Su Qingyu raised the cake high and moved it a few times. Wang Shi couldn’t even touch her side. Her chest was tight and breathless, and she was cursing.

Su Qingyu listened impatiently, and when she saw Wang Shi clinging to her and unable to get away, she glanced sideways at a small stool in the hall, hooked it over with her kick, and kicked it hard against the door with a bang!

The door creaked and shook, and the small bench was knocked to the ground.

What a loud noise. It scared Youfu, Yougui, and Qiu Ju who were about to pounce on her.

Wang Shi paused, feeling sorry for the fallen stool, and jumping up and scolding: “You damn girl, you’re going to rebel!”

Wang Shi shouted loudly, but she didn’t dare to rush over to grab it anymore. Seeing Su Qingyu leading Qingxing and carrying a big bag of cakes across the threshold of the main room.

Old Man Su, Third Su Xi, and others who came over after hearing the sound looked at the fallen stool in the room and did not dare to speak.

They secretly wondered in their heart, this girl had become quite willful lately. After she had arranged that marriage, she stopped listening to the family’s words. She even dared to resist and rebel.

Third Su Xi thought that his mother was marrying this girl to a man who was about to go to war. She didn’t know if her husband would come back alive in the future. She might become a widow. Moreover, the man had a bad reputation, rumored to be involved in shady dealings. Since it was his own sister who spoke about this marriage, he felt a twinge of guilt in his heart.

Now he heard his two sons crying and complaining that the cakes had been robbed, but he didn’t dare to say another word.

Wang Shi wanted to follow, but Third Su Xi held her back.

Su Qingyu took the twins into the big room in the east wing, paused at the door of her parents’ room, then led them straight into her room next door, and pulled the two brothers and sisters onto the bed.

There were two packages of pastries, one large and one small. The small package was bought by her, and the large package was bought by Lu Bocheng for the twins. She opened the big bag and didn’t know what he bought.

The two little ones stared at each other with intense eyes. They had never eaten cakes at this age, and they were drooling over the cakes.

“Wow… these are all delicious. Mom and Dad, come and see. They are all so expensive that even my sister was not willing to buy them!”

Xiao Qingxing opened her mouth exaggeratedly and turned to Father Su who had followed him into the house. Mother Su moved over.

“Your sister didn’t buy it? Who bought it?” Mother Su glanced at the bed and asked doubtfully.

“Brother Lu bought it!” the two little things said in a hurry.

They had tried some of the pastries here, while others had only smelled them and knew they were expensive, so they didn’t bother buying them. Unexpectedly, Brother Lu bought them all.

“Brother Lu?” Mother Su looked confused.

“It’s Lu Bocheng.” Su Qingyu explained.

“Ah, you saw him? What’s going on?” Mother Su was very surprised and asked anxiously. Father Su also came over when he heard this.

Su Qingyu wanted to explain, but when she saw Yourfu and Yougui peeking her head at the door, she said, “We’ll talk about it tonight.”

Qingxing also saw the brothers and quickly closed the opened cake to prevent them from looking at it.

“It smells so good. Can you give us a piece?”

“Uncle, Yougui wants to eat it.” Su Yougui bit his finger and looked at Father Su, his mouth, watering.

Father Su couldn’t refuse and looked at Mother Su.

Mother Su sighed, picked up some, packed them, turned around, and led them out.

“It’s not good to eat alone. I have to give it to your grandparents, otherwise, others will say you are unfilial.” Father Su said to the unhappy twins.

Qingxing looked at the half-missed cake and almost burst into tears.

Su Qingyu rubbed her hair: “Put these away and keep them for you and your brother to eat slowly. Don’t give them to anyone.”

The little thing wiped a handful on her eyes with the back of her hand, grabbed a piece, and handed it to Father Su: “Father, you eat.”

Father Su shook his head: “Father doesn’t want to eat, let you eat.”

“Father, eat, there is more.” Su Qingyu persuaded, and Father Su took it and put it in his mouth. Hmm, delicious.

Lu Bocheng bought it? How did you meet him? Father Su glanced at Su Qingyu and was filled with curiosity, but it was not easy to ask questions at this moment, so he just endured it with heart-scratching.

Turning around, she saw Mother Su coming back and greeted her again: “It’s very delicious. Come and try it.”

The whole family tasted a small amount of each flavor, and Mother Su said that they were going to eat soon, so she packed them up and put them away before getting up.

There was no need to call for dinner time in the Su family. Once the time came, the whole family would sit down in the main room together. No one was afraid of being late.

The Su family had not been divided. There were still eighteen people at home, a prosperous family. There were two tables to share the food, and the hall was packed to the brim.

Su Tiezhu, Old Man Su, was fifty-nine this year and had married two wives.

The first wife gave birth to Su Qingyu’s gugu ^[1]paternal aunt and Su’s father. She died before Su’s father could walk. A year later, step-grandma Wang got married and gave birth to three more sons and one daughter. She straightened her back and had the final say in the family.

Old Man Su was a man of few words and had little sense of presence at home.

Except for the younger uncle, Fourth Su Quan, who was only sixteen and not yet married, Wang Shi’s other two sons, Second Su He, and Third Su Xi had given birth to four grandsons and three granddaughters for her. Wang Shi, considering herself a contributor to the prosperity of the Su family’s descendants, often issued commands at home, keeping the daughters-in-law busy with her instructions.

At this moment, Wang Shi saw that Su Qingyu had just violated her will and snatched the cake from her hand. She saw that Su Qingyu’s eyes were not eyes and her nose was not a nose. ^[2]basically she didn’t like her

However, because she managed to arrange Su Qingyu’s marriage and pocketed fifty taels of silver, all ending up in her own pocket, she didn’t dare to be too assertive with Su Qingyu. She feared that being too forceful might lead to Su Qingyu resisting, resulting in more trouble than it was worth.

At this time, she only gave Su Qingyu a hard look and said no unpleasant words.

Su Qingyu had no time to pay attention to her, so she took the twins and sat down at the lower table. She sat between the twins so that she could pick up food for them.

There were plenty of meals on the table, and the dinner was even simpler than the lunch meal. Each person had a bowl of brown rice, a bowl of pickles, and a large plate of green vegetables on the table, plus a large bowl of clear soup. There was no oil or fat in the soup.

Su Qingyu looked at it but didn’t say anything. She just immersed herself in picking up the rice and occasionally helped the twins hold the chopsticks.

Silence during eating and sleeping was something that was not common in the Su family. From time to time, she would hear Wang Shi murmuring that the rich and noble would take advantage of their young age to make fooling around and make demands. They would not eat this or that. On the other hand, young people would not eat. Yang and Qingxing were very obedient while eating.

The second uncle’s eldest daughter, Su Chunlan, was already married. The two sons, Su Youwen and Su Youwu, are 18 and 13 years old. They were also adults. Tángmèi^[3]younger paternal cousin Xia He and the Third Uncle’s daughter Qiu Ju were not noisy either. No one said anything at the dinner table. For a while, the only sound was the sound of chopsticks touching dishes.

On the other hand, Su Qingyu was eating rice when she heard her third aunt Zheng saying to Mother Su: “I didn’t expect that my sister-in-law still has some private money hidden. I think Qingyu spent a lot of money to buy such old cakes today?”

Mother Su lowered her head when she heard this. It was hard for her to refute.

Although the cakes were not bought with her money, she did give her hidden private money to her daughter.

Seeing that Mother Su was silent, Zheng Shi thought she had caught her, and was about to continue provoking Wang Shi when she saw Su Qingyu looking at her coldly.

It scared her witless.

Su Qingyu said coldly to her: “Doesn’t Third Aunt have any private money? The day before yesterday, the salesman came to the village. You bought a large bag of candies for You Fu and You Gui. They ate them with gusto in front of Qingxing and Qingyang and didn’t even share one bite with the twins. The pack cost about one to two yuan. Was it the salesman who kindly gave it to them? Or is it that the Third aunt and the salesman are very familiar with each other?”