It was supposed to be a family banquet, and Su Zhou genuinely assumed it would be a private dinner at a hotel, but she didn't expect it to be in this kind of setting. It was a bit like eating at a rural banquet, but the atmosphere was much better.
“Su Yuan is already in his thirties and still hasn’t gotten married and had children. Sigh… He did get a girlfriend before the New Year, and I asked Su Yuan to tamper with the family planning supplies.” A sly glint flashed in the aunt’s eyes as she smugly curled her lips into a smile.
Su Yuan took a drag of his cigarette and exhaled a grayish-white smoke. "I did it. I broke the condom, and she got pregnant. Didn't I follow your instructions exactly?"
The eldest aunt's expression suddenly changed again: "I get so angry just thinking about this. That girl wanted a dowry of 128,000 yuan. I was just trying to ease the pressure on my parents, but who knew that the bitch would get pregnant and actually dare to abort my grandson."
After saying that, he glared fiercely at Su Zhou.
Su Zhou did nothing, yet she was inexplicably dragged into the mess.
The eldest aunt glanced at Su Zhou and said slowly, "Girls these days are very shrewd. If a family doesn't have money, they won't live with you at all. They're all after money. Anyway, you can't just watch Su Yuan get so old without a wife and children, can you? Little brother, you're the most successful person in our family. We've been friends since we were kids. You can't just watch Su Yuan stay single forever, can you?"
"I'm not asking for much, just ten million. A house in the provincial capital costs five million, and you'd need a decent car. There are also expenses for banquets and such. See if you can help cover that. I bet your company makes more than ten million a day. We're family, you can't refuse this small favor. Are you really planning to rely on a girl to support you in your old age? You'll still have to depend on Su Yuan. If you don't contribute now, what will you do when you're old? Daughters are like water spilled from a cup; they'll belong to someone else's family sooner or later. Is an outsider less important than our family?"
Her tone was so matter-of-fact that it sounded really jarring to Su Zhou.
Even though she had said similar things many times before, Su Zhou never imagined that someone would be so shameless.
Su Zhou couldn't help but say, "If you don't want material things, what do you want? Do you want your son's vocational school diploma and suspected intellectual disability? Do you want your son to never bathe and smell all year round? Or do you want your son to be so ugly that people who don't know him would think he's a pig that's been released from the pigsty? Or... do you want this old woman to be ugly and have such wild ideas?"
The aunt never expected that the girl she looked down upon would be so sharp-tongued, and she was stunned for a moment: "You...! Stop talking nonsense here, that's your brother."
Su Zhou remained unmoved, as calm as a mountain: "My brother? My father only had one son, me. Where would I get a brother?"
She glanced around at everyone present, then shook her head in feigned surprise: "I didn't see any brother, but I did see a huge, fat pig weighing over 300 pounds. Where did this pig come from? It's the New Year, you'd have to put it in a pressure cooker to cook it."
Even if the eldest aunt was slow to understand, she could still hear the implication in Su Zhou's words: among so many people present, the only one who weighed over 300 pounds was her own son.
She had a very difficult time giving birth to this son, so she doted on him. From a young age, she spoiled him. Since he didn't like to eat and preferred junk food, she would buy him mountains of high-calorie foods like fried milk tea. She also didn't let him exercise. She would buy him a phone if he wanted to play, and she would buy him whatever he wanted to eat. Even when he was in elementary school, he would try to peek at girls by taking off their clothes, and he was scolded by his teachers countless times.
Later, he even followed girls and stole money from their homes, displaying a long list of misdeeds.
"Hey, how dare you talk about your cousin like that, you good-for-nothing?" Auntie was displeased, but she wasn't as quick-witted as Su Zhou, so she looked directly at Su Yunhai and said in a shrill voice, "Su Yunhai, how do you discipline this good-for-nothing of yours? Where did you learn such foul language? I think you should teach him a lesson, otherwise you can forget about Su Yuan taking care of you in your old age."
“You keep calling her a money-loser, but I think you are the biggest money-loser.” After a long silence, Grandma finally looked at her eldest daughter. “You say our Xiaozhou is a money-loser, but our Suzhou is beautiful, highly educated, and has good grades. I don’t know how much better she is than your son. You really don’t deserve to have such a thing.”
My aunt had a husband years ago, but she eloped with him when she was young and was then abandoned. Su Yuan was awarded to her, and all the missing emotions were placed on Su Yuan, which is why Su Yuan turned out the way she is.
Su Yunhai immediately retorted, "Your family is truly hopeless. Don't try to criticize Xiaozhou. No matter what happens to my child, it's none of your business as an outsider. Even if your son lives a lonely life, it has nothing to do with our family. Don't try to find fault with us."
Wang Xingyue nodded in agreement: "Your son is so obese, aren't you afraid of him dying suddenly? There are such cases online. He's got all the vices, yet he still wants other girls to marry into his family and suffer. A blessed woman doesn't enter a family with five blessings. This is actually a good thing."
Su Zhou smiled faintly: "Cousin, the most important thing for you right now is to cultivate yourself into a human. You're already as fat as a pig and you still want women. It's better to find something to do than anything else."
Grandpa used to smoke, but because Su Zhou didn't like the smell of smoke, he forced himself to quit smoking, which he had been doing for decades. He looked at everyone and said, "I have indeed thought about some things for a long time. Some people have failed to live up to the name Su. Since everyone is here today, I will take the initiative to write a letter severing ties with them."
The eldest aunt's eyes widened: "Dad, what do you mean?"
Grandpa ignored her and continued, "After you wrote the letter of severance, you shall no longer speak ill of the Su family, nor shall you disturb Su Yunhai's family without cause. You are not responsible for our care in old age. Live your own lives."
Su Zhou was delighted and looked at her grandfather, saying, "That's great! Grandpa, you can move to the city from now on. My zoo is short-staffed, so why don't you two come and take on some easy jobs, like farming and gardening, so you can see me every day?"
She is beautiful and lovable, and her grandparents adore her.
There are still many places for the zoo's staff to stay, and Su Zhou also hopes that they can live in Fushan. Since there have been more and more discussions about Wanling Zoo online, Su Zhou has also vaguely sensed that this place may be the real blessed land.
Many tourists have mentioned that their skin has improved or their chronic ailments have healed after visiting Wanling Zoo, leading to increasing discussions about opening a resort. Su Zhou also has this plan, but it can't be implemented immediately; however, it's still a viable option for providing care for the elderly.
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