"..."

In the bright living room, the father and daughter stood facing each other, their eyes locked, a silent tension lingering between them.

After a long while, Mu Jingsheng finally sighed.

Suddenly he laughed out loud again, shook his head, and said with a hint of self-mockery, "Xiaoyun, I know you're angry, but so am I."

"But I can't do it as decisively as you; I'm not qualified."

Ye Yun looked at him. "So?"

“You did nothing wrong,” Mu Jingsheng said. “Your grandmother’s only advantage is that she is my mother. If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t have been any kinder than you.”

He would never show mercy to anyone who bullied Ye Xia unless they were his own mother.

He wasn't blindly filial, so he wouldn't interfere in Ye Yun's handling of the old lady's affairs.

One is the person who gave him birth, and the other is his descendant. He cannot favor either side, especially since he has felt guilty towards his daughter for many years.

"Go back and get some rest."

Mu Jingsheng patted Ye Yun on the shoulder, gave her a guilty look, and then turned and went upstairs.

He wanted to tell Ye Yun that she didn't need to feel guilty and could do whatever she wanted.

He felt guilty; no one felt more guilty than him.

...

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Mu Jing, fearing that Ye Yun would be bored during her postpartum confinement, specially bought a new television and installed it in her bedroom.

Ye Yun ate and slept all day long.

They didn't have to worry about their children or work, and lived a completely carefree life.

Behind the idleness, she was not quite used to it. After a few days of leisure, she felt uneasy if she didn't do something.

Qin Zheng concluded that she couldn't stay idle.

Mu Jingsheng told her to just enjoy her life. She had suffered hardship for the first twenty years, and this was God's blessing, making up for the good fortune she deserved.

Yes, Ye Yun is about to turn twenty.

Her birthday is in the first month of the lunar calendar.

That winter was cold, and it was still snowing after the New Year. On the Lantern Festival, Ye Xia went up the mountain for some reason and gave birth to her in a snowdrift, where she almost froze to death.

Her family doesn't even know when she was born.

All we know is that on the Lantern Festival, everyone was setting off firecrackers outside. When the old man returned home that night, he discovered that Ye Xia had disappeared. He led the villagers to search until the next day when they finally found the mother and daughter on the mountain.

Ye Xia was so cold that she lost consciousness.

She took off her only cotton-padded coat and wrapped it tightly around her newborn baby, leaving her wearing only a thin sweater.

Even so, the baby in her arms was as cold as she was, her face turning ashen.

Everyone thought the child was already dead and wanted to bury him on the spot, but Ye Xia, who had regained her senses, held the child tightly and wouldn't let go, like a mad lioness with red eyes, biting anyone who touched her.

In the end, even Grandpa Ye was at a loss and let Ye Xia take the child home.

With a sip of milk and a sip of rice porridge, Ye Xia herself was freezing and had a high fever, yet she kept the child warm without sleep or rest, managing to keep the little child alive.

She was named Yun.

The word "Yun" was something Ye Xia kept repeating, but the old man didn't understand it. He thought his daughter was saying "Yun" and wanted to name the child Yun.

Thinking back now, that word should be: 原 (yuán).

Mu, courtesy name Yuan.

Of course, the old man's help was indispensable in saving Ye Yun's life. When Ye Xia's milk supply was insufficient, it was the old man who humbled himself and went to other people's homes to find goat milk.

Later, Aunt Liu Meilan couldn't stand how the old man took care of Ye Xia, and she also felt that Ye Xia had brought shame to their family. When the old man and Ye Jian'an were not around, she repeatedly hit Ye Xia and forced her to leave.

Since then, Ye Yun has lost her mother.

The Lantern Festival was actually the day Ye Xia and Mu Jingsheng officially became a couple.

When Mu Jingsheng first arrived in Yejiagou, he had no friends. He didn't like to interact with people, and because of his bad reputation as a sent-down youth, he was ostracized by other educated youths and didn't even get a hot dumpling.

While the other educated youth finished eating dumplings and went to watch firecrackers in a lively atmosphere, he stayed alone in the quiet educated youth settlement, eating cornbread.

Later, Ye Xia arrived.

They weren't very close at the time; they had only met a few times.

Ye Xia was a rare beauty in the surrounding villages, fair-skinned and radiant. Even the educated youth from the city couldn't compare to her. Moreover, she was educated and knowledgeable, and her gentle yet powerful speech made it hard for her not to attract the attention of men her age.

But Mu Jingsheng was aware of his situation.

He'll never leave this remote mountain village again in his life, so how could he possibly be qualified to covet a girl with such good qualities?

But when Ye Xia learned that he was alone at the educated youth settlement, she sent someone to invite him to the back mountain and secretly brought him a box of hot dumplings filled with wild vegetables and eggs.

Those must have been the best dumplings he had ever eaten.

Those who grew up in luxury were considered the descendants of capitalists at the time.

What good food haven't I eaten in my life?

But on that cold Lantern Festival, far from home, after eating a dry and hard cornbread, a plate of hot dumplings warmed his heart.

He knew perfectly well that what was delicious wasn't a plate of hot dumplings.

It was the person who brought him the dumplings.

Later, Mu Jingsheng mustered up his courage.

Fortunately, he was saved.

Unfortunately, fate is sometimes blind; most things end in tragedy.

...

On the day of the Spring Festival, the first Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on TV, which made everyone in the room laugh heartily.

Mu Jingsheng was nowhere to be seen.

Because Old Madam Mu had previously called to ask Mu Jingsheng to come home for the New Year, but Mu Jingsheng coldly refused, Ye Yun had no doubt that Mu Jingsheng had gone to the old house.

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