Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 187: Losing face (3)

Although Lian Ze was not as tall as Madam Qiao, he was considered tall among teenagers of the same age.
In the past two months, he had also improved his mood and lifestyle.
He practiced martial arts every day and night and his body was in better condition than before.
Now, it was more than enough to deal with Madam Qiao.

When everyone saw this, they couldn’t help but be surprised.
Seeing how furiously Madam Qiao struggled but still was not able to escape Lian Ze’s hold, and how calm and relaxed Lian Ze was, they were all a little dazed.
They didn’t dare look down on the second branch of the Lian family.

“Let me go! You don’t have your elders in your eyes! Let go of me!” Madam Qiao’s face was pale and blotchy and she panted.
As if she had found the moral high ground, she screamed: “Look at this, look at all of them! Which nephew would dare be so rude to his eldest aunt! Disobedience, this is disobedience!”

“Shut up!” Lian Ze sneered.
“If I let you hit my sister in front of me, that would be disobedience! I have never seen any elder aunt that treats her nephews and nieces so maliciously, elder aunt! Do you want us to say everything for everyone to judge?”

Madam Qiao was shocked and Lian Ze smiled coldly.
He withdrew his hand but there stood firmly with a grim expression.

Madam Qiao opened her mouth to scold him but found that she couldn’t make a sound.

Realizing this, she felt very annoyed but facing Lian Ze, she had lost her confidence.

“How long are you going to act like a mother-in-law? You have such a bad temper! Get out of here!” Lian Li finally reacted, hurriedly stepping forward to push Madam Qiao’s side, staring at her fiercely.

Lian Fang Zhou had already walked to Lian Fang Qing and Lian Che.
Seeing the embarrassment of the two little guys, she couldn’t help but sigh.
She gently embraced them and said softly, “It’s all over, don’t be afraid.”

The clear, visible red palm print of Lian Che’s face made Lian Fang Zhou feel particularly sad.

But she knew that if none of the little ones were injured in the open where it couldn’t be hidden, their uncle would definitely have some other trick and the matter would not be resolved.

She could only wrong them.

“Sister, I…” Lian Che’s heart felt warm under Lian Fang Zhou’s caring and distressed eyes.
He shook his head lightly.
He was about to say, “I’m fine, it doesn’t hurt at all!” but thinking about the situation at the moment, he suppressed these words.
Turning his face down, he only grinned at her.

Lian Fang Zhou’s heart felt a little lighter and she smiled, comforting the two in a low voice.

“Fang Zhou, your aunt has a temper.
You are all good children, please don’t mind her, ah!” Lian Li scolded Madam Qiao and then turned to Lian Fang Zhou with a kindly and guilty expression.

Compared to Madam Qiao, Lian Fang Zhou hated uncle Lian Li.

Although Madam Qiao was arrogant, domineering, and overly anxious, she didn’t try to hide it and she never pretended that she didn’t hate the siblings, letting everyone out in the open.

Unlike Lian Li.
Obviously, he hated them to death, wishing to take everything they had, now and in the past, but insisted on wearing the face of a kind-hearted, warm, and helpless elder.

He didn’t hate himself and wasn’t afraid of disgusting others!

“My uncle is serious,” Lian Fang Zhou’s eyelashes flickered and she said lightly: “What you said is that eldest aunt had no intentions and it’s only right for the elder to teach the younger generation.”

Everyone could see clearly whether Madam Qiao’s actions were unintentional or intentional.
It was natural for elders to teach juniors but when was she ever the elder to often scold younger ones?

This was said in front of so many people! Even if no one could do anything, everyone could think.

Lian Li heard Lian Fang Zhou’s sincere words but they were harsh to his ears, as he had ulterior motives.
He pretended that he couldn’t hear her sarcasm, nodding and laughing approvingly while acting guilty.
He said, “I can rest assured if you think so!”

“Fang Zhou,” Lian Li sighed again and looked at her, “speaking of which, this uncle has to take the elder position to talk about you! This uncle really wants to take care of you.
If you don’t want to, just make it clear, why hide? If you weren’t hiding, is it because you don’t have those things anymore? You, you, this is a little girl’s house, you should behave and not be so self-willed!”

He was raking down!

Not only Fang Zhou but Lian Ze also had a face cold with anger.

Do you think you can catch me by saying this? You are really not afraid of losing face! At this time, you still want to win the game.
I might as well open the skylight and speak brightly.

“Uncle,” Lian Fang Zhou looked at Lian Li with a solemn but sincere expression.
“You are right, I did deliberately avoid you!”

“You bitch! I knew you planned on harming us!” Madam Qiao immediately shrieked when she heard Lian Fang Zhou.

“You, shut up!” Lian Li turned his head and stared at her bitterly.
This stupid woman, he hated her at this moment.
She wouldn’t listen to what he said but he couldn’t beat her.

If he didn’t need her for a matter like adopting their nephews and nieces to show sincerity, he definitely would not have brought her.

Lian Fang Zhou’s expression became aggrieved and she smiled bitterly.
“Uncle, you have seen it too.
I am not an all-knowing prophet, but my aunt insists that I designed against you.
She hates us so much! How could us siblings ask for a life under her hands? Uncle, we are really scared!”

Indeed, Madam Qiao’s fervent dislike of the Lian siblings was not hidden from anyone.
If she was in charge of their food, clothing, life, it really was—

“So we dare not agree to your proposal! You are kind but we must inconvenient you and refuse.
Thinking about it, this matter is really embarrassing!” Lian Fang Zhou sighed.
“I felt so upset that I couldn’t sleep all night and went out early in the morning.
This was first to avoid and also to think carefully about how to decline your kindness without inviting people to say that we do not consider you elders in our eyes.
Who knew this would happen? If I knew, I would not have gone out!”

Madam Niu sighed.
“Okay, Fang Zhou, now things are clear! Your uncle and the others won’t have this kind of thought in the future, so just go on as you have been.
Oh, mind your aunt’s temper! Look at the seniority of an elder and don’t bother her in the future, be mature, alright?”