After hearing what Xia Linsheng said, Xia Xiangdong and Li Afen looked at each other, their mouths twisting and turning, as if they had thousands of words to say.
But in the end, Xia Xiangdong protested softly under Li Afen's complaining eyes: "Linsheng, this... you always gave 45 before, how can you give 15 in the future? How can I support my family if you do this?"
Xia Linsheng: "You have to support the family, don't I have to support it? These fifteen years are just to support you, do you think you also want me to support your son and wife?"
"No, you've lost too much all at once!"
"Before, I gave you more because I expected you to be my son and take care of everything. Now I don't give you more because I know I can't count on you. If you want it, take it. If you don't want it, we can split up!"
"You little brat, I'm your father, I raised you! What's with your attitude?"
"I'm only giving you fifteen cents because you're my father. If you weren't my father, I wouldn't give you a cent. Stop saying you raised me. When my mother was alive, you were lazy every day, never working. My mother took care of everything at home. Why did she die? She died of exhaustion! How can you still remarry and live an idle life? It's you who sold my mother's dowry! So, my mother has been raising me all along. I'll say it again, if you want me, take me. If you don't want me, we can split up. Don't force me to bring up the sad things of the past!"
The whole audience was silent.
Zhou Guifu began to sniff, and after a long while, he looked up to the sky and sighed:
"Alas! What my mother and I regret most is marrying my sister to you. Xia Xiangdong, if you still want to save face, then do as Lin Sheng says. If you don't want your face anymore, we will separate now!"
Xia Xiangdong wanted to slam the table, but seeing the similar cold faces of Zhou Guifu and Xia Linsheng, he finally didn't dare to do it.
The couple looked at each other for a long time, wishing they could take out an abacus and do a few rounds of calculations.
But Zhou Guifu did not give them time, and stood up and said:
"Linsheng, it seems your father doesn't want to be your father anymore. Then go find the brigade secretary and divide up the house and the private plots so that your wife won't have no place to grow vegetables when she gets married."
Xia Linsheng stood up and walked out with big strides.
Li Afen rushed over like a monkey and grabbed him:
"Rinsheng, rinsheng, don't be angry. Give it to me, I will give it to you. Even if your father doesn't give it to me, I will give it to you. Let's not separate the family. Let's not separate the family. Linsheng, don't say those angry words. This time it's my fault. I was ignorant. I will never dare to do it again. Really, Linsheng, we are a family!"
Li Afen expressed this attitude, and Xia Xiangdong breathed a sigh of relief: "Ahem, brother-in-law, I will listen to you. I will do whatever you say."
Zhou Guifu: "Then why don't you take out the money!"
In this way, Xia Linsheng received a marriage fund of 200 yuan, and the money to be given to his relatives every month was also agreed upon. Only then did he go to the kitchen to cook noodles for his uncle.
Yu Sui didn't know about these things, she was so busy that she had no time to rest.
I spent the afternoon making cakes out of the ground rice flour, wrapped them one by one with pink paper I bought from the space, and then cut out big red paper with the Chinese characters for "happiness" and pasted them on the cakes. It really embodied the festive and aesthetic feeling of this era.
In the evening, Sun Yuying came home from work and saw it. She was also very fond of it: "Oh my god, the bag is so beautiful, better than the ones you buy outside, so beautiful. But where did you get the red paper?"
Yu Sui lied without blinking, "I bought it with Xia Linsheng in the city last time, and it just happened to be in use."
Sun Yuying had no doubts. She just counted the eggs and muttered, "We have to send them to the relatives tomorrow. They're coming to the wedding on October 1st. If they're sending eggs, we have to save them quickly. Oh, Sui, you go and deliver your sister's share tomorrow."
It seems that I can't escape going to my sister's house.
Yu Sui grabbed Sun Yuying's arm and acted coquettishly: "Mom, it's not that I don't want to go. To be honest, since I hanged myself last time, I actually forgot some things, such as where my sister's house is. I forgot!"
Sun Yuying looked at her in surprise: "Ah? You can forget this? Then what else did you forget?"
"Uh... I forgot what my brother-in-law looks like."
"Have you forgotten what your sister looks like?"
Yu Sui said with a playful smile: "I can't forget that. Isn't it just as beautiful as you?"
This is what Sun Yuying always said. Her two daughters looked so beautiful because of her. If they had looked like the people in Old Yu's family, they would have been dark, thin and miserable.
Sun Yuying breathed a sigh of relief: "Just don't forget your sister. It was your sister who brought you up when you were little. Come on, go to bed early tonight. Your brother will call you tomorrow when he goes to school. He will pass by anyway, so he can take you home."
That's all we can do.
Because of this matter, Yu Sui was urged by Sun Yuying to go to bed after dinner. Originally, Yu Sui was going to find Zhang Caifeng in the evening to ask if Yu Qiu had been called in for questioning by the Public Security Bureau, but she had to put it aside.
Before dawn the next day, Sun Yuying woke Yu Sui up because Yu Cheng was going to Taoli Middle School, which took more than an hour to walk. If Yu Sui didn't know the way, she had to follow him.
The morning was slightly cool and foggy.
There were only three boys in the production team who went to middle school: Yu Cheng, Chen Mingli's younger brother Chen Mingliang, and Yu Guoqiang, a relative with the same surname.
From this point of view, Yu Haichao and Sun Yuying were really good to Yu Sui and even helped her finish middle school.
The three boys were almost as tall as Yu Sui. Perhaps they were used to walking to school, so they walked very fast. Yu Sui felt very tired to keep up with that pace and would fall behind from time to time.
But because of the fog, she didn't dare to keep a distance from them. When she saw that she could hardly see anyone, she would run for a while, and then stop and walk when she could hear the three boys talking clearly.
Yu Guoqiang: "Chen Mingliang, did your sister really see a ghost?"
Chen Mingliang: "Really? Otherwise, my sister would be too scared to get out of bed! My grandma said she would pee at the slightest sound!"
Yu Cheng: "Huh? What do you mean? What do you mean by peeing when you hear a little noise?"
Yu Guoqiang was the tallest and looked like a middle school kid. He chuckled and tapped Yu Cheng on the head: "It's just urinary incontinence! You don't understand this."
Yu Cheng didn't dare to ask any more questions, but Yu Sui knew that he didn't understand yet because he lowered his head.
Yu Guoqiang ignored him and just asked what he was interested in: "What does that ghost look like? Did your sister tell me?"
Chen Mingliang: "It's just like when she was alive! Think about it, you know Luo Suying is dead, but she's standing there perfectly still, talking to you. Do you think you're scared?"
Yu Guoqiang pretended to look back and suddenly said, "Ah, Luo Suying is here!"
Chen Mingliang and Yu Cheng didn't even dare to look back, and ran three miles away: "Ahhhhhh, ghost!"
Yu Guoqiang just stood there laughing so hard that he couldn't breathe.
Yu Sui: "..." Tsk! This kid is really bad.
Why are you scaring my brother for no reason?
Is this how the joke goes?
Then I will too.
Yu Sui pushed her fog-soaked hair forward, covered her eyes, and walked over quietly.
Yu Guoqiang was still laughing, holding his stomach.
Yu Sui patted Yu Guoqiang on the shoulder and said in a trembling voice: "Hello~ I am Luo Suying~~"
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