"Sister-in-law, you're awake?" Seeing her emerge, Yi Lun immediately stepped forward with a fawning smile.
"No need to tell me—your Fourth Brother ran off, didn't he?" Su Zhirui pursed her lips and continued. Truthfully, she already knew. From what she'd seen these past days, whenever something came up, her husband would always rise before her.
"Yes. He ran off before dawn broke."
"It'd be strange if he only ran off after dawn." Su Zhirui sniffed coldly.
"Uh, Fourth Sister-in-law, just how did you and Fourth Brother get married?" The two walked into the flower hall one after another. Yi Lun asked somewhat curiously. It was truly too baffling—a complete tangled mess.
Su Zhirui thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around. She closed her eyes briefly, then opened them and shrugged.
"You're not going to tell me you picked Fourth Brother just like that?" Yi Lun asked, somewhat surprised.
"No. I also asked him whether he wanted to marry me." Su Zhirui added.
"Did you work on him for a long time?"
"No. We held the wedding ceremony that very evening."
"Heavens." Yi Lun bounced up from his chair.
"Stop wailing." Su Zhirui rubbed her ears in annoyance.
"Fourth Sister-in-law, you... you... you... him?"
"Sorry, please speak coherently."
"No way, I won't be able to sleep tonight." Yi Lun was clearly lost in excitement and couldn't snap out of it. "Fourth Sister-in-law, do you know what happened to the first woman who wanted to marry him of her own accord?"
"What?"
"Their necks were snapped. And there was a second, a third..."
"So, I came to a conclusion." Su Zhirui set down her rice bowl, utterly disdainful.
"What?"
"Your Fourth Brother treats all women like sows."
"Right. Fourth Brother only treats you as Diao Chan." Yi Lun laughed heartily.
"Actually, at the time he was wearing a pair of straw sandals and had a cold expression, so I thought he had no money, no power, didn't talk much... anyway, he's a fraud." Su Zhirui picked up her bowl again in irritation and began wolfing down her food.
"Then why did you still go with him?" Yi Lun scoffed.
"The rice is already cooked. You expect me to go cook it with someone else? Sorry, it'd burn." Su Zhirui said indifferently.
"There's still trouble ahead..." Yi Lun muttered under his breath, not daring to let Su Zhirui hear him directly. He wondered what expression his sister-in-law would have when that pack of wolves and tigers arrived? "Fourth Sister-in-law, some relatives are coming to the house today. Fourth Brother isn't here, and I have to go into town later. Could you receive them first?"
"Let's get this straight first—I don't know them. Don't blame me if I'm rude." Su Zhirui smiled faintly. Eating was still what mattered most.
"They all know Fourth Brother is married, so they want to meet you. Today it's Fourth Aunt, who came all the way from the Northern Desert. Fourth Brother couldn't very well refuse, so..."
"You talk too much. Weren't you leaving?" Su Zhirui interrupted him impatiently.
"Master... outside..."
"I got it. Sister-in-law, I'm slipping away first." When Yi Lun saw the guard enter the hall, his face turned deathly pale. Where was he going to be busy? He was basically fleeing for his life.
"Madam..."
"Fine, invite them in." Su Zhirui set down her chopsticks. She actually wanted to see just how bad this Fourth Aunt from the Northern Desert's temper was.
"Which one is Little Four's wife?" An earth-shaking roar nearly tore through the white paper on the door. "Quick, bring cow dung."
Watching a large group of women march into the flower hall, Su Zhirui hurriedly dodged to the side. What the hell was going on? So her man was the fresh flower, and she was what kind of poop? Su Zhirui couldn't keep her composure. And that group of women didn't stay idle either. They randomly grabbed a maidservant and immediately started delivering slaps left and right. "Someone of your caliber is worthy of Little Four? Hua Chun, bury her with cow dung."
"Pfft—Hua Chun..." Sorry, she really didn't want to laugh, but she really couldn't hold it in. Seeing fierce gazes shooting straight at her, Su Zhirui immediately coughed a few times and reined in her giggling expression, then began to seriously hint, "Ahem, uh, Fourth Aunt, right? Red water pants..."