Chapter 700 Who Wants Your Stinking Money?
Sun Shuiqin came alone.
She followed Granny Qi inside and was led into a side hall for receiving guests. Before she even entered, she could hear Old Madam Zhao and Madam Sun laughing and talking.
She unconsciously clenched her fingers. Her pampered life had resulted in long nails that dug into her palms, causing some pain, but she didn't care at all.
Granny Qi stood at the entrance of the side hall and respectfully reported, "Shuren, Madam Yao has arrived."
Cheng Wanwan said calmly, "Come in."
Sun Shuiqin took a deep breath before stepping inside. She dared not raise her head and curtsied, saying, "This humble woman, Yao Luoshi, greets Lady Sui Shu."
"Alright, stop calling yourself Yao Luo Shi. There are no outsiders here, so stop pretending!" Sun Shi sneered. "We're from the same village and have some family ties. I've practically watched you grow up. I always knew you were pretty and smart, but I never expected you to be so successful. You're married and have children, yet you've transformed into the lady of a wealthy family. Tsk tsk, you really bring honor to our Sun family."
Sun Shuiqin's face flushed red and then turned pale.
She felt as if she had been stripped naked and was standing there, having lost all face.
She lowered her head, her lips trembling as she said, "I... I had my reasons... Back then, Dahe Village couldn't accept me, so I had no choice but to leave. Later, I wandered all the way to the provincial capital, where I was tricked into working in a brothel. If I hadn't met Master Yao, I would have died long ago..."
"Whether it's Dahe Village or Guihua Village, everyone thinks you're long dead," Old Mrs. Zhao said indignantly. "If you hadn't suddenly appeared, I really wouldn't have known you were living such a comfortable life. Tell me, if the Yao family knew you had a husband and a two-year-old daughter, would they still tolerate you?"
"I was wrong!" Sun Shuiqin's knees buckled and she knelt down. She looked up at Cheng Wanwan, who had remained silent, "Aunt Zhao, I..."
Cheng Wanwan's expression was calm: "According to the rules, Madam Yao should call me Sui Shuren. If you call me Aunt Zhao, then you're Sha Gen's wife. Tell me, who exactly are you?"
Sun Shuiqin opened her lips, completely at a loss for how to answer the question.
She wanted to use their past relationship to get the Zhao family to let her off the hook, but if she were Sun Shuiqin, she couldn't be Madam Yao.
If she were Madam Yao, how could she possibly ask to be let off the hook?
"You live a life of luxury in the provincial capital, waited on hand and foot. Do you know what kind of life Shagen is living?" Sun said indignantly. "Shagen always thought you would come back, and he looked forward to your return every day. And your little daughter, her mother ran away after she was born. Other people's children grow up drinking their mother's milk, but she borrows milk from one family and scrapes by another. She's as thin as a stick. Now she's over two years old and can call for her mother. She calls for her mother at the village entrance every day, but her mother has gone with another old man and wants to have a child with him..."
Sun Shuiqin's tears flowed uncontrollably.
Her daughter is the pain in her heart, and the main reason why she suffers from insomnia every night.
She had thought about going back to secretly see her daughter, but she didn't dare; she was afraid of ruining her current life...
She knew she was a selfish person, and that was all she could do was continue down that selfish path...
“I know I’m sorry to Shagen and the child. I’m wrong, and I’m willing to make amends.” Sun Shuiqin cried, her whole body trembling. “This is my savings of three thousand taels of silver, accumulated over the past two years. Please ask Sui Shuren to take it back to Shagen and tell him that I won’t be going back. If there is an afterlife, we can be a family again…”
"Who wants your filthy money... What, three thousand taels!" Madam Sun paused. "You're really something, managing to have three thousand taels of secret stash!"
In the past few years, her family has been doing business, and each branch of the family has also received some private savings. She has been stingy and frugal, and she still doesn't have three hundred taels of silver. Sun Shuiqin, on the other hand, spends three thousand taels of silver... It's really infuriating to compare people like this.
"Please, please, don't expose my identity to the Yao family, or I'll really be doomed!" Sun Shuiqin knelt at Cheng Wanwan's feet. "Once I've firmly established myself in the Yao family and have a real say, I'll definitely take my daughter into my family and raise her as a young lady... I'll also make it up to Zhao Shagen..."
"I can promise you I won't expose your identity, but you have to promise me one thing in return." Cheng Wanwan looked at her coldly, "No matter what your future holds, you are never allowed to go to Zhao Shagen again, nor are you allowed to go to your poor child again!"
Sun was extremely anxious: "Sister-in-law, she wishes she could never see Shagen and the child again. Isn't your request just what she wants?"
Sun Shuiqin bit her lower lip.
If she can successfully give birth to a child for the Yao family, she will never go to Huzhou again in her life.
But if she can't have any more children, the daughter she had with Zhao Shagen will be her only child in this life, so she can't help but look for her...
Cheng Wanwan watched her struggle quietly.
A selfish person is more likely to succeed than a soft-hearted person, and in her opinion, Sun Shuiqin's future will definitely not be too bad.
When a person reaches a certain level of success, the mistakes they made in the past will slowly resurface in their mind. Regardless of whether Sun Shuiqin will have her own children in the future, the daughter she abandoned back then will definitely become a source of heartache for her, and one day, she is very likely to seek her return...
Zhao Shagen is too foolish and soft-hearted. If Sun Shuiqin sheds a couple of tears, he might just hand over the daughter he raised with such hardship.
What happens to Sun Shuiqin is none of her business, but she can't bear to see Zhao Shagen continue to be foolish. Only if Sun Shuiqin never appears again can Shagen start a new life.
Seeing that Sun Shuiqin remained silent, Cheng Wanwan's patience wore thin: "It seems I'll have to visit the Yao family later."
"I...I promise!" Sun Shuiqin wiped away her tears. "I also ask Sui Shuren to restrain the others from causing trouble at the Yao family's house."
The other people mentioned here naturally refer to Old Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Sun.
Cheng Wanwan spoke calmly: "Third Aunt, could you please bring me paper and pen? We need to draw up a contract."
Having learned her lesson the hard way about not having a written contract, Sun Shuiqin immediately agreed to put it in writing.
The contract was simple: Cheng Wanwan guaranteed that no one in the Zhao family would reveal Sun Shuiqin's identity to the Yao family, while Sun Shuiqin signed a divorce agreement and a document severing ties with her child under her original identity.
Instead of using ink, she bit her finger and pressed it down with her blood, thus completing the contract.
"Madam Yao, please get up, don't kneel." Cheng Wanwan put the contract away. "For the sake of our acquaintance, I wish you all the best for the future."
These words sounded like sarcasm to Sun Shuiqin, but she dared not refute them.
She stepped forward and placed a money bag on the ground: "I'll trouble you, Lady Sui, to pass this on. I'll take my leave now."
Cheng Wanwan didn't want the money at first, but then she thought, why not? Children without mothers are easily looked down upon. This money can be considered the child's dowry, so she can be settled in her husband's family.
Grandma Zhao sighed, "If we really mess up Sun Shuiqin's life, she'll definitely go back to Dahe Town, and that silly boy will unconditionally accept her again... That's good, that's good, then it won't matter anymore..."
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