Chapter 38 You jumped into the river? Why?

Su Taotao's legs didn't even weaken when she just got out of bed, but now she felt a little weak when she smelled the familiar yet unfamiliar scent on him.

Fu Zhengtu put his arm around her waist and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Not at all!" Su Taotao pushed him away and ran towards the bathroom.

Fu Zhengtu looked at her back and smiled silently.

Fu Zhengtu went back to collect firewood and heard someone knocking on the door. He picked up the shirt beside him and put it on, buttoning it up slowly before opening the door.

Uncle Fu was standing at the door holding a piece of meat. When he saw Fu Zhengtu, his shrewd eyes flashed with a light: "Zhengtu, good boy, you are finally back. Your mother was very worried about you."

Fu Zhengtu was not surprised and called out calmly, "Uncle."

Uncle Fu wanted to reach out and pat Fu Zhengtu's shoulder, but when he saw his calm eyes, he turned around and touched his head. The atmosphere was a little awkward, and he made small talk: "It's good that you're back. By the way, I knew you were back, so I went to the commune today to buy some meat. How about we have a couple of drinks together?"

In fact, Uncle Fu came with some meat at noon, but when he saw that Fu Zhengtu was not at home, he took the meat back and came again when the time was right.

"He doesn't drink." Su Taotao came out of the bathroom at some point, raised her chin slightly towards Fu Zhengtu, and looked at Uncle Fu provocatively.

He just had a fight and now he's pretending to be so high and mighty. I don't know what he's trying to do.

Uncle Fu glanced at Su Taotao and always felt something was wrong. He looked at her a few more times, and disdain flashed in his shrewd old eyes. He had always looked down on Su Taotao. Whose lesbian looked like this? She looked like she had never seen a man in her life. She seemed to be angry and coquettish, and her eyes were expressive. She was not dignified at all. He secretly cursed her as a "foxy woman who seduces men". If she hadn't looked like this to seduce Fu Zhengtu, Fu Zhengtu would have married his wife's niece, so how could she have gotten her turn?

With new and old grudges, and relying on the fact that his nephew Fu Zhengtu would give his uncle some face, Uncle Fu's tone was naturally bad: "Why should a woman butt in on a man's conversation? You have nothing to do with our drinking. Come on, Zhengtu, let's just go to my house and have a drink."

Uncle Fu forgot about Fu Zhengtu's aura and actually wanted to reach out and put his arm around his shoulders.

Fu Zhengtu took a step back and dodged his hand calmly, his tone still calm: "I don't drink, uncle, please help yourself."

Uncle Fu was speechless for a moment and touched his nose: "Yes, yes, I forgot. Then don't drink wine, drink tea. Guoqiang and the others haven't seen you for many years. You brothers should talk about it."

Su Taotao: "His brothers, his mother, his son, and his wife haven't seen him for many years, so it's not his turn to reminisce with his cousins."

Uncle Fu got angry: "Who do you think you are? Do you have the right to speak? It's not your turn to make the decisions in this family!"

Su Taotao was holding a grudge. She couldn't bear it when Fu Zhengtu was not at home. Now that Fu Zhengtu was at home, if she needed to bear it, she could just find Chenchen a new father.

She had no intention of acting like a lady in front of Fu Zhengtu. She walked up to him, ready to roll up her sleeves and get down to business.

Fu Zhengtu held her and brought her to his side: "She is the mistress of this family. She has the final say in this family. Does uncle have anything else to say?"

Uncle Fu was shocked. What the hell did he hear? He never expected that Fu Zhengtu would not give him any face at all: "You, you, you, she, she..."

Su Taotao put her hands on her hips and said, "What do you mean by you? What do you mean by him? Is the captain trying to make a rumor that I am profiteering or cheating on Fu Zhengtu?"

Zhou Linglan also came out of the kitchen, wiped her hands on her apron, and sighed, "Uncle, can you please stop stirring up trouble? Can you let our family live in peace for a few days?"

Fu Yuanhang came out holding Chen Chen and said, "Uncle, are you bringing a piece of meat to give to a beggar like me? I didn't come to your house to beg."

The whole family lined up in a row, united in their hatred of the enemy; even Chen Chen gave him a few nasal hums.

Fu Zhengtu: "It seems that my uncle has been taking good care of my family while I'm away."

Fu Zhengtu still maintained that calm tone, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was unhappy.

Su Taotao added fuel to the fire: "They are quite good. The captain is fair and just. He promotes the virtuous and avoids relatives. He gave our mother the poorest, most difficult to cultivate, and smallest centimeter land in Dalingtou, while my aunt and two sisters-in-law cultivated the most fertile and largest centimeter land near Qiaotou. They are so good to our mother and are closer to our family than my own wife and daughter-in-law."

In fact, Zhou Linglan never told Su Taotao about it, nor did she complain. Su Taotao learned the plot from the book, so Zhou Linglan was also surprised. Su Taotao never worked on it, and she thought she couldn't tell one from the other, but it turned out that she knew everything.

Fu Zhengtu's eyes were as dark as ink. When he glanced at Uncle Fu, his eyes turned cold: "Uncle, you think this team leader is too hot. Have you forgotten how you got this position? I will go to the commune to find Secretary Hu in person tomorrow."

Uncle Fu looked ashen. There had been no news from Fu Zhengtu in the past two years. He originally thought that Fu Zhengtu would not come back like his dead father, so he did not take the people from the second house seriously. It was true that no one was willing to go to that land, so he let Zhou Linglan go to cultivate it. She originally disagreed so he had an excuse to change it to a drawing of lots. He did not expect that she was so stupid to agree, so he saved himself the trouble. Who would have thought that she would settle the score later?

It's not that he did anything too out of line against the second wife. He came the day before yesterday because someone reported it, and they had a heated argument. Apart from these things, he usually just turned a blind eye to everything. He felt that he did not deserve the death penalty.

"Zhengtu, it's not like that. I didn't bully them. Your mother wanted to work on the land in Dalingtou. If she didn't agree, she could tell me and I would change the land for her. The day before yesterday, someone wrote a letter to report the situation, so I went to your house to understand the situation. Her tone was not very good, but I have already apologized.

Let me talk about the last time your wife jumped into the river. If I hadn't brought your aunt and mother to rescue her from King Yan, you wouldn't have seen your wife yet. How could she stand in front of you and accuse me? It was your aunt who arrived in time. Otherwise, even if someone else rescued her, she would have lost her innocence. You still have to thank me for this.

Although my uncle is not a good person and did not take good care of your family, I did not harm anyone."

Fu Zhengtu's aura changed. He closed his eyelashes and looked down at Su Taotao. The dark color in his eyes became darker. "You jumped into the river? Why?"

Now Zhou Linglan and Fu Yuanhang were a little panicked.

Su Taotao has become such a good person since that incident. They deliberately kept it a secret because they didn't want to cause any more trouble. They didn't expect that it would be exposed by Uncle Fu.

Uncle Fu took the opportunity to take credit: "It's because you haven't come back. She doesn't want to be a widow, so she threatened me to let her go back to the city by jumping into the river. No matter how bad she is, she is the daughter-in-law of our Fu family. I can't let her go without your consent."

Su Taotao: “…” Mr. Fu, if you don’t speak, no one will think you are dumb.

How would she explain this?

Not me? I didn't? You want to hear me explain?

It's really none of her business.