The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 1349 - 1362: The Eldest Sister as Mother (6)

Chapter 1349: Chapter 1362: The Eldest Sister as Mother (6)

The few people who were originally deeply emotional and jovial immediately changed their expressions upon entering the Su Family courtyard and meeting Su Li’s gaze under the eaves.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy and serious.

Su Li smiled, casually fanning herself with a palm fan, her posture unchanged in the bamboo chair.

Although Su Li wore the simplest and ugliest ash-blue cotton shirt and lounged carelessly, her air of carefree elegance was apparent, brightening the simplicity and dimness of the courtyard like an impressionistic landscape painting or a vivid and dramatic oil painting.

The central figure of the painting was the girl in the bamboo chair.

Every glance took everyone’s breath away.

Su Mo’s eyes burned with anger, her teeth involuntarily bit into her lips, and her fingernails unknowingly dug into her palm.

Jealousy boiled inside her heart, refusing to settle down.

This person she had never thought much of had trampled her pride and beauty into the ground repeatedly.

For a moment, time seemed to stop, and in the still air, all that could be heard was the faint sounds of people’s breathing.

Some even held their breath....

"Ha..." Su Li’s soft sneer broke the frozen aura.

Su Yuguang, who was at the front, awkwardly touched his nose, lowering his head to hide his slightly blushing cheeks.

Luckily, he was at the front and reacted quickly; otherwise, his old face would have....

Even at over forty years old, to be staring dumbfoundedly at his niece, even if no other thoughts crossed his mind, if someone had seen him.....

It’s just... Was the eldest daughter of the Su Family this beautiful before?

No, it wasn’t that she wasn’t beautiful before; she was very beautiful, famously beautiful for tens of miles around just like her mother was back in the day. But that kind of beauty compared to now....

He, a simple farmer, the only adjective he can think of is beautiful. To describe this kind of stunning beauty was really beyond him.

Anyway, it’s just more beautiful now than ever.

After feeling vexed for a while, Su Yuguang kept his face stern, using a reproachful tone to lecture Su Li: "You... even though we all understand you just lost both your parents, you are too disrespectful to your elders. How could you chase them out with a broom."

Su Yuguang was speaking of the original owner’s glorious deeds.

If it were up to Su Li... she wouldn’t use a broom; she’d treat people as brooms to sweep garbage.

Su Yuguang glanced at the cold Su Qing beside him, his words becoming even more admonishing.

"Su Qing and Su Nian are reminders of your parents, you should treat them better, so why have you made them do so much work."

"And Su Mo and Su Bing, they’re so young, can they even handle a spatula?"

"You’re the eldest sister, but you’re too heartless."

"Indeed... they’re so young, when your parents were alive, they treasured them; now that they’re gone, you’re still the eldest sister... if the kids hadn’t come running to tell us, we wouldn’t even know."

Not only Su Yuguang but several of the women who came with him also piled on, making Su Li feel ashamed.

Pfft, she was not ashamed; she could never be ashamed in this life.

Following the voices, her gaze moved to the two women chattering most enthusiastically.

From the original owner’s memory, their husbands were the ones welcomed with a broom.

Producing forged IOUs, demanding repayment out of the blue... Why hadn’t they been beaten to death?

These two speaking fervently, while holding Su Mo and Su Bing’s little hands.

Su Li quietly rolled her eyes, asking, "Then... what do you want?"

Su Yuguang paused, surprised; he didn’t expect a mere sixteen-year-old girl to remain so frighteningly calm under their intended intimidation, completely unfazed by their authority.

He couldn’t even detect any emotion on her face, the curve of her mouth unchanged, the rhythm of her fanning seamless, neither faster nor slower than before.

Thinking about it, Su Yuguang couldn’t shake an odd, eerie feeling.

For a moment, he even felt an inexplicable sense of her being untouchable; it was truly bizarre.

Shaking off these strange thoughts, Su Yuguang opened his mouth, wanting to say that Su Li should treat her siblings better, they’re still children, as the eldest she should bear more responsibility.

In addition, she ought to apologize to the elders she treated so rudely.

Although their actions were inappropriate, could she, a young girl, be so impolite?

Su Yuguang felt that as a cousin he had done all he could.

Despite being relatives, with the Su Family’s elders deceased.

But helping is courtesy, not helping is duty.

If she wanted her relatives to look out for her, she should act more considerately... The wealth of the Su Family was known throughout the village.

It’s not that they covet the orphans’ money; their own lives were unbearably difficult, Su Erbing’s family was still living in thatched huts, several children in the house were starving, faces ashen, even the boys were worse off than Su Mo and Su Bing, no wonder they....

Thinking this, Su Yuguang’s gaze held even greater reproach for Su Li.

But before he could voice his thoughts, Su Li asked an irrelevant question.

She glanced indifferently at the hands holding each other, "You seem to care for them."

A woman with harsh, pointed features, stretching her darkened hand to pat Su Mo’s hand, loudly exclaimed, "That’s for sure, they’re such lovable kids, well-behaved and filial, who wouldn’t care for them?"

"Except for some heartless people....."

"Little Mo even said you hit them; is that true?"

Su Li nodded, "I did, so what?"

"Children in the house don’t listen, what’s wrong with hitting them? Don’t you hit your children?"

This question left everyone awkwardly uncertain on how to respond.

In the countryside, they believe in rods making obedient children; disobedient children need to be hit. They’d only hit them harder.

On this topic, they really had no grounds to preach.

Su Nian, usually silent, spoke sharply in a child’s voice, "You had no right to hit us.... Mom and Dad never hit us, how could you?"

Others quickly echoed, "That’s right, the Su couple and Granny Su treasured the kids... Su Li...."

"As the eldest sister, if you feel I have no right to educate them, why don’t you take over?"