Chapter 137 I Don't Want to Keep It
Liu Cuihua was sticking the picture of the Kitchen God(who is in charge of family affairs in Chinese mythology) on the wall in the kitchen. When hearing her hasty voice, she didn't know what had happened. She quickly replied, "I'm in the kitchen. What's the matter? Why so rush?"
Su Jiuyue went to the kitchen and closed the door.
It was not bright in the kitchen, and it became darker after the door was closed. Liu Cuihua was confused, "What are you doing?"
Su Jiuyue was too nervous, and there was some sweat on her forehead. She took out the jade she was holding in her hand all the way, "Mum, look."
Liu Cuihua saw clearly what it was in her hand by the light coming through the window.
"What? How come it is here? Where did you find it?"
Su Jiuyue was worried and scared all the way. She breathed deeply when she saw Liu Cuihua as if she found someone to rely on. She said, "I found it at the entrance of the village. I didn't see it when I went out, but it appeared there when I was back. I looked around and saw nobody. Mum, I'm afraid that someone is spotting us."
Liu Cuihua was also depressed, "Yes."
Su Jiuyue was more anxious, "Mum, what shall we do?"
Liu Cuihua was more composed. She held Su Jiuyue's hand and patted, "Do you have any dreams recently?"
Su Jiuyue shook her head, "No."
Liu Cuihua got relieved a little. Now that she had never dreamed anything, maybe things would not be terrible.
"I'm wondering if they really want to do something to us, they don't need to send the jade back. I'm afraid they will make use of us to let Zongyuan show up."
Su Jiuyue thought it reasonable. She nodded slightly, "But... we don't know where Zongyuan is."
Liu Cuihua fixed Su Jiuyue's hair and said gently, "We don't need to be scared since we really don't know it. We are just ordinary people and what we are talking about is household affairs. They will show no interest in us after spotting a few days."
"Mum... but I'm still... worried. Sorry... it's my fault..." Su Jiuyue almost cried.
Liu Cuihua clasped Su Jiuyue in her arms and tapped lightly on her back, "Don't worry. Now that we've got involved in it, we have to face it. Go on what we are doing. I'm always here."
The smell of Liu Cuihua made Su Jiuyue feel at ease. She raised her head, "Mum, what should we do with the jade?"
"The jade is not important for them anymore. Just keep it."
When lowering her head to look at the jade in her hand, Su Jiuyue was filled with anger, "I'll place it at the entrance. It's troublesome. I don't want to keep it."
Liu Cuihua laughed. The jade couldn't be used to earn money. It was indeed useless, but if returning it...
She was not sure if she would see Zongyuan again.
"Don't you want to return it?" She teased.
Su Jiuyue snorted, "I'll certainly kick Zongyuan's ass if I see him in the future. He is a trouble maker and brings so much trouble to us."
She took the jade pendant back to the entrance of the village. She stood under the willow and looked around for a while with the jade pendant tightly held in her hand. And then, she took a deep breath and put her palms together to ask for God's blessing. After that, she opened her eyes and put the jade pendant where it was.
"No matter how valuable you are, I don't want to see you anymore."
She then went back without turning around. Da was watching her in distance.
"I said they are ignorant and know nothing," he said to the man beside him.
The man beside him was slender. His face was fair without a beard on it. He nodded, "Fine. Go and get it back."
His voice was sharp and low which was different from other men.
Da, however, showed great respect to him. He quickly took back the jade after Su Jiuyue had gone.
Da put his hands over his head and held the jade pendant in his hands. "Sir, what should we do with the jade?"
"Keep it. It will work one day."
People of the Wus had a sound sleep that night, but it was not sound outside their house.
Su Jiuyue got up early and cleaned the yard as usual the next morning. To her surprise, she saw some blood when she opened the gate.
She was stunned and even lost her mind when thinking of the jade pendant she found yesterday.
Somebody wanted to kill them.
But there were signs of fighting around the blood. In other words, other people were trying to protect them. Who were they?
It suddenly occurred to her that maybe someone was keeping an eye on her secretly at the moment. What should a girl who knew nothing do when seeing blood at the gate?
She got stunned for a few seconds. And then, she screamed pretending to be frightened, "Oh, my god! Mum! Dad! Xiyuan!"
People in the house just woke up. They were terrified when hearing her scream, so they immediately wore clothes and ran out of the house.
"Jiujiu, what's wrong?" Wu Chuan asked.
Su Jiuyue hid behind Liu Cuihua and pointed at the gate, "Dad, mum, there is blood!"
Wu Chuan and Liu Cuihua went to have a look instantly. They found there was some blood as well as sword signs of fighting on the gate.
Wu Chuan didn't know what had happened, but he tried to comfort his family when seeing how worried they were. Since the Spring Festival was approaching, he wanted to make them feel at ease. He said, "Perhaps the wolves came again. We have the relief grain but they don't have food. They might have a pretty hard time. Shut the window and door as soon as it gets dark from now on. Stay in your room and don't go out. "
Liu Cuihua might know what had happened so she pretended, "We'll have to keep dogs to protect us next year otherwise we'll not sleep soundly."
Tian Xiuniang yawned in the yard. She didn't take it seriously and said, "Only some blood. Jiujiu, you are too timid. There is more blood when killing a chicken."
Su Jiuyue curled her lips and thought they were totally different. She was scared because she knew it was the blood of humans.
Liu Cuihua took the broom from Su Jiuyue and quickly cleaned the blood. "Don't worry. Go ahead with your work. We've made lots of food recently, visit your parents and take some to them."
Tian Xiuniang's eyes brightened when hearing it, "Mum, you're so nice."
They earned plenty of money by selling vegetables in Yongzhou the day before yesterday. In the beginning, only some merchants bought their vegetables. But later, some rich people in the city heard it somehow, a wealthy man paid them twenty taels of silver to buy all vegetables in their cart.
Besides, the man told them to directly send to No.36, Furong Street if they sold vegetables in the future, and they would be paid twenty taels of silver for a whole cart.