"The old man is perfectly lucid! He went out for a walk with that old woman, and you? Lying here like a dead dog!"
Su Mingqiang lowered his head in shame.
"Who knows? The old man has an incredible alcohol tolerance... I can't outdrink him..."
"Useless trash! You're worthless!"
Li Jinhua let go of his hand and paced back and forth in the living room.
"I've been pretending for so many days, all for our family! Buying clothes for Grandma, taking her to the bathhouse, and what did you do? You just messed everything up!"
Su Mingqiang tried to defend himself.
"Jin Hua, listen to me..."
"What are you saying!"
Li Jinhua turned around abruptly, her eyes blazing with anger.
"Do you know how much money I spent? That tattered shirt cost over twenty yuan, and the bathhouse charged me another five! All that money went down the drain!"
Su Mingqiang muttered under his breath.
"It's not like I asked you to spend it..."
"What did you say?"
Li Jinhua's voice suddenly rose, and she angrily pointed at Su Mingqiang.
"N-nothing..."
Su Mingqiang quickly changed the subject.
"What do we do now? Oh, and where did the old man go?"
Li Jinhua took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. Her husband was useless, and she couldn't rely entirely on Su Mingqiang.
"The old man took the old woman to your father's place; they said they'd be having dumplings tonight."
She squinted.
"Here's what we'll do: we'll go tonight too. Then, while we're eating, you can ask the old man how I've been behaving these past two days. If he says it's good, then you can ask your dad for money."
"ah?"
Su Mingqiang wore a bitter expression.
"My dad's shrewd now. What if he doesn't give it to us without the old man's permission?"
Li Jinhua was furious.
"If I don't give it to you, why don't you just insist?"
Li Jinhua said sternly.
"That's your own father. Do you think he'd just watch his eldest son starve to death?"
Su Mingqiang fell silent and looked down at his clothes, which were soaked through.
Seeing his pathetic state, Li Jinhua became even angrier.
"I was so blind to marry such a good-for-nothing! You can't even handle your own father!"
"Jin Hua..."
Su Mingqiang raised his head, his eyes pleading.
"How about... we just forget about it? Dad's 20,000 yuan should be enough for us to share some of it..."
"Shut up! You piece of trash!!"
Li Jinhua shouted sharply.
"What can you do with that little bit of money? It'll be gone in the time it takes to buy a beat-up truck!"
She thought for a moment, then leaned closer to Su Mingqiang and lowered her voice.
"If your dad still doesn't give it to you this time, just tell him you won't take care of them in their old age. Also, when your parents die, don't let them be buried in your Su family ancestral graveyard. Bury them separately, or cremate them directly and scatter their ashes all over the lake in Beihai Park!"
Li Jinhua's vicious words shocked Su Mingqiang.
This isn't just asking for money, this is a threat.
In particular, there's the matter of what happens after death. In this day and age, very few people are willing to be cremated, let alone allowed to enter the ancestral graves. The couple is buried separately.
Su Mingqiang felt that if he said those words...
His father, Su Jianguo, was capable of staging a scene where he would draw his sword and angrily behead his rebellious son.
"Otherwise what?"
Li Jinhua sneered.
"No matter what, you are the eldest son. In your generation, if you don't agree, who would dare let them be buried in the ancestral graveyard?"
Su Mingqiang was drawn in by Li Jinhua's words, and the more he thought about it, the more sense it made.
He is the eldest son of the Su family; if this were ancient times, he would undoubtedly be the first in line to inherit the throne.
In 20 years, the entire Su family will have to listen to him.
If his own father didn't give him money, and even after he died, wouldn't allow Su Jianguo to be buried in the ancestral grave, and if Old Master Su dared to object, then even if he was buried there, they would dig him up.
The more Su Mingqiang thought about it, the more confident he became, and the more he felt that the entire Su family had to listen to him.
"Okay, wife, let's go tonight. I want to see if that old man still wants peace after he dies!"
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at the same time..
At Su Jian's home.
The weather was lovely this afternoon.
Su Jianguo didn't go out; instead, he moved the rattan chair from inside the house to under the old elm tree in the yard.
Lying on the wicker chair, Su Jianguo squinted, enjoying this rare moment of leisure.
The rattan chair creaked softly, its sound mingling with the chirping of cicadas in the trees.
There's no need to make life so tiring. You've been reborn, so enjoy life to the fullest.
"Dad, the dough is ready!"
At this moment, Su Yufen poked her head out of the kitchen, her hands still covered in flour.
Would you like to check if the filling is salty enough?
Su Jianguo stretched and slowly stood up.
In the kitchen, Wang Xiulan was pouring a large bowl of bright green chive and egg filling onto the cutting board. The fresh aroma of chives mixed with the fragrance of scrambled eggs wafted into people's noses.
"Wow, these chives are so fresh!"
Su Jianguo dipped his finger in the filling and tasted it.
"It would be even better with a little sesame oil."
Wang Xiulan smiled and rolled her eyes at him.
"You're such a picky eater! Yufen, go get the sesame oil from the cabinet."
The clear laughter of children came from the corner of the courtyard.
Da Mao and Er Mao were lying on the ground with their bottoms sticking up, their two little eyes fixed on the ant nest in the crack between the bricks.
Er Mao was carrying a tin kettle and carefully pouring water into the ant hole.
"Brother, look, they've all come out!"
Er Mao exclaimed excitedly, his little face turning bright red.
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