Chapter 134: One Thousand Taels
Su Ruojin quietly comforted her anxious mother while instantly switching to the drama channel. As if she had received a super happy dumpling, her eyes widened exaggeratedly, "Really? Grandma?"
As if the action wasn't exaggerated enough, he simply slid down from the chair and walked around to Qian's side with an excited look on his face. "In a few days, my family will attend the flower show held by the Prince of Jin's Mansion. My mother is worried about not having nice clothes and headwear. Grandmother, we are going to your house. You can help us prepare all these, right?"
The young lady looked so excited and greedy that Qian was so disgusted that she almost vomited the few bites she had just eaten.
Do you think that's all?
"My mother and I have taken a fancy to a set of headwear from Zhucui Pavilion, and we would like to ask grandma to help us get it." Su Ruojin continued to exaggerate, "I tell you grandma, that headwear is very beautiful, and it only costs one thousand taels..."
if only……
Qian almost asked the housekeeper to come up and slap Su Ruojin in the face. She didn't expect that a girl born of a maid would have such a big appetite. She asked for one thousand taels before she even entered the house.
You wish!
Qian's face turned blue and red as she listened, but Su Ruojin seemed not to notice. She waited for Qian to speak with an innocent and silly look on her face. She waited and waited... Her little face became lost and sad as the atmosphere in the private room became more and more depressing.
As if something dear to her was taken away from her, she pursed her lips and turned to her stepfather, as if she was about to cry. "Grandfather, is one thousand taels too much? That's the Prince of Jin's Mansion. If we don't wear such a nice headdress, the people in the palace will look down on us."
Su Dekai: ...
Qian: ...
He was obviously weak and timid, so how come he suddenly became so greedy and difficult?
Would Su Ruojin let them go like this?
She turned around and threw herself into Su Yanli's arms, crying loudly, "I want to buy... Dad, I want to buy the beautiful headdress from Zhucui Pavilion. Let's go back now and move our home to my grandparents. I don't want to live in poverty anymore, and I don't want to stand on a small stool and be a nanny anymore..."
The word "old maid" touched Cheng Yingzhen, and she could no longer hold back and started crying along with her daughter, "Ajin... my poor Ajin... it's my mother who is useless... it's my mother who is sorry for you..."
Su Sanlang, who was eating happily, was frightened by his elder sister's crying. He was only five years old and had no idea what was going on. He stared at everyone blankly. When his mother started crying, he was frightened and quickly slid down the armchair and threw himself into his mother's arms, howling along with her, "Mother... Mother..."
When we went out today, Su Dalang was in the academy, while Su Silang did not go out because he was young, and secondly, he was used to being taken care of by Ding. But Ding's current identity was fake, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Ding usually did not go out, so little Silang did not go out either.
For a moment, the private room became like a concentration camp for crying babies.
The person involved, Su Yanzu, acted as if nothing had happened. He held the teacup and took a sip from time to time while looking at the mother and her two children who were crying loudly. He glanced at his brother Su Yanli with a half-smile.
No way, why didn't the stepfather and stepmother take any action? Wasn't her acting enough?
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Su Ruojin suddenly left Su Yanli's embrace and reached out to pull him back: "Dad, let's go back and pack our things. It's just right for us to live in the big house with our grandparents. Let's go..."
Seeing that Su Yanli was about to be pulled up by his daughter, Qian couldn't bear it any longer and slammed the bowl in front of her, "Enough!"
The crying in the private room stopped abruptly.
Su Ruojin seemed to be frightened. She threw herself into her father's arms again, then turned her head, raised her tearful eyelashes high, and looked at Qian in horror, "Dad... Dad... I... Can't we live in a big house?"
As a man and an elder, Su Dekai could only snort coldly.
No matter what, it was the mistress Qian who had to deal with it. "Su Yanli, are these the good children you raised?"
Of course his children are perfect in every way. Su Yanli wanted to argue, but was suppressed by Su Ruojin. She still looked innocent and asked, "Can't my father spend the money earned by my grandfather?"
Su Ruojin's words were like a bomb that woke Qian up. Ever since her eldest son passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, he never asked for a penny from his family, which gave her the illusion that her eldest son had become detached from the family.
From the time she planned to go to Beijing until now when she was standing in the capital, she had been calculating the connections of her eldest son and had long forgotten that he should have a share of the Su family's property.
Feeling that she had finally hit the weak spot, Su Ruojin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. No matter how good the Su family was at making money or how much money they had, she would not take a penny. But if anyone wanted to disturb her current life, she would make them pay the price.
Don't think that she was just joking about dividing the family property. Now that she has clung to the support of Prince Jin's Mansion, it would only take a few minutes for her to become a businessman without real power.
There was silence in the private room.
Qian glanced at Su Dekai.
He stood up from his seat with a gloomy face and left with his hands behind his back.
Qian glanced at her eldest son's family dimly, and her gaze finally fell on her eight-year-old granddaughter. Her eyes were cold and sullen, and she left with a sullen face.
Su Yanzu drank the last sip of tea in the cup and stood up leisurely. His eyes were filled with a smile, peaceful and calm, yet seemed to contain infinite deep meaning. "My niece's name is Ajin, right!"
No one from the Su family responded to him.
He didn't take it seriously and smiled, "I'll remember it!" Then he left in a cool manner.
Finally, Su Yanli's family was the only one left in the private room.
As if waking up from a dream, Su Yanli sighed deeply, "Ajin..."
"Dad, I'm doing the opposite."
"Dad knows." So when his daughter pounced on him, he cooperated silently.
Cheng Yingzhen didn't understand what the father and daughter were talking about, "Ajin, are you really going to move to your grandmother's house?"
"mother……"
Cheng Yingzhen looked at her husband.
His wife was also frightened. Su Yanli walked around his daughter, walked to his wife, and half-huggled her, "Ajin is deliberately trying to scare my stepmother!"
"Then...are you scared?"
Su Yanli nodded, "Yeah."
The Su family came to Beijing to buy a house last year, and Su Yanli had no idea about it. If it weren't for Su Yanzu, Su Dekai and his wife would never have asked the housekeeper to notify Su Yanli to go to the suburbs to pick someone up. They wanted to stay away from this unrelated illegitimate eldest son and would never let him get close to them.
I got into a lot of trouble today, so I guess I won’t ask Su Yanli to move there again.
The Su family was relieved. They sat for a while and recovered before going home.
After Su Ruojin's fuss today, if it wasn't for the export, it would have been thousands of silver coins, and there were also reminders for them to divide the family property. I guess Su Dekai and his wife thought about this when they brought Su Yanli's family to their side so that they could control them more easily. However, these living expenses should not be worth mentioning for the Su family, which seems to be quite wealthy.
You can buy a small courtyard in Bianjing City with only three hundred taels, but he asked for thousands of dollars right away, which really scared Qian. No matter how rich she was, she would never spend money like this.
On the second day, Hua Ping came to teach everyone how to practice as usual. When he finished, Su Ruojin grabbed him and said, "Uncle Hua, help me find someone."
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