Chapter 158 It turns out he was just an extra.
Liu Qianyun cursed and swore for more than ten minutes, and Pei Huoshan also returned. Pei Jiuyan immediately shifted his anger to his old father. Judging from his practiced manner, he must have done this many times before!
Pei Huoshan continued to be scolded, and Pei Jiuyan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He ran to Qin Suisui's side and sat down, taking her hand and rubbing it in his own. His voice was both coquettish and aggrieved: "Wife, you didn't help me just now."
After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Did something happen this afternoon?"
Qin Suisui nodded and recounted in detail and vividly what had happened to Grandma Pei at the entrance of the family compound that afternoon.
The cursing in the kitchen had stopped sometime ago. Pei Huoshan flung open the curtain and stormed out, yelling, "Ayan! Come with me!"
Knowing that they were going to see Grandpa and Grandma Pei, Pei Jiuyan pouted and said, "Why don't you go by yourself?"
Pei Huoshan slammed his hand on the table: "If you hadn't come back, would your grandma have bothered your mother? She's after you. If you hadn't gone, your mother wouldn't have had a peaceful day!"
"Solve your own problems! Don't make my wife unhappy!"
Pei Jiuyan: ...
Qin Suisui: ...
She now understood just how low Pei Jiuyan's status was in the family.
Liu Qianyun flung open the curtain and came out, spatula in one hand and hands on her hips with the other: "Where are you going? You still expect Ayan to get a bite to eat from your mother? You want to starve to death, don't drag my son down with you!"
Pei Huoshan: ...
Qin Suisui: ...
Pei Jiuyan turned the tables with his mother's love!
Having lived in the north for a long time, Liu Qianyun is very skilled at making noodles. A large bowl of noodles with soybean paste was eaten clean by several people, and Zanzan even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.
Seeing everyone's support, Liu Qianyun felt much better. She picked up her coat and draped it over Qin Suisui, saying with concern, "Suisui, you'll definitely be back late. Why don't you stay home and rest with Mom?"
Qin Suisui hugged her arm and giggled, "Mom, I want to see Grandpa's stones. I've never seen them before!"
Liu Qianyun muttered to herself, "What's so interesting about a bunch of broken stones?"
Pei Jiuyan came up and took Qin Suisui's hand: "Mom, I'm leaving Zanzan in your care. Suisui and I will go straight back tonight..." Before he could finish speaking, he received a piercing look from Liu Qianyun, and his words immediately changed direction: "Come back to sleep. Remember to make the bed for us!"
Liu Qianyun was finally satisfied, then rolled her eyes at him again: "I know! Do you need to tell me? I'm much more reliable than you! Unlike you, you didn't even prepare clothes for your own wife in advance. Sui Sui doesn't know the temperature in Beijing, and neither do you! You let my daughter-in-law freeze!"
Qin Suisui scratched her head awkwardly. Actually, she wasn't cold at all. She wasn't cold on the plane either. It was just the short walk outside the airport. As soon as she ran into Liu Qianyun, she put her coat on.
However, in this situation, it was best for her to remain silent. Between burning Pei Jiuyan and burning herself, she chose to burn Pei Jiuyan—better to let her friend die than herself!
Pei Huoshan held a high rank and had a car assigned to him, so they drove to the food factory's residential compound. That's right, Pei's grandparents now lived in the residential compound allocated to Pei Yishan by the food factory, because the old house had been taken over by Pei Yishan's family.
Looking at Pei Jiuyan in the driver's seat, it seemed that the scolding he received that night had not affected his mood. The expression in his eyes was much gentler than the "ice block face" he had on Qiongtan Island.
She thought to herself, "Is Pei Jiuyan also homesick?"
The food factory's residential compound is more than half an hour's drive from the military compound. Qin Suisui leaned against the car window, admiring the sunset in the distance, and was almost asleep when she heard Pei Jiuyan gently call her, "Wife, we've arrived."
Qin Suisui quickly sat up, rubbed her eyes, and looked out the window. The food factory's residential compound was also a red brick dormitory building. From a distance, she could see smoke rising from each floor's corridor. It was only a little past six o'clock, so there must still be people cooking in the corridor.
Fearing that they would attract too many onlookers, the group parked their car outside the residential compound and went inside.
Grandma Pei and the others lived in the innermost room on the fourth floor. Even before they got close, they could hear Grandma Pei's crying and cursing, accompanied by the sounds of smashing and breaking things: "You still know how to come back? Are you going to let your old mother starve to death at home? You sold all the rice, am I supposed to eat those stones?"
The house wasn't soundproof, and neighbors on both sides stood in the corridor peering inside, whispering among themselves with various expressions. These days, entertainment was scarce, and almost everyone loved watching a spectacle. However, upon seeing the imposing Pei Huoshan and Pei Jiuyan, they quickly retreated back into their own homes.
Pei Huoshan frowned, strode over, pushed open the door, and growled in a low voice, "What's all the noise about? Do you want the whole residential compound to come and watch the show?"
His sudden appearance startled Grandma Pei, but he clearly couldn't frighten his own mother. Seeing him arrive, Grandma Pei rushed forward, crying, and tried to grab his arm, sobbing, "Huo Shan! My son! You've finally come! Your mother was driven to her death..."
Before she could finish her tearful plea, Pei Huoshan swiftly dodged away. Not embarrassed at not clinging to her son's arm, Grandma Pei continued her sobbing, "My son, I really can't go on living..."
She sobbed, her eyes scanning behind Pei Huoshan. Sure enough, upon seeing Pei Jiuyan and Qin Suisui, she immediately darted out with a speed beyond her years and pulled Pei Jiuyan inside: "Ah Yan! My dear grandson! Only you can persuade this old geezer now..."
Grandpa Pei, who hadn't been intimidated at all when he saw Pei Huoshan enter, continued rummaging through drawers and cupboards in the house. But when he saw Grandma Pei pull Pei Jiuyan in as well, he suddenly trembled, stopped rummaging through the drawers and cupboards, and looked at Pei Jiuyan awkwardly: "Heh...hehe...Ah...Ah Yan is back?"
This pair of grandfather and grandson, looking like mice before a cat, are nothing like ordinary people.
Pei Jiuyan strode in, plopped down in a chair, and without even glancing at Grandpa Pei, fiddled with a small stone on the table, saying in a slow, unhurried voice, "Grandpa, are you acting up again?"
Grandpa Pei's brow twitched, but because Qin Suisui, an "outsider," was present, he still kept a stern face: "You brat! I'm your grandpa! How dare you speak to me like that!"
However, she spoke without any force, and her voice even trembled slightly, showing that she was really afraid of Pei Jiuyan.
Pei Jiuyan didn't answer him, but chuckled and reached into his waistband, pulling out a gleaming knife and placing it on the table.
Qin Suisui's eyes widened. She had just seen her mother-in-law cutting cabbage with this knife. When did Pei Jiuyan get his hands on it?
The moment he saw the knife, Grandpa Pei trembled and his face changed.
Standing there for a long time, her expression shifting from anger to rage to gloom to fear and then to terror, Qin Suisui found it quite interesting. She had actually clearly witnessed the entire process of a person's psychological activity.
After a long while, Grandpa Pei finally put down the box in his hand, and plopped down opposite Pei Jiuyan in a huff: "Alright, alright! I'm not going, okay?"
Pei Jiuyan didn't speak, continuing to toy with the knife in his hand.
Grandpa Pei's face turned ashen: "I know, I know! I won't go there again! You can't expect me to return these things I bought! Have you ever seen a black market where you can return or exchange items?"
After saying that, he muttered to himself, "Seriously! That rock I've got my eye on is sure to yield a lot of good stuff, all I need is twenty bucks more!"
Seeing Pei Jiuyan's gaze, he quickly waved his hand, "Nothing, nothing! I didn't say anything!"
He's a real devil! I don't know where he got all this viciousness at such a young age!
Qin Suisui had eaten too much fried noodles at home and was very thirsty, so she drank more water. Now she felt the urge to defecate, so she told Pei Jiuyan that she was going to the public toilet outside.
There are public restrooms on every floor of the residential compound, and fortunately, it's not far from Grandma Pei's house, but the cleanliness inside is rather questionable. Qin Suisui bolted the door, went straight into her spatial dimension, and after relieving herself, she ran to the stream to wash her hands before leaving.
When they returned, the atmosphere in the living room had changed. Grandma Pei was huddled in a chair, wiping away tears like a wronged wife. Pei Huoshan sat beside her, his back straight, expressionless.
Pei Jiuyan wandered around the shelves where Grandpa Pei displayed stones, with Grandpa Pei following behind him. Whenever Pei Jiuyan reached out to touch a stone, Grandpa Pei would quickly reach out to stop him, but halfway through, he would remember that this was the King of Hell and sheepishly withdraw his hand, and so on.
Qin Suisui found it very funny. She walked over to Pei Jiuyan and looked at the shelf full of stones that Grandpa Pei had displayed. She was indeed quite amazed.
These stones vary in size, from as small as a fist to as large as several tens or hundreds of kilograms. They are of different colors and shapes, and it is really impossible to tell what they are.
She imitated Pei Jiuyan, picked up a fist-sized stone and tossed it in her hand: "Grandpa, you buy stones so casually, even such a small one?"
Grandpa Pei didn't have time to pay attention to him, because Pei Jiuyan was about to get his most beloved stone. He didn't even blink, and replied to Qin Suisui, "Those little ones were just extras! Take them if you like!"
He knew how much Pei Jiuyan valued Qin Suisui, and thought that if he could win over his granddaughter-in-law with a few extra gifts, perhaps Pei Jiuyan would let him off the hook and allow him to buy the stone he had his eye on!
So it was just an extra, Qin Suisui nodded. No wonder she didn't care. But she wasn't interested in gambling on stones anyway; she had no use for them.
Just as she was about to put the stone back, Qin Suisui suddenly noticed some water stains on it. She must have washed her hands in the space and hadn't completely wiped them off.
But that wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was that, through that little bit of water, she was surprised to find that the stone was actually shimmering with green light. Looking at the color... it looked a bit like... her mother's old imperial green bracelet?
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