The opponent imdiately let out a muffled grunt.
"Ouch! Mom, why do you hit my third sister so hard?"
Su Fusheng rubbed his aching shoulder and couldn’t help complaining.
When Liu Cuilan saw it was him, she threw the bamboo stick to the ground, and her eyes imdiately turned red: "It’s all my fault; I’m useless, making your sister go astray for a bit of food."
"What astray?"
Su Fusheng was a bit bewildered, and just then Su Wenbing walked in with so things.
Su Xiaoxiao then rembered that today was Friday, the day the two brothers returned ho.
Seeing both sons present, Liu Cuilan recounted the whole story as it happened.
Here’s what happened: today Liu Cuilan ca back from work and heard rumors about Su Xiaoxiao seducing an old man to get things from him.
Initially, she didn’t believe it and planned to drag out the person spreading the rumor for a good beating.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to leave, Su Xiaoxiao ca back and admitted she had indeed accepted things from the old man.
anwhile, Liang Guofu, already seated on the train ho, sneezed uncontrollably — who the hell is talking about him behind his back?
Here, after listening to Liu Cuilan’s story, the whole family’s eyes shifted to Su Xiaoxiao, as if waiting for her explanation.
Su Xiaoxiao scratched her head: "Mom, do you rember the director Liang from the at joint factory I ntioned last ti? The old man you all talked about is him. These were gifts of thanks from the factory, and I didn’t just accept them for nothing; I gave away two stainless steel cups and two flashlights in return."
"Ah, so it was from the at joint factory."
Upon hearing this, Liu Cuilan breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that she hadn’t struck the third child earlier; otherwise, she’d feel sorry.
As for the poor second child caught in the crossfire... well, a grown man with thick skin can take a hit or two.
"Mom, do you know who started this rumor?"
Su Fusheng asked.
Before Liu Cuilan could open her mouth, Su Xiaoxiao had already guessed: "Who else? It’s definitely that Zhang Dongi again."
Does Zhang Dongi ever get bored without making up rumors all day long? She’d make a great paparazzi nowadays.
"Watch go tear that darn girl’s foul mouth apart!"
Infuriated, Liu Cuilan stood up, picked up the bamboo stick, and was about to head out.
Su Xiaoxiao quickly hugged her waist: "Mom, calm down first. Zhang Dongi is just like a maggot in a pickled vegetable jar, always yapping away. Why get angry with her?"
She wasn’t worried about Zhang Dongi getting beaten, but afraid that her mother might go overboard, and then those two annoying mother-daughter duo would retaliate.
"No way, today I must go beat that darn girl up; spreading such rumors, isn’t she afraid of being struck by lightning?"
Still wanting to go out, Liu Cuilan was stopped again by Su Xiaoxiao loudly: "Mom, I’ve been promoted; I’m now the acting manager of our departnt store’s outlet!"
"What?"
Liu Cuilan did indeed stop in her tracks and turned to her, "Third child, what did you say just now? I feel like I’m hallucinating."
"Mom, you’re not hallucinating; I’ve beco the acting outlet manager."
"What? Third sister, you’ve only worked for a few days and already beco a manager? That’s amazing!"
Su Wenbing and Su Fusheng entered the factory right after high school and worked for five or six years, still without a promotion, yet their third sister had beco a leader in the departnt store just days after entering.
Su Wenbing looked at his sister with admiration: "Third sister, you’re really amazing, more capable than and second brother."
Su Fusheng echoed: "No kidding, you can say we’ve got a leader in the family now."
Facing the proud and admiring looks from her family, Su Xiaoxiao coughed lightly and said, "It’s just temporary acting; I don’t know how long I’ll be doing it, but I’m getting over thirty bucks more a month temporarily."
"Even if it’s acting, it’s still impressive."
In the evening, to celebrate, Liu Cuilan generously cooked half of the at and ribs Su Xiaoxiao brought back, along with the roast chicken and sweet-and-sour pork she got from the state-run restaurant. The whole family enjoyed a delicious al.
After dinner, Su Jianwu happily rubbed his round belly and sighed, "Mom, if only our family could eat this well every day."
"You dreaming? Eat at every day? I wouldn’t even dare dream that."
After saying this, Liu Cuilan switched the topic, "If you two can co back with double first grades next ti, I’ll cook at for you two."
Upon hearing this, Su Jianwu’s face imdiately fell: "That’s more like a dream; at least dreams are sowhat realistic."
His mom expected too much from him; he’d be doing well if he didn’t rank last.
"Look at you, so unambitious! What’s unrealistic? Didn’t your third sister used to rank at the bottom too? Didn’t she do well in her graduation exam now?"
"Spend more ti and effort on studying, I guarantee your grades will improve..."
Seeing his mom was about to start nagging again, Su Jianwu hurriedly covered his ears: "Mom, we have school tomorrow, we’re going to sleep now."
Saying this, he quickly dragged Su Jianwen back to their room.
After dinner, Liu Cuilan took Su Xiaoxiao to see the mugwort collected in the yard.
"All the mugwort collected in the past two days is here. I collected it all according to your requirents."
Su Xiaoxiao went over for a look and was amazed to see stacks upon stacks of mugwort piled up in a corner of the yard, almost reaching the top of the wall.
These mugwort were neatly packed from the south wall to the north wall, estimated to weigh several hundred pounds.
"Many people are still bringing more; third child, find so ti to have these delivered; the yard can’t fit any more."
Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Mom, don’t worry, I’ve arranged for them to be picked up early tomorrow morning."
She planned to ship them off quietly once the family had gone to sleep.
Just then, Su Xiaoxiao heard noises from outside the courtyard wall, like soone stepping on a dry tree branch by accident.
She imdiately raised her voice: "Who’s outside?"
Soon, a cat’s ow sounded, and Su Xiaoxiao frowned at the sound: "Mom, don’t you think this cat sounds a bit strange? Shouldn’t a cat usually ow high then low?"
Liu Cuilan was completely confused; she didn’t know cats owed like that.
Before she could speak, they heard the cat outside the wall indeed ow high then low.
Was it actually real? But a mont ago, the cat didn’t ow like this.
Just thinking about it, Su Xiaoxiao spoke again: "No, I rembered wrong, it should be one high and two low..."
Outside the yard, Zhang Guifang, who was eavesdropping, secretly ground her teeth; why was a simple ow so specific?
Taking a deep breath, she owed one high and two low.
She had been squatting here for two days to figure out the sales channel for Su Xiaoxiao’s mugwort; she couldn’t let her efforts go to waste now, fortunately she was smart enough.
As soon as she owed, Su Xiaoxiao spoke again.
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