After signing the death contract, Hua'er's father took the five taels of silver given by Su Liu and ran away without a trace in an instant, without even looking at Hua'er, let alone saying a word.
Hua'er looked at his back and fell to the ground crying. She couldn't tell whether she was sad or crying for the rest of her life.
Su Liu waited quietly. On the table, there was a piece of deed paper with the ink not yet dry on it, and the middleman's handprint on it. Just a piece of paper, a mere five taels of silver, trapped a person's life. From then on,
How sad is it to have no freedom anymore and live and die in the master's house?
After crying for a quarter of an hour, Hua'er started sobbing. She looked up inadvertently and saw Su Liu looking at her with pity. Her eye circles were even redder, but she pursed her lips tightly and knelt in front of Su Liu.
"Girl, I'm sorry." She lowered her head and wiped her tears with the back of her hand.
"You have also seen today how your father treats you. In his heart, you are no longer a daughter, only the word gambling shop." Su Liu said lightly: "I really don't want to buy you, you know why.
?"
Hua'er's body trembled, her head lowered, and after a long while she said, "Is it because Hua'er has such a father?"
"That's right." Su Liu said bluntly and fearlessly: "Gambling is the most difficult thing to quit. Once you become addicted to drugs, a family will definitely go bankrupt and your wife and children will be separated. I think you know it very well."
Hua'er pursed her lips and nodded.
"That's how your mother left you. Now, your father wants to sell you to a house. He doesn't care about the relationship between father and daughter. It shows that your gambling addiction is very deep. And you, even if you hate her, in your heart,
Your father is still the father who gave birth to you and raised you, right?"
Hua'er suddenly raised her head, her eyes a little panicked, and whispered: "Girl."
"You don't have to admit it. If you say you don't admit it at all, then I won't believe it. That's why I don't want to buy you, because I'm afraid it will cause trouble for myself." Su Liu looked at her lightly.
Hua'er's face turned from white to red, and then from red to purple, obviously she understood the meaning of Su Liu's words.
"Girl, I..."
"You are already my Su Liu's. No matter how much you acknowledge your father in your heart, I don't want to see you do something I can't tolerate for your father in the future." Su Liu's voice was a little cold and he said: "If
One day, you betray me, perhaps every master of the Su family, so don't blame me for being cruel."
Such a clear threat is not a show of force or a warning, but a kind word and a reminder.
Hua'er really felt a little scared this time. The Su Liu in front of her looked not much older than herself, but she seemed to be able to see through everything about herself, which made people feel sincerely scared.
"Girl, Hua'er is not an ungrateful person. Hua'er doesn't dare." She was lying on the ground.
"Get up, don't kneel down all the time." Su Liu shouted after a while.
"How old are you this year?"
"Girl, Hua'er is twelve years old." Hua'er said tremblingly.
"Since you signed the death contract, forget your past identity. From now on, you can call it iced tea." Su Liu's eyes glanced at the big tea character on the opposite stall.
Hua'er was startled, then said: "Iced tea, thank you girl for giving me the name."
"Well, I'm afraid your grandma may be panicking. Go talk to her old man and clean up the house. Then come back and follow me to live in Da'ao Village."
Iced Tea pursed her lips, bowed her head and thanked her, rushed over and threw herself into the old woman's arms. The grandfather and grandson cried together.
Su Liu sighed, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sister-in-law Yang standing aside, not daring to breathe, and said, "Let's go get busy."
The two of them quickly retreated and came to the kitchen. Sister-in-law Yang patted her brother's mouth and whispered: "It scares me to death. I always feel that the older girl is so kind, so she is so powerful."
"You are a young girl, but you have a good idea. Let's see if you dare to be a good person in the future." Sister-in-law Cheng whispered.
"How could I have thought so deeply that I felt pitiful for that girl? That's when..." Sister-in-law Yang said angrily: "I really didn't expect what would happen in the future."
"Just be careful. The eldest girl has big ideas in her heart. She just needs to do our errands."
Sister-in-law Yang nodded vigorously, and from then on, both of them treated Su Liu with awe and respect.
Returning to the Su family courtyard with ice tea, Su Liu told Mrs. Chen and the others the general situation of buying this girl. Mrs. Chen couldn't help but sigh for a while, but she had a hard time settling the girl. In fact, they are now
The house is too small.
Now the three of them, mother and daughter, live in the main house, and Chen Ye lives alone in the side room. But Chen Ye is the adopted son of the Chen family and a serious master. He is about the same age as ice tea. Since ancient times, men and women have had different seats at the age of seven. Su
Liu and others didn't arrange for a girl to be given to Chen Ye at such a young age. It's hard to let Bingcha live in Chen Ye's house. What would happen if word got out?
Bingcha, on the other hand, behaved well. Seeing the difficulty Su Liu and the others were in, he offered to live in the woodshed.
It was already cold winter weather, and it was impossible to live in a woodshed. It was too cold. Fortunately, a house was about to be built, so Su Liu asked Bingcha to share a house with them and build a temporary wooden bed.
Bingcha just settled in the Su family. In order to get Bingcha and Bingcha's grandmother used to it, Su Liu did not let her follow him to the town. Instead, he stayed at home and helped Chen with various things.
The Su Liu family bought a girl, and soon word spread in the village. When you see the girl following her around and doing this and that, you can't help but be envious and jealous.
When this reached Su Chuntao's ears, her lungs exploded with anger, especially when she saw her hands covered with frostbite.
Walking home with the freshly washed clothes in my arms, I met Su Liu and the little maid. Are you showing off?
Su Liu came back from Sun Xiucai's house with ice tea, and was giving instructions about the ice tea in a low voice. Unexpectedly, Su Chuntao would block the way.
"Oh, I'm just pretending to be big. I'm afraid that no one has ever seen a girl before, so I brought it out to show off." Su Chuntao looked at Su Liu wearing brand new clothes, with red coral pendants on her ears, and new jewelry on her head.
There was another girl following beside her. She looked like any other young lady in the city. Her eyes turned red when she saw her, and she wished she could take off everything Su Liu had on her body and put it on herself.
Su Liu is just a cheap girl. Why did she become a young lady and have to wash her own clothes? She even got chilblains from doing the washing. Ugh.
Su Liu looked Su Chuntao up and down, took a step closer and said, "Who do I think it is? It's sister Chuntao. Why is it your turn to wash clothes? Oh, look at your hands. You have frostbite on them. It's so pitiful.
, why did it become like this?”
Su Chuntao's face changed slightly, she wanted to hide her hands, and said angrily: "Su Liu, don't be proud! Do you really think you are a phoenix? Wearing a dragon robe does not look like a prince. Do you think that wearing good clothes makes you a young lady?"
I bother!"
"What's wrong with me?" Su Liu sneered and looked at her: "Su Chuntao, you also have this day. In the past winter, our mothers washed your clothes, right? Haha, it feels like your hands are soaked in ice water.
