Upon hearing the sound, the Su family fell into an instant silence so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
"Malatang? Did you hear Qian Yueniang say that?" Su Baishi raised her slanted eyes and looked directly at the woman on the outermost edge with her head down. Her voice was calm and without any fluctuation.
But anyone familiar with Su Bai knew that this was just the prelude to her outburst.
Hearing her mother-in-law call her by her full name, Qian felt a sudden panic.
"Hey! Making money from the spicy hot pot business is a good thing, what's wrong with that?" Mother Qian waved her hand, not feeling anything was wrong at all. "In-law, how about we let your nephew and his wife stay here today, and tomorrow morning they can go to Qingshui County with Hua'er."
As for the house, since Sanhu isn't married yet, he can squeeze in with his brothers and clear out a room for them to stay in for one night.
Tianci and I will just have Erhu drive the oxcart to Qianjia Village.
Didn't Huaya just say that the family was going to build a big brick and tile house?
"We'll leave a room for your nephew and his wife, so it'll be convenient for them to go to Qingshui County for business every day..."
This attitude of taking advantage of the situation and even wanting a share of the future house completely enraged Su Bai.
She grabbed the broom from the chicken coop and swept it at the Qian family's feet, yelling, "Get out! All of you, get out! How dare you covet my daughter's things, and you even claim to be doing it for her own good? I've never seen such shameless people as your family in my entire life..."
The woman cursed and swore, then ripped open the door latch and swept Qian's mother out of the yard.
Then, he grabbed Qian Da's wife and her family of four by the back of their necks and threw them outside.
The door slammed shut.
"In-law! In-law, how could you do this?" Mother Qian stared at the tightly closed courtyard gate for a long time before she reacted. She ran to the fence and started scratching at it, raising her voice to its highest point. "If there's anything you're not satisfied with, we can discuss it again."
We are related by marriage, after all. Yue Niang has been in your family for so many years, bearing children for Er Hu, working herself to the bone every day, and suffering all kinds of grievances.
How could you treat her mother like that? If word got out, your entire Su family would be drowned in spit!
Su Hua's ears hurt from listening; this fence was truly just for show.
It seems the brick and tile houses need to be built as soon as possible.
When the time comes, we'll build a thick wall around it; it will not only keep out thieves, but also block out noise.
Su Bai laughed as she listened, then pulled over Qian Shi, who had been pretending to be invisible, and pushed her outside the door in the same manner. "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten. You've been working yourself to the bone and suffering all sorts of injustices, haven't you?"
Your Qian family's daughter is truly something else! I, this old woman, have never wronged her in any way over the years, yet she's smearing my Su family like this.
Don't try to glorify me by saying things like having children. I've only laid one egg all these years, and it's not even a hen!
"Take your Qian family's good daughter back with you and treat her well. My Su family is too small to accommodate her."
As for whether it's a joke or not, she's never been afraid of that.
Moreover, word got out that the wife's family was always eyeing the son-in-law's belongings.
It's really hard to say whose family will become the laughing stock.
She'd rather not have such a worthless in-law.
“Mother! I didn’t say those things…” Madam Qian stood there dumbfounded.
She didn't understand why Su Baishi reacted so strongly just because she mentioned spicy hot pot.
It was as if he wanted to divorce her.
Moreover, they even said that she had only laid one egg in all these years, and it was a boy.
It's obvious they're disgusted that she can't give birth to a son and can't carry on the Su family line.
She always says such nice things, that having a boy or a girl is the same, but deep down she's always been very concerned.
Thinking of this, a feeling of resentment suddenly welled up in my heart.
"What? What do you mean I should take her back?" Madam Qian was taken aback. Looking at Madam Qian who had been thrown to the side, she quickly put on a smile. "My dear in-law, you can't say such things. Our daughter has already married into the Su family. How can we bring her back to her parents' home?"
If you're not happy today, we can come again next time.
Please don't say things like that out of spite!
Having said that, he dared not say anything more.
They dared not even suggest having an oxcart to take them away.
He immediately pulled Qian Da and the other three along and jogged off onto the narrow path.
As for the Qian family, she didn't even glance at them again.
Looking at the closed door and her mother's receding figure, Qian felt extremely aggrieved and was even more afraid that Su Bai would really divorce her and send her back to her parents' home.
With tears welling up in her eyes, she could only look at the man inside the fence. "Honey, please tell your mother that I really didn't say those things. Besides, I only mentioned the spicy hot pot business we're going to start, and I didn't say anything else!"
Su Erhu felt a pang of pity.
Before he could even speak, he saw Su Bai standing at the kitchen door, staring at him with cold eyes. "If you say a word for her, you'd better hurry up and go with her to the Qian family to become a live-in son-in-law!"
Whether it's true or false, this old woman has eyes and can tell the difference.
How dare a sister-in-law drag her own family into coveting her husband's possessions? Does she really think this old woman is dead?!
Upon hearing this, Su Erhu's handsome face instantly turned bright red.
But she is, after all, his wife of so many years and the mother of his daughter.
Where can you really just take a break whenever you want?
Left with no other choice, he turned his gaze to the girl beside him.
Of the ten people in the family, the only one who could probably change Su Baishi's mind was Hua'er.
Su Hua silently looked away without saying anything and stepped into the kitchen.
She knew Su Bai's personality very well; she was never a heartless person, and she would never divorce Qian so easily. Even when she said that Qian had only laid one child over the years, it was just a casual remark made in the heat of the moment.
Over the years, Su Baishi's love for Chunhua has been no less than that for her two sons, Dalang and Erlang.
Ever since Qian married into the Su family, she has been constantly engaging in cunning and treacherous schemes. Now that the Su family's life is getting better day by day, she has even more inappropriate thoughts.
If we don't take this opportunity to treat it, something bad might happen.
As it was getting dark, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao prepared to say goodbye and leave.
Su Bai gave the two men three catties of sliced goat meat to take with them, and asked Su Dahu to drive the oxcart to take them away.
As for the three catties of mutton originally reserved for the Qian family, it was cut into three pieces and Su Sanhu ran through the village to deliver them to the families of Aunt Zhou, Mudfish Girl, and Barley Girl, who had just come to inform them of the situation.
The embers of the still-burning charcoal in the stove were steaming, and the food prepared for Xiao Jinhan was being kept warm in an iron pot over water, now bubbling with heat.
Su Hua took them out one by one and put them in a vegetable basket.
I started walking towards the wooden house at the end of the village.
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