"Jin Dong, Su Jin Dong."

"Hey, Grandma, I'm here!" Su Jindong quickly crawled out of the kitchen.

Li Yueniang pointed to the bicycle path in the yard, "Hurry up and ride your bicycle to the lumberyard to pick up Wenjing."

"She's almost off work anyway, so take her home after you finish eating."

Su Jindong turned around and looked longingly at Song Jingzhou, who was adding firewood to the fire. The dumplings were almost ready to be cooked.

Li Yuexiang knew exactly what he was thinking, and slapped him hard on the head. This idiot, is the dumpling more important or his wife?

"Look, look, hurry up and go, there are plenty of dumplings, there's still a whole basketful inside that hasn't been cooked yet."

Su Jindong shrank his neck and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go right away, right away."

Su Jindong was pushing his bicycle out when he suddenly felt a chilly gaze behind him. He turned around and saw it was Grandma Guo.

Strange, why does Grandma Guo look so unhappy? Su Jindong was completely baffled, so he could only grin and give Guo Xiaomao a bright smile, which made Guo Xiaomao almost fall over in anger.

What's with that look on Wenjing's face?

No, she has to ask Sister Chun Gui at the street corner to arrange for her nephew to meet Wenjing tomorrow. It's because Wenjing hasn't met many people that she thinks this Su Shazi is so good.

"Brother Jin Dong? What brings you here?" Guo Wenjing asked, looking at Su Jin Dong with a happy expression. They hadn't seen each other for quite some time.

"Wenjing, are you off work yet?"

"I'm off work and was just about to head to the cafeteria."

Su Jindong grinned and patted the back of the bicycle. "I've come at just the right time. Hurry up and get on."

Guo Wenjing blushed immediately, "What are you doing?"

Su Jindong hurriedly said, "Didn't your grandma tell you yesterday? My uncle is back, and they're making dumplings at home, pork dumplings."

Urged on by Su Jindong, Guo Wenjing shyly got into the back seat. Before she could even settle in, the car sped off.

Ah~

Guo Wenjing was startled and instinctively grabbed Su Jindong's waist. Then, as if burned, she withdrew her hand and instead gently tugged at his clothes.

The moment Guo Wenjing placed her hands on his waist, Su Jindong tensed up, but he didn't dislike the feeling. His heart seemed to race, but he didn't think much of it. Instead, he thought it might be because he was worried about running out of dumplings at home, so he pedaled even harder.

But Guo Wenjing quickly withdrew her hands, gently tugging at the hems of his clothes. He frowned, feeling a strange sense of loss.

The lunch at the Su family's house was very lively. Su Changzhi's family of five, the Guo family's two grandparents and grandchildren, plus Li Yueniang and Song Jingzhou, were divided into two tables.

The main dish was pork dumplings, and four other dishes were also prepared: pork stew with vermicelli, stuffed tofu, stewed chicken in a large pot, and pickled vegetables taken out of Guo Xiaomao's jar.

Li Yueniang sat down at a table with Guo Xiaomao and Su Changzhi's family, holding a ladle and scooping dumplings for everyone.

"Come on, Changzhi, the filling was made by your mother and your Aunt Guo. Eat more."

"Come on, Fengmei, eat quickly, it'll get cold soon."

"Si Gui, eat up! Here, two chicken drumsticks, one for Si Xiang and one for Si Jia."

"Thank you, Grandma."

Su Changzhi placed a piece of vermicelli on Li Yueniang's plate, saying, "Mother, you should eat some too. It's stewed until very soft."

At the other table, Su Qingci ate a mountain of food from her bowl while jokingly saying sourly, "Bringing honor to my ancestors, I feel like I've fallen out of favor. My grandma doesn't like me anymore."

Song Jingzhou picked out another chicken wing and placed it in Su Qing's porcelain bowl, whispering, "It's okay, I'll always love you the most."

He stared intently at her, noting that she hadn't gained any weight in all this time, and inwardly cursed Wang Zhongren, that skinflint!

Su Jindong, standing next to Guo Wenjing, nudged her with a disgruntled expression and said, "It's so cringeworthy, it's almost unbearable for me."

To say something like this in front of everyone, this guy surnamed Song is shameless and brazen.

Guo Wenjing, standing to the side, looked at Su Jindong, who was squeezing in, her face full of shyness.

She scooped a spoonful of stewed chicken for him with a soup ladle, saying, "Brother Jin Dong, you eat."

Guo Xiaomao, sitting at the table above, looked utterly frustrated. Even if she had lofty ambitions, her granddaughter was simply too disappointing!

The dumplings don't taste good anymore.

Forget it, out of sight, out of mind. Let it be, she doesn't care anymore.

While eating vermicelli, Li Yueniang asked Su Changzhi, "Didn't I tell you not to go out or run around when I went to the hospital? Why did you run out again?"

Su Changzhi paused with his chopsticks, recalling the events of the past. "I heard everyone saying that things were getting chaotic on the street ahead, and I thought that my mother was coming back from there, so I went to the alley entrance to meet her."

Back then, the country had just been driven out of the Dwarf Kingdom and had not yet been established. The internal struggle between the two sides was fierce, and the atmosphere in the capital was not good at that time. Su Yi was hospitalized after being stabbed by Li Yueniang, and Qin Xiangxiang was heavily pregnant, so Li Yueniang became the person who often went to the hospital to take care of her.

She also repeatedly told the children not to run around. First, the mother and her two children had just arrived and were not familiar with the area. Second, the environment was not peaceful at the time.

Unexpectedly, when she returned from the hospital one day, Su Changzhi had simply disappeared from Kyoto.

Su Changzhi lowered his head, a hint of hatred flashing in his eyes.

"Mother, is he still alive?"

Su Yi didn't attend on this special day. Either he's dead, or his mother made concessions during the fight back then.

Although Su Changzhi did not say who it was, Li Yueniang knew immediately who he was asking about.

She whispered, "Alive."

Su Changzhi paused for a moment, then said, "He's with that woman, isn't he?"

Li Yueniang did not reply, but Su Changzhi already understood.

"I had just arrived at the alley entrance when I saw her running towards me with great difficulty, supporting her large pregnant belly. I went up to help her. I noticed blood on her pants and she seemed to be in a lot of pain as she supported her belly."

"Just as I was about to call for help, she grabbed me and said, 'You're surrounded on the street and can't get out. I need to come and save you.'"

"I had just stepped out of the alley when I heard someone shout that I was Commander Su's son, and they pinned me down."

"They arrested a lot of people and forced us to keep running. The people chasing us back were indeed hesitant and dared not fire their guns indiscriminately."

"Then we were loaded onto a vehicle, driven for who knows how long, and then transferred to a boat. We were only abandoned when we got there."

Li Yueniang's face immediately turned cold. So it really was that bitch.

When Su Changzhi disappeared, she suspected Qin Xiangxiang, after all, she and Qin Xiangxiang had already had a huge falling out.

When they couldn't find Su Changzhi that day, Li Yueniang went to the door.

Before she could do anything, the other woman collapsed, clutching her stomach, and the nearly full-term baby was lost.

No matter how Li Yueniang explained that she hadn't laid a hand on Qin Xiangxiang, no one believed her.