small town story

Chapter 21

The person named Su Youqin lived nearby. She walked up from the first floor, and looked at Su Youqin and the others suspiciously at the corner: "I guess you should be at home. Someone is looking for you."

This person just lives nearby and has no contact with Su Youqin on weekdays. Su Youqin doesn't even know her name.

Mingming asked for Su Youqin, "What's the matter?"

"Ah, it's all right, someone is looking for Boss Su." The man looked downstairs, "Someone just inquired about my door, saying that there is a boss surnamed Su who sells steamed buns nearby. I brought him here. Come down and have a look." look."

She didn't go upstairs again.

Su Youqin exchanged glances with Mingming and Shen Qianyao before walking downstairs.

Cheng Li also came out of the room, followed by several people.

The few people downstairs who had been chatting together had dispersed, and Su Quan stood in front of the Huazi store watching people playing mahjong.Su Youqin went downstairs, but saw no one in front of the door.

The person who called her was also a little confused: "The one who was following me just now, where is he?" She looked around and walked towards Huazi: "I'll go and have a look."

She had just taken two steps when a person appeared from the place where there was a water tap on the other side of the breakfast shop. Cheng has a crew cut, is not tall, and is slightly fat.

His voice is not small, attracting the attention of those around him.

"Who are you?

"Brother Sun?"

Shen Qianyao and Mingming spoke at the same time.The former frowned and looked at the latter.

This person is Sister Cui's husband, Sun Ping.

Sun Ping didn't seem to know Mingming, so he stared at her, and turned to Su Youqin viciously: "You man, you have nothing to do after eating too much, right? You lied to my family to divorce me, what's on your mind?" He seemed to be arguing with someone , raised his voice, and tried his best to attract the attention of the people around him: "You look like a dog, and you are also very young. How do you do such a thing? No wonder you have scars on your face."

That's a little too much.

Cheng Li pushed away Shen Qianyao and Mingming who were standing in front of her, and stared: "What are you talking about? Who are you? Are you sick? Come here to play wild. Your mother is a big man with a broken mouth, what the hell."

"You're the only one who is sick." Sun Ping said harshly, and took a step forward, as if he wanted to push Cheng Li away.Seeing his appearance, Su Quan came over from one side and stood in front of Cheng Li: "Hey, what do you want to do?"

Several people stood beside Su Youqin, looking particularly imposing.Sun Ping knew that he couldn't ask for anything, so when he saw the eyes of the people around him shift to this place, a man in his forties pointed at Su Youqin: "Okay. There are so many of you, I can't quarrel with you." He turned and faced Huazi's shop , the most people stood in front of the door and looked over there: "Do you know? This man, Boss Su, instigated my woman to divorce me. My woman works in her shop, and as soon as I came back from outside, she wanted to divorce. I don't think you are a decent person, and you don't open a decent store."

Su Youqin was about to explode with anger, she couldn't speak yet.Bearing the weight of all kinds of gazes, she stared straight at Sun Ping.

Shen Qianyao wanted to help her, but she didn't know the details, so she could only look at her worriedly.Fortunately, Mingming is here, and Sister Cui went to her house in the morning to explain the basic situation.Originally, he was obviously worried about his relationship with Sun Ping, but looking at it now, Sun Ping didn't remember her at all, and if she didn't speak again, Su Youqin would be scolded badly.

"Hey, Brother Sun, please be reasonable. The divorce is Sister Cui's own idea, so why do you put the fault on Youqin?" Mingming paused: "Besides, you have other women outside anyway, and Cui Isn't it good for my sister to get a divorce?"

Sun Ping's expression changed: "What are you talking nonsense about? I'm fucking your mother for selling mahua, talking nonsense..."

Vulgar words came from Sun Ping's mouth.

Su Youqin stepped forward to give Sun Ping a push when people who didn't like her were scolded and bullied.Her action startled the people around her, Sun Ping's face froze, and his anger surged: "Fuck you, you pushed me?"

He rushed over and rushed towards Su Youqin.

Su Quan stepped forward and blocked him.

Sun Ping raised his foot and kicked.Kicking Su Quan's foot, Su Quan started to fight back.

The change in these few seconds shocked the people around.Hua Zi and several men came over quickly, pulling them away while persuading them.The person who brought Sun Ping here stood aside awkwardly, met Su Youqin's eyes inadvertently, walked quietly to the opposite side of the road, and found a corner to continue watching the excitement.

Su Youqin didn't care to pay attention to him.All he could do was focus on the cursing Sun Ping.

"I'll let sister Cui come, this person is unreasonable." Mingming took out his mobile phone and went to the side to make a call.

Surrounded by everyone, Sun Ping actually sat on a small flower stand surrounded by banyan trees by the roadside and cried: "People in your town bully people from our village... look down on poor people like us to live a good life... let me The woman divorced me...fuck you, you all look down on me...I am sitting in front of your house today...let you do business and let you meddle in other people's business..."

Just howl with a crying voice but not shed tears.

Everyone looked at him like this, a little funny, and stared at him.There were not many people around, but there were quite a few people standing beside and opposite, and looking out of upstairs windows.Everyone watched the excitement with relish.

Su Youqin felt that her forehead was buzzing, and the violent emotional ups and downs were not vented, and they were stuffed in her chest.Shen Qianyao grabbed her wrist and shook it lightly.

She shook her head slightly, indicating that she was fine.

Sun Ping wailed for a few minutes, but seeing that it had no effect but made his throat hurt, he simply stopped.

Su Youqin wanted to go upstairs.

A motorcycle was parked by the side of the road, and a tall and thin young man got out of the car, first took five yuan to the motorcycle driver, and then turned around and called Sun Ping: "Dad, why are you embarrassing here?"

"I'm ashamed, am I ashamed as your mother is? I found a wild man at home and wanted to divorce me when I came to work in the town... I'm ashamed..."

The young man frowned and scolded him; "What nonsense are you talking about?! Come back with me." His voice was not small, with strong anger.Sun Ping seemed to be frightened, muttered and stopped talking.

Sun Ping was taken away by the young man.

Everyone looked at the backs of the two father and son, and slowly dispersed.

Su Youqin breathed a sigh of relief.Not far away, Sister Cui turned out from an intersection next to the middle school, and happened to run into the Sun family's father and son.Mingming saw it: "Oh, they won't be fighting on the side of the road. I'll go and see."

Before she moved, the young man stood still and said something to his parents, and the three left together.There was no fight, not even a quarrel.

"There seems to be nothing wrong." Shen Qianyao said.

Ming Ming nodded and turned to Su Youqin: "Youqin, don't worry about Sister Cui's affairs anymore. I didn't expect Brother Sun to become like this after so many years. When I saw him when I was young, he was still a very honest person."

Shen Qianyao continued: "The more honest people are, the more they can hide things in their hearts. But don't trust honest people."

Su Youqin agreed with Shen Qianyao's opinion.

"What's going on?" Su Quan asked suddenly, "What did you do at home?" When he spoke, he was very majestic.

Mingming looked at Su Youqin, just in time to see the latter rolling his eyes with his back turned to Su Quan, the two met their gazes, Su Youqin's lips moved, but did not pronounce: "Mom and Dad".

Obviously understand.As the only insider besides Su Youqin, she smiled helplessly: "Oh, it's a long story. Uncle and aunt, let's go upstairs, and I'll tell you."

Several people went upstairs again.Su Youqin walked at the end and grabbed Shen Qianyao, telling her to go back first.Shen Qianyao looked at the time, it was already noon, and she might not be able to catch up with her parents' house for lunch when she went back, so she simply walked aside and called her mother, saying that she would go to her parents' house in the evening.

Hang up the phone and come upstairs.

Cheng Li and Su Quan were puzzled by Shen Qianyao's absence.But the serious things they wanted to talk about attracted their attention even more.

Obviously it took a long time to explain the matter of Sister Cui clearly.During this period, Su Youqin cleaned up the kitchen alone and cooked a bowl of egg noodles for everyone.

The noodles are cooked, and the matter is obviously over.

Shen Qianyao realized that before Su Youqin checked the marriage law and asked herself to help introduce a lawyer, it turned out that it was for Sister Cui.She only mentioned relatives, and Shen Qianyao thought they were relatives she didn't know.

Serve on top.Cheng Li and Su Quan obviously accepted the matter.The two of them didn't say whether Su Youqin was doing right or not, but Cheng Li suddenly said, "Don't bother with other people's affairs."

Su Youqin didn't respond.

"Originally you went home to recuperate. I didn't expect you to open a breakfast restaurant." Cheng Li continued: "If you want to recuperate, take a good rest. Don't open a breakfast restaurant. Everyone around you knows..."

What's the meaning?Su Youqin looked up at her.

Cheng Li said to herself: "The breakfast shop shows up in public, you see that you are dumb and have scars on your face, everyone has seen it..."

Su Youqin's complexion changed, she put down her chopsticks, and took out her mobile phone: "You mean I'm ashamed to open a breakfast restaurant?"

Cheng Li said embarrassingly, "It's not ashamed..."

Su Youqin's face was flushed with anxiety, and her hand holding the phone trembled slightly: "It's just embarrassing. You have always been like this, and your first reaction to anything I do is face. Back then, you urged me to get married, saying that no one would consider it when someone was 27. People will talk about the matter of marriage. Now it’s all over, for your marriage, I became dumb and scarred, you are happy!!!”

The voice played by the voice could not express one ten thousandth of Su Youqin's anger.She stared at Cheng Li with resentment and complaints in her eyes.

Su Quan, who had been silent all this time, frowned: "How did you talk?"

It's okay if he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, Su Youqin's anger rises again. His father is also a person who doesn't behave. When his grandparents passed away, he not only didn't feel sad, but also pretended to be relieved, for fear that his grandparents would be sick. drag him down.During the funeral, he went to the mahjong hall to play mahjong, but was caught by Su Youqin.

Su Youqin was brought up by her grandparents since she was a child, and hated how her parents disrespected her grandparents.

She blushed.Looking at the parents' eyes are red.

"Hey, why are you so excited, kid? We didn't say anything." Cheng Li put down the bowl, and smiled embarrassedly at Mingming and Shen Qianyao: "Youqin has a bad temper, and your friends usually take care of her."

Shen Qianyao put down her chopsticks and smiled like a spring breeze: "Auntie, no, Youqin is recognized as a good-tempered person among our friends. You haven't been around her much. I don't know, but Youqin is great. We all like her, I like it very much."

Mingming nodded and said, "Yes, Youqin is super nice. Uncles and aunts, you don't go home very often, do you? I haven't seen you at home."

Mingming's words gave Cheng Li a step forward, and she reluctantly continued: "Yes, when I was young, I made money in the coastal city, and now I bought a house there, and gradually settled down, and I rarely come back. Originally, we wanted Youqin to go The one over there is recuperating, she insists on coming back, we can't screw her up."

"Living with someone I don't know well, I have a lot of worries, and it's not good for the recovery. Besides, Youqin hasn't stayed there much, and the place is not familiar, maybe there will be disharmony." Shen Qianyao quickly continued, There was an uncomfortable feeling in her words, but she looked very respectful on her face, a little yin and yang.

The house was quiet for a few seconds, and Mingming continued: "Qianyao is right. Uncle and auntie, you must have worked hard when you were young. Housing prices in coastal cities are not low."

Shen Qianyao and Mingming said a few words alone, and in a blink of an eye, Cheng Lisu's power was damaged and praised, and the tacit cooperation was amazing.

Cheng Li and Su Quan didn't realize it at all. When Su Youqin endured his anger and put away the bowl and returned to the living room, Su Quan had already gone downstairs, and Cheng Li, accompanied by Mingming, was going to the street to have a look.

The door was shut with a snap, and Su Youqin hugged Shen Qianyao directly, buried her face in the other's shoulder, took a deep breath half a minute later, and raised her head.

Shen Qianyao looked at her with a smile.The two kissed wetly.

"Boss Su is a bit clingy."

Without saying a word, Su Youqin sent her downstairs and asked her to go back first.The two made an appointment to see each other after the New Year and come to each other's home to pay New Year's greetings.

That afternoon, Su Youqin found that the old noodles frozen in the refrigerator were completely usable, so she asked Mingming to make another trip to bring vegetables, and brother Shui brought meat.She cleaned the store and prepared to open normally the next day.

She did not contact Sister Cui, but Sister Cui arrived at the breakfast shop around 04:30.

Sister Cui originally just came to see, and apologized to Su Youqin by the way.Seeing that the boss had finished preparing to open the store the next day, she hurriedly followed suit, blaming Su Youqin for not calling her.

Su Youqin just smiled.She didn't ask Sister Cui and Sun Ping about it, and Sister Cui didn't say anything.But looking at the tired look on her face, I think the past two days have not been comfortable.

After the preparations were finished, Sister Cui dragged her to Guolin Road.

Today's weather is not very good, the clouds are shrouded, and there are not many people on Guolin Road.The two walked to the highest place on Guolin Road, and Sister Cui apologized to Su Youqin.He scolded Sun Ping for being unreasonable, and also blamed himself for bringing Su Youqin closer to his family affairs.

Su Youqin didn't take it seriously, she wouldn't lose two pieces of meat because of Sun Ping's scolding, and it shouldn't be Sister Cui who apologized.

Sister Cui still wanted to divorce, but she flinched when she thought of her parents and Sun Ping.Chen Jianhua also advised her not to leave, she wanted to ask Su Youqin's opinion.

Still regard Su Youqin as the backbone.

Of course Su Youqin wanted her to get a divorce, but she dared not say that.In the final analysis, this is Sister Cui's own business. She can help Sister Cui deal with some external problems when she makes a choice, such as taking her to find a lawyer, but she cannot dominate Sister Cui's choice.

Sister Cui obviously understood this too.After she finished speaking, she fell silent, very contradictory: "Let me think again, think again."

Su Youqin asked her what the child thought.

Sister Cui's tense mood relaxed: "He wants us to divorce."

morning youth?It can be seen that he is a person with his own opinions, and the attitude of Sun Ping and Sister Cui towards him can also be seen that he is very important in the eyes of his parents.

"Actually," Sister Cui hesitated, "Maybe the child shouldn't be named Sun."

Su Youqin was slightly taken aback, but she was not very surprised by this sentence.Thinking of the young man's thin and tall appearance, and Sun Ping's slightly fat short figure, it seems normal for a child who is not Sun Ping.

Then I thought about what Sister Cui said before and she had nothing to do with Sun Ping after a few years of marriage, so it seems to be Sun Ping's problem.It's just that people at that time thought that children were only related to mothers, and men could not have problems.

"He probably knew about it, so he supported my divorce." Sister Cui sighed: "Although my child dropped out of junior high school, he is a good boy. His grades are not too bad. If he goes to high school, he can pass the exam. Undergraduate or junior college. I was the one who delayed him."

The last sentence brought a crying tone, and Sister Cui felt aggrieved and guilty: "It's just that I was not capable at that time. If I had come to the town to work at that time, I would definitely not let the children drop out of school."

But she couldn't come then.Sun Ping's parents and brother are still waiting for her to take care of them.

"It's life after all."

Sister Cui's eyes were wet.Su Youqin took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her. The two of them stood by the stone dam at the highest point of Guolin Road, watching the smoke from the village in the distance, feeling depressed.

The New Year's Eve is getting closer, and more and more people come out for breakfast in the morning.There are also many people who came back from other places and asked Sister Cui in front of the breakfast shop why there are so few types of breakfast.

Very few indeed.Without students, Su Youqin didn't even serve such types as custard buns and pig buns.Originally, she wanted to buy an rice roll machine this winter to make rice rolls, but thinking about the manpower, she gave up.

The second day after Su Youqin came back, he opened a breakfast restaurant. Su Quan and Cheng Li saw it when they went downstairs, with unnatural expressions on their faces.The people around greeted them to come to the store for dinner, and when they stood in front of the door, Sister Cui greeted them as customers, and everyone around them laughed.Some people said that they were Boss Su's parents, but the always grand sister Cui felt a little uncomfortable.

Su Youqin was wearing a mask to fry oil pancakes, glanced at it from time to time, but didn't respond.

That afternoon, Cheng Li came to persuade Su Youqin again, but this time her words turned into asking her to take a good rest for a few days and not to open a shop during the Chinese New Year.

Su Youqin ignored her the whole time.Get down to your own business.

On the day when his younger brother Su Xinjun came back, Su Youqin opened the shop as usual.Parents got up very early to pick up my younger brother from the airport in the city. It was still dark, and Sister Cui greeted the two of them for breakfast. Cheng Li asked while eating, "We'll be back at around nine o'clock, is there any food at the breakfast shop?" ? Keep it for your brother."

Su Youqin simply didn't want to talk to her, it's just breakfast, do you still need to save it for him in the store?Can't you eat outside the airport?

Sister Cui answered quickly: "Oh, that's not necessarily the case. Sometimes we may not be able to eat it, so we go to the opposite side to buy noodles."

"If you haven't eaten back, you can go to the restaurant opposite to buy noodles. Boss Su likes his beef noodles."

Su Quan drank soy milk: "If you run your own shop, you still go to someone else's house to buy breakfast?"

Sister Cui smiled awkwardly and stopped talking.Su Youqin quietly served the freshly baked pancakes to the people who came to buy breakfast.

When Su Xinjun came back, the breakfast shop was closed.Su Youqin was dozing off on the sofa, and was awakened by the knock on the door. As soon as she opened the door, she smiled excitedly at her younger brother: "Sister, long time no see. Give me a hug."

Su Youqin's drowsiness dissipated.She has a good relationship with her younger brother. When his younger brother was young, he was taken by his grandparents for a few years. He only went to his parents' side when he was in the senior grade of elementary school.

The two don't communicate often, but they will notify each other of anything.

My younger brother graduated from university last year and worked as a foreign trade salesman in an electronics factory. When Su Youqin got into a car accident, he couldn't ask for leave, so he resigned and went to Haicheng to take care of his sister for half a month.

"Sister, I'll live with you." Su Xinjun came in dragging the suitcase, "Mom and Dad wake up at six o'clock in the morning, live with you, and we sleep in together."

Su Youqin typed with a smile: "I can't sleep in late, I'm opening the shop in the morning."

Su Xinjun: "It's okay, you open the shop downstairs, I'll sleep in upstairs, and when I wake up, I'll go down and help you have breakfast."

Su Youqin patted his younger brother lightly and led him to the innermost room.There was no sheet on the bed, so Su Youqin pulled out a clean sheet and asked her younger brother to make the bed by himself.

Su Xinjun spread the bed, picked up two long hairs from the bed: "Sister, have you slept in this room? Why do you have hair?"

Su Youqin took the two hairs and threw them into the trash can.Thinking that this should be left by Shen Qianyao.Over the past few months, the room has been cleaned many times, and there are still hairs left behind.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, the breakfast shop is open as usual.

At six o'clock in the morning, Shen Qianyao sent a message saying that she was going back to her hometown to worship her ancestors.

It is a custom in Yuanchuan to go to the grave to worship the ancestors on the morning of New Year's Eve.Have a reunion dinner at noon, do chores in the afternoon, and have a reunion dinner in the evening.Generally, the reunion dinner at noon is a big family, grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, and the reunion dinner in the evening is a reunion dinner eaten by each family.

Su Youqin's business had to end before nine o'clock today, and at 09:30 she would also go to offer incense to her ancestors.

People around will get up earlier on New Year's Eve morning.

Su Youqin replied to Shen Qianyao's text message, telling her to have fun in her hometown.

The hometown of Grandpa Shen Qianyao is in the mountains far away. According to Shen Qianyao, there are mountains and waters there, and the scenery is beautiful.The whole family of their family, except for those who have to work overtime to stay behind, the others will have a reunion dinner with the villagers in their hometown at noon when they go back to worship their ancestors today.

The Shen family was the only big family that came out of the village back then.Over the years, Shen Qianyao's young dad has donated roads and houses to remote villages, and also covered the tuition and living expenses of several college students.The villagers are also very kind to the Shen family.Every year in the twelfth lunar month, when the tomb is repaired, he will help repair the tomb of the ancestor of the Shen family.

However, there are only about [-] elderly households staying at home in the village now.

Shen Qianyao walked all the way to send Su Youqin the scenery along the road, mountains, grass, mountains, rivers, unknown flowers.The phone in his pocket vibrated once, then again, constantly reminding Su Youqin that someone wants to share happiness with her.

When the breakfast shop closed, Su Xinjun had already bought paper incense sticks and firecrackers, and was carrying a small backpack.The two siblings walked along Guolin Road. First they went to offer incense at the graves of grandpa’s parents, and then went to the graves of grandpa’s brothers. Grandpa has five brothers, and now only two younger brothers live with the children in Yuanchuan City.

After these people finished, the two went to the graves of their grandparents.Su Quan was already standing by the grave with a cigarette in his hand, smoking against the grave.

Su Youqin put a piece of pork, some snacks, two steamed buns and two steamed buns in front of the grave. While putting them away, she talked to her grandparents, telling them that she now opened a breakfast shop at home, and that she was in a relationship and that she liked her very much. .These words flew into the sky with the ashes of wax incense paper, I don't know if grandparents can hear them.

She misses her grandparents so much.

After the death of her grandparents, Su Youqin originally vowed not to return to the small town because she was no longer cared for here, but she did not expect to come back anyway. The small town provided her with silent asylum during her most difficult time.

Now there is someone she cares about in the town again, and that person also cares about her.

She seemed to be becoming more and more inseparable from this small town.

With two buzzing sounds, Su Youqin took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and Shen Qianyao sent a picture of her standing barefoot in the river, wearing a thin sweater, holding a net bag in her hand, as if she was fishing.

Shen Qianyao smiled happily. Behind her was a contiguous pine and cypress tree, which was also full of vitality in winter.

Su Youqin asked if she was not cold?

As soon as the news was sent, Su Quan, who was standing not far from him, said calmly, "Don't play with your phone every day, it's not good for your eyes."

Su Youqin glanced at him.

Shen Qianyao replied:

"It's not cold, the river water is warm."

"Next time I will take you to catch fish."