Chapter 35: A Woman Who Wants to Control Her Life

The little girl looked at the painting, then looked at her older sister, and said, "I also think it's better not to give it as a gift."

Hearing this, Su Changan frowned, turned his head to look at his own painting, looked at it for a while, and then reached out to retouch the teardrop mole, making the spot rounder, and then said: "This is not bad."

Yan Ruyu rolled her eyes and didn't want to talk anymore. Whatever, His Majesty is angry with you anyway, you two can do whatever you want.

Su Wan'er looked at her eldest sister and said, "Second sister draws very well. How about we look for her?"

Su Changan looked at Su Wan'er, then at Yan Ruyu who was leaving with her eyes rolled, and finally at his masterpiece, and sighed: "Hey, you don't understand."

After expressing his feelings, he put down the painting in his hand, picked up the pen beside him and thought about writing something, but then he thought that he was not very good at ancient poetry.

So I wrote a sentence on the paper very straightforwardly.

Su Wan'er wanted to go and see, but was stopped by Su Chang'an and did not see the Qing Dynasty.

Su Changan looked at Su Wan'er and said, "Don't watch if it's not suitable for children."

Su Wan'er was puzzled, but still nodded vigorously. If her elder sister didn't allow her to watch it, she wouldn't watch it. What her elder sister said was right.

Watching the ink on the paper dry, Su Changan carefully put away the drawing paper. After all, it was drawn with carbon black and could be easily erased, so he had to put it away carefully.

After everything was done, he looked at Su Wan'er and said, "Okay, this is over, go get something to eat."

Su Wan'er nodded.

But when it comes to food, Su Changan finally remembered Su Zhaoxin and looked down at Su Wan'er: "Where is your brother?"

Su Wan'er said, "I got beaten and am lying down at home."

After saying that, he blinked his eyes, held up three fingers and said, "I got beaten three times! I got beaten when I came back last night because I made a scene at the poetry meeting yesterday, so my great uncle beat me. Then in the evening, when my great uncle came back from grandpa's place, my great uncle beat my brother again. When I got up in the morning, my brother said he wanted to recite his lessons, so he recited the phrase 'The Divine Turtle is Thin' that you recited last time in front of my great uncle, and then my great uncle got angry, so I got beaten for the third time. When he was beating me, I said that you taught him, and my great uncle got even angrier after hearing that, and beat me even harder."

"After that, my uncle punished me and made me study in the yard. When I came out, I saw him writing something in his hidden notebook with a pen."

Small notebook?

Is there something like a little notebook for holding grudges?

Su Changan was puzzled.

Su Wan'er looked at Su Chang'an and said, "I'll bring it to Big Sister next time. It's very interesting. And my brother doesn't know that I've read it. He thought it was hidden under the bed and no one would know about it, but my aunt and I know about it."

Su Changan stretched out his hand and pinched Su Wan'er's cheek, "I'll make you honey grapefruit tea."

Su Wan'er blinked her eyes. This was food she had never heard of before, but everything her elder sister made was delicious, so she nodded immediately: "Yes!!"

…

Now

It was in the yard of Su Zimu and his wife.

Su Zimu naturally went to the Secretariat to work.

So she was not in the yard at the moment. Only Su Liu was sitting next to Su Zhaoxin, holding the ointment in her hand and carefully helping Su Zhaoxin apply it.

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Looking at Su Zhaoxin's round butt which had become red but still round because of being beaten, Su Liu wanted to laugh.

On the contrary, it was Su Zhaoxin's side.

Lying on the bed, with a serious expression, he looked back at his aunt, wanting to say something but stopping himself, but in the end he couldn't help but said, "Aunt, I think my elder sister wants to hurt me."

Su Liu had heard Su Zhaoxin speak no less than eight times, but she ignored him and just applied the medicine.

Su Zhaoxin continued, "It's impossible for her to be jealous of me. I see everything clearly. My eldest sister is a little bit better than me, so it's absolutely impossible for her to be jealous of me. But... because of this, I can't understand why my eldest sister wants to harm me."

Su Liu was helpless and said softly, "If your elder sister hurts you, it will be your grandfather who beats you, not your uncle."

Su Zhaoxin shook his head: "You don't understand. Big sister is a nice person. She feeds me and talks to me reasonably. Overall, she is very pleasing to the eye. But I just feel that she is mean. She was the one who mentioned the allergy at the poetry meeting, so why did she hit me alone? And she was the one who taught me the poem, but I memorized it. Why did she hit me? I think she wanted to hurt me on purpose. But I just can't figure out why she wanted to hurt me. Am I really better than her in some way? Is she afraid that I will become famous, so she wants to get rid of me as soon as possible?"

Su Liu shook her head and ignored him. She just looked at the bruises on her buttocks and blamed her husband in her heart for being so cruel. Even if the old man had said to beat her, he couldn't have been so cruel. A scholar was powerless and would be the most cruel if a fight really broke out!

Su Zhaoxin looked at Su Liushi and asked, "Do you agree to this?"

Mrs. Su Liu didn't want to pay any attention to this unyielding nephew.

However, Su Zhaoxin saw that Su Liushi didn't say anything, so he said, "Well, it seems that you agree. So there are indeed some areas where I am better than my elder sister, but I just haven't discovered it yet. However, thinking about it this way, I can't go to my elder sister's place. Today she dared to plot against me to let my uncle beat me, and tomorrow she dared to drug me to give me diarrhea, so I can't eat anything."

But just when Su Zhaoxin finished saying this

The maid's voice came in from outside the door: "Madam, the eldest lady made some food and sent it over. She also knew that the eldest master was beaten by the master, so she also made some snacks and sent some ointment."

Su Zhaoxin blinked and immediately shouted excitedly: "Big sister is so good to me! Bring it in quickly, I...Ah!!"

But this excitement caused him to directly touch the place where he was hit, and he screamed immediately.

On the other side, Mrs. Su Liu watched Su Zhaoxin screaming in pain, feeling both distressed and amused.

As soon as the person in front said that he didn't want to eat anymore, the person behind him jumped up when he heard it.

I felt that if my fourth brother's wife saw her son in this funny state, she would probably beat him up out of anger.

…

but

The courtyard where Su Changan delivered the food was naturally not just the courtyard of Su Zimu and his wife.

There were also some sent by Old Master Su, Su Zifeng, and Su Linhan.

This was delivered to the old master by Su Changan himself.

But when he arrived at the courtyard gate and heard that Old Master Su was taking a nap, Su Changan took the food and went back, thinking of making some hot food to bring over later.

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The most important thing is that the empress must not be left behind.

As soon as everything was ready, Yan Ruyu and her men took the four or five food boxes and rushed to the palace at full speed.

And it was in the Yimei Courtyard.

Su Changan and Su Wan'er, one big and one small, sat at the dining table.

Maomao was there originally, but after hearing what Su Changan said about the "chrysanthemum tea" when he was cooking, he ran to the warehouse to look for white chrysanthemums.

So at the moment there were only Su Changan and Su Wan'er.

"Big sister, I've always wanted to ask you, why do you know so many things and are so good at writing even though you don't read any books?"

"Maybe it's because I was always studying in my previous life."

"ah?"

"Just kidding. Come, have a chicken drumstick. I saved it especially for you. The one I gave to your brother was the chicken butt."

"Big sister, I want to learn to read from you. I think the teacher is a little stupid and many things don't make sense to him, but he insists on explaining them to us."

"What did you say, sir?"

"You said that we should read carefully, but the teacher said that although it is correct to read carefully, we should memorize everything and apply it in many places. I think what the teacher said makes sense, but it is not right, because it is right to read thousands of books and write like a god. We cannot just remember what the ancient sages wrote and then use what they wrote. If that were the case, how could the ancient sages write down so many principles. So I think you are right. After reading carefully, you should understand the text, and then use your own feelings to write your own principles. This is reading."

"Actually, what you said makes sense, sir."

"ah?"

"But I think what you said, Wan'er, makes more sense."

"hey-hey."

"But, you must also remember what the teacher said, because in the world we live in, there are many truths. Even the most learned scholars cannot explain these truths clearly, and they are very contradictory. This is why when we see too many things that don't make sense, we always ask why these truths are not explained clearly in books. Therefore, the truth is realized by oneself, and it is also seen and expressed by oneself. But the most basic thing is to read the articles and words of the ancient sages and read them out."

"Big sister, I didn't understand, but I wrote it down and will think about it carefully."

"Well, eat it, and come with me to bring food to grandpa later."

"Okay! But big sister, who is that woman? The one you drew so ugly."

"A woman who has completely controlled me. I guess I will be controlled by her for the rest of my life."

"Um?"

"You'll understand later."

…

And at this moment.

The woman who can control Su Changan for his entire life is Empress Xia Fengxiang.

(End of this chapter)