Liu Yuehong gave her a cold sideways glance. "Do you think I didn't want you to say it?"
"Mother was afraid that once you said it, you'd bring up what happened last time. If the officials above found out what you'd done, then you... you might lose your head."
"Did Zhou Tianyou never tell you that the important person living at Guyin Temple already had a strange temperament, and this time nearly died in that Coal Mine? He was furious afterward, and quite a few people were implicated and beheaded?"
With a younger brother from her maternal family running a shop in town, no matter how closely hidden the news was, she could still find out a thing or two.
Moreover, the incident last time had caused such a huge commotion. It would have been strange if she knew nothing about it.
"Then how come nothing happened to the Su family? That wretched Su Qiao is still alive and well."
If that wretched Su Qiao had also been beheaded, she wouldn't have been threatened by her, and she certainly wouldn't have suffered such a huge humiliation today.
A sinister look flashed through Liu Yuehong's eyes. "Mother guessed it was because Old Master Su helped that important person inside the mine."
That day, the only people who came out of the mine were that important person and Old Master Su. If that wasn't the reason, she couldn't think of any other explanation.
That was also why, as soon as something happened to her maternal family's brother and his shop, she immediately thought the culprit would be the Su family.
"Xiaodie, let's put an end to this matter!"
Wary of that important person above them, Liu Yuehong didn't dare cause any more trouble for the Su family.
Although she had suffered such