"Are all of these going to be mailed out?" she asked.
Su Wantang nodded casually, "Yes, to send some local specialties to my family."
Li Xiumei's face instantly darkened, her eyes scanning the beautifully packaged local specialties on the table.
"Wow, you're really rich." She sneered. "Buying so much stuff, it must have cost a fortune, right?"
Su Wantang sensed the malice in her tone and put down the packaging box in her hand.
"Auntie, these are ours..."
"Don't call me aunt!" Li Xiumei interrupted her. "I can't be the aunt of rich people like you. You live in my house, eat at my house, and then you take my husband's money and throw it away. Do you really think I'm stupid?"
Lu Linchuan raised his head, his brows furrowing.
"Li Xiumei, watch your words."
"What am I paying attention to?" Li Xiumei became more and more agitated as she spoke. "How much does Qin Tian earn in a month? You just casually buy some things and spend most of his monthly income, and you're still pretending to be generous?"
Su Wantang stood up. "You've misunderstood. This money..."
"What misunderstanding? I'm not blind!" Li Xiumei pointed at the things on the table. "This whole table of food must cost at least a hundred yuan. Where did you get so much money? It was given to you by Qin Tian, wasn't it?"
Xiao Feng watched the commotion from the sidelines and whispered, "That's right, that bad woman is spending my dad's money."
Lu Linchuan's face darkened completely.
Su Wantang took a deep breath and tried to remain calm: "Aunt, this money is our own, not Uncle's."
"Your own?" Li Xiumei sneered. "You dare say you didn't spend Qin Tian's savings?"
"I haven't touched a single penny of my uncle's savings book." Su Wantang returned to her room, took out the savings book, and said with a cold look in her eyes, "Look!"
Seeing that the numbers on the passbook hadn't changed, Li Xiumei's momentum faltered slightly. "This..."
Lu Linchuan finally couldn't hold back any longer. He slowly stood up, and his aura sent chills down people's spines.
“Li Xiumei, I respected you before because of my uncle, but if you continue to treat my wife like this, I won’t be polite.”
He spoke each word with an icy tone, devoid of any warmth.
“My wife is pampered and cherished by me. My whole family will never give her a bad look.” Lu Linchuan protected Su Wantang, his deep eyes sharp as blades. “We came to the Qin family to recognize our relatives, not to be wronged.”
His aura was icy and terrifying.
For a moment, Li Xiumei was stunned by Lu Linchuan.
She murmured, then fell silent.
"You...you all..." Her lips moved, then she turned and ran away.
"Wife, are you alright?" Lu Linchuan held Su Wantang in his arms, his deep, dark eyes fixed on her with concern.
"I'm fine." Su Wantang shook her head.
“If it weren’t for your uncle’s insistence, we wouldn’t want to stay here.” Lu Linchuan frowned. “We have four more days before we leave.”
"Mm." Su Wantang nodded.
"Don't take her words to heart. Just be patient for four more days." Lu Linchuan gently patted her shoulder, comforting her softly, his eyes full of heartache as he looked at her.
His wife had never suffered such grievances before.
But after arriving at the Qin family, she suffered grievances from her aunt at every turn.
...
The next day, Su Wantang went out to get some fresh air in the yard, only to find that the way her neighbors looked at her had changed.
They gathered in twos and threes, pointing and whispering about her.
"It's her. I heard she swindled all of her uncle's savings. He even gave her the bankbook!"
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