The children just wouldn't stop. The traps were spaced some distance apart, and Song Qing couldn't take it anymore. In this hot weather, she preferred to find a cool place to sit and let the others play while the three of them went to collect firewood.

After picking up a few, Zhao Qin stood up and looked at Ye Man. Song Qing immediately noticed her gaze.

"……What's wrong?"

Ye Man quickly stood up as well, looked down at herself, and saw that she was fine. "...What happened to Sister Zhao?"

"We're about the same age, so we've already told each other not to call me 'sister' anymore. From now on, just call me by my name."

"good"

After she answered "okay," Zhao Qin immediately dropped the firewood, went over, grabbed her hand, and pulled her aside.

"Xiaoman, what's your relationship with Comrade He like in private?"

Ye Man: "..."

"If you feel offended, just tell me and I'll stop asking immediately... I just think about the two of you..."

Zhao Qin couldn't explain why, but she guessed it was because the handsome man and beautiful woman clearly had feelings for each other, yet there seemed to be a barrier between them. As an outsider, she could only watch anxiously, wishing they could get together right now.

"No--"

"That's good. I just saw Comrade He's eyes practically glued to you. If no one else had come over, he would definitely have been gathering firewood with you. How did you two meet?"

Song Qing was also curious, but unlike Zhao Qin, she was afraid of scaring Ye Man. Now that someone had started, she immediately dropped the firewood and came over. Ye Man found it a little funny to see their slightly bright eyes.

“We were old acquaintances in the family. We had met a few times before, but we weren’t familiar with each other at all. Later, our families arranged a blind date for us to get together.”

Anyway, it doesn't matter who I marry. Since this family likes Ye Man so much, it doesn't matter. So we got married and registered our marriage.

"To be honest, the three of us knew all of them before, but I had secretly dated my husband before, and my family didn't object because they knew him well."

...

Song Qing had no idea that Zhao Qin was so good at finding out things; she knew almost everything she needed to know.

"So you think he's always siding with your mother-in-law, and your mother-in-law doesn't like you and Xiaoting?"

"Yes, she doesn't care about me, I just feel sorry for Xiaoting."

The two had just experienced the power of Ye Man's mother-in-law, especially Zhao Qin, who could empathize with her. It wasn't that her mother-in-law was bad, but that they all needed to be careful with their words and actions in their family. It was only after moving to the family compound that they were able to relax a lot.

“But I don’t think Comrade He is the kind of person who doesn’t understand reason. You see, he just spoke to your mother-in-law right away, and he didn’t say that he was biased towards her and unreasonable.”

Ye Man reached out and took off the flower wreath she was woven. "Otherwise, our relationship wouldn't have lasted this long."

He Zhangcheng is not a bad person. When things happen between the two of them, he will try his best to stand on the side of facts and will not take sides. However, Liu He's presence means that as long as the two of them are together, there will inevitably be a lot of trouble.

The conflict between her and Liu He was almost irreconcilable, and He Zhangcheng had been making efforts, which Ye Man sometimes saw but only watched coldly.

For Xiaoting's sake, she was willing to try to get along better with He Zhangcheng, but she didn't expect that Liu He would follow her here so soon after she arrived.

Zhao Qin nodded, thinking she understood. "So the only problem between you two is your mother-in-law. As long as she's around, you can't possibly get along well with Comrade He peacefully."

Ye Man hesitated for a moment before nodding, "...Sort of. After all, she's his mother. To him, his mother isn't a bad person."

No, it should be said that his mother was very good to him, and because of the unfair treatment his mother had suffered in the He family in the past, He Zhangcheng felt sorry for his mother and wanted to make something of himself so that his mother could stand taller.

So he was torn between the two, and Ye Man didn't want to be the bad guy and force him to choose between them.

It's not worth it. If it really doesn't work out, just get a divorce.

Previously, He Zhangcheng had been in the army and had taken care of Xiaoting all by herself. It's not impossible for her to take care of her all by herself in the future.

Zhao Qin frowned and pondered for a while. The two came from similar backgrounds and even had many similarities in their upbringing, but their personalities were quite different. Perhaps because they grew up in wealthy families, some people disdain to fight for certain things, feeling that it is not worth it. Ye Man was a little bit like that.

Zhao Qin is different. Because she has had everything since she was a child, she naturally feels that if it is something she wants, then she must have it.

One side aggressively pursues the goal, while the other takes a more passive, go-with-the-flow approach.

Zhao Qin: "Perhaps you can think about it differently. You said your only problem is your mother-in-law. Wouldn't it be better if your mother-in-law weren't around? You don't necessarily have to give up on Comrade He. I think Comrade He is still a good person."

"There's no need to wait for Comrade He to make a choice. Instead, put more weight on your side of the scale. If your side is heavier, he will naturally know how to choose."

Ye Man frowned, wanting to say it wasn't necessary, but seeing Zhao Qin and Song Qing eager to teach her a method, she swallowed her words.

"How so?"

"First, you need to make him realize that sending your mother-in-law back doesn't mean he's abandoning her; it just means that her presence here will affect his life."

Song Qing nodded: "Men, as long as they don't cause themselves trouble, they never think of those things as trouble. You just need to make him realize it deeply himself."

He will stop letting his mother come and disturb your lives from now on. If he misses his mother, he can go back to see her himself.

...

As the saying goes, three cobblers are equal to one Zhuge Liang. The three of them discussed it enthusiastically, but by the time it got late, they still hadn't taken the firewood back. Even the children had returned with their prey.

Lu Yang: "...Where is he?"

Zhuangzhuang: "Did they get caught by the tigers in the mountains?"

Sui Sui: "What should we do? Let's hurry and rescue Mom."

Lu Yang sighed, but He Zhangcheng stepped forward and said he would go find someone first.

"Okay, I'll go gather some firewood to start a fire."

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