I'm dressed up as the timid eldest daughter, and the whole family has to listen to me!

Seeing this, Lou Wangyue quickly got up to stop Su Banxia.

"Banxia, ​​don't be angry. My mother doesn't know how to speak tactfully, and she made you feel unhappy. I'll talk to her properly later."

Seeing that her son was so interested in Su Banxia, ​​Madam Lou, who was sitting to the side, spoke up directly:

“Son, why do you care about her? Let her go if she wants to. These days, it’s hard enough for so many girls from good families to even have a meal with me, and she’s acting all high and mighty! Just because you’ve praised her, she doesn’t know her place at all!”

Madam Lou grew increasingly angry as she spoke, slamming her hand on the table and shouting sternly:

"I'm telling you this now: if you leave, you'll never set foot in our Lou family mansion again, unless I die!"

Seeing that Madam Lou was relentlessly humiliating her, Su Banxia thought, "Just because her family is rich, does she think she can talk to me like that? No matter how much money or property the Lou family has, it has nothing to do with me, and I certainly don't need to live at their beck and call."

Now that Madam Lou has pulled this stunt in front of me, I'm afraid I won't even be able to be friends with Lou Wangyue anymore.

Thinking this way, Su Banxia didn't give Madam Lou a friendly look either.

"Madam Lou, you are overthinking it. I have no intention of entering your Lou family. You don't need to worry. In the future, I will have no further involvement with Lou Wangyue. Even if your daughters-in-law line up and go to the capital, they will have nothing to do with me!"

After saying that, Su Banxia shook off Lou Wangyue's hand and strode forward.

Upon seeing this, Madam Lou clapped her hands and cheered from behind.

"Alright, alright, you're a man of principle. I hope you'll keep your word and stop bothering Wangyue in the future, so he won't be distracted by you. Now go away!"

Lou Wangyue had meant well by introducing the two people, but he never expected things to turn out this way. Now he deeply regretted his decision, which had made them meet so early, turning it into a mistake.

Lou Wangyue was also flustered. She glanced back at Madam Lou, sighed angrily, and then turned around and followed Su Banxia out of the mansion.

Seeing this, Madam Lou hurriedly called out from behind:

"Guards! Stop the young master! He is not to step out of the manor today!"

Several servants wanted to stop them, but when they thought about how the young master Lou was now paying their wages, they were in a dilemma, unsure of whose advice to take.

Lou Wangyue had already caught up with Su Banxia and arrived at the gate of the mansion.

"Banxia, ​​wait for me. I'll send you a carriage to take you back."

Su Banxia turned around and gave Lou Wangyue a cold look.

"No need, I can't afford your carriage! And don't contact me again, that will fulfill Madam Lou's wish."

After saying that, Su Banxia turned around and was about to walk outside.

Seeing this, Lou Wangyue hurriedly went up and grabbed Su Banxia's hand.

"Banxia, ​​it's my fault. I shouldn't have let you meet my mother so soon. I thought today would be a happy family dinner to welcome my mother back, but I didn't expect that my mother..."

Su Banxia flung Lou Wangyue's hand away and turned to look at him.

"Your mother is being far too presumptuous. When did I say I wanted to marry you, or that I wanted to be your concubine? How can she make up such a ridiculous story about a young woman? I, Su Banxia, ​​have never lived by depending on others. From now on, you should listen to your mother and stop contacting me."

After saying that, Su Banxia ran away quickly.

Lou Wangyue was about to give chase when she was blocked by several guards brought by Madam Lou.

"Young master, the madam requests your return to the manor."

Lou Wangyue met the gazes of the guards and could only sigh helplessly. He knew that with these guards around, he couldn't escape even if he tried.

Now, with his mother causing all this trouble, all the goodwill he had painstakingly built up in front of Su Banxia has vanished. Lou Wangyue himself doesn't know how to face Su Banxia, ​​let alone how to explain his feelings for Su Banxia to his mother. He has always wanted to marry Su Banxia as his wife.

Lou Wangyue always believed that only the title of legal wife was worthy of Su Banxia. He never thought of taking a concubine. If he married someone he didn't like, he would be annoyed by her every day. What would be the point of living like that?

Lou Wangyue returned to the mansion with several guards.

Su Banxia was furious when she left the Lou residence. She turned around and went to the market entrance to find Erzhuzi and the others, wanting to ride back with them in an oxcart.

She happened to run into Lin and Su Congxian selling their candied hawthorns along the street. Ever since that incident at the market entrance, the couple had stopped going there to sell candied hawthorns. That was for the best; Su Banxia wouldn't see them, so out of sight, out of mind. Besides, their absence meant her candied hawthorn business would indeed be much better.

Now that she had run into them here, Su Banxia was seething with anger and had nowhere to vent it, so she went straight up to look at Lin Shi.

"Third Aunt, what are you doing here selling candied hawthorns? Are you afraid of being arrested by the yamen runners?"

Lin's candied hawthorn sales were already poor today, and now that Su Banxia was coming to cause trouble for her, she was even more furious.

"What are you yelling about? If you can't speak, then speak; if you can't, then shut up! Stop spouting nonsense! Aren't you just anxious because my business is doing well?"

Su Banxia sneered.

"What good business could your family possibly have? I used the same method for making candied hawthorns a long time ago. You probably don't know this, but I've improved it. Our candied hawthorns are even better than the original method. Unlike yours, where you can't sell them all and have to sell the leftovers the next day!"

As she spoke, Su Banxia glanced at the candied hawthorn in Lin's hand and clicked her tongue twice.

"Tsk tsk, this candy's all melted, and you're still trying to fool people? You think you can fool a kid like that? What if the kid eats it and then comes back to bother you with vomiting and diarrhea!"

Su Congxian, who was standing to the side, also became restless.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Get out of here! Don't delay my business, or I'll slap you!"

Su Banxia raised an eyebrow and glanced at Su Congxian.

"Oh, Uncle, you think you're so tough now? When people came to your stall to cause trouble before, why weren't you this tough? You just pushed my aunt to take the fall, were you afraid of getting beaten up?"

Upon hearing this, Su Congxian's eyes widened, and he said angrily:

"Stop spouting nonsense! What am I afraid of? What do I have to be afraid of? I, Su Congxian, have always been upright and honest! I'm not afraid of anyone!"

Su Banxia burst out laughing upon hearing this.

"Are you really not afraid of anyone? Hey, look over there, aren't a few constables coming from behind?"