She suddenly became so considerate and enthusiastic that Tian Guihua felt a little flustered.
People are just a little nice to you, and you start suspecting everything.
Sigh, women... They're all the same.
No matter how strong a woman was, once she encountered something called love, she would become foolish.
As it turned out, 444 was the foolish one.
"Look, that's a huge plume of smoke. Did someone's house catch fire?"
The slope was relatively high, offering a distant view. Several village women washing mops suddenly saw thick smoke rising above the western end of the village.
"Judging by the direction, it looks like the Su Family's place?"
"It really does. Come on, let's go take a look."
Su Qiao immediately turned to Gao Jinghui. "You did this?"
Gao Jinghui lifted his chin, looking extremely disdainful. "How could I do something like that? It's illegal."
Hmph, those shameless members of the Su Family. Why should they use the firewood she had gathered to cook their meals with such peace of mind?
They had already adopted someone into another family, so why did they still come asking her for gold?
Where was their shame?
Su Qiao scrutinized him suspiciously. "Then where did you go just now?"
Gao Jinghui raised his thick brows. "Where could I go? I just went to see whether those people panning for gold in the river had found any."
And, conveniently, he had tossed a match onto the Su Family's woodpile.
The woodpile was far from the house, with a vegetable patch in between. The fire couldn't spread to the front.
"Oh." She remembered that one had to pass by the Su Family's place to get to the river.
"Come on, come on, let's go back. What's there to see? Don't tell me you want to help