Chapter 24: Lu Yuan, you damn inhuman!!

Everyone really can't hold back.

Although everyone in this courtyard is looking out for themselves, we still have sympathy.

Especially… we're all women, and we've all made it through this time.

We deeply empathize.

When is this woman happiest?

Isn't it just the day of the wedding banquet?

Even if we went to get the marriage certificate, we wouldn't feel anything special.

But holding the wedding banquet is different.

Wearing bright red clothes, she follows her husband to each table to toast.

Only then does she feel like a bride.

As a result, even on that day, they don't give it to Su Liyan?

This silly girl…

Been duped terribly by Lu Yuan, that damn bastard.

"Serves him right—who made him not marry into my Gao Tingyu's family? Now it serves him right, may he suffer every day!"

Gao Xushi, sitting in the crowd, at this moment was making sarcastic remarks.

Although these were sarcastic remarks, Gao Xushi really felt bitter inside.

This daughter-in-law really has no fault at all!!

Gao Xushi truly regretted it, regretted it for eight lifetimes—how could she have been so greedy for those two coins back then?

Otherwise, Su Liyan would now be working in her own home.

With such a diligent daughter-in-law, I could just lie in bed sleeping all day!

But now regretting it is useless—Su Liyan has already been taken by Lu Yuan.

Do you see that big white towel?

Although it's been washed clean.

But we all used it back then—it was placed underneath on the wedding night to avoid dirtying the sheets.

As for this person, if neither you nor I have it, then everyone can live peacefully.

But if you have it and I don't, then I'll hate you to death.

Moreover, this was originally our own daughter-in-law; without that bastard, Su Liyan couldn't have run away.

After Gao Xushi finished speaking, several aunties could no longer hold back, looking at Gao Xushi with furrowed brows they said:

"You've had enough—if you hadn't been greedy for those two coins, would all this have happened? You deserve it, so stop talking!"

"Exactly, from now on Su Liyan will be one of us in this courtyard, so don't cause trouble!"

Although everyone dislikes Lu Yuan, they don't dislike Su Liyan.

Furthermore, after empathizing, they feel even more pity for this silly country girl.

Gao Xushi was about to retort, but seeing everyone's angry faces, she just pursed her lips and said, "Fine, I won't say anything."

But inside Gao Xushi was thinking, "Su Liyan, just wait till you regret it!"

Wait till my Gao Tingyu finds a good wife, then we'll live happily every day!

Your family is so poor now you eat coarse millet noodles, right? We eat fine wheat noodles every day!!

Let you envy to death—who made you not marry into my Gao Tingyu's family!

"Ah, what a pitiful person—looking at her delicate appearance, one would think she can't lift or carry anything, but who knew she's so capable."

"What a fine young lady…… how did she fall under Lu Yuan's influence!"

Several aunties watched Su Liyan, who kept washing and rinsing, and couldn't help sighing.

Today Su Liyan hasn't stopped at all.

"Oh dear, Liyan, don't busy yourself—can this household be tidied up in a day? Come over quickly."

Several aunties called Su Liyan over, and they must teach her how to live.

Su Liyan saw that she had almost finished cleaning, wiped her hands, and came before those aunties.

Sun Erniang looked at Su Liyan's little hands, red from the cold water, and said with pity:

"Oh dear, look at these little hands—aren't they cold? Washing clothes like this in winter?"

Su Liyan pursed her lips and smiled:

"It's fine—today I just had a lot of stuff piled up; from now on it'll be just a few pieces of laundry, nothing much."

After Su Liyan finished speaking, the auntie beside her couldn't help advising:

"Liyan, you can't keep doing this, you know—work isn't done in a day."

"If you start like this right at the beginning, your husband will treat you like a donkey and work you to death."

After that auntie finished speaking, another auntie also said:

"Yes, you don't have a mother-in-law above you, nor anyone to manage you, so it's not that bad.

You say you cleaned the whole house today, but tomorrow if you're idle at home and your husband sees it, he might call you a lazy wife who never works."

The surrounding aunties all nodded repeatedly, strongly agreeing.

Everyone used to have a mother-in-law and knew how to cope; now we're teaching Su Liyan how to survive.

This work is never done—you finish one thing today, and tomorrow there'll surely be another.

Work slowly, so you won't get tired each day, and people will still say you're diligent.

Su Liyan hesitated a moment, then quickly shook her head and laughed:

"My husband isn't like that."

Seeing Su Liyan being sold out, yet still helping them count the money, everyone was speechless and shook their heads.

Soon, an old lady curiously asked:

"By the way, how did you and your husband actually meet? How did he trick you?"

This is what everyone is most curious about: how exactly did Lu Yuan get tricked?

Su Liyan froze for a moment, slightly displeased, and said:

"Brother Yuan didn't deceive me; that day, when I left the Gao family, Brother Yuan just happened to return from outside, and then we ran into each other."

Moreover, Su Liyan didn't want to say more.

Upon hearing this, everyone wore a strange expression and said:

"And then, the matchmaker didn't even see you when she came out."

Su Liyan immediately replied:

"At that time, Brother Yuan asked if I was hungry, then he took me out to buy breakfast, and then we talked about other things."

Everyone knows what that other thing was.

It was Lu Yuan exposing someone's old secrets.

Hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded.

This Lu Yuan is really too bad!!

So just a breakfast and he was taken away??

Everyone was angry and wanted to curse.

Gao Xushi beside them also couldn't hold back, gritting her teeth and said:

"Just a meal and you were talked into it??"

Toward this Gao Xushi, Su Liyan really disliked her, especially since Gao Xushi kept speaking ill of her husband; Su Liyan immediately frowned and said:

"I've said it, it's not a trick; we mutually took a liking to each other—I took a liking to my husband, and he took a liking to me."

Everyone stared at Su Liyan, speechless, and said:

"What about your parents? Did you just give them ten dollars and they agreed?"

Of course it wasn't that simple, but Su Liyan couldn't say more, merely nodding slightly and saying:

"Mm."

Hearing this, everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.

It must be that bastard Lu Yuan who said something to Su Liyan's parents and deceived them!!

At once, everyone felt the same: from now on, when they see Lu Yuan, they'll take a detour—this kid has too many scheming thoughts!!

Kou Yang, squatting among the old ladies, almost regretted it and wanted to cry out.

"If I had been more resolute back then, wouldn't Su Liyan be my wife now?"

Moreover, seeing Su Liyan do so much work in a day, only eating a steamed cornbread and a small bowl of vegetables at noon, Kou Yang couldn't help but beat his chest and stamp his feet.

Lu Yuan, you damn inhuman!!

(End of chapter)