She refused to marry.

Su Wanwan thought that Feng Chenjun would follow her all the way to Huzhou.

Unexpectedly, when the ship arrived at Sizhou, Feng Chenjun's ship docked at the pier, and everyone disembarked.

I learned from my third uncle that it was because Feng Chenjun wanted to go back to pay respects to his ancestors.

Su Wanwan happily opened the window; after being cooped up for several days, she could finally get some fresh air.

A few days later, the ship arrived in Suzhou without incident.

A scholar-like man stood by the dock, with delicate features and wearing a moon-white silk robe. The wide sleeves billowed slightly in the wind, and he wore a fine silk scarf on his head with two matching silk ribbons hanging from the corners.

"father!!!"

The scholar, seeing Su Hongsheng rushing forward to greet her, smiled, his eyes crinkling like crescent moons, "This must be my second sister!"

"Su Xian greets Second Sister." Su Xian bowed.

Su Wanwan returned the gift.

Su Xian?

He was the most tragic man in the Su family, his meridians severed, starving to death on the street, and eaten by wild dogs.

Su Wanwan got goosebumps all over when she thought of this.

She's going to change this damned fate!

Upon seeing his son, Su Hongsheng remarked, "He's finally starting to look like a decent person."

Su Xian, with her slender body held high, said, "I've grown up. In two months, I'll be seventeen."

After saying this, he led the two people into the carriage.

Along the way, Su Xian was very curious about this older sister and asked her many strange questions, which was completely different from her quiet scholar appearance when she stood on the dock.

The carriage traveled for about half an hour before entering a gatehouse.

Su Xian lifted the curtain and called out, "Second Miss is back!! Second Miss is back!!!"

Su Wanwan lifted the curtain and saw a group of women, each one bright and beautiful, standing at the door, arm in arm, frequently peeking out of their seats to look into the carriage.

The woman at the head of the group wore a delicate pink skirt and was the most beautiful among all the women in the Su family.

The young woman in pink, who was at the head of the group, came over and said, "Greetings, Second Sister."

The women behind them bowed in unison, "Greetings, Second Sister..."

Su Wanwan performed a curtsy, "Greetings, fellow sisters."

"Second sister, this is Su Jinse, third sister Su Jinning, this is eldest uncle's sister Su Jinnian, you met sister Jinnian when she got married, this is sister Su Jinxian, this is sister Su Jinxin..." Su Xian introduced.

Su Wanwan gave a curtsy and greeted them.

She didn't remember any of them except for her eldest sister.

"Goodbye soon. There are more than just these sisters in this family. Now that you're back, there will be plenty of opportunities to get to know them in the future." Su Jinnian stepped forward to help her walk inside.

"I've heard that my second uncle's family has two beautiful older sisters, but why hasn't the eldest sister come back yet..." Su Jinse looked back.

Upon hearing this, Su Wanwan said, "Elder sister, her husband's family didn't approve, so she didn't come back."

My parents kept my sister's situation a secret from the family, fearing that our grandmother wouldn't be able to handle the shock.

"Don't keep Grandma waiting, let's hurry up and go." Su Jinnian pulled Su Wanwan's hand and led her inside.

Inside the hanging flower gate, a group of children ran out laughing and joking. Upon seeing the new aunt, they called her "Auntie" repeatedly and asked for red envelopes.

"Go away, go play somewhere else, I'll come and get you later," Su Jinxian said with a smile, calling to the seven or eight children.

Su Wanwan was caught off guard by the scene of entering the house.

How can anyone recognize them?

Passing through the carved beams and painted rafters of the long corridor, we entered a garden, then through the ceremonial gate, and then into the courtyard. A picturesque garden sat in the courtyard, and an old lady with white hair sat on a grand chair in the inner room.

Leaning on a phoenix-head cane, she watched with a smile as a group of women surrounded her.

She entered the house, knelt down and kowtowed, "Granddaughter Wanwan greets Grandmother."

"Get up! Get up!" The old lady raised her hand.

"Those from the capital are reasonable, unlike you girls... Hurry up and help your sister up," said the woman beside her.

Su Wanwan looked up. She was in her early forties, fair-skinned and plump, with a round face full of smiles. It was Zhao Shi.

"Wanwan greets Third Aunt."

"Get up quickly." Madam Zhao stepped forward to help him up.

Su Wanwan looked around. "Isn't your aunt here?"

"Oh dear, your aunt is currently tending to the servants in the backyard. She probably won't be able to get away for a while," Zhao said, smiling as she pulled Su Wanwan down to sit. "How's the journey been?"

"It went very smoothly, thank you for your concern, family." Su Wanwan looked at her grandmother.

"You're a young girl coming from so far away, and your third uncle was worried something might happen, so he arranged for someone to go and help you in advance." Aunt patted her hand.

Su Wanwan sat in the main hall for half a day, and her younger sisters finally remembered her.

The group of children came in and bowed one by one.

She then sent a red envelope.

There were many children, including my cousin Su Jiyuan, who had a son and a daughter.

Su Jinnian's sister has two sons and one daughter.

One of Su Jinxian's older sister's sons.

The rest are all close relatives, grandchildren of my great-uncle's generation.

This commotion dispelled the last lingering gloom in Su Wanwan's heart.

The next day, Su Jinning led a white horse and proudly showed it to her sisters, saying it was the best horse she had ever owned, pure white with a smooth coat.

Upon entering the garden, one sees the magnificent, pure white horse standing proudly in the courtyard.

"Sixth Sister, did you bring this in?" Jinxin excitedly walked to the horse's side and stroked its smooth fur.

"How about it? Isn't it majestic and awe-inspiring!" Su Jinning put her hands on her hips, looking very proud, and raised her chin arrogantly.

"Yes, yes, it looks good, and it suits you very well..." Su Jinse covered her face and laughed.

"Sister Jinse, you're the one who loves making fun of me!" Su Jinning stomped her foot.

Turning to Su Wanwan, Su Jinning said, "Sister Wanwan, is it pretty? I didn't lie to you, did I..." Su Jinning patted the horse's neck.

"Beautiful. Even the capital city might not be able to raise such a beautiful horse. If you were a man, you would definitely be able to become an officer in the army." Su Wanwan walked towards the horse.

"Yes, the official in charge of raising horses..." Su Jinse sat under the veranda, leaning against the railing and mocking.

Su Jinxin, who was standing to the side, also laughed, "Anyone who intends to come over is scared away by your appearance..."

"I won't get married. I want to stay with Father for the rest of my life." Su Jinning stroked the horse's forehead.

"What's so great about getting married? It's better to stay at home and be carefree. Anyway, I'm not getting married!!" Su Jinning pulled her horse to the side to graze.

The white horse chewed and chewed until it ate all the flowers in the yard.

That flower was Su Jinxin's precious treasure; she was shocked to see it being eaten.

Enraged, she went downstairs and started playfully fighting with Su Jinning.

Su Wanwan sensed that the atmosphere was about to escalate into another argument.

My uncle's three older sisters are quiet and don't talk much; they spend all their time taking care of their children.

The only exception was the twins in my third uncle's family.

Su Jinning and Su Xian can't get anything good out of each other when they're together.

When they returned last month, the two of them went out on horseback. The horses went to a country farm and ate all the crops planted on the farm.

When someone came to the village and asked the steward for money, the two men finally confessed.

Further up, the two made new slingshots and went hunting in the wild, where they shot down patrolling soldiers.

When I got home, I got another beating.

Further up, Su Xian was bullied by people from the academy. Su Jinxin brought him a bottle of water from the countryside, saying that if she dripped it into the person's tea, it would surely vent his anger.

This incident caused quite a stir, and he almost got fired. Fortunately, the volume of the dripping water at Jinxin Temple wasn't too loud.

The bullying scholar was a habitual bully who offended everyone in the academy. Su Xian was well-liked, and everyone pleaded for her, which finally calmed things down.

Further up the ranks, being forced to kneel in the ancestral hall, balance a basin of water on one's head, face the wall in repentance, and be beaten with leather straps and rattan are all perfectly normal punishments.

"Ladies, your handsome and dashing younger brother is back! Come and pay him homage!"

When Su Jinse saw him, she looked at him as if he were a jinx and walked away with great disgust.

"You come back and don't even go to pay your respects to your parents! Look at you!"

Su Xian didn't like her older sister either. She greeted Su Wanwan, praised Su Jinning's white horse, and then rode off.

"Jin Ning, if you've got the guts, catch up with me!"

"You've got some nerve!!! Daring to touch my horse!" Su Jinning raised her whip and chased after it.

Su Wanwan looked at the narrow moon gate and was about to warn Su Xian when she saw Su Xian's forehead slam into the moon gate with a "bang," and then she fell down.

"Su Jinxin! I was just kidding, why did you chase me so fast! You made me bump into this big bump, it hurts so much..."

Su Jinning chased after him and pinned the man on the ground down, giving him a good beating.

Su Wanwan withdrew her hand; it was too late to stop her.

There's a reason why he's so good at causing trouble.

Perhaps his aunt was too old when she gave birth to him, so he wasn't very bright.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be causing trouble every day.