"Second Aunt, let it go, there are still people in that room." Lady Chiang held back Lady He, quietly persuading her, "Don't argue with the kids, it doesn't look good. Something must be going on at the Yeye Household. I'll just do a bit more work later..."
Lady He was still mumbling, but in the end, she didn't actually chase out.
...
Lian Manman and some others were sitting on the kang doing needlework, chatting away, when they saw Lian Yeye coming back from outside.
"We were just saying how Yeye hadn't come back for ages. Yeye, come on up to the kang to warm yourself, have some water," Lady Wu Wang greeted Lian Yeye enthusiastically upon her return.
Everyone laughed, even though Lady Wu Wang commented on Lian Yeye's interest in gossip, her own curiosity was no less than Yeye's, especially about such matters.
"How did it go, did they bring her back?" Lady Zhang asked once Lian Yeye was seated on the kang.
