Even if I can’t get a share, I still want to have a look, satisfy my craving, and also keep track of the family’s assets in my head, to avoid being deceived and taken advantage of in the future.
With this thought, Lian Shouyi, Lady He, and Si Lang also wanted to enter the house quickly, but they were sowhat reluctant to leave the crowd in front of them. That’s why, after listening to Lian Shouxin’s words, they didn’t make way but instead pondered what to say.
"Dad, Mom, you should go back inside quickly." Erlang took two steps forward and said to Lian Shouyi and Lady He, "Jiaxing still has a lot to do, can’t afford to waste ti with you."
"You little bastard, you dare to co back here?" As soon as Lian Shouyi saw Erlang, his anger flared up, "What, are you here to give us rice and flour, or have you made money to show filial piety to your parents?"
"Why do you curse the mont you see him, can’t you speak nicely to the child?" Lady He gave Lian Shouyi a sidelong glance, then smiled at Erlang and said, "Erlang, since you’re earning money now, your mom needs a comb, give her so money so she can buy one."
"Mom, what are you doing?" Erlang’s face turned red imdiately, he stamred but his aning was clear. "You’ve needed a new comb several tis this month. You’ve also needed a hairpin and a hairbrush. Mom, I don’t make that much money. I’ve been providing the rice, flour, and cloth you asked for on ti. I have to live too, please give a break."
With the help of the Lian Manman family, Erlang gained a good job with a decent monthly inco. Eventually, both Lian Shouyi and Lady He found out. Ever since then, the couple kept finding ways to get money from Erlang, threatening him with accusations of being unfilial. However, Erlang handed all his salary over to Luo Xiaoyan, so despite their sches, Lian Shouyi and Lady He couldn’t always take advantage.
Today, seeing Erlang co to the door, the couple looked at him like starving dogs looking at a piece of fat at.
"You all go inside quickly, let’s go." Lian Shouxin, observing the scene, spoke up promptly. The first half was directed at Lian Shouyi and Lady He, the second half was for his own people who were brought along to the old house.
Everyone ignored Lian Shouyi and Lady He, and walked straight out the door of the old house.
Watching Lian Shouxin and the others leave and already gone far, only then did Lian Shouyi dare to start hurling curses.
"This ungrateful wretch," Lian Shouyi cursed while jumping on his feet, "he’s forgotten his roots, Erlang has. He only sees money, look at him, like he’d rather acknowledge Old Fourth as his father. Isn’t Old Fourth rich? He looks down on his own father for having no money..."
Lian Shouren, Lian Jizu, and Lady Chiang ignored Lian Shouyi and his family of three, and turned back to the Upper Room. Seeing them enter, Lian Shouyi suddenly realized, stopped cursing Erlang, and hurriedly followed them to the Upper Room.
Lady He and Si Lang followed closely behind.
In the East Room of the Upper Room, Lady Zhou was directing Lian Yaya to bring the half-washed laundry to the bed so she could continue washing, while she dispatched Lady Chiang outside to continue boiling water. Lian Shouren and Lian Jizu sat idly on stools, with a faint daze, while Old Master Lian sat at the bed edge, frowning and sighing.
As Lian Shouyi, Lady He, and Si Lang entered the room, their eyes imdiately swept to the cabinet, and when they found it empty, their gazes shifted to the bed.
Neither on the cabinet nor the bed, not even in the corners, there was a trace of any gifts.
"Did Wu Jiaxing and Zhizhi co empty-handed, without bringing anything?" Lian Shouyi couldn’t help but ask.
"You look like a ’thing’ yourself." Lady Zhou glanced at Lian Shouyi and Lady He with disdain. This couple had been disappearing after als often recently, and Lady Zhou had been dissatisfied for a long ti.
"Sigh..." Old Master Lian suddenly let out a long sigh, "We’ve really offended the Old Wu Family now."
Here, ’offend’ is a rural colloquial term commonly used by tenant farrs, aning not to provoke, but to offend. When it’s your own family, your own sons and grandsons, it doesn’t matter much, after all, they are blood relatives. But offending outsiders is a serious matter. This is one of the things Old Master Lian has been most wary of all his life.
"What does it matter if we offend them." Lady Zhou snorted coldly, "I don’t care for a pack of their pastries!"
Lady Zhou said this because most farmsteads in Thirty Mile Camp send pastries to elders during festivals.
"What do you know!" Old Master Lian sighed again, "A virtuous wife leads to less trouble for her husband, you are just a troublemaker."
"I admit I don’t know anything, only you know everything." Lady Zhou twisted a freshly-launched piece of laundry dry, and with a cold sneer at Old Master Lian, she continued, "You know so much, but I don’t see you being outstanding. No one takes you seriously."
"The first ti visiting back, they brought nothing, ca empty-handed. They really have the nerve! Not giving anything, fine, I admit my ignorance. But the mighty, knowledgeable Old Master, they didn’t give you anything either!"
"You think yourself so slick and smooth, but in their eyes, you and I are no different." Having said that, Lady Zhou added a few more cold laughs.
Old Master Lian seed not to hear Lady Zhou’s harsh words, continuing to mutter about offending the Old Wu Family.
"It’s not right, the internal issues of the family don’t matter, but there must be a division between inside and outsiders. This incident should have been suppressed, how did the Old Wu Family find out? It’s not right." Old Master Lian mumbled, closing his eyes again, "So childish, so worriso..."
"Mom, did all those people from Old Fourth’s family leave nothing just now?" Lian Shouyi leaned close to Lady Zhou and asked.
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