"I’m fine. Do I look like something’s wrong with me?" Lian Manman was the first to speak, to reassure her family, and then she sat down next to Lady Zhang.

"What exactly happened?" Lian Shouxin also asked.

"It’s just like what you saw." Lian Manman nodded to Wu Lang and Xiao Qi, then briefly recounted what happened in the garden.

"Manman, did you see clearly who bumped into you?" Wu Lang frowned and asked.

"It was just those two or three people." Lian Manman shook her head and said, "I was too unprepared."

"How can it be your fault for being unprepared? We all thought they were decent people, after all, they should at least keep up appearances." Lady Zhang immediately said with a heartache, "They’re all daughters from big families, each one of them dressed to the nines, speaking eloquently, who would have thought they had ill intentions. Aren’t they supposed to be well-educated and reasonable, thinking they’re more dignified than our tenant farmers’ daughters? They’re human on the surface, but like ghosts behind your back, not as good as our people in the countryside. Our tenant farmers, we don’t hide bad deeds in our hearts, if there’s anything, we say it upfront. Those who are human to your face but do harm behind your back, I despise them the most."

Lady Zhang was very agitated, partly because she was worried about Lian Manman, and partly because she had always hated hypocrites and those who are insidious.

Of course, Lady Zhang’s comments that tenant farmers are all straightforward and the people here like to play dirty tricks secretly are clearly too arbitrary and one-sided. There are bad people and good people in any group. Human nature does not differ in essence no matter where, only the specific manifestations vary due to environmental factors.

"Which ones were they?" Wu Lang remained calm and continued to question Lian Manman.

"Qian Yuchan was one, then there was Wang Yuqian from the Wang Family, and Peng Dongqing from the Peng Family. They were the three standing closest to me at that time, and later, their looks towards me were quite suspicious." Lian Manman said as she recalled.

"Our family does have interactions with these families, but we’re not particularly close." Wu Lang pondered and said.

"Yes, my relationship with them is just superficial. Those three seem to be especially close to each other." Lian Manman said, "I later remembered, originally, when we left the table, we didn’t call them, they followed us out themselves."

"Manman, are you saying they had premeditated this?" Wu Lang immediately asked. Lian Manman could sense Wu Lang’s tension, which was not out of fear of the influence of these families, but out of concern for her safety considering these people’s premeditated harm.

"Is it a premeditated plan to harm me, or a plan to... attract Sixth Master’s attention?" Lian Manman murmured to herself.

Lian Shouxin coughed twice.

"Brother, you were there, didn’t you notice?" Lian Manman asked Wu Lang.

"How could I not notice? Anyone with eyes could see it." Wu Lang said, "You wouldn’t know, once we walked away, Commander Zhang even asked Master Chu about you, saying he had never seen anything like it, the way that Miss Qian looked at him scared him stiff."

Lian Shouxin coughed twice again, and Xiao Qi looked left and right, seemingly understanding but not fully. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Commander Zhang... is quite an interesting person." Lian Manman couldn’t help but laugh, "Did Sixth Master hear what he said, did he say anything?"

"Sixth Master was there too, of course he heard it. He told Commander Zhang he would find a matchmaker to arrange a marriage between Qian Yuchan and him." Wu Lang replied, "Commander Zhang was frightened, begging Sixth Master to drop the idea immediately."

"Isn’t Commander Zhang already married?" Lian Shouxin asked.

"Yes, Sixth Master knows that too, he even sent a gift." Wu Lang said.

Clearly, Shen Liu intended to give Qian Yuchan to Commander Zhang as a concubine.

"Commander Zhang is the most trusted subordinate of Sixth Master..." Lian Manman laughed, the two of them really worked well together.

"By the way, before you returned to the table, Grandma Shen San spoke to me for a while, it was about that Qian Yuchan." Lady Zhang said, "Grandma Shen San told me that Qian Yuchan’s age and birthdate are both fake."

"Oh?" Lian Manman raised an eyebrow, clearly very surprised by this news.

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