Chapter 173

**Tzalmon Point of View**

"No wonder..." I nodded as I glanced at Aubessee thoughtfully.

"Indeed, it must be the effect of you both getting married." I believe so too.

Since I did not yet have power to bring back Eblilis existence in this world, it is undoubtedly the fruit of our marriage that everyone remembered her again.

But why should it be now?

Couldn't it wait for a month or so until we came out of our honeymoon mood?

We only enjoyed the bliss for two mere days and we are hurrying back to Tucson again. Why? Because her newly enlightened relatives are pressing to see her and express their familial love for each other.

I want to express my familial love to Eblilis. I also want to press her, albeit into something soft with me hovering over her.

"You are pouting, Majesty." I can clearly hear the amusement in his statement. I glared at Aubessee before pulling the magazine from the slot beside me.

I leaned forward and glanced towards Eblilis completely not reconciled with the current arrangement. This is my private jet, everything is arrangement by me; then, why am I sitting so far away from Eblilis while she is surrounded by everyone, chatting away happily.

We are already going back far before than calculated time and now; she is not even sitting beside me.

This is cruel!

Although the sudden trip back was a little unexpected but I was planning to sit with her and then fondle her, tickle her, kiss her and much more all the way back to Tucson. Look what I got in the end. Forget about even touching her, it is even hard to see her without craning my neck like a woodpecker, almost close to breaking it.

"Say, what is there to talk so much? They have been together before we left and have been together since the moment we stepped on plane but their blabber did not end at all. They kept going on and on, what exactly do these women talk so much about?" I nudged Aubessee, who was sitting beside me as I continued to look at the batch of women testing their super strength of their lungs.

This particular question has been annoying me for a very long time now. It's not just here but back in my realm as well, women who gathered together have a high capacity to talk for days without any break. What's more surprising is, even if they don't eat or drink enough, their excitement while chatting doesn't lessen at all. In fact, it only increased as time passed by.

"Nothing new happened these past few days so what exactly are they -" I continued, trying hard to guess.

I have a bunch of men sitting around me but I don't have anything much to talk to them. If there is, it would not take more than ten minutes to discuss no matter how grave the topic is.

"You've only gotten married four days ago; how will you know this already? I've been married for centuries now and I still have no answer for this." Aubessee said with defeated sigh and looked at looked at my father-in-law, who, nodded in agreement.

"I don't think mother-in-law is like that. I've never seen her so talkative before." I exclaimed and gave a doubtful gaze to father-in-law.

He scowled at me when he heard my words and scoffed sarcastically. "Do you think your mother-in-law is not a woman? I still remember this one severe case. There was once when Cia was only five years old, my family along with my close relatives went on a small summer trip. The women batch got together and chatted away so much that they didn't even remember to cook, clean or at least bath. It was good that Cia and Liam has some older cousins who played with them and helped them bath and change. All through the vacation, we, men had to do all the household work and take care of kids. I and my brother were once curious about what they might be talking so we sneakily heard from the door. The whole time of ten minutes we spent on hearing, they only talked about one single trope of one single topic."

All the men around us inched close and looked at my father-in-law with an interested gaze. I was intrigued by the story too. "What is it?"

What kind of topic can lead them to talk so much for so long?

Politics?

Pollutions?

Global warming?

Human trafficking?

Some other terrible social issues?

My father-in-law raised his head and met eyes with everyone and seeing that we are so focused, he snickered and said in a mocking manner. "Imitation jewelry."

Ah?

Imitation jewelry?

"Apparently, my brother's wife bought a nice set of imitation jewelry and only after using one time, the stones came out. What's worst is, the batch of women talked about this single topic for whole day, all telling about their experiences, simple tricks to maintain jewelry, the type of jewelry they have, the matching pattern they follow, etc., etc.,"

That's... unexpected!

What's wrong with them? What's there to talk it for whole day?

If you like it, buy it; if it's broken before warrantee period, then exchange it or get it fixed. If you have a matching pattern, then good for you; what is there to talk about it so much?

I mean, I too like collecting watches. But it only takes me maximum fifteen minutes to choose and purchase it. And the deal is done, there is no nonsense to talk over it with many for days.

"Didn't the other women know how to maintain jewelry that they have to talk so much?" Eelk asked exactly what I and other recently married or unmarried men want to ask.

However, the one who answered is not father-in-law or Aubessee but Noemi's father. "They do but they still like to discuss about it with others. There's this kind of pleasure they get when they find that their tastes matches with others or if there's a trick that only they know and others don't. Mr. Eelk I've known Acacia and Aviva for quite some time now. They are my wife's good friend so let me tell you, you should absolutely not talk about hair accessories in front of Aviva. My wife once wanted to buy some hair accessories and asked Aviva to accompany her. They literally talked the whole Wikipedia about it for two days before they went out to actually purchase it. It was actually Aviva who introduced her to the abyss of hair accessories and she knows a lot about it."

I and Eelk went breathless after hearing his experience. There's something like that too?

"Guess what my wife bought then?" He asked, creating a mystery about it.

Aubessee and my father-in-law silently looked at us with a meaningful smile as if they know what Noemi's father is about to say.

"She must've bought few sacks of accessories. After such extensive research, it's possible for her to try out many things." Eelk answered confidently.

"Wrong." Noemi's father chuckled and gave us a lopsided smile. "She visited nearly thirteen shops that whole day and bought one hairband made of pearls and one butterfly style hairpin."

"What?" This time, even I gasped out in shock.

I don't think this family lacks money so why not just buy some more when she went out for whole day?

"Didn't she have money to buy more?" Gyles frowned and grumbled.

"Of course she does. Women, they like to see everything but when it comes to buying it, they only buy the most beautiful in their eyes or ones that are worthy of their money."

Unbelievable!

This is completely an eye opener to me.

"They also love to bargain. Before Noemi was born, I and my wife went to Africa for our honeymoon. There was this one market near the desert where many of their local products are sold. I don't remember what the item was but the seller said it costs nearly four hundred and fifty dirham. My wife asked him to give it for seventy dirham and when I heard the rate she proposed, I almost lost strength in my legs. I thought that the seller would gather people around to beat the hell out of us. I wanted to pulled her aside and tell her that the poor man should live too but before that, she successfully bargained and bought it for one hundred and twenty dirham. That day, I almost lost my marbles after seeing her bargaining power." Noemi's dad sighed in nostalgia.

No wonder father-in-law said the mother-in-law is in charge of all the money in his house. This is why...

How frightening!

It never crossed my mind to bargain the cost of anything I bought. I did not even see any other men bargain too when I went out to buy something.

No matter how expensive or inexpensive it was I bought it without a grunt.

"Mr. Ebernus, didn't you take your wife on a shopping spree before? You are missing out a lot of life lessons if you haven't." Noemi's dad patted my shoulder and expressed how much I'm missing out.

We did go out on shopping a couple of times but I did not find Eblilis like that.

Maybe, Eblilis is not like other women.

Yes, maybe Eblilis is straightforward and generous with her purchases.

And how wrong I was in thinking this, I understood clearly two days later.

I never thought that in the next two days, my whole opinion on women's glory and power will be changed completely.

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