In Love With My Fierce Farming Wife!
Chapter 933 - 938: What Excuse Should I Use to Keep Him?

Chapter 933: Chapter 938: What Excuse Should I Use to Keep Him?

Patriarch Su’s face darkened as he summoned Old Qin to the side of the lotus pond in the courtyard.

After a good while, Old Qin finally came over.

His hands were tucked into his sleeves, balled up together. Summoned by Patriarch Su, he said nothing and made no move. Patriarch Su was silent too, and the two of them just looked at each other quietly, silent for quite some time.

Patriarch Su looked at the lotus pond, remembering the days they had spent in the Qin Mansion over the years.

Initially, due to Pan’er saving the former Emperor, the Su Family got entangled and ended up in prison. Upon returning, feeling lifeless and defeated, he stayed in the mansion with his fourth son. During this period, members of the Qin Family made their lives difficult.

But he thought a hawk would always spread its wings and soar, and that the children, fighting their battles outside, would inevitably return to their roots. He stayed in the Qin Mansion to secure them a way back.

When they were tired and weary, with no strength left to fly and longing to rest, they would always have their own nest, a place where they could relax and sleep peacefully, even if just for a moment.

He had come through all these years holding tight to this belief!

Now, Pan’er had indeed come back, back to this home that belonged to her. He had returned the Qin Mansion to Su Pan’er completely intact, without swallowing up the estate and claiming it as his own as the Qin clan had feared!

His conscience was clear!

At the very least, he had not been a drag on his children, not a burden to them. Although old, he still had his uses!

But what about the Old Qin standing before him?

Patriarch Su looked around the Qin Mansion and then back at the lotus pond in front of him. The withered lotuses in the pond were dying off, and part of the soil at the edge had been dug up. That was the sludge left from digging out lotus roots.

"Did you go see the child?"

"I did."

He only glanced from afar when the child was brought out for the Washing Three ceremony.

"I am talking about your other granddaughter, Shuang’er."

Patriarch Su sneered, dissent written all over his face, "Although Shuang’er is also a girl, you should treat her fairly. Your own daughter Qín Wan’er is cherished like a pearl, so why do you treat your own granddaughter as if she were worthless weeds, hitting and scolding her whenever you feel like it?"

He didn’t use his own granddaughter to make a point but instead used Shuang’er to accuse Old Qin. His own granddaughter was not subject to that Old Shrew’s judgments!

If it weren’t for her taking care of his son-in-law in her early years, why would he let these people make a racket here?

Such direct questioning caught Old Qin with no place to hide, his old face flushing purple with embarrassment.

"You know very well, she is not right in the head. Over the years I’ve beaten her, scolded her, pushed her hard, and when it gets too much for her, she’d just play dead and hide out at her daughter’s. I, I..."

Once she took refuge in Qín Wan’er’s home, it stirred up so much trouble that Qín Wan’er could not find peace at her mother-in-law’s house. When the in-laws sent a message asking me to take her back, their faces were longer than a horse’s, and I was so embarrassed I wished I could’ve just crawled into a crack in the ground!

These were not the worst of it!

The truly frightening thing was that she took their mocking and sneers as signs that they were afraid of her, basking in unwarranted triumph!

So embarrassed, he slapped her right there and then, forcibly dragging her back home. Afterwards, he refused to let her keep in touch with Wan’er, even during New Year when Wan’er did not visit her maiden family, he didn’t allow anyone to pay her a visit. Not showing up at their door anymore was, to him, the biggest favor he could do for Wan’er!

But she still wouldn’t rest.

He had warned her over and over again because he feared she would clash with Third Son’s wife. Now Third Son was no longer the man he used to be, and Third Son’s wife was no longer a simpleton of Wu. He thought, even for the sake of money, it was good for her to feel more fear. But he could never have imagined she would say something like "If it’s a daughter, just throw it into the chamber pot and drown it"!

When he heard these words, he was dumbfounded! He couldn’t believe that after living a lifetime, she could say such a thing!

Yet she had said it, and said it in front of a bunch of children no less!

Did she think that those children wouldn’t speak of it?

Hearing that Su Pan’er had gone into labor early, he knew that Third Son’s wife must have been angered into inducing early childbirth. His heart was filled with an indescribable feeling, wishing time could flow backward, to the day he sought to marry this shabby goods!

If he was beaten to death on the spot, he would never marry this calamity into the Qin family and let her bring disaster upon his descendants!

Watching Old Qin’s face change mysteriously, Patriarch Su earnestly started a family talk.

"Think about my foolish girl, she’s also a person of good fortune. Initially, Fourth Son’s wife found her on the street and brought her back to the Su Family. Over these years, I, Su Hai, have truly treated her as my own child, taking her everywhere I went, up the mountains and into the fields. I taught her to be tolerant and to learn how to be a person. Even though she gained the nickname of Fool in our village, the Su Family hasn’t taken it as a shame, but as an honor!"

"They say a fool is blessed, and being able to raise such an oblivious child shows that she has lived a happy life!"

"But once she married into your Qin Family, everything changed!"

"Old Qin, you’re also a grandfather now. I, Su Hai, am a generation above you and have twenty years on you. But today, I will still take advantage of my age to speak bluntly to you."

Patriarch Su spoke with deep meaning, "Over the years, for the sake of that foolish girl Pan’er, what could be endured, was endured; what could be conceded, was conceded. As long as we could scrape by, I, Su Hai, endured, conceded, and made do. But now, I, Su Hai, must demand justice for my newly born great-granddaughter!"

"Cousin-Uncle Su..."

Old Qin furrowed his brows and called out.

With the conversation going in this direction, were the two families about to tear each other apart over that one sentence?

If that were truly the case, it would be too heartless!

"The member of my household just uttered a thoughtless remark, without any hidden meanings. Let’s let bygones be bygones. Regardless, she has taken care of Third Son for many years..."

"Ha! Indeed, she took care of him for so many years, took care of him until he fell seriously ill, and even though there was plenty of hidden silver at home, she was too stingy to use it for the child’s treatment. She sure knows how to take care!"

Patriarch Su sharply rebuked, leaving Old Qin nearly speechless.

"Even, even if she was wrong, she just didn’t do some things well enough, didn’t do her duties completely. Despite everything, she had expended effort if not achieved merit. Later, the younger generation will properly teach her, to have her apologize to Third Son’s wife. Let’s just leave it at that..."

This remark made Patriarch Su scoff.

"Enough!"

He waved his hand, "I see now, you’re determined to protect her, fully prepared to abandon this son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, right? You’re using the past favors of saving and raising Pan’er to threaten her, to threaten that benevolent adopted son!"

"But have you thought about it? How much of those lifesaving favors, those nurturing graces, after so many years of wear and tear, are left?"

"This family was established single-handedly by the foolish girl and her husband. This old body of mine guards this place, all for them to have a place to rest after tiring themselves soaring high and fighting hard outside. But if one day, that soaring hawk turns back and sees a destroyed nest, tell me, what excuse will you have then to keep him?"

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