Chapter 12 The Scumbag Father's Great Calamity Comes True
"Mother, do you believe Qingbao?"
Qingbao sat on the edge of the table, swinging her short legs, her round toes spread out comfortably.
Si He stepped forward and hugged the little one.
Silence speaks louder than words.
Qingbao felt a warmth in her heart. She raised her little face and said, "Qingbao is a smart baby, but there are some things that can't be said. Mother, you have to believe in Qingbao. Only by returning to the capital can we find Grandpa and Grandma."
She had seen the entire life of everyone listed in the Book of Life and Death.
In the first half of Sihe's life, her adoptive parents cared for her deeply. Her adoptive father would save up money by chopping wood for half a year to buy Sihe a birthday hairpin.
Her adoptive mother hadn't changed her clothes in three years, and she always gave Sihe the best food and drinks, truly treating her like her precious darling.
However, when Qingbao wanted to see the life story of her maternal grandparents, all she saw was pitch black.
Both of them had reached the end of their lifespan, but neither of them came to the underworld to report.
Therefore, Qingbao searched diligently, and finally the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, who wandered among humans, brought back news that the souls of the two people were still in the capital and could not be brought back.
Qingbao calculated the time and realized that the two elders were still alive, and their disappearance was very likely related to the Si family.
Therefore, if my mother wanted to find my maternal grandparents, she had to go back to the capital.
Qingbao will try her best to help her mother find two relatives.
Si He's eyes reddened slightly, but she didn't have time to be sad. She immediately went back to her room to pack her things and prepare to return to Beijing.
When the Si family found her back then, they kidnapped her parents without saying a word, claiming that they had stolen Si He back then.
However, after Sihe was stolen at birth, her adoptive parents saw her pitiful state on the village road and used most of their life savings to buy her and raise her.
After she came of age, her parents told her the truth, but she never resented them and always treated them as her own parents with filial piety.
Just as the family was getting back on track and everything was going well, the Si family arrived.
After the Si family took her away, they kidnapped her parents. After her desperate pleas, the Si family agreed to spare her parents' lives.
The requirement was that when she married her childhood sweetheart Su Xiao, she had to bring her adopted younger sister Si Yao, who was a fake heiress, with her.
Later, Si He never found her adoptive parents. The Si family told her that they had extorted a large sum of money from the Si family and left.
How could Si He possibly believe that?
After a fruitless search, they discovered that the husband and his wife's relationship was rapidly developing, and the two sisters gave birth to two baby girls together.
General Su even took his wife to the battlefield.
After her husband left, Sihe had no choice but to take Qingbao back to the countryside to raise her in order to avoid being framed by Madam Su.
Unexpectedly, they still wanted to get rid of the mother and daughter before their husbands returned.
Su Xiao's attitude after his return crushed her last hope.
While tidying up, Si He discovered a pair of small clay figurines hidden in the cabinet.
That was a love token that Su Xiao's father made for her by hand before he became a general, when Su Xiao lived in the village.
As a child, he even stole his teacher's ink and used it to paint eyes on the clay figurine.
Now the ink has faded, and the clay body has cracked.
Si He took them out, reached out and squeezed them, crushing the two clay figures into powder.
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On the country road back to Beijing.
Su Xiao rode ahead on horseback, while Su Mengmeng and Madam Su chatted and laughed inside the carriage.
Three generations of the family lived happily together.
"Daddy is so amazing. With Daddy accompanying us back to Beijing, Mengmeng feels so safe."
Su Mengmeng clenched her small hands into fists, pressed them against her heart, leaned out of the car window, and looked at Su Xiao with admiration.
It's so good that we didn't bring that mother and daughter.
If they were to be robbed by bandits, they would be doomed.
From then on, she and her mother were her father's only wife and daughter.
Su Xiao smiled proudly and said, "In the future, Mengmeng will also practice martial arts and horseback riding, and grow up to be a woman like your mother."
When General Su spoke of Si Yao, his eyes were filled with love.
Su Mengmeng said with an innocent look, "But I want to be a woman like Aunt Sihe, who can endure hardship and is also gentle."
Mentioning Si He, Su Xiao's eyes immediately fell in disappointment. "Someone like her is not as good as your mother."
A woman who only relies on men for protection will not be able to fight on the battlefield.
He no longer finds this kind of thing appealing.
Hearing her father's answer, Su Mengmeng smiled with satisfaction and stuck her head back into the carriage.
"Mengmeng, when do you think my ancestors will come looking for me?"
Madam Su was still immersed in the joy that her ancestors would come to her in a group to thank her for raising such an outstanding son as Su Xiao.
A flash of impatience crossed Su Mengmeng's eyes. "Grandmother, you've asked me three times already."
Moreover, those ancestors weren't good people, at least not to Su Mengmeng.
But she couldn't speak ill of her ancestors, so she could only try to persuade her grandmother not to think about it anymore.
Just as Madam Su was about to ask Su Xiao, she was about to speak.
But they found that Su Xiao had reined in his horse and ordered everyone to stop moving forward.
"Son, why aren't you leaving?" Old Madam Su asked with a puzzled look. She saw that her son's eyes were solemn, and he no longer had the relaxed and happy look he had just had.
Su Xiao frowned, glanced around, and said, "Mother, haven't you noticed we've been walking here for quite a while?"
Soldiers have a habit of noting routes, and there was a huge rock about half a person's height on his right, a feature he noted down shortly after setting off.
"How long have we been traveling?" Su Xiao asked his subordinate.
The subordinate calculated for a moment and said, "Reporting to the general, it has been half an hour!"
"Half an hour later, we're back where we started!" Su Xiao dismounted and examined the boulder.
I felt this road was strangely eerie, as if I could never find my way out.
Old Mrs. Su got goosebumps all over her body. "Son, don't scare me. We used to take this road all the time when we went back to our hometown. How could we not be able to get out..."
Su Mengmeng also looked outside and pointed at the stone, saying, "It's real. I just saw this stone, and now it's reappeared."
What exactly happened?
Su Xiao's expression was solemn.
"Oh no, we've been set up in a trap."
He became alert and shouted for all soldiers to assemble, "Men, protect the carriage!"
This order is hereby issued.
The sky suddenly darkened, and gusts of cold wind swept through, sending chills down everyone's spines.
"Hehehe, hehehe..."
"Waaaaah, waaaah..."
Countless strange and terrifying sounds rose up from below the cliff.
They transformed into bursts of black, malevolent energy, attacking Su Xiao.
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