Chapter 5: That Extra Ghost Doesn’t Deserve It

“Yeah, Mom.” Su Qingtan ignored Su Wanying and only greeted Liu Lan.

Su Wanying, however, looked at Su Qingtan provocatively. Seeing that she didn’t look at her or speak, she snorted and walked straight to her room, saying loudly as she walked, “Mom, I bought too many things, come help me pack.”

Liu Lan heard this voice, her hands holding the bag started to hide behind her, her nervous face showed some anxiety, and she carefully looked at Su Qingtan.

Su Qingtan smiled lightly at her and said, “Mom, go ahead.”

Liu Lan was stunned for a moment, as if she had heard wrong. Because according to her experience, in the past, if something like this happened, Su Qingtan would definitely make a fuss with her and argue with Da Bao.

But today, she was very calm, and there was no sign of anger at all.

Liu Lan felt relieved and praised Su Qingtan, “Lu Lu, this marriage has made you a lot more sensible, you’ve grown up.”

Sensible? Grown up?

Su Qingtan chuckled, thinking to herself, I just don’t care anymore, I don’t care about getting your shallow love.

“Go ahead and help Su Wanying pack, I have something to ask you.” Su Qingtan said to Liu Lan.

Liu Lan heard Su Qingtan directly call her precious eldest daughter by her full name, and immediately muttered, “I just said you were sensible, and now you’re doing this again, you don’t even call her sister.”

Still afraid of a commotion at home, Liu Lan muttered as she walked to Su Wanying’s room, and didn’t force Su Qingtan to change her address.

Liu Lan and Su Wanying stayed in the room for a long time. When Aunt Wang brought the dishes to the table, Liu Lan came out and said to Su Qingtan, “You must be in a hurry, your sister has a lot of things—”

“It’s okay.” Su Qingtan directly interrupted Liu Lan’s explanation and stated her purpose, “Mom, I came to ask you for the household registration booklet, I need to use it.”

Liu Lan asked, “What do you need it for?”

Su Qingtan was grateful at this time that she didn’t have a good relationship with her family. She hadn’t been home in the six months since she got married, and she hadn’t told her family anything about her situation.

The matter of her and Li Su wasn’t handled gracefully. Su Chun and Liu Lan felt that it was all her fault, and they didn’t dare to make any demands on Li’s family.

So, she and Li Su only got a marriage certificate, there were no other procedures.

If she hadn’t been jumping around and making a fuss, many people wouldn’t even know that she and Li Su were married.

Many relatives on her side didn’t know, because they were dissatisfied with the marriage, Li Su didn’t come to her house to socialize.

Based on all of this, it was convenient for her to lie.

“Oh, I found a job, and they need to check my household registration information. I’ll use it, and I’ll return it in a few days.”

Liu Lan asked, “What kind of job is it?”

Su Qingtan continued to lie, “Something related to Tai Chi teaching.”

Su Qingtan had excellent grades in school, she was admitted to university and the national team in the same year, but later, because she was preoccupied with Li Su, she chose to retire early.

When she retired, many leaders and coaches came to her house to talk to her and persuade her.

Su Chun and Liu Lan were persuaded to be on the same side as the leaders and coaches, but Su Qingtan insisted on retiring.

There was no other way, they could only let Su Qingtan have her way.

Even so, this didn’t affect Su Qingtan’s image of being excellent and capable in the eyes of Su Chun and Liu Lan.

Therefore, Su Qingtan’s words didn’t arouse any suspicion from Liu Lan. She immediately took out the household registration booklet and said, “Here you go.”

“Yeah, thanks, Mom. I’ll return it when I’m done.” Su Qingtan took the household registration booklet and got up to leave.

As soon as she stood up, Liu Lan noticed that she had lost a lot of weight, so she felt a little distressed and said, “How come you’ve lost so much weight?”

Before Su Qingtan could answer, she lowered her voice and said, “Are you still at odds with Li Su?”

“Mom, I’m going.” Su Qingtan didn’t want to say more, she walked towards the door.

Liu Lan followed her, chattering, “You always have to be competitive. If you hadn’t made such a fuss with Li Su at the time, you wouldn’t have said you were going to call the police, and he wouldn’t have been so angry.”

“You got married as you wished, you have to restrain yourself. If Li Su is angry, you have to endure it.”

“You should also go to Li’s family more often. Li Su’s parents are very reasonable people. If you flatter them, they will definitely help you ease the tension with Li Su—”

Before Liu Lan finished speaking, Su Qingtan had already opened the door, closed the door, bang—

She wanted to open the door and chase after her to continue talking to her younger daughter, but Su Wanying came out, pouting and said, “Mom, what are you doing standing at the door? Dinner is ready.”

“Oh, oh, I’m coming.” Liu Lan heard her eldest daughter’s voice and immediately gave up the idea of chasing after her.

Turning her head, she saw a table full of dishes, and Liu Lan remembered Su Qingtan’s thin figure, so she sighed, “Oh, this child, it’s rare for her to come back, and she doesn’t even want to eat together.”

Aunt Wang brought over the soup bowl and heard this, she muttered in her heart: If you want her to stay for dinner, say it to her face!

Su Wanying heard Liu Lan’s words and snorted, “Why would she want to eat with us? Wouldn’t it be more delicious to eat with her handsome husband?”

When Su Wanying said “handsome husband”, her tone was clearly unpleasant, with a hint of jealousy that couldn’t be concealed from her family.

Aunt Wang didn’t bother to listen to her, she turned around and went back to the kitchen.

Liu Lan said to her, “Your sister is married, and she doesn’t come home often, don’t always say that about her.”

Su Wanying heard Liu Lan defending Su Qingtan, and immediately raised her voice, “You always protect her, she’s a treasure, and I’m just a weed.”

“This child, you’re being unreasonable again.” Liu Lan sighed, picked up a piece of pan-fried salmon and put it in her bowl, habitually coaxing her, “Your sister and your brother-in-law don’t have a very good relationship. I saw that your sister has lost a lot of weight, so I wanted to call her to eat. I didn’t manage to do that, so you have no reason to be angry.”

Su Wanying heard that Su Qingtan and Li Su didn’t have a good relationship, and her tone immediately became a little gloating, “Serves her right, she schemed against him.”

Such a handsome man, that extra ghost doesn’t deserve it!

“Say less.” Liu Lan heard Su Wanying’s inappropriate remarks, so she lightly reprimanded her.

Su Wanying didn’t take it seriously at all, she happily started eating.

Su Qingtan got the household registration booklet and went to the real estate agency immediately. When the salesperson came to greet her, she said in one sentence, “I want the cheapest second-hand house, the one that can be processed the fastest so I can register my household registration, I don’t care if it’s a haunted house.”

She didn’t have much savings, she couldn’t even afford a normal house, and if she wanted to quickly move out of her household registration, she could only buy some low-priced houses with problems.

The salesperson introduced her to three or four buildings, and in the afternoon, she took her to see the houses.

Su Qingtan liked a no-elevator apartment in the old city. This house was originally inhabited by an old lady who lived alone. After her son settled down abroad, he rarely came back. The old lady fell in the bathroom and died at home. It wasn’t until the surrounding residents smelled the stench and called the police that they discovered her.

The old lady’s son returned to China to receive his mother’s inheritance, and he was eager to find someone to buy this house.

Su Qingtan took advantage of his urgency, and the salesperson also helped to negotiate the price. Before 3 pm, the three parties agreed to exchange money and transfer ownership tomorrow.

After settling the house, Su Qingtan took the subway home.

In the subway, a middle-aged man sitting not far from her was constantly looking at her subtly.

Su Qingtan was tired from a day of running around, and she was a little drowsy on the subway, so she didn’t notice.

The man followed her all the way out of the subway, and only stopped following her when Su Qingtan entered the supermarket near her rented house.

Su Qingtan bought some groceries at the supermarket and carried them home. When she got out of the elevator, she saw Li Su standing at the door.