However, this mother and daughter are too fanciful, marrying a girl from our Tang Family with such appearances and still thinking they can get into the Tang Family.
"As for matchmaking, you should seek out someone else. I, the young madam, am not so idle, and furthermore, with your daughter’s looks, how could she catch the eye of Young Master Tang?"
Lady Tang then glanced at the five sisters of the Ye family and said, "If it were Mrs. Li’s daughters, it might be possible for our Tang Family’s men to take a fancy to them. But with your daughters’ figures and faces. Tsk tsk!"
Ye Shiqi... Was Lady Tang courting hatred for her own family?
Ye Luoqi, the eldest sister... What is going on?
Ye Mei Qi, the second sister... Is someone trying to stir up trouble again?
Ye Xinqi, the third sister... Why am I getting shot sitting here peacefully?
Ye Fengqi, the fourth sister... Of course, we are prettier and more diligent than them, but why are you saying this in front of all these people?
Mrs. Li... It seems that something is about to happen today. These guests have come to spend money here, and it would have been fine if they had just left, but now that they’ve been provoked, what kind of look are they giving her and her daughters?
Ye Zhiwei’s wife, furious and livid, glared at Mrs. Li and her five daughters.
"Ha-ha, isn’t this Ye Luoqi? She is the one whom my second brother has sent matchmakers to propose to!"
Big Pancake Face No.1, ridiculed for being overweight and having an ordinary face, had a venomous look in her eyes as she gazed at the Ye family’s sisters’ features, wishing she could ruin their faces.
"You may not know, but several years ago my second brother sent matchmakers to propose to Ye Luoqi," Big Pancake Face No.2 said maliciously after her.
Then their mother nodded, saying that for some reason, her son had taken a fancy to Ye Luoqi. Who knew that this young girl, with some kind of witchcraft, had bewitched her son.
Reluctantly, they let the matchmakers propose, not without raising their own station, claiming that Ye Luoqi was still young, yet how was it that she, at such a tender age, could be so enchanting.
Ye Zhiwei’s wife was fat and had a big mouth. As the crowd watched her lips moving, the language she spewed seemed determined to ruin a young girl’s reputation.
"Hold your tongue! Is this a place for you to run wild?" Mrs. Li, usually with a round face, spoke with authority now.
"Ha-ha, struck a nerve, did I? Frustrated with embarrassment?" The fat lady still spitefully wanted to ruin the reputation of a girl as lovely as a flower.
The madams who had frequented this place and knew Mrs. Li and her daughters, although they did not speak up at that moment, did not agree with the woman’s words.
Ye Luoqi, slandered and defamed for no reason, was not accustomed to arguing in front of so many people and simply glared at them furiously.
Ye Fengqi felt that her young age would not affect her future reputation, so to defend her elder sister, she was the first to step forward and argue: "Lady Tang is right, isn’t she? Not that we’re narcissistic, but as you can see, we are diligent, skilled in Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting, and our looks are not inferior to others.
We are simply low-key. We outshine you, and that’s something both men and women acknowledge. As for you wanting to marry our elder sister, isn’t that just a toad lusting after a swan’s flesh?"
Ye Shiqi also added: "Your malicious actions are not new to us, we would have let it go if you tried to stop us from fighting somewhere else.
But this is our turf, and you dare to speak such words here, insulting the eyes of the madams. Not dragging you out to clean the streets is already letting you off easy!"
Seeing the two sisters rebutting, the big-faced sisters started to make a ruckus as well.
The Ye family’s sisters’ relatives, how could they stand by and watch? Maybe for their own interests, they couldn’t speak ill as that would reflect on them as well. So there were those who defended them, directing their accusations at the troublemakers.
This fine banquet turned noisy and chaotic on the women’s side.
The men who were outside enjoying themselves were still unaware of what had happened here.
People began to inquire about the situation, wondering what was going on.
As the estate’s manager, Li Zhijun received a notice and, upon arrival with his people, found that someone was causing trouble and bullying his family. So, he unceremoniously had several of the mother and daughter duo escorted out of the estate.
This whole sequence of events was over in a short while, with some still oblivious.
Young Mrs. Tang, seeing her attempt to stir up trouble had failed, naturally stayed to the side and chatted amicably with her friends as if she had not been the one to cause the commotion.
Earlier, the County Magistrate’s Wife, not wanting to take sides over some verbal altercation among the women, stayed out of it. However, after the issue was resolved, other ladies were still amicably chatting with Mrs. Li and her five daughters.