Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

In less than two years, he would be busy arranging a marriage for his youngest son, Su Zhan.

"Mom, please stop picking nice things to say."

Having grown up in this family, he knows everything about the family. Although his mother said this in order not to put pressure on him, he is about to start working after all, so it is his responsibility to contribute to the family.

"Open it quickly and see what delicious food uncle brought you."

After all, Qinggui in Su Wanwan's arms was only three years old. When she saw her family coming back with cloth bags, her eyes lit up and she wanted to jump over with her little arms and legs.

Qianshan and Wanling from the eldest brother Su Gao's family also rolled their eyes, waiting for the adults to give in.

Only Qinghe looked the same as before Su Zhan came back. He sat quietly in his seat, not even glancing at the cloth bag on the table.

He maintains a maturity that is not what he should have at his age.

Su Wanwan took in Qinghe's performance, patted Qinggui in her arms, and asked him to come to the table with her two older brothers from her eldest brother's family.

The children quickly took out the contents of the bag with their nimble hands and feet, and found two large bags of candy on the table, one of which contained assorted candies, and the other looked like fruit hard candies.

When the mother saw that one of the bags was full of candy, a look of anger immediately appeared on her face, but her eyes were full of relief.

"How much did it cost to buy so many candies? This assorted candy is not cheap, right? I heard that it costs several cents a piece in town."

In response to his mother's gentle rebuke, Su Zhan just smiled, with a hint of shyness in his smile.

Several little guys opened the candies but didn't dare to grab anything. After opening the candies, they concentrated on opening another bag - when they opened the other bag, there was a whole carton of cigarettes inside. There were no Chinese characters on the cigarettes, so others couldn't understand them. But except for their father Su Yang, no one else in the Su family smoked, so it was obvious that the cigarettes were bought for their father.

In addition, there is actually a small copper-aluminum box underneath. Judging from the icon on it, it looks like a hand cream or vanishing cream.

"How much do you earn in a month? You buy so many things after just one trip back home. How can you save money?"

Mother Zhao Ying glanced sarcastically in the direction where father Su Yang placed his pipe.

"Mom, I see Dad is always smoking the dry tobacco he rolls himself. I heard that it smells strong and is not very good to smoke, so I want Dad to try what a better tobacco tastes like. Besides, the price of this cigarette is not even as much as the half duck you mentioned just now. Hehe, Mom, at least I can help the master make some things now and get a salary of ten yuan a month. Don't treat me like a child anymore."

Ever since the children ran to open the bags, Jiang Panhua has been silent, trying to minimize her presence to avoid bringing up what happened just now.

But unexpectedly, Su Zhan actually brought the topic back to the roast duck!

Mother Zhao Ying and Su Wanwan also naturally turned their eyes back. Everyone had an answer in their minds, but the feeling of not having to pierce the window paper was really unbearable.

"Why are you looking at me?" Jiang Panhua was embarrassed and wanted to leave.

How could Su Wanwan possibly fulfill her wish!

"I never thought a roast duck would cost nearly 50 cents. Sister-in-law really opened our eyes again."

Su Wanwan's voice was gentle and moderate. She noticed that Qinggui was staring at the assorted candies on the table, so she picked up one and shook it in front of his eyes, "Qinggui, tell me, what else did you eat besides the delicious duck? Your mother took you there for so many days, it's impossible that she only took you to eat duck, right?"

As soon as Su Wanwan opened her mouth, Qinggui blinked her big eyes and replied in a baby voice, "And... this candy is super delicious!"

Jiang Panhua's face turned black and white. She stretched out her hand to pull Qinggui away. The third brother Su Di reacted quickly, stepped forward and grabbed her hand that was about to pull Qinggui away, and pulled her towards him with force. At the same time, a shadow had already covered his face: "Didn't you take the child back to your mother's house? Do your mother's family need to go to town?"

Su Wanwan smiled but said nothing.

Just now, when my fourth brother Su Zhan came back, he said that there is only one food store in the town that sells roast duck. If we don’t go to the town, how can we eat roast duck?

Su Zhan, who came back with a lot of bags, immediately understood the atmosphere at home when he saw this scene. He quickly sat down with his elder brother Su Gao and watched quietly.

"Brother, I haven't been home these days. Has Third Sister-in-law made our mother too angry?"

Hearing his youngest brother asking him quietly, the eldest brother Su Gao sighed softly and lowered his voice: "She almost pissed off our mother to death."

"What happened?" Su Zhan was still young and didn't understand many things in depth.

He just felt that the house had been in a mess ever since his third brother married this sister-in-law. Even when he was playing with the children in the past, he was always ridiculed by his third sister-in-law, who even accused him of corrupting Qinghe and Qinggui.

"Alas, it's hard to explain in a few words." The eldest brother Su Gao shook his head.

"Third sister-in-law, no one in my family is stupid. You said you wanted to take the child back to your parents' home, but you ended up going to town and eating roast duck. You have to explain this, right?"

Jiang Panhua's face turned red and white. She didn't dare to look up and meet Su Di's eyes, let alone look in Su Wanwan's direction. She could only lock her gaze on the little Qinggui.

"How can you take a child's words seriously? Just because he says he ate it, does that mean he ate it? He also said he ate a locomotive! Do you believe it?"

Understanding the character of the third sister-in-law Jiang Panhua, Su Wanwan did not continue to argue, but just smiled coldly, "Although children like to lie, they can't say things they haven't seen. If you don't believe me, ask the children of the eldest brother's family. They haven't eaten roast duck either. Who knew there was such a thing as 'roasted duck'?"

After Su Wanwan finished speaking, Jiang Panhua was speechless.

"My mother told me that our family's financial situation was not good. When you left home, you only took money for the trip and some money to buy things for your family. How could you have an extra fifty cents to eat a roast duck? Where did your money come from?"

Although the Su family has always been honest, they are not stupid. Although the third brother Su Di is not good at financial management, he gave half of his earnings to his mother and kept the other half at home. However, the family's money was not reduced at all, and Jiang Panhua did take the children out to enjoy themselves. Where did the extra money come from?

According to their understanding of Jiang Panhua's family, if their family was so rich at the time, they would never have married their daughter to the Su family.

"I saved some money before and put it in the cabinet in our house. But after my third brother and sister-in-law left, the money I saved disappeared."

Seeing the situation develop to this point, Jiang Shuzhen's eyes turned red and she described her experience in a neither loud nor soft voice.

Of course, the part where she and her mother did manual labor together was omitted.

After all, private transactions are not allowed in this era, and not speaking out is also to protect the family.