I bring bad luck to my husband, you bring bad luck to your wife.

Yang family side

Yang's father wandered around outside until dark before returning home for dinner.

"I told you your sister must have been kicked in the head by a donkey when she was little, but you didn't believe me." When Yang's father first visited his father-in-law's house, he felt that his sister-in-law was acting strangely and abnormally.

"Shut your mouth, your daughter-in-law is sitting right here." Yang's mother was also bitter. How could her own sisters, born of the same mother, have ended up like this?

"Sigh." After finishing his meal, Mr. Yang went back to his room; he really didn't want to get involved in this matter.

Yang's mother didn't need her two daughters-in-law to stay with her anymore; she let them go back to their own rooms to rest.

Xiangxi and Mingle left some food for the two brothers in the kitchen.

"Sister-in-law, is Auntie really not mentally sound?" Xiangxi believed her father-in-law's words and felt that her aunt really was not mentally sound.

"She's perfectly intelligent, but her heart is wicked." Mingle still remembers the time her aunt came over and, when no one was around, made sarcastic remarks about her, saying she was like a hen that only eats but doesn't lay eggs.

She replied, "I didn't eat your food."

The crazy woman came up and tried to hit her, saying she would help her sister teach this blind daughter-in-law a lesson.

Fortunately, it was stopped by the arriving swallows.

She couldn't say these things to anyone else, so she had to suffer in silence, feeling very frustrated.

Ming Le and Xiang happy waited until 1:15 PM before the Yang brothers, Tong Shan and Tong Chuan, returned.

However, the two of them looked rather disheveled.

"Did they fight?"

Ming Le examined Yang Tongshan's face.

"No, there was no fighting, it was just too chaotic."

Fearing that there might be neighbors eavesdropping, Yang Tongshan told everyone to go back to their rooms and talk later.

Xiangxi brought Yang Tongchuan's dinner back into the house.

"Your parents-in-law don't have much of an appetite tonight, so they're eating light food. Please make do with this too." Xiangxi set out the food on the small table in the room.

In the evening, everyone had millet porridge with green vegetables.

Xiangxi was worried that the men wouldn't have enough to eat, so she just heated up two more flatbreads, one for her elder brother and one for her husband.

"You must be tired. Were you scared today?"

Yang Tongchuan told Xiangxi to sit on the bed, where it was warm.

He wolfed down his food.

"Thank goodness, but why are you and your brother in such a sorry state?" Although Xiangxi knew that Yang Tongchuan was not one to be bullied, she was still worried.

Yang Tongchuan recounted the whole story.

After Tong Shanshan fainted, her aunt insisted that the two brothers carry her to the tea shop's main gate so that the whole town could see the family's evil deeds.

The Yang brothers naturally disagreed.

Enraged, the aunt confronted Yang Tongshan, hoping to force him to cause trouble for her at the tea shop.

Yang Tongchuan naturally wouldn't let his elder brother be bullied, so he went to help.

Seeing that his mother was at a disadvantage, Tong Shenghu also stepped in to pull Yang Tongchuan along.

Fortunately, the house had been emptied out, otherwise this small space wouldn't have been enough for the family to put on a show.

Finally, it was the father who shouted "Stop!" that made them stop.

Tong Shanshan remained unconscious, so Yang Tongchuan performed a miraculous feat: he pulled out one of her hairpins, had Tong's father take off her shoes, and then stabbed it into the sole of her foot.

Tong Shanshan woke up immediately.

The color in his face had returned.

"I read in the book that pressing the philtrum is enough, why are you stabbing the soles of her feet?" Xiangxi knew how strong Yang Tongchuan was, and just hearing about it made her feel pain.

"How could I dare to touch her philtrum? What if I hurt her skin and that family blamed me? The soles of her feet are much safer, and they can't see it when she's wearing socks." Actually, Yang Tongchuan was doing it on purpose, but he wanted to maintain his image in front of Xiangxi, so he naturally wouldn't tell the truth.

After Yang Tongchuan woke Tong Shanshan up.

The Tong family members have calmed down a bit.

"What do you think?" Yang Tongshan asked Tong Shanshan, inquiring about her own opinion.

"I knew he would leave before me. He promised me that even if he left first, he would make sure I was settled in properly." As she spoke, Tong Shanshan began to cry.

Unlike her mother's hysteria, Tong Shanshan's tears were silent.

"Did the old man leave you any written agreement? Or was there anyone serving you when he said that, someone who could testify for you?" Yang Tongchuan rarely spoke up, wanting to see if there was any room for negotiation.

"He said it inside the house; no one else was there."

Well, after all that, it's just the sweet talk an old man uses to coax a young girl in bed. Completely useless.

A terrible silence fell over the room.

"Tongchuan, you're a constable, can you arrest him? We want to accuse that old man of rape. He raped my daughter." My aunt had suffered too much trauma today, and her facial features were contorted in rage.

"Auntie, adultery and rape are two different things. You can't just say it is whatever you want." Yang Tongchuan laughed angrily.

"What are we going to do? Are you trying to force us to die here? This is our house, it's ours." My aunt was stubborn; if she felt something was hers, she had to have it.

"Uncle, I'm afraid we need to back down on this matter," Yang Tongshan said, trying to reason with his uncle.

The Tong family used to have an old house in the west of the city. Even if this house is returned, they will still have a place to live and won't be driven to desperation.

"Is there no room for maneuver? Shanshan served that old man for so many years, and this is how she ends up?" Chef Tong was unwilling and ashamed.

"According to the steward, that old man must have been giving Shanshan money for her household expenses. Over the years, he must have saved up quite a bit."

The manager's exact words to Yang Tongshan were that the money the old man had spent on Miss Tong over the years, if stacked up, would be taller than Miss Tong herself.

One should be content.

Unexpectedly, Tong Shanshan burst into tears as soon as the money was mentioned.

Tong's father and Tong Shenghu also looked a little embarrassed.

Yang Tongshan and Yang Tongchuan suddenly realized that the money might not have been in Tong Shanshan's hands anymore.

What kind of nonsense is this?

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"And then what? How was it handled?" Xiangxi loved to hear gossip.

"It's their family matter, let them handle it however they want. Anyway, if we confront them head-on, my aunt's family won't be in the right. My older brother and I have discussed it, and being able to leave with the money is already the best outcome. Otherwise, given Shanshan's situation, even if I could go easy on her with sixty strokes of the cane, two years in prison is clearly stipulated by law. She can't take that." Yang Tongchuan didn't want to see his cousin in prison either.

"If the consequences of taking a mistress are so severe, then why don't we see these rich people keeping fewer mistresses?" Xiangxi came from a poor family, and he had hardly ever seen any of his neighbors take concubines, let alone mistresses.

"Well, if this doesn't escalate to the authorities, everyone will just turn a blind eye. Rich people have so much money they don't know what to do with it, so they have to find something new to do, right?" Yang Tongchuan said casually.

"Hehe, you know quite a lot." Xiangxi glanced at Yang Tongchuan sideways.

"Look at you, can't we have a proper conversation? You're always thinking about all sorts of nonsense. I'm just stating the facts," Yang Tongchuan said, trying to crawl into bed.

"Go away, go away, you haven't washed your feet yet, don't come up here." Xiangxi said with obvious disgust.

"Alright, alright, I'll go wash myself clean first, then come back to serve my little husband." Yang Tongchuan smiled and left the house to go to the kitchen to get hot water.

Then I saw my eldest brother, Yang Tongshan, sitting in the courtyard.