Reborn as a Landlord-Chapter 1647 - 840: Feisty_2

"Second Aunt, let it go, there are still people in that room." Lady Chiang held back Lady He, quietly persuading her, "Don’t argue with the kids, it doesn’t look good. Something must be going on at the Yeye Household. I’ll just do a bit more work later..."

Lady He was still mumbling, but in the end, she didn’t actually chase out.

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Lian Manman and some others were sitting on the kang doing needlework, chatting away, when they saw Lian Yeye coming back from outside.

"We were just saying how Yeye hadn’t come back for ages. Yeye, come on up to the kang to warm yourself, have some water," Lady Wu Wang greeted Lian Yeye enthusiastically upon her return.

Everyone laughed, even though Lady Wu Wang commented on Lian Yeye’s interest in gossip, her own curiosity was no less than Yeye’s, especially about such matters.

"How did it go, did they bring her back?" Lady Zhang asked once Lian Yeye was seated on the kang.

"They did, she was just brought back when I went over." Lian Yeye replied, taking a sip of water and a deep breath, then smiling.

"Who came from the girl’s side?"

"What’s the girl like?"

"Did both sides speak well of each other? Does it seem promising?"

Everyone eagerly asked.

"Four people came from the girl’s family, her older sister and brother-in-law drove the donkey cart to deliver them, and her father came too," Lian Yeye answered, "The girl is not very tall, quite fair-skinned, with big eyes."

For tenant farmers, the aesthetic tastes were usually quite simple. Fair skin and big eyes were considered very good looks.

"Fair skin, big eyes, that’s definitely not a bad appearance," Lady Zhang noted, "At first when they talked about this, I suspected there might be some flaw in the girl, but turns out she’s quite alright. This counts as a good match."

"Their lives are tough over there; they’re all willing to marry into this side," Lady Wu Wang commented, "Well, how’s it looking? Does Si Lang seem willing?"

"I think they’re all quite willing; they seem to have taken a liking to her," Lian Yeye replied.

"And on the girl’s side, do they seem willing?" Lady Zhang asked.

"I couldn’t tell," Lian Yeye thought for a moment and said, "The attitude from Lian Shouyi’s family was quite obvious, but the Wang Family was more reserved. Yeye is still young, she really couldn’t say for sure," Lian Yeye continued, "The girl didn’t speak much, only her father and brother-in-law did."

"A girl coming to see the groom’s side would surely be shy, wouldn’t she?" Lady Wu Wang said.

Everyone continued asking Lian Yeye, and she told them all she had seen and heard, even mentioning how Si Lang boasted and talked big in front of the Wang Family.

"This bragging is over the top!" Hearing Si Lang say to the Wang Family that he manages things in the city and would open a shop within a year or two, everyone in the room was shocked. "He boasts like this; won’t the girl’s family investigate? Moreover, once they’re married, and the truth is out, how will the couple manage? You shouldn’t boast like this!"

"Si Lang, this kid, the older he gets, the more improper he becomes, boasting and lying so casually," Lady Zhang shook her head.

"If he were a regular, reliable kid, he wouldn’t borrow carts and mules from you repeatedly," Lady Wu Wang remarked.

"Talking about this makes me angry," Lian Yeye pouted, "Si Lang doesn’t know how to ride a mule but insisted on riding one. Even though there’s a horse cart, he refused to sit, demanding someone lead the mule for him. My fourth uncle’s household sent a driver, but how can the driver also lead the mule? In the end, my dad had to lead the mule for him!"

"What?" Lian Manman exclaimed, "They went to pick up the Wang Family people, Si Lang rode the mule, the cart went empty, and my third uncle led the mule ahead?"

"Yes," Lian Yeye nodded. This incident was told to her by the driver from Manman’s Family when she came out of the old house. "Who does he think he is, some big shot or ancestor? What gives him the right to make my dad lead the horse for him? Doesn’t he fear bad karma? My dad, too, why’s he so agreeable!"

"Oh dear, in this freezing weather," Lady Wu Wang sighed.

"Is your dad still there?" Lady Zhao’s face didn’t look pleased as she asked Lian Yeye.

"Sitting inside still," Lian Yeye nodded, "When I went in, Yaya’s mom asked me why I hadn’t come to help, why they were just waiting for us to do the work for them. I sat there for a while, she called me several times, acting as if without us her meal couldn’t be cooked, as if she couldn’t marry off her son."

"When I was leaving, she wanted to order me around for work, she was quite critical. I didn’t let her, I talked her down."

Lian Yeye then recounted how Lady Zhou ordered her around, how Lady He criticized her, and how she argued back against Lady He.

"She bullies the weak and fears the strong; the whole family is like that, good at ordering people around. I talked back to her, and she didn’t dare do anything," Lian Yeye added, "I didn’t know then that Si Lang had my dad lead the mule, otherwise I would have had much more to say."

"This girl, in the future, if you’re running your own household, you won’t need anyone else, just Yeye is enough!" Lady Wu Wang laughed.

Lian Yeye was naturally pleased to receive praise, but thinking of how Lian Shouli was ordered around by Si Lang, she didn’t feel so happy anymore.

"...Who does things like that?" Lian Manman understood what Lian Yeye was thinking, "So inconsiderate and thoughtless. Mom, this is a warning for us. When Dad comes back, tell him to deal less with Si Lang. Si Lang still fears him a bit now, but once he’s familiar, Dad being good-natured, Si Lang would take advantage."

"Mom, why don’t we send someone to get the cart and mule back?"

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