Father Su went and asked the old lady who was making breakfast, “Did Chenchen not sleep on the sofa last night?”
The old lady didn’t care, “Who knows? Can I still keep her from sleeping where she wants to sleep?”
Father Su thought that the old lady turned off the air conditioner the night before, so she went to the balcony to sleep.
He looked at the balcony full of moisture. City H was a typical southern city. When the winter season came, it rained continuously.
The quilt on Su Xingchen’s bed, let alone touching it, he felt it moist when he looked at it.
A 16-year-old girl slept at night in such a cold and humid place where there was no sunshine, Father Su couldn’t imagine …
Suddenly, he asked Mother Su with some resentment, “There are no clothes in Chenchen’s closet. Didn’t you buy her anything?”
Before Mother Su answered, the old lady said, “Her sister’s clothes were all new. She only wears them once or twice. Can’t she wear them? Could we still think of good clothes at that time? She is the second child, the oldest one is only a year older. I don’t know what you’re trying to do, first the balcony and now the new clothes. When I was young, seven or eight people lived in a 40-square-foot room, did we have such good condition? Why? Didn’t we live well? “
Father Su didn’t know what to say. He also came from that era. Naturally, he knew that the old lady was telling the truth, but this breakfast, he still couldn’t eat.
When he went to the store, he said to Mother Su, “Our conditions were poor at that time, we couldn’t afford it. Now that we aren’t poor, we should try to create a good environment for them. You go to the mall after work and buy her a few more sets of clothes. I don’t think she had any clothes in her closet. While growing up, she always had a few clothes that were passed to her. “
Mother Su said with a polite face, “I am going to die! I haven’t drank water, and you want me to buy clothes for her? I buy clothes for her every year!”
Father Su looked at his wife’s indifferent face and drove the car to the commercial street. There was a big supermarket on the commercial street. On the first and second floors there were clothes shops and restaurants.
The auto repair shop was not so busy this morning and he was not required to keep watch all the time.
He first went to the supermarket on the third floor and bought a small fan heater from the electrical appliance.
He wanted to buy a study table with a chair, but the balcony was too small. There was no place to put anything other than the reserved 20 cm fan in front of the desk. Study table had a larger size. After putting it, if she was writing assignments, there would be no place to put her legs.
This small fan heater had an air conditioner-like function and could circulate heat.
He carried the heater down and thought that after closing the window, although it would be warm inside, there would be formaldehyde, as if she would be stuffed in an enclosed space full of poisonous gas. Father Su was silent again, feeling very heavy.
He thought of installing an exhaust fan for her. But he didn’t think that his eldest daughter couldn’t wait for a few days and drove his second daughter out.