After showing the bottle to the old lady, Susie put the gilded Buddha statue and the two porcelains she bought this time into grandma's camphor wood box.

This box can hardly fit anymore.

The old lady locked the box and pulled Su Qian to sit down. "You just said that Su Zhenguo went in. Then your dad - your Uncle Xu didn't tell you about changing his surname back?"

Susie pondered for a moment and said, "I said it."

"But I don't plan to change it."

The old lady was shocked, "Why?"

"You couldn't help it if you took their surname Su Na before. Now they can't harm you or control you. Why don't you change your surname back quickly?"

Susie shook her head, "Grandma, I've been using this name for too long, I'm used to it."

The old lady looked at Susie. She felt that Susie didn't want to change her surname because she was still resentful towards her parents.

Thinking about it, how can ten years of resentment be eliminated in a short time? It will probably take some time.

She patted Susie's hand and said, "Okay, if you don't change, you won't change. If you don't change, you are still grandma's granddaughter."

After talking to grandma for a while, Susie returned to the collective home.

When I went back, I saw that the door of the house was locked, and then I saw that the door of the stove room was open.

She walked over to the kitchen house and saw that the door to Qiao Mu's house was also closed.

When she entered the kitchen house, she saw Zhao Tingting chopping smoked rabbit. Su Qian asked: "Where are Qiao Mu and the others?"

"Going to fetch water."

Susie looked at her watch, it was only four o'clock, "Just cooking?"

Zhao Tingting said: "I think you must not have eaten well on the road. Besides, it is hard to travel all the way. If you eat early, you can rest early."

Susie saw bamboo shoots in the basket, so she went over to peel them.

Then I went to dig a radish and a bunch of cabbage in the vegetable garden behind.

There was not much water in the water tank. Susie scooped up some water and was about to wash the vegetables when Qiao Mu came in carrying a bucket.

He poured the water into the water tank, and then brought over the basin where Susie washed vegetables, "I'll wash it."

The weather was cold and the water was freezing. He didn't want to freeze Susie.

Susie watched Qiao Mu put his hands, which were already red from the cold, into the cold water, feeling indescribably distressed.

When she was in the capital, she didn't think carefully about buying a pair of gloves for Qiao Mu.

She didn't compete with Qiao Mu for work, she just squatted beside him and watched Qiao Mu wash vegetables.

While eating, Qiao Mu sat next to Susie and brought her food from time to time.

Zhao Tingting looked indescribably envious from the opposite side. She suddenly glanced aside secretly. Zhu Zhicheng was concentrating on eating and didn't even look at Su Qian and the others.

Zhao Tingting also lowered her head to eat.

After dinner, Zhao Tingting found out a letter and handed it to Su Qian after returning to the house, "Your letter has been here for several days. It's from Haicheng."

From Haicheng?

Su Qian thought to herself that she didn’t know anyone in Haicheng either?

She opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and read the end first. Then she suddenly realized that it was a letter from Qin Man.

Qin Man thanked Su Qian in the letter, and also said that the family planned to let her get medical treatment and return her. Now she was looking for people to find connections, and she already had some clues.

She also said that she didn't want the bedding and some daily necessities she left behind, and that if anyone needed it, they would just use it.

After Su Qian read it, she sat at the table and wrote back a letter. The letter wrote about the current situation of the collective household, and also focused on Chen Changqing. She felt that Qin Man might be a little happy after reading it.

After writing the letter, Su Qian started studying again, and Zhao Tingting also took a book and sat beside her to read quietly.

I spent the next few days quietly reading at home, and soon it was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Su Qian and Zhao Tingting were warming themselves by the fire and studying in the house, when someone knocked on the window.

When Su Qian looked up, it was Xu Zhiqiang.

She stood up and opened the door, "Uncle, you are back."

Xu Zhiqiang rubbed his hands and said, "Can I go in and sit down? Yu Xue is not at home and I'm freezing to death." There was a lock on the door next door, but he forgot to bring the key.

Su Qian let him in, and Zhao Tingting moved a chair and placed it next to the charcoal basin.

Xu Zhiqiang put down his bag, sat next to the charcoal pot and stretched out his hands to warm himself up, "Do you know where Yu Xue went?"

Susie shook her head.

Zhao Tingting said: "I saw that she went out after breakfast and didn't come back for lunch."

Xu Zhiqiang thought for a while, the Chinese New Year was coming, and Yu Xue had to go to the county town to buy new year's goods.

Su Qian tilted her head and looked at him, "Uncle, why did it take you so long to come home? Huijiang City is not far away."

It only takes more than an hour by train.

Xu Zhiqiang waved his hand, "The company is busy at the end of the year, and all kinds of things are piled up together. I have just joined the work. I have finished my own work, but I still have to help my colleagues. I have to work overtime on weekends, so I don't have time to come back."

Susie shook her head. This must be because people think he is honest and bully newcomers.

But there is nothing we can do, this kind of unit is like this, we can only endure it slowly.

Xu Zhiqiang sat for a while and his body became warm. He stood up and picked up the bag, "Since Yu Xue is not at home, I will go back first. If she comes back, tell her and I will come back later."

He opened the door and went out, just in time to see Yu Xue coming in from the courtyard door.

Xu Zhiqiang hadn't seen Yu Xue for such a long time. Before leaving, he put all the unhappiness between the two of them behind and shouted happily, "Xiaoxue!"

Yu Xue originally walked in happily, but when she saw Xu Zhiqiang, her face suddenly dropped, "You still know how to come back!"

Xu Zhiqiang hurriedly went up to pull her, "I can't help it, the work is busy, and I was supposed to have a holiday tomorrow, so I'd better leave early."

"And I'll only be home for three days. In my third year of junior high school, I still have to go on duty at work."

Yu Xue shook off his hand, opened the door and entered the house.

Xu Zhiqiang followed him in, put down his bag, and reached out to hug Yu Xue.

Yu Xue pushed him away fiercely, "Where's your salary? If you don't come back, you don't know how to send your salary back?"

Xu Zhiqiang quickly dug into his pocket and handed the money to Yu Xue.

The money was neat and tidy. Yu Xue counted it and said, "Only twenty yuan? That's all your salary?!"

Xu Zhiqiang hurriedly explained: "I have just started working, and my boss is taking good care of me. I have been given a salary of thirty-seven, and it will not be raised to forty-five until next year."

"After two months of salary, I had to eat in the cafeteria every day at work, which cost a lot of money. It was cold, so I bought a pair of cotton shoes, which also cost me some money."

"Besides, I have to give my mother ten yuan every month, so that's all I have left."

He still had some money left on him, but he still had to take a bus for a few days and had to eat when he got back to work.

Yu Xue was angry, "You are sick, why should you give your mother money?"

Su Qian and Zhao Tingting could hear clearly from next door, and Su Qian couldn't help but sneer.

Xu Zhiqiang looked at Yu Xue, "How can I not give my mother money when I work?"

"My mother doesn't work in the fields to earn work points. How can they live without me?"

Yu Xue looked at Xu Zhiqiang and said, "Isn't your eldest brother sending money to your mother every month? She is not short of money!"
Chapter completed!