Chapter 52 Qiu Yuru looked at what was in front of her…
Qiu Yuruo looked at the person in front of her. He had received a complete feudal education, but he remembered the things she had said that did not conform to the standards of this era.
Now, he not only remembered it, but also agreed with it and put it into action!
Logically speaking, his behavior should have been enough to move any girl.
But Qiu Yuruo was greedy; she wanted another level.
She tilted her head and asked him, "Did you do my laundry because of me, or because you agreed with what I said?"
Her question was a bit convoluted, but Su Yunting had no problem understanding it.
He repeated the question: "Are you saying I wash clothes because I want to have a wife, or do I wash clothes because I genuinely believe that men and women should be equal?"
If Qiu Yu didn't ask, she would be embarrassed to say that she was the wife he wanted to marry, but he asked again anyway.
She couldn't help but punch him lightly: "You know what it means, why do you have to ask again!"
Su Yunting was punched, but the corners of his mouth were still turned up so wide that he couldn't pull them down.
Qiu Yu urged him, "I'm asking you this seriously."
When Qiu Yu asked this question, he already knew what she wanted.
He looked into her eyes, his expression becoming serious: "Yu Ruo, I don't want to lie to you. Before I woke up, I was happy to hear you talk about how to deal with my second uncle's family. I just felt that what you did was exactly what I wanted."
Later, when you said that men and women should be equal, I just thought the idea was novel.
In my past life, you suffered an undeserved calamity because of me, losing your life at a young age. Even if you didn't make it into the Su family alive, you were still my wife for life. I was prepared to remain faithful to you for the rest of my life.
After I woke up and passed the imperial examination, the Sun family brought up the marriage proposal again, but I did not agree. In the future, I never agreed to remarry again.
In this life, I am blessed by Heaven to have you come to my side. When I heard you say that men and women should be equal, I decided to do as you say so that I could be worthy of having a wife like you.
I know you think I can resonate with you intellectually.
Right now, I can't say that I can fully resonate with you, but in terms of actions, I can do exactly what you want.
If I'm just talking about myself, being able to take care of you and do things for you makes me feel very secure and happy.
Your request to extend to the entirety of gender is something I can't do yet. I hope you'll wait for me and not dislike me, okay?
True feelings cannot tolerate any falsehood. He didn't want to lie to her, so when she asked, he answered with his most honest thoughts.
In this era, Qiu Yuruo already felt it was quite remarkable that he could honestly explain his true thoughts to himself.
As for his level of acceptance of gender equality, Qiu Yuruo didn't actually have high hopes.
After all, in modern society, there are countless people who have received modern education but whose minds are still bound by outdated ideas.
Su Yunting's willingness to treat him as an equal already makes him better than many modern people.
Qiu Yu could sense that he was trying his best to get closer to her.
Qiu Yuruo has always believed that feelings should always be two-way. Since he is willing to get closer to her, and she has decided to get along well with him, she should also get closer to him.
The values and beliefs shaped by education from two different eras should be understood and tolerated in order to truly integrate with each other.
Qiu Yuru stretched out her arms and hugged him back: "Relationships are a matter between two people, and I can't make all the demands on you."
Many of my ideas are out of step with the times we live in. If you can understand and accept them, then understand and accept them. If you can't, you can tell me what you don't understand, and we can work things out gradually, okay?
Su Yunting felt that his wife was the best girl in the world. He couldn't help but kiss her forehead and said, "Okay, if I don't understand your thoughts, I'll explain them to you."
If there's anything I say or do that you don't understand, please tell me immediately.
Qiu Yuruo smiled and replied, "Okay."
...
While Qiu Yuruo and Su Yunting were enjoying a sweet period of getting to know each other and adjusting to each other, the atmosphere at Old Man Su's house was quite different.
On this day, Uncle Su returned from outside, carrying a basket on his back and with a hunched back.
Before he even put down his basket, Aunt Su asked him, "So, is it true what they say in the county?"
Uncle Su didn't say anything. He took off his basket, squatted down to the side, held his head in his hands, and sighed heavily.
When Old Man Su saw his son's behavior, his last hope was dashed, and he was so angry that he wanted to smash the cup in his hand to vent his anger.
The thought of having to spend money to buy a new cup after it broke made him reluctant, so he stomped his foot hard and then sighed heavily.
Aunt Su looked at her husband, then at her father-in-law, and then opened the basket her husband had carried back. When she saw the pair of plum vases lined with straw and wrapped with Xuan paper inside, she felt her vision go black.
Undeterred, she asked her husband, "Is it really not worth two hundred taels?"
Uncle Su held his head and said in a muffled voice, "At most five taels of silver. They said they only gave that price because it looked like a pair. I asked two or three places and they all said the same thing. They even said that if it were a single one, they would only give two taels of silver."
After hearing this, Aunt Su finally couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears.
...
Qiu Yuruo and Su Yunting went to the county and got some tonics from Dr. Zhang's clinic. When they returned to Su Family Village, they heard some shocking news before they even got home.
Uncle Su spent two hundred taels of silver to buy a pair of antique plum vases, but when he tried to sell them, the seller said they were only worth five taels of silver!
After hearing this, Qiu Yuruo thought to herself: Serves him right.
Everyone knows that the two families signed a document agreeing to cut off all contact, but Qiu Yuruo made the decision to sign it while Su Yunting was in a coma.
So some busybodies asked Su Yunting, "Your second uncle said he was scammed and is about to go to the county to sue them. Yunting, aren't you going to do anything about this?"
Su Yunting said calmly to the man, "Sixth Uncle, don't you know that the old man made us sign a document with him? Why are you asking such a question!"
The man blushed after being rebuked by Su Yunting's words, and just as he was losing face, Old Man Su came over.
This was the first time Su Yunting had seen him since waking up.
Su Yunting didn't want to see him even once, so he grabbed his wife and prepared to leave.
Old Su had come looking for him, and seeing that he was about to leave, he quickly called out, "Yun Ting, I need to talk to you about something."
Qiu Yuruo felt Su Yunting tighten his grip on her hand.
Thinking of the suffering he endured in his past life, she felt a surge of anger and turned around, ready to say something sarcastic to him.
Before she could speak, Su Yunting pulled her behind him again.
Su Yunting looked at the old man Su walking towards him, and without even calling him "Grandpa," he asked him directly, "Grandpa, is there something you need from me?"
Now that Old Man Su needed Su Yunting's help, he didn't care that Su Yunting didn't call him "Grandpa." He just said urgently, "Yunting, your second uncle has been cheated. He's going to the county to file a complaint tomorrow. You're a scholar and you've met the county magistrate, so go with your second uncle tomorrow."
Su Yunting listened patiently to him finish speaking before calmly replying, "It's not that I'm unwilling to go, it's just that it's inappropriate for me to get involved in this matter."
After Su Yunting finished speaking, before the old man could figure out how to coax him into agreeing, he said, "Yunting, no matter what happened before, you're better now. Since your grandfather has come to find you, you can't keep thinking about the past!"
Seeing that someone was speaking up for him, Old Man Su quickly chimed in, saying, "In the past, it was indeed my fault as your grandfather. Now that you're better off, you can't ignore your second uncle's affairs!"
In his previous life, after Su Yunting passed the imperial examination, Old Man Su came over to try to rebuild their relationship. At that time, Su Yunting vented all the pent-up emotions in his heart.
Some people could understand his behavior, while others, like the man from before, spoke up for Old Man Su.
Those who sided with Old Man Su were also cursed by Su Yunting.
So he was accused of being 'unfilial' by those people.
In his past life, Su Yunting didn't care about those things, but in this life, he absolutely will not allow his reputation to be tainted in the slightest.
So he could only suppress the urge to give them another good scolding and continued in a calm tone, "I only said that it was inappropriate for me to get involved in this matter, and you tried to pin the blame on me without asking why."
I could indeed exchange a few words with the county magistrate; in fact, I could exchange more than a few words with him, and the county magistrate took good care of me.
Last time I went to the county, I even had my son pick me up and take me home to test my knowledge.
It's precisely because the county magistrate knew so much about my affairs that I couldn't get involved in my second uncle's fraud.
The county magistrate knew that I had missed the best time for treatment because my family couldn't afford it. It was only after Yu Ruo worked hard day and night setting up a stall to earn some money and drank medicine for more than half a year that I woke up.
My second uncle bought several hundred taels of fake antiques and took them to the authorities.
If I go with him, and the county magistrate asks me if I'm his biological second uncle, what should I say?
After Su Yunting finished speaking, someone who disliked the old man said, "Yes, why don't you let Yunting answer?"
To say no would be to deceive the officials of the imperial court, which is absolutely unacceptable.
If you answer truthfully, the county magistrate will think that Uncle Yunting has hundreds of taels of silver to buy fake antiques, but not even a few dozen taels, or even just a dozen taels, to pay for his nephew's medical treatment!
What kind of uncle could be so heartless? Even if it were a cousin, if he had spare money, he wouldn't have stood by and watched someone die!
Moreover, the money in Yunting's second uncle's hands was not earned by him, but by Yunting's father.
If the county magistrate finds out about this, I think he'll not only fail to recover the money Su Lao Er was swindled out of, but he might also throw him in jail!
Old Man Su was already intimidated after hearing what Su Yunting said, and after hearing other people's analysis, he became even more afraid.
The lawsuit failed, and in the end, the second son was locked up again!
The more afraid he was, the more others said, "Su Lao Er's actions are unreliable. His family used to live in a thatched house with an open roof. His brother earned money to build the house, and later built the big courtyard where they live now."
Yunting’s father just passed away. The house, money, and land all belong to the second son. His sister-in-law doesn’t even have money to pay for her nephew’s medical treatment!
If the county magistrate finds out, he can arrest him and interrogate him, which would be considered a meritorious deed.
"Yes, if it were me, I would arrest them too!"
Everyone chimed in, one after another, until Old Man Su was sweating profusely.
He wiped his sweat and said to Su Yunting, "Yunting, when we separated the family, it was your mother who agreed to it. We didn't kick you out!"
Su Yunting first bowed to the villagers who spoke up for him, then solemnly said to Old Man Su, "When I was unconscious, the Empress was in charge. She agreed to the division of the family property, and I acknowledge it."
"If Yu Ruo marries into the family, she'll be in charge, and I'll accept whatever she signs."
At this moment, Old Man Su no longer cared about rebuilding his relationship with Su Yunting; he was only concerned about whether his second son would be arrested by the county magistrate because Su Yunting was familiar with him.
Su Yunting knew what he was worried about, and generously said, "You don't need the county magistrate to personally receive you when you go to file a complaint. As long as you don't mention it, no one will notice our relationship."
Only after hearing Su Yunting's words did Old Man Su feel relieved.
Since asking Su Yunting to intervene was pointless, and there was nothing more to say to him, Old Man Su didn't linger and turned to leave.
Su Yunting watched his retreating figure, his expression unchanged, but in his heart he thought, "In my previous life, I left behind troubles that others would criticize because I had no attachments."
In this life, I have people I need to protect. Although I can't directly vent my anger on you, it's easy for me to prevent you from living a comfortable life on my money.
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