On the street where a cold wind was blowing, Li Yueniang followed nimbly behind her grandson who was carrying two large bags.
"Jin Dong, are you tired?"
"Grandma, I'm not tired. I'm full of energy!"
"Haha, I'm so happy."
"It has to be you, Grandma!"
"Did you see that? When we left with our bags, that family was completely dumbfounded."
Hahaha~
"This is the first time I've seen Su Chang'an suffer such a huge loss. It feels even better than taking a magic pill!"
Su Jindong mimicked his grandmother's tone, "I just said I'd bring it over for you to see, but now that you've seen it, I'm taking it with me!"
Hahaha~
Li Yueniang was infected by Su Jindong's laughter and laughed along with him.
"Hey, don't get too cocky. People say you learn from your mistakes. This trick can only be used once. You won't be so easy to fool again!"
"Qin Xiangxiang hasn't seen me for half a year. She's probably having a good time and has even lowered her guard against me."
"Starting today, her resentment level has surged dramatically. Given her personality, she's probably going to fall ill again."
"I think I should go around them less often these days, lest I anger her to death and leave your grandfather without anyone to take care of him."
The grandmother and grandson rushed home, put down their things, and started opening red envelopes and counting money.
"I am sixty-six."
"I'm also sixty-six."
Su Jindong laughed like a complete idiot.
"Su Chang'an and Su Meifang are really generous! I'm so lucky!"
"You got off easy. Qin Xiangxiang wanted to save face in front of your grandfather, but he didn't even know how much money was inside."
"Hahaha, it'll probably make her vomit to death."
"Grandma, she won't do anything to Grandpa, will she?"
Su Jindong was a little worried about Su Yi. He had to admit that his grandfather had been very good to him, and he also hoped that Su Yi would be well.
"No, no!"
“Your grandfather earns over 160 yuan a month, she can’t bear to see him die.”
"Besides, she always thought your grandfather was hiding a great treasure, so she wouldn't dare to go too far until she got it out of him!"
Su Jindong asked mysteriously, "Grandma, does our Su family really have a great treasure?"
"You were just reminiscing with Grandpa about the glory of the Su family, the great merchant family in Northwest China. Is that true?"
Li Yueniang twitched the corner of her mouth, "Of course it's true. How could someone who hasn't actually lived that kind of life describe it in such detail? The Su family was a famous business in the Northwest back then, known as the Confucian merchants of the Northwest, and they had a lot of influence in the area. Even when the Japanese invaded our region, they didn't dare to do anything to the Su family!"
"It's a pity that your ancestors didn't accumulate any good karma and ran into that wicked son of your grandfather, who angered your great-grandfather and great-grandmother to death!"
"Otherwise, you would be a young master from a wealthy family now!"
"It's also your great-grandmother's fault for being so shrewd. If she had left behind a few illegitimate sons back then, the family business wouldn't have been ruined by that fool of your grandfather."
Su Jindong felt a surge of excitement. "Grandma, does Grandpa really have a hidden treasure?"
"What a load of rubbish!"
"Given how open and honest he is with his country, does he seem like the kind of person who would keep secrets from others?"
"If we had really left something behind, your father, your uncle, and I wouldn't have had such a hard life back then!"
Li Yueniang's thoughts drifted back to decades ago, when she was raising two young children all by herself.
Those were truly tough times.
After the second child was born, the father-in-law also passed away. After burying him, they had almost no money left except for that small courtyard.
She was a young mistress from a wealthy family, carrying one child on her back and holding another's hand, working day and night for others.
During the most difficult times, and even for a long period of time, I would take my child to the streets to pick up other people's rotten vegetable leaves to eat.
If it weren't for the fact that the Su family was relatively kind to their servants and had accumulated some goodwill, with the dismissed housekeeper and a few maids secretly helping them out and giving them advice so that they could take their children to the local government and get a suitable job, they might have starved to death long ago.
Li Yueniang sighed, placed the red envelope in her hand on the table, and gently touched her chest.
As she gets older, she really can't bear to look back on the past. Whenever she thinks back to those days, she misses her long-cherished ambition.
Li Yueniang's eyes welled up with tears; she had a premonition that her Changzhi was still alive.
She knows Changzhi will definitely come back to find her. She needs to take good care of herself and wait for Changzhi to return.
Su Jindong did not sense any emotional fluctuations in Li Yueniang.
He stuffed the money back into the red envelope and said to Li Yueniang.
"Grandma, I don't think Aunt Qin and the two Su siblings look alike. They've been holding back for so many years, maybe Grandpa really does have something!"
Li Yueniang scoffed.
What do you think of your grandfather's mental state?
"Let me tell you, when he was young he was just like you, a real hillbilly, and he would explode if someone provoked him."
"If he really had something in his hands, how could Qin Xiangxiang have gotten a chance?"
“I dug it out for him eight hundred years ago.”
Su Jindong thought about Li Yueniang's actions over the years, "That makes sense!"
"So, Aunt Qin really isn't very bright!"
"It's not that she's not smart, it's that she still hasn't figured out your grandfather after all these years."
"She's very smart!"
"I always thought your grandfather was like her, hiding his true intentions. Plus, I've been making trouble for your grandfather all these years, giving her misleading ideas and false impressions from time to time."
"That's why she firmly believed that your grandfather must have something."
Su Jindong chuckled, "Grandma, that was a brilliant move! No wonder she can be so patient!"
"If it were anyone else, she would have exploded by now if you made such a scene!"
Li Yueniang snorted coldly, "Don't think she's been taken advantage of by following your master."
"Back then, she was just a refugee who was rescued halfway through the journey. She followed the army for a while, helped the army nurses take care of the wounded, and then became a half-baked nurse."
"If she hadn't gone with your grandpa, she would either have been sent home or arranged by the higher-ups for a social event. Maybe she'd be back with some wounded veteran now, farming the land."
"She'll only ever have to put up with my temper in her whole life. She doesn't have any in-laws to serve her, and when she goes out, she's known as the division commander's wife, so everyone gives her face."
"If it weren't for your grandfather's name, how could she, with her unorthodox background, become the head nurse of the XX Military Region General Hospital?"
"Even if her Qin family's ancestral graves were to emit auspicious smoke, it wouldn't be her turn!"
"How could we still live such a good life and raise both of our children so well to be sent to the military region?"
Li Yueniang became more and more resentful as she spoke. She had worked so hard to raise Su Yi to adulthood, sent her parents-in-law away, and raised her two sons with a brutal upheaval. She had finally made it through, only to be kicked out by a group of people, and even lost one of her sons.
"Ugh, I'm not going to talk about it anymore. If I talk too much, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist going to his house and knocking on his door all night!"
"It's freezing cold, scaring them to death is secondary, I just hope I don't get cold!"
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