Reborn as a Landlord-Chapter 825 - 421 The Letter
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"Mother," Lian Manman said with a smile to Lady Zhang, "Third Aunt Wu from the town has come; she has urgent matters to discuss with you and is waiting at our house."
"Alright, I’ll go right away." Lady Zhang promptly replied, smiling at Woo Sangou’s wife, "Oh dear, big sister, you see, I have to..."
"Sister-in-law, ... our household has many mouths to feed, and the old lady is unwell, the children are still young, and the little money we get from farming is just not enough for anything. Sister-in-law, this job..." Woo Sangou’s wife hurriedly continued to plead as she saw Lady Zhang needed to leave.
"Mother, didn’t we say we were going to hire someone? Third Aunt Wu has brought the person over, saying they’re particularly good, and just went ahead and decided to hire them for us." Lian Manman interrupted Woo Sangou’s wife seemingly unintentionally and told Lady Zhang, "Third Aunt Wu is looking for you precisely to talk about this."
At this point, Lady Zhang also understood that Lian Manman had come to her rescue; even the message that Lady Wu Wang had come might be false.
"Big sister, you see, it’s just bad timing, isn’t it." Lady Zhang said with a smile to Woo Sangou’s wife.
"If this job is taken, perhaps there’s some other work..." Woo Sangou’s wife continued.
"Mother, relatives are relatives, and hiring someone is another matter; no family hires their own relatives as workers." Lian Manman then said.
"That’s just how it should be." Lady Zhang nodded and proceeded to see Woo Sangou’s wife out.
Woo Sangou’s wife was reluctant to leave; after stepping out, she turned back to look one more time.
A thought flickered through Lian Manman’s mind.
"She looks ordinary, but she has a pair of beautiful eyes," Lian Manman murmured to herself. Upon closer inspection, Woo Sangou’s wife actually had some beauty, which was merely concealed by the despair in her expression and her ragged clothes. That backward glance just now even had a hint of charm.
After sending away Woo Sangou’s wife, Lian Manman, Lady Zhang, Lady Zhao, and Lian Yeye headed toward the main house. Back in the courtyard’s eastern room, on the heated brick bed, Lady Li was working with Zhang Caiyun and Lian Zhizhi on sewing. The cotton for a few cotton coats and dresses was all fluffed up and laid flat, with the three of them sewing piece by piece.
"Mother, take a break before you continue. Take it slow, no rush," Lady Zhang said, "Zhizhi, Caiyun, you two rest your eyes as well. If you want to play, go ahead for a while."
Everyone then sat up on the brick bed and started chatting.
"... You all missed it just now; Liulang’s aunt came by, hearing that we wanted to hire someone; she wanted in, so I sent her back," Lian Manman recounted how she dismissed He Laoliu’s wife earlier.
"How does she even have the face to come over?" Lian Yeye remarked, "It seems like everyone from their family has a thick skin. Just Liulang’s uncle, swindled us out of a sum of money, and he still has the face to go to Taicang, can our father hold him in any regard? Truly baffling how they think." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
After talking about He Laoliu’s wife, they moved on to discuss Woo Sangou’s wife.
"Mother, why did Woo Sangou’s wife also come over? Their family already got those grains for nothing, are they still not satisfied?" Lian Manman asked Lady Zhang.
Not to mention anything else, just from selling those few hundred pounds of peanuts, there should be enough pocket money for a family.
"Who knows. She was so insistent on begging me to work here. Manman, it’s good that you went; otherwise, I wouldn’t know when she would have left," Lady Zhang said.
Lian Manman gathered from Lady Zhang’s words that she never intended to hire Woo Sangou’s wife but just didn’t want to reject her outright, so she felt somewhat relieved.
"Mother, that Old Woo Family has their own people to work, and they have already taken enough advantage from father’s side; how can they still be living in such poverty? Are they pretending to be poor or what?" Lian Manman asked, feeling puzzled.
"It’s not pretending; they are indeed poor," Lady Zhao said.
"Correct," Lady Zhang nodded, "I’ve made some inquiries these past few days; just their old lady, even when she was young, wasn’t in good health and needed medication every day. As for the Old Three wife that came earlier, whenever there’s a bit of money, it has to be spent on medicine; it’s really baffling."
Lian Manman lost interest after hearing this. These two people who came today claimed to be their relatives. He Laoliu’s wife could be considered connected, a relative in a roundabout way. As for the Woo Family, Lian Manman had asked Lian Shouxin in detail before. The Woo Family had no relation to the Lian Family; Old Master Lian settled in Thirty Mile Camp and wanted to lease out some land when the Woo Family came knocking, trying to form a kinship with the Lian Family, but in fact, they had no actual ties and hadn’t associated at all over the years.
"Mother, regarding hiring someone, if they are even remotely related to our relatives, we should not hire them." Lian Manman discussed with Lady Zhang, "It would not be good if people said we hire our own relatives for work."
