3 Chapter 3
Seeing that her mother didn't say anything, Wei Xiuzhi was anxious and urged: "Mom, you said, what's wrong with Min'er?" ”
Sun Hongmei's mouth opened and closed, and finally only said: "It's nothing." ”
Wei Xiuzhi was so anxious that she stomped her feet and turned her head to ask her father. The father pursed his lips and didn't say a word, so he grabbed his mother and asked.
"It's nothing, I just want to say that Min'er is pampered and may not be used to it," Sun Hongmei deliberately changed the topic and rubbed her somewhat sore waist: "I'm tired after being busy for a long time, go back to the room and lie down for a while." ”
Wei Xiuzhi couldn't see that her mother was using an excuse to escape.
But her mother didn't say what she could do, and in the end she could only look at Su Tong with a helpless face.
Su Tong didn't know, but today he saw that Lu Min was white and chubby, and his face was ruddy, so he comforted her: "Don't worry, people like the Lu family, if Min'er really has a problem, there must be a way." ”
These words successfully settled Wei Xiuzhi's heart.
Yes, someone like the Lu family will not let Min'er have a problem.
The next day, Wei Xiuzhi and Wei Guohao went back to school, and only Su Tong and Wei Guangliang were left at home.
Su Tong was delicate, and noticed that since Lu Yicheng came that day, Sun Hongmei's mood had become extremely low, and the whole person was much more taciturn than before. She and Wei Guangliang have always talked little when they are at home, and Sun Hongmei doesn't talk anymore, and the whole family is about to be quiet.
Although she likes to be quiet, it is not good for the home to be too quiet.
The days were as plain as water, and another three days passed.
On this day, Wei Guangliang and his wife didn't know what to do when they went out, and Su Tong was the only one left in the family.
She sat under the eaves, shaking her fan, drinking warm water, and sighing for the first time today.
After graduating from his previous life, he became a social animal, going out to work every day against the rising sun, and getting off work at the beginning of the stars. I live for work every day, and I don't have enough time to sleep. After a long time, the body inevitably wears out. At that time, she fantasized every day that she could win five million and live a flat life from now on.
Now the days can be called leisurely, it stands to reason that it is the lying flat that she dreamed of in her previous life, but how can it make people so unsteady?
Su Tong held his cheek with his left hand, shook the pu fan with his right hand, and wrinkled his eyebrows in contemplation.
A few minutes later, she had an answer.
At the end of the day, I still don't have any money in my pocket.
But how do you make money at this time? She began to think about this new question.
It is now 1988, the tenth year of the spring breeze of reform and opening up.
For many, this is the best of times, full of opportunities. But Su Tong understands very well that she does not belong to the list of 'many people'.
She knows that she has no business acumen, and she lacks the spirit of hardship and hard work. So even if it is the golden age of reform and opening up, she did not hesitate to rule out the method of starting a business and getting rich.
How much ability to eat and how big bowls of rice she has, she has a deep understanding of this in her previous life.
The sun was like fire, and her heart was tormented, Su Tong lamented, why couldn't God let her wear it to a rich second generation or an official second generation.
But just thinking about it, she immediately snorted.
People can't be dissatisfied, and she is grateful to be reborn. She thanked God for giving her a second life, and not only that, but also to live the original owner's share well. And the first criterion of living well is not to work too hard.
Want not to work hard...... The problem comes back to it, if you want to live a life that is not hard, you still have to have money in your pocket.
Stuck in a dead loop for the time being, she still doesn't want to think about it yet.
Stealing half a day of leisure, being able to be idle for a day is a day.
At this time, secondary school graduates seem to have a package allocation, and if they are lucky, they are arranged to eat in a quiet unit and wait for death.
Thinking like this, Su Tong was in a much happier mood. The era of bag distribution is a good time for people like her who don't have much fighting spirit.
After resting enough, Su Tong got up and began to clean the house.
Although she is not very capable and diligent, she will never be able to reach out and open her mouth in this house. When Wei Guangliang and his wife are busy outside, she will also take care of all the housework at home.
Sun Hongmei came back and saw Su Tong wiping the table. Looking at the ground again, there were obvious traces of just dragging, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.
Her niece, unlike other rural children since she was a child, loves cleanliness and loves cleanliness very much.
"The countryside is dusty, so you don't have to wipe it every day."
Sun Hongmei shouted to stop Su Tong and motioned for her to sit down.
Looking at this posture, there should be something to say to himself, Su Tong stopped what he was doing and sat down in a position with Sun Hongmei.
"Xiaotong, you are also twenty years old this year."
Su Tong was lazily half-dazed, but when he heard this, he immediately retracted his mind and sat upright.
The experience of being unmarried at the age of twenty-eight in her previous life told her that usually the elders want to urge marriage at the beginning.
In this era, is twenty years old considered a late marriage?
The experience of being intentionally or unintentionally urged to marry in her previous life was so unforgettable that Sun Hongmei just said a word, and Su Tong thought about it a lot. She was even thinking about what she would do if Wei Guangliang and his wife wanted her to get married sooner.
Su Tong quickly searched in her mind for the marriage situation of men and women in Weijia Village, and it seemed that there were very few people who had not married at her age. Many people who didn't read anything did it at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and when they were old, they got a marriage certificate.
Obviously, the state stipulates that the age of marriage registration for women is 20 years old, which is the starting point and will not be urged.
Sun Hongmei didn't know what her niece was thinking, and seeing that she didn't speak, she continued: "Aunt has already given birth to Xiulan at your age. ”
Speaking of her eldest daughter, Sun Hongmei looked sad and couldn't talk anymore.
The pain of losing a daughter is not so easy to ease, and Su Tong didn't know how to comfort her, so she had to get up and pour her a cup of cold water.
When you can't help it, drink water to cure all diseases.
Sun Hongmei took the cup and took a sip of it, and the result was much better. This sip of warm boiled water also reminded her that their family began to develop the habit of drinking boiled water, which was requested by the eldest daughter.
Sighing, Sun Hongmei said: "Those of you who have read too much are particular, and you have to drink boiled water when you drink it." ”
Su Tong smiled, and didn't want to say anything about high-temperature killing. At this time, the groundwater pollution was not serious, and many rural people drank well water directly. It's just that she's used to it. As for Wei Xiuzhi's brothers and sisters, they also developed the habit of turning on the water to drink after living in high school.
After her emotions eased up, Sun Hongmei continued to get down to business: "My aunt didn't mean anything else when she told you this, when a man gets married and a woman gets married, you should also think about lifelong events." ”
Su Tong sighed in his heart, and said in his heart, sure enough, the elders think that you should get married when they mention their age.
To be honest, she didn't have much idea of getting married. She is afraid of marriage like many young people, thinking that marriage means that you have to sacrifice yourself to integrate into another family in the future, and you can't sleep on holidays, all kinds of human etiquette, she feels that there is no joy in life.
So when her boyfriend proposed to her in her previous life, she was startled, and then decisively refused.
She doesn't have any provocative eyes, it's okay to fall in love, but she really doesn't have confidence in getting married.
The boyfriend who failed to propose marriage was angry and proposed to break up, and at the age of 28, she liked to be single, and since then she has started a more violent marriage urging mode by her family.
"Auntie, can I think about this again in two years? I always felt like I was young. ”
Hearing Su Tong say that she was still young, Sun Hongmei smiled: "I am twenty years old, and I dare to say that I am still young." But my aunt doesn't mean to marry you off immediately, and she hasn't graduated yet. ”
Yes, Su Tong reacted, she is still studying at a secondary school and will only graduate next year.
There was at least a year of safety left, and she didn't think much of it at once.
God knows that she was already thinking about it just now, if her aunt must let her get married, she can't pack her baggage and go south to work in the circle drawn by Wei.
However, the heart that let go was only steady, and it was disrupted again by Sun Hongmei's next words.
"But a big event like marriage has to be prepared in advance."
Su Tong's polite smile froze on her face, why did she have the illusion that Sun Hongmei seemed to have a clear goal.
Sun Hongmei didn't pay attention to Su Tong's changes, and said to herself: "The sudden and unexpected death of your parents delayed your schooling, otherwise you wouldn't have graduated at the age of twenty." ”
Su Tong: "......"
In addition to silence, there can only be silence.
"Tongtong, what do you think of me and your uncle to you?"
It's over, Tongtong is called, and he starts to say kindness, which makes Su Tong's uneasiness more and more intense. This sounds like a lot of retribution. My aunt didn't want to exchange her marriage for a high bride price.
Su Tong reminded himself to calm down and replied objectively: "You and your uncle are very good to me. ”
In my heart, not many people are willing to raise the children of their siblings like Wei Guangliang and his wife. And it was more than ten years ago, when the conditions were so bad that food and clothing were a problem. Not only are they willing to raise, but they are also treated equally. Few of her peers in the same village have reached junior high school, and she can still finish junior high school and go to secondary school.
"Believe it or not, we raised you just because you were the child of my sister-in-law, and we never thought about what would happen to you after we raised you."
I didn't think about it at the beginning, but I think about it now? Su Tong was in a deep mood, why couldn't he continue to carry forward the selfless spirit of giving kindness without trying to repay it.
"The world is unpredictable, today my aunt is cheeky to beg you, I hope you will take care of our kindness to you for the sake of us raising you for more than ten years, and promise my aunt one thing."
To put it more bluntly, the time has come for you to repay the favor. Su Tong pursed her lips and was silent, it wasn't that she was ungrateful, it was that what she said was a little scary, she really didn't dare to agree.
The kindness of nurturing should be repaid, although they did not raise themselves, but she now survived in place of the original owner. Since she has the body of the original owner, she naturally wants to repay her for this nurturing grace. Alas, let's listen to what Sun Hongmei has to say, it won't make her gush blood in return.
Sun Hongmei's eyes flashed with struggle, and she picked up the cup that Su Tong poured for herself, and drank it cleanly.
Gritting his teeth, he said simply: "My aunt hopes that you can marry Lu Yicheng and take care of Min'er for your dead cousin." ”
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Su Tong's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it, wondering if he was having auditory hallucinations just now.
"Auntie, what did you just say?"
Sun Hongmei repeated what she had just said.
Su Tong never expected that Sun Hongmei would make such a request. Isn't it ridiculous?
Although there was a 'table', she also called Lu Yicheng a brother-in-law.
Of course, when she first arrived, the family relationship with the Wei family had not yet been cultivated, let alone Lu Yicheng. In her heart, he is just a stranger, and there is no so-called brother-in-law complex.
It's just that she didn't want to marry her boyfriend who had been talking about her for six years in her previous life, so how could she marry a stranger now.
There are thousands of ways to repay her kindness, and she doesn't have to choose to sacrifice herself.