The next morning, Xiaoxiao and Yang Ming went to the rented courtyard early. Ever since Little Qingmei’s incident, she hadn’t left the house for the entire day yesterday, and she had no idea how things had evolved.
As soon as they arrived in the courtyard, the female workers gathered around, "Did the owner hear about it?"
"Hear about what?" Xiaoxiao was puzzled. Had something big happened in the village again? She had only been inside for one day!
Her sister-in-law had been much quieter recently and hadn’t gossiped with her, so she was really out of the loop!
"It’s about Hehua. I heard her deal to become a concubine for the rich Li family fell through!"
"Isn’t that a good thing?" She wouldn’t have to marry an old man after all. Anyway, forcing a girl in the prime of her youth to marry a man as old as her father felt quite wrong!
"It was your relative who messed it up!"
Xiaoxiao instinctively glanced at her nominal husband, who seemed unsurprised. No wonder he had confidently said someone would marry her the other day. Could he be behind this?
Xiaoxiao suddenly shivered. What kind of man had she married? He seemed so dangerous!
"It was Yang Wei from your third uncle’s family! Surprising, right? No one expected the simpleton to do something so significant!"
"Cough! Cough!" Impotent? Who came up with such a talent, to pick such a name. It’s worse than calling him Yang Ergou or Yang Sangou!
"Owner, are you okay?"
Everyone thought Xiaoxiao was shocked to learn that the disrupter was a relative of her own. Little did they know she was just trying not to laugh at the name.
"Let’s all get back to work. From now on, no more chitchat in our courtyard! Any more gossiping and I’ll dock your pay." Hearing the owner say this, everyone closed their mouths and dispersed to continue their work, daring not to speak any further.
After getting everyone settled, Xiaoxiao turned to her nominal husband and said, "Yang Ming, I feel like I’ve finally made the headlines! The main character of the gossip has changed! Haha!"
"..." What headlines? His wife keeps saying new words he doesn’t understand. But she seemed very happy.
But then he saw his wife’s serious face, as if she was interrogating him, "Spill it! Did you do this?"
"..." What’s all this about?
"Is Yang Wei your emergency backup?"
"But is it really okay for you to trick your own relatives ?"
"Hehua is so pretty, even I was almost charmed by her looks!"
Yang Ming just listened to his wife talking nonstop, feeling that she must have misunderstood something again! What on earth was going through his wife’s head?
"Yang Wei has liked Hehua for many years now!"
"..." Oh! This... Xiaoxiao suddenly had great respect for the young people here. Even she, a modern person, felt inferior in matters of the heart!
Actually, Yang Ming had come to the courtyard today specifically to bring his wife and check that everything was normal. With no major issues, he needed to go up the mountain to chop firewood, so he said to Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, I’m off!"
"Yeah! How many days will it take?"
"Three or four days should do it, then we’ll have enough firewood!"
"Sounds good, be careful!"
"Yeah! Don’t worry! Maybe I’ll even catch..." He remembered, his wife didn’t like animals; better not say it.
"Oh, I want to eat noodles tonight!"
Yang Ming left this message behind as he walked away.
"..." Noodles? Why would he want to eat noodles out of the blue!