Lu Yuanxing looked at Li Susu with an approving expression.
“Susu, it’s getting late. Let’s go!”
Li Susu was surprised by the way Lu Yuanxing addressed her.
Before this, he had always called her “Li Susu,” but now he was calling her “Susu”?
She had to admit, Lu Yuanxing didn’t seem all that difficult to win over after all!
Looks like if she played it safe for a little longer, she could pretend to have a miscarriage and then run away.
Li Susu was secretly delighted.
Just as Li Susu followed Lu Yuanxing out the door, Wang Yanan hurried after them.
Seeing this, Ma Juan was afraid that too many people would find out about her secret pork business, so she quickly followed them as well.
Wang Yanan stopped Lu Yuanxing.
“Brother Yuanxing, look at Li Susu! She’s only just found out she’s pregnant, and she’s already spending money so recklessly. If you marry a woman like that, she’ll definitely squander everything!”
Ma Juan hurriedly interrupted her.
“You child, what nonsense are you talking about? All these things were bought by this young lady herself. Besides, this is between the two of them. Why are you sticking your nose into their business?”
Wang Yanan stared at Li Susu in disbelief.
“You bought all these things? Where would a country girl like you get that kind of money? It must have been Brother Yuanxing who gave it to you, right? You really have no shame! You’ve only just gotten pregnant, and you already dare to spend Brother Yuanxing’s money like this!”
Li Susu found Wang Yanan utterly ridiculous and immediately shot back without holding back.
“So Lu Yuanxing is willing to spend money on me, and you’re jealous? Besides, who do you think you are? What gives you the right to interfere in our affairs?”
Ma Juan quickly chimed in.
“Exactly! The young lady is right. By the way, you haven’t seen your uncle yet, have you? Hurry up and go see him!”
Then she turned to Li Susu.
“Miss, please don’t take it to heart. She’s just my niece. She normally doesn’t come here, and I don’t know what suddenly brought her over today. If she offended you, I apologize on her behalf!”
Li Susu still had a pretty good impression of Ma Juan.
She was capable, shrewd, and knew when to advance and when to retreat. She seemed like a decent businesswoman.
As for Wang Yanan, if she was going to stay here often, Li Susu didn’t think she would bother coming back.
Before leaving, she might as well sow a little discord. She couldn’t let Wang Yanan have things too easy!
“It’s fine. It’s nothing serious. But if your niece is going to behave like this and stay here often, I’m afraid I won’t dare come back next time!”
As soon as she said this, Ma Juan secretly made up her mind.
She absolutely could not let Wang Yanan stay at her house.
She had worked so hard over the years to quietly build up her pork business. She couldn’t let Wang Yanan ruin everything.
After Li Susu and Lu Yuanxing left, Ma Juan looked at the upset Wang Yanan and said irritably,
“Yanan, I don’t mean to lecture you, but you’ve seen our family’s circumstances. Your uncle and I have had a hard time all these years. If we hadn’t secretly sold a little pork on the side, your cousin Yifei wouldn’t have had the money to attend university.”
“I have people coming in and out of here all the time. It’s really inconvenient for you to stay here.”
Wang Yanan never expected Ma Juan to actually tell her to leave.
“First Aunt, even if you don’t like me, without my uncle’s permission, I’m afraid you don’t have the right to stop me from staying here, do you?”
Ma Juan hadn’t expected a younger member of the family to speak to her like that.
She immediately flew into a rage.
“You little girl! Is that how you speak to your elders? I’m your aunt, after all! I already told you, it’s inconvenient for you to stay here!”
Wang Yanan didn’t take her seriously at all.
“What’s so inconvenient? You simply don’t welcome me! From the moment I walked through the door, your attitude was terrible! My father is a government official, after all. How dare you treat me like this?”
Ma Juan never expected Wang Yanan to speak like that.
Originally, she had planned to gently persuade her to go home.
She never imagined that this girl had already started throwing her weight around.
So what if her father was a government official?
Had he ever done anything to help their family all these years?
If anything, it was their family who had helped take care of his children.
And now she actually dared to use her father’s position to intimidate them!
What an ungrateful girl.
“Wang Yanan, are you trying to use your father to pressure us?”
Zhou Dashan appeared at the doorway carrying two baskets.
One was filled with slaughtering tools, while the other contained pork offal and bones.
He looked displeased as he stared at Wang Yanan.
He had heard everything Wang Yanan had said to Ma Juan.
Originally, Zhou Dashan had been extremely fond of his niece.
But over the past two years, every time Wang Yanan saw them, she looked at them with nothing but disdain. Little by little, his heart had grown cold.
And now she was even trying to use her father’s position to pressure them.
His heart grew even colder.
The moment Wang Yanan saw Zhou Dashan, she hurried over.
“Uncle, you’re back! That’s not what I meant. Aunt wouldn’t let me stay here, and I was just upset, so I said something I shouldn’t have!”
After hearing her explanation, Zhou Dashan’s expression softened slightly.
“Since you’ve already come, stay for one night. You can go home tomorrow morning.”
Wang Yanan frowned and grabbed Zhou Dashan’s arm, acting coquettishly.
“Uncle, I want to stay for a few more days. You’re the best uncle in the world, and you love me the most! Please?”
Zhou Dashan didn’t answer.
Ma Juan quickly stepped forward and lowered her voice.
“Dashan, people are constantly coming here to buy pork. It really isn’t convenient for Yanan to stay here.”
Zhou Dashan nodded, signaling to Ma Juan that she didn’t need to worry.
“Yanan, it’s not that your uncle doesn’t want you to stay. How could this place compare to your home in the city? And with people coming and going all the time, it isn’t convenient for a young girl like you. Listen to me. I’ll stew some pork-bone soup for you tonight, and tomorrow morning your aunt will take you back to the city.”
Wang Yanan pouted and muttered,
“I had a falling-out with my father. I can’t go back to the city for the time being. Uncle, please let me stay for a few days!”
“Oh, I thought it was something serious!” Zhou Dashan said dismissively. “There’s no grudge between a father and daughter that can’t be settled. Tomorrow, I’ll take you home and talk to your father. Won’t everything be fine after that?”
Wang Yanan was still thinking about Lu Yuanxing.
She also wanted to find an opportunity to make Li Susu miscarry.
If she went back to the city, the distance would make things much more difficult.
But it was obvious that Zhou Dashan and Ma Juan weren’t very willing to let her stay.
What was she supposed to do?
How about going home with Uncle tomorrow, making up with her father, and then taking the opportunity to ask him for some money? She could use it to rent a place in town.
The more Wang Yanan thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed.
She nodded.
“Okay, Uncle. You must come back to the city with me tomorrow. Otherwise, I’m afraid my father will hit me!”
Zhou Dashan smiled.
“Don’t worry. With your uncle there, I won’t let anyone lay a hand on you.”
Seeing that the matter had finally been settled, Ma Juan also relaxed.
“Dashan, come inside. I’ll take these pork bones and stew them with taro. They’ll be delicious!”
Zhou Dashan nodded.
“Cook some pork liver too. My niece has come all this way to visit us. We should give her a proper welcome.”
Ma Juan glanced at Wang Yanan but said nothing.
However, she was sneering inwardly.
What good would it do to treat such an ungrateful girl well?
But since Zhou Dashan had spoken, she had to show him some respect.
It was only one meal tonight, after all.
She might as well treat it as feeding a dog.
Meanwhile, Lu Yuanxing had more than twenty pounds of pork strapped to his back and a basket of eggs in his hand.
Li Susu hadn’t expected that even carrying all that weight, Lu Yuanxing could still walk as if it were nothing.
She secretly marveled at his stamina.
For some reason, her mind suddenly drifted back to that time when Lu Yuanxing had been on top of her…
…the way he had moved against her!
Her little face flushed red, and even her legs began to tremble.