Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 449: So-called persuasion

Seeing Ju Xiang’s stubborn expression, Li Ma sighed.
“After the young lady came back, she was lost and dazed.
It’s a good thing that she can vent her anger.”

Ju Xiang was startled and looked at Li Ma with a vague understanding.
After a moment, she reluctantly nodded.

Seeing Su Xin’er like this, Lian Fang Zhou felt uncomfortable.
When her screams became bitter tears, Lian Fang Zhou said quietly: “I don’t know what you’ve experienced but it’s already become an unchangeable past.
You have to move forward! Being stuck in the past will only cause more depression and pain, both for you and for your family.”

She sighed: “No matter what, you are still at home and by your parents’ side, aren’t you? No one dislikes you, no one will abandon you.
They treat you as always, your life is actually the same as before! No matter how big the difficulty is, with the care of love of your parents, your bother, and your sister-in-law, with the wealth of the Su family, what can’t you solve? If you insist, please continue.
Just pretend I didn’t say anything.”

Su Xin’er’s tears had slowed but she was not convinced.
Sobbing, she said: “I’m not you, of course you can say it so easily! Hmph, if you had really become the county magistrate’s concubine, how would you react?”

This question was extremely rude and Su Xin’er felt guilty as soon as she asked.
After all, she was also one of the co-conspirators in this matter.

It would be a lie to say that Lian Fang Zhou was not angry but she was too busy to bother with this spoiled young lady who never learned how to be considerate of others.
She sneered and said: “I would have never been his concubine.
Even if something had happened, I would have treated it as a misunderstanding.
I am resolutely unwilling and I know I can’t stand tall.
They may have ruined my reputation but I would have just left Yuhe county and taken my family with me after we finished processing the cotton.
It’s not too late for a gentleman to take revenge after ten years.
I won’t let them go so easily!”

Her answer did not sound fake and Su Xin’er was stunned.
She couldn’t help but ask: “Wouldn’t you be at a loss? How would you marry in the future?”

Lian Fang Zhou was exasperated.
Didn’t she feel too embarrassed to ask if she would suffer? It wasn’t a good thing that she had caused!

Even if the one who suffered in the end wasn’t her but Su Xin’er.

If this person wasn’t Fang Qing’s sister-in-law, Lian Fang Zhou would have been too lazy to bother with her.

She snorted and said: “A small loss is better than a big loss.
If I became his concubine, the loss would be for the rest of my life.
As for marriage, if a widow can remarry, why should I feel that I am inferior? Besides, I would have been the victim.
If a man truly loved me, why would he care? He would only pity me more!”

Su Xin’er’s eyes widened.
She was speechless but also felt a sense of clarity in her heart.

She couldn’t help but think to herself: I’m also a victim, right? I’m still the eldest lady of the Su family, I’m much better than those common widows and the like…

But—

Su Xin’er said painfully: “Cousin, he won’t pity me! He won’t…”

Lian Fang Zhou was getting a little impatient.
“Do you understand yet? It seems that the lessons you have learned are really in vain! If your cousin had you in his heart, you wouldn’t need to do anything.
It’s useless!”

These words pierced into Su Xin’er’s heart like a sharp knife and she started to cry again: “Why do you say this to me! I have liked my cousin since childhood and I have only liked him more and more over the years.
If it wasn’t for you—!”

Lian Fang Zhou’s eyes stared at her calmly and Su Xin’er felt a chill even without looking at her.

She looked up instinctively, the words drying up in her mouth.

“What about me? Didn’t I tell you clearly? There is nothing between me and him! It’s your business that you like him and pursue him, it has nothing to do with me! He doesn’t like you, doesn’t accept you! It doesn’t matter! You can’t take out your anger on me and hurt me just because he doesn’t like you! Even without me, could you guarantee that he would like you? There would be others without me, can you feal with it? I’d advise you to save it!”

Su Xin’er was at a loss.
She wanted to refute Lian Fang Zhou and moved her lips but couldn’t say a word.

Then Lian Fang Zhou heard her cry again.

Lian Fang Zhou was a little speechless.
This girl really liked to cry! No man could stand such a selfish, desperate woman? Even if he loved her, he would grow tired of her eventually.

Silently, Lian Fang Zhou stopped talking and went to stand by the door.

If she liked to cry, let her cry! She would stop when she had enough! She didn’t need to keep comforting her.

Su Xin’er had always been pampered by the Su family like a princess.
Don’t say she cried too much.
If she had ever been even slightly unhappy, her family had surrounded her with all kinds of comfort.

She had slowly learned that as long as she cried, others would comfort her.

When after a long time, she didn’t see any movement from Lian Fang Zhou, Su Xin’er froze.
She felt even more sad and soft but her crying gradually became smaller.

Lian Fang Zhou had talked for a long time without actually coaxing her.
It was this reaction that finally touched Su Xin’er.
In a daze, she thought: It turns out in this world, not everyone cares about me and treats me well.
When I cry, not everyone will comfort me!

She thought about what Lian Fang Zhou had said just now and the more she thought about it, the more guilty and sad she felt.
How could she let her parents and her brother and sister-in-law feel so sad? They were her family!

Su Xin’er finally stopped crying and got up from the ground.
Raising her sleeve to wipe away her tears, she looked at Lian Fang Zhou and said: “Although you persuaded me, I don’t like your tone and attitude! Why do you lecture me like this? From today onwards, I will not do this again.
I will treat my parents and brother and sister-in-law well! But I will not be grateful to you!”

Lian Fang Zhou sneered in disdain: “I don’t need it at all.
You don’t need to be grateful me.”

The door of the courtyard suddenly burst open with a bang and Madam Su, supported tremblingly by Fang Qing, hurried inside, followed by two or three big maids and Ju Xiang.

Before she reached the garden, she was shouting: “My daughter, it’s alright! It’s alright! No matter what happens, you are the heart of your parents! If you die, I will also die!”

Hearing Su Xin’er make such loud cried, it would be impossible for the household not to be disturbed and Lian Fang Zhou was not surprised to see them.

Instead, it was Su Xin’er who was surprised.
Seeing her mother’s haggard face, as if she had aged ten years, she burst into tears with a ‘wuwu’ and called out: “Mother!”

Madam Su wrapped her in a hug and cried.