Chapter 165 - Chapter 165: A Warning
Chapter 165: A Warning
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Chen Guihua grabbed a handful of melon seeds and popped them into her mouth as she looked out the door. She spat a mouthful of melon seed shells when she saw people running towards Su Wen’s house. “That slut has grown up!” She hissed through gritted teeth.
That was a sewing machine they were talking about! How much did it cost?
“Pah! Even if she has the money to spend on something like that, she still needs to be alive to enjoy using it.” Chen Guihua hoped Su Wen would drop dead. Without her, she could order around the rest of the Su family girls as she pleased.
Chen Guihua’s plump cheeks were as black as the melon seeds she ruthlessly stuffed in her mouth. She grew even more jealous when the figure of Su Xueqiang lounging at home popped into her mind.
That man only knew how to loaf around, too lazy to work. It was infuriating how she had to watch Su Wen strut along the village streets with her arms full of good stuff.
If this continued, that bum would content himself in idleness, and it would not surprise her if he soon demanded to be washed and fed.
“What’s wrong? Whose house is so lively?” Su Xueqiang stepped out of his room and poked his head outside.
“That wench Su Wen bought a sewing machine. Everyone is clamoring to see it since it’s so rare.” Chen Guihua was so iealous that her eves were red.
“Xueqiang, put that head of yours to use! We’re down in the dumps while she’s living the life!”
“Su Wen bought a sewing machine?” Su Xueqiang gaped. “That can’t be!
Where’d she get the money? Did Zhou Hengyang give it to her?”
Zhou Hengyang’s recent return and his standing up for Su Wen shocked Old Man Sun and the rest of the Sun family. While the Su family seemed to have taken things in stride, it could not be further from the truth.
Su Xueqiang knew his Second Brother’s tricks had not amounted to much.
He heard that his Third Grandaunt had even given his Second Sister-in-law a stern dressing down.
Although no one had said anything to him, it did nothing to ease the fear that had taken root in Su Xueqiang’s heart. Everyone looked down on Zhou Hengyang for becoming a live-in son-in-law, but they also feared him in the same way they feared his older sibling, Su Xuewen.
There was nothing elegant or gentle in how Su Xuewen handled matters despite what his name would have others believe. He and Su Xuewu had always been kept under Su Xuewen’s thumb. No one in the family did not fear his older sibling. Now that he was dead, they thought their days spent living in his shadow had ended, but who knew he would make such arrangements before his death? Even now, he refused to let them rest, doing everything he could to make their lives miserable from beyond the grave.
One might ask what arrangements he made. They need not look further than Su Wen’s husband: Zhou Hengyang.
Chen Guihua pouted, her eyes darting back and forth shiftily. “Who knows where she got that money from? Maybe she stole it. Didn’t you say that she still owed you interest for the loan she took? How dare she spend so much before returning what she owes! Is there nothing she fears on this earth?”
“Yes, she still hasn’t paid me in full. How could she spend so much without consulting me, at the very least?” Su Xueqiang looked at her niece in a new light. From the time that man had married into the family, she had grown bolder and bolder. She even dared to borrow money and not return it in full!
“We can’t let her off so easily.” Chen Guihua gritted her teeth.
“What can we do?” Su Xueqiang felt he had been walking on eggshells since Zhou Hengyang returned last.
“Didn’t you say that Second Sister-in-law schemed behind Su Wen’s back to seduce Zhao Jiangang? Why isn’t there any progress?” Chen Guihua had been eagerly awaiting good news, but it never came. Zhao Jiangang did not succeed.
The day after Zhou Hengyang had been chased away, Zhao Jiangang tried to move in with Su Wen, but she turned hostile and chased him out too.
“Matchmaker Zhao isn’t here. My daughter went to wait on her after her confinement.” Su Xueqiang found out about this from his old lover. He heard that Zhang Chunxiang had gone to look for him but could not find him.
“Pah!” Chen Guihua spat in disdain. “Zhao Jiangang is useless! He’s a coward who can’t even deal with Su Wen, let alone take advantage of her.” Still, it was precisely such a man that Chen Guihua felt would leash Su Wen for good, effectively muzzling her as was her place in the family.
She should have ensured Su Wen never gained the opportunity to rid herself of that rotten man..