Chapter 85.2

Translated by Aviana

“Cuilan, why didn’t you come to the banquet at Yang Tiezhu’s house yesterday?” Meifang inquired.

Meifang was a simple-minded person. Having spent quite a lot of time with Tian Cuilan in recent days, yet seeing her not asking about Yang Tiezhu, she directly asked.

Tian Cuilan’s lips pursed into a smile as she said while lowering her head, “Yesterday, I was slightly feeling under the weather, so I didn’t go.”

Not thinking too much into it, Meifang excitedly began to describe the sumptuousness of the banquet, as she lamented that it was truly her loss for not being able to attend the banquet. She further went on to describe how well-built and big Yang Tiezhu’s house was. And how his wife didn’t show up at the banquet in the beginning, and when she did come out in between how Yang Tiezhu promptly ran to her to support her, causing everyone to burst into chuckles at his nervousness….

Though she herself was unaware, Tian Cuilan sitting beside her could sense admiration and exclamation brimming in the former’s tone.

Others might find Miefang to be talkative, but Tian Cuilan was quite fond of it. Because she can get lots of information from Meifang’s words with almost zero effort.

Her Brother Tiezhu had always been precisely that good, hasn’t he? Even without looking at all those, she was truly envious!

Her Brother Tiezhu was truly capable. Despite his cripple arm, he was still able to make enough money to build such a big house, and in spite of that still loves his wife….

She truly wanted to dash to him and tell that she didn’t dislike his crippled arm, she really didn’t dislike….

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The hubbub caused by the two Yang Brother’s house ceremonies lasted for quite a long time in Luoxia village before it slowly died down.

And during this entire, the one who found the situation too awkward and embarrassing was Yang Laoyezi and his family. They weren’t invited to the banquet by Yang Tiezhu and Yang laoyezi was too proud to go there without an invite. But Yang laoyezi seemed to have forgotten that usually when juniors were having any event, the elders would usually come on their initiative to lend a hand.

As Yang laoyezi hadn’t passed a word to let anyone go, the Eldest branch didn’t dare to go to the banquet even though they truly wanted to go. He-shi wanted to lose her old face and thus didn’t dare to speak about it. What’s more, her old man seemed to be in a bad mood these days, and was often scolded by him whenever she said anything.

As no one from their family went to the banquet, it seemed as if the entire family was unanimously against the Yang brothers. However, from the words of the people coming from the banquet, they belatedly realized almost everyone from the village had gone there, except their family. Their hearts became even more unpleasant when they heard the liveliness at the banquet, especially when they had only drunk a little gruel in the noon.

What’s more, every time they went to the fields, the passerby villagers who weren’t aware of the situation would frequently ask why they didn’t see anyone from the Yang Jia at Yang Tiezhu’s banquet.

Now can they retort why they were stabbing exactly where it hurts? Can they snap back why they were asking knowingly?

Certainly not! Spelling such words loud is tantamount to slapping their own faces. They had no choice but to either dodge the question or take a detour altogether. In the end, Yang laoyezi refrained everyone from stepping out until the situation subsided.

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Putting the situation at Yang jia aside, a few days after the banquet, when Xia Dacheng had an ample amount of rest, both he and Yang Tiezhuhit the road. One went to research on the current growth of Laweixian in the market, while the other set off to look for potential restaurants interested in the Laweixian.

While at home, Yao-shi and Yang-shi began looking after Lin Qingwan in Yang Tiezhu’s absence. As the number of days he had spent out increased, he brought back Dahei and Erhei from Yang-shi’s house to look after Lin Qingwan, who had to stay all alone.

He had also built two dog houses for them, one in the front yard, and the other in the rear yard – this way Dahei and Erhei can each guard both sides, without having to sleep on the wet ground.

Truthfully, Yang Tiezhu was unwilling to be away from home at this point in time, especially when his wife’s belly was getting bigger and bigger and would be ready for childbirth in less than two months. However, on second thought, he realized he wouldn’t be able to step out after his wife had given birth for quite a long time. Thus, toughening up his resolve, he set out with Xia Dacheng to let him get familiar with the business.

Before departure, seeing extremely reluctant and anxious expressions all over Yang Tiezhu’s face, Lin Qingwan found it a tad bit amusing.

He seems to be more worried about her than herself. There wasn’t much work for her to do at home. Eldest gu and third sister-in-law would drop by to accompany her. Besides, having grown accustomed to solitary living in her past life, she didn’t dread solitude, and was used to staying alone. What’s more, she had Dahei and Erhei to accompany her into the house. Not to mention, he wouldn’t be out for long and didn’t have to be beset by such anxiety and reluctance.

After sending Yang Tiezhu and others on their trip, Lin Qingwan returned to the house and resumed her embroidery work. She was planning to use the next few days to make a few quilts for the child before it was born. Although she had already made a few, she couldn’t help but feel they weren’t enough.

It might be difficult for her to cook with her current belly size, but sitting and embroidering weren’t any problem.

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