After that, he left without looking back.
Ren Yaoting stared at her back closely, his lower lip turning a little white from being bitten by himself.
After the strangers left, Liao sat down and spoke, "I remember my uncle once righteously accused my Ren family of not dividing the family?"
"What do you mean, sister-in-law?" Old Master Ren frowned in surprise, a little confused as to why Liao brought up the old matter again.
Liao sneered, "Since there's no splitting up, how come we in the East Mansion didn't know about such a big thing as the Han and Ren families getting married? And I heard the Ren family is even going to run a salt farm together with the Han family? Huh, is it true that when good things happen, it's just your West Mansion's business?"
Hearing this, Old Master Ren shook his head helplessly. "I wrote to inform my second brother about the salt works, and he agreed. Since the first and second branches haven't split up, whatever benefits the Ren family gains will be shared by both branches. Your sister-in-law's words are truly unreasonable. As for the marriage between the Ren and Han families, both families have their own plans, and nothing has been finalized yet."
Liao was a little unhappy after hearing this: "I'm being unreasonable? Well, in that case, we in the East Mansion also have girls of marriageable age. Since you insist on the East and West being one family, it doesn't matter whether she marries someone from the East Mansion or the West Mansion. Let the girl from the East Mansion marry."
Liao glanced at Qiu and said, "Back then, your eldest sister got a good marriage with the Gu family, and later your second sister married into the Yan family in the capital. But our eldest grandson from the East Palace married into such a poor family. That girl is quite lucky. If it weren't for the series of disasters that happened to her family before she even got married, I would have been kept in the dark. I don't need you to explain anything to me about this matter, but the West Palace must give us the opportunity to marry into the Han family."
Mrs. Qiu had been holding it in for a long time, but after hearing this, she was so angry that her liver hurt. She couldn't help but say, "When we arranged to marry into the Gu family, were there any girls of marriageable age in the West Mansion? Could it be that the second young master of the Gu family was made to wait seven years before getting married? As for the marriage with the Yan family, didn't my second brother send a letter back and beg me to give Yaoqin to someone else as a concubine? My second brother and Shixu have been living smoothly in the capital in the past few years. Isn't it because of the help of the Yan family? And before we decided on Yilin's marriage, we also consulted my second brother and you. Why didn't you stand up and object? Before the Liu family got into trouble, who could have predicted that the Liu family's girls would have such a fate? Sister-in-law, you have to have a reason to be wronged."
Liao curled her lips when she heard this. She was unwilling to be left speechless by Qiu's rebuttal, but she couldn't think of anything to refute for the time being.
Mr. Ren was well aware of the temperaments of these two people and knew that he couldn't let them quarrel any longer, otherwise it would never end. So he stepped forward to smooth things over: "Okay, each of you say one less word."
He said seriously, "The marriage between the Han and Ren families was first proposed by the Han family. Old Master Han and his wife had their eyes on Yaohua from the beginning. And only Yaohua and Yaoyin are the most suitable age for the young master of the Han family. As for Yaoting's marriage, I will keep it in mind and will not let her down when the time comes. They are all girls from the Ren family, and I will not favor one over the other."
Liao came over today because she overheard the maids in her granddaughter's courtyard last night discussing the marriages of the young masters and young ladies of the East and West Mansions. They said all the good marriages were going to the West Mansion, suggesting that while the West Mansion would eat meat, the East Mansion might not even have soup. Furthermore, they were talking about how wealthy the Han family was, and how outstanding the Han young master was. There were clearly suitable girls in the East Mansion, but the West Mansion was going ahead with the engagement without even asking.
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