Chapter 313: Scattered
"Mother, mother, please calm down!" Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei pulled the old lady back into the house and sat down.
Old Mrs. Su sat there sullenly, with her head hung.
He thought he would be buried in a foreign land for the rest of his life, but unexpectedly, his fortune changed, his eldest son was pardoned, and the family's official status was restored.
The second son, who has always been the least noticeable, was unexpectedly promoted and reused. I think the eldest son who was urgently recalled to Beijing will not be worse off. Everything is moving in a good direction.
As soon as the second daughter-in-law gives birth and the child grows up, the family will return to Chang'an, and the second son will stay in Lingnan to build roads.
The old lady was in her sixties, so it would be fine for her to return to Chang'an or her hometown Xingyang, as long as she was not buried in Lingnan.
There are always happy events in the family, but these two are getting more and more confused as they grow older. They get stuck in a dead end and I don’t know where all the resentment comes from.
Alas, the moon will wane when it is full, and the water will overflow when it is full!
Nothing is perfect in this world! There will always be disappointments!
"Aying, write a letter to the Qin family in Xingyang!" After a long silence, the old lady spoke.
"Yeah!" Su Ying nodded.
Atang and Xiaotao brought pens, ink, paper and inkstone, ground the ink, and Su Ying picked up the pen. The old lady dictated a letter to her cousin from her natal family.
Su Shiyan was also writing furiously, his heart full of grievances and anger towards the eldest wife of the Su family.
I wrote seven or eight pages, telling my maternal grandparents about the grievances and unjust deaths my mother and sister suffered in Lingnan!
"Send it out as soon as possible before they do!" The old lady finished reading and Su Ying finished writing.
Su Shiyan and Su Chenyan did not come out for dinner that night. Wei brought the food to the door and knocked, and Su Chenyan answered.
The food tasted awkward and bland.
Su Shiyan and Su Chenyan left before dawn, taking away all their clothes and belongings.
When Wei came to deliver the meal and opened the door, it was empty inside with only a bed, a table, etc., which seemed to indicate that the family had severed ties with the Su family.
"Good, good, very good! Qin Jiuniang raised her well!" The old lady was shaking with anger. "Even after her death, she will bring disaster to people!"
"Aying, go to the county town quickly and send the letter!" the old lady urged.
Without having time to eat breakfast, Su Ying took the letter and rode towards the county town, catching up with the carriage when entering the city.
"Brother!" Su Ying stopped the carriage.
The carriage was forced to stop and there was no movement inside.
"Mr. Su!" the accompanying yamen runner shouted.
"Su Ying, please go away. We have nothing to talk about!" After a long time, Su Shiyan said coldly, his mind full of anger, refusing to communicate.
"Brother, come down, let's have a good chat!" Su Ying softened her tone.
"There's nothing to talk about! The Su family belongs to your eldest branch. Since there's no room for us, we can just leave, right?" Su Shiyan was still cold and stubborn.
"Su Shiyan!" Su Ying finally lost her temper and ripped the car curtain, "Get out!"
Su Shiyan hung his head, as if he didn't hear anything, and looked listless.
"Brother!" It was the first time that Su Chenyan saw Su Ying get angry, and he pulled his brother nervously.
Su Shiyan still had that deadpan look on his face, as if the whole world owed him something.
Su Ying got on the carriage and grabbed Su Shiyan's collar, "Su Shiyan, look into my eyes!"
Su Ying glared at Su Shiyan. Su Shiyan slowly raised his head and met Su Ying's gaze, his eyes full of resentment and frustration!
"Su Shiyan, look at yourself! How are you any different from your mother and Ah He? You're blaming the heavens and the earth, and you look so dejected!
You're a man! Not a woman confined to the inner chambers. Why are you acting like a woman? To show you're filial?
Su Shiyan, if you are truly filial, you should have a broad mind, do great things, benefit the country and the people, have lofty ambitions, and become a high-ranking official.
In the future, I will win some honor for your mother. Don’t you hate our first wife and think that we killed your mother and Ah He?
Then cheer up, work hard, and defeat the eldest wife in the future and step on her under your feet! Don't look so lifeless!
You are a man! All the men in the Su family are upright and self-reliant! They are not wimps! "
After Su Ying finished cursing, she left Su Shiyan behind and jumped out of the car.
"Su Shiyan, don't let me look down on you! If you have the guts, then give it a try. Let's see who will be more successful, the first wife or the second wife, in ten or twenty years!"
After saying that, Su Ying rode away on her horse.
"Su Ying! Your eldest wife is nothing! I will definitely surpass you in the future!"
Su Shiyan jumped off the carriage and yelled at Su Ying who was running away, his face wet with tears.
A wake-up call, yes, a good man has ambitions! Why do you have to act like such a desperate little woman?
The dead cannot be resurrected. As a son, all I can do is give my mother posthumous honors!
Su Shiyan wiped the tears from his face, straightened his chest and head and got into the carriage, "Let's go!"
"Aying, why are you here?" Su Boyan, who was busy in the county government office, asked in surprise.
"Brother!" Su Ying dismounted.
"Something happened at home?" Su Boyan saw that his sister was not in a good mood.
"Grandma has a letter sent to Xingyang." Su Ying handed over the letter.
"Shi Yan, Chen Yan and the others know about it?" Su Boyan guessed after a little thought.
"Well, yesterday they went to Nangou Village to pick someone up, and when they came back they made a scene and ran off before daybreak! I just caught them on the road and gave them a good scolding, but I don't know if I could wake them up!"
Su Ying picked up her brother's cup and drank it all.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Su Boyan moved his sister's head. "Father and brother are away, the family depends on you!"
"Brother, it's too rude to say that! We are a family, we should work together and stick together!" Su Ying said with emotion.
"Don't worry, I believe Shi Yan and Chen Yan will come around. After all, she is their biological mother and sister! They are heartbroken after losing their loved ones, and it is inevitable that they will lose their composure.
If they remain indifferent and only care about celebrating Second Uncle's promotion, then they are truly terrifying people! "
"Yeah!" Su Ying nodded.
When Xiao Qinshi and Su He were making such a fuss, the Su family punished them several times. It was just for the sake of being a family that they gave them chances to reform.
If they were really from a noble family, the mother and daughter would be crippled if not killed, and become living dead.
The Su family is from a poor family and cannot be ruthless enough to be so strict and cold-blooded.
Unfortunately, Xiao Qinshi and Su He didn't understand and really thought they couldn't do anything to them. They kept making trouble and finally had to be kicked out.
Looking back, that experience seems like a lifetime ago.
"Brother, do you want to go back to the Imperial College and continue your unfinished studies?" Su Ying saw that her brother was becoming more mature and steady.
"Yes!" Su Boyan said without hesitation, "I've been following you for some time, and I've come to realize that one only regrets not having enough knowledge when it's needed."
"Then when do you plan to return to Beijing?" Su Ying asked.
“No rush, Lord Hu hasn’t found the right people yet, and now he wants to repair the official road, so it will probably take until the end of the year.
When I return to Beijing, I will travel and study all the way, see the mountains and rivers, learn from teachers, and then return to the Imperial College. I will no longer have an empty head! "Su Boyan smiled and said, "Aying, do you want to come with us?"
"I don't think so. Grandpa, Second Uncle, and Third Uncle are not here, so I have to take Grandma, Aunt, Second Aunt, Third Aunt and the others with me.
We'll take the water route from Guangzhou Port. We promised Xiaotao and Atang that we'd ride on a big ship and see the sea and the canal!" Su Ying shook her head.
They came as a whole family, but left in pieces.
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