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Chapter 744: Chapter 749 Regretted_1
"Stop wailing," Tie Niu said with disdain. "Before the New Year, Ah Hong even asked me to send you a holiday gift, and you still treat Brother Zheng Hong like this. Aren’t you ashamed?"
Crying might look graceful for a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, but what’s the point when you’re an old granny with one foot in the grave?
Alas, even he felt sorry for himself as village chief.
Watching the old lady throwing tantrums and rolling on the ground every day, he was almost driven blind!
"After driving the person away, you have the nerve to bring up the past. Have you no shame?"
"Do they even care about shame? It’s not like they can spend it as silver."
Tan Zhenghong didn’t look back as he walked away, spoiling all of Wang Clan’s plans to change daughters-in-law.
If she continued to make a scene here, others would gossip about her, leaving her no choice but to slink away in defeat.
No, she would have to talk to Tan Zhenghong about this matter again next time.
At least Ruo Lan would take her seriously, unlike Qiao Duo’er, who was a bad influence on her son.
To the onlooking crowd, Wang Clan had just performed a free monkey show for their entertainment.
As the crowd thinned out, the Liu family finally regained some peace.
Granny Liu felt more and more regretful the more she thought about it at home; something about this whole matter didn’t sit right with her.
From beginning to end, neither Tan Zhenghong nor Qiao Duo’er showed the slightest hesitation, consistently saying the child couldn’t possibly be from the Tan Family?
Could it really be that there was something wrong with Ruo Lan?
Liu Laosan timely said, "I still think we shouldn’t have signed that document today."
After all the uproar within our close-knit community, how are we going to face each other in the future?
Feeling guilty, Granny Liu fiddled with her hair and muttered, "If that little wench Ruo Lan dares to trick me, I’ll sell her to some filthy place to let her sleep with men until she’s had enough!"
"Stop nagging about that. Go take care of Ruo Lan. She’s in no condition to fend for herself, and it won’t be good if she wakes up alone," Liu Laosan urged, emphasizing that the priority was to guarantee the safety of both the adult and child.
"I know, it’s just you who worries too much. She’s just a lowly maid; what trouble could she possibly get into?" Granny Liu said discontentedly.
But fearing the silver that was almost in her hands might slip away, she still went to take care of Ruo Lan.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was no more blood seeping out from below.
As long as there was no bleeding, the child was safe.
The child inside Ruo Lan’s belly wasn’t just a baby; it was her golden egg!
However, all this hinged on the child being Tan Zhenghong’s. At that thought, she sighed again.
If Ruo Lan was lying to her, then not only would the promised five hundred taels and ten acres be lost, but even the silver spent on her would have been wasted.
She had already spent nearly one tael of silver on chicken eggs and meat and other provisions over the past few days.
As soon as Ruo Lan woke up, Granny Liu immediately asked, "Be honest with me, whose child is this really?"
Ruo Lan said with teary eyes, "Auntie, don’t you believe me? It was Brother Zheng Hong who deceived me. He said he would marry me and take me into the Tan Family once I had his child."
"You better not be lying to me, or you’ll regret it. I’ve signed a contract with Tan Zhenghong today. As long as this child is his, he’ll marry you, make you the lady of the house, and you’ll be set for life," Granny Liu said, her mind whirling with calculations about her future life.
Once that time came, she would manage the embroidery room and rake in plenty of silver.
Ruo Lan’s expression stiffened for an instant before she quickly forced a smile, "Thank you, Auntie, for your powerful support!"
In reality, she was thinking just two words: Fool!
Her original plan had been to get into the Tan Family and then get rid of the child.
Otherwise, her secret would be discovered sooner or later!
