“Are you threatening me?”
Qin Aiguo stared at Su Yun, his eyes full of ruthlessness.
Su Yun spread her hands. “Uncle Qin, don’t put it so harshly.”
“I’m just a weak woman with no strength to even truss a chicken. How could I possibly threaten you?”
No strength to truss a chicken…
One could only say Su Yun really had thick skin to say something like that.
Qin Aiguo was extremely angry and unwilling to submit so easily.
Su Zhen, whose face had already been slapped into a swollen mess, finally recovered a bit and struggled up from the ground.
“Uncle Qin, you can’t agree…”
She covered her swollen, steamed-bun-like face and rushed forward to stop Qin Aiguo, urging him not to soften his heart or be deceived by Su Yun.
Su Yun smiled. “Su Zhen, does your face not hurt anymore? Or is your stomach better now?”
Su Zhen instinctively stepped back several paces, both hands covering her face.
Seeing this, Qin Aiguo shouted at Su Yun.
“Su Yun, Su Zhen is your biological sister.”
“Yes.”
Su Yun admitted openly. “But Uncle Qin, right now we’re talking about you and me. It has nothing to do with Su Zhen.”
“As for my so-called ‘sisterly bond’ with her, I’ll settle it with her slowly, bit by bit.”
And Qin Xiao, who had abused the original owner.
None of them would escape.
With leverage in Su Yun’s hands, Qin Aiguo was furious, but completely helpless.
He could only glare at Su Yun and ask what she wanted.
“One hundred yuan.”
Su Yun held up one finger. “One hundred yuan is barely enough to treat my injuries and save my life.”
“As long as I don’t die, nothing will happen to the Qin family.”
“Uncle Qin, you will still be the respected team leader.”
Su Yun was clearly talking nonsense with her eyes open.
Qin Aiguo did not believe her.
Su Zhen exploded in anger. “One hundred yuan?”
“Su Yun, why don’t you just rob someone?”
Su Yun raised an eyebrow, folding her arms as she looked down at Su Zhen.
“Su Zhen, you only secretly got a marriage certificate with your brother-in-law today and haven’t even been acknowledged by the Qin family yet, and you already consider yourself part of the Qin family?”
Su Zhen’s swollen face turned green and white.
“What did you say?” she snapped stubbornly.
“Enough.”
Qin Aiguo snapped at Su Zhen, forcing her to shut up.
Then he turned back to Su Yun.
“One hundred yuan. Everything ends here.”
“Everything” included all his dirty deeds, as well as Su Zhen and Qin Xiao’s betrayal of her.
Su Yun sneered inwardly.
Qin Aiguo really had it easy in his imagination.
But right now, she still needed some time to recover and build strength.
So there was no rush to tear the Qin family apart immediately.
They were right next door anyway—she could deal with them anytime.
Slowly was fine too.
“That’s natural,” Su Yun replied with a smile.
Qin Aiguo told her to wait, then strode out of the courtyard and returned to the Qin home next door.
From his hidden stash, he counted out ten large banknotes.
On his way out, he happened to run into the brigade leader Zhao Fang who had come over with Qin Jiao.
“Aiguo, Qin Jiao said something happened at your home…”
Qin Aiguo quickly replied, “Misunderstanding. It’s all a misunderstanding.”
On the side, Qin Jiao said in disbelief, “Dad, how is it a misunderstanding? I saw with my own eyes that that bitch Su Yun hit Sister Zhen and my brother…”
“Shut up.”
Qin Aiguo scolded his thoughtless daughter.
Then he pulled Zhao Fang aside and whispered.
“Brigade Leader, this is just family scandal. That girl Su Yun went into the wrong room last night and ended up in Ah Yuan’s courtyard. She couldn’t accept it and started crying and making a scene in his room.”
“She banged her head on the wall and even tried to hang herself. It was really ugly…”
Qin Aiguo exaggerated everything and pinned all the blame on Su Yun.
“Ah Yuan’s condition worries us too, so we simply decided to let things be and have him marry Su Yun.”
As he spoke, he took out the ten large banknotes he had just retrieved. “Look, this is the living allowance I gave them.”
“Although Ah Yuan isn’t my biological son, he has been raised in the Qin family all these years.”
“I can’t just ignore him…”
It had to be said, Qin Aiguo was extremely skilled with words.
After his performance, his image became noble and respectable.
Zhao Fang nodded. “Since it’s nothing serious, handle it yourselves.”
“Alright, big brother, go rest. I’ll take care of it.”
“I’ll go talk to Su Yun.”
He walked toward the shabby courtyard.
Inside, seeing the injuries on Su Yun’s forehead and the marks on her neck, Zhao Fang frowned deeply.
It really was as Aiguo said.
“Su Yun.”
Zhao Fang spoke sternly.
“Since you’ve already entered Ah Yuan’s house and become his wife, you should behave yourself and stop making trouble.”
“Brigade leader?”
At that moment, sitting on a low stool, Qin Yuan lifted his head, trying to explain for Su Yun.
“Yours—”
“Brother Qin.”
Su Yun pressed down on his wrist, glanced at the satisfied Qin Aiguo behind Zhao Fang, and curved her lips slightly.
“Brigade Leader is right.”
“We will live properly from now on.”
Zhao Fang nodded slowly when he heard this, satisfied that she was sensible.
Then he turned and left.
After Zhao Fang left, Qin Aiguo stepped forward.
“Su Yun, did you hear what the brigade leader said?”
“If you still want to earn work points and survive in the team, behave yourself. Otherwise—”
He shot her a vicious look, the threat obvious.
Su Yun’s smile did not fade. “Don’t worry. Everything here is under your control. I still want to live a few more years, so I won’t go against you.”
“Good that you know.”
Qin Aiguo tossed the one hundred yuan into her arms and left.
The group of onlookers Su Zhen had brought were also scared away by a single look from him.
“If you still want to live in this team, keep your mouths shut.”
“If I hear anything I shouldn’t, your work points this year will be gone.”
His threat was completely unrestrained.
Everyone lowered their heads.
Su Yun curled her lips, watching them like quails.
A confused brigade leader and a tyrant team leader—Qin Aiguo really ruled with an iron hand.
Interesting.
After everyone left, only Su Yun and Qin Yuan remained in the broken courtyard.
Just as Su Yun turned to speak, her stomach growled loudly. She rubbed it, only then remembering the original owner hadn’t eaten a single grain of rice since yesterday.
Although yesterday was supposed to be her wedding day, her parents had still made her work in the fields all morning.
When she returned home, lunch was already over and nothing had been left for her.
Her parents had even said while picking their teeth that she would soon be eating well at the Qin family, so she shouldn’t steal food from her younger siblings.
Su Zhen, who knew exactly what was going to happen next, had also added fuel to the fire.