The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 1359 - 1372: Elder Sister as Mother (16)

Especially since many of them didn’t have time to eat lunch.

Normally, they would start getting hungry around this time, and smelling the fragrant aroma of meat made them even hungrier...

Anyway, they couldn’t smell the aroma of meat anymore, so there was no point in lingering here...

It’s better not to get involved in other people’s affairs.

Yes, yes, that’s right.

A villager had second thoughts, and the others were not far behind.

"Qing, your aunt is still waiting for me at home for lunch, so... I’ll head back first."

"Yeah, I still have work to do this afternoon..."

Su Qing cursed inwardly a few times. Originally, he wanted these people to back him up, and maybe Big Sister Su would be forced to give in to the village gossip. But he didn’t expect these people to be so useless.

No rabbit, no hawk... damn it!!!

Before the villagers who had followed could start heading back, two figures, one large and one small, appeared on the small path.

From a distance, everyone could vaguely hear Su Yuguang’s voice.

"Slow down, slow down, kid, where are you dragging me to...?"

"You look skinny, but how come your hands are so strong?"

Su Yuguang was practically being dragged and pulled by Yuan Qi.

There was still a grain of white rice at the corner of his mouth.

Apparently, before Yuan Qi went looking for him, he was having a meal at home.

When he saw that the Su Family kids were all there, Su Yuguang’s temples throbbed, and his cheeks felt sore.

He didn’t really want to go over, but with so many eyes watching, he had no choice but to walk forward with a stiff face.

But... these people...

"Why are you all looking at me like that?"

Su Li propped her chin up, smiling as she said, "Uncle, your meals must be quite nice."

Sweet and fragrant white rice, how precious...

Su Yuguang, not understanding, muttered an "ah" and quickly waved his hands, saying, "No, no, doesn’t everyone know my household situation?"

As he spoke, Su Yuguang timely showed a bitter smile, "We all work the fields, it’s not easy for anyone."

Su Yuguang noticed, after his words fell, the way people looked at him grew more and more peculiar.

Su Li kept smiling without saying a word, her hand propped on her chin tapping idly against her cheek.

Seeing Su Yuguang a bit puzzled, she kindly raised her other hand and pointed to the corner of her own mouth.

Su Yuguang instinctively touched the corner of his mouth, and a grain of white rice was caught between his fingers.

His hand acted before his brain could react, and the next second, he immediately put the rice grain back in his mouth.

Waste is shameful!!!

Mm, white rice is indeed delicious.

"Brother Yuguang, your meals must be quite nice."

Su Yuguang’s chewing paused, and only then did he realize what he had just done.

His mind whirled, thinking of an explanation, but his face looked awkward.

He who does not show his wealth, Su Yuguang understood this well, always keeping pace with the general community, but today he had embarrassingly slipped up.

Su Li: "Uncle, I know you’re a good person, you promised before to take good care of Su Qing and the others... look..."

Before Su Li could finish speaking, a clever villager quickly added to her sentence, "Su Qing and the kids haven’t had lunch, and there’s no food at Su Li’s either. Why not let them eat something at your place? Don’t worry, a few kids won’t eat much... If my family’s meals weren’t so sparse every day, I would have taken the kids home already."

The villagers who came with Su Qing hoping to gain something, well, what difference does it make whose profit they reap?

"Yes, Brother Yuguang, we didn’t even know your household meals were so good, come on, let me walk you back, don’t let us delay your meal..."

"Right, right, Brother Yuguang, let’s go. Qing, you all hurry up and follow."

Two villagers, without waiting for a response, each took one of Su Yuguang’s arms and started walking back, not forgetting to call Su Qing and the others along.

Su Qing gritted his teeth and glared at the smiling Su Li, a complicated look in his eyes.

"Let’s go..."

No matter how much resentment or anger Su Qing had, it seemed futile against Su Li, who was impervious to reasoning and challenges... What could he do, he felt so helpless.

If the path with Su Li led to a dead end, then he could only choose another.

Su Qing stared at Su Yuguang’s back for a while, then quickly followed in pursuit.

Su Mo and the others, watching their second brother leave, quickly followed suit.

After a few steps, Su Nian turned back to give Su Li a vicious glare and calmly said, "You’ll regret it."

"You will never know what you’ve truly missed out on."

Missed out on the gratitude they’d feel, and successfully earned their resentment.

The silent dog bites, Su Nian may look unassuming and a bit dull, but that look in his eyes was downright terrifying.

Yuan Qi furrowed his brows deeply, stepping forward to stand in front of Su Li, "Sister Su will not regret it."

"You don’t even deserve to be Sister Su’s siblings..."

While speaking, Yuan Qi felt nervous, carrying many small schemes and calculations.

He worried that Sister Su might get angry, and if she did kick them out, they’d have no choice but to return to that hellish home.

Everything that happened today felt like a dream to Yuan Qi.

He didn’t expect their luck to be so good to encounter Sister Su.

If only Sister Su could remain content like this...

Ah, not that Sister Su is lazy, just... if there’s something Sister Su doesn’t want to do, they could help, allowing them to stay.

Actually, what those from Su Family Village said is not true.

Their father is not good at all.

Their mother tried every way to escape out of fear of their father.

That man’s control is terrifying.

No one will ever know, behind closed doors, that man whom everyone thinks treats them so well outside is scarier than a devil.

Their mother’s body always bore invisible scars.

If there were any way, she wouldn’t have abandoned them.

They don’t blame her at all.

It’s just that, after she left, that man became even more monstrous.

He suspected that Yuan Le wasn’t his child... just because Yuan Le didn’t look much like him, but more like their mother.

If it weren’t for Yuan Qi protecting Yuan Le, that man might have drowned Yuan Le in the water barrel.

After such an incident, Yuan Qi had thought of seeking help from the village, where the Yuan Family had many close relatives, their grandparents and uncles were still there.

But no one believed that man was capable of such acts.

In the past, he had cultivated such a positive image outside.

Now, with the man starting to take to drinking, those people’s views of him have changed slightly.

But they still just said the man was pitiful... saying that after losing his wife, it was understandable he’d change, and as his children, they should just bear it a bit.

Bear it more... if they bore it any longer, they’d be dead.

Especially since the look in that man’s eyes wasn’t just strange towards Yuan Le, but also towards Yuan Wei and Yuan Zhi.

That man is a madman.