"After you finish your medicine, Anmei, please rest early. I'll take my leave now." After saying this, Doctor Liu stood up. At this moment, Madam Wang brought the medicine over. After putting the medicine down, the two of them left together.
After they left, An Shuyi picked up the bowl and drank the medicine, looking utterly hopeless. Xia Hua gave her a piece of candy after she finished the medicine, and then took out the ginseng from the warehouse and cut a slice for her.
"After you finish the candy, put the ginseng in your mouth so you can rest. Tonight at dinner, Village Chief Lin said that the ancestral hall will be completed tomorrow, and the ancestral tablets can be moved in the day after tomorrow. You may need to go in then."
"Me?" An Shuyi looked surprised. "That's impossible. No woman in the Lin clan enters the ancestral hall." In the original owner's memory, neither girls nor married women of the Lin clan were allowed to enter the ancestral hall.
Of course, there is another situation: women who have committed serious mistakes and have to resolve their problems in the ancestral hall are qualified to enter the ancestral hall. However, it is unlikely that anyone would be willing to accept such a qualification.
Xia Hua shook her head, "I don't know either. Village Chief Lin said we'll know the day after tomorrow."
"Alright, it doesn't matter whether we go in or not. I'm going to sleep, you go wash up and then go to sleep too!" There was nothing to do all day but sleep.
"I'll go wash up now, you go to sleep." Xia Hua said and went to the side room to wash up. When she came back, An Shuyi was already asleep, so she could only move quietly and slowly lie down on the bed.
The next day, just as dawn broke, the two woke up. Seeing An Shuyi about to get out of bed, Xia Hua's bewildered eyes cleared, and she asked, "Shushu, why are you up so early?"
"Did I wake you up? I'm going to the bathroom. I probably drank porridge, so I went to the bathroom a lot." She didn't want to wake her up, but yesterday she ate porridge, fruit, and medicine—those things were just to soothe her stomach and not make her feel hungry.
"No, I woke up on my own. Aren't you in a hurry? Go on!" Xia Hua said, getting out of bed and washing up in the side room before heading to the canteen to get breakfast. It was only a little past dawn, and the other villagers were probably still eating.
When she arrived, the clansmen had already finished eating and gone to work in the workshop. However, there was still porridge, steamed buns, and eggs in the pot, so she took some of each. Wu wanted to help, but she refused.
"Wu, tell Su to go find your mother later."
Mrs. Wu nodded, "I understand, Auntie."
After taking the breakfast, Xia Hua returned to the house!
When An Shuyi came back from the restroom and couldn't see her, she guessed that she might have gone to get breakfast, so she washed up and sat here to wait. "Huahua, did you go to get breakfast?"
“Yes, you must be hungry. You can’t sleep if you’re hungry. I brought some porridge, steamed buns, and eggs. You can eat a little bit, and then you can eat rice for lunch instead of porridge.”
It's the third day now. Although I'm not fully recovered yet, I can't drink porridge every day, otherwise I'll lose weight over time.
Hearing that she could have a normal meal at noon made An Shuyi extremely happy, and even the plain porridge in front of her tasted delicious.
While eating her steamed bun, Xia Hua said, "I just told Wu to call Su over later and ask what's going on. You're bored anyway, so this is a good way to pass the time."
I thought they would be gone for many days, but they came back after only a few days. I guess they either solved the problem or didn't solve it at all. But we'll know once they come and ask.
She had originally intended to ask Li Dong and Erwa to come and inquire about how their products were selling, but after hearing that they were stocking up again, she figured they must be doing well, so she didn't ask them anymore.
An Shuyi nodded, "It would be good to call them over and ask. I'm curious about the current situation." Her son wasn't home, and although this daughter-in-law was married in a bit of a rush, her son had still married her, so as the mother-in-law, she should at least ask.
And we can make proper arrangements for her only after we have found out the details.
After the two finished eating, Wu and Su appeared outside the door. "Mother, Aunt, I've called my sister-in-law." After saying that, Wu went to clear the dishes.
An Shuyi nodded, ignoring the busy Wu Shi, and turned to look at Su Shi standing by the door, "Su Shi, tell me how your trip to Qingyan City went these past few days. Have you found out anything?"
Madam Su slightly curtsied and said, "Replying to Mother, I have found out that my father passed away the night I was arrested. My maternal grandparents and their family arrived the next day after receiving the news."
"Before my father was even buried, my stepmother was sued in court for framing my father. She was imprisoned and exiled to the frontier. As for the Su family's property, it was taken over by my second uncle's family. The ones who sued my stepmother were my maternal grandfather and his family."
She couldn't believe that so many things had happened in that month. What she found most unbelievable was that it wasn't her maternal grandfather who came, but her uncle. Apart from that, there was no one else.
But after inquiring, she learned that her maternal grandparents were in good health and could not possibly be unable to leave the house. She figured that her father and she were no longer important, so there was no need for them to come and visit.
An Shuyi and Xia Hua exchanged a glance. The plot was developing strangely. Was everything going too smoothly? Could it be that Su's father was so wealthy that he aroused jealousy and was framed? As for the stepmother, she was probably just a pawn. After all, she was sent by Su's maternal grandparents, and in the end, they were the ones who filed a lawsuit. It must have been a pre-arranged plan.
"And what about you?" An Shuyi asked.
Madam Su's face turned ashen, and she collapsed to the ground. "I died too. On the night my father died, I fell ill from missing him." She had considered whether to report to the authorities, but in the end, she thought, what use would it be? Her stepmother had already been exiled to the frontier and might have died on the way.
All of this was done by her stepmother. Who else could she sue? Even if she showed up, who could prove her identity—her second uncle's family or her maternal grandparents? She's not stupid; she couldn't possibly not guess that everything in this was done by her second uncle and maternal grandparents.
She just wanted to go back. How could she explain what had happened over the past month? Oh well, things were fine as they were now. She could just pretend that Su Yurou was dead. There would be no more Su Yurou, only the Su family. Although she had only spent a few days with her husband, he had been very good to her. Whether it was her husband, her mother-in-law, or anyone else, they never mentioned that she had been sold into prostitution.
After hearing her explanation, An Shuyi knew the result was similar to what she had guessed. "So what are your plans?"
"Since Su Yurou died suddenly from an illness, she is dead. There is no longer a Su Yurou, only the Su family."
“Don’t you want to go back? The Su family has a lot of businesses. As long as you go back, all those businesses and money will be yours,” Xia Hua said from the side, while watching Su Shi’s expression.
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