Reborn as a Landlord-Chapter 1489 - 757: Regret (Part 2)

Lady Chiang lowered her head and fell silent. Lady Zhou’s words were contradictory, and she wanted to advise but couldn’t. Because Lady Zhou was completely unreasonable. She could only listen and let Lady Zhou vent her grievances, trying her best to prevent the situation from escalating further and offending Lian Shouxin’s family even more.

"...He’s become an official, his own parents haven’t benefited from it, he’s been busy with his wife. That wife from Old Fourth, from Old Zhang family, she’s relying on herself, with that pitiful demeanor, she’ll be like that for generations. Where does the Old Zhang family get such fortune?"

"They’re benefiting from my son’s influence, she doesn’t respect me, she’s flaunting herself.... She specifically wore that outfit to intimidate me, to show me who’s boss. Maybe she’s even thinking I’d kneel down for her, kowtow to her. I spit... at her..."

At this point in her rant, Lady Zhou wanted to curse some more, but after glancing around, she barely managed to hold it in.

Lian Shouxin was her own flesh and blood, and she could say that cursing Lian Shouxin’s mother was cursing herself. She could curse herself without anyone interfering. But Lady Zhang wasn’t her child, so she didn’t have such convenience.

"...It’s all her scheming behind the scenes, otherwise Old Fourth wouldn’t be like this. Did you see, what she taught Xiao Qi to say, it wasn’t meant for Liulang to hear, nor for you guys. It was specifically meant for me to hear. She’s telling me, if I curse her again, she’ll hit me with a stick, send me to the jail. So ruthless, truly ruthless."

"And her, what fortune does she have to wear that? She’s not even afraid it’ll shorten her life..."

"Grandma." Lady Chiang noticed that even though Lady Zhou avoided further profanity, her words grew increasingly vicious, and quickly interrupted her, changing the subject, "What’s up with Grandpa, why hasn’t he spoken all this time?"

After venting a bit, Lady Zhou felt a bit relieved, and hearing Lady Chiang’s words, she turned around to look at Old Master Lian.

Since Lian Shouxin and the others left, Old Master Lian seemed absent-minded, not speaking, only sighing. While Lady Zhou cursed for some time, he had been sighing all along.

Lian Shouyi and his family sat on the stools, listened to Lady Zhou curse for quite a while but it was all empty words, at this moment they also turned their gaze towards Old Master Lian. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Don’t bother with him." Lady Zhou glanced at Old Master Lian, then turned her head back with a look of disdain.

"Dad, it’s time you set some rules and regulations. It’s like this now, and Old Fourth’s official status will only grow bigger in the future, what about us then, will we continue to live?" Lian Shouyi finally couldn’t hold back anymore, speaking to Old Master Lian.

"What do you know?" Old Master Lian suddenly raised his head, glaring at Lian Shouyi, "You accomplish nothing, ruin everything. You still dare to argue, if it weren’t for you, would this family be in this state today?"

"Why, why blame me now?" Lian Shouyi felt unjustly accused, unpleased, stood up angrily, ready to leave, but after thinking a bit, he sat back down with a sullied expression.

"Dad, that’s all in the past now. Fine, it’s all my fault, I’m a worthless person. Everything bad was because of me. That’ll make your eldest son a good person, without any fault, is that okay? ... So what do we do now?" Lian Shouyi glanced at Old Master Lian once, then angrily looked away.

"Now... what can be done now." Old Master Lian spoke as if talking to himself, "We mustn’t let history repeat itself!"

Everyone in the room was watching Old Master Lian.

Old Master Lian noticed the attention and slowly regained his composure.

"Everyone’s here, right. Then listen closely," Old Master Lian thought for a moment, his expression becoming solemn. "Today, the words Old Fourth said, you’ve all heard them. In the future, follow what Old Fourth said. Stay put at home, don’t always think about benefiting from others, don’t tempt fate. If you really commit any offense, let Old Fourth handle it as per the rules. By then, don’t expect me to plead for you."

"You’ve seen clearly, even if I plead, it won’t help." Old Master Lian said firmly.

A wave of emotion called disappointment, quickly spread throughout the room.

The first to leave were Lian Shouyi and Lady He, then Lian Jizu and Lady Chiang also quietly retreated. In the east room, only Old Master Lian and Lady Zhou were left, along with Lian Shouren who now also lived in the east room.

"Eldest..." Seeing others had left, Old Master Lian called Lian Shouren to him, the father and son sat facing each other at the edge of the kang.

"Dad regrets deeply, Dad’s intestines are turning green with regret." Old Master Lian lowered his head, his voice was dull, "If we could have subdued Old Second’s family back then, it wouldn’t be like today."

"He’s my brother, what can I say." Lian Shouren also lowered his head, making it hard for anyone to see his expression.

"Old Second is a defiant one, you can’t reason with him. There’s never been someone like him in the Old Lian Family, don’t know who he takes after. He puts self-interest first, and can turn his back on people... Those years, life was too hard. I said those words earlier, he clung onto them. Old He Family, they’re our villains, encountered villains."

"He Laoliu, he died without injustice." Old Master Lian slowly raised his head, looking into the distance, "Without him, Old Second couldn’t have gone astray. Old Second’s children, to some extent, inherited from Old He Family’s roots."

"...Both petty men and women, are hard to nurture. For marriage, one cannot be shortsighted. Our family stumbled on this issue." Old Master Lian lamented deeply.

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