Chapter 210: Ji Yan Injured

Su Xi's face bears a gentle smile, "No, that's a required part of the heir curriculum. Besides, you drew well yesterday; if you're worried about not performing well, I can arrange someone to come teach you now!"

Now the Su Clan has real estate, so Su Yu must learn! She may not be proficient, but she must have a certain understanding of this industry and some basic knowledge.

"No need, I will definitely draw well!"

【Too scary! If the teacher finds out I understand, will my talent attribute explode and force me to study? That would be a nightmare! Can't think of it! Can't think of it!】

Su Yu quickly opens the diagram, her head still feeling dizzy. The parts she doesn't understand remain incomprehensible.

But her drawing ability seems to have improved!

Of course, that's what she thinks!

Specifically, Wulongcha no longer lets her redo the work!

Su Yu becomes happier as she draws, acting like a repeat machine, constantly echoing the questions Wulongcha raised!

Su Xi feels pain and joy. The joyful part is that yesterday it was half and half, but today it's the whole content, no need for him to guess. The painful part is that his time is all spent on this, and he has to work overtime again tonight!

Wulongcha feels at ease letting Su Yu doodle freely! It has seen the diagram Su Xi handed to the construction team, and while the drawing is quite good, it also marked each problem!

With Su Xi the reviser present, Su Yu's ugly drawings are no problem!

Wulongcha indeed pinpointed the issues extremely quickly, but Su Yu's drawing and textual analysis take quite some time. Thus Su Yu was busy all day and still hadn't finished all the diagrams.

"Alright then!"

"Even Great-Grandma doesn't know."

……

Whenever Ji Tianlin's parents try to mediate for Xiao Fang, Xu Mingyue always blocks them, using the argument that the Ji Family is also big and prosperous, why not help the Xiao family, and turns them away.

"Great-Grandma……"

"I'm working overtime."

Back home, Su Yu sprawls on the sofa in a four‑point spread, and starts her usual search for Mom, "Mom!"

"That crazy woman, I am at odds with her!"

"Okay, Mom will be back earlier, baby, have you eaten?"

"Okay!"

【I'm so exhausted today!】

"Mom, when will you come home?"

"Hello? Mom!"

"Great-Grandma, what is elder uncle doing?"

"Alright, Mom bye-bye!"

"Huh? Why haven't they returned yet? I want to call Mom!"

The butler fetched Su Yu's phone, dialed for her, and opened speaker.

"That probably won't happen, right? She's actually a shrew, these years only crying at home about how the eldest suffered a great crime in the countryside, while outside she pretends to be gentle and kind!"

Xu Mingyue thought of her daughter's circle. The entertainment circle truly is like that, ruining faces and everything.

"Next time you mustn't be so impulsive; it's just some medicated water, even if it splashes on you, it's fine!"

Su Yu hung up, and Su Xi organized the documents and drawings, went downstairs, and lifted Su Yu from the sofa to the dining hall for a meal.

Her daughter cares for her, and she must accept it. After all these years, it's the first time she receives such straightforward concern from her daughter. If her daughter hadn't been injured, she would have wanted to play "Good Days" to celebrate!

"Mom, have Uncle and they check those potions, they might have a problem."

The two thus become enemies. Xiao Fang says nothing openly, putting on a front of "the younger siblings ignore me, bully me, yet I have to rush to please them," while secretly tarnishing her reputation outside, claiming this delicate miss relies on her status to disrespect her in-laws and is hard to serve!

These years, to let Ji Xiaoling inherit to Ji Tianlin under her name and split the family assets, Xiao Fang causes a scene every few months.

"Baby, what's wrong?"

"Great-Grandma, why hasn't Mom come back yet?"

"Eat already!"

"Mm‑mm, I miss you so much! Mom, give me a hug!"

The butler came out of the dining hall, walked to the sofa, squatted, and gently said, "Miss Xiao Yu, Second Young Master and Second Young Mistress haven't returned yet."

"Alright, Mom will be careful next time!"

"Mom will return home after dinner, baby, did you miss me?"

But Ji Yan hasn't returned yet!

【Wulongcha, go check what my mom is doing, why hasn't she come back yet?】

These people are clearly mischievous scoundrels; once attached they can't be shaken off. They are like disguised doddering vines that drain all nutrients from the Host until the Host dies. Xu Mingyue could never invite such a disaster onto the Xu family.

Yang Zhichun and Su Yu asked and answered, completing the post‑meal digestion activity.

"Mom, there are too many acid‑throwers in our circle, you can't be careless."

Xiao Fang was the eldest's wife married in the countryside those years. Not long after Xu Mingyue married into the Ji Family, this seemingly gentle sister‑in‑law began to cajole Xu Mingyue for favors for her natal family. Xu Mingyue refused, and Xiao Fang cried at home, saying the Xu family, being large and prosperous, looks down on her, a countryside sister‑in‑law, and won't even help with a small favor!

After dinner, this time it was Great-Grandma who walked with her.

"Baby, an accident occurred here, Mom has hung up first!"

Xu Mingyue is not stupid!

When the potion contacts the wound on her back, Ji Yan shivers all over, slightly closes her eyes, "Mom, as long as you're okay!"

Xu family

Ji Yan awkwardly exposes her back, letting Xu Mingyue apply medicine to it.

Xu Mingyue is moved to tears; her daughter indeed resembles her, full of emotion, unlike Ji Tianlin that bastard! He's like a cold‑blooded machine! How could he think of sending the granddaughter abroad to exchange for wealth!

This time as well, she forces Xu Mingyue to give Ji Xiaoling a dowry!

On what grounds?

That's not even her daughter!

So what if she's Ji Xiaoling's young aunt?

She has no blood relation to Ji Xiaoling at all!

Once she's divorced, she's no longer Ji Xiaoling's young aunt!

"Mom, she doesn't seem like a shrew. I grew up in the countryside, and countryside shrews aren't like this."

She was all too familiar with the behavior of countryside shrews. Her adoptive mother had been one. Xiao Fang was more like she was acting out a countryside shrew.

"Alright, Mom will have your uncle investigate!"

Xu Mingyue helped Ji Yan get dressed, going along with her daughter's words. Her daughter casually saying the words "grew up in the countryside" instantly doubled Xu Mingyue's guilt toward her daughter. It was just wanting to check the liquid—she wanted to check the entire Ji Family, and she'd be willing to do it for her daughter.

At Xu Mingyue's word, the Xu family steward immediately had all the soil soaked by the liquid nearby dug up. When Xu Weiran heard his daughter wanted to have the liquid tested, he didn't even want his beloved flowers anymore.

"Send that flower over too. It's got quite a bit of liquid on it—more useful than your lousy dirt!"

"Yes, sir!"

The Xu family steward grumbled inwardly—just who was it that said no one was allowed to touch his flowers, that he'd personally clean them himself? That not a single leaf could be dirty? The moment Miss Mingyue spoke up, he didn't even talk about collecting the liquid off his precious flowers—he directly told someone to send the flowers over too!

Sending them over was out of the question!

Since Xu Weiran didn't want the flowers anymore, the Xu family steward collected the liquid from the leaves, then used tweezers to part the petals and continued guiding the droplets bit by bit slowly into the tube.

The Xu family steward packed everything up and sent it for lab testing. Xu Weiran watched his flowers with aching heart.

"What a bunch of dogs!"

……

【What a bunch of dogs!】

Su Yu nearly died of anger hearing the account Wulongcha relayed to her!

【Xiao Fang threw a tantrum and just walked away? She doesn't have to bear any responsibility at all? She got my mom hurt!】

【She argued that she poured the water accidentally, and that if your grandmother hadn't dodged, your mom wouldn't have gotten hurt!】

【What kind of ridiculous logic is that? Does Ji Tianlin know?】

【Maybe he knows?】

【He knows and that's it?】

Su Yu slapped the sofa, "Slap, slap" ringing out.

Su Xi rubbed the spot between his brows, hovering frantically on the edge of hitting a child.

"If you want to play music, go to your mom's music room!"

"Okay!"

Su Yu only then realized she was in her eldest uncle's study. She ran out of the study, and the steward followed her to her toy room.

Su Yu hugged a stuffed doll and watched the race cars race automatically.

【He hasn't done a single thing? Hmm?】

Su Yu simply couldn't believe that Ji Tianlin was this kind of person!

Wulongcha wasn't too sure, 【I'll go check again!】

Su Yu angrily called her mom.

"Mom, when are you coming home?"

"Baby, Mom is coming home right away!"

Xu Mingyue stopped Ji Yan, who had hung up the phone and was about to leave. "Maybe you shouldn't go back. She'll get anxious when she sees you're hurt."

Su Yi, standing to the side, didn't care—wherever his wife was, he was.

"She probably already knows."

With her system, what couldn't she find out?

Su Yi's body stiffened slightly. He'd get called useless by Su Yu again when he got back.

Sure enough, after they got home, Su Yu first smiled sweetly at Xu Mingyue. "Good evening, Grandma!"

Su Yu's mouth flattened into a straight line. "Dad!"

Then she pouted and clung to Ji Yan's leg, acting cute. "Mom, I missed you!"

"Mom missed you too!"

Ji Yan patted Su Yu's head. "Mom got hurt, so no hugging baby, okay? Baby, go to sleep now!"

【Good, Mom didn't hide it from me!】

Su Yu looked surprised. "How did Mom get hurt?"

Xu Mingyue: Xiao Yu sure can act—just like her dad at a glance!

"A bad auntie splashed water at Grandma. Mom pulled Grandma out of the way and accidentally scraped her back against a flower's thorn."

Those flowers had all been pulled out after she got hurt.

"What about that bad person?"

"She ran away!"

"Can't they catch her?"

【Did you tell Grandpa? I can still give him one more chance. If he knows and still does nothing, I won't have a grandpa anymore!】

"Baby, they can't catch her. She said it was an accident, so it doesn't count as breaking the law!"

"Fine!"

【Once Wulongcha comes back I'll Draw card. If I don't get it, I'll use the Tickle Card!】

She was furious!

【Su Yi is such a useless man! My mom goes out with him and gets hurt!】

Su Yi had no way to argue back—at the time he had been kept by Ji Yan's uncles learning things; by the time Ji Yan had already applied the medicine, Su Yi only then found out something had happened.

"Mommy, rest well!"

"Okay, can sweetheart bathe by herself?"

Xu Mingyue was a bit eager to try; if she couldn't take care of a daughter, she could still take care of a granddaughter!

Su Yu nodded, "I can do it!"

Xu Mingyue felt it was a bit of a pity; her granddaughter was also grown up and didn't really need adults anymore.

"Grandma, how about you come with me to tell Uncle Steward what kind of injury Mommy suffered? Mommy got hurt, so there are lots of things she can't eat!"

"Okay!"

Xu Mingyue held Su Yu's hand and went to find the steward.

……

Su Yu only saw Wulongcha beside her when she woke up the next day.

【Wulongcha, why did it take so long to investigate?】

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