Siheyuan: Domineering life

the next day.

Yang Jun went for a walk around the neighboring Jiuyuan and spotted Sun Zhaocai kneeling at his front door from afar.

He knelt there shivering from the cold. It had snowed all night, and he was covered in a layer of snow. His eyebrows, nostrils, and eyelids were covered in frost, and his bottom was completely covered by snow.

This guy seems to have sincerely repented. He actually knelt in the snow all night and is now covered in blue-purple frostbite. His body is swaying precariously in the cold wind. It's only thanks to his thick layer of fat that he has managed to hold on until now. If it were anyone else, they would have frozen to death long ago.

Seeing Sun Zhaocai in this state, Yang Jun felt very sorry for him. He had already regarded Sun Zhaocai as his own son and nephew, and treated him as his own child. Now that he saw him suffering like this, he naturally felt bad.

However, this is all his own doing. He ruined a perfectly good family, so it's only right that he suffers a little now.

"Hey!"

Yang Jun sighed deeply.

"Endure some hardship. If it can prevent this family from falling apart, then any amount of hardship is worth it."

Yang Jun muttered a few words to himself and was about to turn and leave when suddenly a figure flashed past behind the glass of Sun Zhaocai's house.

Even for a split second, he recognized that the person was Yan Erni.

Yan Erni hid behind the curtains, secretly watching Sun Zhaocai kneeling in the snow. She felt very sorry for him. After all, they had been husband and wife for so many years and had four children together. It would be impossible for them not to have feelings for each other.

Sun Zhaocai likes to get drunk and beat people, but he's quite nice to her when he's sober. Over the years, she's been quite happy. If it weren't for Sun Zhaocai's drunken beatings, her life would be perfect.

She had never seen Sun Zhaocai so genuinely repentant. She hadn't slept all night, watching him freeze in the snow for an entire night. She had wanted to forgive him for a long time, but the two children disagreed.

Seeing that Sun Zhaocai wouldn't last much longer, he was heartbroken and his eyes welled up with tears.

"what!"

Yang Jun exclaimed in surprise as he saw Yan Erni flash by.

However, he did not go over, after all, it was a matter between the couple and they needed to resolve the issue themselves.

"If you truly care about him, then forgive him."

Yang Jun said a few words and then left.

He hadn't been gone long when he heard the sound of a door opening behind him.

He didn't turn back, but quickened his pace and left the scene.

Before long, Yan Erni's sobbing could be heard; her voice was like a lament, filled with sorrow.

After returning home, Yang Jun went to a restaurant for dinner.

The children have already started school; they finished breakfast early and went to school. What's left are some adults and some children who haven't started school yet.

It was a bit crowded to have more than a dozen people crammed together at one table, and the children were restless while eating, taking a bite and then running around, making a mess.

"You went, what was the result?" Yi Qiushui suddenly asked.

"What..." Yang Jun was stunned for a moment, then said, "Oh, you mean Zhao Cai... Er Ni has already forgiven him."

"She forgave him?" Upon hearing this, Yi Qiushui was furious and said indignantly, "How could she forgive him so easily? Doesn't she even think about why she was beaten and hospitalized?"

"I'm so angry! They never learn their lesson."

Upon hearing that Yan Erni had forgiven Sun Zhaocai, everyone, including Yi Qiushui, was indignant.

As women themselves, they naturally know what domestic violence by men means to women—it's hell.

Now, having just emerged from the gates of hell, and seemingly about to live a reborn life, he unexpectedly softened his heart the moment he stepped across the threshold and jumped back into the fire pit.

"I'm not going to get involved in her affairs anymore. I kindly helped her, but she easily forgave that person, leaving me caught in the middle," Yi Qiushui said angrily.

“Exactly. If you ask me, Yan Erni is too ungrateful. Since she was willing to jump into the fire, let her bear the consequences herself. No one can blame her.” Huang Yani said.

"Who says otherwise? She really doesn't learn her lesson. She's forgotten who broke her two ribs."

Yang Jun listened to their complaints while quietly eating his meal.

Perhaps they were tired of yelling, because their voices gradually quieted down.

"Aren't Xiaopeng and Xiaoma dead too? How can they forgive that bastard father?" Yi Qiushui asked.

Upon hearing this, Yang Jun looked up at her.

"So you're saying... you'd be happy if they got divorced?"

Yi Qiushui paused for a moment, then said, "That's not what I meant. Of course, I don't want them to be separated from their family. I just want to say that we can't forgive Zhao Cai so easily. At the very least, he should suffer a bit."

“He knelt in the snow all night last night. Wasn’t that enough suffering?” Yang Jun said.

"She...knelt all night?"

Yi Qiushui found it hard to believe that Sun Zhaocai had knelt in the snow all night.

"If he really knelt in the snow all night, it means he was truly repentant."

"If that's the case..."

She didn't say the rest, but presumably she had already forgiven him in her heart.

"Old Yang, did Zhao Cai really kneel in the snow all night?" Meng Wenya asked in a low voice.

Yang Jun didn't say anything, but looked up at her.

"If he really kneels all night, it means he still has a remorse," Meng Wenya muttered to herself.

"However, that's not a reason for him to hit women, and we can't let him off so easily. At the very least, we have to make him write a guarantee in front of everyone..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Xiaopeng's voice rang out from the restaurant entrance.

"Fourth Aunt is right, he must write a guarantee in public."

Sun Xiaopeng strode in, followed by Yan Erni, Sun Zhaocai, and his younger brother Sun Xiaoma.

Sun Zhaocai still looked like he was apologizing with thorns on his back, shirtless with a thick wooden stick slung over his shoulder. However, he wasn't in good spirits; his whole body was purple from the cold, and he was shivering.

Sun Xiaopeng walked up to Yang Jun and knelt down with a thud.

"Grandpa Yang, please help us, the mother and the three of us."

After saying that, he knelt there straight, staring intently at Yang Jun.

Seeing Sun Xiaopeng's appearance, Yang Jun felt a headache coming on.

"You get up first."

"If Grandpa Yang doesn't agree, I won't get up."

Then, Sun Xiaoma also knelt down.

At this moment, Yi Qiushui arrived.

"Xiao Peng, Xiao Ma, get up first, don't force your Grandpa Yang."

Upon hearing this, Sun Xiaopeng and Sun Xiaoma exchanged a glance, then slowly stood up.

"Please, Grandpa Yang, help us."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jun sighed and said, "I can't even eat a meal in peace."

"Alright, come to the living room."

After saying that, he got up and went to the living room.

Of the group, only Yi Qiushui came along; Yang Qingxiang and the others continued eating.

Upon entering the living room, Yang Jun sat in the main seat and glanced at Sun Zhaocai, who was shivering from the cold.

Turning back to Yi Qiushui, he said, "Find him a coat."

"Uncle Yang, I don't want to."

Just as Yi Qiushui was about to grab her coat, Sun Zhaocai spoke up.

This guy was freezing; his voice was trembling, his upper teeth chattering against his lower teeth in a muffled, gurgling sound.

“If they don’t forgive me, I won’t wear clothes.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Jun kicked him directly, knocking him to the side.

"So ambitious?"

"If only you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?" "Now you realize you were wrong?"

After being kicked down, Sun Zhaocai immediately knelt on the ground.

"I was wrong."

"Don't say that to me," Yang Jun said, glaring at him.

"Erni, I was wrong."

Sun Zhaocai immediately turned around and shouted loudly at Yan Erni.

Yan Erni had long since forgiven him, but the two children wouldn't let it go and insisted that he write some kind of guarantee. She couldn't say anything and could only stand there with tears in her eyes.

Seeing that Yan Erni remained silent, Sun Zhaocai turned to Sun Xiaopeng and Sun Xiaoma and said,
"Xiao Peng, Xiao Ma, Daddy was wrong."

"I promise I will never hit you three again."

"Hmph!" Upon hearing this, Sun Xiaopeng and Sun Xiaoma both turned their heads to the side.

Clearly, they did not forgive him so easily.

"Xiao Peng, Xiao Ma, Daddy was wrong."

Seeing this, Sun Zhaocai shouted again, "If you're still not satisfied, you can hit me all you want."

As he spoke, he turned his back to them, revealing the stick on his back.

Upon seeing this, Sun Xiaoma instinctively reached for the stick, but was stopped by his brother, Sun Xiaopeng.

Sun Xiaopeng shook his head at his younger brother, then said loudly, "With Grandpa Yang here, it's not our turn to take action. This is all up to Grandpa Yang to decide."

After saying that, he stopped looking at Sun Zhaocai.

"Uncle Yang."

Seeing this, Sun Zhaocai looked to Yang Jun for help.

Yang Jun frowned upon seeing this.

At this moment, Yi Qiushui saw his predicament and took the initiative to take on the task herself.

"Xiaopeng, Xiaoma, what do you want to do to forgive your father?"

“We will never forgive him for beating my mother into the hospital. We can never forgive him in this lifetime,” Sun Xiaoma said angrily.

"Little Ma," Yan Erni called out, her eyes brimming with tears.

She glanced back at Sun Zhaocai, who was kneeling on the ground shivering from the cold, and tears streamed down her face.

"Mom, people like that... sigh."

Seeing his mother's state, Sun Xiaoma had no choice but to compromise.

He didn't know what was so good about that bastard father that made his mother shed tears for him, and he felt it was unfair to his mother.

"Fine, fine, for my mother's sake, I'll forgive you one last time," Sun Xiaopeng sighed.

"That's right, we're all family, there's no knot that can't be untied," Yi Qiushui said with a smile.

Although she didn't want to forgive Sun Zhaocai, she was an elder and couldn't show favoritism. Besides, Sun Zhaocai was Yang Jun's confidant, so she couldn't go too far out of respect for him.

"Now that the knot has been untied, then..."

Yi Qiushui looked at Yan Erni.

At this moment, Yan Erni could only cry, looking completely lost, and looked to Sun Xiaopeng for help.

Seeing this, Sun Xiaopeng said, "I can forgive him, but he must write a guarantee. And this is the last time. I will never give him another chance, even if he kneels to death."

"I promise this is the last time," Sun Zhaocai said quickly.

"Humph!"

The two brothers snorted in unison.

They didn't trust their bastard father; they wouldn't have forgiven him if they weren't afraid of upsetting their mother.

“Since you two brothers have said so…” Yi Qiushui looked at Sun Zhaocai and said, “Zhaocai, then you should write a guarantee.”

"Remember this, this is the last time. If you ever dare to hit Erni again, no one will forgive you."

Yang Jun said, "This is the last time."

"Yes, I promise, this is the last time." Sun Zhaocai was so grateful that he shed tears.

“I swear, if I ever lay a finger on Erni or the child again, may I die a horrible death.”

"Waaah!" Yan Erni burst into tears upon hearing this.

……

Subsequently, witnessed by Yang Jun and Yi Qiushui, Sun Zhaocai wrote a guarantee in public, promising never to touch Yan Erni or the child again. Finally, to show that he was truly repentant, he even bit his finger and stamped it with his seal.

After dealing with Sun Zhaocai's family matters, Yang Jun let Sun Zhaocai and the others go home.

After they left, Yang Jun and Yi Qiushui went to a restaurant for dinner.

By this time, the family had already finished eating, and the food had gone cold. They had originally wanted to ask the cook to make it again, but considering that they were upset because of Sun Zhaocai, they decided not to eat it.

After leaving the restaurant, Yang Jun went to the fishing platform by the lake.

Sun Zhaocai was recuperating at home, and Shazhu was also on vacation, so the room was quiet and deserted.

Upon arriving at Diaoyutai, Yang Jun first turned on the air conditioner, then turned on the electric stove, placed two sweet potatoes on it, and then lay down on the rattan chair.

Just as she finished her work, she heard the door open and Nalan Qingyun hurriedly walked in.

She crossed her arms in front of her chest, hunched her back, and looked very cautious.

"Old Yang, look what delicious food I brought you!" Nalan Qingyun said anxiously.

Seeing this, Yang Jun quickly got up and offered her the rattan chair.

After Nalan Qingyun sat down, she unbuttoned her outer garment and carefully took out a bulging piece of oil paper from inside.

I don't know what was wrapped in the oil paper, but it smelled very nice.

Nalan Qingyun unfolded the oil paper layer by layer, and the fragrance grew stronger and stronger, so much so that Yang Jun couldn't help but sniff it.

"Ta-da-da, how about it? Want some?"

When the oil paper was opened, there was a steaming plate of roasted chestnuts.

"That's it?"

Yang Jun was somewhat disappointed when he saw the roasted chestnuts.

I can't speak for other things, but he has as much of this stuff as he wants in his space, and it's all top-quality, with all sorts of flavors.

"what expression?"

Seeing Yang Jun's expression, Nalan Qingyun was displeased.

"I thought you'd never tried this before, so I secretly brought you some. I never expected..."

"You have no idea how much the child craves it, but I haven't been able to give it to him. You heartless bastard."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jun immediately sat down, put his hands on her shoulders, and apologized.

"I'm sorry, wife."

"I was wrong."

Nalan Qingyun pouted: "Of course you're wrong. You've let me down."

"Yes, yes, I was wrong, and I sincerely apologize to you."

After saying that, he peeled one and put it in his mouth, chewing it with relish.

"Delicious, delicious! The chestnuts my wife gave me are the best."

"Hate."

Nalan Qingyun rolled her eyes at him and said, "A man's words are always deceiving." (End of Chapter)