Chapter Three

  "Sister, go inside and see if they're hiding anything." Su Sice said to his sister Su Sixi, carrying a bag of things.

  "Good." Su Si Xi slightly displeased, lifted her foot and prepared to go in. Originally, she had agreed with her mother that if they came today and managed to get some silver, she would use it to make new clothes for herself. It seemed like the new clothes were now out of reach again.

  As I walked to the door, I saw Su Xiaofan coming out of the house with a kitchen knife in hand. At this moment, she was staring at me expressionlessly, and I stopped in my tracks, looking at her like a monster, and sneered: "Su Xiaofan, even Yun Song doesn't want you anymore, if it were me, I would just go die already, how dare you come out and lose face like this."

  Upon hearing this, Su Xiao Fan still expressionlessly looked at her. It's just breaking off an engagement, why make a big fuss about it? The ancient way of thinking was useless in the mind of this modern person.

  Su Xiaofan held a kitchen knife and stood in the middle of the door, lazily playing with the broken knife in her hand.

  Everyone in the courtyard watched as the broken knife spun back and forth in her hand, its speed so fast it was like a street performer's juggling act, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of fear, afraid that the kitchen knife would accidentally fly towards someone in the courtyard.

  "Si Xi, you come over first." Meng's anxious call back to Su Si Xi, she was so close, what if this Su Xiao Fan suddenly flew towards her with a knife, how would that be good.

  At this time, outside the hospital, there were two people standing not far away, an old man and a young boy.

  The old man looked worried, turned to the younger one beside him and asked aloud: "How is it that this ordinary girl gives people a different feeling from before? In the past, she was naturally timid, looking at people with her head lowered, speaking in a soft and gentle tone, and can't be connected with the confident girl in front of us now."

  The little one gazed ahead for a moment before saying faintly, "Perhaps he's knocked his brains out."

  The old man nodded thoughtfully and said, "Indeed, it's possible. Falling from such a high cliff, if not for you, I'm afraid I would have been dead by now."

  The little one's tender face showed a few hints of anger after hearing this sentence.

  The old man smiled slightly and closed his mouth at the sight of this.

  "Xiao Fan, what are you doing?" Meng's family stretched out their hands to cover Si Xi behind them, lowered their face and roared at Su Xiao Fan.

  Su Xiaofan's eyes flashed with a cold light, and the corners of his mouth curled up in a chilly smile: "You think that just because a chef holds a knife, he can only chop vegetables? Chopping off heads is also an easy task..." As soon as he finished speaking, he quickened his movements, and the speed at which the knife rotated became so fast that others couldn't see it clearly.

  The scene was silent, the four joys were trembling with fear and hiding behind their mother, whispering: "Is Su Xiaofan stimulated too much, has he gone crazy?"

  Upon hearing this, the people in the courtyard exchanged a glance and then hastily retreated from the scene as if they had grown several extra legs. From a distance, Su Er's rough voice could be heard: "Don't think that threatening us means you don't have to pay us back, we'll be back in a few days."

  After everyone left, Ye and Jia got up one after another and walked to Su Xiaofan's side, looking at her with concern.

  Su Xiaofan smiled and said: "Grandma, mom, don't worry about me, I'm fine."

  "Oh, it's okay then." Jia let out a sigh of relief and looked at Fan'er who had just been so unfamiliar to her, she was really worried that the child might have been too stimulated.

  An old man and a young boy in the distance looked at the crowd fleeing in all directions and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  The younger one waved his hand and asked the older one to bend down, then whispered a few words in his ear.

  The old man asked incredulously: "Is it really going to be like this?"

  The little one nodded firmly.

  "Alright, let's go." The old man stretched out his hand and took the young one's, walking with a steady gait towards the small courtyard.

  The three people at the door were about to enter the house when they heard a commotion behind them and turned around.

  "Village head, what brings you here." Ye Shi raised her hand to wipe her face, afraid that there were still tear stains on it, making a laughing stock of herself.

  "I actually came today for my little grandson." Xiao Changfu pointed to the small boy beside him.

  The eyes of the three people followed his hand, and they were all shocked. In this rural area, it was rare to see such a beautiful doll, with those bright black eyes, white skin and tender face, wearing a white shirt, and her raven hair tied up with a silver pin. Who knows what kind of handsome appearance she will become when she grows up?

  Ye's family was the first to react, asking: "The village chief's son went out to do business many years ago, how could he suddenly send his grandson back?"

  Xiao Changfu stroked his beard and smiled: "It's said that business is too busy, can't take care of this child."

  "What was the village chief just talking about?" Ye's body stiffened slightly. Logically, she should invite them in to sit down at this time, but her home was really too shabby, and there wasn't even a chair that could be sat on. Those things had all been taken away by those two conscienceless beasts last month.

  Xiao Changfu looked at the little person beside him with inquiring eyes, and after getting a positive response, he said: "It's like this, this child is weak, I want to find someone to take care of him."

  Ye and Jia exchanged a glance, but in reality, there was no one at home who could go to his house to take care of the little grandson, as they were all busy with their own affairs.

  After a moment's thought, Ye Shi said again: "If the village chief doesn't mind, when Fang'er is feeling better, he can go to your house to help take care of Little Master."

  "No, you've misunderstood. I'm not looking for a maid." Xiao Changfu continued to stroke his beard, smiling with deep meaning.

  Jia's brow furrowed; if she wasn't looking for a maid, then what was it?

  "Now that the engagement between your daughter and the Zhang family's child has been called off, I'd like to have her come to my house as a foster daughter. When my grandson grows up, they can get married." Xiang Changfu said calmly, and as expected, the three people in front of him were shocked by his words, and quite severely at that.

  "Child bride?" Su Xiao Fan reached out to dig into his own ears, afraid that he had just misheard.

  "Are you kidding, Village Chief? This child is already 15 years old, how can she be a child bride? Moreover, your little grandson is only five or six years old...” Madam Jia asked in doubt. Although there were many people in the village who sent their daughters to other families as child brides, she had never thought of letting her own daughter do so, no matter how hard life was before.

  Xiao Changfu still wore a gentle smile, and said in a low voice: "Your family's situation is not optimistic now, there is no source of income, your mother's body is not good, your older sister is about to give birth soon, and Fang Yatou's body also needs to be adjusted at this time. If Fang Yatou comes to our house as a child bride, I can give you a sum of money to temporarily get through the current difficulties."

  Upon hearing this, a hint of anger flashed in Ye's cloudy old eyes, and he said in a low voice: "Even if the family is poor, there is no need to sell people to get through the difficulties."

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