CHAPTER 287: CHAPTER 277: DON’T GET SO CLOSE TO HIM

Yu Xiaolian was talking with Mrs. Sun, saying that Ding Wulang was a good person. While many were watching the drama, only Ding Wulang stood up to speak for them, and Yu Xiaolian asked Mrs. Sun to order a two-sided embroidered screen from Mrs. Yu, one with a two-sided landscape painting, to be placed in the living room later.

Mrs. Sun nodded in agreement, understanding her daughter’s intention. Just a few words were enough, going directly to the Ding family to thank them would not be appropriate, ordering a screen was a form of expressing gratitude indirectly.

Mrs. Sun suddenly remembered, "By the way, the other day Su Scholar’s father visited our home."

"Why did he come?"

"He said it was to thank our family for taking care of Su Jingyue for over a year. He brought quite a lot of things and wanted to leave a silver note worth two hundred taels when he left, but your father and I didn’t accept it."

Mrs. Sun frowned, hesitating for a moment, but then said, "Well... Mr. Su mentioned that the two women in his family, Mrs. Yao was beaten alive to death by Su Scholar, and Mrs. Huo was sent away by Su Scholar to be sold."

Mrs. Sun was puzzled about why he, as a father, would mention this incident. His son was a scholar, even the top scorer of the year before, publicizing this matter could harm his son’s reputation. Normally, family scandals should not be disclosed. If a scholar did something disgraceful, a father would usually try to cover the news and offer explanations, so why was Su Dafu doing the opposite?

Not only did he not defend his son, but he also exaggerated the cruelty of his son.

Mrs. Sun recalled Su Dafu describing the details of Su Jingchen beating Mrs. Yao to death, which gave her goosebumps all over.

Yu Xiaolian still remembered when she saw Su Jingchen in Weicheng, she had casually asked about it, and Su Jingchen only casually remarked that Mrs. Yao was dead, without elaborating further.

"That Mrs. Yao let someone kidnap Su Jingyue, she deserved being beaten to death."

"I believe Su Scholar’s father holds some resentment towards Su Scholar. It seems to be because Su Scholar sold that concubine Mrs. Huo, and he couldn’t stop it," Mrs. Sun said.

"Oh." Yu Xiaolian replied indifferently, "Mom, outsiders’ affairs are theirs to mind, they have nothing to do with us."

Mrs. Sun pondered for a while and then said, "How about... you keep some distance from Su Scholar?"

This Su Scholar appears to have violent tendencies and lacks empathy, not being filial to his father. The father-son relationship is in such disarray, indicating that Su Scholar is not as good as he seems.

After all, can a biological father fabricate lies about his own son?

Following these events, Su Scholar’s reputation at Linzhou County School has likely gone rotten, otherwise, why would he travel to Yu State to study?

Although there’s a severe drought there, those who can’t survive are only the poor common people who can’t afford food and water. The Su Scholar’s family is in business, wealthy, and not in danger of survival, so Mrs. Sun believes that the reason Su Jingchen registered in Luocheng was because he couldn’t continue studying in Linzhou.

Upon hearing Mrs. Sun’s words, Yu Xiaolian finally caught on, realizing that Su Dafu was probably hinting to her mother that his son was not a good man, intending to sever the relationship between Yu Xiaolian and Su Jingchen through Mrs. Sun.

In all fairness, Su Jingchen should not have disclosed such irrelevant matters to Su Dafu. Whatever the situation was, Yu Xiaolian was not clear. She decided to talk to Su Jingchen in a while.

Currently, she did not have the time; she had to visit the academy regularly, supply Taotao Residence, and manage the condiment workshop, feeling like she was spinning like a top.

Fortunately, the shopkeeper trainees she wanted to cultivate were already showing some promise, and once they could stand on their own, she could be more relaxed.

After all, being a boss means learning to employ and lead others, instead of doing everything by oneself.

"Mom, remember, Su Scholar is far more upright than his father." While people might think Su Jingchen’s actions toward his stepmother were overly ’ruthless,’ Yu Xiaolian did not agree.

She understood Su Jingchen very well; Su Jingyue was very important to Su Jingchen, very important.

Mrs. Sun was not foolish. When Su Dafu had hinted at many things the other day, she had already formed a vague idea, but now seeing Yu Xiaolian protecting Su Jingchen, she began to speculate.

Her daughter might have fallen for Su Scholar, and Su Dafu probably knew about it and purposely came to scold them.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Sun felt a bit angry; Su Dafu’s standards seemed too high, not considering her daughter Lian’er as suitable. Humph, she wasn’t eager to have a marriage connection like this anyway.

Even though Su Scholar seemed like a talented and well-mannered person, she disagreed with her daughter marrying Su Jingchen just because of his father.

Mrs. Sun collected her smile, and very seriously said, "Lian’er, there are no outsiders here now, tell me, what’s going on between you and Su Scholar...?"

Yu Xiaolian knew Mrs. Sun would think of this layer; her mother was a very perceptive person.

Yu Xiaolian did not intend to hide anything from Mrs. Sun and expressed her thoughts that if she were destined to marry one day, she would rather choose Su Jingchen over someone she barely knew.

Firstly, Su Jingchen was good-looking and would likely achieve a high status in the future; they had known each other since young, understanding each other’s backgrounds.

Secondly, Su Jingchen liked her, and she had a good impression of him, along with the fact that he knew about her special space, so she wouldn’t need to be concerned about hiding it in the future.

If she had to identify the reasons behind her hesitation or indecision, it would be that she did not trust love much; she was too rational in this regard.

Before even being with Su Jingchen, she had thought about their life post-marriage multiple times.

She seemed to have a psychological cleanliness disorder; her man could only be her own, and if she dedicated herself but ended up betrayed, she felt she would be miserable for her entire life.

However, Su Jingchen was not her personal property, and she couldn’t dictate his actions. He was a person with thoughts and independence, now still youthful and innocent, but what he would become in the future, no one could say for sure.

Yu Xiaolian knew she was overthinking, but she couldn’t stop thinking about it; perhaps the impact from her college roommate’s suicide was too profound.

Her college room friend, Huang Jingjing, had started dating a senior in her second year of high school. They both ended up enrolling in the same university, and their relationship made all the girls in the dorm both envy and admire.

After graduating from university, the two got married, with Huang Jingjing having conceived a child before the wedding, so she didn’t go out to work afterwards and stayed home to care for her newborn daughter.

After graduation, Yu Xiaolian was arranged to intern at the forensic department, frequently oscillating between busyness and fear, losing frequent contact with her roommates.

But she still heard news about Huang Jingjing through their group, knowing she was doing well, and she was happy for her.

Unexpectedly, just when Yu Xiaolian obtained her official forensic license, her first postmortem was on Huang Jingjing.