Open the Door for Me Now
Su Family.
At this moment, the main gate of the Su family was tightly closed, completely unaware that Su Lanxiang had already been found outside.
Old Man Su gave Su Daqi some silver, telling him to secretly buy some good wine and meat, and Zhao arranged a table full of delicious dishes. Finally, they could enjoy a good meal!
Zhao was cooking in the kitchen, drooling at the smell of meat. After learning that selling Su Lanxiang had brought in sixty taels of silver, her guilt instantly vanished.
"Sixty taels is so much, enough to feed the family well for years! Hehehe!" Zhao happily plated the last dish and carried it inside.
The house was warm with newly bought fire coals burning, Old Man Su and Su Daqi wore their new cotton jackets, sitting by the fire to warm themselves.
"Dinner's ready, come eat!" Zhao called out, and everyone quickly gathered around the table.
On the table were braised pork knuckles, stir-fried pig liver, braised hairtail fish, and more — all meat dishes, making the usually thin Su family members very happy!
Zhao took a big bite of meat and suddenly noticed Su Shimao was missing.
"Where's Shimao?" Zhao asked.
Everyone else was eating happily, not paying attention to Su Shimao.
Su Daqi thought for a moment, since they got home, Su Shimao had gone back to his room to sleep and hadn't come out.
Feeling sorry for her son, Zhao put down her chopsticks and said, "I'll call Shimao to eat."
Zhao walked to Su Shimao's room and knocked on the door a few times: "Shimao, dinner's ready. Mom made lots of meat. If you don't come soon, you won't get any. Stop sleeping!"
No one answered inside, but Zhao didn't find it unusual because Su Shimao often ignored her like this.
But Zhao felt sorry for her son who usually ate poorly; now with a table full of meat, he definitely had to eat. So she kept knocking: "Shimao, eat first, then sleep."
Still, no reply came from inside.
Zhao was puzzled and muttered to herself, wondering why Su Shimao hadn’t slept enough despite sleeping so long already.
While Zhao was still puzzled, she suddenly heard noisy footsteps outside the main gate, followed by loud, urgent banging on the door.
Su Sanyun shouted angrily, almost yelling, "Open the door, open it for me quickly!"
Zhao, already feeling guilty, turned pale upon hearing Su Sanyun’s arrival and quickly darted back inside the house.
"Father, Old Three is here. Has he found out about us selling Lanxiang?" Zhao was terrified and panicked.
Old Man Su scolded sharply, "What’s there to be afraid of? I’m his father. So what if I sold his daughter? Even if I sold him, he can’t say a word! Why fear? Can he hit his own father? He’s gone rogue!"
Old Man Su asserted his authority as the head of the family, scolding his daughter-in-law with a stern face. Zhao shivered but felt somewhat reassured, thinking that with Old Man Su backing them, she wouldn’t be the one to suffer misfortune.
However, despite his words, Old Man Su was still uneasy and hesitated to open the door.
Su Sanyun banged on the door for a while outside. Seeing no one came to open it, he grew colder, his eyes bloodshot. Holding Su Lanxiang tightly, he said to Su Shirong and the three Sun brothers beside him, "If they don’t open the door, break it down!"
"Alright!" The four strong men shouted and swung their shovels and sickles together at the Su family’s main gate.
With a loud bang, Old Man Su shuddered in fear and looked outside to see a large hole smashed in the gate, with two or three sickles cutting at the door at high speed.
The sickles struck with great force and speed, chopping the wooden gate into flying splinters with each hit.
Before long, the four strong men had chopped through the Su family’s courtyard gate.
Su Sanyun kicked open the remaining door with one foot. The gate collapsed with a crash. With bloodshot eyes, Su Sanyun held his daughter tightly, staring fiercely at his father and elder brother inside the house...