Chapter 111: Good Friends

"Which one of us is getting married?"

"......"

Ye Shu understood Su Yu's implication, collapsed onto the sofa, and said, "We can't go on like this!"

He just wants to get married; why is it so hard?

Su Yu got angry at his pathetic look! She simply ran over to the bookshelf to look for a book, but spotted a familiar notebook and asked, "Why is Huo Huo's homework still here?"

Su Xi heard that without even looking up, and said, "Maybe she forgot to take it. Ye Shu, tell Zhu Xueheng."

"No problem!"

Ye Shu took the homework from Su Yu's hand, snapped a casual photo, and sent a voice message.

"Your kid's homework ended up here."

After sending the message, Ye Shu opened the workbook out of curiosity. He had heard that Liang Yan is Zhu Xueheng's biological child, but wasn't sure which parent Liang Yan inherited more from.

On the first page, Liang Yan got all ten multiple‑choice questions wrong. Ye Shu thought, "That's pretty normal." He lifted his water glass, already plotting how to mock Zhu Xueheng and settle a past grievance.

Ye Shu crossed his legs and turned to the second page, "Puff!"

Su Yu, who found a new business‑war storybook, said:???

"Uncle, why did you get Huo Huo's homework wet?"

【Just looking at the homework!】

"Cough cough cough!"

Ye Shu coughed for a while, then, after calming down, immediately asked Su Yu, "Did you help Huo Huo write her homework?"

Su Yu shook her head, "No, Huo Huo wrote it herself."

【I don't even want to study; how could I possibly write homework?】

Ye Shu looked at the workbook and sighed, "That really is 'those who stay near vermilion become red, those near ink become black'!"

Su Yu looked at the smudged characters and said, "Uncle, you should think about how to explain it to Huo Huo! She spent the whole morning working hard on it!"

"Really? I can't tell! Do you know what she wrote?"

"What?"

【Can't you just say it directly? So dithering!】

"First page, ten multiple‑choice questions, all ten wrong!"

"Oh!"

Ye Shu, somewhat dissatisfied with Su Yu's reaction, said, "Second page, word‑formation sentences: use the three words \"we, \" \"every day, \" and \"school\" to make three sentences. Do you know what she wrote?"

Su Yu, thinking that she would still have to be his flower girl, took the red envelope from his hand, politely asked, "What?"

She wrote: "I hope all the money our school collects every day goes to me! I watch my classmates perform TV dramas at our school every day! Every day, someone disappears at our school!"

Ye Shu shook the workbook, "It started as writing and turned into a mystery drama!"

"That's it?"

Su Yu let out a light hum, took the book she had chosen, and ran to the windowsill to lean and read. A small cushion was placed by the windowsill, soft and more comfortable than the sofa.

Ye Shu wanted to say something, but suddenly recalled Su Yu's performance with him at the mall. Not wanting to make a name for himself again, Ye Shu ultimately decided not to provoke her, and tried to dry the workbook with a hair dryer. He remembered that old workbooks could just be sun‑dried! How did this one get smudged?

An hour later, Zhu Xueheng arrived in a hurry, saw the crumpled workbook, and asked, "Who did this?"

"Um, I didn't know this batch of workbooks was so low quality; when the water dries, the pages stick together. I've already reported the school's printing department for cutting corners; why don't you transfer Liang Yan to another school?"

"Ye! Shu!"

Ye Shu bolted outside. Zhu Xueheng chased after him. The two ran to the underground garage and fought, then returned to Su Yu's office, where they collapsed onto a blanket, panting heavily.

By the window, Su Yu keenly smelled a sour stench and asked, "Uncles, aren't you going home?"

Su Yu said this while moving her cushion to the other side, until the smell disappeared.

"Going home? Going home to be scolded?"

Just thinking of that workbook gave Zhu Xueheng a heart attack. He kicked Ye Shu, "It's all your fault; how am I supposed to explain this to my wife and daughter? She was still crying this morning!"

Ye Shu sounded innocent, "When we were kids, no matter how we messed with them, those workbooks never fell apart. How could I have known today's books would wear out so quickly!"

If it hadn't been that back then he couldn't ruin the water‑soaked, earth‑scrubbed workbooks, and didn't want to spend that money that makes people write homework, he would never have worked under the black‑hearted Su Xi!

Making careless friends sticks with you for life!

Zhu Xueheng rejected the excuse, "It's rotten now! Find a way to make me a new one and copy it exactly!"

Ye Shu had another idea, "How about you have your niece hold your family dog and cry at the school gate, claiming the dog licked it? I remember someone from our batch did exactly that. They cried so wildly that they couldn't stop, and teachers and parents dared not scold them."

Back then Ye Shu also wanted to replicate that trick. But his family didn't even have ants, let alone a dog, so they couldn't learn it. Zhu Xueheng was different; his family now has both a dog and a child!

Zhu Xueheng heard that and immediately knew the guy hadn't prepared it well; it was intentional.

"I think you're living too well and just want to get beaten!"

Zhu Xueheng pulled out his phone to file a complaint, but Ye Shu stopped him, "I guarantee I'll handle it!"

Ye Shu hired someone to fetch a workbook from the school, then paid a high price for a person who could mimic handwriting to copy it. In the end, the freshly produced workbook was delivered to the Su Clan Group reception desk before Su Xi and Su Yu finished work.

Su Yu, watching this series of actions, 【spat out saliva and thought, 'Spent so much money, what a spendthrift!'}】

Back home, Su Yu looked at Ye Shu, who was clearly still planning to mooch meals at their place, and wasn't surprised at all, but why did Zhu Xueheng also follow?

"Uncle, aren't you going back to be with Huo Huo?"

【Isn't he a wife‑slave and daughter‑slave?】

"I'm not going back; she ignored me this afternoon, and I'm a bit sad."

【Hmm, that's quite normal. But thinking back to when you yourself couldn't withstand parental pressure, leaving Liang Lijiang, which caused Liang Yan to disappear from his life for five years, making her face so much malice at such a young age, I firmly stand on Liang Yan's side.】

Ye Shu was about to utter a curse when he felt a familiar chill. He turned, and Su Xi was staring at him expressionlessly. Ye Shu received Su Xi's warning, and the curse that was about to leave his mouth turned into, "Zhu Xueheng is lying to you; he just wants to see how I propose!"

That guy really has a glass heart, but it only cracks when he's heart‑broken or his relatives deal him a crushing blow. As long as family is with him, he's invincible!

Su Yu was silent for a while.

Zhu Xueheng took out a card, "One hundred thousand yuan, from now on help uncle say more good things in front of Huo Huo. If Huo Huo accepts me, when I marry your Aunt Liang, I'll give you a big red envelope!"

"Uncle, Huo Huo is my good friend!"

The onlooker Ye Shu was somewhat surprised—wasn't it said that Su Yu looks very much like Su Xi? This appearance of not being moved by money doesn't seem like that!

Zhu Xueheng took out a second card from his pocket, "Add another hundred thousand!"

Worried that Su Yu might still be unwilling, he added, "The red envelope on the wedding day will be at least three times what's here!"

Ye Shu was a little moved. He would soon be the one supporting the family, so he didn't dislike more money.

"How about I help you say good things at my wedding, or throw you a bouquet?"

Anyway, the wedding is already over, giving a bouquet to Zhu Xueheng wouldn't be impossible. If the wife's clique also wants one, he can buy another bouquet to give Zhu Xueheng! One bouquet for two hundred thousand is quite a bargain!

Su Yu blinked her eyes, "Let's talk after we finish eating, I'm going to wash my hands!"

Su Yu pitter-pattered upstairs, and Su Xi could tell at a glance that she had another "good idea."

"You provoked her first, so if you get schemed against, don't blame me."

Su Xi proactively distanced himself; he didn't know what Su Yu intended to do, but it certainly wasn't anything good. He didn't want to hear Zhu Xueheng's wailing and howling afterward.

The incident with Ye Shu gave Su Xi experience. He doesn't want to be a matchmaker again!

Ye Shu instantly thought of his own experience, "Your daughter seems rather bored; why not send her to school?"

Su Xi nodded but didn't answer Ye Shu's question. Su Yu is indeed usually bored. She always needs to find something to vent her emotions. Su Xi had originally planned to take her to an amusement park and a banquet when he had free time, but the brothers themselves showed up, so he silently thanked them for their sacrifice.

After tricking Ye Shu last time, Su Yu became obedient!

This time she might stay obedient for a while!

Rather than let her make mistakes and torment herself, it's better to let her make mistakes and torment others!

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