Chapter 184 Call Me Third Brother Again

Sanwa's words silenced everyone for a moment.

There are too many injustices in this world to be explained in just a few words.

She didn't know anything else, but she knew that Master Liang would suffer retribution in his later years.

"Is his son studying with Sanwa?"

Sanwa nodded, "His son is a year younger than me, and he's a pretty bad guy."

Song Chunxue said no more. "Alright, let's eat."

The fourth son and the third son exchanged a glance. "Does Mother know something?"

"It's not that retribution won't come, it's just that the time hasn't arrived yet. I believe that evil people will be punished sooner or later. For your own sake, never do bad things and don't give God a chance to punish you."

Song Chunxue said earnestly, "Sanwa, Lao Si, don't think that just because good people don't live long and bad people live for thousands of years, this world protects bad people and you can easily do bad things. We are ordinary people. If we do bad things, we can't get over our conscience and will be tormented for the rest of our lives."

She wouldn't have said that in her past life.

But this time, because of her change, the two children's situation and mindset will definitely change as well.

As a mother, she has a responsibility to remind them of this.

Whether they do it or not is their business.

Perhaps in her past life she had her third brother to support her, but in this life she can only rely on herself.

Once people have grown up and become independent, they can easily throw morality and ethics to the wind.

After dinner, she learned three more characters and even tried reading a very simple book, marking the ones she didn't recognize. Sanwa said this would help her remember them better.

I didn't plan to sleep that night, so I sat down for meditation.

In the middle of the night, Cheng's third daughter-in-law cried again, and the fourth son was so frightened that he pushed open the door to the north room.

Song Chunxue opened her eyes. "Go find Sanwa. If you bother me again tomorrow night, I'll break your legs."

The fourth son stood at the door, his voice trembling slightly, "Mother, don't you sleep at night? Aren't you afraid?"

“If you’re scared, go find the third brother. You’re still breastfeeding, why are you looking for your mother?”

"Okay." The fourth brother obediently closed the door and went to sleep with the third brother.

The sound of mournful cries surrounded her, and Song Chunxue continued to meditate with focused concentration. Later, she could no longer hear any sounds from the outside world.

And so she continued meditating until dawn.

When I opened my eyes, everything in front of me became much clearer.

Song Chunxue was very satisfied. From now on, she would try not to sleep whenever possible. Although she was a little lazy at first, the feeling of being full of energy after meditation was addictive to her.

After finishing her chores at home during the day, she would rush to make clothes, and at night she would concentrate on meditation, so she didn't even have time to scold her fourth son.

On the third day, fearing that he would be startled awake by the crying again at night, the fourth child slept in the third child's room.

On the fourth night, Song Chunxue continued her meditation.

She knew that Cheng San's wife wouldn't be crying on the road tonight, but she never expected that someone would knock on the Jiang family's door at midnight.

The fourth brother was so frightened that he hid under the covers, "Ahhh, no way, that woman didn't come to our house, did she?"

The third child's head was throbbing from the fourth child's nagging, so he got up, lit the oil lamp, and wanted to go outside to take a look.

"Sanwa, don't!" The fourth brother grabbed his sleeve, almost crying. "Sanwa, don't go! What if it's a ghost? They say you can't ask when a ghost knocks on the door. Please don't ask who the person outside is."

Sanwa pulled back his sleeve. "It's normal for a grown man to be so scared. If someone has something important to say, let's go find Mother and discuss it together."

The fourth child said tearfully, "Let's not worry about it. Mother doesn't sleep at night; she sits on the kang (heated brick bed) meditating. It's even scarier, okay?"

"Is that all you've got? You want to go out and make your way in the world with those lazy classmates? I remember you guys said you were going to do business in the Western Regions. Do you know there's a Devil City in the desert? The desert is so big you could walk out of it in a day. You'd have to camp in the desert at night, and there would be all sorts of noises. Wouldn't you be so scared you'd wet your pants?"

At this moment, the fourth brother burst into tears.

"Waaaaah, Sanwa, can you please stop scaring me at a time like this? Can't I just call you brother?"

He wrapped a blanket in one hand and grabbed Sanwa with the other, pleading, "Third brother, please don't go, I beg you."

Sanwa was both amused and exasperated; this was the first time he had ever heard Lao Si call him "Third Brother."

It sounds quite pleasant.

He laughed, grabbed the fourth brother's arm, and said, "Get down and put on your shoes."

"Third brother, do you really have to go outside?" Although the fourth brother's legs were trembling with fear, he still obediently got off the kang (a heated brick bed).

"Yes, the person knocking on the door seems to be crying softly. Let's go and see. If it really is Cheng's third daughter-in-law, she must be looking for her mother. We can't just stand by and watch her die."

The fourth brother felt a chill run down his spine. He wrapped himself in the blanket and held the third brother's hand to bolster his courage.

"Knock knock knock".

There was another knock on the door.

You can still faintly hear low sobbing sounds.

The fourth brother was terrified, but he couldn't shout anymore; he felt ashamed of himself.

"Is that Cheng's third daughter-in-law?" Sanwa asked, holding up an oil lamp.

"Yes," came the woman's hoarse voice. "I'd like to ask your mother to keep me company."

"..." Upon hearing this, the fourth brother immediately realized it wasn't a lucky saying.

What do you mean by keeping each other company? Do you mean we'll keep each other company on the road to the underworld? That's terrifying.

Sanwa, however, thought that she was afraid to sleep alone and wanted to find her mother.

But why didn't she go to her own family members when she had so many sisters-in-law in the Cheng family? Instead, she came to find the widow of the Jiang family.

Do you feel that you and your mother are in the same boat now?

The third child walked down the steps, and the fourth child followed closely behind him.

The wind was quite strong at night, carrying with it cold rain.

The two brothers arrived at the north room, and as soon as they opened the door, they saw a dark figure sitting upright on the kang (a heated brick bed).

The fourth child cried again, hugging the third child from behind, "Mom, are you trying to scare me to death? Are you taking advantage of my timidity?"

Song Chunxue opened her eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Cheng's third daughter-in-law wants her mother to come and keep her company, because she might be too scared to sleep."

Song Chunxue got off the kang (heated brick bed), put on her shoes, and took a thick sheepskin coat from the chair to put on.

She walked straight down the steps to open the courtyard gate.

For some reason, the fourth son suddenly stopped being afraid, as if his mother had a particularly strong yang energy.

Song Chunxue, carrying an oil lamp, saw the woman standing at the door; it was indeed the third daughter-in-law of the Cheng family.

She asked, "Are the children all asleep?"

“Yes, because of what happened a few nights ago, they didn’t want to sleep with me. I was so anxious and worried that I couldn’t stay up until dawn. I thought you were also a widow, so you must know how to get through this…” As she spoke, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears, “I hope I didn’t scare the children.”

“No,” Song Chunxue turned to Sanwa, “You two lock the door from the inside, I’m going to sleep at her house.”

"But Mother..." The fourth son tried to say something, but the third son pinched him.

"knew."

"But the oil lamp..." Mother took the oil lamp and left, leaving the two of them in complete darkness. How were they going to get back?

"There's a light in Mother's room, I'll go light it." The third child stepped across the threshold and almost tripped over the fourth child. "Don't pull me."

The fourth brother grabbed his wrist, "Can't I be scared, Third Brother?"

"..." Fine, he's already calling him Third Brother, what can he do?

After the oil lamp was lit, when the two of them were about to close the door, the fourth brother didn't want to go.

"I'll wait here with the lamp, can you go and close the door?"

Sanwa turned his head and raised an eyebrow, "Then call me 'Third Brother' again and let me hear it."