Chapter 4 Wanwan also wants to integrate into this family
The atmosphere was very awkward, and Su Wan was even more embarrassed. She didn't expect that this fourth brother would be so resistant to her and embarrass her in public. But it didn't matter. She was thick-skinned. As long as she didn't feel embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.
"Su Yun, Wanwan is talking to you, you shouldn't be so rude to her!" As the eldest brother, Su Jing came out to act as a peacemaker.
Yueyue is now a rich lady. Her family background is far superior to his Su family's, and they cannot reach her. Mrs. Gu said that day that it was meaningless to find out who was at fault. But she would not give any help or benefits to their family just because of the relationship between them and Yueyue. He could not forget that self-righteous face.
He still treats Yueyue as his sister, but she has left this poor home and is living a good life, so they don't need to worry about her in the future.
Mrs. Gu doesn't like them associating with her, so they naturally have to be more tactful.
But Su Yun, the firecracker, didn't listen at all. He tried his best to suppress his emotions and stood up suddenly:
"You guys eat, I can't eat now."
After he finished speaking, he stood up and walked out of the house, with a hurt look on his face.
Su Wan drew a talisman for himself in his heart. It seemed that this fourth brother was the most difficult to deal with.
"Wanwan..." Su Jing saw her lost look and wanted to comfort her but didn't know how to start. Su's mother was a little at a loss, and Su's father was silent.
"The food is cold, I'll go heat it up!"
"I'll help you watch the fire!"
Su's father and mother fled the disaster scene, and Su Jing pulled Su Wan to sit down:
"It's okay, Wanwan, your fourth brother will accept you!"
Su Wan smiled at him when he heard this:
"Yeah, I know!"
Now only the fifth brother is left. The atmosphere at the dinner table is very subtle. Everyone has their own thoughts. Su Wan greeted the fifth brother Su Yi:
"Fifth brother!"
Su Yi was the only one who smiled at her. On the surface, he looked gentle and easy to get along with, and he didn't seem to be competitive, but in fact he was the most thoughtful person, and his words were a bit sarcastic.
He and Su Yun are one active and one quiet, which is very consistent with the personality differences of twins.
"Sister Wanwan!"
Su's mother heated up the dish and put it back on the table. The Su family was really poor. Usually, there was no meat on the table because all the children in the family had to study. Su's father hoped that they would have a bright future and not be illiterate, so he sent them to school in their elementary grades. Life at home was very stressful. Even Gu Yue could study, but he looked particularly abrupt in a school full of boys.
In ancient times, people believed that a woman's virtue lay in her lack of talent, and this idea was even more deeply rooted in rural areas.
Among the five brothers, only Su Jing has a talent for reading. He loves reading and is obsessed with it. He is determined to take the imperial examinations. His future dream is to serve as an official in the court, one to benefit the people, and the other to let his family live a good life.
He passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen. Three years ago, he could have taken the imperial examination, but because Gu Yue fell ill and all the family money was used for her medical treatment, he missed the examination.
The Spring Examination will be held in the spring of next year, and his chance has come. He must not let anything go wrong again.
A scholar could receive three dou of rice and three qian of silver, which is thirty wen, from the government every month. This dynasty valued literature, and scholars were treated very well. However, he had to pay a tuition of five taels of silver to his academy every year. He had to save for one year and five months to save enough money for the tuition. Only after he passed the scholar exam was he admitted to the academy. He studied in the county for a long time, and in his spare time he earned a living by writing letters for people. He took the three dou of rice home every month. If the tuition he paid every year was not enough, Su's father and mother would make up the difference for him.
There was a meat dish on the table, which was bought by Su's father early in the morning. He also bought a small crucian carp. Since his own daughter had returned, he had to cook some decent dishes to entertain her.
Apart from these two dishes, there was a large bowl of wild vegetable pancakes and a pot of boiled sweet potatoes on the table. There was nothing else. She was the only one who had rice, and the rest had rice soup.
"Wanwan, our family is poor and we don't have any delicious food to treat you. Please don't be disgusted!" As the head of the family, Father Su was actually a little embarrassed in front of his own daughter who was dressed in gorgeous clothes.
"I don't mind!" Su Wan shook her head, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish and put it in her mouth. Everyone looked at her. After all, she was a young lady who was used to eating delicacies from mountains and seas. How could she get used to eating such tasteless dishes?
As a result, Su Wan nodded in surprise:
"It's delicious, Mom and Dad, brothers, you guys eat it too!"
Seeing that she didn't show any disgust, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief. They were worried that this new sister would be difficult to serve, but they didn't expect that she had such a good temper.
Everyone started to eat, each taking a sweet potato or a wild vegetable pancake and starting to chew on it, but no one picked up the two meat dishes with their chopsticks. Su Wan couldn't describe the feeling in his heart.
"Mom and Dad, you work so hard every day, you need to eat meat to supplement your nutrition. I don't like meat, and I can't finish all this by myself!"
She took the initiative to pick up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it into Su's father and mother's bowl.
"Wanwan, we don't eat it, you eat it, this is bought for you!"
It was difficult to eat meat during festivals. Sometimes the third brother would go to the mountains and hunt some prey, such as pheasants or rabbits, but he would not eat them himself and would exchange them for money.
"Brothers, eat too!"
Su Wan looked at his brothers, but they were silently chewing on the sweet potatoes and wild vegetable cakes in their hands and did not respond. In fact, they swallowed their saliva several times when they saw the meat.
"Sister Wanwan, just eat and don't worry about us!" Fifth brother Su Yi said to her with a smile.
"Yeah, Wanwan, if they want to eat, they can help themselves. Don't worry about them!"
Su Jing glanced at his younger brothers, warning them with his eyes to be polite to their new sister. As the eldest brother, he still had a lot of prestige, and his younger brothers all listened to him.
Su Wan pursed her lips and put down her chopsticks:
"Since no one else wants to eat, then I won't eat either. Wanwan knows that she doesn't have a deep relationship with her parents and brothers, and her return was sudden, but she also wants to integrate into this family!"
She spoke in a wronged tone, her face full of loss, anyone who saw it would feel sorry for her!
"Wanwan, don't feel uncomfortable. Let's just eat!"
Su Jing was the first to reach for his chopsticks, and the other three followed suit. As soon as the taste of the meat entered their mouths, they couldn't help but eat a second piece after eating one.
Su Wan then started laughing again. She stood up and took the bowl on the table that originally belonged to her fourth brother Su Yun, and added meat to his bowl with clean chopsticks.
"Fourth brother hasn't eaten yet, leave one portion for him!"
The new sister was very sensible and did not show any disdain towards them. They thought that since she was the daughter of an arrogant woman like Madam Gu, she must have the same character as her. They didn't expect that they were overthinking it.
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