Chapter 153: Chapter 149: Mrs. Xiao: You Can’t Tell the Joker from the King!

Songzhu felt wronged, so Wen Ran took a honey chestnut out of her pocket to make it up to him a little.

It had just rushed over, probably because it smelled the sweet aroma of the chestnuts.

Songzhu immediately came back to life, full of energy, and jumped into Wen Ran’s collar, hugging the chestnut and started munching away.

Songzhu: (munch munch munch) You tell me, two-legged beast (munch munch), how do they make these chestnuts (munch munch munch)? So fragrant (munch munch munch)~

Seeing Songzhu eating happily, Wen Ran pulled it out from her collar and placed it on the ground, “Let’s tidy up, then go to the Xiao Family for dinner, and by the way, make a complaint.”

“Okay!”

Hongguo dusted off the newspapers and neatly arranged them on the bookshelf.

Wen Ran was tidying up the bits and pieces she bought, like kitchen matches, some sugar, and so on.

But looking at the books, she remembered the few medical books she had secretly hidden.

Out of caution, she only took out two dirty ones this time.

“Hongguo, look, I brought these things for you, tidy them up and put them on the table, these things are all dust and dirt, so messy.”

“Ah ah ah~” Hongguo, holding the medical books, eyes shining with excitement, “Sister, sister! I love you to death!”

“Oh my gosh, stop jumping, you’re choking me! Hongguo!”

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After tidying, Hongguo cleaned the medical books, trimmed some book covers, and rewrapped them, then climbed onto the kang, pried open a corner brick, and carefully tucked the two books inside.

Now, it’s all set.

“Sister, I’m done.”

“Alright.”

Wen Ran glanced and silently memorized the spot.

Then she turned and took the aluminum lunch box to the Xiao Family with Hongguo to bum a dinner.

As for the leftover dishes from lunch, she didn’t bring them, letting Hetao enjoy the braised pork that the old lady had ruined. She also brought along the two untouched lion’s heads.

“Oh dear, you came and even brought things,” Mrs. Xiao said when she saw Wen Ran, smiling with wrinkles all over her face.

The more she looked, the more pleased she was.

“Aunt, this is braised pork, not much, let’s add some vegetables and have this for dinner.”

“Sure,” Mrs. Xiao accepted the braised pork, “is there anything else you’d like to eat?”

“No, just make whatever is convenient.”

Mrs. Xiao chuckled, “Alright, you wait.”

Seeing Wen Ran didn’t complain immediately, Hongguo said nothing and ran inside to find Xiao Chenxing for studying.

While Xiao Chenxing could still teach her something, she had to squeeze out his knowledge hard!

Xiao Chenxing nearly got worn out by Hongguo, good heavens, she was really too wearisome.

Dinner was cooked by Mrs. Xiao.

Potato chunks were added to the braised pork, cooked until soft and flavorful, tasting just like the braised pork, and as for the lion’s heads, the solid meatballs were cut into small pieces by Mrs. Xiao and stir-fried with vegetables and wood ear mushrooms.

Additionally, she made a big bowl of egg soup and steamed some white rice.

Mr. Xiao looked at this spread, eyes red, and sighed: “This is just me enjoying the good life, in the first half of my life, even during holidays, I couldn’t dare imagine such good stuff!”

His parents didn’t care for him, he was raised in hardship since he was little.

Fortunately, heaven wasn’t too cruel to him.

He met Lanzi and had a bunch of kids.

Mrs. Xiao’s eyes were also slightly red; she too had lived through rough times. She pushed Mr. Xiao and scolded lightly, “You’ve got a mouth you can’t shut even with food in it.”

“Hehe, I won’t say more, life is good now, everyone should stop thinking about the past.” Mr. Xiao called out, “Eat!”

With that, Mr. Xiao reminded Wen Ran, “Ranran, yesterday I took Red Army for a stroll up the mountain and caught a rabbit. Come tomorrow, we’ll have spicy rabbit cubes.”

“Alright!”

After eating and drinking her fill, Wen Ran thought about making the complaint.

“Aunt, do you know Matchmaker Zhou? I heard she’s the matchmaker of our Silly Deer Team, there’s also someone named Zhou Wei.”

In an instant, Hongguo, who was playing with Songzhu nearby, pricked up her ears.

Mrs. Xiao didn’t know why, but her heart skipped a beat, “Yes, I know, why? She looked for you?”

“Yes,” Wen Ran, always straightforward, said, “she said the engagement between our two families is off.”

Just one simple sentence, directly making Mrs. Xiao visibly furious.

She stood up with a swoosh, “What the hell is she talking about, that old biddy, spewing nonsense right out of her mouth!”

“Don’t rush,” Wen Ran pulled Mrs. Xiao back, recounting word for word what Matchmaker Zhou had said when she came to pick a fight, including what Zhou Wei said.

Sometimes, the details Wen Ran missed were thoughtfully filled in by Hongguo sitting nearby.

Mrs. Xiao was so angry she could burst a blood vessel.

The sky had darkened completely, but it didn’t deter her determination and steady pace to confront the situation head-on.

Watching her footsteps disappear into the night, Wen Ran looked on bewilderedly, while Xiao Chenxing remained calm, “No worries, let’s tidy up and go see what’s happening too.”

Ever since they grew up, it was rare to see Mrs. Xiao dealing with things again.

Today was special, worth watching closely.

Xiao Chenxing swiftly packed their stuff, got a large enamel cup, brewed some brown sugar water, filled his pockets with melon seeds, and nudged Wen Ran and Hongguo, as the three hurried over to enjoy the scene.

By the time they got there, the place was already surrounded by three layers of people.

There’s no helping it, the houses weren’t soundproof back then, once people were full, they’d pop out at any sound to see and enjoy the drama.

The three of them wanted to soak in the gossip, so they squeezed their way in.

Mrs. Xiao had already placed her hands on her hips and was scolding, “You cursed Matchmaker Zhou, two sons as bad luck charms, neither wants to marry!

Old Three has run ten thousand miles away, I only have Old Five to rely on! Finally about to get married, what do you want to do? Huh? Matchmaker Zhou, I’m asking what do you want?!”

Matchmaker Zhou, with a pale face, wanted nothing more than to die seeing everyone watching the excitement.

Since she was young, she had been a respectable figure in the Silly Deer Team, when had she ever been scolded at her door?

“Lanzi, don’t, don’t get angry,” Matchmaker Zhou didn’t care about much else, trying to drag Mrs. Xiao into the house, “Look at this mess, there must be some misunderstanding here.

Come, come, let’s talk it over inside.”

While pulling Mrs. Xiao, she also raised her voice, “Don’t watch, there must be some misunderstanding inside.”

“What’s there to misunderstand,” Mrs. Xiao flung Matchmaker Zhou’s hand away, “Don’t pull at me, just talk if you have something to say.”

Zhou Wei bit her lip and stepped out, weakly, “Aunt, is there some misunderstanding here?”

She didn’t expect Wen Ran to be so shameless, to actually go to the Xiao Family and talk about this.

Typically, when rejected and not willing to get engaged, shouldn’t one feel humiliated and refuse to speak out?

Only when things were really broken off would the girl try to give herself a fig leaf, saying it wasn’t the boy disliking her, but she scorned the boy.

But Wen Ran…

Zhou Wei was furious, inwardly cursing Wen Ran as shameless, truly desperate for a man.

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