Chapter 23

The Orphan, a Fat Sheep, Too Eye-Catching

Tie Lanyan’s words stirred the pot, and everyone started to believe it.

Their gazes were now filled with disdain.

Aunt Ma was in a panic. With red eyes, she roared:

“Who is it! Who’s spreading rumors, cowardly and shameless, come out!”

Seeing her frantic state, Tie Lanyan, hiding in the shadows, was secretly pleased.

Hmph, your grandma won’t come out, see what you can do!

The old bachelor shook his head and sighed, looking disappointed:

“Aunt Ma, no matter what, you can’t deny what happened between us. You make me look bad, I’m too embarrassed to face anyone.”

The onlookers: ……

With your pockmarked face, what face do you have left?

Someone in the crowd couldn’t help but burst out laughing:

“Aunt Ma and the old bachelor are over a hundred years old combined, and they’re still having an affair. Don’t you think it’s funny?”

Aunt Ma was instantly provoked by this remark.

“You rotten person, you rotten thing, what are you blabbering about? I’ll tear your mouth apart!”

Aunt Ma wasn’t one to be bullied. She grabbed the woman’s hair and spat on her head while pulling.

“Ugh! You old slut, you did something shameful and you don’t want people to talk about it. Such a shameless person!”

Others tried to stop them and joined in the commotion, creating chaos.

“Aunt Ma, you’re not good at fighting, go for her eyes! And Aunt Wang, spitting is useless, pull her hair hard!”

A fat lady next to them was munching on melon seeds and giving random instructions, spitting everywhere.

From her tone, it seemed like she had a grudge against both women fighting.

Tie Lanyan’s eyes lit up, and she smiled and approached:

“Auntie, you’re amazing! Look how fiercely they’re fighting, their faces are all scratched up.”

The lady was delighted by the compliment and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and gave them to her:

“Little girl, you have good taste. Here, have some melon seeds!”

Tie Lanyan looked at the melon seeds in her hand and smiled.

Got the melon seeds!

Watching the drama with melon seeds to munch on, that’s the real deal!

I’ll go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow and buy some peanuts and melon seeds to put in my space, so I can have snacks whenever I want!

The scene only calmed down when Chen Jian arrived with the police.

Seeing her son return, Aunt Ma found her anchor and rushed to him, crying and complaining.

After learning the whole story, Chen Jian was furious:

“You old beggar, stop lying, I

“Mom has nothing to do with you!”

The old bachelor took out the underwear again, shamelessly waving it in his hand:

“Everyone, come and see! My step-son doesn’t acknowledge me as his stepdad, and he wants to beat me up. Everyone, judge for yourselves!”

Aunt Ma was so angry that she burst into tears.

Chen Jian, with a red face, clenched his fist and was about to punch the old bachelor.

The old bachelor dodged like a slippery eel.

The scene became chaotic again.

The police officers’ faces turned black.

They were here to handle a theft case, not to watch this bizarre spectacle.

“Stop it all! This is disgraceful, what are you doing!”

Logically, two lonely old people are both single, and it’s not a big deal if they find each other.

But this clearly wasn’t mutual, there must be some reason behind it.

No matter how Aunt Ma explained, the old bachelor insisted that he was involved with her.

He was old and poor now, living in a leaky shack, with barely enough to eat.

Now he had finally found a breakthrough, he would definitely cling to it and suck blood.

“I found this underwear, I don’t know who threw it away. Police officers, I was just talking nonsense for a moment, you won’t arrest me, right?”

Police officer: “No one has reported you, so we won’t.”

These old people were in their sixties and seventies, unless they had committed a serious crime, they wouldn’t usually be arrested, it would be a waste of food in prison.

Aunt Ma naturally wouldn’t pursue it, she just wanted to get rid of this trouble.

But her house had been robbed, where did this 50 yuan come from?

It turned out that Aunt Ma had a habit of hiding some money in the soles of her shoes, just in case.

Tie Lanyan: ……

Oops, I didn’t search her, I’ll remember that next time!

Although the old bachelor was sent away with money.

But his antics at Aunt Ma’s house were known by everyone.

It became a joke in the neighborhood, and everyone would laugh about it whenever they brought it up.

Aunt Ma was too embarrassed to go out.

Chen Jian was also distracted from work and almost got fired.

The mother and son were in a mess, and naturally, they didn’t have the energy to deal with Tie Lanyan anymore.

Tie Lanyan was relieved.

However, her relief didn’t last two days before more trouble came knocking.

“Lanyan, I have a great nephew, he’s tall and strong, and he’s in the army. He’s a perfect match for you, do you want to get to know him?”

The speaker was Aunt Wang, who had fought with Aunt Ma earlier.

It turned out that Aunt Wang had been wanting to introduce her nephew to Tie Lanyan.

She had been resentful after Aunt Ma’s family got there first, which is why she couldn’t help but lash out the other day.

Now that Aunt Ma’s family was out of the picture, she immediately went to Tie Lanyan’s house to bring this up.

“I’m still young, I’m not considering marriage for now.”

Tie Lanyan coldly refused.

These people were really shameless, her parents had only passed away recently, and they were already so eager.

Aunt Wang: “It’s okay, you can talk about it first, you can get married a year later.”

“No need, I don’t plan to get married. Even if I do, I’ll find a man to marry into my family, I won’t marry into someone else’s.”

Tie Lanyan didn’t expect her casual excuse to be taken seriously.

The next day, a casual young man came to her door and introduced himself.

“Lanyan, as long as you don’t interfere with my freedom and give me some allowance every day, I’ll agree to marry into your family.”

Tie Lanyan: ……

What, it’s never-ending, is it? Treating her like a fool?!

Tie Lanyan couldn’t take it anymore and directly picked up her ancestral iron pot to beat him.

“Get lost! With your skinny chicken physique, I wouldn’t even look at you!”

Tie Lanyan stood at her door, holding the iron pot, her face dark and she shouted:

“Everyone listen up, if anyone dares to have ideas about me, Tie Lanyan, don’t blame me for fighting back!

After all, I’m an orphan, I have nothing, only my life!

I’m not afraid of death, if I die, I’ll just go down and join my parents!”

As soon as she said that, everything around her went silent.

Even the little kid next door who was crying because his grandma beat him for stealing candy stopped crying.

Tie Lanyan stood there for a while, and no one dared to respond.

Good, it seems like the intimidation worked, no one will bother her for a while.

But this is only temporary.

Maybe others will do something similar later.

After all, she’s an orphan, a fat sheep, too eye-catching.

Tie Lanyan wasn’t afraid.

But you can’t guard against everything, day and night.

If someone gets through, it’s a hassle to deal with.

It would be great if she could go to a place where no one knew her.

That way, no one would know her background, and she could be herself, without any constraints.

But traveling was difficult in this era, a long journey required a letter of introduction, and you couldn’t stay too long.

Tie Lanyan thought and thought, there was only one possibility.

Maybe… I should go to the countryside?

After all, it’s only two years at most …two years later, I can take the exam to come back, and by then no one will be eyeing me anymore.