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178: Money is not so easy to get

(Girls' Literature)

Su Zhi was skeptical about what Lian Hua said. After all, she was not really proficient in medicine. From Zhao Yang's condition, she could only guess from her spirit that she was so energetic that she could call out that her illness was not that serious. As for whether her condition would become more serious, she was not sure.

One or two taels of silver was not a large sum for Su Zhi. If Zhao Yang was really ill, she would pay for it. She couldn't bear to see Zhao Xiaomei's mother die of illness. She just felt a little uncomfortable if they made her pay for it. She was not stingy and was sometimes quite generous, but she paid voluntarily and was not forced by others.

"Sister, you don't think that Mom is not sick and that we are lying to you, do you?"

Seeing Su Zhi looking at Zhao Yang without saying anything, Lian Hua asked, somewhat unhappily: "Sister, how can you think like this? In your heart, mother is such a person? Your poor mother has always been thinking about you these days. If you still think about her like this, you are such an ungrateful person!"

Zhao Yuanbao also came in at this time, rubbing his hands and saying with a smile: "Sister, mother is really sick, I'm not lying to you."

Su Zhi said, "When you are sick, you have to see a doctor. You can't always take the same medicine. I heard that if you take the medicine too many times and for a long time, it will not be so effective. You have to change the medicine. It just so happens that I am here this time. In order to show my filial piety, I will invite the doctor. While you are waiting to get the medicine, you don't have to pay for it. Can you go and invite the doctor now?"

"It will cost a lot of money to hire a doctor! Just take this medicine! You little girl, you have money but nowhere to spend it, so why not give it to him? You might as well give it to me."

When Zhao Yang heard that Su Zhi wanted to ask someone to call a doctor, she immediately slapped the kang and started shouting. After shouting, she held her forehead and started complaining about her headache.

"My life is so miserable. I gave birth to a concubine who had to be sent to a nunnery to be raised. My heart ached like a knife. Now I see that she was raised outside and she is not close to me at all. I am almost dying of illness, and you are still suspecting that I am faking my illness. God, please take me away and let her see if I am faking it——"

Lianhua quickly tried to persuade Zhao Yangshi. She stared at Su Zhi and said, "Sister, are you trying to piss off mom to death? I asked you to come back to see mom, not to piss her off to death!"

Su Zhi felt that the room was in chaos. It was as if Zhao Yang's scream could lift up the roof. With this strength, she was less and less convinced that she was sick. Now, they said she was cruel. Even if she gave them the silver in the end, she couldn't let them think that she was easy to control. For the sake of a peaceful life in the future, she had to be cruel! Especially when Zhao Yang mentioned that Zhao Xiaomei went to a nunnery when she was a child, she was angry for Zhao Xiaomei!

"Mom, please stop making noise. If you make more noise, the neighbors will come over. Then they will laugh at me and say I am an unfilial daughter. I will be too embarrassed to come back. Don't blame your daughter for not coming back then."

When Zhao Yang heard Su Zhi's words, her voice immediately became quiet. She was really afraid that Su Zhi would never come back. If Su Zhi came back, she would have to bring things with her. If she didn't come back, wouldn't those things be gone?

Su Zhi saw that she was threatened, and laughed in her heart, and said, "Mom, you just told me that I had a bad fate when I was a child, so you sent me to a nunnery? Later, you saw that I was sick, and you tricked me into marrying into the Shen family. Later, you never visited me once. If you and Lianhua hadn't seen me in the town, I guess you would never visit me in your life, right? Even so, you still say that you love me, and your heart hurts like a knife? Are you kidding me? You still want me to kiss you. I don't disown you now, which is good enough. You keep making trouble, which really forces me not to come back. Anyway, you don't have me as a daughter in your heart, so why don't you really treat me as spilled water and don't remember me in the future. Let's take a better path!"

Su Zhi said all this in one breath, thinking to herself, if I hadn't scared you, you would really think I was a fool! I'm still sad, what makes me sad is that I can't get the money, right?

When the Zhao family heard Su Zhi say this, they were all stunned.

Zhao Yang didn't care about making any more noises and just stared at Su Zhi.

Old man Zhao sat there with his head down, unable to say anything.

Zhao Yuanbao was busy saying, "Sister, sister, please don't say that. Dad and mom had to do this because they had no other choice. Otherwise, who would treat a girl like this? Mom, please talk to your sister. Dad, don't be silent! We are a family that is finally together, don't make things unhappy."

Zhao Yang finally came to her senses, thinking that Su Zhi was really in a hurry, and said quickly: "You cruel girl, how could you miss your mother so much? No matter how much your mother beats and scolds you, it is because she loves you. How could you miss your mother so much? You even want to stop contacting her, your heart is really eaten by a wolf! I had no choice but to send you to the nunnery. The master said that when you grow up, you can receive the mother's gift. I'm back home. In those years, your father and I always visited you, and we always brought you delicious food. In order to let the nuns take good care of you, we always gave them money. For this, we spent all the money in the family. You got sick and forgot everything. You really thought we were so cruel that we didn't want you anymore. How could you think like that? You even hated your parents, you damn girl. I won't live anymore!"

Zhao Yuanbao also said, "Sister, mother didn't lie. She and father really came to see you every year, and they always missed you at home. If you don't believe me, go ask someone in the village. Everyone knows this, and they definitely didn't lie to you. In order to see you, they left me and Lianhua to be looked after by others."

Lianhua pouted and said, "That's right. Mom made beautiful clothes for you. I don't even have them. I love you so much."

Su Zhi saw the expression on Lian Hua's face, which was full of genuine envy and jealousy. She thought to herself, could it be that the Zhao couple really loved Zhao Xiaomei? They were asking for money from her, but was it just because they saw that she was living a good life and thought that she should be filial to her parents? This was possible.

Zhao Yuanbao said again: "We tricked you into marrying the Shen family, and then we didn't come to see you. It was because you were sick and we didn't have the money to treat you. We thought the Shen family had so many people and could support scholars, so they were richer than us. We thought you wouldn't have a way to survive there. If we went to see you, they would let us take you back, and we wouldn't have the money to treat you. Sister, your parents are worried because they don't come to see you. Don't blame them. Dad, don't you agree?"

Old man Zhao had been silent until he heard his son asking him. He raised his eyes and saw Su Zhi and Shen Zian looking at him. He quickly lowered his head again and nodded randomly.

Zhao Yang started crying again, saying, "My life is so miserable. I've been so devoted to this girl, but she actually doubts me as her mother. I know that she is living a good life and doesn't want to help her family anymore. She has abandoned us. It's because of her that I've become like this. Now that she has money, I just want to ask her for something. She doesn't want to recognize her parents anymore. This is so unfair—"

Lianhua tried to persuade Su Zhi, saying, "Sister, you've made mother angry. Mother saw that you have money now, so she wanted you to help support the family. Why are you so stingy?"

Su Zhi listened to them and felt that what they said was reasonable, but she felt a little uncomfortable. She felt that the Zhao Yang who went to her house to beg for money was different from the person they said loved her daughter and spent all the family wealth. She never felt the true motherly love from Zhao Yang. Although she had hugged her and called her her darling, she felt that she was not acting when she grabbed herself and scolded herself for having no conscience. However, since they were not afraid of her asking others whether they had visited her in the nunnery, it seemed that it really happened.

"Is this the character of the Zhao family? Even if they love their daughter so much, they will still beat and scold her like this?"

Su Zhi thought so in her heart. Although she still disliked this family, she thought that she would not have to complain for Zhao Xiaomei anymore. Instead of believing that Zhao Xiaomei was abandoned by her parents, she would rather this poor woman died of illness.

"Okay, let's not talk about the past. I don't remember it very clearly anyway. Let's talk about mother's illness. I asked for a doctor, so he called a doctor. If the doctor came and asked for this silver to buy medicine, I would spend ten taels, not just one tael. If I can't see the doctor, I won't have one tael of silver, but only a hundred coins."

Zhao Yang just saw Su Zhi settling old scores with her. She also knew that the past events had made her daughter unhappy. Now that Su Zhi was no longer angry, she finally behaved a little more obediently.

"My daughter, don't hire a doctor. I don't want to spend more of your money. Just give me one or two taels of silver. Apart from buying medicine, you can use the rest as a gift to me. Is that okay? I feel bad when I see that money being given to the doctor."

When Lianhua heard her mother say that it would not cost that much to buy medicine, she thought, wasn't she saying that she lied? Seeing Su Zhi looking at her, she lowered her head and said, "Sister, the medicine will not cost that much money. It's not that the family has no money, and my sister-in-law is about to die, so I want to save some money for an emergency. Don't blame me. I have no choice."

Su Zhi heard them admit that they didn't need to spend so much money on medicine, and thought that she had insisted so much, and it was also to let them know that her money was not so easy to take, so she let it go. Although they were not her parents, they were Zhao Xiaomei's parents after all, and she could not ignore them if she wanted to. As long as they didn't go too far, she would regard their filial piety as the price of taking over her body, and she would be filial to Zhao Xiaomei. (