"Husband, you're back?" Luo Yunhe's eyes were filled with joy when she saw Su Jingxuan.
"Um, how are you today?" Su Jingxuan asked.
"Don't worry, I'm perfectly safe today. I just got back from the fields!"
"It's good that you're alright!"
"Give it to me, I'll cook it for you!" Luo Yunhe took the prey.
It was a wild rabbit, with brown and gray fur, a medium-sized, round and chubby body, and quite cute.
Unfortunately, it was already dead, struck by an arrow that had pierced its eye, the fletching still lodged in its socket. Luo Yunhe picked up the wild rabbit, examining it from all angles, but didn't know what to do with it.
Although she knew how to kill chickens and ducks, she didn't know where to begin when faced with a rabbit that needed to be skinned. After all, she had never done anything like this before.
"Let me do it!" Seeing her bewildered look, Su Jingxuan couldn't help but chuckle, then took the rabbit from her hands. He walked to the wall, hung the rabbit securely on it, then took out a small knife and skillfully began to skin it.
His movements were swift and clean. He first made cuts in the rabbit's four feet, then made a single cut from its head, quickly peeling off the entire skin. The whole process was completed in one go, and in no time, a complete rabbit skin appeared before our eyes.
"Keep this rabbit skin; I'll make you something warm for winter!"
"Okay!" Luo Yunhe nodded, her eyes shining as she stared at Luo Yunhe and the rabbit skin in her hand. This was genuine leather.
She took the skinned rabbit to the kitchen, washed it, cleaned its belly, and then cut it into pieces.
Finally, they ran to the cellar, dug out two radishes, washed them clean, cut them into pieces, and put them in a clay pot to stew.
After giving the rabbit skin a quick clean, Su Jingxuan placed it in the sun to dry. Special processing was needed to prevent the rabbit skin from infesting maggots and rotting.
After Su Jingxuan finished his work, the aroma of stewed rabbit with radish wafted out from Luo Yunhe's ceramic pot.
A fragrant aroma wafted through the courtyard.
Even the neighbors couldn't help but swallow when they smelled the aroma.
Luo Yunhe couldn't help but stare expectantly at the pottery jar.
Inside the room.
Su Shan, Su Chenshi, and Su Ruyi sat on the bed, staring at each other. Even the strong aroma wafting in from outside couldn't attract them anymore.
"What are we going to do? That damned little bitch really borrowed money from Wang Laipi. If she can't pay it back, Wang Laipi will definitely come to our house!"
"Dad, Wang Laipi is notoriously bad, and his interest rate is 10%. If this continues, our family might be implicated by them!"
Su Shan spoke in a low voice, his face grim.
He had initially thought Luo Yunhe was just a young girl and wouldn't do such a thing, but now he had learned that Luo Yunhe had borrowed money from Wang Laipi. If that was true, he really didn't know what to do.
"Go, call your older brother over!" Su Shan said.
Although Su Ruyi didn't know what decision her father would make, she still obediently went out to call him, and she wasn't so arrogant anymore.
However, when he saw Luo Yunhe, he still felt resentment towards her.
What if that damned bitch can't pay back the money? That scoundrel Wang might come knocking on their door and take a fancy to her. He might even snatch her away. Where will their family cry then?
Su Ruyi didn't want to be implicated!
The imagined Su Ruyi was completely unimaginable. With her looks, how could she possibly be targeted by Wang Laipi? At most, he would just sell her off.
"Brother, Father wants you to come over!" Su Ruyi said this and hurriedly went back into the house.
"Husband..." Luo Yunhe stopped him worriedly.
"It's alright! I'll go check on him!" Su Jingxuan reassured him before going to Su Shan's house.
As soon as he entered, he saw the three of them sitting there silently, staring at him without saying a word.
"Father, Mother, what's wrong?"
"I'm asking you, did you know that your wife borrowed money from Wang Laipi to buy wasteland?"
Su Jingxuan: "..." His wife had already said that the money was from when his mother sold her, how could it possibly be Wang Laipi's money??
However, the fact that they asked this must mean there's something he doesn't know.
"Yes, I understand!" He wasn't lying; he knew about buying the wasteland, but he couldn't say where the money came from.
"Since you know about this, why did you still let her borrow money to buy wasteland? Do you know how troublesome that Wang scoundrel is? Once we get entangled with him, our family will never have a good life. Do you really want to watch our whole family be destroyed?"
"Su Jingxuan, I've raised a complete ingrate! You actually bought this thing back. Are you trying to get us killed?"
"Brother, I'm not trying to be mean, but that Wang Laipi is not someone to be trifled with. She has people on her hands. Now, our whole family is going to be killed because of her!"
Hearing their complaints, Su Jingxuan remained silent. However, his brows furrowed tightly as he listened to their harsh words.
"Don't worry, I will pay you back! You don't need to worry!"
"That sounds nice, but everyone knows she's a member of the Su family. If she can't pay back the money, people will come after the Su family. You think you can avoid being implicated?" Su Ruyi said bitterly.
Su Jingxuan was getting impatient. Ever since he could remember, his parents had been like this, always being harsh on him. He could tolerate it before, since it only applied to him.
He used to ignore their beatings and scoldings, but now things are different. He has a wife now, and he is determined not to let her suffer with him.
"I said I would pay it back!" Su Jingxuan said, turned around and left, unwilling to listen to them say any more.
"Old man, look at this! Look at this son you insisted on raising! Now look what's happened, he's already starting to rebel against us!"
"My brother is really something, he's completely siding with outsiders. How could he treat us like this?"
That scoundrel Wang won't care about anything else if he's after money. Brother, you're completely disregarding our safety!"
Su Shan frowned: "Didn't you say you borrowed it for three months? Since it's three months, let's wait until then. Maybe they'll pay it back, and we'll get a piece of wasteland for free. We can take it back and do whatever we want with it!"
Su Chenshi and Su Ruyi remained silent.
"Dad, then, eldest brother, do we still need to hand over our monthly allowance? If we do, how will we pay off our debts?"
"That's his problem! Let him figure it out himself!"
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