Rebirth of an abandoned woman

Chapter 116: The Sang Family's Tale

Fang Shi guided Sang Wan to a room nearby. Then, she excused herself to go prepare lunch to let the female guests have some time to be with Sang Wan.

The servants followed Sang Wan into the room. As instructed, they served the freshly bought melon seeds and sweets on several plates, then placed them on all the available tables for the guests to enjoy.

Outside, Zhan Huan and a few other servants unloaded the meat, vegetable, condiments and alcohol from the carriage, and the rest of the guests helped out as well. Fang Shi gave a string of instructions before getting busy herself.

The female guests were chirpier than ever as they narrated to Sang Wan the incident which happened over the past two days; of course, with a tiny bit of exaggeration.

Although Sang Wan had already heard bits and pieces of it from Sang Yufei, she remained dismayed as she listened to the guests. Second Uncle and Second Aunt, their actions were really disheartening!

"Ma'am, you haven't heard yet; Sang Pingliang refuses to acknowledge your brothers, but he still claims to be related to you! Who doesn't know what he is up to? He is just eyeing at how you are the daughter-in-law of the Shi household and is trying to dig from your place! How dare he have the face to say that! He acknowledges Ma'am but not your blood-related brothers! If he had lent any help in the first place, then fine! But that's not the case!"

"Right!"

"Yes ah!"

The crowd nodded in agreement.

Then, the crowd became hysterical when the story continued to the next day when the old couple tried to doggedly adopt Sang Yufei. The crowd mocked as if they had witnessed the scene with their very own eyes. Hearing so, Sang Wan found it funny, but also felt frustrated.

She no longer wanted to listen or talk about such embarrassment and sighed, "Us, three siblings, have grown up relying on one another and have finally achieved some success. My older brother is an honest man and my second brother will not be home often in the future. If something were to happen in this household here, I hope we can rely on you sisters to help us out! I would be immensely grateful even if it were just a simple act of helping to speak up for us!"

The crowd knew her words referred to Sang Pingliang and his wife. They all nodded their heads and smiled, "That is of course! As humans, we've conscience. There's no way we can just close our eyes and act as if nothing had happened, right? It is only right for us to speak for justice!"

Sang Wan smiled and thanked them before leading the crowd to gossip about the happenings in different households. The entire room soon became noisy again.

After an extended period of time, Fang Shi pushed opened the door while kneading her sore shoulders and laughed, "Oh look at me, I was so busy that I've ended up neglecting our Ma'am!"

"No, I wasn't of much help to you. Thank you, sister-in-law, for your hard work!" Sang Wan got up with a smile before pulling Fang Shi to a seat.

"What are you saying? How can I let our Ma'am do the work when it's already rare for you to come back?" Fang Shi smiled and added, "Liu Ya, that lass, is being kept busy outside! She has become more capable, and it's all thanks to her for keep the guests outside entertained that I've got some time to rest!"

The two looked like they had more to say to each other and the ladies excused themselves to help out outside. Those who were less sensitive and remained ended up getting pulled by the rest.

Sang Wan and Fang Shi acted modestly as they see the crowd off before returning to their seat to talk.

Fang Shi said, "I heard from my second brother that these officials will need monetary reward. We were discussing that we should give a silver to those in the lead, and five copper coins to the rest; Ma'am, you're more knowledgeable than me, do you say this arrangement is appropriate?" There was a pained look on her face when she spoke about money, and her brows creased as she continued, "Fearing that I didn't prepare enough, I prepared thirty-six packets. Say, they're only delivering news, so why the need for so many people? And we've also got to prepare lunch for them! Ai, I might have to trouble Ma'am again!"