Chapter 325 - Chapter 325: Chapter 333: Unable to Hide (1/2)

Chapter 325: Chapter 333: Unable to Hide

“What’s the use of regretting now? You know what Fourth child is like, and yet you keep making trouble. When the affection is gone, and our son no longer wants to deal with you, you’ll know what regret truly is,” Old Man Han said, somewhat annoyed. After a while, seeing Mrs. Yang’s increasingly regretful expression and thinking that it was indeed not right to ignore those two girls—since everyone knew it was they who had brought them into the city—if something happened to them, it would not be easy to explain away.

“You caused this mess, and since Fourth child won’t deal with it, and it’s already late today, take out some food and let Eldest Daughter-in-law find an inn in the city for them to stay in. Tomorrow, hire a horse carriage to take them back,” Old Man Han said, taking a puff of his smoking pipe.

These days, money isn’t worth much, and everyone prefers to trade with food. This trip to the prefecture, they had planned on buying some things, and so had prepared some food. They hadn’t expected to use it on the very first day. Old Man Han was certainly pained by this turn of events, but the mess that the old lady had caused had to be cleaned up.

Old Man Han was seeing things more and more clearly now. Fourth child loved his Fourth Daughter-in-law, who was a good woman too. Not to mention the things the old lady had done in the past, he absolutely could not allow her to continue making these thoughtless mistakes. Otherwise, as the affection dwindled bit by bit, their promising youngest son would drift further and further away.

“We’ll have to go to the car dealership to hire a carriage, which will cost a lot of food. Fourth child ‘s family has a horse carriage; just have the servants handle it,” Mrs. Yang’s voice grew softer as she spoke, probably already knowing that this suggestion was not feasible. Fourth child, because of what the Third Daughter-in-law had done, detested the people from Wang family, to say nothing of Jiang Chunlan, who had once wronged his Fourth Daughter-in-law. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so dismissive of his own birth mother, leaving people out in the cold during the winter. Mrs. Yang didn’t dare bring this up earlier, fearing it would anger her son.

“If you’re worried about the food, you shouldn’t have brought them here. What’s the point of discussing all these needless things now? Anyway, I’ve already given you my advice, so do as you see fit!” Old Man Han said sternly, rapping his smoking pipe twice. He knew that if he spoke up, Fourth child would most likely give him, his own father, some face and send the people back. His reason for not suggesting this was to instill a lesson in his increasingly thoughtless wife; only by feeling the consequences would she remember and avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

Seeing how her husband was, Mrs. Yang knew there was no other way. It was so late, and it wouldn’t do to delay any further. She hurried over to Eldest Son’s place, thankful that they lived in the same courtyard, or else she might have had trouble finding her way without someone to guide her. Originally, two servant girls were there to serve her, but Mrs. Yang didn’t want them to overhear their conversation and feel uncomfortable, so she had sent them away in advance.

Han Hu was a decent man. Although he despised Jiang Chunlan and Wang Fangru, his mother was right—they were responsible for bringing them here, and they couldn’t just leave them outside to fend for themselves. Even if they couldn’t be let in, at the very least, they should be sent back home.

Mrs. Liu, listening beside them, pursed her lips. She understood the shameless motives of those women. If they were left to freeze to death, it would be cleaner that way. However, Mrs. Liu kept these thoughts to herself and didn’t voice them in front of her husband and in-laws. It was rare to be in the prefecture for the New Year, and she didn’t want to stir up trouble.

“Alright, Mother, leave it to me to take care of this. You head back and rest,” Han Hu said as he asked Mrs. Liu for food. Although carrying a big sack of food was inconvenient, that’s what everyone recognized as valuable now.

As for being sent to run errands, Mrs. Liu just grumbled inwardly. Wanting food was out of the question, not to mention that she knew very well that the parents-in-law had also brought quite a bit of food with them. Food, unlike silver, simply couldn’t be hidden away.