"Grandma is really strong!"
Saying that, Grandma even patted her own arm.
Xiao ng couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Grandma took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "Your third grandpa doesn’t have the good fortune that your grandpa and I have..."
When it rains in the countryside, the roads beco hard to walk on.
Even though a cent road was built last year, Su Jianhui and Zhou Wenxiu’s family still got covered in mud when they returned from the crematorium.
Ba Zizzi kept complaining to Su Li Hao, saying he shouldn’t have insisted she co along.
Su Li Hao quickly tried to calm her down.
Su Xiaong watched from the side and couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Coincidentally, Ba Zizzi caught her doing it.
"Xiao ng, what’s that expression on your face?"
Su Xiaong shrugged her shoulders, said nothing, and walked away!
"Li Hao, look at the attitude of your cousin! Brother Yin didn’t even co back with her this ti, there must be sothing wrong between them."
"Alright, don’t worry about it, their family and ours never got along anyway."
Ba Zizzi glanced at him, "She just looked down on , didn’t you see it!"
"Alright, alright, let’s go back to the room, take a shower, and change clothes."
Ba Zizzi was coaxed back to the room by Su Li Hao like this.
They stayed at Grandpa Su’s house, refusing to live in the old house of the third grandpa, saying it gave them the creeps.
Su Xiaong bluntly said at the ti, "When third grandpa was alive, you weren’t filial to him as grandchildren. Now that he’s dead, of course, you find it creepy."
"Su Xiaong, we didn’t provoke you, what’s wrong with you today?"
Su Li Hao frowned.
Ba Zizzi glanced at Su Xiaong, "You’re filial, then you go live there!"
"If I want to live there, I’ll live there."
Su Xiaong said without hesitation, imdiately went to her room to grab her toiletries, and headed to the third grandpa’s house.
There were just three bedrooms in the third grandpa’s house, one on the first floor, and two on the second floor.
The first-floor bedroom was right by the staircase. As Xiao ng was about to go upstairs, she heard the voices of Su Jianyi and Zhou Wenxiu coming from inside...
She wasn’t in the habit of eavesdropping, but...
"During this period, you need to co here more often. You can’t let Uncle take over the house demolition issue, or he might get it under his son’s na."
This sentence alone stopped Su Xiaong in her tracks.
She was so angry she clenched her fists.
Uncle Chenggong, are these things even worth them?!
What despicable people!
"Once the house is demolished, the distributed houses and other compensations can be used as startup capital for Li Hao. You’re currently not doing well at work and it’s a sensitive ti, so don’t touch that money for now."
"I know, alright, let’s wash up and go to bed."
"Oh, by the way, what about Su Chenggong’s farmland, have you figured out a way? The demolition group’s actions are really fast, if you don’t hurry, that farmland will really—"
"Do you guys have no sha?! Third grandpa just passed away, and you’re already eyeing the house and the farmland! Uncle Jianyi, it was third grandpa himself who planted those crops, riding the tricycle on muddy roads to the market every day, selling them to support your education!"
"Aunt, how can you be so heartless! Even if you’re really thinking about these things, can you at least wait a while before bringing it up?!"
Su Xiaong pushed the door open, angrily pointing at them and shouted.
Su Jianyi narrowed his eyes, seeing Su Xiaong burst in. His heart skipped a beat, unsure how much this little girl had heard...
Zhou Wenxiu frowned, "Su Xiaong? What are you doing here? Are you... eavesdropping on and your uncle?"
"Eavesdropping? Listening to what you guys say would only dirty my ears!"
"What did you say! You brat! Do you have no manners! We are your elders!"
"Elders? And so what if you are? Third grandpa was your own father, but you never treated him like soone important!"
"What did you say?!"
Xiao ng went to the third grandpa’s house, but unfortunately, she left her phone in her original room.
Su’s mother didn’t know about the spat between Xiao ng and Ba Zizzi yet.
When she brought in so milk, she saw the phone ringing on the bed.
She took a look at it; it was a call from Yin Shixiu. After asking Su Jikang, she learned that Xiao ng went to sleep at the third grandpa’s house.
So she answered the call and told Yin Shixiu about it.
Su’s mother was talking on the phone while walking to the third grandpa’s house.
Yin Shixiu told her that Xiao ng’s application to the University of Bath had been approved, but she still needed to take a written exam in January, and after passing that, there’s an interview in March.
Su’s mother sighed, "Ever since she married into your Yin Family, I hardly recognize this little girl anymore, she’s beco so diligent... hey..."
Amid their laughter and conversation, Su’s mother arrived at the third grandpa’s house. The front door was open, and the sound of arguing could be heard from inside...
"Is Xiao ng... arguing with soone?"
Through the phone, Yin Shixiu could hear it too.
"...I’m not sure."
Su’s mother walked to the doorway of the room from where the sound was coming—
"Isn’t it just because you married a nouveau riche man? Your parents’ tails are up in the sky, spoiling you more and more, with little to no upbringing!"
"If people with upbringing are like Uncle and Aunt, then it’s better to have none! If it weren’t for the way you treated Grandpa, he wouldn’t have died!"
"Slap—"
Zhou Wenxiu imdiately slapped Su Xiaong across the face!
"Little girl, watch your mouth!"
Su Xiaong’s cheek throbbed with pain.
She glared at Zhou Wenxiu with red eyes, "You hit ?"
"Of course, I hit you! Your parents didn’t teach you well, letting you go around yelling nonsense! How could I not hit you?!"
The slap didn’t hurt Su Xiaong much, but over the phone, Yin Shixiu, far away in Beijing, heard it clearly—
Soone in Beijing’s expression turned cold instantly.
Yin Shixiu clenched his phone tightly, took a deep breath, "Mom, pass the ph—beep! beep..."
He was about to ask his mom to hand the phone to Su Jianyi, but unexpectedly, the call was cut off, leaving only a busy tone.
Over here, Zhou Wenxiu, having delivered the slap, was assuming the authoritative stance of an elder, ready to properly educate Su Xiaong when—
Su’s mother opened the door and calmly walked in, heading straight towards Su Jianyi and Zhou Wenxiu.
As soon as Su Jianyi and Zhou Wenxiu caught sight of Su’s mother, she had already raised her hand and slapped Zhou Wenxiu in return.
This slap was much louder than the one before.
"Bai Sixian! You—"
Zhou Wenxiu hadn’t finished yelling when Su’s mother backhanded another slap across her face.
"My daughter doesn’t need your teaching, talking about upbringing from your mouths is truly a big joke!"
"Bai Sixian!"
Su Jianyi, seeing his wife get slapped twice, was a bit too angry to stay silent, and promptly yelled at Bai Sixian.
He might have been okay not saying anything, but speaking up, Su’s mother pointed at him sternly, "Are you blind to have married a woman as shrewish as her? Hitting people at the drop of a hat! What is it? Are you under the impression that my daughter is easy to bully, or perhaps you think I, Bai Sixian, am easy to bully?"
"You’re the shrew! How dare you hit , you can’t even raise your daughter properly, and now you dare—"
"Slap!"
Zhou Wenxiu was dumbfounded, as Bai Sixian threw yet another slap into the mix.
Even Su Xiaong on the side was taken aback by her mother’s fierceness.
Zhou Wenxiu probably never expected Bai Sixian to slap her three tis in a row, so when she turned her head back, her eyes were blood-red, looking like she wanted to tear Su’s mother apart.
"Bai, Si, Xian! I’ll fight you—"
Zhou Wenxiu hadn’t finished shouting when Su Jianyi grabbed her arm.
"Let go of ! This woman hit ! She hit , are you dead just standing there?"
Zhou Wenxiu couldn’t comprehend why her husband was holding her back instead of helping her take down Bai Sixian.
Su Jianyi naturally was also upset about the three slaps Bai Sixian landed on his wife’s face.
But when it ca down to it, he was the brother, he couldn’t possibly go and return those three slaps on behalf of his wife, could he?
Just today, they buried their father, the candles in the funeral hall were still burning, if he allowed his wife to cause a ruckus with Bai Sixian...
This scene would be anything but pretty.
"Say less! Who asked you to be impulsive and slap Xiaong first?"
"Su Jianyi!"
"Si Xian, you aren’t right either, even if Wenxiu hit Xiaong, you’ve done enough. How could you lay hands like that on your sister-in-law?"
"Su Jianyi, have you ever thought about why nothing’s been going right for you this past year?"
"With such an inconsiderate, thoughtless, and reckless woman by your side, do you still hope to be promoted and get rich?"
Bai Sixian scoffed, "I slapped you three tis, first for my daughter, second for the recently departed Uncle Three, and third... to teach you, sotis, when your arrogance is too high, be careful, it might burn you to ashes."
After speaking, Bai Sixian glanced at Su Jianyi, then took Su Xiaong’s hand, "Xiaong, say goodnight to your Uncle Jianyi and the Aunt who slapped you."
Su Xiaong didn’t listen to Su’s mother, didn’t give any formal words, just threw a glare at them and left them to experience it themselves.
Afterward, she went upstairs with her mother.
Xiaong entered the room and only then started to arrange her clothes and toiletries.
Bai Sixian sat on the bed, looking at Su Xiaong’s reddened cheek, sighed, "Why do you bother to be serious with them when you have nothing better to do?"
Su Xiaong muttered, "I just feel it was so unfair for Grandpa. He raised Su Jianyi into the man he is now, and now that Su Jianyi is successful, he belittles his old father, that’s one thing! But Uncle Three just passed away, and they’re already discussing how to use his inheritance in front of his altar!"
Talking about it, Su Xiaong couldn’t help but get angrier!
She felt that the Su Jianyi couple weren’t even human!
Bai Sixian pulled Su Xiaong over, sitting by the bed, "There are many heartless people in the world. Would you go up and shout at every one of them impulsively?"
Su Xiaong quickly replied, "Don’t let find out, if I do, I will definitely go up and shout at them!"
Bai Sixian found her behavior quite amusing.
She stroked her daughter’s cheek, smiled, "Alright, wash up and go to sleep, it’s getting late."
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