Su Xiaoxiao never asked what he did when he went out.
Today was different, he exuded a strong smell of blood.
"Are you hurt?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.
"No, it's not my blood." Wei Ting said.
That would be murder.
Su Xiaoxiao continued to do needlework by lamplight while the three little ones slept with their legs up in the air on the beds.
Wei Ting seemed to have returned to many years ago.
Dad came back from the military camp, and Mom was in the room altering the clothes of the brothers...
But now, his father and brother died in the war, and his mother moved into the Buddhist temple.
"It's fixed. Try it."
Su Xiaoxiao bit off the thread, put the embroidery needle away, and stood up holding the clothes.
Wei Ting paused: "For... me?"
"Everyone bought it. Your sleeves are a little short, so I lowered the edges." Su Xiaoxiao saw that he didn't move, so she came directly in front of him and said, "Lower it."
Wei Ting leaned forward slightly.
Su Xiaoxiao put the clothes on him, and he put his arms in. Su Xiaoxiao pulled the cuffs and said with a smile, "It's just right."
Wei Ting was a little stunned.
After his father and brother passed away, his mother never picked up a needle and thread again, nor did she make clothes for others again.
"How ugly." He said, looking at the crooked stitching on the cuffs.
Su Xiaoxiao was furious: "I'm altering your clothes and you're still dissatisfied? If you have the guts, don't wear them! Take them off!"
Wei Ting refused to let her take it off.
She jumped up and took it off! Wei Ting looked at her jumping up and down and couldn't help but laugh softly.
"You're still laughing? I caught you!"
Su Xiaoxiao grabbed his collar and pulled hard, but unexpectedly, instead of tearing the clothes off him, she pulled him and the cloth towards her.
"Why--"
She whispered.
Wei Ting bumped into her, knocking her onto the bed behind him.
Wei Ting put one arm around her plump waist and the other hand on the bed, with his whole body pressing on her.
This posture was so ambiguous that Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but think of the incident in the alley.
The difference is that when he presses me down, the scale of the action is even bigger.
Her little heart began to beat rapidly.
His handsome face was close at hand, and his warm breath, with a tenderness unique to the night, gently fell on her cheek.
This time, he's not hiding from anyone, is he?
Su Xiaoxiao blinked and looked at him.
A man and a woman were alone in a room, with three little kids who were sleeping and could be ignored...
The atmosphere is a bit tipsy.
"Why are you...pressing me?"
"You are so arrogant." Wei Ting said with a cold face.
Su Xiaoxiao's eyes widened: "Isn't it because you don't want to take off your clothes?"
Wei Ting narrowed his eyes dangerously: "So you have been planning this tonight."
Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "Who is targeting you? If you say so again, I will make it happen! I won't bear the blame for nothing!"
Wei Ting: "You are targeting me."
Su Xiaoxiao: “…”
Su Xiaoxiao turned her head away: "I'll count to three. If you don't get up, I'll...I'll get serious."
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the wall and counted fiercely: "One!"
"two!"
“…”
Before she finished her three words, Wei Ting's body suddenly pressed down, and he tilted his head slightly, pressing his lips against her soft ones.
"Mom, are you guys doing something dirty?"
Xiaohu lay on the bed, raised his head in a daze, and made a baby voice.
The two of them sat up quickly, their faces flushed.
Su Xiaoxiao asked seriously: "Do you want to pee?"
Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
"I'll take him there." Wei Ting said.
Wei Ting carried the little guy to the backyard.
Su Xiaoxiao rubbed her slightly hot cheeks.
Did Wei Ting want to kiss her just now?
"cough!"
Stay calm.
Nothing to get excited about.
Just a man.
She has seen the world! Three seconds later.
Su Xiaoxiao wrapped herself in a quilt and rolled over on the bed, over and over, over and over...
The next day, Su Xiaoxiao woke up Su Ergou and made 210 wife cakes, 50 each with mung bean, red bean, chestnut, and pickled mustard greens fillings.
Two hundred of them are supplied to Chunfenglou.
I also made fifty Ergou cakes with egg yolk and pork floss filling, and fifty chestnut cakes.
Then she picked two of each snack and put them into the box.
This was reserved by Master Ling.
Zhongshan came to get some snacks.
Su Xiaoxiao signed: "Let Ergou help you deliver it."
Zhong Shan gestured: "No need to trouble Young Master Su."
Su Xiaoxiao signed, "It's not a big deal. Ergou has to go to Chunfenglou to deliver the goods anyway."
Su Ergou patted his chest and said, "Yes, yes! I am delivering goods anyway, whether it is for one family or two families!"
Zhongshan hesitated to speak.
Finally I agreed.
He signed: "Thank you."
Su Ergou took some snacks and got on Zhongshan's carriage.
Not long after, Su Mo arrived.
Su Xiaoxiao went out with him.
"I just saw Ergou." Su Mo said to Su Xiaoxiao in the carriage.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Oh, he went to deliver the goods."
Su Mo asked strangely: "What goods are you delivering?"
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Snacks."
Su Mo opened his mouth: "You guys...are still doing the dim sum business?"
Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "Do it, why not?"
Su Mo asked: "Is there not enough money to spend?"
Su Xiaoxiao said calmly: "It has nothing to do with money. People can't be idle."
Su Mo looked her up and down and said, "You...shouldn't be idle, right? If you mean Ergou...have you ever considered...sending him to school? Our Su family has a clan school. If Ergou doesn't want to go to the Su family clan school, it's okay. I can hire a teacher for him, or send him to a college."
Su Xiaoxiao felt like she had been hit hard.
…I forgot that my younger brother can go to school now!
We didn’t consider sending Ergou to school in the countryside because he was old and had a poor foundation, and there was no suitable academy for him to go to.
If it comes to inviting a gentleman to sit at home, Wei Ting is already qualified for the task.
Ergou has been studying with Wei Ting for so long, he should be able to recognize a few words at least. It is time to send him to school.
Su Mo said: "If you have no objection, leave this matter to me."
Su Mo has already figured out that although Su Cheng is the father, the one who really makes the decision at home is this chubby girl.
Su Xiaoxiao agreed: "Okay."
Having solved a big problem, Su Xiaoxiao was in a good mood.
The two of them came to the Duke of Huguo's Mansion to visit Qin Canglan today, openly and aboveboard.
The two families were in-laws. Su Mo had come to the mansion countless times, and the guards at the gate never stopped his carriage.
The two got off the carriage and walked towards Qin Canglan's yard.
The servants in the mansion knew Su Mo. Although they were curious about why he had a little fat girl with him, they did not dare to ask him.
On the other side, Qin Che did not sleep all night.
As soon as the sun rose, he went to Qin Canglan's yard with a haggard face.
Qin Canglan had already gotten up and was being helped by a servant to put on his court robes.
A veteran of two dynasties like him, who is also old, only holds a sinecure in the court when he is not going to the battlefield and does not need to attend court on weekdays.
Qin Che walked into the room and saw him in court robes, his expression changed slightly.
He bowed and said, "Father."
The servant tied the belt for Qin Canglan and handed the black gauze hat to Qin Canglan.
Qin Canglan held up his black hat and waved to the servant.
The servant understood and retreated respectfully.
"What are you doing here?" Qin Canglan asked indifferently.
Qin Che said with a guilty look in his eyes: "My son is here to apologize."
Qin Canglan snorted coldly.
Qin Che lifted up his skirt and knelt down in front of Qin Canglan: "Father, I was really forced to do it back then. You may think that I am making up stories or talking nonsense, but what I am going to say next is absolutely not a lie!"
"The dead are the greatest. A son should not criticize grandma, but it was grandma who sent my mother to the farm. My mother thought that after giving birth to me, grandma would take her back for my sake. Who would have thought that grandma would not even want me, her own grandson."
"The servants are used to flattering the powerful and bullying the weak. My father couldn't imagine what kind of life we led. After escaping from the village, my mother took me everywhere, suffering from hunger and cold. My brother was at least six years old when he disappeared, but I was not even three years old... I was not well taken care of in my mother's womb. I was weak and sickly after I was born. I can't remember how many times I almost died of illness..."
Qin Canglan's eyes were cold and he was not moved by his words.
Qin Che said bitterly: "I'm not saying this to ask for my father's forgiveness..."
Qin Canglan said coldly: "Then what is your reason? No matter how unfairly you and your son have suffered, it has nothing to do with Huayin and Chenger. Are you willing to kill Huayin and Chenger just to return to the Qin family?!"
"Father!" Qin Che was shocked. "Do you think we were the ones who caused the accident between my stepmother and my brother?"
"Isn't it?" Qin Canglan asked back.
Qin Che's eyes were filled with hurt. "Father, I am only one year older than my brother. He was six when the accident happened, and I was seven. We had only escaped from the manor for less than two years at that time. We could barely take care of ourselves, so how could we reach out to Qingzhou, which is thousands of miles away?"
Qin Canglan sneered: "You still know it's Qingzhou!"
Qin Che's eyes were filled with tears: "Father, it really wasn't us! I admit that I pretended to be my brother, and I had my reasons. Mother's biggest obsession in this life was to get me back to my father. Before she died, she held my hand and said that she could no longer accompany me properly. She asked me to take the jade pendant to find my father... Even if I didn't become her son, she didn't want me to be alone and helpless for the rest of my life..."
"Yes, I had selfish motives... I lied... I pretended to be my brother... But I swear to God! I never thought of harming anyone! I thought my brother was dead! I saw a man of my age in the capital a few days ago... He looked very much like my father... That's why I... I dared to speculate... Maybe my brother is still alive..."
"Father! Please believe me! I have never framed my brother—"
clang.
Something heavy hit the door outside.
A trace of vigilance flashed across Qin Canglan's eyes: "Who is it?"
Crunch——
The door opened.
Su Mo and Su Xiaoxiao appeared at the door.
Su Mo bowed his hands and saluted as a junior: "Grandfather."
Qin Canglan's gaze fell on the two children, especially when he saw Su Xiaoxiao, his eyes became less cold.
Qin Che was extremely surprised.
Su Mo...that girl...
Why are these two people here?
"Can I come in?" Su Xiaoxiao asked, tilting her head.
Qin Canglan nodded solemnly.
Su Xiaoxiao walked while looking at Qin Che's back and asked, "Huh? Who is he?"
Qin Che didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the two juniors, so he stood up by holding the armrest of the chair.
But before he could stand still, Su Xiaoxiao screamed, frightening him so much that he stumbled and almost fell to the ground again! "It...it...is you?"
Su Xiaoxiao covered her mouth with one hand and pointed at Qin Che with the other, her eyes full of fear.
Qin Che was confused.
Qin Canglan put his hands behind his back and frowned: "Daya, what's wrong?"
Su Xiaoxiao did not respond to Qin Canglan's words immediately.
She stared at Qin Che, and the fat girl's body began to tremble slightly, and her eyes became more and more frightened.
She stepped back step by step, and her shoulder hit the back of Qin Canglan's hand.
She suddenly turned around, threw herself into Qin Canglan's arms with a frightened look on her face, and sobbed.
"Grandfather—I'm afraid—"
She sobbed quietly, not forgetting to slap herself with her handkerchief.
I tried to pull it out for a long time but couldn't.
Uh...I think I forgot to bring it.
She grabbed Qin Canglan's sleeve and wiped away her non-existent tears.
Su Mo simply couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
Qin Canglan was immersed in the great surprise that his granddaughter called him grandfather, and he felt light-hearted.
Until Su Xiaoxiao let out a howl.
Qin Canglan was startled and came back to his senses. He patted the chubby granddaughter in his arms and asked, "Grandpa is here, don't be afraid... Tell grandpa, what happened?"
Su Xiaoxiao sobbed: "I dare not say..."
Qin Canglan said seriously: "You tell me, grandfather will decide for you!"
Su Xiaoxiao stretched out her finger tremblingly and pointed at Qin Che with great fear: "Him!"
Qin Che was stunned.
Qin Canglan's face darkened: "Did he bully you?"
“Yeah!” Su Xiaoxiao cried, “He had people bully my dad… blocked my dad in the alley… and smashed our burdens… When I went to look for my dad… he was covered in blood—wuwuwu—”
Qin Canglan's breathing stagnated: "When did it happen?"
Su Xiaoxiao sobbed, "That was... that was the day you came to deliver the feed, Grandfather..."
Qin Canglan was delivering feed to the foal and indeed did not see Su Cheng. He felt quite regretful at the time, but it was inconvenient for him to stay in someone else's house for a long time, so he left first.
Speaking of blocking the alley, Qin Che had an impression.
Su Cheng was indeed blocked by a few servants of the Duke's Mansion, and he indeed came out covered in blood, but it was not Su Cheng who was beaten, but the useless servants, okay? The servants didn't even touch his hair, but they were beaten by Su Cheng one by one, and the silver on their bodies was also looted!
Qin Che clenched his fists, took a step forward, and pointed at Su Xiaoxiao's nose: "You are slandering me! It was clearly you who did it that day--"
Su Xiaoxiao screamed and wailed, "Wow—Grandfather…he was mean to me…"
Qin Che gritted his teeth: "Shut up!"
Qin Canglan gave him a cold look: "You are the one who shuts up!"
Su Xiaoxiao flinched and threw herself into Qin Canglan's arms, continuing to complain: "He was so cruel to my father that day... He had someone beat my father to death... He said... his son didn't beat me and Ergou to death in Qingzhou, it was his mistake..."
Qin Canglan's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "What? You were bullied in Qingzhou?"
"I just found out... Qin Yun is his son..."
Su Xiaoxiao is learning on the spot. You said you just found out about Su Cheng's existence. Okay, I just found out about you too.
Su Xiaoxiao continued to cry. The little fat boy had enough lung capacity: "Ergou was pinned to the ground by his son and whipped severely... Young Marquis Jing saw it all... At that time, Ergou and I didn't know our own life experiences, so we didn't understand why they targeted Ergou... We didn't offend them..."
"Is there such a thing?" Qin Canglan looked cold. He looked at Su Mo beside him, "Do you know all this?"
Su Mo thought to himself, I know, Qin Yun was beaten into a pig's head by Su Ergou's whip.
Su Mo said ashamedly: "The Su family returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors, and invited my cousin and Ergou to make snacks. At that time, we didn't know each other, didn't know their identities, and failed to protect them. I'm sorry, great-uncle."
Su Mo did not lie, but he did not tell the whole truth.
Qin Canglan looked at Qin Che in anger: "You said you didn't harm Cheng'er, but I just saw him a few days ago... You have already reached out to Qingzhou!"
Qin Che was completely stunned.
How could they confuse right and wrong? How could they make something out of nothing? "Father, I am innocent! I really didn't do that! Yun'er and that kid were just a common misunderstanding... Yun'er doesn't even know who he is..."
Su Xiaoxiao choked up and said, "Then why did he see me in the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion... and chased me and beat me... I didn't provoke him... Woo wow... Woo wow..."
"Is this true?" Qin Canglan looked at Su Mo again.
Su Mo took a deep breath and said slowly: "My cousin went to treat my grandfather's illness. Yun'er... did call for my cousin to be beaten and killed, and even asked my grandfather to teach her a lesson."
However, the final result was that Qin Yun was pressed to the ground and rubbed by his cousin.
Su Xiaoxiao covered her chest and burst into tears: "I feel so wronged! I am so scared! I am so sad!"
Su Mo, who had goosebumps all over his body: "..."
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