As Xu Mingyang and his group drew closer, Grandma Xu's hand, which was holding Grandma Chen's, began to tremble involuntarily. Grandma Chen couldn't help but laugh: "Sister-in-law, I thought you wouldn't be nervous."

Grandma Xu didn't care about Grandma Chen's teasing; her eyes followed Xu Mingyang the whole time.

Her youngest son!

Her poor youngest son!

He has finally changed; he is no longer that gloomy and dejected person.

Now his eyes are filled with decisiveness and perseverance; he is so spirited and full of sunshine.

Grandma Xu's eyes welled up with tears.

Xu Mingyang excitedly waved to Grandma Xu and Grandpa Xu when he saw them at the gate of the courtyard.

These are his parents, his parents who will always worry about him.

The tractor chugged along at a snail's pace until it came to a stop on the road not far from home.

Xu Mingyang easily jumped off the tractor, then turned around and helped Kuang Meizhu down.

The younger ones were the most agile; one by one, they jumped off the tractor and ran towards Grandma Xu and Grandpa Xu.

"Grandpa, Grandma, my uncle is back!"

"My uncle and aunt are back!"

Grandma Chen's eyes crinkled with laughter. "Oh! Mingyang's partner is quite tall and has a great figure. He's got a big bottom, which means he'll be fertile. Sister-in-law, maybe you'll have a baby next year."

Seeing Xu Mingyang carefully help Kuang Meizhu out of the car, Old Mrs. Chen said again, "I really didn't realize that Mingyang is such a doting husband."

Grandpa Xu glanced at Grandma Chen and said irritably, "Isn't Dahai loving you enough?"

Grandma Chen said coquettishly, "My brother is really something. He's talking about the younger generation, why is he dragging us into this?"

Xu Mingyang arrived with his men within a few words.

Xu Mingyang: "Auntie, Daddy, I'm back! This is Kuang Meizhu, my girlfriend."

Grandma Xu took Kuang Meizhu's hand and kept saying, "Good, good, good."

With his hands behind his back, Old Master Xu smiled and said, "It's good that you're back. Come on in!"

The children helped carry Xu Mingyang and Kuang Meizhu's luggage and rushed inside like a swarm of bees.

Xu Mingyang saw Old Mrs. Chen and Yao Dahai and called out again, "Aunt, Uncle, Meizhu, this is Aunt and Uncle."

Kuang Meizhu quickly greeted them, "Aunt, Uncle."

Grandma Chen was so happy, as if she were welcoming a daughter-in-law herself. "Good, good, good, Mingyang has such good taste."

After Mrs. Chen finished speaking, she slipped two red envelopes to Kuang Meizhu. No one knew when she had prepared them.

Kuang Meizhu looked at Xu Mingyang, at a loss.

Grandma Chen smiled and said, "Please accept this. It's a red envelope for addressing the new family, a token of our appreciation as aunt and uncle."

Xu Mingyang was quite touched and said to Kuang Meizhu, "Keep it."

Kwong Mei-chu: "Thank you, Auntie! Thank you, Uncle!"

Yao Dahai chuckled to himself.

The news of Xu Mingyang bringing his girlfriend back spread like wildfire; in no time, everyone, whether they knew him or not, from the same brigade or neighboring brigades, knew about it.

Xu Mingyang is a man with a story, and suddenly he became a topic of conversation everywhere. Even people who didn't know who he was were spreading his story.

I don't know how it got into the farm.

Qi Hehua's reputation on the farm isn't very good right now. Although the deputy farm manager's wife's affair has nothing to do with her, it's still caused by the rumors about her and the deputy farm manager.

The deputy farm manager's wife was arrested and sentenced to death. The deputy farm manager was implicated and took his children back to his hometown to farm.

Regardless of whether the deputy farm manager and Qi Hehua actually had a relationship, the old women on the farm now treated her like a plague.

Logically speaking, if the deputy director had fallen from power after such an incident, then Qi Hehua should have been even more implicated. Yet, she remained her team leader, as if none of this concerned her.

Xu Yaoyang hadn't seen Shen Can for a long time, and now he attributed all his bad luck to Shen Can.

Shen Can tried to contact Xu Yaoyang several times, but Xu Yaoyang remained indifferent to her.

I heard that Xu Yaoyang has recently become close to a female educated youth from the provincial capital, and her uncle is an official in the provincial government.

When Shen Can found out, he went to Xu Yaoyang to demand an explanation, but Xu Yaoyang offered no explanation whatsoever.

When Xu Mingyang's story reached the farm, everyone was happy for the protagonist of the story—Xu Mingyang.

The female educated youth even told Xu Yaoyang about this.

In fact, people have already dramatized Xu Mingyang's story. When they tell it, it's no different from the story of Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan, but it sounds completely different to Xu Yaoyang.

The better Xu Mingyang does now, the more ironic it is for Xu Yaoyang.

Perhaps provoked by Xu Mingyang, Xu Yaoyang openly confessed his feelings to the female educated youth that day.

A young, artistic man who had left his hometown was completely swayed by Xu Yaoyang's sweet words. In addition, Xu Yaoyang was good-looking and always knew how to act like a civilized person. That's how the two started dating.

Qi Hehua was furious when she found out, and on top of that, Shen Can was love-struck and cried as if his parents had died. Qi Hehua was extremely annoyed.

Qi Hehua never imagined that after a lifetime of striving, she would be ruined by her daughter's lifestyle, and now that her husband has fallen for someone else, she's acting like she's going to die.

How could she have given birth to such a good-for-nothing daughter?

Xu Yaoyang's actions thoroughly angered Qi Hehua.

If it weren't for her daughter, she would have tolerated Xu Yaoyang all this time; otherwise, she would have wanted to get back at him when the deputy director was around.

When Shen Can couldn't find Xu Yaoyang, he went to the educated youth settlement to cause trouble for the female educated youth, and the two of them ended up fighting.

Although the educated youth were not very united, they stood together against outsiders when they invaded their territory.

When Shen Can got into a fight with the female educated youth, the other educated youth took sides. By the time Qi Hehua arrived, Shen Can had been beaten beyond recognition.

It was such a commotion that even the farm manager came.

The farm manager and the former deputy farm manager didn't get along, so logically he should also dislike Qi Hehua. But Qi Hehua was good at interpersonal relationships and was completely unaffected.

However, when it came to the educated youth, the farm manager still favored the educated youth, after all, they were poor and lower-middle peasants who had been reformed, while Shen Can had made a mistake and was serving his sentence at the farm. These were two completely different groups of people.

Although Qi Hehua felt uncomfortable, she could only endure it and carried Shen Can back home.

As soon as Shen Can and her son left, some of the educated youth started gossiping about Xu Yaoyang.

The world is not short of smart people, and Xu Mingyang's story just happens to be so famous that some people have started talking about the relationship between Xu Yaoyang and Xu Mingyang.

The farm and Xujia Village were not far apart, so it was inevitable that some people knew about the Xu family. Thus, the fact that Xu Yaoyang's family had exchanged Xu Mingyang for Xu Yaoyang could no longer be kept secret.