Chapter 602 is meaningless.
Su Laosan stopped in his tracks, and after a long while, he let out a breath and said, "We two will not get married. Some things have happened, and our two families are no longer suitable to be related by marriage."
"That……"
Su Hongying was taken aback. Seeing that Su Laosan hadn't even given her a glimpse of his face, she realized something was amiss. She didn't continue talking about Fang Erniu, but instead asked him, "...What are your plans? To marry someone else?"
"What knot?"
Su Laosan glanced back at her and said irritably, "It's not worth it, there's no point in getting married."
"ah……"
Su Hongying sighed inwardly, looking at the fireworks and firecrackers set off by her neighbors not far away. She opened her mouth, but swallowed the words back.
"You weren't included when we bought the house. My older brothers both have families to support, so it's not suitable for you to stay here. Mom, you can forget about it. If you want to stay overnight, you'll have to stay here with me. How many days are you planning to stay?"
Su Laosan abruptly changed the subject.
Su Hongying nodded and smiled, saying, "It's already very good. All these years I've been away from home, I've been dreaming of this day when I can have New Year's Eve dinner at home."
Su Laosan glanced at the smile on her face and snorted.
"You all deserve what you sow."
"...Yes, I deserve it."
Su Hongying let out a long sigh of relief and looked at Su Laosan, "Third Brother, do you think there's any way to get Mom to forgive me?"
"Yes, there is," Su Laosan replied without hesitation.
Su Hongying was stunned, then her eyes lit up and she asked excitedly, "What method?"
"Let's turn back time, back to before you said those stupid things and did those stupid things!"
Su Laosan glared at her.
Su Hongying exclaimed "Ah!", her eyes darkening, and she said dejectedly, "I knew it wouldn't be that easy."
"Of course it's not that easy."
Su Laosan looked up at the sky illuminated by the cannon fire and asked Su Hongying amidst the crackling sounds, "What's wrong with that driver? He was giving you weird looks. Are you two dating?"
Su Hongying smiled and readily admitted it.
"We were talking. His surname is Mo. He's a retired soldier from my uncle's unit. I took the same train with him when I went to the south. Later, I went to Hong Kong to work as an actress. I kept running into some... savory... pig's trotters at events, so I asked Uncle Jiang to let him be my bodyguard. He's someone who saved my life. We spent a lot of time together and developed feelings for each other. That's how it is."
Su Laosan hummed in agreement and said, "You've already died once, so you know what you want and just don't make the wrong choice again."
Su Hongying nodded.
He turned to look at Su Laosan and said with a smile, "Third Brother, I'm quite satisfied with my life now, except..."
Su Laosan exchanged a glance with her, immediately understanding the meaning behind her unfinished words, and brushed off his clothes.
"It's no use talking to me like that. A broken heart isn't so easy to mend. You... just wait and see, in your lifetime."
After saying that, he started walking towards his house.
"Third Brother..."
Su Laosan didn't turn around, but raised his hand and waved.
"Sleep well, you can have anything in your dreams."
Su Hongying stood in the courtyard, watching the crackling sounds for a long time. Just before dawn, she lay down fully clothed and dozed off for a while. As the sky began to lighten, the door to Su Laosan's room opened.
Su Hongying dozed off in bed for a while when her phone vibrated in her pocket.
She answered the phone; it was Mo calling to remind her, "Our flight is at ten o'clock. Today is the first day of the lunar new year, so there will be traffic jams on the road. We need to leave early."
"...Have you already set off to pick me up?" Su Hongying asked.
Mo said, "We've arrived at the gate of the courtyard."
Su Hongying said "oh" and then left after saying goodbye to her family.
After leaving Su Laosan's courtyard, I walked back to the main room where we had our New Year's Eve dinner the night before. The food was already on the table, and even the children in the family had gotten up.
Upon seeing her, they rushed over with beaming smiles, one grabbing her arm, another her leg. Su Jiale shouted, "Ready, set!" and several people called out with laughter, "Auntie, Happy New Year! Wishing you prosperity and good fortune! Give us your red envelopes!"
Su Hongying froze for three seconds, then hurriedly reached for her coat pocket, remembering that she had brought a red envelope with her.
Yao Jianshu smiled and took her cashmere coat.
Su Hongying thanked them, took out a thick stack of red envelopes, and handed them out one by one.
As she said, she prepared gifts for everyone in her family, including red envelopes.
Because we didn't know exactly how many children we had, we prepared more than a dozen, just in case someone was missing.
She handed the thickest one to Li Banxia last.
Li Banxia took it and said, "Thank you for your kindness. Let's eat."
Su Hongying's eyes crinkled with joy, completely forgetting what Brother Mo had said. After finishing her meal, she lingered for a while before finally deciding to leave.
Su Laosan saw the person out.
When she reached the gate of the courtyard, Su Hongying turned around and saw her family standing there looking at her. Her nose tingled with emotion, and she raised her hand to wave to them.
He said to Su Laosan, "Third Brother, I don't want to go back to Gangcheng. I want to stay with Mom."
Su Laosan nodded.
She said, "Think it over. Everyone in the family has their own things to do. What can you do if you stay with Mom? The development of movies and TV series in mainland China is far behind that in Hong Kong. If you come back, your career may stop there."
"Sister Mingyue."
The gate opened, and the assistant smiled and waved as he got out of the back seat to greet her. When he saw Su Laosan, he smiled and nodded in greeting, but did not call him "brother-in-law" again.
Su Laosan nodded to her and looked at Su Hongying.
Su Hongying took a deep breath, "...Then I'm leaving. I'll come back after Mom's birthday. There's a Disneyland in Hong Kong, it's full of fun things. You can take Mom there when you have time."
Su Laosan glanced at her sideways and asked, "Are you sure that thing is suitable for our mom to play with?"
Su Hongying: "...Never mind what I said."
"Let's go, it'll take at least an hour to get to the airport, we're in a rush." Seeing that she was dragging her feet and reluctant to leave, Su Laosan simply told her to hurry up and leave.
Su Hongying's eyes were a little red. She looked past Su Laosan and glanced back again, then called out "Mom."
Then, he abruptly turned his head, got into the car, and didn't look back.
"Brother Su, we're leaving." The assistant waved his hand, the driver nodded to Su Laosan, started the car and drove away.
Su Laosan watched the car drive out of the alley before reaching out to close the gate.
The car turned off and onto the main road.
Su Hongying asked Hu Erya, "What's going on between your cousin Fang Erniu and my third brother?"
Hu Erya sighed and told Su Hongying what she had found out all night about what the Fang family had done.
"...Brother Su originally planned to secretly contact my cousin through my eldest cousin's wife. My eldest cousin's wife felt that the two of them still had a chance and wanted them to get married, using...the Su brothers' abilities to pave the way for her son. My cousin found out and immediately arranged for her son to transfer schools, stopped her from renting the apartment, and stopped her from contacting Brother Su again. Now..."
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