Reborn as a Landlord-Chapter 807 - 411: Bursting in Anger_2

However, Lian Shouxin did not respond to her on this matter, instead, he asked her to slowly find a match for Yin Suo in the city.

"...when we go back, we’ll talk to Jin Suo about the second daughter from Old Qian family," Lian Lanlan spoke up. The Old Qian family’s home was just across the street from hers, and they ran a yarn shop. The Old Qian family, having many people and especially daughters, depended on that small shop, and life was tough. There had been intentions previously from Old Qian family to marry one of the daughters into her family, but she never responded. Old Qian family, seeking a dowry, considered her family’s good condition, which would inevitably associate them with her family. Now, she couldn’t think too much about it anymore; Jin Suo was also of age.

"Okay," Luo Baocai agreed.

Jin Suo, and then it would be Yin Suo.

Lian Lanlan could not help but look at Yin Suo again, just as Yin Suo looked back at her.

Actually, this girl Yin Suo is willing to marry Wu Lang, Lian Lanlan thought to herself.

"Go back, find someone to write a letter to his grandparents," Lian Lanlan muttered to herself, "His grandparents are not at home, and this Old Zhang family’s relatives are getting cocky.... His Fourth Uncle’s new mansion, his grandparents have never lived there, but it was occupied by people from Old Zhang family first...

’Getting cocky’ is a local rural expression here, meaning being assertive or dominant.

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As night fell, the Lian Manman family all prepared to go to sleep.

Zhang Caiyun naturally was supposed to sleep in the west room with Lian Zhizhi and Lian Manman, but Lady Zhang planned to arrange for Lady Li’s bedding on the heated brick bed in the east room, next to hers, so the two mothers could chat and spend time together.

"Grandma, you sleep in our room," Lian Manman said, "Grandma, I really treasure listening to your stories."

"Alright," Lady Li agreed with a smile.

Lian Manman, Lian Zhizhi, and Zhang Caiyun then escorted Lady Li from the east room to the door, and Lian Manman turned her head and sneakily glanced at Lian Shouxin and Lady Zhang, chuckling secretly in her heart.

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Lian Manman’s family’s new mansion had five rooms in the upper courtyard, with the middle one still being used as a kitchen. As soon as one entered from outside, there were stoves on both sides. However, these stoves were different from those at the Lian Family Old Mansion. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The kitchen’s stoves at the Lian Family Old Mansion burned firewood, while the two stoves at Lian Manman’s house were new-style stoves designed to burn coal. This was decided when the house was designed.

In this era, coal was already widely used. City and town residents used coal for heating and cooking. Ironsmith heaters and craftsmen’s little stoves also burned coal. In fact, Lian Manman saw with her own eyes that Wu Jiaxing’s house used coal for cooking and heating.

Lian Manman’s family had a rule set: the big kitchen at the front courtyard would continue to use straw and firewood, and in this second interior courtyard, heating and cooking would be done using firewood, coal, or charcoal, with coal being the main fuel.

Coal burns longer and doesn’t dirty the place like straw and firewood, thus maintaining indoor cleanliness and hygiene.

These two stoves in the inner courtyard could function as a small kitchen, ideal for boiling water or preparing delicate dishes conveniently.

Today, to accommodate guests, water was heated on these two stoves, hence the heated brick beds in both the east and west rooms.

Lian Manman suggested that Lady Li stay with them in the inner bedroom, but Lady Li didn’t agree.

"You young sisters stay in the inner room; I’ll be in the outer room. I fancy this warm brick bed,"

Lian Manman then arranged the bedding for Lady Li. The heated brick bed in the outer room of the west room, like those in tenant farmer’s homes, was covered with reed mats. Besides, a whole felt mat lay on top of the reed mats.

This felt was made by nomadic herders along the northern borders from rolled wool, very thick and sturdy. The felt, in its natural undyed wool color, covered the brick bed, making it warm in winter and cool in summer. Although it wasn’t winter yet, the brick bed heated today was warm. Lian Manman didn’t arrange Lady Li’s bedding near the warmer part of the bed.

With people coming and going all day, everyone was tired, and Lady Li went to bed early. Lian Manman, Lian Zhizhi, and Zhang Caiyun also returned to the inner room.

The sisters’ bedroom was also one spacious room. The brick bed in the outer room was covered with the same felt mats as in the outer room. The floor was paved with blue bricks, covered by a layer of wooden flooring.

The layout inside the bedroom was simple. Against the north wall, there was a row of four long cabinets. The two on the eastern side were shared. Various fine materials and items collected today were all stored in these two cabinets. The two on the western side, one belonged to Lian Manman and the other to Lian Zhizhi.

Against the west wall, there was a large wooden vanity table, with two embroidered stools in front of it. Nearby, there was a rack for clothing and a row of two chairs, with a tea table placed between them, on which tea pots and bowls were arranged.

The three sisters entered the inner room and climbed onto the brick bed. Lian Manman went to draw the curtains, Lian Zhizhi took out bedding and pillows from a wooden cabinet at the end of the brick bed, and together with Zhang Caiyun, they made the bed.

Snuggling into their bedding, the three sisters chatted and chuckled for a while before gradually falling asleep.

Not long after they had lain down, they heard several loud bangs from doors outside.

Lian Manman immediately awoke. She hugged the blanket as she sat up, slightly pulling open a corner of the curtain, and stared outside with wide eyes.

Barefoot on one foot and with a shoe half on the other, Lian Shouxin was draped in an overcoat, facing outside the door, standing under the moonlight with a grim expression.

"... how come you got angry all of a sudden, I didn’t say anything wrong. You even kicked me out in the middle of the night..., today, didn’t I agree..." Lian Shouxin pitifully whispered, explaining towards the inside of the door.

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