"I used to think you were simply shy and not good at speaking, but it turns out you’re not as simple as you appear to be, and you talk quite skillfully..." Yang Ruxin walked up and stood in front of Dongshi, "You even know how to use public opinion to pressure me... then don’t you know that I don’t care about rumors and gossip at all?" She paused, "Aren’t you aware of that person from Wang Sheng’s family who got beaten up before?"
Yang Dongshi’s reaction at this moment was the same as always: head down, not saying a word, appearing timid and deflated.
Yang Ruxin stopped paying attention to her and instead went over to pull Erya up, patting her head: "Stop crying now."
Erya really did try to hold back her tears, but she was still hiccupping uncontrollably.
"Do you know why your big sister wants you to go back?" Yang Ruxin looked at Erya.
Erya nodded: "I have a dad and mom, I can’t follow big cousin sister..."
"Um-hmm," Yang Ruxin nodded, then stood up to look at Yang Dongshi, "Dong Hongmei, I’d be willing to take your daughter, but that would mean she’d have to sever ties with you and the Yang Family. Then I could adopt her..."
"You..." Dongshi suddenly lifted her eyes, but quickly cast them down again, clearly unwilling and incapable of making such a decision.
"Since you can’t do it, then stop causing trouble," Yang Ruxin narrowed her eyes slightly, "This is the last time I’ll indulge your little schemes. If there’s a next time, don’t blame me for being ruthless..."
Yang Dongshi was so frightened that she took a step back.
Yang Ruxin patted Erya’s head again: "Go back with your mom, and if anything happens, come find your big cousin sister..."
Erya obediently nodded and then walked toward Yang Dongshi.
Yang Dongshi didn’t dare to say another word at this point, taking Erya and running off, not even caring that her steps were too big for the child to keep up.
Xun Hui watched Erya staggering as she walked and couldn’t help but take a few steps after her, but ultimately stopped and sighed.
"Let’s go back to make lunch," Yang Ruxin said, acting as if she didn’t see Xun Hui’s reaction, and turned to walk back, "Aunt Feng, I’m making noodles in spicy meat sauce today, so no need to cook, come over and eat with us later..."
"Alright," the Feng Family replied without hesitation, nodding, "Then I’ll come over and help you later."
However, inside the old Yang Family house, the mood was gloomy and dismal.
Yang Anshi looked at her two sons, alternating between crying and cursing. She cursed the heavens for being blind, wondering how her good sons ended up like this, cursed the widow Lv for being a curse, cursed Feng Caie for being heartless, and cursed Dongshi for being a harbinger of bad luck. Yang Ruxin was naturally not spared and was lambasted by Yang Anshi as an absolutely despicable person... and she even found time to curse a stray dog that had wandered into the village...
In essence, everyone was to blame except for her two misbehaving sons.
"That’s enough, mom, stop cursing," Yang Baichuan couldn’t take it anymore and couldn’t help but shout from the opposite side of the kang bed, "What’s the use of cursing heaven and earth? I was ruined by your fourth son, he’s the one who is ruthless. I’m already ruined..."
Yang Anshi immediately became silent, caught between the love for her two sons, both of whom she cherished.
Yang Baifu felt a pang of guilt in his own room and said nothing. Given his future inability to carry on the family line, he might as well let him vent his anger.
But Yang Baichuan seemed to have opened the floodgates of grievance, once he started shouting he couldn’t stop: "Dad, mom, that Yang Baifu is a brute, a brute... he deserves not to have a son, he deserves to die without an heir..."