Su Changqing discovered that after returning this time, the relationship between his wife and daughter had improved by leaps and bounds.
Before it even got dark, the two were already lying in bed, embracing each other and whispering secrets.
"Your head is so heavy, why do you keep pressing on my stomach!"
"Your belly is soft and comfortable to press on, so I'm going to press on it!"
"Get out of here!!"
"No way, I'm still a baby!"
"Get lost, you two-hundred-month-old baby?"
"So what if it's been over two hundred months? You gave birth to them even if it's been 2000 months!"
"Have some decency!"
As they were talking, the two started fighting again.
Then they were fine again, then they started arguing again, and soon they were all huddled together again...
Fearing the two might actually get into a fight, Su Changqing could only call out every now and then, "Water, Qingci, pour me a glass of water, Weihua~"
He had already drunk water four times that night.
Just as he was about to call for the fifth time, Xu Weihua yanked off the blanket and glared at him, saying, "Su Changqing, if you keep calling, do you believe I'll pour a whole basin of water down your throat and make you wet the bed?!"
Su Changqing stiffened his neck, and the words "I want to drink water" were instantly swallowed back down.
Xu Weihua pulled the blanket over herself.
Su Qingci immediately asked, "When did you arrive? Are Su Jindong and I both your children?"
"How could that be? If I had come earlier, I would definitely have chosen to be childless. If abandonment weren't illegal, I would have abandoned you in my previous life. You're so annoying, calling me 'Mommy, Mommy, Mommy' all day long. It's only because I'm not brain-dead that I'm so strong."
Xu Weihua said disdainfully, "Have you forgotten how you were when you were little? You cried all the time, and once you started crying, you couldn't stop. When you couldn't stop, you got tonsillitis, and when you got tonsillitis, you got a fever. When you got a fever, I had to stay up for several nights. Do you think I could still have any maternal love after all the torment you caused me?"
“When I came here, you were both almost ten years old.”
Su Qingci was already used to the old fairy Xu Weihua's tone and didn't find it offensive at all.
"What happened this time? With your abilities, you shouldn't have been sent to the countryside."
Xu Weihua rolled her eyes. "You've been reading too many novels. Think about it, how many famous figures and giants died in this era? No matter how late I came, how could I possibly fight against the overall situation?"
"I'm already pretty lucky to have survived."
"By the way, what happened to you?"
"You're not going to just forcefully take over and ruin my daughter, are you? That would be so unethical."
Su Qingci quickly retorted, "How could that be? When I came, that little girl had a fever. She was terrified on the train and didn't dare to say anything. She died from the fever. Even if I hadn't come, she would still be gone."
Xu Weihua remained silent for a moment. Although the previous child wasn't her own, she was still this body's daughter, that delicate and timid little girl, much easier to care for than Su Qingci. Her loss still left her feeling somewhat uneasy...
"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. How do you know I'm mine?"
Su Qingci replied, "Although I came later, I still have my memories of the earlier times. Plus, when you wrote to me later asking for money and things, I looked at your scraggly handwriting and it looked so much like yours."
Xu Weihua tapped Su Qingci's forehead impatiently. "Stop talking nonsense. My movements were like dragons and phoenixes dancing, not like chicken claws and dogs crawling. Let me tell you, I'm a cultured person now. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."
Su Qingci felt a finger flick at her forehead and immediately flicked it back, not to be outdone. "Didn't you hate men? Didn't you say you were against marriage? How come you're so inseparable from my dad?"
"Look at what you're saying. Do you think divorce is as common as it is in later years? He still has your grandfather above him. In this environment, how could I get a divorce? What if someone puts a label on me and I get arrested? There will be no one to help me. Besides, your grandma is good, your dad has a high salary and is honest, and he's a hopeless romantic. Why would I get a divorce?"
Su Qingci said leisurely, "The main problem is that you don't have enough money and you don't want to do housework, right?"
"You brat, can't you speak properly?"
"Okay, okay, talk to me properly. What's wrong with you all? You almost lost your lives as soon as you got back?"
When this matter was brought up, Xu Weihua's face became serious. She recalled how the couple had behaved in that small county town and hadn't offended anyone. They had also been quite low-key on the train journey.
She quickly recalled her brief encounter with the man in the hat outside the half-open door during her hazy moments earlier.
“Your father and I have kept a very low profile outside. We don’t interact with outsiders much, and we haven’t had any conflicts with anyone along the way.”
"The door was locked from the outside when the fire started, so they weren't after money, but rather after lives."
“This person is probably someone the Su family has offended locally, and he has some power. He can find out that your father and I came back, and he knows exactly which train we took and when we arrived.”
Su Qingci thought for a moment and asked, "Logically speaking, you and Dad shouldn't be back so soon, right? Isn't the general lifting of restrictions still a year or two away?"
Xu Weihua shook her head and said, "I don't know either. It was arranged by your grandma. You'll have to ask your grandma."
Listening to Xu Weihua's previous analysis, Su Qingci immediately thought of Qin Xiangxiang's family, but how did they know that her parents would come back?
Could it be that the liberation order this time involved their interests?
If that's the case, then it's probably the other side that did it this time. After all, Qin Xiangxiang has basically been ruined, and they must hate their lineage to the core, especially their grandmother.
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