Sun Yuying was unwilling to admit this: "I...how could I not be good to your sister? If I wasn't good to your sister, how could I let her live in my house? Look around the whole brigade, are there any people like us who are so biased towards our daughters? How could I not be good to her? I have three daughters to support!"
Yu Sui: "Okay, okay, if you treat her well, then give her your tenner. Otherwise, I won't give you your tenner!"
"Got it! You bad girl, give it to me!"
He laughed, scolded and joked with his relative, and his relative was very happy.
Therefore, a father's partiality is sometimes unreasonable.
Sun Yuying boiled water for Yu Sui, filled a hot water bottle, and carried her to bed with a smile on her face. She also told Yu Sui to go to bed early, saying that she would take care of Wu Su.
Yu Sui: "Mom, I slept too much on the train today and can't sleep right now. I'll walk around the house to help digest the food."
Sun Yuying pushed her onto the bed and said, "It's dark now, why are you walking around? Go to sleep."
"Okay, I'll go to bed when you leave."
But in fact, as soon as Sun Yuying left, Yu Sui slipped away quietly.
The night is hazy.
Because it was cold, there was no one in the village alleys.
Yu Sui walked to the back of the house and passed a few houses before arriving at her uncle Yu Dachao's home, which was also Yu Qiu's maternal home.
This house is about the same size as Yu Sui's house. I don't know why, but it looks particularly desolate. In the cold wind, only a little dim light comes through the window on the west side of the house.
Yu Sui flashed into the space, bought some rice wine and a few sausages, and left.
She ran to the lighted window and called out, "Uncle, uncle, are you home?"
A hoarse voice came from the room: "Who is it?"
"I'm here to bring you some food. Open the door for me."
"Who is it?" As soon as they heard there was food, the voices in the house began to be accompanied by footsteps, and the back door creaked open.
Yu Dachao held up a small oil lamp and shone it over, then looked at Yu Sui in astonishment: "Who... are you?"
Yu Sui walked closer: "Uncle, don't you recognize me?"
Yu Dachao actually stepped back repeatedly: "You, you, you... are you Yu Sui from my hometown?"
"Yes, I'm Yu Sui."
"You..." Yu Dachao's hand trembled, and he dropped the oil lamp. "Aren't you dead? Don't scare me!"
Yu Sui acted very quickly, and miraculously, she just caught the oil lamp.
However, the flame of the oil lamp went out and darkness was everywhere.
Yu Sui's voice slowly rang out: "I'm not dead, I'm fine. Uncle, do you have any matches? Please light the lamp."
In the darkness, the only sound was the chattering of Yu Datao's teeth.
Yu Sui sighed, "Alas, I'm really not dead. Uncle, who told you that? I just had dinner with my parents, and I happened to bring some food back from the north. I'll give you some. Don't be afraid. You're so poor, no one will come to find you."
After talking for a while, Yu Sui's eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and she could see Yu Datou huddled in the corner, shivering.
Yu Sui handed over the bottle of rice wine she was holding. "Feel the bottle. Is it still warm? Can ghosts have body temperature?"
Yu Datao really touched the bottle.
Sure enough, there is a human figure on the wine bottle.
Yu Datao walked out from the corner of the room and said, "Then why did Yu Ke say you were dead? This kid really is!"
Yu Sui pretended to be nonchalant: "I just fell into the water. Come, have some sausage."
Yu Datao took the sausage tremblingly and took a bite of half of it. When his hand stopped shaking, he fumbled for a match and lit the oil lamp: "What is this? It tastes pretty good."
He chewed vigorously and soon, a whole sausage was gone.
Yu Datou's eyes looked at the other sausages in Yu Sui's hand in the dim light.
Yu Sui didn't give it, but only asked: "Uncle, when did Yu Ke tell you that I was dead?"
Yu Datao looked away: "Just a while ago."
Yu Sui: "Wasn't he arrested? Did you go to the detention center to see him?"
Yu Datou didn't respond, sighed heavily, and slowly sat back on a broken bed at the back of the room.
Yu Sui looked inside the room with the help of the light.
The walls were really bare, with nothing but a bed.
Yu Sui handed the bottle over again: "It's cold, would you like some wine? After you drink it, I'll give you some sausage."
Yu Datao moved over from the bedside, took the bottle of wine, drank several gulps in one breath, and looked at Yu Sui.
Yu Sui just wanted to ask, "I think Uncle is pretty patient. Since you heard Yu Ke say I was dead, why didn't you tell my parents? Look, I just had a happy dinner with my parents, and they didn't mention it at all."
Yu Datao's eyes were still on the sausage, and he obviously swallowed his saliva. He picked up the wine bottle he had just put down and took another sip.
After drinking this sip, it seemed as if he had opened up a flood of conversation:
"Alas! My own family is in such a mess, why should I bother to criticize other people's families! After your aunt-in-law died, your sister Yu Qiu got married. From then on, there was no trace of homely atmosphere in our home, and it became cold and lonely.
You also know that your elder brother Yu Ke has been spoiled by your aunt since he was a child. He refuses to do anything. Not only does he refuse to work, he also steals money. Not only does he steal money, he also gambles. In the end, he took out all the money in the family to pay off debts. I said let it go, and he beat me. Later, I didn't care and let it go.
Who knew, a few days later, your sister Yu Qiu was divorced and came back! I thought, let her come back, at least there is someone to cook at home, but who knew, she would cause such a big trouble, actually wrote in a notebook that the leader was dead, my god, because of this, she was arrested!
Yu Datao paused and fixed his eyes on Yu Sui's sausage again.
Yu Sui broke the big red sausage into pieces, gave him half, and then took a bite of the other half and started eating it herself.
The room was filled with the sound of chewing.
Yu Datao finished eating first: "Tsk, how long has it been since I last had meat? At least a year, right? Oh, I gave birth to these debt collectors, each one more wicked than the last. Your sister Yu Qiu, you had such a great time teaching at the brigade primary school, but who knew she'd get into all that trouble? They say she's crazy, and I think she is."
Yu Sui: "Have you ever visited her?"
"No. She's got such a big smudge, I won't go see her."
"Yu Ke's is not small either, how come you go to see him?"
"How can it be the same? He's my son!" Yu Datao bit the sausage with a crunching sound and said the word "son" in a crisp voice.
Yu Sui: "I heard he killed Wu Dalang? Why did he kill Wu Dalang?"
Yu Datao: "Don't talk nonsense, he didn't kill her!"
"Who killed him?"
"It must be Yu Qiu!"
"How do you know?"
"Yu Ke said Yu Qiu gave him a packet of medicine and insisted he put it in Wu Dalang's food. Yu Ke never thought anyone would die, thinking it was just a laxative. Little did he know Wu Dalang would die after taking it. Yu Qiu refused to admit she was the one who gave her the medicine, saying she was mentally ill. The police also said that was impossible. Yu Qiu was mentally ill, and Yu Ke pointed her out because he didn't want to take responsibility."
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