Shrewd wife of Lin brothers

Chapter 609 I am your third uncle

　　  “That’s right, it has been such a long time since I last saw you two,” said Xu Jia as she cupped her face and looked at her sisters-in-law who were looking at her very carefully, as to make not a single slip up. But who was she? She was the young miss of the Xu family, who were known for their scholarly background, there was no way these two will be able to escape from her. ” If I knew that you two were staying here, I would have come to see you a lot sooner.” 

Madam Zhu sensed the hard ball that was being thrown her way and she immediately tried to dodge it, as she placed her fan against her mouth as she tittered lightly and said, ” What? Staying here for long? Oh no, how is that possible? There is no way right? I can assure you that nothing like that has happened.. we just came here, a few weeks ago.” 

” Is that so?”Madam Xu tittered back as she tilted her head and peeked inside the two rooms as her dark starry eyes narrowed and she said, ” But you look very familiar with everything and from the looks of it, you seem to have been staying here for a long—— while coming here, I noticed a big house being built not far away from here, and if I am not wrong, that structure seems quite similar to your house, sister Huo.” 

Madam Huo blinked her eyes in a daze as she played with her son in her arms and smiled lightly, as she spoke somewhat airily, ” Is that so, I have no idea about it, I have been staying here in this room for some time.” 

” How long is that sometime? A year? A two? Or maybe you have been here for a total of three years… maybe when you said that you were going to the capital and settle there, it was a lie, wasn’t it?” 

” Of course not, I was staying in the capital… I just came here three months ago——” Madam Huo trailed off as her ditsy self realised that she has made a mistake. Even madam Zhu slapped her forehead knowing that they were in a trouble now—— once their mother-in-law finds out that they have hidden Su Wan for six months, she will surely kick their husbands’ butts. 

Though she was annoyed by her husband, Madam Zhu didn’t want him to be punished, so she looked at madam Xu who was smiling like a cat who has licked all the cream off the milk and said, ” Jia Jia, please don’t tell mother about our involvement in this matter… if mother finds out that our husbands were involved in hiding Wan Wan’s existence from her, she will skin them alive.” 

” Oh she will not just skin them alive,” said Madam Huo with a sort of mystic voice as she looked at Madam Xu. ” she will rake their bones and flesh, and sell them in the black market for being unfilial to her, I don’t want to be a widow yet… I mean pastel colours do not suit me, do they?” 

Madam Zhu: “…” 

Madam Xu: “…” 

So that is your concern huh? 

On the other hand, Grandam Shen who was the star of tonight’s show, couldn’t fight her way inside the crowd and could only whack her walking stick on the legs of her grandsons but she didn’t dare to be too hard on them given they were still her little darlings. She jumped around angrily like a tiny tot she was and then stomped her feet as she looked at her grandsons who wouldn’t let her in and were surrounding her granddaughter like that —— the reason they were all here was because of her and her old man, how dare they be so negligent towards her? 

” You idiots! You are here because of me, get out of my way and let me have a look at my granddaughter! You all better get out of my way, or I will throw you all out! I am not lying, I will really throw you out and then revoke the name of ‘Shen’ from you all, you out of my way!” 

The brothers didn’t care about her, because they knew that Grandma Shen was just bluffing, she has given them the same threat when she wanted to eat walnut cakes and couldn’t get one.  Her childish attitude was something they were all used to, so they didn’t even think about getting out of her way and paving a path for knowing that they will be Shen even if they don’t. 

Inside the circle, Shen Tian patted his jacket and couldn’t find anything, when his gaze fell on the mutton jade ring that he got from the Emperor for treating his son, and took it off without a care in the world and offered it to Su  Wan with a smile, ” My dear Wan Wan, I came in hurry, blame your two stupid uncles for not telling me about you sooner, that was why I didn’t have much time to grab a decent gift for you…. And it was too late for me to barge in the shops as well, since I cannot buy lack lustred gifts for you, I will give you this mutton jade. Don’t look down on it, I got it from the imperial family’s treasury, it’s not much but I promise that I will get you much better things in the future.” 

If the Emperor knew that Shen Tian actually called one of his finest jade ‘ not much’ who knows how many litres of blood he might cough out in one go. Not even in his wildest dreams would he have thought that Shen Tian would use his gift as a small trinket to butter up his niece! Was there any respect left for him in the heart of his subjects or not?

Lin Yan who had just come out of the kitchen after listening to the hustle and bustle felt his lips twitch …. A mutton jade was a simple something huh? The world of the rich was surely crazy. 

Once Shen Tian gifted something to Su Wan, the cousin brothers also didn’t want to stay behind but just as they looked down at their pockets they realised that they didn’t have anything on them! That was worthy of to be given to their sister!

Their brand new clothes made from the finest silk and all the jewellery that they were wearing: “…” what are we then? Potatoes or lady fingers?