Lu Bocheng met Su Qingyu’s gaze and looked at her intently.

“If it wasn’t you, it would be someone else. I don’t want to delay you. If I die in the future, you can remarry. I will leave you a letter before I leave. I will also tell my father that you can stay or go as you like. When the time comes, my mother, I will also leave your dowry to you.”

“I don’t want those things.” Su Qingyu said.

Lu Bocheng glanced at her and lowered his head: “But I don’t want to leave my grandfather’s fields and my mother’s shop to them.”

Su Qingyu thought that the relationship between him and his stepmother would not be very good, but now it seemed that it should be very bad.

After thinking about it, she kindly suggested: “You can sell them before you leave and take the money with you.”

Lu Bocheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: “But my life is gone, what do I do with those things?”

Su Qingyu was silent.

Then she heard him say: “Besides, my father will not agree to it.”

After saying that, he raised his head and looked at Su Qingyu: “No matter what, my father will make sure I marry before I leave, and if it’s not you, it will be someone else. If you don’t want to live with them, before I leave, I will ask my father to divide the family. If I die in the future, those things will be regarded as your dowry for your remarriage.”

Su Qingyu looked at him steadily. Just before, while he was drinking, he said he looked down on the country girl his stepmother ordered for him, but now he didn’t want to break off the engagement.

Recovering fifty taels of silver from her step-grandmother was not easy, but if she was willing to make a scene, there might be a chance.

But she might be sold again in the future. In this era, filial piety was paramount, and the elders could decide the life and death of the younger ones. And if she told her mother that she didn’t want to get married, her parents would definitely not agree.

Maybe being a widow saved a lot of trouble than being an unmarried great-aunt.

Su Qingyu was thinking about Lu Bocheng’s proposal, but she felt extremely uncomfortable when she thought that the guy in front of her often came in and out of the flower house.^[1]brothels

She squinted her eyes and looked at him: “I heard that you often come in and out of the flower house.”

Lu Bocheng’s face immediately turned red, and his ears burned badly.

He lowered his head and said: “Well, I don’t go often, just occasionally…and I just go in to drink and eat, and don’t do anything else…”

Lu Bocheng’s voice became lower and lower as he spoke, and after speaking, he quickly looked at Su Qingyu. At one glance, he saw the look of disbelief on her face, so he raised his hands and swore: “I’m telling the truth; I promised my mother. She detests men who waver in their feelings. If you don’t believe me, I can call Jǔ Yè and the others to come and testify for me.”

Seeing him getting up to go to the vestibule, Su Qingyu hurriedly leaned over and grabbed him.

Lu Bocheng sat down again.

Cursing and swearing, “It’s true, what I said is true. You might have heard some bad things about me. I haven’t done anything wrong. Although I go to the flower house, I don’t engage with them! I might not be able to read books well, but I’m not illiterate. I, I…”

Seeing him scratching his head and cheeks, earnestly trying to prove his innocence, and observing his convincing demeanor, Sū Qīngyu temporarily believed him.

He turned to look at the twins who were sitting quietly eating snacks. The two little things were staring at the snacks on the plate with happy expressions on their faces.

At six years old, they were not older than other people’s four or five-year-old children. They were skinny, with no meat. They did not even have any neat clothes on their bodies. They had a pair of straw sandals on their feet. After walking to the town, the soles of the shoes may have been worn out.

Su Qingyu felt sour and bitter.

She turned around and looked at Lu Bocheng steadily. Seeing that he did not dare to meet her gaze, she fell silent.

After a long pause, she said, “Before you leave, write me a letter of divorce. If you die, I won’t remarry. I’ll still be a part of your Lǚ family, offering sacrifices to your mother and grandparents throughout the year. But if you become prosperous in the future and find someone else you love, I will leave.”

Lu Bocheng was a little happy, looked up at her, and opened his mouth to say something, but seeing the cold look on Su Qingyu’s face, he had to swallow it back. After thinking about what he wanted to say, he nodded: “Okay, I promise you.”

The two said some more words. Seeing that the purpose of the trip was achieved, Su Qingyu looked at the sky, then got up and prepared to return to the village.

“You…”

Lu Bocheng saw that she had summoned her two younger siblings to her side, so he said nothing more.

He just said: “It will take you a long time to walk back. I’ll hire a car for you to take you back.”

Su Qingyu thought about it and agreed.

The two little ones were probably very tired after this trip.

When Su Qingyu led the twins to the vestibule, the few people who stayed in the vestibule saw them coming out and hurriedly stood up to greet them. They winked at Lu Bocheng and looked back and forth between Su Qingyu and Lu Bocheng.

Su Qingyu also let them see it openly.

Liu Juye and the others followed them out with a smile on their face. They put their arms around Lu Bocheng and looked at Su Qingyu curiously.

Su Qingyu didn’t care. She was not like the women of this time. If someone looked at her twice, she wouldn’t shyly bury her head and hide.

Soon Lu Bocheng went to the car dealership to hire a car for them and paid the money. Before getting into the car, he gave the twins a huge bag of cakes.

The two little things didn’t dare to accept it. Xiao Qingxing already knew Lu Bocheng’s identity from her brother. Just now in the backyard, the two little things had been sizing up Lu Bocheng.

Qingyang didn’t answer the question, and Qingxing didn’t answer either. They just looked directly at Lu Bocheng.

Lu Bocheng smiled and rubbed Xiao Qingxing’s head twice, and Su Qingyu said to Qingyang: “Take it and say thank you.”

“Thank you.”

The two little things said their thanks to Lu Bocheng. This attracted Liu Juye and others to rub the two little things.

The two little ones blushed and were shy and timid. Until the carriage started, their eyes were still staring at Lu Bocheng.

When the car was no longer visible, Lu Bocheng was surrounded by several bad friends, who insisted that he honestly explain what they had just talked about.

He sighed and said, this country firewood girl was good and courageous, she dared to come to the town alone. When she found her fiancé, she boldly told him that she wanted to talk to him!

Tsk tsk.

“Quick, tell us the truth!”

(End of chapter)