Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 284: Cousin

Soon Li Ma brought two little maids to greet them.
After a few polite words, she led the three of them inside.

The gifts that were bought were also handed over to Li Ma to arrange.
Seeing that she had brought half a wild boar, many tender mushrooms, and other good things, she knew that Lian Fang Zhou had taken a lot of care and secretly praised her.

Just as they arrived at Fang Qing’s courtyard, it happened that a few nurses and two children were also there, laughing and talking.
However, as the master was gone, only Lian Fang Zhou could stay.
Lian Ze and Ah Jian would continue to their own rooms.

Fang Qing hurriedly smiled: “I won’t keep you here anymore, your rooms are on the outside.
I will meet with you when the young master comes back! If you have any needs, just ask the servants, you don’t need to be polite.
If you feel bored, Shuangliu county is very lively and there are many places worth visiting.
It’s fine to have someone send you a carriage to go around! If you don’t want to go out, the Fuzhong garden is also quite eye-catching.
This is the best season for scenery and its nice to go and look!”

Then she told Li Ma: “Take them in person to the housekeeper to arrange, send a proper person to take care of them!”

Lian Ze and Ah Jian thanked her with polite smiles while Lian Ze felt a rush of relief.
Everything that his sister had said was true.
Their cousin was sincerely treating them as relatives, otherwise she would not be so careful in her instructions and thoughtful about their needs!

He was suddenly curious: Maybe it was because she and his sister had become friends that Lian Fang Zhou was willing to come again? Otherwise, with his sister’s temperament, even if she needed money, even if the Su family was rich, she definitely wouldn’t come again.

Relieved, Lian Ze even felt a little less disgusted with Su Xin’er.
For the sake of his cousin, he wouldn’t bother to care about her anymore!

After Ah Jian and Lian Ze left, Fang Qing ordered the two nurses to take her sons and led Lian Fang Zhou inside the main house of the courtyard to chat.
Smiling, she said: “I thought you would be here after two days and sure enough, you came today! I take you as one of my people and I’m not afraid to say something in front of you.
Is there anything our house doesn’t have? And if we don’t have it, can’t we buy it? Why go through so much trouble to bring those things? I don’t care if the honey is from my own house and wild boars aren’t so easy to hunt! And the mushrooms, I think they were picked yesterday, right? Li Ma can’t even recognize seven or eight of them, they’re all so rare, so why trouble yourself? Don’t do this next time!”

Lian Fang Zhou listened to her half-blaming complains and felt warm in her heart.
She also smiled: “What’s in Cousin’s house, is in Cousin’s house! What I brought is my sincerity! If Cousin doesn’t dislike it, I don’t have to worry about it.
As long as you accept my sincere heart, I am relieved and I will do it again next time!”

Fang Qing was startled and then laughed, then both of them laughed together.
Smiling, Fang Qing said: “It’s not bad! I won’t say any more, in that case I will just accept your sincerity.”

Speaking to her maid, Shuang Ling, she said: “Go to the kitchen and have them cook a few more dishes with the mushrooms and wild boar.
Make sure to give some to the master, his wife, and the young lady and tell them that this was something brought by my cousin specially.
They are all fresh and good things, they honor the two elders and give a taste of freshness for the young lady!”

Shuang Ling smiled and agreed, leaving.

Lian Fang Zhou looked embarrassed, saying with a small smile: “My cousin is ordering the kitchen to prepare the food for the Su family, why do something so troublesome?”

Fang Qing smiled: “What’s so embarrassing about this? The old madam will like it, you can rest assured!”

While speaking, she sighed, half-joking: “None of my maternal relatives have brought me a gift for so many years, only asking me to send one to them! I am relieved to have some reliable family members, so I don’t have to worry about the servants gossiping behind my back!”

Lian Fang Zhou smiled, but couldn’t say anything to this.

Judging from Fang Qing’s current situation in the Su Manor, Lian Fang Zhou didn’t believe that the servants would dare to gossip about her.

But it’s easy enough to guess, right? There should have been a lot of gossip when she first entered.
After all, the disparity between the two families was very great.
The situation of Fang Qing’s family, a third-class steward of the Su family would be proud to welcome them but she had become their master, how could they agree to this?

Also, what she said about her maternal family was likely not fake.
It was no wonder that her husband’s family would look down on her if there was no support from her family.

Fang Qing was originally an open-minded person.
Now that she was mentioning these things as a joke, it meant that she no longer cared about it.
She smiled and stopped talking, moving the topic to Su Xin’er and hinting an apology.

Lian Fang Zhou interrupted her without waiting for her to finish, repeatedly saying that she didn’t mind.
Su Xin’er was still a child with a simple mind, there was nothing malicious in what she said, she was just bluntly expressing herself.

The daughter-in-law could not speak for her sister-in-law, no matter how embarrassing.
Lian Fang Zhou could understand Fang Qing’s feelings.

Hearing this, Fang Qing was even more embarrassed.
She held her hand and smiled: “Good sister, I am relieved to hear you say that! Alas, what you didn’t mention is that Xin’er was born with a golden spoon.
She’s so spoiled, how can she be like us? When she has a thought, she says it without thinking but this is not so bad.”

Lian Fang Zhou agreed with her but in her heart, she thought that Su Xin’er’s temperament was too spoiled.
Who would be willing to continue to spoil her when she moved into her husband’s house? If she didn’t change, there would be hardships in the future.
Who knew what Master Su and Madam Su thought about this…

While Lian Fang Zhou was thinking about this, Fang Qing sighed and said in a low voice: “My father and mother have always loved her and can’t bear to see her suffer the slightest grievance.
I am only a daughter-in-law, so what can I say? When she leaves in the future, it will be necessary for the Su family to bully others to protect her.
Your cousin-in-law is just one man.
Although he is very dissatisfied with her wayward and scornful behavior and often scolds her in anger, he still loves her.”

Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t help but be amused when she heard this.
“My cousin-in-law has her in his heart, Young Lady Su is very blessed!”

After a paused, she couldn’t help but add: “The Su family and the Cui family are very close.
Young Lady Su and Young Master Cui are equally talented and beautiful.
Since Master Su and Madam Su love their daughter so much, why…”

What someone looked like was just superficial.
In fact, what she wanted to say was, if Young Lady Su liked Young Master Cui so much, why hadn’t their parents stepped in? Since they loved her, why hadn’t they made this decision for her?

TN: Su family drama!