After the Cao Family left Yangshu Village, Yang Chuxia diligently inquired to Land Officer Yang about what exactly had happened and who these people from the Cao Family were. Once she understood, she couldn’t help but feel contemptuous.
Their intentions were the sa as those distant relatives of the Ye Family. It seed the original relatives of the Ye Family were not good people at all, no wonder they hadn’t communicated for years.
"Auntie Fourth, I really should thank you for today!"
Having gotten the facts straight, Yang Chuxia rembered how Ms. Luo had affectionately called her ’niece’ repeatedly, appearing extrely intimate. Moreover, the things she had said were all in defense of her.
Oh my, this was the first ti the female overlord had spoken to her so amiably, let alone to express gratitude. Could it be raining red from the sky?
Ms. Luo suddenly felt sowhat embarrassed.
"Hehe, my dear niece, why be so polite? We are all family and cannot let those shaless people bully us."
Land Officer Yang coughed twice and then said, "Exactly, it should be the way of Fourth’s family. No matter what happens at ho or in the village, when it cos to outsiders, we must unite and drive them away."
After taking a puff from his old tobacco pipe, he added, "However, I suspect that the Cao Family will not settle down easily and will probably co back again."
"Let them co or not, in any case, we cannot recognize this marriage."
They were a bunch of whatnots, so eager to marry off their daughters or granddaughters to the Ye Family, just as they were in the past. Since that was the case, she was even more determined to not let them through the door. They wanted to snatch her man, courting death.
"Right, you’ve got the right idea. This marriage was rejected by your father-in-law back then. The younger generation should not go against the will of the elders on this account. The people from the Cao Family are not good folks. Didn’t they cause trouble at the Ye Family before? If it hadn’t been for Bosheng paying them off, would they have stopped their ruckus?"
Indeed, although the Cao and Ye families had stopped interacting, the Ye Family still suffered a significant loss of silver. Bosheng’s lineage was not strong in numbers, and how could they contend with the Cao Family who had so many brothers? If it hadn’t been for Land Officer Yang’s protection back then, Bosheng’s household would have been nearly plundered empty.
"Yes, Great-Uncle, I understand now. The Cao Family can’t bully now."
Having left Land Officer Yang’s house, Yang Chuxia hurried back ho. Her children had been taken ho earlier by Ms. Wang and Sister-in-law Li to sleep, and she had stayed behind to ask Land Officer Yang for more details.
"Are Lele and Yangyang asleep?" she asked softly upon climbing upstairs and seeing Li helping to fan the children with a palm-leaf fan.
To her surprise, just as she leaned over, Yangyang suddenly opened his eyes and smiled.
"Oh, my baby, are you pretending to be asleep?"
She gently touched Yangyang’s little cheek, and saw him glance at her before closing his eyes to continue sleeping.
Looking over at Lele, she noticed that the child was crying even with his eyes closed. She wasn’t sure if it was reflex tears.
And his little nose was twitching.
"Look at him, he’s so aggrieved that he’s crying in his sleep."
Li whispered, "The young master must be missing his father."
"You’re joking, Mother, he’s so young, how would he know what missing soone feels like?"
However, after a few days, Yang Chuxia began to feel that the two little boys might indeed understand so things because Ye Zi’an had to recite the Three Character Classic every day. The timing in the morning might vary, but in the afternoon it was fixed for two hours. Then Yang Chuxia noticed that every afternoon around that ti, Lele would start puckering his lips and crying.
While Yangyang did not cry, he also stopped laughing and giggling.
Yang Chuxia tried reading the Three Character Classic to them. Perhaps the tone was incorrect at first, as they cried at the beginning, but after reading it continuously for two days, they stopped crying.
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