Chapter 33: An IOU
Su Qian narrowed her eyes and kicked Ancestor Su in the face, breaking two of his teeth.
Ancestor Su's eyes turned black from the kick. He watched as Su Qian pried open his mouth and slowly poured a bottle of poison into his mouth. "This is a poison I refined. If you don't take the antidote within an hour, your body will fester and you'll die. Remember, I'll only give you an hour to return all the things my mother brought to the Su family. Otherwise, you'll have to bear the consequences."
As soon as she finished speaking, Su Qian raised her wrist and forced Ancestor Su to swallow the poison.
"Men, go and prepare!" Ancestor Su gritted his teeth, and he couldn't treat his life as a joke.
Su Qian calmly walked over to the seat of the family head and sat down, crossing her legs as she waited.
The Su family didn't dare to be careless at all. They quickly brought over all the dowry that Lady Nangong had brought to the Su family.
However, after so many years, Lady Nangong's dowry was almost used up. A single mahogany box was enough to store everything, and it was far from what Su Qian had requested.
Su Qian remembered that when her mother married into the Su family from the Nangong family, the number one family in the imperial capital, the head of the Nangong family couldn't stop his daughter from marrying into the Su family. He spent a lot of money and brought her twenty boxes of rare treasures, as well as countless gold and silver. He wanted to give Lady Nangong enough capital to live a smooth life in the Su family.
However, her infatuated mother, who loved Su Chenghua wholeheartedly, was cheated of all her dowry by his sweet words and passed away at a young age.
At the thought of the Nangong family, Su Qian's eyes deepened.
Ever since Lady Nangong's death, the Su family had become more and more unbridled. The Nangong family, on the other hand, had been depressed after losing their beloved daughter and had gradually declined. However, they never stopped helping Su Qian. It was just that the original owner of this body was too stubborn and believed that her mother's death had something to do with the Nangong family. She refused to bow her head and refused to let the Nangong family, who truly cared about her, in. She even gave all the gifts the Nangong family gave her to Su Yue to please her.
Su Qian couldn't help but feel a little bitter. She looked up at the clear sky and felt that she should take some time to go back to the Nangong family.
"Ancestor, this, this is far from enough..." The Su family's housekeeper had already sent people to empty the Su family's treasury, but it was still a third short of the dowry from that year.
Su Qian wasn't surprised by this. Back then, the Nangong family was at its peak, and even the Emperor had to smile when he saw the head of the Nangong family. It was far from what the Su family was like today.
"Su Qian, you see..." Ancestor Su wanted to say something nice, but Xiao Yan beat him to it.
"If you can't return everything now, you can write an IOU first. It just so happens that I'm here. I can be a witness for Qianqian." Xiao Yan said unhurriedly.
"Good idea." Su Qian stood up with a smile, picked up the paper and ink on the table, and said unhurriedly, "In that case, I'll add what your Su family owes me to this letter of severance! From today onwards, I, Su Qian, am no longer a member of the Su family. You must gather all of my mother's dowry within a month. Otherwise, I will massacre the Su family!"
Su Qian's aura was overbearing. As soon as she finished speaking, she bit her fingertip and signed her name in one go.
Everyone was stunned.
This time, it wasn't that the Su family didn't want Su Qian; it was Su Qian who didn't want the Su family!
Ancestor Su glared at Su Qian venomously, but the poison was about to enter his heart. He had no choice but to sign his name before he shouted in humiliation, "Hand over the antidote!"