Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 3208: Chapter 3144: An Affront to Culture

This guy’s standing here perfectly fine, and he’s "disappointed" in her?

What does she even have to do with him? Seriously, what a joke.

The man gave her another once?over, then drawled slowly, "My name is Wang Yuklin, I’m a colleague of Zeng Erran. When Zeng Erran heard I was coming back to the city, he asked me to come see you, bring you these plum blossom cakes, and also pass along a few words."

The others were a bit puzzled, but the moment Jiang Xiao heard the name Zeng Erran, she already felt like rolling her eyes.

Did it have to be this coincidental?

So, just as her dad was about to ask about this matter, this guy shows up?

She immediately said in a low, firm voice, "I don’t think that’s necessary. I don’t know this Mr. Zeng at all, so there’s no way I’m accepting any gifts from him, and I’m even less interested in hearing whatever he wants to say. Please leave."

"What kind of hospitality is that?" Wang Yuklin’s face instantly hardened, his eyes widening. The way he looked at Jiang Xiao was like he honestly couldn’t believe she could be this rude.

"I haven’t even finished talking. Besides, I already introduced myself. As the host, you should at least invite me in to sit down, make some tea for your guest. Who treats people this crudely?"

"Little..." Meng Xinian raised his brows on the side.

His hands were kind of itching—would literally tossing someone out the door count as crude?

But what the hell was up with this guy?

Zeng Erran?

Why did that name sound a bit familiar?

Like he’d heard it somewhere?

Does Jiang Xiao know this person?

"Brother Xinian, don’t listen to his bullshit. I’ll tell you all about it after he leaves."

As soon as Jiang Xiao finished, Wang Yuklin’s gaze swept over everyone present, then he said in utter disbelief, "Xiao Chiang, what’s going on with you? I heard you live alone, so why are there so many young men in your home? Don’t you know men and women are supposed to avoid suspicion? With this many people, are they all your relatives or what?"

Jiang Xiao felt like everyone around Zeng Erran was a freak.

First that mother Zeng who came before, and now this guy claiming to be Zeng Erran’s colleague too.

Her face went cold as she snapped right back, "How the hell is that any of your business?"

Wang Yuklin was so shocked by that one sentence that his eyes popped even wider. "You, you, you—you’re a Painter, a man of culture, and a woman besides, how can you, how can you say something so vulgar and uncivilized? What kind of taste does Erran have? Why would he ever pick you?!"

Well, well...

Everyone there immediately gave Jiang Xiao a strange look, then all turned in unison to stare at Meng Xinian.

Talk about unexpected.

This is their very first day of marriage!

And somebody already shows up at the door to stir up trouble?

For a moment, Jiang Xiao also just found it absurd.

She’d never been able to grasp just how many ridiculous people there still were in this world.

But reality was telling her: yep, people like this actually exist.

"Listen, Comrade Wang?the?Weirdo," Jiang Xiao’s expression and tone were both ice?cold, "seriously, I really don’t feel like beating anyone up today, so you’d better turn around, march in step, and get the hell out right now, or you’re going to find out what real vulgarity looks like."

She said it while rolling up her sleeves.

Cheng Cheng saw that things were going south and reached out to pull her back.

"What are you doing, what are you doing? With your big bro here, why would you need to throw a punch?"

Surely she wasn’t actually thinking about swinging at someone right now?

With all of them here, there was no way they’d let her be the one to lay hands on him.

"What are you people trying to do? I’m warning you, don’t think just because you’ve got numbers on your side you can do whatever you want! People should be reasonable, you hear? And let me tell you, I belong to a work unit, we’re a scientific research institute, contributing to the country. Do you understand that?"