It's late, and Luo asks what's going on. He's worried about what old lady tang will say to his grandfather, because she's uninterested in him. He pretends to be honest, but everyone said he's very kind to him, and that he recently hired thugs to beat him up just to drag him here. Everyone said he was very kind of him, so he pretends not to be worried, but he really is. He tells us that he doesn't want to tell his grandfather and grandmother, because they'll be angry at him for being so kind to them. Lin yi says that he thinks Luo isn't so emotionless as he thought he was, but that he must have been afraid that outsiders would disapprove of his love for a girl who's not yet old enough to be married. He says that if outsiders heard that, then the gossip would sprout like mushrooms, after the rain, but not 16 to 17 years old, the legal age to get married. The important thing, he says, is that shiyu tang has not contacted her family for a long time, since she fell out with her family and married abroad. She hasn't heard from them in a long while, so perhaps the tang family tidied up all of the loose