When the women arrived, Da Ni'er was still showing off her plate. The dark-skinned girl walked up to Huo Xiaolong, took a piece of pastry from the plate, and fed it to her, saying indistinctly...
"I really love this. Let me tell you, the food from Jiangnan is pretty good too. Although I'm not used to the taste and the portion is a bit small, it still tastes great."
“Indeed, they’re too small. I can eat them one bite at a time,” Er Ya said to Long Er from below.
The ladies didn't find the women of the border town as vulgar as the rumors suggested; on the contrary, watching them eat made them feel quite hungry themselves.
"If Er Ya likes to eat, then eat more."
Immediately afterwards, the prefect's wife summoned a servant and instructed the kitchen to prepare more of Er Ya's favorite snacks.
The women who lived in the backyard didn't seem to have any trouble adjusting to the front yard, but the men, on the other hand, weren't exactly bad off, just a little uncomfortable.
The prefect felt as if he were surrounded by a hundred wild sparrows, chirping incessantly.
Northeasterners never let words fall on the ground, nor do they let the atmosphere become awkward, especially when a group of Northeastern women are together.
After all, there are many women in brothels.
“Let me tell you, you can’t let your daughter marry someone like that. Look at him, he’s all skin and bones. I just saw him touching the maid’s hand when he got out of the carriage,” Zhiyin said, pulling on the woman beside her.
“That’s not his maid, that’s his concubine.”
"That's even worse! Your daughter hasn't even entered the family yet and you've already arranged for her to become a concubine. Once she's in the family, won't you be trying your best to bring her home as a concubine?"
The lady gave a wry smile and said...
"Isn't that how women are? As a wife, one must be magnanimous..."
“That’s right. Look at my sister, and then look at Mrs. He. There are plenty of people with high positions and great power. See that man with the scar on his eyebrow?”
"Yes, I've seen it."
"That's Xiao Lanyi, the Grand Marshal, and the woman next to him is his wife."
"Marshal Xiao had no concubines?"
The lady then brought a plate of snacks to her friend and asked...
"My god, concubines and maids? He should be grateful he even got to marry a wife. And even if he wanted to do those things, would he dare?"
Zhiyin raised his head, gesturing for his wife to look at Huo Xiaolong.
The lady suddenly fell silent.
Ultimately, it's because she, as the mother, can't stand up for herself.
If she truly has a powerful maternal family, let alone bringing a concubine into the family, even giving her daughter a hard time would have to think about the consequences.
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