The old lady slumped her shoulders again when she heard this, grinding her teeth in anger.
"This Erya, I bet she learned all of this from that old mother of hers. She refuses to learn anything good and only picks up those underhanded schemes for causing trouble behind people's backs. We'd better find her a family to marry into soon, so she doesn't cause any more trouble."
She hadn't forgotten that Brother Zhou Erya had mentioned last time.
Old Master Xia frowned. "She's still a few months short of fifteen. She's a little young."
"Not young at all. Don't forget what happened last time. That girl Erya has big ambitions. She wants to marry into the county magistrate's family."
The old lady wore a look of contempt. "Hmph, she should take a good look at her own status. She actually dreams of marrying Young Master Zhou and becoming the First Young Mistress, then an Official's Wife."
"If you ask me, if she really married into a family like that, with her temperament, she'd be lucky to become a concubine."
Old Master Xia barked coldly, "Shut up! We don't do that in our family."
"Our family may not be well-off, but we're still an upstanding household. Why should we send someone to be another person's concubine and let them trample her? Wouldn't it be better to find her a solid family and let her marry in peace?"
"It's not as if I had any such intentions. Why are you snapping at me?" The old lady felt wronged.
"As for what happened today, if you ask me, Zhou Lihua's big mouth was partly to blame. Whatever the matter was, couldn't they have come inside to discuss it? We're not unreasonable people, are we?"
Old Master Xia shot her a glance. "How can