Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 282 - 253: Heard Gossip

The vast Tang Mansion Garden, at this time, guests were dining, friends and acquaintances sat together at tables, there were also guests of a somewhat higher status for whom the host had arranged special seating.

In just one short month, Ye Shuzhen had shed many of her bad habits; now, seeing her mother in front of everyone, attracting so much attention, she embarrassedly tugged at her mother’s sleeve.

"Shuzhen, why are you pulling at Mother? Aren’t the dishes delicious? Why don’t you eat more? Eating more brings more fortune, and only then can you nourish yourself to have big, chubby grandsons."

Mrs. Lai had always followed her old habits; people from farmer families didn’t fuss over manners, and if anyone criticized her, she would retort, feeling that eating loudly made the food taste better.

"Mother, could you eat more quietly? Look, everyone is watching our table."

At their table, only Ye Shuzhen, as the daughter, could speak to Mrs. Lai that way. Mrs. Li, as the daughter-in-law, could not say anything right.

Fearing that if she spoke out against her mother-in-law, the mother-in-law might make an even more embarrassing scene at the banquet.

The five sisters from the Ye family, always ignored by Mrs. Lai, pretended not to hear, focusing on their meals and thinking to themselves, "I see nothing; what do others’ gazes have to do with me?"

After this banquet, who would recognize anyone anyway?

Their farmer family wouldn’t be invited to every banquet hosted by the wealthy.

Mrs. Lai glared at her daughter, finding her meddlesome. Was it so tiresome to be criticized even when eating?

Although she liked and aspired to join the upper-class society, to enter the circles of the wealthy, she found those fastidious guests off-putting. Seeing how some had already put down their chopsticks, not eating the delicious food, she felt that they were being too hard on themselves.

Perhaps these wealthy families were tired of the delicacies they had every day, like shark’s fin and bird’s nest, but she felt great about having meat to eat daily.

Mrs. Lai, now that her son had money, hadn’t asked him to buy shark’s fin or bird’s nest for the house—it was a waste of money, and it was better to have more meat instead.

It wasn’t that she was a miser; having lived through poverty, she couldn’t stand wastefulness. Most importantly, such expensive items were beyond their family’s means.

Perhaps another reason was that if she bought such valuable items, her daughters-in-law and granddaughters would partake in them as well, and wouldn’t that be squandering?

Ye Shuzhen, unable to persuade her mother, could only hurry up her eating.

The Ye family’s table attracted different views. Some looked towards Mrs. Li, a woman of decent appearance who didn’t use a maid to feed her son but quickly took bites of her own food while feeding her son softened meals.

Aside from Mrs. Lai’s annoying eating noises, no other faults were apparent at that table, and people didn’t find anything to complain about regarding the day’s gossip subjects, the five Ye sisters. Their every move did not provoke criticism.

With their tender, rosy complexions and youthful looks already hinting at beauty, these five girls each prettier than the last, could they really be the daughters of a farmer?

Was it because of good genetics from their parents?

Some shifted their gaze to the several-month-old baby in Mrs. Li’s arms, a plump and white child, reminiscent of babies carried by Guanyin in paintings.

While many were observing the Ye family discreetly, Mrs. Mo was also looking on from not too far away.

As the teacher of the household, she and her husband hadn’t appeared in the garden when the guests arrived; they waited in their quarters, joining the male and female guests to eat when it was time.

Mrs. Mo was not a gossipy person and didn’t send maids to eavesdrop in the courtyard.

Even this morning, the couple took the opportunity when they didn’t have to teach, to visit the newly built annex at her parental home.

After two or three months of construction, the annex built by her family was completed, and they had planted some valuable plants inside.

The courtyard featured trees from the Southern region, and the rooms had been decorated and furnished.

They had hired a Protector, who also pruned the plants and guarded the house.

They even kept a dog in the house; the couple didn’t choose to live in the annex, feeling quite content at the Tang Mansion, where they had no worries about food and accommodation, and where they received a steady monthly salary.

While dining, Mrs. Mo occasionally overheard people sitting near her quietly discussing.

They talked in fragments, and after piecing these fragments together in her mind, she realized they were discussing paintings by a little girl, which had been brought up in conversation with other Madams.