Chapter 5: The Fake Daughter of a Prominent Family
After hearing this, Su Zhengming and Su Yu both glanced at Su Youran. Su Yu spoke before Su Zhengming did:
"Of course, it's not polite to call someone by their name."
“What’s wrong? If not my name, what should I call you?” Su Youran pouted. “Young Master Ye, Master Ye?”
Su Yu stood up and sat next to her, hugging her shoulders: "Ranran doesn't like him?"
"It's just a stranger, what's there to like or dislike?"
Su Youran fiddled with her fingers leisurely:
"You take the so-called engagement seriously, but the other party may not be serious. If I wasn't here today, I guess he would have said something unpleasant in public after the third brother said that."
She put her hand down angrily: "Then how can I still have face in Sucheng? Everyone will laugh at me!"
Su Yu's face turned cold: "Let's see who dares?!"
"The mouth is on someone's face. Can Big Brother control everyone? Even if he can control his mouth, can he control what others think?"
Su Yu hugged her again and quickly coaxed her:
"Alright, alright, don't be angry anymore. He didn't say anything, did he? You can take it out on him for something that didn't happen, but don't take it out on me, your big brother."
He coaxed her for a long time before Su Youran was willing to give him a smile.
Su Zhengming looked at his two children helplessly, then looked at Su De who was also looking at the brother and sister:
"How do you know that?"
This so-called marriage was actually a joke. Ye Jiuzhou's mother and Wu Shuxian were close friends and had a very good relationship. When they were pregnant, they joked about marrying their children to each other.
But didn’t the couple give birth to only sons later on? So naturally the marriage didn’t work out.
Later, the two of them became distant from each other, and Wu Shuxian was gradually distracted by the trivial matters of the Su family and Aunt Liu, so they contacted less frequently.
Unexpectedly, not long after Wu Shuxian gave birth to a daughter, Ye Jiuzhou's mother wrote again to bring up the matter of marriage.
At that time, the Ye family was developing rapidly, and Wu Shuxian asked Su Zhengming for his opinion. Su Zhengming pondered for a long time and said nothing.
The attitude is already tacit.
It was just that it was not Mr. Ye Bangpeng who mentioned it to him personally, so he couldn't agree directly. He had to get his wife's consent first and then see what the other party thought.
If Ye Bangpeng is also willing, then everyone will be happy, the marriage will come true, and it will benefit both families.
If the engagement was only Mrs. Ye's idea, and Mr. Ye had other ideas, Su Zhengming could also say that he was also unaware of it and that the two women acted on their own.
But when Wu Shuxian replied and agreed to the marriage, the Ye family even sent the engagement letter and token of trust in a formal manner.
Then Su Zhengming would of course regard this engagement as valid.
The master and mistress of both branches of the Su family knew about this matter, but the younger generation should not be aware of it.
Su Youran knew this because Chuntao's mother was Wu Shuxian's maid who came with her as a dowry. She once let the secret slip when she was teasing her when they were young. So she knew from a young age that she had a childhood fiancé.
Lin Sheng knew this because his father, Uncle Lin, was the steward of the mansion, and he was the one who was responsible for sending gifts to the Ye family every year.
Even Su Yu only vaguely knew that his family had a special relationship with the Ye family, but he didn't know how special it was.
Of course, this was also related to Su Zhengming's previous wait-and-see attitude.
The world is in chaos these days and things are changing too fast. The Ye family seems to be doing well now, but there is no guarantee that something will go wrong in the future.
Su Youran is his only legitimate daughter, and she is so outstanding. Su Zhengming is unwilling to reveal his trump card when the situation is still unclear.
But now even the good-for-nothing Su De knows about it, is there anyone in the Su Mansion who doesn’t know about it?
Su Zhengming felt that his authority as the head of the family was challenged. I didn't intend to tell anyone, but you all knew about it, and now you are spreading it widely. What do you want to do? !
Therefore, he looked at Su De with a very cold look and asked again: "Who told you?"
Su De then realized that this was still a secret. He instantly became even more frightened, and his voice was trembling:
"Yes... yes... mother... mother told my elder sister... I... just happened to hear it..."
Su Zhengming slammed the table hard, this Aunt Liu!
He seemed to have mentioned it to her when he was drunk, but why did she tell it specifically to Su Meiming?
Are you trying to snatch this marriage away?
Let her dream her big dream!
Su Zhengming got up angrily, opened the door of the study, and instead of going downstairs, he stood upstairs and shouted:
“Forestry, forestry!”
Butler Lin Bo quickly responded and was about to come up: "Master, I'm here."
Su Zhengming waved his hand towards him and said angrily:
"Mrs. Liu has misbehaved and is under house arrest for three months. Do it now, immediately, right away!"
Aunt Liu, who didn't know what was going on downstairs, screamed:
"Master! Master! What have I done wrong?"
Su Meiming also rushed to the stairs and looked up: "Dad!"
Su Zhengming glanced at her coldly: "If you want to beg for mercy, then you will also be grounded."
Su Meiming shut up instantly, unable to utter a single word.
Su Zhengming couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or something else. He didn't even have the courage to plead with his mother...
He didn't look at anyone else and turned back to the study.
Aunt Liu was still screaming:
"Master! Please listen to me. What did I do to anger you like this? Or did that guy deliberately frame me with ill intentions? Master!"
As he shouted, he began to cry, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Wu Shuxian looked over coldly. Was he saying that her children said bad things about her?
Oh.
Wu Shuxian instructed Lin Bo:
"Didn't you hear what the master said? What kind of place is this? How can we allow her to make such a noise? Take her away immediately, and reduce her meals by half during the period of confinement. These are my words, and I will tell you when the master asks."
Aunt Liu raised her head in anger, and Wu Shuxian looked back at her:
"Leave only one maid to serve, and transfer all the others out."
Aunt Liu gritted her teeth in hatred, but dared not look anymore, for fear that Wu Shuxian would take back even this little treatment.
The two maids came forward to pull Aunt Liu, but Aunt Liu threw her sleeves and said, "I'll walk by myself!"
A temporary loss of power doesn't mean anything. Before she became a concubine, she suffered much more in the opera troupe, but she managed to get through it, didn't she?
Aunt Liu glanced at Su Meiming, who was hiding aside and not daring to say a word. She still had hope.
In the study, Su De had already knelt down in fear. Su Youran stood up and pulled Su Zhengming's sleeve, saying coquettishly:
"Dad, don't be angry. If you get sick from anger, no one will compensate you."
Su Zhengming poked her forehead unhappily:
"No matter what you think, let's meet him tomorrow first. As for whether or not to get engaged..."
He hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's talk about it after tomorrow."
"Well, it's only for Dad's sake that I'm reluctantly condescending to meet him."
Su Zhengming didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He wanted to poke her again, but when he saw the place he had just poked turned red, he couldn't bear it anymore and could only sigh:
“You!”
He patted Su Youran's arm, his tone somewhat melancholy:
"Of course, Dad doesn't want to force you, but you have to know that this world is very chaotic, and you are so beautiful. Dad can protect you now, but what about in the future? Ye Jiuzhou is the strongest among so many young talents in Shanghai. Only with such a person can Dad rest assured to hand you over to him."
Su Youran hugged his arms tightly:
"Dad, you just said I was talking nonsense, but look at what you are saying now? You are still so young, you can stand out and charm a lot of girls, why can't you protect me forever?"
She gently leaned her head on Su Zhengming's shoulder and tried to pull Su Yu:
"Besides, don't I still have my elder brother? I will rely on you for the rest of my life."
Su Yu rubbed her head:
"Yes, yes, I'll let you stay here forever! But are you tired now, little ancestor? Do you want to go to sleep?"
Su Youran shook her head:
"I've been on the boat for too long. I still feel like I'm swaying on the boat. I need to take a nap. I can't sleep well on the boat."
Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered that she had brought back another person:
"Ah! I almost forgot, there was another person who came back with me. His name is A Da. I asked Chun Tao to place him in the back first. Don't forget to send someone to check if everything is settled. Big brother, we are so grateful to him for this trip."
In addition to the main building of the Su Mansion, there is also a small building at the back, where Lin Bo and Chuntao's family live.
Su Yu frowned slightly:
"Did anyone figure it out? You're really brave, letting him follow you back like that?"
Su Youran stuck out her tongue:
"Don't worry, Master is very good. We have known each other for several years. It's just that he was injured and forgot a lot of things. He even forgot where his home is. How pitiful."
Now even Su Zhengming was worried:
"I don't know his background. What if he is a bad guy? You were still abroad at that time. If something really happened, your family would be unable to help you. Don't be kind-hearted anymore!"
Su Youran let go of the two people and quickly escaped:
"Okay, okay, anyway, Ah Da is a good man, big brother, you take care of him for me. Oh, I'm so sleepy, I want to go to sleep for a while."
Su Zhengming and Su Yu were left shaking their heads helplessly. Su Yu said:
"Dad, let me go check on the A-Da in Ranran's mouth first. If there is no problem, I will come over."
We also need to talk about Ye Jiuzhou's sudden visit. He has taken over the Ye family for a while, and he didn't come earlier or later, but he sent a visiting card today after meeting Ranran, which made people think too much.
Su Zhengming nodded, looked at Su De who was still kneeling, and his tone became bad again:
"You should go back too!"
Su Youran had just entered the bedroom. She looked around and found that the room was spotless as new. Everything was arranged exactly the same as before she went abroad. It must have been cleaned every day.
She walked to the bed and touched the quilt. It was soft and fluffy and smelled of sunshine. It seemed that it had just been exposed to the sun.
Su Youran casually lay down and sighed comfortably, “How wonderful it is to have a day like this.”
You don't have to worry about anything, everything is taken care of. If you want something, just raise your hand and someone will give it to you.
Why doesn't she just live like this and have to live a hard life?
Although such a hard life was what the original body should have lived, who made her selfish?
But if you want to live like this forever, it's not enough now...
Su Youran closed her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth. Ye Jiuzhou...
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