What's going on? Are you being followed? Su Mo said coldly, "Don't let me say it a second time."

At the other end of the alley, two men in gorgeous clothes pushed each other and came over with their heads held high.

The driver took a closer look and was stunned: "Second Young Master? Third Young Master? Is it you?"

The two got on the carriage.

Su Qi chuckled: "Brother, when did you find us?"

Su Mo said: "You were exposed before you even left the ancestral home. Do you think you hid it well?"

Su Yu said: "I knew I would be discovered. It would be better to take my brother's carriage directly. The servants' carriages are suffocating me!"

Su Qi chuckled and said, "Why didn't you say anything just now?"

Su Yu curled her lips and said, "You didn't even give me a chance to speak!"

These two younger brothers are only one year apart in age and they love to bicker even more than the fourth and fifth brothers.

Su Mo said: "Okay, stop arguing."

The two of them kept silent.

Su Yu moved closer to Su Mo and asked, "Brother, is what father said true? Do we really want to take Su Cheng back?"

Su Mo frowned: "You two are eavesdropping again!"

Su Yu decisively blamed Su Qi: "That's what Second Brother wants to hear!"

Su Qi was furious: "It was you who dragged me into this!"

Su Mo said sternly: "If you make another noise, I will throw both of you out!"

Su Mo is respectful and honest in front of Su Yuan, but a strict brother in front of his younger brother.

The two stopped arguing and glared at each other.

The reason why Su Mo allowed his two younger brothers to follow him secretly was mainly because he was worried that if he didn't watch them, they would accidentally say something they shouldn't in front of Qin Yun.

"Are you going back to the city now?" he asked.

They both shook their heads.

Su Mo warned, "You can come with me to Xiao Su's house, but you are not allowed to talk nonsense, especially not to reveal the purpose of our trip. I don't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings before everything is clarified."

Su Qi patted his chest and said, "Brother, don't worry, I absolutely won't reveal a single word!"

Su Yu said: "Me too!"

Su Mo knew the personalities of his two younger brothers best. Although they were not young anymore, they were not as calm as the fourth and fifth brothers.

It's better to keep them under your nose than let them go out and cause trouble.

When the carriage arrived at the village road near Xinghua Village, a peddler carrying a load on his shoulder blocked their way.

The peddler looked around, put down his load, and bowed to the carriage: "Young Master."

Su Qi lifted the car curtain and said in surprise, "Is it Big Brother's people?"

Ever since Su Yuan and Su Mo mentioned Su Cheng's matter, Su Mo sent his confidants to inquire about the situation of the Su family overnight.

It was difficult to get objective information by directly questioning them, so this man disguised himself as a peddler and wandered around Xinghua Village and several nearby villages for three days.

The Su family is well-known in the surrounding area, but it is not a good reputation. Instead, they are known as the three feared bullies.

The big bully Su Cheng travels the world with just a butcher knife.

Su Daya is a fat bully who is lazy, gluttonous and fickle. She first fell in love with her cousin Chen Xiucai, and then "married" He Tongsheng from the neighboring village. However, He Tongsheng ran away on the wedding day, and the Su family found a rich son-in-law from nowhere.

The folks called him Wei Xiaolangjun, and it was said that he was very handsome.

Finally, there is the little bully Su Ergou, who is also a ruffian and has been fighting with others since he was a child.

The bad reputation of these three people is too numerous to list.

Su Yu's expression was indescribable: "No way, big brother, our grandfather asked us to bring him back... who is he from the same family?"

Su Mo's brows also frowned.

The information found was obviously different from what his father brought back. In his father's eyes, the Xiao Su family was a warm-hearted, kind, and rescuing country family. So which one is the real Xiao Su family?

Su Mo asked Su Cheng again.

This time, it was not too different from what his father said - when the famine broke out, six-year-old Su Cheng followed the refugees to the vicinity of Yangliu Village, where he suffered a lot and nearly starved to death, died of disease, and was beaten to death by refugees. He eventually settled down in Yangliu Village and became a cowherd who grew up eating at hundreds of homes.

This is a nice way of saying it, but to put it bluntly it means beggar.

His jade pendant was picked up by the old Su family. Although they knew it was his, they did not return it to him. Instead, they sold it for a large sum of silver, and used ten percent of the money to buy food to help the victims in the village. In this way, he won the hearts of the entire village.

Su Cheng, the real owner of the jade pendant, has been regarded as a bully and despised for many years.

Su Mo is calmer than Su Yuan.

Perhaps he is just hard-hearted and doesn't have much sympathy for common people.

He admitted that Su Cheng had a miserable life, but before finding out the truth, he could look at Su Cheng's experience more calmly.

Su Qi pounded his chest.

Su Mo couldn't stand it any longer: "You are an adult now, you are not a child anymore!"

Su Qi: "Oh."

"but--"

The peddler hesitated to speak.

Su Mo said: "Speak."

The peddler had a complicated look on his face: "The Su family has undergone a lot of changes since Su Daya's wedding."

"Oh?" Su Mo became interested.

The peddler went on to say, "Su Pangya was cruelly rejected by He Tongsheng. After that, she seemed to have become a different person. Not only did she stop being lazy and gluttonous, but she also stopped extorting money from people. She didn't extort money herself, and she didn't let her family extort money. She took her brother to the town to do business."

"Are you just selling snacks?" Su Qi asked.

"Yes, sir," said the peddler.

"Who taught her?" Su Yu asked.

The peddler said, "My Lord, I have not found out anything either. It seems that Su Daya suddenly became enlightened and has acquired many new skills. She was even accepted as a disciple by Doctor Fu. I dare to guess that those skills were taught to her by Doctor Fu and Old Madam Fu."

Judging from the complete timeline, Su Xiaoxiao started her business and then met Doctor Fu. However, when some logic doesn't make sense, people tend to organize and process a reasonable set of memories according to their own cognition.

The peddler added, "There is another saying that her husband is quite capable and that she learned all her skills from him."

Su Qi asked: "Is her husband really handsome? Is he more handsome than me?"

The peddler said awkwardly: "Uh...I didn't see it."

Afterwards, the peddler reported the Chen family's affairs.

Su Yu was filled with righteous indignation and said, "The Chen family is so shameless! What's the name of that scholar Chen? This gentleman had better not come to Beijing to take the exam, or I will kill him!"

It wasn't for the Su family. He hadn't acknowledged them in his heart yet. But as a man with blood, he looked down on the Chen family, a family of cowards! Su Mo took great pains to resist the urge to throw his two noisy brothers out of the carriage.

Su Mo understood almost everything and signaled the peddler to leave. Next, he would go to meet Xiao Su's family in person.

The carriage drove into Xinghua Village and headed straight for Xiao Su's house.

The villagers were no longer surprised by the Su family's visit with a horse-drawn carriage, but when three handsome men got off the carriage, it immediately caused quite a stir in the village.

Su Mo looked at his two younger brothers seriously: "I'm warning you two for the last time, don't make trouble for me, don't talk, and shut your mouth!"

The two of them made a gesture of closing their mouths.

Don’t worry, bro!

We keep our mouths shut!

The door is open.

The men were doing business or working in the fields, while Su Yu Niang took her daughter and the three children to the Li family.

Su Xiaoxiao was drawing the shop's decoration design in the main room.

"Excuse me……"

Su Mo was just about to ask, "Is Madam Su here?" Then he saw it.

Su Xiaoxiao had never met them in the provincial capital, but the chubby girl's features were too obvious to miss.

"You are--" Su Xiaoxiao looked at Su Mo and the other two strangely.

Su Mo said: "I am Su Yuan's son. My father passed by here a few days ago and suddenly fell ill. Thanks to Su..."

The chubby little girl was very pretty, with a pair of big eyes that were calm and clear, and a bit of childishness between her brows. For some reason, she couldn't bring herself to call her Madam Su.

Su Xiaoxiao blinked: "Oh, Mr. Su's sons, are you all?"

Su Mo said politely: "Yes, my name is Su Mo, they are my second and third brothers."

Su Qi and Su Yu folded their arms, each with a cold look on their face.

Su Xiaoxiao said, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"We..." Su Mo paused.

What my father said was right, this girl was indeed different. She looked childish but her eyes were calm, giving people the impression that she was not easy to fool.

Su Qi said: "We are not here to gather information!"

Su Yu said, "That's right! We are not here to take you back to Beijing! Even if you have the jade pendant from our Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, it doesn't mean anything! My grandfather just wants to take you back for investigation! If you are fake, we will not recognize you!"

Su Xiaoxiao: “…”

Su Mo: “…”

(End of this chapter)