Chapter 40 Qingbao wakes up her third uncle

Chapter 40 Qingbao wakes up her third uncle

Right now, Qingbao is trying her best to wake up her third uncle.

"Third Uncle, ptooey, you don't deserve me calling you uncle."

As Qingbao kept calling out, she suddenly remembered her grudge.

She's a very vengeful child, so Qingbao yelled fiercely.

"Si Zhao, wake up! Your mother has flown away!"

Upon hearing this...

Madam Si, who had initially held onto some hope, suddenly exploded, "Si He, you've really raised a fine daughter! Cursing her grandmother like that, who would expect her to wake anyone up!"

"Qingbao, get down here right now!"

Madam Si stepped forward and tugged at Qingbao, somewhat losing her guard.

Si Yao smiled and said, "Mother, Qingbao can't wake up Third Brother anyway, and she's talking so rudely. We have to kick her out."

She said that without that pen's help, Qingbao would be an ill-mannered good-for-nothing.

What's the use of being good-looking?

She's unlikable and rude; it's already too good for her not to be beaten to death.

Qingbao lightly dodged, glanced at Madam Si, and tilted her head, saying, "But you've already been verbally abused three times already. It's too late to start cursing now!"

"Including this time, you've flown four times now. You'll soon have a grand slam, and then you can actually fly."

Some things shouldn't be said carelessly, because they might become self-fulfilling prophecies.

The people of the Great Xia Dynasty firmly believed in the existence of ghosts, gods, evil spirits, and monsters, so no one would repeat the same bad thing over and over again.

Everyone knows the saying that trouble comes from the mouth.

Madam Si understood. "So, you deliberately cursed me!"

She completely broke down.

A child with so many tricks up his sleeve!

"Mother, she's just a child. Without an adult to teach her, how could she understand these things?" Si Yao silently added.

The sharp corners of his eyes couldn't hide his smugness.

Mother disliked Sihe even more; she was her only daughter.

Madam Si looked at Si He and said through gritted teeth, "Si He, I have treated you well. I even gave you half of Yao'er's dowry when she got married. How could you teach the child like this, hoping for my death so that you could inherit my dowry?"

"You villagers, you can't even afford to live a full life, and you're hoping to survive by eating your own mother's dowry. You'll do anything for money! I underestimated you!"

"Let me tell you, you won't inherit a single piece of my dowry. I'll give it all to Yao'er, but I won't give it to you!"

Madam Si had never been so angry before; her eyes were red with heartache as she spoke these words.

She knew all too well that she had a sharp tongue but a soft heart when it came to Si He.

But Sihe was the child she gave birth to at the cost of half her life. She had done everything she could, so how could she wish for her own death?

What an ingrate!

"I won't give you a single penny of my dowry!" Madam Si emphasized again, tears streaming down her face.

"Don't talk big with your meager earnings," Old Mrs. Si retorted quietly.

Madam Si's dowry was only enough to fill ten boxes, even with the addition of brocade quilts, porcelain, and many decorative items.

The old lady Si earns more in rent from her shop outside in a month than that.

“Mother-in-law, she was clearly in the wrong, yet you're still siding with her! Look how easily she's been fooled! How could Qingbao possibly save Zhao’er!”

Mrs. Si's tears fell even harder, her grievances piling up inside her and making her feel bitter, leaving her unsure how to vent them.

Si Yao reached out to comfort her, "Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law always have conflicts. That's why I don't want to be confined to the inner quarters. I'm so disappointed in my grandmother. Mother, come with me to the Su family. With me here, Si He will definitely not dare to bully you!"

Si He watched them perform with a helpless expression.

“I never taught Qingbao to be disrespectful to you. Madam Si, you should think carefully about what you did to her before she became disrespectful to you.”

"What have I done to her? I've barely even met her a few times, yet she claims she's a jinx to my family the moment I see her!" Madam Si glared angrily at Qingbao.

It seems that Qingbao really did something heinous, and it seems that it's going to take her life.

"Yeah, you've barely even met Qingbao, how come you're so sure she's a jinx, and you've tried to kill her time and time again, and..."

As Si He spoke, her nose tingled with emotion, her heart aching for her daughter. "Seeing that her grandmother was protecting her, you wanted to send her thousands of miles away. Isn't that harmful to a child?"

"And what about her? She only said a few words about you flying away, and you got so angry. Let alone whether you can fly or not, even if you really could, could you fly all the way to Yanzhou and never come back?"

"Compared to you, you're even less qualified as a grandmother, so why are you making false accusations first?"

Sihe dared not imagine what would have happened if her grandmother hadn't had the discerning eye to see through things and had joined them in committing evil.

How powerless she must feel in such a situation.

She was just an unloved daughter, yet she was bullied like this.

What if no one helps her?

Does this mean she won't have the chance to stand here anymore?

"It was your unfilial behavior that started this!" Madam Si said angrily, clutching her chest as she felt waves of pain.

“Am I unfilial? When I was first brought back, I obeyed your every word, greeted you in the morning and washed your feet in the evening.”

"My elder brother wanted to use embroidery to secure an official position, so I stayed up all night for three consecutive months embroidering peony patterns."

"For the sake of the Si family's future, all the embroidery I've treasured in my life has been taken by you and Father and given away as favors."

"Inside is the wedding dress that my adoptive mother embroidered for me over more than ten years. It represents all the effort I put into learning embroidery from her."

“When my hands were covered in blood and tears were streaming down my face, you said I was unfilial.”

At this point, she choked up.

"Take it away? I thought you were willing to give it up, so I sent someone to take it. If you weren't willing, why didn't you stop them?"

Madam Si asked, looking puzzled.

Si He chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Ha, stop..."

At that time, Si Yao led ten servants into her room and searched through her belongings.

She tried to stop them, but two men pinned her to the ground. The sachet and handkerchief her foster mother had embroidered for her fell to the ground, and dozens of servants trampled on them to loot her embroidery.

When Si Yao saw the exquisite wedding dress, she immediately snatched it and gave it to Old Madam Su.

Si He had no idea where her wedding dress was until that day, when she saw Old Madam Su's daughter getting married...

She was wearing the wedding dress embroidered for her by her adoptive mother...

From that point on, Si He was utterly disappointed in the Si family.

She doesn't want to stay in this house anymore.

Unfortunately, their adoptive parents have disappeared without a trace, and the courtyard where they lived in Sujia Village was destroyed by the Si family.

Where should she go?

At this moment, her childhood sweetheart Su Xiao found her and said, "My father has become a general, although his official rank is a bit low. But it's enough to support our family. Are you still willing to marry me?"

She's willing.

The bond they had formed since childhood made her feel like she had someone to rely on.

Unexpectedly, in order to gain a foothold in the capital, the matriarch of the Su family took the initiative to curry favor with the Si family and proposed marriage to them.

Si He originally thought that she would be the one to marry into the family, after all, it was Su Xiao who had personally promised her.

I never expected this.

Madam Si thought Su Xiao had a promising future, so she arranged for Si Yao to marry him as well...

What a ridiculous fate.

The Su family said they knew the whereabouts of Si He's adoptive parents, and that as long as she stayed quietly in the Su family and gave birth to a child for Su Xiao, they would tell her whereabouts of her adoptive parents.

After giving birth to Qingbao, she was burdened with another obstacle: she was unable to find her adoptive parents.

Finally, in order to protect her daughter, she resolutely moved out of the general's mansion and returned to Sujia Village.

She repaired the house herself, enduring the rain, the tattered blankets, and the wind-blown thatch...

None of this could break her.

Only when the Si and Su families appeared could they hurt her beyond repair.