"Sleep?" Su Erhu looked at the woman's sleepy face, and a smile suddenly appeared on his gloomy face.
"Hua'er is currently missing and her fate is unknown. The whole family is working together to find her. The three children, Da Lang, Er Lang, and Chun Hua, have been waiting at the gate of the courtyard for news. Even the dog and tiger cubs in the family are busy helping out."
You, on the other hand, as the second sister-in-law, can actually sleep soundly in the house.
What kind of woman did I, Su Erhu, marry?!
As Qian listened to the man's words, word by word, her earlier drowsiness vanished almost instantly.
After Su Bai and the others left, she was actually waiting in the courtyard, but as she waited, she became very sleepy, so she thought she would go inside and take a nap.
Anyway, Su Hua is very capable and strong. Even if she encounters something outside, she will be the one to beat people up. Nothing bad will happen to her. Waiting in the yard is pointless. It's better to take a nap.
She fell asleep immediately and didn't even hear that her husband had returned home.
Of course, she knew how important her husband's younger sister was to him, but she could only think about it and never say it aloud.
Ms. Qian hurriedly got out of bed, wanting to pull her husband aside and explain gently as she always did.
However, before she could even get close, the man slapped her outstretched hand away, his face filled with utter disgust. "Don't touch me! It'll disgust you."
It's true that like mother, like daughter.
"If I had known your Qian family were such a vicious bunch, I, Su Erhu, would rather remain a bachelor my whole life than marry you."
Qian felt a pang of resentment at the man's disgusted actions. She had only slept for a few hours; she hadn't gone to have an affair. Why was he treating her like this?
Moreover, not only did they criticize her, they also insulted her brother and her family, calling them vicious. The more Qian heard this, the more uncomfortable she felt, and the little bit of guilt she had felt earlier vanished.
"Brother Erhu, what you're saying is a bit too much."
I admit that I was wrong today, but I just fell asleep because I was too tired while waiting. It wasn't on purpose that I didn't wait for Hua'er.
But you shouldn't be making things up about my brother and criticizing my family. Hua'er's disappearance has nothing to do with my family..."
"I'm being unreasonable? Isn't it unreasonable for Qian Dabao to use Hua'er as a pawn to demand money!" Su Erhu looked at Qian Shi with an unusually cold expression.
"Let me ask you this: did you know about your brother demanding five hundred taels of silver in exchange for news of Hua'er?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Qian froze on the spot, completely bewildered. "What are you talking about? What do you mean by five hundred taels of silver in exchange for news of Hua'er? I don't understand at all."
And what does this have to do with my brother?
She had only taken a nap, but when she woke up, Su Hua's disappearance was somehow connected to her brother.
Su Erhu noticed that her expression seemed genuine, and her brows were furrowed deeply. "If she really didn't know, then why did your mother sneak into Shanghe Village to find you nine days ago? Was it just for half a bolt of cloud satin?"
Madam Qian was startled. She thought she had kept what happened that day very secret, but she didn't expect that Su Erhu had known all along.
However, those few days were spent rushing to make furniture and dealing with the waterproof pipes that Su Hua mentioned. As soon as the Su brothers returned home from the county, they immediately went to the back mountain to cut down trees. When her mother came, Su Erhu wasn't home at all.
Just then, the door creaked open.
Turning my head, I saw half of Chunhua's face peeking out from the crack in the door.
Madam Qian looked at Chunhua, her phoenix eyes narrowing instantly. "Was it you? Was it you who gossiped about me to your father?"
The more she talked, the more she realized it made sense. When she was getting the silk for her mother that day, Chunhua happened to see her. If it wasn't Chunhua and Su Erhu who complained, then who else could it be?
Thinking of the grievance she felt when the man wrongly accused her, she raised her hand and slapped Chunhua's buttocks twice.
The force was so great that Chunhua burst into tears.
But Madam Qian was furious. Seeing her crying face, she shouted angrily, "You little girl, you're so young and you're already doing bad things. All you do is gossip. I gave you a couple of light slaps and you still have the nerve to cry?"
How did your mother teach you? You only learn bad things and not good ones. I really wasted my life giving birth to such a little brat..."
"Enough! You did something wrong, why are you hitting the child!" Seeing that Qian was about to hit her again, Su Erhu quickly pulled Chunhua behind him.
After wiping away her tears, his gaze towards the woman grew even colder. "This matter has nothing to do with Chunhua."
"I was carrying the timber back when I saw your mother leave over the fence with a bundle. Only later did I realize that half a bolt of silk was missing from the house."
Upon hearing this, Madam Qian realized she had wronged Chunhua, but as a mother, she couldn't possibly bow her head and apologize to her daughter.
She pursed her lips and explained to Su Erhu, "My brother's hand was broken by a scion of a powerful family in Qingshui County not long ago. All the money in the family was used to buy medicine to help me have a child, and we didn't even have the money to treat his hand."
I thought I'd lend half a bolt of this silk to my elder brother to treat his hand, and he could pay us back slowly once he found work."
"Whether it's a loan or a gift, you know the answer in your heart." Su Erhu didn't buy it, and his face became even more unpleasant.
“Yun satin is rare. One bolt is enough for an ordinary family to eat for more than ten years. If Hua’er didn’t have you, her second sister-in-law, in her heart, how could she give it to you so easily?”
Look at yourself, do you remember even the slightest good thing about Hua'er?
And your brother Qian Dabao, he used the cloth Hua'er gave him to exchange for money to buy medicine, but in the end, he used Hua'er's information to blackmail my Su family for five hundred taels of silver.
In the end, he still felt that 500 taels was not enough, and demanded another 500 taels.
Tell me, who exactly is your Qian family?
Even the wolves of Zhongshan in the mountains aren't as ruthless as the Qian family.
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