Daughter-in-law, go home for dinner

Chapter 4

Su Weinian watched the two of them hurrying away before closing the door and preparing to pack up and go back to sleep.When he turned around, something clicked under his feet. He moved his feet and looked down. A black cufflink was lying there quietly.He thought for a while, the teacher probably dropped it when he just took out the money, picked up the button and put it away, planning to return it sometime.

At this time, the sound of a motorcycle came from outside the door, he looked out, Zhou Liping walked in from the door, and the person on the motorcycle stepped on the accelerator and turned around without stopping.

"The door isn't closed yet?" Zhou Liping seemed a little uncomfortable seeing him, he lowered his head and asked a quick question before entering the room.

There was some doubt in Su Weinian's eyes, but he was not an inquisitive person, he just followed behind and turned off the lights before going upstairs to sleep.

New Year's Eve, this day is here in the blink of an eye.

When it was still daylight, Su Weinian was woken up by the sound of crackling firecrackers outside.He took out the lacquered electronic watch from under the pillow, and the words 36:[-] flashed vaguely on the display.

Su Weinian has never had the habit of sleeping in the cage.In the morning of the small grocery store, it was lively outside but deserted inside.Zhou Liping hasn't given them a good year for a long time.He sat up from the bed, wrapped in a quilt, struggled to open the window, and lay down on the edge of the window to look out.

In the gray-blue sky, the snow has not yet melted, and there are lumps on the left and right, and the sound of "slapping" comes from not far away, but no one can be seen.

After this year, he will be fifteen.In the mountains, boys of fifteen are old enough to marry a wife.He has a classmate named Zhou Caiyan, who dropped out of school last year. I heard that a girl from the same village is planning to get married after the new year.

Su Weinian thought wildly, if his father was still there, would life be different now? He remembered that when Su Shicheng was still there, his younger siblings were still cute and well-behaved milk dolls, and his mother would smile and give them a bag for each of them during the Chinese New Year. A large bowl of dumplings stuffed with cabbage.

But Su Shicheng left, leaving behind the mothers and children of this house.

There was still youthfulness on his face, but there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth that didn't match his age. With the New Year as the background, he looked a little lonely.Withdrawing his hand from the quilt, he stretched out his fingertips to poke at the snow on the corner of the window, the cold touch slid down his fingertips all the way into his limbs, it was inexplicably comfortable!

He was still in a daze, but he heard a tinkling sound coming from outside the house.He was a little surprised, maybe his mother got up at this time.Anyway, he didn't want to sleep anymore, so he got dressed and went out.

"You're up." Zhou Liping greeted him with a smile for the first time when he saw him, and his tone was strangely gentle.Seeing Su Weinian staring at her blankly, she was a little embarrassed, she lowered her head and coughed twice to call him to wash up.

Su Weinian stood there without moving for a long time, until Zhou Liping turned around and entered the kitchen again, then walked out of the house as if he had been relieved suddenly. There was a washing cup on the window sill at the door, and he scooped it out of the bucket. He took a glass of water and rinsed his mouth in a daze.

There was another thump, thump, thump, thump, from the kitchen, the sound of a knife chopping on a chopping board.He bent over, took a sip of water, and his movements were as slow as a rusted machine.

What is she going to do?

The movements of his hands suddenly sped up, he rinsed his mouth with a few mouthfuls, and washed his face with cold water.He turned and entered the room, hesitant and restrained at first.Zhou Liping went in and out several times, and every time he saw him, he always had a smile on his face.

Su Weinian stood in the middle of the room for a while, and suddenly there was an exclamation from the kitchen, accompanied by the sound of porcelain falling to the ground.

He hurried in, and Zhou Liping made a plate.

"I'll do it." He squatted down one step ahead of her, cleaned up the floor, stood up and saw a pile of chopped pork on the chopping board.Seeing him, Zhou Liping said, "For Chinese New Year, make some dumplings." Seeing that he was still standing there, he said, "Go out quickly, I'll make it."

Su Weinian lowered his head almost in embarrassment, he blinked vigorously, and couldn't even believe it was true.He spoke with a hoarse voice: "Mom..."

Zhou Liping couldn't remember how long he hadn't called her, she tried her best to suppress the rolling emotions in her eyes, and pushed Su Weinian out.

"go Go."

He is always willing to think about things for the better. Is she showing favor?Maybe life will get better, but it's not necessarily true.Thinking of it like this, it seems that all the unpleasant past can be ignored, he suddenly laughed, with a very light sound, his face was full of joy, and his eyes were full of hope.

Su Weinian was already deeply immersed in the sudden harmony he had longed for, he lowered his head all the way, unable to see the determination and apology buried deep in Zhou Liping's eyes.

After calming down, he helped Zhou Liping wash the vegetables, squatted at the door, and didn't care if his hands were soaked in the cold water.After a while, Su He and Su Xiaoli also got up, and the two siblings came downstairs yawning.

Zhou Liping still greeted her with a smile on his face, obviously the two of them couldn't accept her sudden change.

It's just that the feeling will never be as deep as Su Weinian's.Su Weinian looked at their dumbfounded looks, and a long-lost warm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He would never have thought that this might be the warmest moment for this family, whether in the past or in the future.

"Ah Nian, you are seventeen this year."

The hand holding the chopsticks paused, before the dumplings in his mouth could be swallowed.

He kept looking at the woman as if she had something to say, but he hesitated to speak when she cast her eyes on him.He thought that if she wanted to apologize and repent, he would definitely stop her and tell her.He doesn't care at all, if the family can live like this!

Zhou Liping was stared at by those dark eyes, a trace of uneasiness flashed across his face, but when he thought of those people and things that had to be resolved, he became ruthless again, and finally opened his mouth.

"Su Weinian, you are not my son."

There was a pause, a moment of silence.She raised her eyes and saw Su Weinian's trembling lips, then softened her tone and said, "Didn't you know all about it when you were behind the door?"

She took it for granted, the meaning of what she said was clear without pointing it out.Su Weinian suddenly smiled, the voice was broken and desperate, all hopes turned into delusions, it seemed ridiculous.He sat there blankly, next to his younger brother who was too frightened to speak by the weird atmosphere.

He thought she wouldn't tell the truth.

She used to be so nice, she took him to the biggest store in the town to buy cotton candy, and when he was bullied, she would roll up her sleeves, pick up a broom and run to other people's homes to settle accounts like most mothers without saying a word .After Su Shicheng left, she hugged him and cried bitterly, and he hated that man to death, and felt sorry for her.

But later, it gradually changed.

"I'm just a grocery store, and it's not easy to support the three of you. Su He, you're still young. But you're not young anymore, and you can support yourself by just looking for something outside. I also paid for you to study for so many years, Ah Nian, I'm sorry for you. Besides..."

"mom."

She paused suddenly, unable to say anything, tears streaming down her face without making a sound.

"Thank you."

Su Weinian stood up and bowed deeply to the woman opposite.

She watched him straighten his back and turn away.

When I was young and ignorant, I loved someone so passionately.But that man failed to be worthy of her pure and strong love, he stepped her into the dust!With each passing day, the hatred increases, and that child grows up day by day, becoming more and more like that man.How could she be so calm when she was full of hatred!

"There are quite a lot of pocket money for looking at the store on weekdays, but I have never charged you a penny. Go out from here, work hard and find something practical to do!"

Zhou Liping didn't want to be so decisive, but the man said that if they wanted to live a good life together, they couldn't keep him.She is a woman, and she also wants someone to rely on. After so many years, she finally found a man willing to take care of her, and she didn't want to give up.

Yesterday the man happily ran over and said that his mother agreed to this on the condition that he give up a child.They couldn't afford to raise three children.After the first day of the new year, that man will pick up his mother.She was sorry for him, and she could only be sorry for him.Doesn’t the common saying also say that the father’s debt and the son’s repayment?

Su Weinian had never been so desperate. He walked into the room in a panic, and as soon as the door was closed, he couldn't help but squat down, his head deeply buried in his arms, and his twitching shoulders revealed his helplessness.

He didn't know how long he had been squatting until his legs were numb and he couldn't feel anything. Then he stood up tremblingly supporting the door panel, raised his left hand and wiped his face fiercely, and the look in his eyes disappeared.

Slowing down, he let out a very soft "chuck" at the five-square-meter small house with only one bed and one table.I took a few pieces of clothes at random, all of which had faded and turned white after being washed for an unknown period of time, and then took out the electronic watch that was about to go on strike from under the pillow, and came across a small metal texture. He put away the cuff button together.

Put the things in a big cloth bag and put them away, then turned around and squatted down, stretched out his hands and groped under the bed, he was stunned by the wet, cold and empty feeling, he got up again and took a flashlight to shine in, Nothing at all.

He stood up, expressionless, patted the ashes on his body with one hand, and opened the door with the cloth bag in the other.

At the dinner table, three people were still sitting there.He just glanced at it lightly, then walked out the door without stopping.