Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11798

Because Mrs. Sun was busy cooking, Yang Ruoqing went to the old house to check on how her grandparents' east room was being tidied up.

When she arrived at the east door of the backyard of the old Yang family's old house, she saw that the whole yard was filled with things that Tan had hung out to dry, things from the bed and wardrobe, and even the three or five long bamboo poles hanging on the yard wall were covered with them.

In addition, there were also shoes belonging to elderly people scattered all over the yard.

Old Yang squatted under the eaves by the door, holding his pipe and puffing away.

The door to the east room was open, and Tan's incessant nagging could be heard from inside. She was criticizing Old Yang. Yang Ruoqing listened for a few moments, and four and a half out of five sentences were about how Old Yang was lazy, dirty, and messy.

Yang Ruoqing could hear it, and Old Yang could naturally hear it too, but the old man looked quite happy, as if being scolded by his wife was a great honor and happiness.

"Qing'er, what brings you here?" Old Yang pulled the pipe out of his mouth and tapped it a few times on the ground beside his feet to knock out the burnt tobacco residue from the pipe.

If you don't knock out the tobacco residue, you won't be able to stuff it back in when you want to smoke again.

"Master, my mother asked me to come and see how things are going. If you're almost done, please come to the third room for tea," Yang Ruoqing said.

Old Yang nodded without responding, but quietly pointed to the east room and gave Yang Ruoqing a meaningful look.

Yang Ruoqing understood what the old man meant. He wanted her to go in and ask Tan Shi, because the old man had no say in how busy she was and didn't know the answer.

If the old man were to make the decision, he would definitely glance at the east room, wave his hand, and say, "There's nothing to be busy with. Doing housework is just making things difficult for yourself!"

Yang Ruoqing entered the east room and saw Tan Shi, who was bustling about like a little bee, her feet barely touching the ground.

Yang Ruoqing didn't come in to ask anything. She was absolutely certain that the old lady had heard what she asked Old Yang at the door, and she was deliberately ignoring her.

Since she wasn't being answered, Yang Ruoqing wasn't going to be foolish enough to ask a second time.

"Wow, Grandma, this house looks completely different after you cleaned it up! It's amazing!"

Upon hearing Yang Ruoqing's exaggerated tone, Madam Tan's previously taut face broke down. She turned to look at Yang Ruoqing and pouted in annoyance, "It's just an old house. Even if you clean it up to the bone, it's still just so-so!"

"Grandma, when Fourth Uncle and the others built the new house across the street last time, they said they might as well tear down your east room and build two new ones, but you and Grandpa both refused!"

At the time, Yang Huazhong and Yang Huaming did indeed intend to do so, but the elderly couple were not happy about it. They said that the three rooms in the east wing could not be demolished. These rooms were built when they were young, and their children were born and raised in these rooms. The rooms in the east wing have a different meaning than the other rooms.

Even when the old willow tree in the yard was cut down, Madam Tan threw a tantrum for several days.

When Tan heard Yang Ruoqing say this, she felt like she was swallowing a bitter pill, unable to express her suffering.

"I was just saying a few words casually. Nobody cares about building a new house, so what's all this fuss about!" The old lady took the feather duster in her hand, stood on tiptoe, and flicked the dust off the top of the cabinet three or five times.

However, due to her height, there was always a patch on the top of the cabinet that was against the wall that the feather duster couldn't reach. But the old lady was a clean freak and liked to nitpick, so she kept messing around with it.

Seeing the old lady's frustrating and inefficient state, Yang Ruoqing wanted to laugh, but she knew she couldn't, because laughing would offend the old lady.

Although the old lady is short, her peak height in her youth was just 1.5 meters. As she got older, her back became hunched and she shrank, and her whole body shrank. Judging from her appearance, she is less than 145 cm tall. Therefore, Mrs. Tan is particularly sensitive about her height now.

"Grandma, let me do it!" Yang Ruoqing took the feather duster directly from Tan Shi's hand and easily cleaned the top of the cabinet.

Watching Yang Ruoqing land steadily on her feet without even needing to tiptoe, Madam Tan felt a surge of envy and jealousy. But then she thought, this wasn't her enemy or a stranger, but her own granddaughter. Oh well, she was still someone she knew.

Because Yang Ruoqing helped Tan clean the top of the cabinet, Tan felt better. She glanced around the room and realized there was really nothing to do.

As for packing and making the bed, that can wait until sunset, which is still several hours away.

"Let's go, let's go to the third house at the village entrance. Old man, let's go, let's stop smoking!"

"Okay, let's go!"

The elderly couple got up together and were about to leave when Old Yang tried to lock the door to the east room, but Tan stopped him.

"There's no need to lock it. All the valuables aren't in this room. We've moved everything from inside to the yard to air out, so we don't have to worry about thieves!"

Yang Ruoqing stood aside and, upon hearing Tan's words, thought to herself that it made sense. Tan's little wooden box containing her secret stash of money should have gone to her aunt's place in town with her long ago...

Although that's what Madam Tan said, when she passed by the kitchen in the backyard, she couldn't help but call out to Zhao Liuer: "We're going to your third uncle's house at the village entrance for lunch. My room isn't locked, so you and Yongzhi can keep an eye on it for us."

Zhao Liuer and Yang Yongzhi came out of the kitchen together, with an apron tied around Yang Yongzhi's waist.

"Grandpa, Grandma, you can go to Uncle's house for dinner without worry. We'll keep an eye on the east room!" Zhao Liuer said with a smile.

Yang Yongzhi then directly instructed Da Niu Niu: "Don't go out to play later, just stay at home and keep an eye on the house for your great-grandparents."

As a result, Da Niu Niu didn't make a sound. She tossed her two little braids, turned around, and went into the main room next to the kitchen to talk to her uncle, Zhao Damao.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhao Liuer's only relative from her maternal family, Zhao Damao, also came down the mountain with Yang Yongzhi to the village to celebrate the festival and reunite with his family. When Yang Ruoqing came over earlier, Zhao Damao came out of the main room to greet her.

Upon seeing Da Niu Niu like this, Madam Tan immediately widened her eyes, her face full of surprise.

Yang Yongzhi and Zhao Liuer were also embarrassed.

Yang Ruoqing and Old Yang were not surprised by this. The child was ten years old and gradually entering her rebellious phase. She was like a completely different person from the obedient and well-behaved little girl who always answered questions and responded to whatever was called to her when she was a child.

Seeing this, Zhao Liuer was about to scold Da Niu Niu, but perhaps the pregnancy hormones made her emotions less stable than before. She was stopped by Yang Yongzhi as soon as she opened her mouth.

“She heard me, there’s no need to say anything more, she’ll do it,” Yang Yongzhi said.

Yang Ruoqing then took Tan's arm and said, "Let's go, Grandma, let's go to the village entrance!"

And just like that, a family conflict was quietly resolved.

On the way to the village entrance, we encountered many neighbors and villagers. When they saw Tan, they instinctively wanted to avoid her and didn't want to have any direct contact with the old woman.

But since Yang Ruoqing was supporting her today, these people could only force a smile and come over to greet her: "Grandma's back?"

"This group spent quite a while at Mei'er's place. The old lady is doing well; she's getting younger and younger."

"Mei'er's triplets have grown taller, haven't they? They're so adorable..."