Chapter 337: Loud Secret Plotting

Hearing Yan Bu Gui's shout, San Da Ma rushed out of the house in a panic.

Upon seeing the mess at the front door, she couldn't help but exclaim:

"This, this... what's going on? This..."

Yan Bu Gui was on the verge of tears: "This, this... what's going on?"

"It's Shazhu."

"No, how did Shazhu smash all my flowers?"

San Da Ma pointed at Yan Bu Gui and scolded:

"You, you... how did you provoke him again?"

"Don't you know he's just a good-for-nothing?"

"Why would you still go provoke him?"

Yan Bu Gui: "I, I... how did I provoke him?"

"I, I... can I even afford to provoke him?"

"All I did was say a fair word."

"Qin Huairu is such a wonderful woman, so pitiful, and yet Shazhu actually... still..."

"Oh no, my flowers!"

San Da Ma said sadly: "It's over, it's over, two pots of flowers, ten bucks gone."

"It's all ruined."

Now speaking of Xiao Dang.

Returning home, he saw Qin Huairu sitting silently at home, tears streaming down.

She furrowed her brow, sat beside Qin Huairu, and asked:

"Mom, have you shown your cards to Uncle Shu?"

Qin Huairu let out a long sigh and said:

"What cards? I just wanted to force him to go get the marriage certificate with me."

"But who would have known? Sigh, I finally understand now."

"Shazhu doesn't truly like me."

"He likes Teacher Ran."

"Xiao Dang, you also need to be mentally prepared; from now on our life will probably be hard."

Xiao Dang: "It's fine, we've grown up; no matter how bitter, it won't get that bad."

Qin Huairu: "But your older brother still hasn't found a job."

Xiao Dang: "He's just neither here nor there, picking and choosing."

"What did you say to my Uncle Shu?"

Qin Huairu hesitated a moment, then said:

"I just said you either come with me now to get the marriage certificate, or leave the Siheyuan and be with your Teacher Ran."

Xiao Dang: "No, how can you force him like that?"

"I and Huaihua have discussed it; he should still be hesitating, whether to get the certificate with you or stay with Teacher Ran."

"Now it's fine; you're forcing him to make a choice."

Qin Huairu: "Actually I don't like him either; if he stays with Teacher Ran and never comes back, that would be the ideal outcome."

"But his meaning is that he still wants those two rooms."

Xiao Dang: "Are you kidding?"

"You can't force him like that."

"If you force him like that, in his anger he'll surely say that."

"Shazhu is the type who yields to softness, not hardness."

"No wonder he just saw me and angrily cursed me as a white-eyed wolf."

"I've become a heartless, ungrateful lass."

"I tell you, it's definitely because Huaihua didn't reason with my Uncle Shu; otherwise he wouldn't treat me like that."

"He's always been good to me."

Qin Huairu: "Anyway, that's how it is; I'm just telling you."

"Don't tell your grandma and Huaihua and them."

Xiao Dang: "So what should we do now?"

Qin Huairu thought for a moment, then said:

"Let's take it step by step."

"What else can we do."

"The words are out, can't take them back."

"Anyway, if Shazhu really ends up with Teacher Ran."

"The house in the Houyuan belonging to the Deaf Old Lady, I told him, just lend it to your older brother to live in."

"Anyway, in short, we can't move."

"Your older brother will need to marry someday; he can't keep living with us."

"Without this house, no one would look at your older brother."

Xiao Dang: "Exactly, exactly, I think the same."

"No matter what Shazhu says, we're not moving."

He doesn't even have children; why does he need so many houses? Can he even live in them all?

Qin Huairu: "Houyuan's house should be fine now."

"Right now it's Shazhu's house."

Xiao Dang: "Huaihua isn't living there now?"

"If we hurry, I'll move in too."

Qin Huairu said nothing, which counted as tacit approval.

If we can seize Shazhu's two rooms, then whoever Shazhu is with, she'll be too lazy to care.

Anyway, she doesn't like Shazhu either.

Her goal is simply to get those two rooms of Shazhu.

At that moment, Huaihua walked in and asked:

"Sister, have you seen my monthly ticket?"

Xiao Dang: "Huaihua, tell me, what exactly have you done to Sha Shu?"

Huaihua snorted coldly and said irritably:

"What can I do to him?"

"Anyway, he's fickle, doesn't get along with our mother, so I don't like him."

"If I don't like him, of course I won't give him a good face."

Xiao Dang: "You heartless girl!"

"Sha Shu is so good to us; adult matters, what's it got to do with you?"

"Why are you meddling in this blindly?"

"Originally, if Sha Shu had followed Teacher Ran, at least we'd still have the two of us."

"Now that he's earned money, can he lower the dowry for the two of us?"

"Besides, if we don't cause trouble with him and we live in his house, could he be heartless enough to kick us out?"

"Now it's fine; our mother and you have both irritated him."

"Now he's taking his anger out on me."

"If Sha Shu really gets angry, we won't be able to get anything."

Qin Huairu: "Xiao Dang, lower your voice."

"You want to make it known throughout the courtyard?"

Huaihua lowered her voice and said: "Right, sis, you're right."

"Now our mother and our brother both have a bad relationship with Sha Shu."

"If we let our relationship with him become strained again, we really won't get anything in the future."

Hearing this, Qin Huairu smiled faintly with satisfaction and thought to herself:

"These two sisters have finally grown up."

"With them, I don't have to worry so much."

"Why not find Xu Damao, marry Xu Damao, and in the future both Xu Damao's and Shazhu's houses will be ours."

"And Yi Zhonghai—wow, that would really make us prosperous."

Just as she was thinking, Huaihua's voice came:

"Sister, mother, what should we do now?"

Qin Huairu: "Xiao Dang, you speak first."

Xiao Dang: "Do I even need to say anything?"

"Of course we should find a way to please Shazhu—no, Sha Shu."

"Anyway, he always treats me and Huaihua as his girls."

"I think he probably isn't truly angry."

"Even if he does get angry, once he calms down, he won't stay angry."

"Of course, we need to work harder to please him."

"As long as we please him, even if he runs abroad, he'll leave the house to us."

Huaihua said happily: "Right, right, let's do it that way."

"He even said he'll prepare a dowry for us."

Xiao Dang: "Then it's settled."

"Remember, from now on our family will rely on the two of us."

Huaihua: "Mom, what do you think of my sister's plan?"

Qin Huairu smiled and said:

"Very good."

"From now on, we'll give Shazhu both a flattering and a harsh face."

"Your brother and I will play the black face, while you two sisters will play the red face."

Xiao Dang: "That's right, but you and my brother also need to be careful."

"Don't actually provoke Shazhu into a rage."

Huaihua: "Sis, you called Shazhu again."

Xiao Dang: "It's fine; since he doesn't like our mother, I won't respect him either from now on."

"Of course, that's just a private nickname; in public, in front of him, we still have to call him Sha Shu."