Chapter 8 Private Money

Su Qingying raised the cakes and moved away a few times. Wang Shi didn't even touch her edge. She was even more stuffy and swearing.

Su Qingying was impatient to listen. Seeing that Wang Shi was pestering her and couldn't get away, she glanced at a small stool in the main room, hooked it with one foot, and kicked it hard against the door, with a bang!

The door creaked and shook, and the small stool was immediately knocked to the ground.

It was a loud noise. Youfu, Yougui and Qiuju who were about to rush over were scared in place.

Wang Shi paused, feeling sorry for the broken stool, and jumped and cursed: "You dead girl, are you going to rebel!"

Wang Shi shouted loudly, but she didn't dare to rush over to grab it. She watched Su Qingying lead Qingxing and a big bag of cakes and stepped out of the threshold of the main room.

Old Su Tou and Su Sanxi and others who heard the sound came over, looked at the stool that fell to the ground in the room, and didn't dare to speak.

I was secretly surprised. This girl has been very angry recently. Since she got such a marriage, she doesn't listen to her family. She even dared to jump up and resist.

Su Sanxi thought that his mother had married Qingying to a man who was about to go to the battlefield. He didn't know if he would be alive in the future. He might be a widow. Moreover, the man had a bad reputation. He heard that he was a cat-teasing man. It was his own sister who proposed the marriage. He felt a little guilty.

Now he heard his two sons crying and complaining that the cakes were stolen, and he didn't dare to say anything.

Wang wanted to follow, but was stopped by Su Sanxi.

Su Qingying took the twins into the room of the east wing. She paused at the door of her parents' room, and then led them directly into her room next door and pulled the two siblings to bed.

Two packages of cakes, one big and one small. The small one was bought by her, and the big one was bought by Lu Bocheng for the twins. She opened the big one and didn't know what he bought.

The two little ones stared at them with burning eyes. They had only eaten cakes a few times since they were young, and they were drooling over the cakes.

"Wow... these are delicious. Dad and mom, come and see. They are so expensive. My sister couldn't bear to buy them!"

Xiao Qingxing opened her mouth exaggeratedly and called Su's father and mother who followed into the room.

"Didn't your sister buy it? Then who bought it?" Su's mother looked at the bed and asked in confusion.

"It was Brother Lu who bought it!" The two little ones rushed to speak.

Some of the cakes here they had tried, and some they just smelled. They knew they were expensive, but they didn't make a fuss about buying them. Unexpectedly, Brother Lu bought them all.

"Brother Lu?" Su's mother looked puzzled.

"It's Lu Bocheng." Su Qingying followed to explain.

"Ah, you saw him? What's going on?" Su's mother was very surprised and asked anxiously. Su's father also came over when he heard it.

Su Qingying wanted to explain, but when she saw Fu Yougui peeking out of the door, she said, "Let's talk about it tonight."

Qingxing also saw the brothers and quickly closed the cakes that had been opened so that they could not see them.

"It smells so good, can you give us a piece?"

"Uncle, Yougui wants to eat." Su Yougui bit his finger and said to Su's father, his saliva almost flowing out.

Su's father couldn't refuse and looked at Su's mother.

Su's mother sighed, picked up some and wrapped them up, turned around and led them out.

"It's not good to eat alone, you have to give it to your grandparents, otherwise people will say you are unfilial." Su's father said to the unhappy twins.

Qingxing looked at the cake that was half gone and tears were about to fall.

Su Qingying rubbed her hair: "Put these away, save them for you and your brother to eat slowly, don't give them to anyone else."

The little thing wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, grabbed a piece and handed it to Su's father: "Dad, you eat it."

Su's father shook his head: "Dad won't eat it, leave it for you."

"Dad, eat it, there are more." Su Qingying persuaded, and Su's father took it and put it in his mouth. Hmm, it tastes good.

Lv Bocheng bought it? How did he meet it? Su's father glanced at Su Qingying, and he was very curious, but it was not easy to ask at this time, so he just held back.

Turning around and seeing Su's mother coming back, he greeted her again: "It's delicious, come and try it."

The family tasted a little bit of various flavors, and Su's mother said that it was time to eat, so she wrapped it up and put it away.

The Su family didn't need to call for meal time. When the time came, the whole family sat down in the main hall together, and no one was afraid of being late.

The Su family did not split up, and there were still 18 people at home, a big family, and a prosperous population. The two tables were shared, and the main hall was packed.

Old Su Tiezhu, 59 years old this year, had married two wives.

His first wife gave birth to Su Qingying's eldest aunt and Su's father, who died before he could walk. A year later, stepmother Wang married in and gave birth to three sons and a daughter. She was very proud and had long been the one who had the final say in the family.

Old Su was a man of few words and had no sense of presence at home.

Except for his younger uncle Su Siquan, who was only 16 years old and had not yet married, Wang's other two sons, Su Erhe and Su Sanxi, gave him four grandsons and three granddaughters. Wang boasted that she had contributed greatly to the prosperity of the Su family, and she would give orders at home from time to time, making her daughters-in-law run around.

At this moment, Wang saw that Su Qingying had just disobeyed her wishes and snatched the cakes from her hands, looking at Su Qingying's eyes and nose.

It was just that because he had hired Su Qingying out and made fifty taels of silver, all of which went into her pocket, he did not dare to be too tough with Su Qingying, fearing that Su Qingying would rebound, which would be counterproductive.

At this time, he just gave Su Qingying a fierce look and did not say anything unpleasant.

Su Qingying had no time to pay attention to her. She led the twins to sit at the lower table. She sat between the twins so that it would be convenient for her to pick up food for them.

The food on the table was limited. Dinner was simpler than lunch. Each person had a bowl of brown rice, a bowl of pickles and a large plate of green vegetables on the table, plus a large bowl of clear soup without a single drop of oil.

Su Qingying looked at it and said nothing. She just buried her head in eating and occasionally helped the twins pick up two chopsticks.

There was no such thing as not talking while eating or sleeping in the Su family. From time to time, Wang Shi could be heard nagging. The rich and the noble relied on their young age to make a fuss from time to time, and made requests, saying that they didn't want to eat this or that. On the contrary, Qingyang and Qingxing were very obedient when eating.

The second uncle's eldest daughter Su Chunlan has married, and the two sons Su Youwen and Su Youwu are 18 and 13 years old, and they are all adults. The cousin Xia He and the third uncle's daughter Qiu Ju are not noisy, so no one said anything at the dinner table. For a while, only the sound of chopsticks hitting dishes could be heard.

But Su Qingying was eating halfway when she heard the third aunt Zheng say to Su's mother: "I didn't expect that the eldest sister-in-law still has private money hidden. I see that Qingying bought so many old cakes today. It must have cost a lot of money, right?"

Su's mother lowered her head when she heard it. She couldn't refute it.

Although the cakes were not bought with her money, she did give the hidden private money to Qingying.

Zheng saw that Su's mother didn't say anything, and thought she had caught Su's mother's handle. She was about to continue to provoke Wang, but she saw Su Qingying looking at her coldly.

She was scared.

Su Qingying said coldly to her, "Don't you have any private money, Auntie? The day before yesterday, the peddler came to the village, and You Fuyougui bought a big bag of candy, which he ate with gusto in front of Qingxing and Qingyang, and he didn't even give the twins one or two pieces. Did the big bag of candy come from the peddler out of kindness? Or is Auntie San very familiar with the peddler?"