Chapter 22: The Past

Before I knew it, a week had passed, and today was Friday, and Su Yicheng would come back from school while having lunch.

Now it is still very friendly to elementary school students, classes at nine o'clock, dinner at twelve o'clock, classes at two o'clock, and school at half past three.

There are no endless cram schools, and there is no class reunion involution, and after completing the homework assigned by the teacher, you can play all the time.

In the morning, Shen Huiru got up to clean up the housework, then took care of Tianyan and got up, helped her comb her hair, and fried a bowl of egg fried rice for her while she was washing.

"Today, my mother is going to go to pick tea with Sister-in-law Zhang, your brother will come back at noon, don't run around at home, and when you make money, will you buy you a new dress?" Shen Huiru packed her bag and discussed with Qian Yan, although it was a tone of discussion, but she looked like she must go.

"Do you have to go?" Qian Yan held the spoon in her hand, during this time she was used to being Shen Huiru's little tail, no matter where she went, she would follow behind.

"I heard that more than ten yuan a catty, you can only pick it for a few months, your father can't make money alone at home, and your mother has to work hard!" Shen Huiru touched her hair.

Outside, Sister-in-law Zhang was already shouting, Shen Huiru didn't care about anything, ran out with dry food and water on her back, and didn't forget to lock the yard door before leaving.

Qian Yan followed a few steps, looked at the closed door, turned back to the kitchen in frustration, finished the rice in the bowl, and then washed the bowl by the sink.

What should I do when I am alone at home? The chickens and ducks had been fed, and the pigs had been fed, and she went around the yard, and then went back to the hall, sprinkled some water, and swept the floor.

"You're so diligent." An Huai suddenly appeared, turned on the TV with ease, and watched it with his chin propped up next to him.

"You're so skilled." poured out her face and complained, in fact, she really doesn't have much interest in the current TV, she doesn't even have a color, the whole black and white appearance, and it's not a giant panda, how beautiful is it?

"Isn't this too much, so skilled?" An Huai's liking for TV, like other children, as long as he is at home alone, then he will definitely come over to watch TV.

Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, these are all TV series he likes.

At noon, Su Yicheng finally came back, the courtyard door was locked, and he thought that no one was at home, so he took out the key to open the door, but found that Qian Yan was home alone.

"Isn't Mom home?" Putting down the schoolbag, Su Yicheng turned around and asked.

"I went to pick tea with Aunt Zhang, and I left early." Qian Yan followed Su Yicheng to the kitchen, she also wanted to cook, but this little arm and leg couldn't even touch the stove!

"It's okay, brother will cook right away, and eat noodles at noon, right? I don't know if there is a shame. Su Yicheng rubbed his head and began to look for the lard in the earthen jar.

There are still some cheeks, boil the fire and boil the water, and go outside to wash the cabbage, there are a few earthen pots outside, planted some green onions and garlic seedlings, and a pot of coriander has just sprouted.

Su Yicheng moved quickly, in less than half an hour, two bowls of boiled noodles were fine, and a little green onion leaves were sprinkled on them, which looked quite good.

Eating noodles, he sighed again, don't look at Su Yicheng is only eight years old, but he can do anything, unlike her, except for eating and sleeping, she can't do anything!

After eating the noodles, Su Yicheng fed the water for cooking noodles and cornmeal to the pigs in the pen, and saw that there was not much pigweed next to him, so after washing the dishes, he went out to cut the pigweed.

"Su Yicheng, you just came back, so you went to cut pigweed?" Li Guangyang was holding a soda bottle in his hand, and he looked like he had just come out of the commissary.

The Li family is a butcher in the village, and they will kill pigs and sell them in the town on the third and sixth days of the junior high school, and they are considered wealthy families in the village.

"Well, let's go first." Su Yicheng nodded at Li Guangyang, took Yanyan's hand, and walked towards the river dam.

Now there is no pigweed in the field, and the only way to mow the grass is to go to the field, and there are many wild fields in the river dam, and the grass in it is also very lush, so everyone will go to the river dam to mow the grass.

It's just that the adults finished cutting the fresh grass early, leaving only some old poles, and Su Yicheng turned around and didn't find any grass that could be cut.

"Yicheng, you're back?" An old voice shouted to Su Yicheng, who was about to leave.

"Grandma." Su Yicheng shouted nonchalantly, pulled Qian Yan behind him to hide, he knew that he would meet his grandmother here, so he didn't bring his sister here.

Grandmother? Qian Yan was a little surprised, she had been here for so long, and she had never seen the relatives of the Su family, and she thought that the Su family had no relatives, and there were no relatives of the Su family in those memories.

"Hey, tell me about your parents, if you don't go back to see me, it's okay, I won't even let you go back to see me." The old man was dressed in tatters, grabbed Su Yicheng's arm and began to wipe his tears.

"The third uncle went out to gamble again? Do you want to sell my sister to pay off gambling debts this time? Su Yicheng broke away from the old man's hand and asked with a cold face.

"No, no, your third uncle has changed for the better, and he has been working hard recently, don't be angry, didn't you sell this girl?" The old man glanced at Su Yicheng's face behind him with disgust, if her parents hadn't come back quickly, she would have sold this money-losing goods a long time ago!

The old man's eyes were dark yellow, staring at her face creepy, she hid behind Su Yicheng, the conversation between the two was a bit informative!

"It's nothing, I'll go first." Su Yicheng wasn't sure if his frantic third uncle was there, and he didn't want to talk to the old man, but now he just wanted to leave quickly with his sister.

"Go home and tell your dad to let him go see me!" The old man was still talking, and he really looked like a mother who looked like a son.

Su Yicheng didn't say anything more, and hurriedly left with Qian Yan.

"Brother, what's wrong?" After running a distance, Qian Yan asked out loud.

"Look at that old man in the future, just stay away, you know? Otherwise, she's really going to sell you. Su Yicheng clenched his hand.

Su Ziqiang originally wanted five brothers and sisters, he was the fifth, and he should have been the most favored by the eldest child, but when he was just born, his father was stoned to death in the quarry.

The Su family, which was originally passable, has plummeted since then, relying on the eldest brother of the Su family and the grandmother of the Su family to support a family.

Finally, several children of the Su family became adults, and the eldest brother of the Su family also married a wife and had children, but unfortunately the first child gave birth to a girl, and the grandmother of the Su family was patriarchal, so it was not good for the sister-in-law of the Su family who gave birth to a girl, but for the sake of the child, she endured it.

The third uncle of the Su family is a loser, proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, once he owed a debt outside, came back and knelt down with the grandmother of the Su family, and finally the two actually sold the girl who was born not long ago to pay off the debt.

The sister-in-law of the Su family couldn't stand the blow, so she jumped into the river and disappeared, the eldest brother of the Su family didn't expect his brother and mother to treat his children like this, and he also left this place and has never come back.

And not long after Tanyan was born, the third uncle of the Su family made her calculations and contacted the buyers to the Su family, if it weren't for Su Ziqiang and Shen Huiru's vigilance, maybe Tanyan would have been sold.