“How do you know?” The woman at the front was dressed in a rather bright and luxurious Mongolian silk robe, but whether she was looking for a fight or what, she had actually wound her hem around her waist. Her remaining white pants—perhaps because she had moved too vigorously—had split open down the middle.
“Your domineering aura is leaking out.” Su Zhirui pointed at her lower body.
Everyone followed her gaze downward, and a burst of thunderous laughter erupted. The so-called Fourth Aunt’s face flushed hot, and she immediately grabbed Hua Chun beside her to shield herself. “Whoever laughs again, I’ll cut out their tongue.”
“You, immediately help me bathe and change.” Seeing that Su Zhirui was still smiling, the woman reached out and grabbed her. Su Zhirui knew she couldn’t escape, so she cautiously followed her in.
“What family’s daughter are you? Where does your father serve as an official?” Soaking in the wide bathtub, the woman closed her eyes and enjoyed Su Zhirui’s “sauna” service. Who would have thought—she actually had some skill.
“I have no father or mother.” Su Zhirui could only answer this way. Was she supposed to say she had a beastly older brother and father, both in the twenty-first century?
“Such a lowly background?” The woman froze slightly, then opened her eyes and asked. “Hurry up and leave Little Four. A woman like you—don’t think that by climbing up our Yi Family you can fly up to a branch and become a phoenix. At best, you’re merely a hen that can lay eggs.”
“Yes.” Su Zhirui answered half-heartedly, then let go and stood up.
“Come back, I didn’t tell you to leave.” Without support, the woman suddenly slipped into the bathtub and swallowed a few mouthfuls of hot water. She flailed like a zombie for a moment before grabbing Su Zhirui’s sleeve and sitting up.
“Does Fourth Aunt have any other orders?” Su Zhirui asked with forced patience.
“Is Fourth Aunt something you can call me?”
“Yes, what does old woman want?” Su Zhirui obediently changed her form of address, but it enraged the woman so much that she rose to give her a slap. Only, she didn’t stand steady, and since Su Zhirui hadn’t expected her to suddenly stand, she could only watch helplessly as that stiff body toppled out over the bathtub.
A chaotic commotion ensued, and the world finally became quiet.
“Fourth Sister-in-law, to think you could actually anger Fourth Aunt into fainting. Your abilities are becoming something I can less and less afford to underestimate.” Seeing her hiding alone in the pavilion enjoying some leisure, Yi Lun finally stepped forward to tease her. Although he had heard that today’s developments were quite splendid, he truly wasn’t willing to recklessly joke with his own life.
“A nest of freaks.” Su Zhirui said impolitely. “She wants me to leave your fourth brother, despises me for my bad background, my lowliness.”
“Fourth Sister-in-law, you couldn’t have…”
“I haven’t even despised your fourth brother for being a juvenile dementia patient with obsessive-compulsive syndrome plus senile somnolence—you lot should be laughing up your sleeves, yet you still dare come pick a fight with me?” Su Zhirui sneered. Anyway, after that man went out, she had been bored to death; since they came knocking, if she didn’t play along, wouldn’t that be too disrespectful?
“Uh, Fourth Sister-in-law, what do you mean? Why don’t I understand a single word?” Yi Lun’s thick eyebrows rose high, and a smile gradually tugged at the corners of his lips. The wife his fourth brother chose was truly not just for show. He had originally thought this little girl would be eaten alive, but it turned out the one angered until she spat blood was actually his vexing, unreasonable Fourth Aunt. Was the world about to turn upside down?
“As if you’d understand. By the way, did your fourth brother say when he’d return?” Su Zhirui waved her hands impatiently.
“Fourth brother didn’t say when he’d return, but tomorrow the little cousin from Lingnan will also come here, come here…” Yi Lun said somewhat hesitantly. “But before fourth brother left, he entrusted me with a task, so sister-in-law will still need to personally receive her.”
“Is she also one of the freaks?” Su Zhirui stared at Yi Lun with great interest for quite a while.
“Fourth Sister-in-law…”
“Just how long were your ancestors despised by King Yama in their previous life?”