Chapter 5: You Can Eat Whatever You Want, But You Can’t Say Whatever You Want

Lin Mei finally regained her composure and shouted angrily, “Su Jianguo, did you see that?! Your daughter beat the two of us like that! I noticed it when I was with you; she never liked me. Shiyi and I suffered such injustice today. If you don’t stand up for us, I… I won’t live!”

Su Wantang kicked her again. “I know you want to die right now, but you two better get far away before you die. Don’t die in my house, or I’ll take your bones and soak them in alcohol!”

Lin Mei was so angry that her head spun, and she couldn’t speak for a long time.

“You… you… you!”

Su Jianguo quickly stepped forward, pulling Su Wantang and frowning, “Xiao Wan, what’s wrong with you today?”

Su Wantang glanced at him, turned around, and carried an empty box she had just found from her room, throwing it into Su Jianguo’s hands.

Then, pointing at Lin Mei and Song Shiyi on the ground, she changed her expression to one of grief and indignation.

“I guarded against everything, but I didn’t guard against a thief in my own house! Dad! These two actually stole the money and the pair of bracelets my mother left me! That’s my mother’s dowry!”

As she spoke, Su Wantang crossed her arms, and when no one was looking, she twisted herself hard.

The pain made her tears flow.

Lin Mei was about to retort when she heard Su Wantang suddenly cry out to the heavens, “Ah!!!”

Everyone was startled, but they saw Su Wantang already in tears.

With a crying voice, she continued, “Oh, heavens! Why am I so unlucky! This is the only thing my mother left me!”

“Every time they bullied me to the point of wanting to die, I would take out the things my mother left me to look at… but they actually dared to steal the only thing that kept me alive? They’re trying to kill me!”

The surrounding villagers finally understood what had happened.

Some people couldn’t stand it anymore and came forward to criticize Lin Mei.

“I said that Wantang, this girl, is usually such a calm person. How could she suddenly go crazy and beat you two? It turns out you stole her things!”

“Lin Mei, why are you stealing things? Old Su is also good to you and your daughter. He gives you the best food and clothes. You shouldn’t bully Wantang like this, considering Old Su’s sake!”

“That’s right, that’s right! No wonder Wantang is so unusual! It turns out you stole the heirlooms her mother left her. Everyone in the village knows how close Wantang was to her mother. No wonder you got beaten! You deserve it!”

Lin Mei panicked. She had been very secretive about stealing Su Wantang’s dowry.

Besides her daughter, no one knew.

How did Su Wantang find out?

Just as Lin Mei panicked, Song Shiyi spoke first, indignantly, “You say my mother stole it, so she stole it? You can eat whatever you want, but you can’t say whatever you want! Do you have proof? You’re just making false accusations!”

Song Shiyi was certain that Su Wantang definitely didn’t know where they had hidden the things.

As long as they didn’t admit it, they were innocent! They were the victims!

Su Wantang looked at Song Shiyi meaningfully.

She remembered the plot of the book.

Lin Mei had a locked iron box, similar to a safe, which contained many valuables.

This box was in Su Jianguo and Lin Mei’s room.

Su Wantang turned around, intending to enter the room.

But Su Jianguo seemed to have thought of something and blocked the doorway.

He asked nervously, “Xiao Wan, what are you going to get in the room? I’ll get it.”

Without asking, Su Wantang knew what Su Jianguo was worried about.

He was worried that his daughter would see that he was sleeping on the floor in the room instead of sharing a bed with his new wife.

Lin Mei, seeing this, relaxed a little.

She was secretly pleased, feeling that she still held some weight in the heart of this fool, Su Jianguo.

As long as Su Wantang couldn’t enter the room and find evidence, she wondered what kind of trouble she could still cause!

Unexpectedly, Su Wantang stopped.

But she said loudly, “Okay, then go get the iron box that Lin Mei hugs every night when she sleeps. The one with the lock.”

Lin Mei was dumbfounded again.

When did Su Wantang find out about this iron box?

Lin Mei rushed forward, grabbing Su Jianguo who wanted to enter the room.

She shouted, “Su Jianguo, you dare touch my box! That’s my personal belongings, you can’t touch it!”