"Big Brother, Big Sister-in-law, tell me—if you'd treated that girl a little better normally, would things have turned out like this?"
"If we'd known this would happen, we shouldn't have forced her to marry into the Liu family.
"Now look at what happened. So much money has fallen into someone else's pocket. Who would be willing to spit it back out?"
As she spoke, Liu Hong glared resentfully at Su Baozhu.
Su Baozhu shrank her neck and lowered her head as she wiped away her tears. "I'm sorry. It's all my fault. If I'd known, I... I would have..."
Although Old Lady Su also felt somewhat resentful deep down, she was even more disgusted with and dissatisfied by Su Qiao:
"Baozhu, this has nothing to do with you. It's all that heartless wretch's fault. She doesn't even acknowledge her own father and mother."
Liu Hong couldn't stand seeing the old lady defend that money-losing wretch so fiercely:
"She won't acknowledge Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law. Can you really blame her?
"You forced her to marry a cripple in her sister's place—a cripple who was no longer even a real man. It would be strange if she acknowledged you."
As far as she was concerned, everything was Baozhu's fault.
If not for her, the younger sister wouldn't have been so enraged that she demanded to be given away through adoption. If she hadn't been adopted out, the gold would have remained in the family.
Thinking about how all that money should have belonged to her, yet she could only watch helplessly now, Liu Hong felt so miserable that she couldn't even eat.
"Shut up! Stop spouting nonsense here."
Su Old Lady looked at her granddaughter, who was secretly wiping away her tears with red-rimmed eyes, and felt a pang of heartache.