"Sigh!"
Su Maolin sighed heavily. "Yanyun, my daughter..."
"Yanyun must still be alive!"
As they spoke, the old couple began to wipe away tears.
Back then, when Su Yanyun married into the Yu Family, her dowry was 500,000, but a distant relative of theirs took 300,000 of it.
The remaining 200,000 was all spent supporting their two sons who were in college.
The old couple had originally thought they could finally live a stable life.
But then, a fire broke out at the Yu Family's ho.
Everything changed.
At the ti, the rumor was that everyone in the Yu Family had perished, with Su Yanyun as the sole survivor.
But to this day, they had received no news of Su Yanyun.
Later, the old couple heard another piece of news: the only reason she was called a survivor was that her body hadn't been found among the dead.
'Perhaps Su Yanyun had been burned to ashes!'
Unable to accept this terrible fate, the old couple fell gravely ill that year.
"Sigh! I'll take that big rooster over."
Su Maolin stubbed out his cigarette and walked toward the chicken coop.
Wang Feng just wiped her tears, watching helplessly as her husband grabbed the chicken.
Su Maolin arrived at Su Maosen's house. "Big Brother, I heard my niece is back. I've still got a big rooster at ho, so I brought it over for you to slaughter and eat."
"Second Uncle."
A woman with shoulder-length hair, dressed in a white tracksuit, walked in from outside, arm in arm with a man also wearing a white tracksuit.
"Yani, this must be your boyfriend. Not bad, not bad." Su Maolin turned and smiled.
But as for the fair-skinned and beautiful Su Yani, although her face was delicate with defined features, sothing about her looked... off.
Su Maolin almost didn't recognize her.
Little did he know, Su Yani's looks were rely the result of high-tech costic procedures.
"Yes, my boyfriend, Jin Gang." Su Yani had been about to say sothing else, but she couldn't be bothered to talk with a mud-legged country bumpkin like Su Maolin and strode right past him.
"Yani, you can slaughter this rooster and eat it." Su Maolin lifted his arm, showing her the bird.
"Heh."
Su Yani just gave a dry laugh and walked into the main hall, her arm linked with Jin Gang's.
Instantly, sounds of laughter and cheerful chatter ca from the main hall.
Su Maolin stood frozen outside the door, unsure whether to leave or stay.
"Second Brother, hurry up and help sweep the courtyard. Then co back later and help set off so firecrackers. My future son-in-law is no ordinary person."
Just then, Su Maosen ca out with a cigarette dangling from his lips, but Su Maolin just turned his head and walked away.
After returning ho, he put the big rooster back in the coop, his expression even gloomier than before.
"Got snubbed, didn't you? I told you not to go, but you insisted!" Seeing Su Maolin return with a look of grievance, Wang Feng sighed again.
Su Maolin smoked his cigarette furiously, unable to voice his bitterness.
It was one thing for Su Yani to give him the cold shoulder.
He could even let it slide that his older brother treated him like a servant.
But what he couldn't stand was that from beginning to end, they never even invited him inside.
"BEEP BEEP!"
Just then, a car horn sounded from outside their gate.
"What's there to show off about? So what if you have a car!"
Su Maolin grumbled irritably. Just as he was about to go inside, a long-awaited voice called out from behind him.
"Dad!"
That single word, "Dad," made Su Maolin freeze on the spot.
Wang Feng also rushed out from inside the house.
"Mom!"
The person who had arrived was none other than Su Yanyun, travel-worn from her long journey!
And with her, Jiang Xinghai, his hands full of bags, large and small.
"Dad! Mom!"
Su Yanyun called out again, her face already streaked with tears of a long-awaited reunion.
"Yanyun!"
"It's Yanyun! Yanyun is back!"
The couple's pent-up emotions finally broke free, and they rushed toward Su Yanyun, tears streaming down their aged faces.
Jiang Xinghai stood to the side, a gratified smile on his face.
At the sa ti, he was reminded that he still had no news of his own parents.
A heavy feeling grew in his heart, but he didn't let it show on his face.
"Yanyun, your mom and I knew you were okay! Hurry, co inside." Su Maolin and Wang Feng were all smiles, looking as if they'd shed decades in an instant.
The tears in Su Yanyun's eyes were mostly of apology and guilt. She hadn't co back to see her parents once in three years, and in all that ti, she hadn't made a single phone call!
"And this young man is...?"
"You must be Yanyun's boyfriend."
Seeing Jiang Xinghai's handso features, the old couple's eyes crinkled with delight.
After Su Yanyun's introductions, they all beca acquainted.
"Jiang, you and Yanyun rest for a bit. I'm going to go slaughter the chicken. Tonight, you and I will have a few drinks."
"Yanyun, you keep Jiang company. Mom's going to go buy so groceries."
True to their word, the old couple imdiately got busy.
Jiang Xinghai was especially moved by this.
The old couple's warmth let him feel the bond of affection between parents and their children.
"Looks like we won't be able to leave tonight." Amidst her excitent, Su Yanyun glanced at Jiang Xinghai.
"If we can't leave, we'll just stay the night. It's not every day you get to co back." Seeing the Su family of three reunited, Jiang Xinghai couldn't bear to leave imdiately after taking care of business.
"But... there are only two beds in the house. If we don't leave, then tonight, you and I might have to..." Su Yanyun lowered her head shyly.
"Are you hinting at sothing?" Jiang Xinghai showed an inscrutable smile.
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