Taishu Huan'er kept chattering away, every word implying that she wanted to go back and see her brothers and sisters' jaws drop.
Seeing how happily she was living now, and with Taishu Xiong feeling guilty toward her, he naturally favored her more. Her brothers were all right, but her sisters were different. They looked down on her quite a bit. It was simply women's nature to speak in veiled barbs and biting sarcasm. She also knew that if they had not feared angering Taishu Xiong, and no one dared mention that scandal of hers again, those sisters would never have spared her with their tongues.
She was still young, not even twenty. She could not remain unruffled by favor or disgrace, and she cared about her pride. She did not want those sisters to laugh at her embarrassment.
Seeing that she was getting a little too carried away, Shao Pingbo had no choice but to remind her, "Keep some of those properties. Most of them are to be given away."
"..." Taishu Huan'er choked into silence and stared blankly at him. "Most of them given away?"
Shao Pingbo said, "Choose a better residence for Liu'er, give her two shops, and assign five hundred mu of good farmland to her."
Hearing that it was for Shao Liu'er, Taishu Huan'er's expression turned slightly solemn and she nodded. She knew her sister-in-law's current situation was extremely awkward. She did not dare raise any objections, nor did she have any objections to this. She nodded. "That is only proper. But you said most of them?"
The division just mentioned clearly did not amount to most of the properties.
Shao Pingbo said, "The rest cannot exactly be called gifts either. My students need to make a living too. In the future, they will all have