Chapter 594: 594 Big sister arrived 10
She needed to figure out a way to prevent her younger brothers from wasting money.
With seventy taels gone, she pretended to care, “If the third brother gets better, I’m fine with seventy taels.”
She thought his life might not be worth that much money.
What a waste of silver.
As if thinking about something, she asked, “Second brother, you just mentioned that the third brother was poisoned. What happened?”
“It happened four years ago, and you’re asking now?” Xiao Yishan refused to discuss it.
She didn’t want to push it.
After finishing a bowl of rice, she wanted to get more, but Xiao Qinghe hadn’t cooked her dinner. She had just scooped a bowl when they didn’t finish eating. Now there was nothing left in the pot.
Half-full from a bowl of rice was okay.
She held the unfinished vegetables on the table and ate them all.
Xiao Yishan finished his meal and left the kitchen.
Yuchuan took the medicine bowl and downed the medicine in three gulps.
The medicine was bitter, but he couldn’t bear to waste a drop. He even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.
As Xiao Qinghe began to wash the dishes, Xiao Ailiu volunteered, “Fourth brother, you rest. Let your sister do it. I’m here, you don’t need to do anything.”
Speaking, she grabbed the bowl from his hand and started to clear and wipe the table.
Xiao Qinghe’s handsome face showed a trace of stiffness, and he said lightly, “No need. I’ll do it myself.”
He forcibly took the bowl back from her.
Xiao Ailiu held tightly onto the bowl, “Let me do it…”
As they struggled, her hand slipped and a bowl “clang” shattered on the ground.
Embarrassed, she said, “I didn’t mean to…”
Xiao Qinghe just looked at her indifferently, his eyes cold and distant.
Suddenly, Xiao Ailiu felt that her fourth brother was the coldest of all, even though he hardly spoke. The way he looked at her was like looking at a stranger, “Fourth brother…”
“I told you to leave…” He spoke quietly, but his tone was icy cold.
“I…” She also stiffly left, muttering, “It’s just a broken bowl. There’s no need for such a cold attitude…”
A cool, thin smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Qinghe’s lips.
Was it just about the bowl?
In the past, he respected her so much as the eldest sister.
Although the three acres of farmland they had before were bought by the second and third brothers, when they were going to give the land to the eldest sister, they asked for his opinion, as he was already twelve or thirteen and understood things.
He knew what losing those three acres of farmland meant to their poor farming family.
He even encouraged his two elder brothers not to hesitate because he didn’t want his eldest sister to be underestimated by her husband’s family because of her small dowry.
He said he would earn money in the future.
When he was around fourteen, he often followed the villagers to the town to find temporary work. Unexpectedly, on the way back, he became disabled in both legs, and the third brother also had health problems around the same time.
Four years had passed, and he was almost eighteen years old. Except for causing a heavy burden on his family, he hadn’t made any money.
If he had known this earlier, he would have stopped the second and third brothers from giving the three acres of paddy fields to the eldest sister.
Qinghe lowered his head and looked at his legs.
When his legs were first disabled, knowing he would never stand again, he wanted to die. When the second brother went to borrow money from his older sister to treat his leg, she claimed to not have a single cent and said that later, she would have nothing to do with the Xiao family…
Of the forty-five taels of dowry obtained from selling the paddy field, the eldest sister didn’t mention a single cent, just saying she had spent it all and had no money left.
She was selfish but not extravagant, and the second brother learned that the Chen family didn’t touch her dowry.
She just wanted to watch the Xiao family die coldly.