When I woke up, it was already New Year's Eve, the most important day for farmers.

All unpleasant things and estranged people will be temporarily downplayed today.

Except for the ignorant children, almost everyone else is cautious.

From getting up early in the morning to preparing the offerings to worship ancestors at the tombs in the morning, to posting Spring Festival couplets in the afternoon, cooking New Year's Eve dinner, and even the rice cakes and candies needed to greet each other at night...

Everyone prepares everything carefully.

"Qing'er, I'm ready here. You go to the old house and see if your father and the others are okay. When they are okay, we can set off together to burn incense on the mountain."

After breakfast, Yang Huazhong was busy packing things into the basket. When he saw Yang Ruoqing idle, he entrusted the matter to her.

Yang Ruoqing nodded happily, she didn't have to go to the mountain this morning.

On the old Yang's side, my father and two younger brothers went with his large army, and on the other side of my husband's house, Tang Yazi and Blacksmith Luo went.

Her main task today is to wait until half morning to start preparing the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner, so she has a lot of free time now.

Old Yang's old house.

As soon as Yang Ruoqing arrived at the door of the house, she saw Mrs. Liu, who was equally idle like her, poking her head there.

"Fourth Aunt, if you don't go into the house, why are you standing here sneaking around?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

At this time, Mrs. Liu was sticking her butt out and pressing half of her face against the door of Yang Yongxian's house, listening.

Liu was startled when she suddenly heard Yang Ruoqing's voice coming from behind.

She quickly turned around and made a silencing gesture to Yang Ruoqing.

Then, Jihoho came over, grabbed Yang Ruoqing's arm and came to the door of the house.

"Keep your voice down, there is someone in your eldest brother's room." Ms. Liu said in a low voice.

"There are people, there are people. As for being so mysterious..."

Before Yang Ruoqing could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Ms. Liu.

"Li Xiuxin, it's Li Xiuxin who's back!" Mrs. Liu said.

"Ah?" Yang Ruoqing was also surprised at this time.

Calculating carefully, Li Xiuxin returned to her parents' home out of anger for two years.

The year before, Yang Yongxian went to Lijiacun every now and then to apologize and pick him up.

Mother Li not only refused to let go, but also asked Tan to apologize in person, otherwise it would be difficult for anyone in the old Yang family to go.

Moreover, Li Xiuxin was later sent to a relative's house in the county town, in order to deliberately prevent Yang Yongxian from seeing Li Xiuxin and make him panic.

And Li Xiuxin, as an adult, not only lacks her own thinking, but instead follows her mother's arrangements.

This incident gradually chilled Yang Yongxian's heart.

By the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Yang Yongxian no longer went to Lijia Village, nor during the Chinese New Year.

He didn't go, and Li Xiuxin didn't come back, but in the next year, Li's mother used various ways and means to

Find people in the village to spread some true and false gossip, to the effect that someone else is coming to ask for a hand in marriage and so on.

When these gossips came back to Lao Yang's house, Lao Yang was very anxious.

On the spot, Yang Yongxian was asked to go to Li's home to apologize again and bring Li Xiuxin back.

was rejected by Yang Yongxian.

Yang Yongxian's reason is that there are times in life that must be fulfilled eventually, but there are no times in life that cannot be forced.

He had to work hard.

He didn't give up what he had to fight for.

If the distance between two people is one hundred steps, he is willing to walk ninety-nine steps towards her.

But he hoped that Li Xiuxin would take the final step.

However, Li Xiuxin never gave up, and Yang Yongxian gave up completely.

It's just that out of love, he never wrote a divorce letter. He just waited for Li Xiuxin to find a more suitable family, and when the time came to ask for a divorce letter, he would officially let them go.

"It's been two years, why are you back?" Yang Ruoqing muttered.

"When did you come back?" she asked Mr. Liu in a low voice.

Mrs. Liu said: "I came back during breakfast, carrying two bundles. I guess I'm going to move them back."

Yang Ruoqing asked again: "Then do they know that I breastfeed at night?"

Mrs. Liu said: "When Li Xiuxin entered the house, Yongxian happened to be having breakfast with your grandma in the backyard. He must have known about it!"

Yang Ruoqing nodded and glanced at Yang Yongxian's closed door. There were faint voices coming from inside.

But I couldn't hear clearly. It seemed like Li Xiuxin was talking. She kept talking and almost didn't hear Yang Yongxian's voice.

"Fourth Aunt, you'd better stop listening to the wall and let them talk to themselves! Come on, let's go to the backyard together."

Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but grabbed Ms. Liu's hand and went to the backyard.

Mrs. Liu was reluctant, but she couldn't resist Yang Ruoqing's strength.

In the backyard, Lao Yangtou and Mr. Tan were both in the dining hall of the main house. Yang Yongjin and his wife, Yang Yongzhi and his wife, and Yang Huazhou were all there.

When Yang Ruoqing walked into the dining hall, her eyes immediately glanced at an Eight Immortals table in the dining hall. There were several bamboo baskets neatly placed, which were filled with firecrackers, offerings, incense paper, wine and so on.

But everyone was sitting on another table next to Lao Yangtou, and they seemed to be talking about Yang Yongxian and Li Xiuxin.

It was mainly Tan's angry voice that spoke.

"If you ask me, Mrs. Li is shameless," the old lady said.

"Young couples from other families quarreled, fought at the head of the bed, and fought at the end of the bed. I have never seen her leave like this for two years. She really doesn't take our Yongxian seriously!"

"You don't take our old Yang family seriously, why? Our old Yang family is Caiyuanmen. You can leave when you want? Come back when you want? It's not that easy!" said Tan.

Yang Yongjin said: "When it comes to my sister-in-law, we all felt that I was the one who had made her suffer."

"But then I left for two years, and our eldest brother also bowed his head again and again."

"As a younger brother, ever since I was a child, I have never seen my elder brother, who is a scholar, bend down to anyone like this. He has nothing but good things to say."

"But my sister-in-law still hasn't come back, so I'm a little dissatisfied." Yang Yongjin said.

Yang Yongzhi took the conversation and said: "Second brother, I have the same idea as you."

"You're a little better off. You spend less time in the village and most of the time in the county restaurant."

"I spend more time at home than you do, and I can see clearly that my eldest brother has been miserable for the past two years alone."

"Liu'er wants to take care of the clothes and other things for him, but he insists on washing them himself because of his dignity, but the result is that he can't wash them clean."

"Later Liu'er had no idea and begged me, and I secretly got a pair of keys to Big Brother's house."

"I go in every now and then to steal his dirty clothes and wash them. The sheets and quilts should be dried in the sun. It's really difficult for a man to live a life, and my sister-in-law doesn't feel sorry for him, eh!" Yang Yongzhi said.
Chapter completed!