, date of birth, detailed home address, immediate family members, when and why the borrower borrowed 200 yuan from Comrade Su Donghan for a period of two years. A signed photo of the two of them serves as a keepsake. After two years, the repayment is 250 yuan including interest. The loan will be returned upon maturity with the IOU and the keepsake, and the borrower does not have to be the borrower himself.
In addition to the signatures of the lender and the borrower, there are also the signatures of two witnesses, both of which are stamped with red fingerprints.
It can be said that the person who wrote this IOU was quite thoughtful.
The date of the loan agreement was more than three years ago, which happened shortly before the original owner went to the countryside.
Su Taotao tried hard to recall, and it seemed that this paragraph was not written in the book. Perhaps the original owner did not find the loan note sewn into her cotton-padded jacket after returning to the city. Because she traveled into the book and made a different choice from the original owner, there was a big deviation in the development of the plot. It can be said that except for objectively existing people or things, the original plot has not much reference significance.
Su Taotao picked up the photo and took a look at it, and couldn't help but smile. Genetics is really a great subject. The original owner's fox eyes were actually inherited from his father. Even if he had never seen the real person, he could tell at a glance who was the lender, Comrade Su Donghan, the biological father of "Su Taotao".
The original book did not dwell much on Su Taotao's family, and only mentioned them briefly with one sentence: "It's not a good relationship."
The home address of the borrower Cao Guohua in the loan agreement is in the county town where Qinglian Commune is located, only about ten kilometers away from the brigade where Su Taotao is located.
Su Taotao joined the queue here, and there was a promissory note sewn inside her cotton-padded jacket. It might not be a coincidence, but the work of Su's father. The so-called "bad relationship with family" might just be the original owner's illusion. Her family should have been nice to her, but nowadays people believe in having more children, more blessings, and most families have several children. She has two older brothers and a younger sister, and she is the one who is most easily overlooked.
Su's father or mother didn't tell the original owner about this trick, probably because they knew the original owner was extravagant. When the time came when he really needed help, they would not be able to put out the nearby fire with distant water, so they buried this "nearby fire" in advance, which might be able to solve the urgent problem at the critical moment.
It can be said that it is a well-intentioned effort.
Su Taotao put away the IOU and the photos. She only had 13.85 yuan left of her entire belongings. She would probably need this "near fire" soon. Even if she didn't eat it, she would have to raise Chenchen, who was still in the growth stage, as soon as possible. She couldn't let the talent of such a smart baby go to waste.
While continuing to clean up, Su Taotao found another letter written by her childhood sweetheart to the original owner.
She took a quick look and found the handwriting and writing to be good. The word "love" was not mentioned once between the lines, but the love was overflowing and sincere. No wonder the original owner had been thinking about it for so many years.
Su Taotao thought about it, found the matchbox, and lit the letter with one of the matches.
These days, men and women are very particular about keeping separate. If she were to be discovered, she wouldn't be able to explain herself even if she had ten mouths. She didn't want to be like a pig-diving dunker.
Her body was weak after soaking in the cold water of the river, and after cleaning up for a while, she was exhausted.
I took out my watch from under my pillow and saw that it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, which is considered staying up late these days.
Su Taotao resisted the urge to sleep, changed the quilt cover and bed sheets, took an old piece of clothing as a pillowcase, and then lay back on the bed. Before going to sleep, she was still thinking in a mess that the watch was one of Fu Zhengtu's betrothal gifts. Although it was not in perfect condition when they got married, it was already considered good in the countryside.
It turned out that the original owner took advantage of Fu Zhengtu's vacation and took a fancy to him, and used some dishonorable means to successfully marry into the Fu family. In fact, Fu Zhengtu and the Fu family had never treated the original owner unfairly, let alone said a word against her.
However, the original owner thought that she could leave here with Fu Zhengtu after getting married, but she didn't expect that the process went wrong and it took three years before she was taken back.
She couldn't keep it, and she got through it by accident. She didn't know if she could return to the 21st century after waking up.
Facts have proved that the Su Taotao who woke up was still the Su Taotao of the 1970s and could not go back.
She used to have a habit of staying up late and suffering from insomnia, but now her sleep quality is very good.
In the morning, when she opened the door, the smoke from the kitchen was already rising. She breathed in the sweet air of the 1970s and said hello to the incredibly beautiful little cub: "Good morning, Chenchen!"
At less than two years old, the child's development was slower than that of other children and he could not even walk steadily. He was staggeringly holding a gourd ladle to feed water to the chicks, and when Su Taotao called him, the water almost spilled.
He looked at Su Taotao in confusion. After all, he had never seen her at this time before, never seen her laugh so happily, and never heard her say good morning to him in such a cheerful voice. He stood there for a moment, unable to respond.
Not to mention the dust, even Fu Yuanhang, who had just come back from digging earthworms and was feeding the chickens, had his brows wrinkled like earthworms. In his opinion, his sister-in-law has not been normal since she fell into the water.
She looks even scarier like this, who knows what big move she might be planning.
Fu Yuanhang suddenly thought of something and looked at her in horror. She was suddenly so nice to Chenchen. Could it be that she wanted to trick Chenchen into selling him out?
Su Taotao had no idea that her "good morning" would cause Fu Yuanhang to imagine such a big drama. She was simply in a good mood because she had enough sleep and opened the door early in the morning to see such a delightful little kid.
Su Taotao smiled and walked over to Chenchen, squatted down, looked him in the eye, pointed at his gourd and asked, "Chenchen, what are you doing?"
Yes, yes, this is the look and smile of Grandma Wolf!
Fu Yuanhang felt that he had seen the truth, and shouted to Chenchen: "Chenchen, come here quickly, the chicken is thirsty!"
Hearing his uncle's call, Chenchen walked over slowly on his short legs without thinking.
Su Taotao felt quite regretful. She almost poked Chen Chen's baby fat, but she hadn't yet guided the little guy to call her "Mom", and she didn't know if he could speak now.
Don't be in a hurry, take your time.
Su Taotao did not disturb the two children, one big and one small, who were feeding the chickens. She walked around the small yard with her hands behind her back.
It's a typical farmyard building, covering a fairly large area. It has a main house with four rooms in an airplane-style layout. The kitchen and bathroom are opposite the main house, but they are made of green bricks and black tiles, and it can be seen that they were built not long ago. There is an open-air yard of 20 to 30 square meters in the middle. In the middle is a water pump, and there is a small pond surrounded by cement, so you can wash things directly in it. There is an asparagus fern on both sides of the door. One side of the wall is surrounded by a fence for raising chickens, and various farm tools are hung on it. On the other side is a small vegetable plot where some side dishes such as coriander, garlic, and green onions are planted. Next to it is a simple clothesline made of two wooden forks and a bamboo, on which a few clothes are hung.
It can be seen that the house is quite old. When she woke up yesterday and saw it for the first time, it was a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was a dangerous building. The main reason was that she had never seen such a blackened mud brick house. Today, it still looks quite solid from the outside, and the tiles on the roof are also very new. There should be no leakage, and there is no safety hazard.
The key is that the house is very clean. You can tell at a glance that the owner of the house is very hardworking and loves cleanliness. In short, she can accept this living environment, which is much better than she thought.
The most important thing is that the bathroom was built in imitation of the toilets in the city at the strong request of the original owner when she married Fu Zhengtu, so it had a squat toilet, so she didn't need to go to the public toilet which was said to be smelly!
This could be said to be the only thing the original owner had ever done that made her feel satisfied.
Su Taotao was just about to go to the bathroom to take care of a physiological problem when a figure flashed in from outside the door, ran into her bathroom at the speed of teleportation, and without even saying hello, closed the door with a bang.
Su Taotao blinked and looked at the two children who were happily feeding the chickens, asking with her eyes, "Who is this person? What does he mean?"