Chapter 10 His heart was as cold as stone (2/4)

"Please come in."

The voice of the textile factory director came from inside.

Su Wantang gently pushed open the door and went inside.

"Hello, Director." Su Wantang said with a light smile.

The other person was somewhat surprised to see Su Wantang. The girl in front of her was so beautiful and stunning that she couldn't take her eyes off her. She smiled kindly and asked, "Who are you?"

“I am Sun Xiaoli’s niece. My aunt has been seriously ill recently and is unable to come to work at the factory. I would like to process her resignation.”

"She's resigning..." the director nodded. "So she's never coming to work at the factory again?"

"That's how it is." Su Wantang's delicate face showed a hint of regret.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about that. Let's just go through the resignation procedures first," the director said.

She resigned quickly, the formalities were completed, and Su Wantang left with the documents.

On the way, Su Wantang smiled sweetly.

In her past life, Sun Xiaoli and her daughter had caused her so much suffering. Now, she had turned the tables and sold them to remote mountain areas, determined to ensure they would never be able to turn their lives around.

Su Wantang rode her bicycle to an old residential building.

She stopped her bicycle, locked it with her key, and then got up and went upstairs.

She went up to the third floor and knocked lightly on the door of a house with a "福" (good fortune) character hanging on it.

Soon, the door was pushed open from the inside.

Standing in front of Su Wantang was a woman dressed in light yellow with slightly curly hair—Aunt Liu.

This is her mother's best friend from when she was young.

Aunt Liu also watched me grow up.

When she was little, Aunt Liu bought her candy several times.

However, after Zhang Hongwei's family moved into her home, Sun Xiaoli kept speaking ill of Aunt Liu in front of her. At that time, she was young and easily swayed by others' opinions, so she stopped having any contact with Aunt Liu.

Later, because Aunt Liu had some historical magazines from the Republican era in her home, she was reported for "privately possessing reactionary publications and attempting to overturn the verdict," and was labeled a "historical counter-revolutionary," which led to Aunt Liu's entire family being sent to the countryside for reform through labor.

Aunt Liu, like herself, was sent down to the Northeast for reform through labor and lived in a cowshed. Aunt Liu's only daughter developed a high fever on a snowy night and died because she did not receive timely medical treatment.

Aunt Liu later froze to death during her re-education through labor.

Even when Aunt Liu was suffering from hunger and cold, before she died, she handed her a frozen, hard cornbread that she had hidden in her bosom, and smiled as she told her to live on...

Thinking of those scenes from her past life, Su Wantang's eyes stung and her eyes burned.

"Xiao Tang?" Aunt Liu was a little surprised when she saw Su Wantang. She was overjoyed. "Come on in, come sit down at home."

She greeted us warmly.

Su Wantang smiled and walked into the house. "Aunt Liu, how have you been these past few years?"

"I'm still the same as always," Aunt Liu said with a smile. "Come sit on the sofa, Aunt Liu will make you your favorite herbal tea."

As she spoke, Aunt Liu got up and quickly left. She took out her treasured rose tea, added a rock sugar, and put it into a purple clay teapot to steep.

Su Wantang sat on the sofa and looked at her.

Whenever she sees Aunt Liu, she is reminded of her mother when she was young.

"Xiao Tang, I heard your uncle was reported." Aunt Liu brewed a small cup of tea for Su Wantang and handed it to her, looking at her with complicated emotions.

"Hmm." Su Wantang nodded, took the cup of tea with her slender white fingers, and took a sip. "Zhang Hongwei's messy relationships with women are his own fault."

Aunt Liu was somewhat surprised. She had originally thought that Xiao Tang would speak up for her uncle, since Xiao Tang had been biased towards her uncle's family since her mother passed away.