Yang Ruyu slammed the door shut with a bang and gave Yang Ruxin a disdainful look before closing it.
Yang Ruxin curled her lips and then closed her door as well.
Inside the room, the younger ones all had their eyes wide open, staring at Yang Ruxin. Although they knew their eldest sister was formidable, they had not expected her to be able to drive away their aunt so easily.
Yang Ruxin touched her nose. "Well..."
"Eldest sister, I never thought... You used to be so quiet, but now you can speak so well..." Stars seemed to twinkle in Sanni’s eyes, "But aren’t you afraid of our aunt anymore? You used to not even dare raise your head when you saw her..."
"Before, I didn’t want to stoop to her level, but now that mother has been bullied to such an extent, how can I not grow a backbone?" Yang Ruxin gave Sanni a look. "If we continue to be weak, you guys would have been torn apart and devoured by them long ago..."
"Don’t worry, from now on I will fight with you against them..." Sanni clenched her tiny fists. Although their mother was in a coma, having her big sister made her feel as though there was hope and more energy in life.
"Good, then I will teach you more. Remember, you must deal with unreasonable people in an even more unreasonable way. You should know that you can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep..."
"Pretending to be asleep?" Sanni wrinkled her brow and smacked her lips, then suddenly her eyes lit up: "I get it, with unreasonable people, talking sense to them is useless, it’s just like with milk. So you have to be even more unreasonable than they are..."
"Haha." Yang Ruxin reached out and pinched Sanni’s cheek. "You little girl, I find you’re really bright. That’s exactly it. When dealing with those who bully us, try not to babble if you can use actions; and with those who are unreasonable, you should be even more shameless than them. And when it comes to those stronger than us..."
"If we can’t beat them, we have to run." Sanni eagerly finished the sentence.
"That’s right, as they say, a gentleman’s revenge is not too late even after ten years, and a brave man doesn’t suffer immediate losses..." Yang Ruxin felt she had a worthy successor. "And oftentimes, if you can’t confront something openly, isn’t there also a covert way?" She pointed at her head, "There are often many ways to solve a problem; they can be straightforward or they can be roundabout..."
"I understand!" Sanni nodded thoughtfully.
"I do too!" Xiaosi and Xiaofeng also hurriedly raised their little hands.
"You are all so smart!" Yang Ruxin was delighted. Then she looked at Erni, who was silently smiling. "Erni, I refused auntie for you. Are you upset?"
"Eldest sister, does she think we are fools?" But Sanni curled her lip, "She was asking Erni to go there only to be her servant and vent her frustrations through labor..."
"Wow, you see right through it." Yang Ruxin smiled, but still focused on Erni, "What do you think?" After all, it was Erni’s matter, and everyone else’s opinions were their own. She wanted to hear what Erni herself had to say.
"Eldest sister, I don’t want to go either." Erni shook her head, "Sanni is right; if auntie wants to take me, she definitely has an ulterior motive." She paused, "That great-aunt’s family runs an oil mill, they don’t employ any servants, it’s just my male cousin looking after it with his two sons, and my aunt also has to work there." She lowered her head, "I’m not afraid of hard work, but I don’t want to work for her, and besides..." She didn’t finish her sentence, but the look in that male cousin’s eyes was terrifying.