Title: Su Yu’s Promotion Record in the ‘60s
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 27 - She was actually very powerful (4)
"Yeah, you're not willing to do anything, but you're here when there's food," Su Xiaozhi chimed in. He didn't want to raise a sister in vain either. He didn't have enough to eat himself. The key point was that this sister was already this old, but she hadn't treated him that well as a sibling.
"Big Brother…" Aggrieved, Su Lin looked at Su Dazhi.
Su Dazhi looked away. "Sis asked you to cook. Why can't you do it?"
It was only now that Su Lin realized the entire family was standing on Big Sis's side.
First, it was Second Brother, and now Big Brother was the same. Sniffle.
Su Yu said, "Cook or go hungry, your choice." For this cheap sister, Su Yu had no thoughts of feigning civility. There were some people that took the kindness of others as their rightful due, but if you treated them a bit harshly and showed them a cold shoulder, they would even wag their tails at you. That was the type of person Su Lin was. She had to be cured of her problem.
Moreover, Su Xiaozhi and Su Dazhi could at least work and earn money. This freeloader sister only knew how to spend money. If the family wasn't lacking someone to cook and do laundry, she didn't even want to bother with Su Lin. In this era, a girl of Su Lin's age was old enough to work as an apprentice in the textile factory and support herself. Back then, the original owner had been the same age as Su Lin when she started working and providing for everyone in her family.
Seeing how resolute her family was, Su Lin rubbed her stomach. She felt so wronged.
After going hungry once, she never wanted to experience that painful feeling again.
"I'll cook…" She wiped away her tears and filled a big bowl with cornmeal.
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Seeing that Su Lin was going to cook, Su Yu comfortably took a basin to go out to wash her face. Before she left, she didn't forget to tell Su Xiaozhi to keep an eye on Su Lin to make sure that she didn't waste food.
Su Xiaozhi immediately straightened up and stared at Su Lin from the side. He looked like an arrogant foreman.
While starting the fire, Su Lin wiped her tears. She turned to look at her big brother, who was in a daze, and then at her second brother, who was supervising her. Big Sis had already gone out to wash her face. Sorrow welled up in her.
She suddenly thought of a song she had learned in school and couldn't resist singing it, "Little Cabbage, greenish yellow, lost her mother at two or three years old, with just a father…"
Her voice sounded a bit miserable.
Hearing her singing, Su Dazhi and Su Xiaozhi touched their arms in discomfort.
There were still people outside and listening. They gossiped amongst themselves. What was wrong with the Su family lately?
No matter how they looked at it, something seemed wrong. Every member of the Su family had changed temperaments. Su family's fourth child was usually so arrogant and willful. Why was she singing Little Cabbage?
(T/N: Little Cabbage is a song from the perspective of a young girl whose life gets worse after her dad remarries. She misses her deceased mother.)
“Su Yu, what's wrong with Little Lin? Is she throwing a tantrum at home again?" Mrs. Lin asked Su Yu on her way back.
Mrs. Lin had been neighbors with the Su family for many years. She more or less sympathized with Su Yu's bitter life experience. Seeing the abnormality in the Su family, she was worried that Su Yu had encountered trouble again.
Su Yu felt extremely refreshed after washing her face. Hearing Mrs. Lin's question, she carefully listened. Yo, Su Lin was singing.
"What else can it be? It's because Liu Mei wants to separate the family. If our parents were still here, no matter what, the two little ones would have a place to live. In the end, the Liu family really wants to drive people to death. If Dazhi isn't of one mind with us, the days really would be too hard to pass." Su Yu shook her head and sighed. Carrying the basin, she entered the room.
Right afterwards, Mrs. Lin spread Su Yu's words. The girl from the Liu family was pushing her sister-in-laws to death. The older sister-in-law had just left the hospital, and the younger sister-in-law was now acting weird.
"What are you singing about? You're much luckier than little Cabbage. When our parents died, you were six years old." Su Yu put the basin down on the side. "How can you compare yourself to little Cabbage, little Cabbage had to start working when she was only three. You're already 16 years old. It's more embarrassing for you if others hear that comparison. If you keep crying and embarrassing our family, don't go to school anymore. Just stay here at the doorway to sing."
Su Lin had been singing up a storm. Hearing these words, she immediately stopped with tears in her eyes.
Life was too hard. Big Sis didn't care about her relatives!