Hearing this, Xiao Aizhen's lips moved twice as if she wanted to say something, but she ultimately fell silent.
Liu Hong shot her a disdainful sideways glance.
What a coward. Her own younger brother was being cursed like that, yet she didn't even dare say a word.
Then again, without a son, she had no backbone.
Luckily, she had given birth to two sons in a row.
Su Guofu looked at Old Lady Su. "Mom, how about... we take a share too?"
"A share in what? That lousy tunnel of his? They haven't dug up a damn thing in years. Taking a share would just be throwing money into the water.
"With that money, I might as well put it in the bank and earn interest."
Old Lady Su wasn't that foolish.
Seeing that her husband had gotten the idea, Liu Hong quickly advised him, "Guoqiang, Mom's right. They've been digging that lousy tunnel for years and still haven't found anything, have they?
"In the end, they all wound up owing a mountain of debt. We don't have the money to join them in this nonsense."
"You narrow-eyed, ignorant woman, what do you know?"
Su Guofu didn't dare lose his temper with Old Lady Su, but he wasn't nearly as polite to his wife.
"Mom, things are different now. With Erya there, they might actually dig something up."
The main thing was, if that tunnel really had nothing worthwhile in it, Xiao Aimin wouldn't have gone back to it, given his brains.
Su Guofu usually idled around and loved studying this sort of thing. He couldn't shake the feeling that there was something fishy going on.
Old Lady Su now hated Su Qiao to the bone. Every time she was mentioned, anger filled her belly.
"Bah!"
"You think that just