Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing looked at Su Mei and asked, "Mom, what exactly is going on?"

Su Mei also looked at her and slowly told her the truth. It turned out that her father was Su Mei's younger brother Su Yan, and her grandparents were middle school teachers.

After her father graduated from university in 58, he stayed on to teach at the university because of his excellent grades. He married an orphan girl named Xie Yinghua. Unfortunately, during the movement in the late s, they were both labeled rightists and sent to the northwest rural areas for reform. Before leaving, he handed his daughter, who was less than one year old, to his parents.

However, less than two months after their departure, the deportation team received news that the truck that Su Yan and his wife were riding in had an accident in the Qinling Mountains. The truck flipped off a cliff and all the people on board were killed, including Su Yan and his wife.

When the grandparents heard the news, they were extremely sad. They were also labeled as "five black categories" and criticized. Two years later, the old couple died of depression one after another. Before they died, they handed three-year-old Su Qing to their married daughter Su Mei.

The eldest daughter, Su Mei, has never liked studying since she was young. After graduating from high school, she failed to get into university. Her parents originally wanted her to repeat a year and continue to take the university entrance examination, but Su Mei was really unwilling, so she went to work in a steel plant. Later, despite her family's opposition, she married Wen Dayong, who was also a worker. After the movement came, she became an envied working class, but her parents and younger brother were all "five black categories", so she naturally lived a cautious life.

The Wen family was of poor and lower-middle peasant origin, and they had a good family background. Su Mei felt very sorry for her brother's only child, so she adopted the child despite the opposition of the Wen family. In order to avoid trouble, she changed her name to Wen Qing, hoping to erase the influence of her rightist parents.

When Wen Qing was in the first year of high school, her brother Wen Lei graduated from high school. Originally, one of the three children had to go to the countryside. Her grandparents were reluctant to let their grandson suffer, so they forced Su Mei to let Wen Qing drop out of school and go to the countryside at the age of 15, otherwise they would report her.

Su Mei said guiltily: "Xiao Qing, don't blame your aunt, mothers are partial to their own children."

Wen Qing said: "I understand your difficulties."

Then he asked, "Where are my biological parents buried? Has anyone visited them since then?"

Su Mei lowered her head in embarrassment. "It is said that they were buried near the site of the accident. The Qinling Mountains are too far away and the road is difficult to travel. We have never been there."

After hearing this, Wen Qing's tears started to flow, her heart ached sharply, a sweet and fishy taste rushed into her throat, and she started coughing violently. She covered her mouth with her hand, and stopped after a long while. She took her hand away, revealing the bright red palm slightly.

Wen Qing held back her tears and said, "I'll go out for a walk and come back in the evening."

She turned around and walked out of the room, went straight back to the hotel, entered the space and burst into tears. She was a time traveler and had no impression of her so-called biological parents, but she still felt sad, probably because of the residual emotions of her original body.

When Wen Dayong saw her leaving, he complained to Su Mei: "Who told you to tell her everything? Now you have raised her for nothing for so many years."

Su Mei was very angry and said, "My parents' savings and property were given to us. They should be worth at least some money, right? Besides, Xiaoqing went to the countryside when she was 15. How much money did she spend?"

Grandma Wen, who came over after hearing the voice, advised: "Dayong, don't say anything. Anyway, this girl hasn't been back for more than ten years and she is not close to this family. What does it matter whether she knows these things or not?"

Wen Dayong stopped nagging and asked Su Mei to call Wen Lei and Wen Yu and ask them to come home for dinner in the evening.

After 5pm, Wen Qing bought some meat and vegetables and went home to cook dinner with Su Mei. At :pm, Wen Lei and his wife and Wen Yu and his wife came back. The whole family sat down together. When Wen Lei saw Wen Qing, he simply greeted her, "You're back?"

Wen Yu pulled her aside and asked, "Sister, where have you been these years? Are you doing well?"

Wen Qing simply replied: "It's OK."

Wen Dayong was absent from work this week due to illness. Wen Qing's letter was sent to the steel plant, and a co-worker happened to bring it back to the family quarters that afternoon. Wen Dayong and Su Mei read the letter and learned about Wen Qing's current situation, but they had not told their two children yet.

After dinner, Su Mei briefly explained Wen Qing's life story to everyone, "Although Xiao Qing is not your father's and my child, you have been siblings for so many years. I hope you can still get along well in the future."

Wen Qing said: "Thank you aunt and uncle for raising me for more than ten years. I will continue to take care of you in your old age like my brother and Xiaoyu. No matter what, you are the elders."

When Su Mei heard Wen Qing say this, she felt even sadder.

After dinner, Wen Qing said goodbye and left first, deciding to go through the formalities after returning home and change her name to Su Qing. She is a member of the Su family and has nothing to do with the Wen family.

Wen Lei asked, "Dad, Mom, why are you suddenly talking about this?" He knew from a young age that Su Qing was not his biological son, so he had always been very indifferent to Su Qing.

Wen Yu also looked gossipy.

Wen Dayong said: "It was your mother who let the secret slip."

Grandma Wen curled her lips and said, "How can other people's children support their families? Do you think it's a waste of money?"

Su Mei retorted: "Am I the only one who said this? My parents left over 3000 yuan in savings, and they only used a small amount to support Xiaoqing? Didn't you use any of it?"

Seeing that Su Mei was unhappy, Wen Dayong quickly told the old lady to shut up.

Wen Qing returned to the hotel and called Yang Jiesheng to tell him what she knew. Yang Jiesheng could only persuade her, saying, "Now you have us, you are not alone anymore."

Wen Qing told him that she would stay for a few more days before returning to the capital, and that she would go to Qinling Mountains to pay her respects to her parents.

Yang Jiesheng asked her to take care of herself on the way and he would go back to the capital to wait for her.

The next day, Wen Qing found Su Mei, asked about the grave site of her grandparents, and went to pay her respects with incense, candles, and paper money.

Su Mei took her to a small hill near the Yangtze River and pointed to two low graves next to each other without tombstones. Su Mei said, "When your grandparents died one after another, we didn't dare to hold a funeral, so we asked someone to find a place to bury them here. We were afraid of being called the filial sons and grandsons of feudalism, so we didn't even dare to erect a tombstone." As she spoke, she wiped away her tears.

Wen Qing offered sacrifices, lit incense and candles, knelt in the grass, kowtowed three times, and silently said: "Grandpa and grandma, I am Su Qing. I wonder if you have met my parents? I hope you have no disputes in the other world, and are safe and happy."

The two burned paper money and stood silently until the incense and candles burned out before leaving.

Wen Qing said, "Aunt, I plan to change the name back when I get back, and I will also erect a monument for grandpa and grandma."

Su Mei said, "Xiao Qing, don't blame us. We had to support two elderly people and three children in those days, and the pressure was huge."

Wen Qing said: "I understand, I really don't blame you."

He took out 6000 yuan in cash and handed it to her, "Aunt, from now on I will give you and uncle 5000 yuan a year for retirement. This is for this year. The other 1000 yuan is for repairing the grave and setting up the tombstone for grandpa and grandma."

Su Mei took the money and tears started flowing again, knowing that Su Qing was using money to buy off the kindness of raising her.

After saying goodbye to Su Mei, Wen Qing walked down the hillside, avoided people, took out the jeep from the space, and drove towards the northwest.