Su Lin said angrily: "That damn girl, she was lazy and pretended to be dead, so I locked her up in the woodshed."

"Grandma, she wasn't lazy. She fell into the water and choked... She's going to die..."

Su Lin insisted on her decision: "It's not that easy to die, the girl has a good life..."

Su Yu didn't even know that he was eating here. His daughter was thrown in the woodshed, still unconscious after falling into the water. He shouted anxiously: "What? Mother, what did you say?"

After saying that, he ran to the door of the woodshed, pushed the door open and saw Su Xiaoya thrown not far from the door. He picked her up and found that she was no longer breathing.

Su Yu shed tears and cried bitterly in the woodshed. Everyone came over and talked about it: "What happened?"

"Sister, sister..."

"Xiaoya..."

Su Daya, Su Shikuan and Su Shirong all came over and tried to wake Su Xiaoya up. Unfortunately, it was no use, Su Xiaoya had already left. At this time, Su Deng and other adults came back and saw everyone gathered at the door of the woodshed. They came back early today and also wanted to come over to take a look.

Unexpectedly, she saw her husband and children crying in the woodshed, while her mother-in-law was cursing at the door: "Your family is wailing at home just because a little girl died. Aren't the rest of us less precious than this dead girl? If she dies, take her out and bury her quickly..."

Su Dengshi realized: "What?" She couldn't believe her ears. It was the busy farming season recently, and she also needed to go to the fields to help with the work, but she didn't find her daughter when she came back. She rushed into the woodshed and saw that the little daughter in Su Yu's arms was already dead. The family finally cried together.

Although Su Lin did not admit that she was wrong, a child had died after all, so she drove everyone away and left the woodshed to Su Yu's family.

The two sisters Su Taoer and Su Meier were a little scared at this moment. They didn't even dare to eat and went back to their room secretly. After all, Su Xiaoya was pushed into the water by them. People who did bad things always have something to hide, so it's normal to be afraid.

After feeling sad, Su Yu asked Su Dengshi: "If I ask the clan leader to separate me, are you willing to go to the town with me and make a living with nothing?"

"Why don't you believe this? I work hard every day, and you use your money to subsidize the family expenses. Our daughter is actually starving to death..." She sobbed loudly again and could not continue speaking.

"I'm going to go find the clan leader and the village chief. You take the children back and pack up. Xiaoya is gone, so we need to clean up the mess. Also pack up everyone's things. We'll leave today."

Although Mrs. Su Deng still couldn't help crying, she nodded firmly: "Okay."

Soon, the patriarch of the Su family and the village chief of Sujiadian Village came to Su Jinnian's house, and Su Yu's request was that he asked to be separated from the other members of the Su family.

As for the reason, it was that his own child had starved to death and he had no face to stay at home. He wanted to leave the Su family and take his wife and children with him to go out and make a living on his own.

Although Su Jinnian did not oppose what Su Lin did behind his back, it was really shameful and he felt ashamed. However, he was unwilling to let his youngest son go out, and tried to persuade Su Yu. Even threatening to stop supporting his son's schooling, Su Yu refused to compromise.

He said, "In fact, I'm studying very hard now, so I might as well give up and become a teacher. As for the future, if possible, he will let Kuan'er and Rong'er continue to study. Don't worry, Dad and Mom, we will provide you with the monthly support in time in the future."

But Su Yu was determined to leave, so he finally agreed. Su Yu needed to give the Su family one tael of silver every month as a living allowance for the two elders of the Su family. Why not give more? Because Su Yu was a teacher and only received one and a half taels of silver per month, and the scholars received a stipend from the imperial court, which was about 50 kilograms of rice and flour each month.

Things went smoothly, but his daughter's death could not be in vain. After a few questions from him, Su Taoer and Su Meir told him that they had pushed Su Xiaoya into the water.

The clan leader and the village chief sighed and said to Su Jinnian, "You still need to discipline the child. If he can harm his flesh and blood at such a young age, what will happen to him in the future?"

Su Jinnian promised: "Jinnian will definitely discipline the people in the third room."

The clan leader spoke for Su Yu: "You... hey... let me say something. Don't bother Su Yu anymore. After all, their daughter was killed by you."

In fact, he has always liked Su Yu. He thinks that Su Yu is the most capable person in Su Jinnian's family. Others need to pay tuition to study, while he can earn money to supplement the family income. How many scholars can be so filial and considerate?

Su Jinnian would let Su Yu go because, firstly, Su Yu would be sad if the child died, and he couldn't force him to stay. Secondly, even if Su Yu went away, he was still his son, and this was an unchangeable fact.

Especially Su Lin was cursing, "Old man, if they want to leave, just leave. Winter is coming soon. I don't know how many of them can survive. They are separated just for a dead girl. I don't know what will happen..."

"Okay, say less." Su Jinnian actually agreed with what Su Lin said, but he asked her to stop talking just for the sake of appearances.

The Su Yu family only took away their meager belongings, a few pieces of rags for each person and a pitiful three taels of silver.

Even though Su Xiaoya didn't have a new piece of clothing in the end, the clean clothes she was wearing were made of fabric that Deng bought when she married Su Yu, and later made clothes for Su Daya. When she couldn't wear them anymore, it was Su Xiaoya's turn.

After leaving the Su family, the family slowly walked towards the town. From time to time, people from the neighbor's house came out and gave Su Yu one or two pumpkins, a piece of yam, a handful of vegetable leaves, etc. But they had to hurry and it was inconvenient to hold them in their hands, so they politely refused.

They walked to a relatively flat hillside with nice scenery and planned to bury Liang Su Xiaoya there so that it would be convenient for them to see her when they passed by there in the future.

At this time, Shi An woke up from Su Xiaoya's body and thought about going to the city to find a doctor.

Except for Su Xiaoya, everyone else slept uneasily that night, but their family's difficulties had just begun. There was a knock on the door early in the morning, and it sounded like there were quite a few people talking at the door.

Sure enough, they woke up the people next to them when they came back last night, and they brought the dean to find Su Yu early in the morning.

Su Yu asked his wife and children to wait in the house while he went out to check the situation. He returned soon because although the dean sympathized with his situation, he could not leave Su Yu and his family in the academy.

Sanshan Academy is the largest and most famous academy in Zhulinqiao Town. Many of the children who study here are sons of powerful or wealthy families.

It is impossible for the dean to offend everyone for Su Yu. In other words, he is also responsible for everyone in the academy.

Su Yu asked everyone to pack up quickly and take them to have breakfast. No matter how sensible the children were, their eyes would light up when they heard that there was food, after all, they had not eaten since last night.

Only Mrs. Deng was very worried. How long could the three taels of silver in her hand allow their family to live?

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