Chapter 133: Chapter 131: Su Rui’an Causes Trouble

Lu Xiao’s heart ached as he listened to Su Tang.

He placed a hand on the back of her head, gently running his fingers through her long hair, over and over.

“Then I’ll work harder. I’ll try to get transferred somewhere closer to Shanghai, so you can be reunited with your parents sooner.”

She had traveled so far to come here and find him.

She had even given up being with her beloved parents for his sake. How could he possibly let her suffer?

Hearing Lu Xiao’s words, Su Tang was deeply moved.

“Lu Xiao, do you remember the first time you saw me? I don’t mean on the train.”

Hearing this, Lu Xiao furrowed his brow slightly.

“The first time you saw me, you had this grim look on your face as you walked out from behind Hu Lili. I thought some icy-faced grim reaper had shown up. You scared the daylights out of me.”

Thinking back to their first formal meeting, Su Tang still felt a little helpless.

Right after she transmigrated into the book, she had been put on a train by Mr. and Mrs. Su to go and live with her husband in name, a man she had never even met.

But to survive, she had no choice but to come. Who would have thought that at their first meeting, his face would be so cold, looking at her as if he was thoroughly displeased.

Back then, Su Tang had grumbled to herself, ’I’m done for.’

“I didn’t know you back then, did I?”

Lu Xiao cleared his throat, as if he didn’t want to bring up these matters with Su Tang again, but she clearly wasn’t going to let it go.

“Right after we registered our marriage, I wrote you a letter asking if you wanted to come live with me at the military base. And you… ah, no, the original her, sent back a rambling, three-page letter.”

Lu Xiao couldn’t help but want to laugh at the memory.

“Three pages? What did it all say?”

Speaking of which, this was never mentioned in the original novel, so Su Tang was naturally curious.

“She said she didn’t like arranged marriages. She also said she had no favorable impression of me at all. She said she couldn’t stand the bitter cold of the Northwest, couldn’t stand the sandstorms, and especially couldn’t stand a husband she’d never even met. That’s why she didn’t want to come.”

As he said this, Lu Xiao’s heart felt heavy.

Truth be told, he wasn’t that opposed to arranged marriages at first. After all, it was hard for him to find a woman while serving in the army.

Most of the men’s wives came from arranged marriages. Without their parents back home arranging things, they might never even find a wife.

However, it was precisely that letter from the original Su Tang that completely extinguished the last tiny shred of goodwill he had for her.

“After receiving the letter, although I thought it was just a young woman’s fickle emotions at play, I was also very unhappy. Since she looked down on me, then I’d look down on her.

So I didn’t even write back. I just pretended I’d never sent her that letter in the first place.”

“A long time passed. When I received the letter from the Su Family saying you were coming to join me, I was rather surprised.

I figured that since you had already written that you couldn’t endure hardship, your coming here would just mean you’d be someone I had to take care of.”

That’s why the impatience on Lu Xiao’s face when he first saw Su Tang was genuine.

He thought she was a pretentious, pampered young lady with a bourgeois attitude.

That’s why later, when Su Tang gave him so many surprises, he felt she was a completely different person from the one who had written him that letter.

“So that’s how it was.”

Su Tang smiled. Talking about these things with Lu Xiao helped much of the sadness in her heart dissipate.

“Of course it was. I never lie.”

“I’m so glad it was you. So glad.”

Lu Xiao ruffled her hair and bent down to kiss her soft lips.

The two of them gradually fell asleep as they talked.

「Three days later.」

When it was time for Mr. and Mrs. Su to leave, Mr. and Mrs. Lu packed many things for them.

They also said some things were inconvenient to take now, and that they would personally deliver them when they returned home later.

“Don’t you worry. As long as my old man and I are here, you can rest assured. We will definitely take good care of Tangtang.”

Hearing this, Mrs. Su nodded through her tears.

“We’ll definitely come back when Tangtang is about to give birth.”

Behind her, Mr. Su was hauling bags of all sizes onto the train.

The conductor on the train was already hurrying them along.

“Mom, Dad, once you get home, you have to remember to write to me. You must remember.”

After seeing Mr. and Mrs. Su onto the train and watching it pull away, tears finally flooded Su Tang’s eyes.

“Tangtang, don’t cry, it’s bad for your health. When you have the baby, we’ll go back to Shanghai with you. By the way, have you ever been to our hometown?”

“Let me tell you, the wheat in our fields is growing so well, all brilliant gold. And back home, we raise all sorts of little chickens and ducks. When we get there, whatever you want to eat, Mom will make it for you. Alright?”

Listening to Mrs. Lu’s comforting words, Su Tang did feel much better.

“Don’t worry, Mom, I’m alright. It’s just… saying goodbye like that made me feel a little sad for a moment.”

But it was only for a moment.

If she let the sadness linger and couldn’t get back to her normal life, then she wouldn’t be herself.

Mrs. Lu nodded and, with a smile, led Su Tang back home.

After Mr. and Mrs. Su left, life seemed to return to its peaceful state.

Half a month after her parents returned home, Su Tang received a letter from Shanghai.

The letter said that Aunt Su had agreed to return to Shanghai.

As for the matter of her son, which Su Tang had discussed with her before…

Aunt Su said she had contacted him, but he claimed he had his own things to do and refused to go back with her.

In the end, Aunt Su had to threaten to disown him before he finally agreed to return to Shanghai after some time.

Once he left, Su Xinyao would truly have no one left to protect her.

Just as she was thinking about this, Su Rui’an’s voice came from outside the courtyard gate.

“Su Tang, get your ass out here! How can you be so shameless? You’re a grown woman, and you’ve learned to go tattling?”

Su Rui’an’s voice was so loud that people from the surrounding family courtyards all poked their heads out to see what was happening.

Su Tang frowned and was about to open the door and go out when Mr. Lu stopped her.

“You stay in the house. I’ll go see.”

’He’d like to see who dared to cause trouble here.’

“Dad, that’s my aunt’s son.”

Su Tang clarified Su Rui’an’s identity, and Mr. Lu nodded to show he understood.

The moment he stepped outside, Su Rui’an threw a rotten vegetable leaf at Mr. Lu.

He had thought Su Tang would be the one to come out, not an old man.

“Where’s Su Tang? Don’t tell me she’s scared and hiding in there?”

Su Rui’an frowned slightly. Thinking about the phone call from his mother filled him with rage.

He was still waiting to get his hands on Su Tang’s money, but now he was being forced to go back.

“What do you want with my daughter-in-law?”

Mr. Lu calmly picked the rotten leaf off himself. Just as Su Rui’an opened his mouth to speak, he threw it right back at him.

“We don’t welcome rude people in our home.”

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