Chapter 66 I Don’t Want to Be a Waste (210)

Zhao Guoqing's words angered the Su family, but Zhao Meilan still showed some kindness to her younger brother.

Zhao Meilan suppressed her anger and said in a somewhat cold tone:
"Guoqing, the Su family is really out of money. Let's put it this way. You want to get married, and the three of us sisters will all help. You go to your second sister's house and your third sister's house and make an appointment to go to your house together this Saturday to discuss this matter. I won't keep you for dinner today, so go back first."

Zhao Guoqing wanted to say more, but seeing his sister's impatient look, he could only leave in disappointment.

After the five members of the Su family had lunch, Zhao Meilan took Su Daqiang to the bedroom to discuss what to do about the matter.

"Lao Su, how much money is left at home?"

"Don't you know all about the money in the house?"

When Su Daqiang saw the tone of Zhao Meilan's voice, he knew that he would still have to pay this time, just a little less at most.

"I mean cash. You can't take out the deposits you have in the bank."

Zhao Meilan was still angry at this time. She did not expect that her younger brother Zhao Guoqing would snatch her son's toys and even kick and beat her son.

But no matter how angry I am, my brother's marriage cannot be delayed.

Zhao Meilan still knows what's important and what's not.

Su Daqiang thought about it, did some calculations in his mind, and then said, "In cash, it's more than 200 yuan. After a few days of salary payment, it will be more than 400 yuan in total."

"Then give National Day three hundred dollars."

With just one sentence, Zhao Meilan set the rules for the matter.

If Zhao Guoqing didn't beat Su Mingzhe today and tried to persuade his own sister, Zhao Meilan might have come up with two or three thousand.

However, Zhao Guoqing actually kicked and beat Su Mingzhe, which eventually made his sister Zhao Meilan unhappy.

The importance of a son is still greater than that of a younger brother.

Besides, the three sisters had paid the 4,000 yuan out of their own family to help Zhao Guoqing transfer his household registration and find connections to get him a formal job.

Now that my second and third sisters are married, there is no reason for me, the eldest sister, to have to deal with the Zhao family’s affairs.

I took out three hundred yuan, and my second and third sisters also took out three hundred yuan, making a total of nine hundred yuan.

Relatives from my mother's side also have to pay.

With the help of these relatives, more than a thousand yuan came out.

In the 1990s, spending more than a thousand yuan to marry a wife was already a big deal.

At this time, Su Mingzhe returned to his bedroom, lay on the bed, turned on the fan, and felt sad about his mother's "protection".

This is my biological mother.

In the TV series, Zhao Meilan spared no effort in supporting her younger brother Zhao Guoqing, and gave him 200,000 yuan in 30 years.

Now, according to Su Mingzhe's understanding, Zhao Meilan has only given money to Zhao Guoqing twice, once for transferring his household registration and once for using connections to get him a formal job. The two things together cost about four thousand yuan.

In addition, Zhao Meilan takes good care of her own children.

"Brother, please give me a seat."

Su Mingyu was still a little girl and had no taboos. After dinner, she and Su Mingzhe squeezed into the same bed to take a nap.

Seeing this, Su Mingcheng also wanted to come up, but the space on the bed was too small and he was pushed away by Su Mingzhe.

"Go back to your room to cool off, or sleep over there."

Su Mingzhe did not spoil his younger brother. Besides, his younger brother was not as attractive as his younger sister.

"Ok."

Su Mingcheng seemed to be born with the talent of flattery. After witnessing his elder brother's "super strong fighting ability" in the morning, he was already very impressed with Su Mingzhe, and now his admiration has been promoted to worship.

"Don't get close to me, it's hot."

Su Mingzhe didn't drive Su Mingcheng out after all.

This nine-year-old kid is my younger brother after all.

The three brothers and sisters squeezed into Su Mingzhe's bed. The small fan was shaking, and the blades were spinning in circles, blowing a cool breeze, and soon the three of them fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already past two in the afternoon.

Su Mingzhe woke up first. The purpose of his nap this time was to digest and absorb the memories of his two lives.

Before integrating the memories of his two lives, Su Mingzhe only absorbed some useful ones in an emergency.

Now that he had a good sleep and with the help of his surging mental strength, he was able to absorb all the memories.

Especially the memories of the TV series "All Is Well".

"I never thought that the Su family would have such a lively life in the future. My own mother favors boys over girls, and there are so many secrets. My little sister's life was too miserable before she went to college. The whole family didn't care much for her, and they wanted to suck her blood when she grew up."

Su Mingzhe has been the darling of the Su family since he was young. He is a good student and has a naturally proud personality.

After knowing that his life would be such a failure, especially after going to the long-awaited beacon country, he had to do things according to the wishes of foreigners, be submissive and live his life on thin ice.

Comparing his experience with Su Mingyu's later success, Su Mingzhe felt quite emotional.

"The edge of the sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossom comes from the bitter cold."

This sentence is really true when applied to the three siblings of the Su family.

The future success of younger sister Su Mingyu is closely related to the hardships she suffered in the Su family when she was a child.

Looking back at myself, I grew up in the greenhouse of the Su family and have never experienced any setbacks.

After arriving in the Lighthouse Country, I realized how dangerous society is and how difficult life is.

After some self-reflection, Su Mingzhe thought of his second brother Su Mingcheng again.

In the Su family, Su Mingcheng relied on flattery to make Su's mother happy. This was a typical case of a parasite. When he grew up, he even dared to beat his younger sister Su Mingyu. This was simply lawless.

However, Su Mingcheng is not a good person, and Su Mingzhe himself is not a good person either.

On the Internet, people call him "foolish filial piety".

In order to satisfy Su Daqiang's various messy demands, he didn't care about the life and death of his wife and daughter at all.

A typical case of 'putting on a brave face'.

Just as Su Mingzhe was reflecting on himself, he heard a noise behind him. When he turned around, he saw his younger sister climbing up from the bed.

"elder brother."

Su Mingyu is seven years younger than Su Mingzhe. Because she was not liked by her mother Zhao Meilan, she was raised by her eldest brother Su Mingzhe.

The two siblings have been very close since childhood.

"Wake up, go wash your face and wake yourself up. I'll take you out to buy some ice cream later."

Su Mingzhe's words made the little sister's eyes brighten.

It's August, but it's summer. Eating a piece of ice cream is the ultimate enjoyment. "Brother, I want to eat it too."

Su Mingcheng also woke up when he heard that there was ice cream to eat.

"When you wake up, go wash your face and go out together."

At this time, Su Daqiang and Zhao Meilan had already gone to work.

After the three siblings of the Su family washed up, they locked the door and walked out of Tongdeli Hutong.

"Sign in!"

"Sign-in reward: +80 yuan, +80 experience points, 1 Star Devourer."

“It’s great to have a system.”

Looking at the extra banknotes that appeared out of thin air in the system, Su Mingzhe walked more steadily and securely.

Before signing in, Su Mingzhe thought that the system would recalculate the time. For the first sign in, he would only be given one dollar and some experience points.

Unexpectedly, it would continue the time experience value of "Love in the Courtyard".

"But what is a star-devouring beast?"

"This name sounds quite domineering."

Swallowing stars?

Su Mingzhe used his consciousness to look at the system space. There was a fleshy egg the size of a little finger, which was red and looked like a baby rabbit. The little guy was staying in the pet space isolated from the system space, curled up and snoring.

At this time, the three of them arrived at the entrance of the alley, and the owner of the convenience store was fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan and watching a soap opera.

Su Mingzhe collected his thoughts, took out a brand new one-yuan note, bought three yuan and twenty cents worth of ice cream, and two bags of melon seeds, then took his younger brother and sister to Guanqian Street, north of Tongdeli Hutong, for fun.

In 92, Suzhou City was already very prosperous.

Especially in Guanqian Street, there are four or five streets filled with all kinds of snacks.

Guanqian Street is just a general name. Along the way there are places for tourists to visit, such as Xuanmiao Temple, City God Temple, and People's Shopping Mall.

Children from the neighborhood often come here to play.

Su Daqiang works at the nearby No. 1 Middle School.

Zhao Meilan works at the First Affiliated Hospital.

The couple's workplace is not far from home.

After Su Mingzhe took his younger brother and sister for a walk, he estimated the time and returned home before the sun set.

At this time, Su Daqiang had already returned from get off work.

"Mingzhe, did you take your brothers and sisters out to play again? Did you spend money recklessly?"

Su Daqiang has lived a frugal life all his life. When educating his children, he is used to talking about money.

"Dad, I just bought an ice cream. I didn't spend any money."

As the eldest son in the family, Su Mingzhe still has some change in his pocket.

At that time, cheap ice cream was only ten cents, and Su Mingzhe had saved up as much as five or six yuan in change.

Even if he didn't have pocket money, now that he had the system, Su Mingzhe would never lack money to spend.

"Eating ice cream is not good, it can easily give you stomach upset," Su Daqiang couldn't help but grumble a few words.

At this time, Su Daqiang had already started cooking.

After all, the Su family has two working families, and their living conditions are quite good compared to other ordinary working-class families. They have four dishes and one soup every day.

Of course, pickles and pickled vegetables are also vegetables.

Su Daqiang stir-fried some green vegetables with oil residue, stewed some water spinach with tofu, cut a plate of pickled mustard tubers, and had a portion of fermented tofu.

Fermented tofu is mainly a dish that Su Daqiang eats with alcohol.

Zhao Meilan often eats pickled mustard tuber.

The three children ate proper stir-fried dishes.

"Dad, I want to discuss something with you."

Su Mingzhe entered the kitchen, stood next to Su Daqiang, and said seriously, "I want to set up a stall in Guanqian Street as a life experience."

"What experience?"

Su Daqiang put down the shovel in his hand, turned around, and asked in surprise: "What are you going to do?"

"I mean, I want to set up a stall in Guanqian Street as a life experience."

Su Mingzhe said again: "Today I took my brother and sister to Guanqian Street to play. There were many students of my age setting up stalls..."

"Do you know how to set up a stall? It's also life experience," Su Daqiang was amused by his son. Although he didn't want to discourage his son, as an adult, he had the responsibility to remind his son of the hardships of society.

Su Mingzhe was 'ridiculed' by Su Daqiang, and suddenly felt a little impatient. He couldn't help but choke back, "What others can do, I can do. Besides, life experience includes success and failure. You can't stay at home and be a coward just because you are afraid of failure. If you do that, you will never succeed in your life."

Su Mingzhe naturally didn't like setting up a stall outside, but as someone who possessed a system and three lives' memories, he always felt suffocated because he couldn't have financial freedom.

Su Daqiang would never agree with his son setting up a stall.

In Su Daqiang's opinion, his family has enough food, so why should he let his underage son go out to set up a street stall to make money?

Su Mingzhe had no choice but to wait until Zhao Meilan got off work before bringing it up again.

Zhao Meilan was also very surprised when she heard this, but she did not refute directly. Instead, she asked, "Boss, why do you want to set up a stall?"

"It was because of my uncle's provocation."

Su Mingzhe learns from every failure.

You know, reasoning with your parents is completely unnecessary.

After thinking for a while, Su Mingzhe simply poured a bucket of dirty water on Zhao Guoqing.

"What does it have to do with your uncle?"

After calming down for an afternoon, Zhao Meilan actually began to feel sorry for her brother again. At this time, when she heard her son talking about her brother, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Mom, haven't you read 'Young China'?"

As Su Mingzhe spoke, he recited the famous passages in it:
"If the youth are wise, the country will be wise; if the youth are wealthy, the country will be wealthy; if the youth are strong, the country will be strong; if the youth are independent, the country will be independent; if the youth are free, the country will be free; if the youth are progressive, the country will be progressive..."

"My uncle has been looked after by a group of women since he was a child. My grandmother, you and my second and third aunts have taken care of everything. Now he is about to get married, but his temper and personality are almost the same as those of a child. It's fair to call him a loser, right?"

"The reason why I want to set up a stall to make money is that I want to develop my abilities as soon as possible. I don't want to become a person like my uncle when I grow up..."

(End of this chapter)