"Oh, Xiaxia, are you about to eat? Where are you off to?" Ms.Lv asked noticing Yang Chuxia’s haste.
"No, Ms. Lu, please don’t call me Xiaxia. We’re not close. It’s easier if you call me Miss Yang, thank you!" Yang Chuxia waved her hands the moment she heard Ms. Lu’s words.
"Xiaxia, you’re wrong. After all, aren’t I your second maternal aunt?" Ms. Ye shamelessly commented.
"Oh dear, mom, why are you arguing with her? Let’s quickly go home." Yang Lichun jeered impatiently, tugging at her mother’s clothes.
"Going home? Which home are you going back to?" Yang Chuxia raised her brows, asking curiously.
At this, Yang Lichun chokes, "You, it’s none of your business!"
"Hmph, if you were returning to your maternal grandmother’s house, it’s none of my concern, but if you’re heading back to Yangshu Village, then it certainly is my business."
"Little minx, don’t push us too far. We mother and daughter have not been banished from Yangshu Village, so why can’t we return?" Yang Lichun roared.
Hearing this, Yang Chuxia was taken aback, she realized that made sense. She couldn’t really stop them from doing so unless they intended to return to their old residence in Yang Family’s compound.
Seeing the mother and daughter’s wretched plight, she guessed they must be struggling in the town. They probably thought of returning after Ms.Ye’s family declined to support them.
And indeed, the situation was just as Yang Chuxia thought.
In the town, they barely managed to make ends meet by doing laundry and helping in rich households. But ever since Yang Lichun was released from jail, she had been spending all the money they earned either on handkerchiefs or on food. Unable to pay even this month’s rent, they resolved to return to the countryside.
Ms.Ye originally planned to plead with Old Yang, hoping they could return to the Yang Family, but encountering Yang Chuxia seemed to have thwarted that idea.
Ms.Ye couldn’t help but blame her daughter. If not for her, they wouldn’t be in this dismal situation.
"Want to come back to Yangshu Village? Sure, you indeed could. But don’t even think about returning to the old Yang Family house. It’s better if I don’t catch you in the vicinity of that old house or approaching my grandfather. Otherwise, I’ll only have a good smack for you both."
With that, she left them with a brazen, cold shadow and walked away.
The mother and daughter exchanged a glance. Ms.Ye’s eyes filled with helplessness, while Yang Lichun maintained her arrogant demeanor, completely disregarding Yang Chuxia’s warning. In fact, she’d spent so long in town she forgot how dangerously fierce Yang Chuxia could be.
Meanwhile, Yang Chuxia quickly reached the fields to see Yang Dachuan in a dispute with someone.
Yang Chuxia hurried to the scene, "Father, what’s happening?" At that moment, a man was about to punch Yang Dachuan’s face.
Yang Chuxia quickly picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the man’s waist, slowing his punch just long enough for Yang Dachuan to dodge it.
"Daughter, this man is trying to steal our beans." Yang Dachuan panted heavily. Exactly that, a theft. Spotting him here, the man would go on to pick beans. He shouted at the man. But it didn’t deter him. He continued collecting beans.
"Which village are you from? Don’t you know that these beans belong to my family?" Yang Chuxia glared at the man. The man brazenly replied, "I only picked a few of your beans. No need to be so stingy. There’s so much of it, what harm is there in picking a few?"
"What’s the harm? Are you saying stealing someone else’s beans is reasonable? This is our property. Have you no decency? No one can take our things without permission. If they do, they get beaten!" Yang Chuxia’s eyes widened; whoever this audacious creature was, roaming around stealing people’s beans and doing it so boldly?