Father Su also wanted to do something for his daughter, so he said, “When I go back to our village, I’ll ask around for you. We’re all fellow villagers; if I can help, I will. It’s not easy for anyone.”

Su Qingyu nodded: “Okay, but I won’t consider anyone’s face. I will only accept the good ones and will never accept inferior ones. Brother Dahu will also go to each family to check out the goods, and he will decide the price.”

“Okay, Dad will talk to them.”

The three of them then went to several more villages. Su Dahu followed Su Qingyu to see how she negotiated prices with people and how she persuaded farmers who were originally unwilling to sell their goods to her…

He admired her even more in his heart. He also learned a lot and gradually smiled.

It was not until dusk that the three of them parted at the town entrance. Su Qingyu asked the carriage to take them back to Qiaotou Village, and she turned around and went to the shop.

When she arrived at the backyard of the shop, she saw her sister was already busy cooking in the kitchen, and Yaya was sitting obediently on a small stool in front of the stove, playing by herself.

“Sister, Yaya.”

“Hey, you’re back? Where’s dad?”

“Dad has returned to the village.”

Yaya saw her and grinned at her. Su Qingyu picked her up and threw her up. The little thing laughed so hard that she clapped her hands. When she was put down, she was still unwilling and twisted her body to want more.

Su Qingyu held her in her arms and walked around the kitchen. After taking a look around, she saw that the kitchen had been tidied up by her sister and all the necessary things had been bought, so she felt relieved.

From now on, her sister and Yaya no longer had to worry about other people’s faces when eating. They could just cook whatever she wanted to eat, and she didn’t have to be sneaky if she wanted to make something delicious for Yaya.

Su Qingliu saw her looking around and said to her, “I have bought all the kitchen items and two beds. I have also decorated the other room so that biǎodì can stay here. Qing’an, I want to thank you. I am so happy today. Yaya has also been jumping around happily all day and she dragged me to go to the street.”

“Really, Yaya? You’ve never seen so many people before, have you?” Su Qingyu teased her.

Then she turned around and said to her sister, “Sis, we are sisters, there is no need to say those polite words. You and Yaya are happy, which is better than anything else. Parents can also rest assured. You live here alone at night, so you must be alert and lock the door.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll keep the doors and windows closed. There are residents all around here, so it’ll be fine.”

“That’s good.”

After saying that, she saw that her sister had prepared dinner and there was nothing for her to worry about, so she turned around and went back to Lu’s house.

When she got home, it was time for dinner, so she went straight to the living room.

Father Lu, Madam Wu, and her children were all there. Before they had even started eating, Madam Wu stared at her and asked, “I heard you were going to open a shop?”

It was the first time that Lu Yuzhu heard this. She looked at her in surprise, “Ah, you’re going to open a shop? Where’s the money coming from? Dad, did you give her money?”

Lu Shengcai was somewhat dissatisfied with Lu Yuzhu’s attitude. He frowned and shouted, “What do you mean by her, hers? Is this how you talk to your eldest sister-in-law?”

Su Qingyu glanced at her, ignored her, and naturally did not respond to her.

Lu Yuzhu was usually arrogant and ignored her relatives from her hometown, let alone the woman Lu Bocheng married.

Seeing that she didn’t answer, she raised his voice and asked again: “Are you deaf? Didn’t you hear me and my mother asking you a question? You are a country woman, and you want to open a shop? What kind of shop? Where will you get the capital? Our family hasn’t even been divided yet, and you want to put money into your own pocket!”

Lu Shengcai slammed his chopsticks on the table with a bang: “Lu Yuzhu, watch your attitude when you speak!”

Lü Bozong was startled by Lü Shengcai’s loud shout and trembled twice. Lü Bozu squinted his eyes and looked at Su Qingmei. He had never looked at this woman carefully before.

A woman from the countryside who couldn’t read a single word wanted to be her eldest sister-in-law?

Did she know how to manage household affairs, or was she good at socializing? The lady from a noble family who could read and write and manage household affairs would be the eldest sister-in-law of Yuzhu and Bozong.

Lu Yuzhu was scolded and refused to give in: “Dad! Look at her attitude! She won’t answer even when mom asks her questions!”

Su Qingyu looked at her calmly: “It’s not that I didn’t answer, it’s that you interrupted me.”

“You!”

Su Qingyu glanced at her coldly and then looked away.

She treated others the way they treated her. Nothing wrong with that. Sorry, she won’t be humble.

When Wu Shi saw that Lu Shengcai scolded Yuzhu because of an outsider at the dinner table, she became even more dissatisfied with Su Qing’an.

Although Lu Shengcai told her that he had never given money to Su Shi to open a shop, nor had he given money to Lu Bocheng, she just didn’t believe it.

When her step-grandmother heard the price of fifty taels during the marriage, her eyes lit up! She looked like she had never seen the world. The Su family probably had never saved fifty taels. This country woman wanted to open a shop as soon as she got married?

Even if she said it was given by the Su family, no one would believe it.

She went to the shop today to check the day’s accounts. The clerk read them to her for a long time, but she still couldn’t find that Lu Shengcai had taken money from the shop.

Where did this woman get the money to open a shop?

She was so brave!

She had just married and didn’t want to stay at home to serve her parents-in-law, but wanted to go out and show her face! She pushed the job of making clothes for her grandparents in the countryside to Aunt Zhou, and Aunt Zhou’s family got a sum of wages for nothing.

Su Qingyu glanced at the Wu mother and daughter and said, “I have already told my father about this. I haven’t paid the rent for the shop yet, and the other party has given me two months’ deferment. As for the capital for my shop, it was left to me by Bo Cheng. He only saved a dozen taels of silver in the past ten years.”

Lu Yuzhu shook the hairpin on her head and said, “He only saved a dozen taels? Who would believe that?”

Su Qingyu raised the corner of her mouth: “Believe it or not, you can go and see for yourself. In our room, we can’t find any of his valuables. All his things added together may not be as valuable as the hairpin on my sister’s head.”

“He spent it! He often asked my father for money.”

“If he didn’t lie to me, then he probably asked for money less often than you all did, right? There’s not a single valuable item in his clothing trunk. Besides, he has the land left to him by his maternal grandparents, and the rent money is all given to the family. He should be the one who spends the least money in the household.”

Lu Shengcai thought of his eldest son who was away and fell silent.

“Who cares about the rent money from the Liu family? That money is not even enough to support himself!”

“Whether it’s enough or not is another matter, but it’s better than not bringing home a penny and still spending money outside.”

“My family is rich, I eat what I eat and use what I use, you are jealous! I am afraid you don’t have money to spend! I am afraid your parents can’t even make you a set of clothes in a whole year!”

“Lu Yuzhu!” Lu Shengcai shouted.

Su Qingyu looked coldly at Lu Yuzhu who was about to jump up, and said in a cold voice: “My family is poor, so I want to earn money by myself now. What’s wrong with earning money with my own hands and spending it myself?”

Wu Shi didn’t expect that this country woman who had just married into the family would dare to be disrespectful to her mother-in-law at the dinner table and argue with her sister-in-law in front of her parents-in-law.

Wu Shi looked at this woman carefully for the first time and felt that she might have underestimated Su Shi.

Su Baozhu also said that her niece had the softest temper, was easy to talk to, and was easy to control.

Was she easy to handle? Not at all.