Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 463: Family

Lian Fang Zhou smiled: “Third Aunt just has a few little problems, they don’t hurt.”

Unfortunately, there were always some people who would never change, such as their eldest uncle and aunt and their maternal aunt and uncle.

That Madam Jiang, Lian Fang Zhou only had one memory of her and knew that she was a more difficult character than Madam Qiao.
At least Madam Qiao was not as eloquent or clever as her.

Lian Ze also smiled and then frowned: “Actually, our grandmother treated us very well and loved mother a lot.
I didn’t expect—”

The thing that saddened Lian Ze the most was that not once in the last year did the grandmother who loved them contact them!

His sister went silent and lightly patted his shoulder comfortingly.
“It’s in the past.” People’s hearts could not be measured only by interests but interests were definitely the best thing to measure with! At the moment of interest, the quality of a person’s heart would be revealed.

“However,” Lian Fang Zhou continued, “Madam Jiang was right when she said that Grandmother is still our mother’s mother.
Now that we have a better life, we can’t leave it alone.
Tomorrow, the four of us will go to the Liu family!”

Lian Ze raised his head to look at her.

“It doesn’t matter if we give up a little bit, the important thing is not letting our aunt and uncle chew their tongues outside and speak ill of us.
Although Liuja Village is far away, it’s not good to be talked about like that! Besides, she is our biological maternal grandmother.” Lian Fang Zhou smiled.

“Alright, I will listen to Big Sister!” Stretching his brows, Lian Ze smiled and said with great nostalgia: “Grandmother used to be very kind to us.
Once, when we came to visit, she hid it from our cousins and secretly gave us candy!”

Feeling a little sour in her heart, Lian Fang Zhou smiled and nodded.
Her younger siblings were really not greedy and unscrupulous people!

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The next day, Lian Fang Zhou sent someone to the school to ask for a leave of absence for Lian Che and the four siblings, along with Ah Jian and two servants, packed quilts, fabric, boxes of snacks, two chickens, two large pieces of meat, two baskets of fruit, and a few others things before going to Liuja village together.

When their party entered the village with great fanfare, it was very eye-catching.

Naturally, a few curious people stepped up to laugh and ask where they were going, which relative?

Lian Fang Zhou had been waiting for someone to ask, of course she would not be too stingy to say a few more words.

She knew that these words would soon spread through the village so even if that Madam Jiang wanted to ruin their reputation, she would have a hard time.

For people like Madam Jiang and Liu Gu Zi, it would be strange to have a good reputation.
Today, these siblings had brought such heavy gifts to visit their Grandmother.
If she wanted to say that they were stingy, mean, cruel, etc., who would believe her? They would just say she was greedy!

And after Lian Fang Zhou spread the news that her parents had passed away, when the time came, it would be Madam Jiang and Liu Gu Zi who would be condemned.

By the time Lian Fang Zhou and her siblings reached the Liu family’s house, Liu Gu Zi and Madam Jiang had already received the news and came out to greet her with their grandmother, Lao Cai, and their two sons, Liu Shun and Liu An, one small and one big.
The two sons were looking out curiously.

Seeing Lian Fang Zhou’s hands full of gifts, Madam Jiang’s eyes lit up and she felt extremely proud: After all that, she was still just a little girl! Hmph, she knew that they wouldn’t dare to not bow their heads.

As if nothing had happened yesterday, Madam Jiang and Liu Gu Zi greeted them warmly with friendly smiles.
Madam Jiang even reached out to pull on Lian Fang Zhou, saying: “Oh, niece, you are so polite!”

Lian Fang Zhou didn’t even look at her, avoiding her to walk directly to Old Madam Cai.

Madam Jiang was startled but immediately turned to smile at Lian Fang Qing: “Oh, Qing’er has grown so big! She is really watery*! Auntie likes it when she sees it!”

Lian Fang Qing pouted: “We just came to see grandma! Aunt, do you really like me? I cried so sadly last year when Mother and Father died, why didn’t you come see me?”

“…” Madam Jiang stiffened, unable to keep her smile.

As soon as the four siblings appeared, Old Madam Cai had been staring at them with tearful eyes.
The expression on her face was equal parts sad and happy.
Her hands and lips were shaking slightly and her eyes did not blink, as if she was reluctant to look away from them.

Lian Fang Zhou came up to her side but before she could say ‘grandmother’, the excited Old Madam Cai pulled her into her arms and called ‘good girl’ before bursting into tears.

Lian Fang Zhou froze, she was not accustomed to such intimate contact with strangers but this old woman was so overwhelmed that she could not refuse.

Hugging Lian Fang Zhou tightly as she cried, Old Madam Cai was saying something but Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t hear the words clearly.
She could only make out that she was so sorry, that they had suffered, etc.

Old Madam Cai’s emotions quickly infected the other three and the two younger siblings couldn’t help but start crying too.
It was Ah Jian who persuaded Lian Ze to say a few words.
Holding back his tears, Lian Ze held Lian Che and Lian Fang Qing and walked over to their grandmother.

Lian Fang Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly struggled out of Madam Cai’s arms.
Smiling reluctantly, she said: “Grandmother, don’t be sad! It’s in the past, aren’t we doing well now?”

Then she called Lian Ze and the others forward to see her.

Seeing that all four of them were doing well and looked to be in good spirits, Old Madam Cai was very relieved.
She wiped her tears and whimpered: “Alright, alright, now that I can see you are okay, Grandma feels better! You are all good children, Grandma feels sorry for you! These two have no conscience—”

“Mother, how can you let my nieces and nephews stand at the door? Quickly go inside! Let’s go into the house, come in!” Madam Jiang hurriedly said, smiling.
Turning to scold her sons, she said: “What are you two still doing? Why don’t you hurry up and greet your cousins? Take them into the house, do you not have eyes!”

Liu Gu Zi also smiled: “That’s right! Go inside, go into the house!”

“You two shut up!” Old Madam Cai glared at Liu Gu Zi and Madam Jiang with a cold face.
Scolding them through gritted teeth, she said: “If it wasn’t for you two scoundrels concealing the news, I wouldn’t even know my poor daughter was gone until now! How pitiful my grandchildren were! Both of you fed your consciences to the dogs!”

Old Madam Cai scolded them until her eyes were red and she was about to cry again.

Lian Fang Zhou and Lian Ze immediately started coaxing her.

Madam Jiang lowered her head and wiped the corner of her eyes, sighing: “Yes, it’s all our fault! Mother, we were confused, we were wrong! Don’t get angry! We didn’t help our nieces and nephews, we will admit our mistake in front of you later and apologize to them.
After all, they are family.
After all, no matter how difficult things were at the time, we should not have ignored them.”

TN: *I’m not sure if I explained this earlier but watery means having a complexion where your skin looks plump and juicy like a fruit.