On this occasion, Ms. Liu was truly irritated, and as soon as Yang Ruoqiu’s engagement was over, she began looking for a suitable match for Yang Dongzhi.
As for Yang Dongzhi, after being frightened by Yang Chuxia, she dared not to cause any more trouble. When Ms. Liu found a family in the mountains for her, she agreed to the arrangement.
She had no choice but to agree, as people nearby were more or less aware of her kidnapping incident. They didn’t care about her innocence, they just heard about her kidnapping and became unwilling to get engaged.
It is said that her story spread even farther than Old Lady Hua’s. In Old Lady Hua’s case, only the people in the whole village were affected, and nobody went outside the village to discuss it, due to Land Officer Yang’s instructions. But with Yang Dongzhi’s situation, the search for her had already rattled several villages, and it was difficult for others not to hear about it.
With no other options, Ms. Liu had to find a distant place for the marriage.
Fortunately, this time Yang Dongzhi didn’t disagree with the arranged marriage like before. She agreed readily. Once Yang Ruoqiu’s marriage was over, she rushed to get married. But that’s a story for later.
At this moment, when the family returned to the third branch, Luo Linhao couldn’t stop looking at Yang Chuxia after she came back.
"What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen me before?"
Seeing her shout, Luo Linhao raised a thumbs-up and then shook his head, saying, "Sister-in-law, you are really ruthless. I’m genuinely worried for my cousin. If one day you find him disagreeable, would you casually just..."
As he spoke, he made a gesture of slitting his throat.
Seeing this, Yang Chuxia snorted, "I don’t know if I’ll find your cousin disagreeable in the future, but I do see you as disagreeable right now."
With that, she tried to hit the little devil, but he was quick to dodge, making her chase after him. When she finally caught him, she beat him up without saying a word. This little devil needed a beating since his mouth was too foul, even worse than Mu Shaoling’s.
"Xiaxia, it’s already April, why hasn’t Brother An come back yet?" Early in the morning, Yang Chuxia had just gotten up when she heard Ms.Wang mumbling again.
By now, twenty days had passed since Yang Ruoqiu’s engagement.
At the end of March, Ms.Wang began asking why Brother An hadn’t returned. Yang Chuxia said he might return in early April, and if not, it would be mid-April.
So Ms.Wang had been mumbling since the beginning of April. Xiaxia dared to say that even Brother An’s own mother wouldn’t have mumbled as much as Ms.Wang.
"It’ll be soon, one way or another, it’s just a few days." Yang Chuxia pinched a meat bun and said, "I reckon he’s waiting for the results of the examination there. In a few days, even if he doesn’t come back, as long as he passes the exam, someone will come to our home to announce the good news."
After some thought, she added, "You’d better prepare the reward money earlier." Then, she muttered as if she were an expert, "It’s really odd that I haven’t seen anyone else whose reward money is given by their mother-in-law."
At her words, Ms.Wang also felt strange, but she still said, "A mother-in-law is a mother too. As long as the reward money is given by a mother, it’s not strange."
In fact, the constant complaining seemed contagious. Not only did Ms.Wang keep complaining, but Yang Dachuan also started doing the same.
Meanwhile, the object of their complains was hurrying back home.
"It’s already the seventeenth, and he still hasn’t returned." One day Ms.Wang mumbled as usual and then prepared to go to the first branch with her kitchen knife.
Tomorrow Yang Ruoqiu would be married, and even though she disliked Ms. Liu, Ms.Wang had to go help since the first branch had come to help when Yang Chuxia was engaged.
"He’s back, he’s back!" Just as Ms.Wang was about to step out of the door, the little devil Luo Linhao came running back from afar, "My cousin is back, my cousin is back!"