Seeing that the person the mistress had brought along was truly capable, and witnessing how Tieshi had been dismissed just like that, the others immediately stopped their grumbling. One by one, they became more diligent than the last, picking up the scattered goods from the ground and neatly reloading them onto the ox carts, fearing they might be the mistress's next target.
"Impressive! You’ve got the air of a true matriarch," Chu Hengyuan said, giving Aran a thumbs-up as they climbed onto the cart.
"It’s alright, I suppose. I learned it from someone, though I’m still not as formidable as that person." Aran’s "someone," of course, was the man right beside her.
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