Village Belle is Trying to Cause Trouble Again Chapter 79
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 79: What Was The Point Of Having Pride When One Was So Poor?
Lin Sanzhu was rendered speechless by what her daughter said. She didn't know what to say for a moment, "..."
She looked at Su Fu who was looking down, then pulled Su Tao away. When they were a little further away, she cursed in a low voice, "Wretched girl, say no more. Your words are making your dad sad. Your grandma has been coming over every now and then recently. Your dad got beaten while trying to stop her from taking our things away."
The Su family must have started to make trouble again after the Xie family left. Su Tao pursed her lips and said disapprovingly, "He’s sad when he heard my words, but doesn’t he feel sad to be beaten? Our families have been separated. Why did you still allow yourselves to be beaten? If you and Dad don't toughen up, one day, all five of us in this family will be beaten to death."
Lin Sanzhu also felt worried when she heard her daughter's grumbles. Her daughter was right. How could they live a good life when their mother-in-law snatched their things and beat them?
But what could they do? They couldn’t possibly hit her, right?
She pointed at Su Tao’s forehead and lectured her, "It isn’t as simple as you think. You’ll know the difficulty when you get married in the future."
After saying that, she looked at Su Tao carefully. Her little face was chubby and it was obvious that she was eating well.
She added, "Wretched girl, you’ve been living well outside. Work hard for the Xie family, and in a few years, ask the Xie family to help you find a good husband."
If the Xie family could help, then this girl wouldn't have to suffer like her.
Su Tao didn't dispute about whether she would get married or not. If she did, she would definitely get beaten. She poked Lin Sanzhu's face with her hand and teased, "Does it hurt?"
Lin Sanzhu grimaced in pain. "Wretched girl, are you asking for a beating?"
"I'm glad you know it hurts."
Su Tao took a few steps back, then said, "I'll buy you some medicine."
Just as she took a few steps, Lin Sanzhu ran over and grabbed her. "Wretched girl, don’t waste the money. There’s no need to apply any medicine. I’ll be fine in a few days. Would you like some pancakes? I'll make you some. I just bought some wheat to grind a few days ago."
Su Tao was somewhat moved at Lin Sanzhu’s fierce expression. Then she held Lin Sanzhu’s arm and whined, "I want to eat."
"Stand up straight, wretched girl. With your manners, you’ll definitely be scolded by your husband's family in the future," Lin Sanzhu said disapprovingly, but she couldn't hide the smile on her face.
Usually, Su Fu went out to work, and she was alone at home. Although she was mostly working, she always felt a little lonely.
Although Su Tao spoke in a rude manner, at least she had someone to talk to.
Lin Sanzhu grabbed some flour to make the pancakes, and Su Fu poured a bowl of water for Su Tao, expressing his emotions honestly, "My daughter, this water was just boiled. How was it outside? Did you eat well?"
In fact, he didn't need to ask the last question. Just by looking at Su Tao's chubby little round face, he knew that she must have been eating well.
No, she had probably been eating considerably well.
"Thank you, Dad."
Su Tao was no longer angry. She called him sweetly, and then said, "I ate well."
It was useless for her to be angry. She had to think of a way to make Su Fu toughen up. If he didn't, he would be beaten.
Then she thought of something and took out a purse from her clothes. She gave it to Su Fu. "These are the red packets that Grandma Xie and Auntie Xie gave me. There are ten taels of silver in them. Dad, you can use the money to build a house. It's too humid here and you’ll fall sick easily."
"Dad, this is the money for building our house. You can't let anyone take it away," she said with a serious expression.
If the money was snatched away, she would never care about them again.
Ten taels of silver...
Su Fu was stunned. The spatula in Lin Sanzhu's hand fell to the ground with a clang. The two looked at the silver in Su Tao’s hand in disbelief.
For a moment, they thought they had heard wrongly.
At this time, Su Zhi woke up. He rubbed his eyes, and when he saw Su Tao, he quickly got out of bed and rushed over, looking like he was about to cry. "Sister, you’re finally back. I want to eat meat pie..."
Su Tao, "..."
He only cared about meat pies.
She hit him on the forehead angrily. "If you dare to get your snot on me, you're dead. Let go, or you won't have anything to eat."
Su Zhi quickly let go, sucked his long snot back, and then stared at her eagerly.
Su Tao tried to hold back, but couldn't help rolling her eyes and pointing at the bag on the table. "You’re only allowed to eat two pieces."
Those were cakes Milksop prepared for her. There were also pork elbows originally, but, well, she finished them on the way.
Su Zhi hurriedly opened the cloth bag and saw that it was full of food. He drooled. "Sister, there’s so much food!"
Lin Sanzhu couldn’t be bothered about food at the moment. She closed the door quickly, fearing that others would see the ten taels of silver. She said in a trembling tone, "They gave so much red packet money? Is the Xie family..." Stupid?
Before she could finish her words, she quickly covered her mouth.
Pfft, pfft, pfft. The Xie family wasn’t stupid, the Xie family wasn’t stupid. The Xie family was kind instead.
Su Tao understood what she wanted to say, "..."
In the past, she also thought that the Xie family was a family of fools with lots of money, but after going to the Xie family’s mansion, she realized that the Xie family was really rich.
She thought about it, but still worried about Su Fu, so she stuffed the money into Lin Sanzhu's pocket and explained, "The Xie family's mansion is bigger than the village, and they eat meat every day, so naturally they gave a lot of red packet money."
She added, "When you build the house, if someone asks where the money came from, just say it was borrowed from the Xie family. Don't say it's our own, otherwise... someone will come and snatch it."
With the Xie family backing them up, the Su family wouldn’t dare to do anything.
Su Fu was a little too honest. He felt it was not a good idea to accept so much money. He shook his head and said, "No. We have to return it to the Xie family. The Xie family has helped us a lot. It's really unacceptable to accept so much red packet money from them."
Su Tao, "..."
Was he trying to preserve his pride despite being poor? What was the point of having pride when one was so poor?
No way. They could build a house with the two red packets from the Xie family. Otherwise, it would take him years to save enough.
Of course she couldn't say that to him, so she advised, "Dad, the Xie family doesn't need this little money, it's our family that does. We can't always live in the cave. My younger brothers are young and will get sick."
Lin Sanzhu thought the same way as Su Tao and nodded quickly. "Our daughter is right. The Xie family has such a big house. Since they could give our daughter ten taels of silver, they probably don’t care about this little money. If you give it back, they’ll think you look down on them."
Su Fu was silent for a moment and didn't say anything. He was naturally happy to be able to build a house.
“Where do you want to build it?”
Su Tao quickly spoke up with a serious expression, "Dad, I only have one condition. Don't build it near the Su family’s house."
Lin Sanzhu wanted to say the same thing, but was afraid that if her daughter said it, Su Fu would be unhappy, so she cursed, "Wretched girl, what do you know? Let your father decide for himself."
Su Fu wasn’t stupid about this matter. He couldn't stand his mother's temper and her nagging every day. "Taozi is right. Let's stay away from the Su family. There’s a piece of land in the west of the village. There aren’t many people there and it’ll be quiet for our family." After saying that, he looked at Su Tao.
Su Tao nodded repeatedly to show her agreement. "Okay."
The village was a bit remote to the west, and it would take at least a quarter of an hour to walk to the Su family’s house. Although it wasn’t very far, it was still quite a distance.
