Grandma almost laughed at her words, looking at her as if she were crazy. "Xia Lanjiao, are you trying to sell your granddaughter into my house? Are you ignorant of the law or are you mentally ill?"
Xia Lanjiao's face changed color repeatedly as her grandmother scolded her, but she had to keep a smile on her face.
With a serious expression, Su Xixi said in perfect cooperation with her grandmother, "Grandma, Chinese law stipulates that marriage is prohibited between direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations."
"What do you know, you little girl? What marriage law? Those are rules made by peasants. In the Qing Dynasty, nobles like us had to marry close relatives to ensure the purity of our bloodline!" Xia Lanjiao gave Su Qianqian no kind look.
She had already found out that Su Xixi and Su Lei were children of the second wife of the Su family, and were even illegitimate children.
She was already being insulted by that old bitch Xia Lanxin, but what kind of thing is a bastard daughter to dare to insult her?
She immediately said to her grandmother, "Sister, you're really something. Our eldest grandson is so kind, keeping these two bastards at home, and you didn't even say anything about it."
"Although our Su family is large and wealthy, we can't keep supporting those freeloaders forever!"
Susie clenched her fists in anger, but glanced cautiously at her grandmother.
No matter her brothers, grandparents, uncles, aunts, or cousins, they always treated Ruan Ruan the same. But ever since she became aware of things, her background has been a wound in her heart.
Now, with the warmth of family, that wound has scabbed over, but once it's brought up, it's like tearing the scar open again, revealing a bloody wound.
She lowered her head, and even began to wonder if she was really not good enough and didn't deserve to stay in this house.
After all, Su Lei was able to get into the gifted youth program on his own and protect Ruan Ruan, but she couldn't do anything and was like a useless person.
Little Ruanruan grabbed her sister's hand, her cheeks puffed out in anger, like a little pufferfish.
Her bright, watery eyes were filled with coldness. This old woman was something else, daring to poke at her sister's sore spot like that!
Grandma and Grandpa's faces darkened even more. Grandpa didn't even care that Xia Lanjiao was a woman anymore, and picked up his cane to chase her away.
Grandma snatched the cane from Grandpa's hand, "Old man, I'll take care of myself!"
As she spoke, she swung her cane at Xia Lanjiao, yelling, "Who do you think you are, coming to my house to look down on my granddaughter? Get out!"
Xia Lanjiao called out as she pulled Xia Yumeng away from her crutches.
Xia Yumeng was a bit more eloquent than Xia Lanjiao, and quickly said, "Grandma, don't be angry. Grandma misspoke in a moment of anger."
"But when you elders are speaking, my little sister Qianqian interrupted without permission, and as a junior, she even lectured my grandma. She was also in the wrong!"
Her words directly used the concept of upbringing to intimidate, implying that Su Xixi lacked manners.
But Grandma wasn't having any of it. She swung her cane at the two of them, yelling, "Get lost! My granddaughter can say whatever she wants. It's none of your business!"
"Grandma, you can't be so unreasonable!"
"Ha, you've all come to my doorstep, it would be unreasonable of me not to teach you a lesson!" Grandma said, already chasing them out of the garden.
Just then, the maid was washing the floor with a high-pressure water gun.
Grandma grabbed the water gun from the maid and sprayed Xia Lanjiao and her granddaughter Xia Yumeng.
The grandfather and grandson were instantly propelled away by the immense pressure of the high-pressure water gun, landing sprawled on the ground in an awkward and disheveled state.
Just then, Su Yiqing, who had heard the commotion in the study on the second floor, came out and glanced at the situation in the courtyard. Before he could say anything, Xiao Ruanruan came running up to him on her little feet and loudly complained, "Big brother, that old lady scolded my sister!"
Xia Yumeng originally had no feelings for Su Yiqing. She was taught from a young age that she should marry into a powerful family to secure the greatest benefit for her family.
So, whoever Xia Lanjiao favors, whoever she wants her to marry, or whoever she wants to seduce, she will obey.
However, the moment she saw Su Yiqing, her breath hitched and her heart skipped a beat.
She never felt anything for the men her grandmother introduced her to before.
But Su Yiqing was truly moved...
Although the man was dressed simply in a white shirt and suit pants, and even just a pair of comfortable cotton slippers, he seemed to radiate light. After just one glance, she couldn't take her eyes off him.
Su Yiqing didn't even glance at her, her eyes filled with a chilling coldness. What could make the old lady so angry? And although Qianqian, who was standing to the side, tried her best to hide her emotions, the disappointment and inferiority in her beautiful eyes could not be concealed at all!
He gave Fu Wen a look.
Fu Wen immediately understood and stepped forward to say to his grandmother, "Grandma, let me do it!"
"No need!" Grandma refused without even thinking. "I'll flush the trash away myself, that'll be much better! Go get two big brooms and sweep the trash out for me!"
"Okay!" Fu Wen agreed, but his eye twitched. The two women from the Xiao family were truly formidable!
Taking advantage of her grandmother's moment of respite, Xia Lanjiao continued to shout, "Xia Lanxin, I am your own sister. I came to you with good intentions to make peace, and you treat me like this. How can you face your own conscience?"
"How can you face your father after you die?"
"Gag her!" Grandma roared, and picked up the high-pressure water gun again.
They didn't return, panting, until they had pushed the grandfather and grandson out of the Su family's gate.
Looking at Qianqian's forced smile, she revealed a gentle smile, squatted down and hugged Qianqian's shoulders, saying, "Qianqian, don't take that old woman's words to heart. In Grandma's heart, you and Ruanruan are the same, both are Grandma's own granddaughters."
"I know, Grandma!" Sisi leaned against her grandmother's chest, answering her words, but tears streamed down her face involuntarily.
Little Ruanruan also took her sister's hand and said in a sweet, firm voice, "Sister, you will always, always, always be Ruanruan's best and only sister."
Su Xixi raised her hand and wiped the tears off her face haphazardly. She hugged her grandmother's neck with one hand and held Ruan Ruan's hand with the other.
Seeing this, Su Yiqing's lips softened slightly, but her eyes remained icy cold.
The old woman from the Xia family reopened the wounds in Su Xixi's heart that had finally begun to heal, and he certainly wouldn't let it go!
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