Chapter 55: Can't Stand It

The next day, Wu got up early in the morning and wanted to find Su Qing'an to ask for clarification, but she didn't expect that Su Qing'an went out without having breakfast, so she didn't meet him. Reading М made her feel very upset.

"Dad."

Su's father was walking towards Lu's house on West Street, and heard Su Qing'an calling him halfway, so he stopped.

"Didn't I tell you to wait at home? Why did you have to come out to get some fresh air?"

Su Qing'an walked up to him with a smile, took his arm, and pulled him to a small noodle stall.

Su's father refused: "Hey, hey, Dad has eaten at home."

"If you have eaten, then have another bowl. You have walked such a long way. Besides, I haven't eaten yet. Dad, just accompany me to eat more. Shopkeeper, give me a bowl of wontons and a bowl of meat soup noodles."

"Okay, I'll be there soon."

Su's father felt warm in his heart: "You kid, why do you want meat soup noodles? Dad can just eat vegetarian noodles." When the noodles were served, he insisted on putting the meat into Su Qing'an's bowl.

After they finished eating, they got on the oxcart to Su Qingliu Village. After wandering around for more than half an hour, they finally arrived.

When they arrived, the family was having lunch. Farmers don't have breakfast, so they eat lunch early, which is only the middle of the Si hour.

"Are you eating, dear?" Father Su greeted the Cui family.

The Cui family looked over when they heard the voice.

Su Qingmei also followed into the yard and saw that the Cui family, young and old, were sitting around two tables in the yard eating, except for her sister and Yaya.

She looked around.

"Are you here, dear?" Old Man Cui stood up in a daze.

"Hey, I just stopped by to see Qingliu. Are you eating?" Father Su glanced at the table, didn't see Qingliu, and frowned.

"Yeah, yeah, eating. Come and eat something, dear?" Old Man Cui also noticed Father Su's gaze, and felt a little uncomfortable.

"No, no, we had breakfast in town, you guys eat."

Su Qingmei looked around, but didn't see her sister. Seeing that her father was only laughing for the sake of face, she didn't plan to do that. She asked coldly: "Where are my sister and Yaya? The whole family is eating together, but my sister is the only one left out?"

"Well, she, she..." Old Man Cui looked at Old Woman Cui and couldn't speak.

A middle-aged woman next to him replied: "Your sister is slow. She has been washing clothes for the whole morning and hasn't finished yet. The old and young in this family can't starve. Do you want the whole family to wait for her?"

Su Qingmei looked at her coldly: "Can Yaya be younger?"

The woman was frightened by Su Qingmei's cold eyes, lowered her head, picked up a chopstick of food and gave it to her grandson next to her, and said: "Eat quickly, you are so slow, do you want the whole family to wait for you!"

He was making a veiled complaint. Didn't Su Qingmei know it from looking at him?

This family is also amazing. Dare to complain about her sister's slowness.

Her sister is the most skillful, she can carry Yaya on her back without delaying her work. It is clear that this family does not take her sister seriously.

The old and the young can't wait, and the older ones can't wait either?

Su Qingmei sneered, strode forward, and was about to wave her hand, but was grabbed by Su's father.

She was scared. This girl is getting more and more fierce, and she dared to overturn the table at her relatives' house?

He glared at her fiercely.

Su Qingmei restrained her expression and glanced coldly at the people at the table. The children were all frightened by her eyes, and they all lowered their heads and dared not eat.

"Dad, I'm going to find my sister."

She broke away from Su's father's hand and went out. She was too lazy to look at this family any more, and was angry.

With the guidance of the villagers, she came to the river.

From a distance, she saw her sister squatting on a stone slab by the river washing clothes. Next to her was a large wooden basin with half of the clothes left unwashed. On the stone slab, there were many washed clothes. This amount of clothes meant that all the clothes of the whole family were thrown to her sister.

Then she looked at her sister. While washing, she turned back to look at Yaya.

She kept talking to Yaya: "Yaya, be good. Mommy will wash clothes. When mommy finishes washing, I will take Yaya home for dinner..."

Then she looked at Yaya. Her sister tied her to her small waist with a rope and then tied her to a tree nearby. She let Yaya sit under the tree and play with grass tips, with mud all over her face and hands.

Su Qingmei's nose was sour and she suddenly wanted to cry.

She raised her head and blinked away her tears, and called softly: "Sister."

Su Qingliu was busy talking to Yaya while washing clothes, so she didn't hear it. Su Qingmei called again, and she looked up blankly.

"Qing'an?" She thought she had seen it wrong, and stood up blankly, blinking a few times, without putting down the clothes in her hands.

"Hey."

"It's really Qing'an! Why are you here?" Su Qingliu put down her clothes, wiped her hands on the hem of her clothes, and took two steps towards her.

"Sister, stand there and don't move, I'll go over."

Su Qing'an didn't rush to her, but walked to Yaya and untied the rope around her waist. Yaya seemed to still remember her, stared at her for a while, and then grinned at her.

"Ah, Yaya remembers Auntie, right?" He picked her up and bounced her up. It's only been a few days, and she has lost weight again.

"I asked you, why are you here? Did something happen at home?" Su Qingliu was a little flustered, and her family would not come over easily.

"No, everything is fine at home." He hugged Yaya and teased her.

"Then why are you here? You let yourself go after your brother-in-law left? Aren't you afraid of what your in-laws will say about you?"

"What can they say about me? It's not like your in-laws, the whole family is eating and they don't even wait for you."

Su Qingliu was silent: "You, you're home?"

Su Qing'an rolled her eyes at her, feeling very disappointed: "Dad is here too, he's in the yard."

"Ah, Dad is here? Why is Dad here?" She was so anxious that she wanted to turn around and take the basin back.

Su Qingliu walked over and held her down: "Why are you in such a hurry? Wash slowly and let Dad talk to them. Dad will stand there to see if they can eat. The whole family is eating, and you are the only one who can do the work. It's embarrassing. There are half-grown girls in the family, but no one comes out to help you. Really, you can only waste it."

"Someone has to do the housework. There are not many acres of land left, so how can we eat if we don't rush to do it. We haven't divided the family, and our eldest room eats with our uncle and aunt. If we don't do more, others will talk about it."

Su Qingliu whispered while beating her clothes.

"Sister, you are really... It's not that I don't let you do the work, but I can't let you do it all by yourself! You won't be allowed to rest at mealtime. Is this something that ordinary people can do?"

Su Qingliu stopped talking. Yaya is a girl. If it was a boy, her grandparents might still take care of her.

Su Qingmei saw her squatting there with a blank look in her eyes, but her hands did not stop, and she sighed. Half holding Yaya, she drew water from the river and washed her hands and feet.

"Yaya, you have become a dirty cat, and I can hardly recognize you."

Yaya laughed as soon as she touched the water, twisted her body to go into the river, and dipped her little feet into the water.

Su Qingliu smiled at her daughter's appearance.

Said to Su Qingmei: "You must hold her tightly, this girl loves to play in the water. In the past, I didn't tie her up, I just put her next to me so I could watch her closely, but she slipped into the water, didn't cry even when she choked on the water, and insisted on playing in the water. After playing, she refused to get up, and she cried when I carried her home."

"Is that so? Yaya loves to play in the water so much."

Seeing the little thing twisting her body to go into the water, Su Qingmei rolled up her trouser legs, took off her straw sandals, picked her up from under her armpits, carried her into the water, and lifted her up when her feet reached the water, and swung her back and forth to play...

The little thing was not afraid, but laughed non-stop, flapping her little feet, splashing water at her.

Su Qingliu watched while washing, and laughed and scolded Su Qingmei for being like a child who never grew up.