Chapter 31

Yu Zhi’s eyes were red and she held Jiang Sui’s hand tightly.

“Okay, I’ll go. I know what you mean.”

No one understands Jiang Sui. They all say she is a female hooligan and a lunatic.

But only Yu Zhi knew that Jiang Sui was a wise man who pretended to be foolish and was forced into a desperate situation.

She was willing to help her get out of that quagmire and lay a brick for her freedom.

Yu Zhi turned around and ran back. She said, “Sui Sui, wait for me! It will be quick!”

When they heard that the family was going to split up, even more people came to watch.

There are those who understand things clearly and there are those who try to stir things up.

Aunt Miao who lived next door was sitting on the stone bench in front of the door, holding a handful of watermelon seeds in her hand, and spoke lazily.

“If you ask me, children nowadays are so spoiled. In our time, we believed in the rule of sticking to make children filial!”

“Now it’s good. They haven’t even started a business yet and they want to split up. I don’t know if the world has changed or if this child is just too difficult to raise.”

After watching for a long time, Aunt Ren seemed to have found a soulmate. She looked Jiang Sui up and down, as if she was deliberately saying something to someone.

“The Jiang family couple are so pitiful. They raised a money-loser and finally made money, but now she’s giving money to a man. If I had a daughter like this, I would strangle her to death as soon as she’s born, so I don’t have to worry when I see her.”

The two of them sang in unison, deliberately trying to confuse people.

Seeing that someone was standing on his side, Jiang Anping straightened his back again.

He raised his head and looked at Jiang Sui, but before his eyes touched her, he was forced back by a gaze.

It’s Song Sichen.

He stood in front of Jiang Sui with a cold look, as if he was judging something.

Jiang Anping felt aggrieved. How dare a demoted person like him look at him so coldly?

Just when he was about to speak, he heard the sign before Jiang Sui went crazy – a nasal snort.

He shrank his neck and shut his mouth tactfully.

Jiang Sui accurately found Aunt Miao and Aunt Ren, with tears in her eyes.

“Auntie is right. I shouldn’t have resisted. I should have let my dad beat me to death. But there’s one thing I don’t understand. I’m a money-loser, but I earn more than the two of you. So what are you two?”

The two looked unhappy. Aunt Miao threw the pumpkin seed skin on the ground and said, “Hey, you little yellow-haired girl, how dare you say I’m not as good as you?”

Jiang Sui waved her hands repeatedly: “I don’t mean that, Auntie. I’m not as old as you, I don’t have as many wrinkles as you, and my face isn’t as dirty as yours. In this way, I’m not as good as you!”

Aunt Miao held the wall with one hand and rolled her eyes in anger.

“You, you damn girl…”

“The village chief is here.”

Just as the crowd was making a lot of noise, Yu Zhi arrived with her father, Village Chief Yu.

Also coming along was the village women’s director Su Fanghua.

Since the family business is to be divided, the witnesses must be important enough.

The village chief Yu Shucheng sat on the stone mill, while Jiang Sui and Jiang Anping stood on each side.

The yard was filled with people watching the fun.

“Since we are dividing the family, let’s be fair. We can draw lots according to the old way. Whoever draws something gets it. However, this house must be left to the male of the Jiang family. Correspondingly, you can put forward conditions in terms of objects or funds as compensation.”

Yu Shucheng has presided over many matters concerning the division of the family.

Usually there are two brothers, but this is the first time there are two siblings.

But he had thought about it carefully on the way here.

Jiang Sui is already married and has a place to stay.

Besides, if she was not an only child, no family in the village would give a house to a daughter.

Although she cannot give the house to Jiang Sui, she can get some more cash at a discount.

She has a fixed income and some money in her hands, which is enough for her to live on.

“No, Village Chief, we never agreed to split up the family. This is just Jiang Sui’s wishful thinking!”

Jiang Anping washed his hair, changed his clothes, and looked a little neater, but he still looked like he deserved a beating.

Wang Chunhong nodded timidly, moving her lips: “Village Chief, we never said we wanted to split up the family. How can a daughter split up the family property for her parents? If this gets out, won’t people poke our backs and laugh at us?”

As she spoke, tears streamed down her cheeks and her voice became hoarse: “If this is the case, I might as well die.”

Yu Shucheng looked at Jiang Sui in embarrassment.

Although he is the village chief, it is not appropriate for him to interfere in other people’s affairs.

Jiang Sui looked at Wang Chunhong’s precious iron box and snatched it away with his skill.

“I’m already married, and it’s normal to separate the family. From childhood to adulthood, Jiang Sheng has what I don’t have. I haven’t expected anything, and I won’t have any hope for you in the future. Let’s live our own lives in the future, and no one should hinder each other.”

Wang Chunhong wiped away her tears and stared at the tin box in Jiang Sui’s hand.

There were still several hundred dollars in it. I should have kept them separate if I had known.

“You’ve been eating and drinking at our expense since you were a child, and when you made money you went to pay for Song Sichen. Now you want to take half of my assets? You’re dreaming.”

Jiang Anping held up the waistband of his trousers with one hand, and his sarcastic words were as unpleasant as they could be.

“You can split up the family, but you can leave on your own and settle the bill for the food you’ve eaten from me over the years.”

Sister Fang, who lived nearest to her, thought there was something wrong with her ears.

She couldn’t help but swing the rolling pin in her hand at Jiang Anping’s back.

“Jiang Anping, speak with your own conscience. When Sui Sui was a child, her grandparents took care of her. After they passed away, she only ate a few kilograms of your rice and took her own salary?”

Those who live nearby naturally know that this couple is extremely biased.

When it comes to separation, I’m too lazy to even pretend.

Yu Zhi was so angry that she pointed at the fat and big-eared Jiang Sheng and said, “Sui Sui’s salary has all gone into his pocket, right? She has to endure your beatings and scoldings all the time, while this fat guy just sits back and reaps the benefits!”

“If we go to town, Sui Sui can sue you for not fulfilling your obligation to support her. You have to settle the grain payment, but what about the injuries on Sui Sui’s body?”

Yu Zhi’s voice was choked with anxiety.

She couldn’t wait to tell everyone what a good girl Jiang Sui was.

She was beaten with sticks and whipped with willow branches, often had to go hungry, and was not allowed to miss farm work.

She even had to bear the bad reputation and be laughed at by the people in the village, as if anyone could make fun of her.

Song Sixen’s eyes were dark.

No wonder, he always suspected that Jiang Sui’s mental state had been severely damaged.

Today I have the answer.

If you live in a loveless and violent environment for a long time, your spirit will always be oppressed.

Therefore, all her madness is understandable.

Song Sichen looked at Jiang Sui with a deep gaze and a hint of apology.

If she goes crazy again in the future——

Maybe he’ll be patient for a while.

After all, he is a sane man.

Jiang Sui had no idea that in Song Sichen’s eyes she had become a mentally ill patient.

She turned away, her voice quietly accusing.

“As far back as I can remember, I knew I was redundant in this family. I was the older sister, the one who did the laundry, the one who cooked, and the one who washed the dishes, but I was not your daughter.”

There was a flash of surprise in Wang Chunhong’s eyes, as if something was about to come out.

But it was soon suppressed again.

“I never understood why. I just thought you favored boys over girls. I thought as long as I did better, better, you would eventually see me.”

These words got stuck in Jiang Sui’s throat.

She didn’t feel wronged, she just felt sorry for the original owner.

During those days when she longed for her parents’ attention, she waited and hoped carefully alone.

Now she has disappeared.

Sadly, no one knows except Jiang Sui.

No one would feel sorry for her.