Chapter 3: Our Family Moved Out Part 1
After walking the mountain road for nearly an hour at noon, I arrived home.
The family is eating, and there are not many dishes on the table.
Grandma Su glanced at her, snorted, and said nothing. On the other hand, Su Can, next to her, tilted his head back and raised the egg in his hand, his round face filled with a smug smile.
Looking at him like this, Su Min couldn't help but believe in the old saying, "she saw the old one at the age of three". Isn't Su Can's current appearance the same as the one where he beat his grandma and hide everywhere?
("she saw the old one at the age of three") People can foresee your future according to your personality when you are only 3 years old.
Seeing her coming back, Sun Qiufang quickly got up and pulled her into the kitchen.
"Come on, I just saved some food for you, hurry up and eat before going to school. Is your headache still bothering you today?"
After walking on the mountain road, Su Min felt exhausted. She threw her school bag over her shoulder onto a chair and started eating heartily.
"Oh, I was wondering why you came back and didn't sit at the table. It turns out Big Sister-in-law secretly saved some food. Just now, our Can Can was wondering why there were so few dishes today, and it turns out they were all saved for you."
Li Yulan came in with an empty bowl, her face showing a bit of anger and sarcasm.
As soon as she shouted, Grandma Su, who was in the room, came over. Seeing the food in Su Min's bowl, her expression also changed, and she said to Sun Qiufang, "Why isn't this food on the table? Everyone doesn't have enough to eat, and it's left for her alone?"
Sun Qiufang, feeling wronged, replied, "Mom, didn't I save a little bit of every dish? Minzi has been working hard going to school. Can't she even have a hot meal when she comes back?"
"If it's so hard to go to school, then don't go," Su Grandma snorted. She had always believed that her granddaughter shouldn't go to school. Learning characters was useless; doing household chores was practical. After she got married and left, wouldn't raising this girl be in vain?
"Why shouldn't I go?" Su Min had a few mouthfuls of rice and gained some strength. In the past, she didn't dare to talk back, but today she made up her mind to resist once.
"My parents work hard for the family every day, and they don't see a penny. I only have a few yuan for school each year. Why am I not allowed to go to school?"
"You little brat, how dare you talk back!" Su Grandma was about to come over and slap her.
Su Min quickly dodged and, seeing Su Grandma approaching, ran out of the kitchen and shouted to the living room, "Dad, help! Grandma is going to kill me."
After shouting, she noticed that Grandma Su didn't chase after her. When she turned around, she saw her mother trying to restrain the old lady, and her second aunt Li Yulan was also pulling her mother aside. Su Min quickly ran over to help her mother, and for a moment, several people were entangled in a chaotic struggle.
The people eating in the hall heard the commotion and rushed out. Su Changrong was the first to arrive. He saw his wife pulling with his mother, his sister-in-law pulling her wife, and his daughter still being pulled and crying. He was deeply concerned.
"What's going on? Let go and stop fighting," Su Changrong hurriedly intervened, trying to separate them.
When Grandma Su saw him trying to intervene, she slapped him angrily, hitting Su Changrong's face directly. "You ungrateful child, now that you've grown wings, you forget how hard it was for me to raise you from the beginning, don't you? And now you raise your hand against me."
Su Changrong was shocked by this slap.
"Changrong, are you okay?" Sun Qiufang, watching her husband being slapped, was immediately heartbroken. She quickly moved people aside and checked his face.
Su Min rushed over in a hurry as well. Seeing her father's bewildered expression, she felt a bit frightened. She had initially wanted to argue with everyone and use this opportunity to persuade her parents to leave the house, but she hadn't expected a physical altercation.
Sun Qiufang also began to cry, "Changrong, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine," Su Changrong finally reacted after a while. He had been beaten before in his life, but it was the first time as an adult that he had been slapped in front of everyone. Looking at the worried expressions on his wife and daughter's faces and then at the anger on the faces of his siblings and parents, he felt a heavy heart.
"Brother, what did you attack Mom just now? Even you sister-in-law. Minzi made a mistake, and it's reasonable for Mom to discipline her. Why are you spoiling your child like this?" Su Changfu lectured Su Changrong and his wife with a bitter expression.
Grandma Su listened to this, pinched her nose, and cried, "I'm really miserable! I thought I could raise a son to take care of me in my old age. But instead, she (protagonist's mother) only gave birth to a daughter, and now he's (protagonist's father) even beating me for a girl. I don't want to live anymore!"
Old Su was also angry when he heard this, "Changrong, quickly go and appease your mother, and Minzi needs to be disciplined. Ever since she got this illness, she has become more and more unruly."
Su Min, feeling the injustice her parents were facing, couldn't suppress the resentment from her previous life. She stared and said, "Why should we compensate? Why can't I eat or go to school? My parents have worked hard for our family. Why are you treating us like this? In the past, landlords didn't treat their long-term workers like this. Do you even consider us a family?"
"How dare you talk back!" Grandma Su intended to come and strike her upon hearing this.
Sun Qiufang quickly shielded Su Min in her arms. She could endure her own suffering, but she couldn't allow her daughter to be beaten in front of her.
Su Changrong also stood in front of his wife and daughter.
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