"Stop talking nonsense, it's just disgusting," Lai Zi said with his usual sharp tongue. "Hurry up and go back to where you came from, or don't blame me for inviting you to the county for a few cups of tea."
This blatant threat infuriated Chief Huang.
The clan chief's wife stared at Lai Zi with a sinister look, her eyes like they were filled with poison. Coupled with the scratches on her face that had not yet faded, she looked especially terrifying.
“Lai Zi,” the Huang clan chief’s smile vanished, “do you have to be so ruthless, not even giving your uncle a shred of face?”
He was really angry.
The whole family dressed up to help; we don't expect any gratitude from him, but there's no need to be so disrespectful.
He's just a lowly yamen runner, yet he really thinks he's someone important.
"What," Lai Zi said, his eyes slightly closed, "you have a problem with that?"
“I wouldn’t dare,” Chief Huang grunted. “It was just a kind offer. Since you don’t appreciate it, let’s not bother you here. Let’s go home.”
After saying this, Chief Huang turned and left without pausing.
In the end, he didn't dare to break ties with Lai Zi.
Everyone says that county magistrates ruin families and prefectural magistrates exterminate entire clans, but local clerks are even more troublesome than them.
This group of people are locals, and they have been operating for so many years. Their various forces are intertwined, so it couldn't be easier for them to deal with a retired clan chief who has no power and is unpopular.
Lai Zi kept staring at the backs of the crowd until they disappeared from his sight, only then did he feel relieved.
"What time is it? How much longer until the auspicious time?"
"There's only the time it takes for an incense stick to burn left," the matchmaker glanced nervously at Lai Zi and asked cautiously, "Sir, the other officials haven't returned yet, what should we do?"
"You two wait here, I'll go get help." After saying that, he disappeared like a gust of wind.
From another direction, once the widow Qian's house was out of sight, Huang's wife dared to vent her dissatisfaction, "That wolf cub, he's impossible to tame. We all rushed over to help, and he doesn't even appreciate it. I told you not to come, but you wouldn't listen, and now look what happened..."
“Shut up,” Chief Huang said with a gloomy face. “If you weren’t so useless, unable to even win people’s hearts, I wouldn’t have to suffer these insults.”
He had complained about his wife's stupidity and lack of intelligence more than once, but never before had he felt such hatred as he did today.
If she hadn't been so reluctant to part with the family's food, he wouldn't be facing all this trouble now. If it weren't for the shame he couldn't bear, he would have divorced this woman long ago.
“Husband,” the clan chief’s wife said, losing face after being scolded, “Our son and daughter-in-law are here, can’t you give me any face?”
As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.
Lately, life has become increasingly difficult. She gets scolded at the drop of a hat, and all the dignity she has painstakingly maintained over the years has vanished.
Don't think she doesn't know that all her daughters-in-law are waiting to see her make a fool of herself; none of them are behaving themselves. It's not a good time to take action right now. Just wait, these sluts will get what's coming to them sooner or later.
"Crying again," Chief Huang said angrily. "An old woman of your age, always wiping away tears, aren't you ashamed?"
I thought it would be like when I was young, when I would feel heartbroken if my eyes turned red?
This old woman is becoming increasingly unreliable; ever since she fought with Liao Chunhua, she's become quite eccentric.
Not only does she always have a gloomy face, but she also cries at the drop of a hat. She has no dignity at all, and it's annoying to see her.
Even a smile would have been enough to ease my annoyance.
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