You must be shameless if you didn’t even offer to pay them. Even family need to settle accounts.
They then started planning the details of hosting the guests. They prepared to invite people who had helped them as a gesture of thanks on July second, setting two tables for the feast and inviting the Qian family first and second wives, Second Grandpa's family, and Xie Huzi's family over for a lively time.
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Remember to wash your undergarment at home.
Qian Manxia, her face flushed, took the undergarment from its neck, confirmed it was indeed her item, and burst into tears of joy. She turned and threw the undergarment into the kitchen stove to burn it to ashes.
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Your mother in law is right. Just deny it Lady Wu.
Lady Wu cried, "But the undergarment is still in their possession, and the belongings of a young lady…"
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Such private items of a young lady's are never usually taken outside to wash. But because only the Qian's third wife's family used that little stream for washing, Qian Manxia didn't take any precautions and took all her things there to wash.
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About time. They should take care of their safety.
In the end, Qian Sangui made a decision to hire someone to repair the house, replace it with tiled roofing, and fix the dilapidated wing rooms for Jinwa to live in when he's older. Especially important was to strengthen the courtyard gate and raise the courtyard wall. Once the house was repaired, they would then get two more piglets and some more chicks. He also allowed Lady Wu to improve the meals a bit; now that they had some money, they shouldn't shortchange themselves with sick and young at home.
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Others may think she is mentally deficit but she knows the person that cares for her seas her husband. I hope he comes home.
Cheng Yue looked around at everyone in the room and slowly said, "Yueyue isn't sick, there's no need to waste money on a physician. I want to spend money to send someone with a message to Brother Jiang, to tell him the flowers outside the courtyard have withered and bloomed again several times. It's time he headed home."
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The little monkey understood his words, wiped its eyes with its little paw, nodded, and gave two cries.
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She is useful this time.
Lady Wang was also angry at Lady Tang and her daughter's insatiable greed, and she exclaimed from the side, "Good! Beat the greedy wretch who only knows how to do shameless things to death!"
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About time.
Lady Wu, usually gentle and good-tempered, was now so angry she lost her senses and vented all her previous anger on Lady Tang, scratching until she screamed repeatedly.
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"Nonsense, a backstabber. I was just helping the third branch save on food…" Lady Tang stubbornly retorted.
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Dang! This Old Woman Gian is brutal.
"Served him right, why didn't he just kill him!" Old woman Qian cried and scolded.
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Yes, it’s all your fault. You know everyone is interested in your little granddaughter yet you sent her out alone.
At that moment, Qian Yixiu, with her hair unkempt and crying a river, and Qian Yijin, face smeared with blood, who hadn't cried until that point, started to cry when he saw Lady Wu and choked out, "Granny, Jinwa is useless, I still let my sister be bullied."
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Why would they let Yixiu walk alone?
It was a headache to be adored by the little loli. Qian Yixiu spent time with her making flower crowns and playing house, and also treated her to two candies and a bowl of sugar water. Since she didn't tell her family that she had come here, Lady Wu was worried the main house would be concerned, so after playing for a while, she had Qian Yixiu walk her back home.
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Lady Tang need a smacking.
Lady Wu said indignantly, "Just now on the road, she stopped me and said she wants to strengthen family ties by having Xiuxiu marry her grandson Cai Wa as a child bride. She also said Yixiu is just a girl who eats for free, and since she's going to marry someone eventually, why not send her off to her in-laws' house earlier and save our family some food."
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Poor Yixia she has to take care of everyone’s emotional well being.
Yixiu brought the scraps and embroidery threads back to the left wing room, claiming to give everyone a surprise. In reality, she was just afraid that if little mother wasted the scraps or threads, she would get nagged by Lady Wu.
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Why would Lady Wu be such a cheapskate, it’s not really her own money.
Lady Wu, following her granddaughter's request, bought scraps of fabric that weren't too small; the larger pieces were half a foot in size, and the smaller ones were as big as an adult's palm, all made of silk or satin. These scraps were more expensive, costing fifty wen money, which made Lady Wu wince for a while.
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I was worried they left Yueyue alone
It was Yixiu's first time eating with so many relatives. In addition to Cheng Yue and Qian Manxia who were at home, Yishan and Yijin who were at school, Old man Qian and the fourth branch who were far away in the provincial city, plus the married daughters Qian Manwan and Qian Manhua, the entire big family of the Old Qian Family had gathered, even Manhe who went to town to sell Xia Grass had rushed back.
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Quinn Sangui and Lady Wu have good morals. I hope they’ll all be safe.
Of course, Qian Sangui and Lady Wu were reluctant. They brought up how Manjiang, before he left, had asked them to take good care of Cheng Yue. They said that although their son was dead, they had promised to protect his wife and couldn't go back on their word. Besides, after living with Cheng Yue for so long, they had come to treat her like their own daughter; how could they bear to send her away? Her mind wasn't very clear, and she would be bullied if she went to another family.
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What kind of people are these?
They advised Qian Sangui's couple to find a decent family to marry Cheng Yue off to. By doing so, they would have done right by Cheng Yue and her two children. With this troublemaker gone, life for the third branch of the family would be much easier.
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Qian Machuan? Isn’t he his son that went missing in the war?
Since Qian Sangui had bad legs, he had Qian Manchuan borrow a donkey cart from Xie Huzi's House, pulling him along to the feast.
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