Chapter 590 Going My Own Way
"Yu Shun, your older brother doesn't seem to want to see me. You two talk, I'll go back first."
Yu Qing released Su Xiaosi's hand and patted his arm lightly. "Don't argue with your older brother. Talk it out."
"Yu Qing, you don't need to leave."
Su Xiaosi glanced at Su Laoda's dark face, a strange sense of pleasure flashing in her eyes. She reached out and took Yu Qing's hand, pulling her to Su Laoda's side.
He introduced, "...You are my girlfriend, my future wife, and he is my older brother. Unless we sever ties, we will have to meet again eventually, right, brother?"
Su Laoda felt a pang of hurt after Su Xiaosi's words, "Xiaosi, you..."
He wanted to ask him if he knew that Yu Qing was Fei Wenzhou's man? Did he know that Fei Wenzhou might have been behind his dropping out of school?
Do you even know what you're doing?!
But when he met those eyes that clearly held a sense of revenge, all of Boss Su's words caught in his throat.
Does Xiao Si hate him?
In response to him.
"Yu Qing, right? I want to talk to my brother alone. Please leave." Boss Su pursed his lips, looked at Yu Qing, and directly told him to leave.
Seeing that Boss Su had suddenly become assertive, Yu Qing was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and nodded, "Of course, I'll be going now, Yu Shun..."
Su Xiaosi gripped her hand tightly and wouldn't let go.
“Yu Qing is the future wife I’ve chosen. She knows everything about me, and there’s nothing I can’t tell her. If you want to say something, you can say it to her face.”
“She’s not a member of the Su family as long as she hasn’t stepped foot in the Su family. Your approval doesn’t count.”
Boss Su's face turned cold, and he said in a low voice, "Su Xiaosi, let go and let her go."
"Is my brother ordering me around?"
Su Xiaosi raised her eyes, stared at Su Laoda's face and sneered, "Why? Because you were born a few years earlier than me? Because you disappeared without a trace when I needed you the most? What right do you have to disown her?"
"Su Xiaosi!"
Boss Su raised his voice, "Let her go. I'll only say a few words, then I'll leave..."
"You don't need to say anything more, I don't want to hear it anymore!"
Su Xiaosi interrupted him, spat on the ground beside him, and mocked, "Always acting like a superior older brother, always talking about how much you care for your younger siblings, how you'd rather go without food and drink than let us go hungry, and what did you do in return? You ruined my bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees!"
"Su Guotai, can't you come up with ten thousand yuan? Or is it Su Min'an, who married into the municipal government, who can't afford it? Or is it Su Fengtiao, who owns dozens of chain stores? Besides the thirty billion yuan Li Banxia donated, how much money do you each get? One billion? Eight hundred million? Or six hundred million? Did anyone think of me when you were dividing the money? You're all sitting on mountains of gold and silver, and you won't even give me ten thousand yuan, cutting off my bachelor's, master's, and doctoral studies, watching me fall into the mud, and now you're pretending to be big brothers in front of me?"
"...That's right. I was abandoned by that woman Li Banxia a long time ago. She only recognizes you guys now. I'm nothing. So whether I live or die is none of your business. Stop trying to intimidate me with your status as my older brother! You, Su Guotai, Su Min'an, Su Fengtiao, I don't recognize any of you anymore. Get out of here."
Boss Su gave him a deep look and nodded.
"Fine, since you insist on going down this dark path, then I'll leave you to your own devices. But there are some things I need to say beforehand..."
He gave Yu Qing a cold, sharp look. Yu Qing lowered her eyes, not daring to meet his gaze.
“Su Xiaosi, you used my name to scam students out of food and drinks at school. I reminded you several times, but did you show any remorse? No. I wrote you notes urging you to work and earn money to help your classmates, but did you persist? No. That's why you lost your spot in the combined bachelor's, master's, and doctoral program after being reported one after another! You have only yourself to blame for what you're going through, and no one else is to blame! Don't try to shift the blame onto me, your second brother, your third brother, and Mom. Nobody owes you anything!”
"I came here today hoping to give you one last push, but since good advice is useless against a damned devil, well... good luck to you."
After saying that, Boss Su took out his money to pay for the tea and strode away from the restaurant.
Su Xiaosi's face turned pale, then white, then pale again, staring at Su Laoda's departing back as if she wanted to stare a hole through it.
"What right do you have to talk about me like that? What right do you have to talk about me like that!"
Su Xiaosi grabbed the teacup on the table and smashed it to the ground.
The shopkeeper was annoyed. "Hey, are you out of your mind? If you're angry, go home and smash your own bowls. Why are you smashing my teacup? Pay up!"
"Yu Shun..."
Yu Qing frowned slightly, a hint of impatience flashing in her eyes. She glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "How much? I'll pay you."
"These teacups and teapots come as a set. If one breaks, the whole set is unusable. This set costs at least twenty yuan..."
Yu Qing was too lazy to waste any more words with him. She needed to hurry back and tell the teacher about Su Guotai's visit to Su Yushun, so she simply gave the shopkeeper twenty yuan.
"Let's go."
Yu Qing pushed Su Xiaosi back, but Su Xiaosi was still angry and argued with Yu Qing, "He knows I owe money, but he won't help me pay it back even though he has the money. What right does he have to talk about me?"
"...Perhaps your older brother is doing this for your own good?" Yu Qing replied dismissively.
Su Xiaosi chuckled coldly twice. "He's doing this for my own good? He's doing this for my own good because he sees me so poor that I can't afford to eat, like a beggar, mooching off this classmate today and that classmate tomorrow. If I had money, why would I mooch off others, and why would the school cancel my master's and doctoral program for the sake of cheating classmates out of their money?"
"...He can't stand me being better than him! He only got a master's degree from Tsinghua or Peking University, while I graduated with a doctorate, which is better than him. It challenges his authority as the older brother, and he can't tolerate me..."
Yu Qing: "...Yu Shun, you're overthinking it."
“No, he’s always been this hypocritical and awkward person since he was little! He says he’s doing it for your own good, but what happened? All of us siblings got scolded a lot, but he’s the only one my mom treats like a precious gem. Originally, I was the person my mom loved the most…”
As she finished speaking, Su Xiaosi's voice gradually lowered.
Yu Qing glanced at him, puzzled, "Didn't you say your mother is the best at treating everyone equally?"
“Yu Qing, after I’ve gained two years of experience at the grassroots level, please ask my teacher to help me transfer back to the capital. Then, let’s get married.” Su Xiaosi suddenly lowered her eyes and looked at Yu Qing.
Yu Qing let out an "Ah," and the subconscious rejection in her eyes was caught by Su Xiaosi.
Two days later, Su Xiaosi, carrying her Tsinghua and Peking University undergraduate diplomas and luggage, took up her post less than two weeks before the Spring Festival holiday in 1994 to help the town government with year-end financial settlement, auditing, filing, and risk control.
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