Wen Leyu returned a day early, and she came back together with Fu Guiru and Fu Yiruo.
After getting home, Wen Leyu tossed down her luggage and said to Li Ye, "The Pudong matter has only been roughly settled. Go meet with our mother and Xiao Ruo to discuss it first. Don't spend every day being a hands-off shopkeeper. I'm going to check Little Pouch's homework."
"You've only just gotten home and haven't even caught your breath! What are you in such a hurry for? Besides, what kind of shopkeeper am I? We're family, why keep accounts with each other? You can discuss it and decide yourselves."
"Oh, no~"
Wen Leyu's brows curved as she said with a smile, "Our mother said that you still have to make the final decision on family matters. If you don't nod, none of us will feel secure.
Our mother also said that the three of us are just hired hands working for your Li family. A great ship sailing the seas relies on its helmsman. You, sir, are the one steering this family. If you say east, we absolutely won't go west."
"..."
Listening to Wen Leyu's little mouth rattle off all that nonsense, Li Ye was left with a head full of fog, unable to tell what she meant.
Usually, at home, Li Ye let Wen Leyu make the decisions on most matters. He enjoyed being free and at ease, so Wen Leyu was not wrong to call him a hands-off shopkeeper.
So now that Wen Leyu had suddenly declared, "If you say east, I absolutely won't go west," was she complaining? Or was she throwing a tantrum?
If he heard those words several decades later, Li Ye would definitely conclude that Wen Leyu was angry.
After all, once a daughter-in-law had