Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11829

"Second sister-in-law, you can't say things carelessly, and you can't use words recklessly. If this gets out, your second daughter's reputation will be completely ruined!" Yang Ruoqing said.

Wang Cuilian nodded repeatedly, her face full of horror. "Qing'er is right. Eighth Sister, don't talk nonsense. I think Er Yatou is a good girl with her own ideas. She would never do such a ridiculous thing."

Cao Bamei was stunned. "Did I...did I say something?"

At this moment, Yang Yongjin, who was standing to the side, banged on the table in frustration and scolded Cao Bamei: "You can't even say what I asked you to say. You should just shut up and let me say it."

Cao Bamei looked aggrieved. "You tell me, you tell me! I've been telling you for ages!"

Yang Yongjin said, "Uncle Luo, Aunt Cuilian, Qing'er, Er Yatou did something wrong and made my husband and me furious, but the child's character is what it is. No matter how wrong she is, she would never do something so outrageous. Her sister and Li Wei's ridiculous deeds are right there in front of us. She would never follow in their footsteps."

Xiu Xiu and Li Wei were together before their marriage, and she became pregnant. This made Yang Yongjin and Cao Bamei lose their confidence in opposing the marriage, leaving them with a weakness and vulnerability.

“My second daughter is in love with Si Xi, that boy from Lai Wang’s family in our village. We’ve been busy with Xiu Xiu’s wedding lately, but this brat has gone straight to her mother and said that she doesn’t want her family to arrange her marriage; she wants to decide for herself.”

"When her mother heard this, she asked her if she had a lover. But she didn't even blush or skip a beat and said that she wanted to marry Sixi!"

"Marry Sixi?" Yang Ruoqing turned to look at Cao Bamei, who covered her face and shook her head gently: "It's too shameful. I really don't know what's so good about Sixi. He has no official rank, he didn't join the army, he has many brothers, he lives a frugal life, and he doesn't even have the capital to do business."

"The worst part is that Sixi's mother is a shrew in the village. She can do whatever she wants just because she gave birth to four sons. I've argued with her at least five times while washing clothes at the pond at the village entrance!"

"The thought of becoming in-laws with a family like that makes me want to die!" Cao Bamei said, her voice heavy with frustration, as if a dark cloud was hanging over her head, ready to fall at any moment. Yang Yongjin, sitting on the stool beside her, wasn't much better off. He said, "Si Xi's father isn't much better either. When he's drunk, he likes to beat Si Xi's mother. All of Si Xi's father's brothers beat their wives. Maybe it's a common practice among men in their family to beat their wives! How can I let Er Ya jump into a fire pit?"

Luo the blacksmith nodded, and after a long silence, he said, "I understand Yongjin's concern. Sixi's ancestors liked to beat their wives. Sixi's great-grandmother was beaten to the point of drowning by his great-grandfather."

At that time, Luo the blacksmith and his friends were about the same age as Yang Yongjin and his friends. The woman had been drowning for several days and they hadn't been able to find her. Later, they hired someone to perform a ritual by the river. They carried her clothes along the riverbank and called her name. Then they saw a swollen, human-shaped thing slowly float up from under the water plants. It was covered with leeches and was so swollen that it was no longer human.

They were carried ashore and placed on a door panel. Their bodies were so inflated that it was as if they had been inflated. You could poke a hole in them with a finger and water would flow out. The water was fishy and smelly, an indescribable stench, even worse than that of dead pigs, dogs, and rats.

At that time, Luo the blacksmith was one of the group of men in the village who were full of yang energy and went to help with the retrieval and carry the body back to the village. She still remembers the memory of that time. It was a truly tragic and frightening scene.

Hearing Luo the blacksmith's words seemed to evoke some memories for Wang Cuilian, because at that time, she had just married into Changping Village.

“Logically speaking, given the family tradition, the descendants may have picked up some of their ancestors’ habits,” Wang Cuilian said. “However, nothing is certain. Even a bad vine can produce a good fruit. The key is to look at Sixi’s character.”

Yang Ruoqing agreed with Wang Cuilian's statement, "Although children's habits are easily influenced by their parents and family environment, they don't necessarily have to completely imitate their elders' behavior." "There are too many examples of this to list them all. It mainly depends on what kind of person Sixi is. This child… I haven't really paid attention to him, I don't know his character. Second brother, second sister-in-law, have you noticed him?"

Yang Yongjin waved his hand: "I've been managing restaurants all year round, how could I possibly pay attention to those things?"

It's understandable that Yang Yongjin never paid attention to a younger generation like Sixi.

So everyone turned their attention to Cao Bamei, who frowned and said with disgust, "I've never gotten along with his mother. I definitely don't want to see any of her children, so how can I go back and keep an eye on Sixi?"

After saying that, Cao Bamei paused for a moment and then said, "However, in my memory, when Si Xi was a child, he didn't get along with my second daughter for a while. Later, the two of them got into a fight in the threshing ground. After that, Si Xi seemed to become my second daughter's little follower, always following behind her like a little wife."

“I remember back then, some of the older women in the village were joking around, saying that our two families should get married. I got angry when I heard that, and when Sixi’s mother heard that, she was even more furious. When she saw her Sixi following behind my Erya, she grabbed her ear and dragged her home for a good beating.”

“Let’s not talk about the past,” Yang Ruoqing said. “Since Er Ya has said so, it’s not very effective for you parents to just refuse directly. If you push her too far, she might do something extreme.”

“We didn’t agree with Xiuxiu and Li Wei before. Xiuxiu even threatened to kill herself, and we were scared, so we compromised,” Yang Yongjin said.

“This time, we will not back down with Er Yatou. As long as we don’t compromise, she will be the one to compromise!” Yang Yongjin added.

Cao Bamei wanted to nod, but hesitated and looked at Yang Yongjin: "Her father, Er Yatou's personality is different from Xiu Xiu's. You have to think it through. This girl has been self-aware since she was little. She usually keeps quiet. This kind of personality is the most worrying."

But Xiuxiu is different; she wears her heart on her sleeve, crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide.

Yang Ruoqing agreed with Cao Bamei's concerns and said to Yang Yongjin, "My suggestion is that you two ask Er Yatou again, ask them when they started having those feelings for each other, whether it was genuine or just childish joking."

"Also, tell Er Ya about the family traditions of Sixi's family, and let her consider it carefully. Marriage is a lifelong matter."

"Sigh!" Yang Yongjin sighed, without refuting, which meant he had taken Yang Ruoqing's advice to heart.

Yang Ruoqing then turned to Cao Bamei and said, "You should also put aside your prejudice against Sixi Niang for the time being. To put it bluntly, your prejudice is just a trivial matter between country women, not a family feud or national hatred. It will be fine once it's been talked out."

"When you have time, go to the village and ask more about Sixi, pay attention to his behavior and conduct, and see what kind of character he is."

"Let's not rush to break up this couple; let's find out more before making a decision!"