Chapter 115: Tomorrow, Just Wait And See (2/2)

If even the Shi family came, then the news must be right! Those who were hoping that the Sang Family would end up celebrating for nothing gave up at this moment and had to admit: the Sang Family truly made it this time! In that instant, their feelings changed in favor of the Sang family.

The atmosphere turned even livelier. The crowd swarmed around them and dragged them into the house to have a sit as well as ask whether they knew when the public officials would arrive. Naturally, Shi Fengju would have gone through the trouble of gathering information, so he smiled and said, “They should arrive at around noon. No hurry, there’s still quite some time!”

“Good, that’s good!” The crowd felt relieved.

Shi Fengju asked Zhan Huan and a few other servants to come up before smiling at Sang Hong and Fang Shi once again, “I’m afraid the officials will be staying for lunch and there’ll easily be twenty to thirty people, so there’s much work to be done. Sang Wan and I bought vegetables, fish, and meat; they’re all in the carriage. Big brother and sister-in-law, please arrange them however you must and feel free to make use of these servants who’ll be here to help out.”

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“He’s right, they came rushing from afar to announce the good news. Surely, they must stay for lunch!” said the crowd.

Sang Hong and Fang Shi thanked Shi Fengju, before holding a discussion with the crowd to make certain of who would be lending the tables and chairs, how the tea should be readied, as well as all the other necessary preparations to be done一 all of which needed the help from the crowd. Although the tasks seemed complicated, it was quickly assigned and settled.

The number of men chatting in the main hall were many, so Sang Wan did not spend too much time there. After giving her greetings, she stood up to head to another room, accompanied by a few other ladies around her age.

Just when she rose to leave, she heard a hesitant voice call out to her, “Cousin.” Turning around to look at the direction where the sound came from, she saw Sang Rou walking in from the outside. Seeing everyone’s eyes on her, the awkward Sang Rou clenched her fist and forced herself to continue forward.

Earlier in the morning, Sang Pingliang had told Sang Rou to keep an eye on the Sang Family, telling her to report to him if anything happened. The arrival of Sang Wan and Shi Fengju was big news, so it was natural that Sang Pingliang ought to know.

In that moment, Sang Pingliang wanted to go over and get closer to Shi Fengju with the foolish hope that Shi Fengju would help him say a few words. The Sang Brothers may not have the conscience to even listen to their second uncle, but the Shi family was rich and mighty! So long as Shi Fengju helped him, he was sure that they would not dare to not give him any face!

Sang Pingliang got surer and surer at the idea but stopped just as he was about to leave to carry it out.

No! He had to hold back, else the entire plan would be ruined! It was not the time for him to appear, not when the officials had yet to arrive! When that time comes, he could take advantage of their lack of preparation! But now? Hmph! Those fair-weathered villagers would not dare disgrace themselves in their attempt to get on the good side of the two brothers. Even Li Zheng was taking sides, what about an average person?

What if, they purposely took the chance to give him trouble and ended up injuring him, wouldn’t that be bad?

While Sang Pingliang did manage to resist the urge to go over, he could not remain calm. If he was not there, who knows what information they would feed to Shi Fengju and Sang Wan? They were sure to exaggerate and ruin his reputation! That would not do, he had to quickly invite them over first!

In any case, he had never said to break off ties with Sang Wan, right? Having returned, Sang Wan surely couldn’t avoid visiting her elders, could she? As such, Sang Rou was forcefully sent out of her own will.

“Cousin,” Sang Rou forced a slight smile on her face, “my father has sent me to invite you and brother-in-law over to have a word!”

“Qie!” The crowd could not help but jeer, “Yi, why didn’t your dad come over instead of sending you?”

“Hehe, as if he’d have the face to show up here!”

“That’s right, just look at what he did!”

“His skin sure is thick for having the guts to send someone over to invite them! If I were him, I’d have shamefully shut my door and hid away!”

“Ai, how can we compare ourselves to him!”

“That’s true, hehe!”

As the crowd jeered, Sang Rou did not dare to make a sound. Her face gradually turned red and then pale as she looked pitifully towards Sang Wan.

“What, what happened?” Sang Wan was baffled, clueless of what had happened.

“Dear Ma’am, we better go inside to talk! This matter is much more exciting than a play!” The ladies voiced.

Today was a good day for celebration and Fang Shi could not be bothered to get angry, so she smiled at Sang Rou, “Go back and tell your father that our ma’am is busy! If there’s anything, he can talk to her next time! Quickly, go back now!”

While smiling, her eyes were cold, and before Sang Rou could react, a group of ladies were already “persuading” her to go home.