Chapter 29
Wei Qiuyu's incident made the Han family extremely upset.
But the Han family couldn't beat her to death, so they could only punish her by making her kneel and scold her, and then starve her for a few meals to prevent her from having the energy to make trouble.
When Wei Qiuyu was punished to kneel in front of the ancestral tablet, the Han family members did not disperse.
The more Han Lao San thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. "Second brother, have you asked Second Sister-in-law how a village girl like her could know those two things?"
"Village girls nowadays are very powerful." Han Yao said sarcastically.
Her words reminded the Han family of another village girl they were familiar with—Yao Chunnuan. Isn’t she also capable of doing well now?
The village girl Yao Chunnuan was indeed capable. Even though they were not in the same team, they had heard about her abilities. The main reason was that her wheelbarrows and double-layer semi-automatic sand screening nets were too friendly to the prisoners, and there was a lot of discussion about them.
Everyone ignored Han Yao and looked directly at Han Jinan.
Speaking of this, Han Jinan's face turned grim. "I asked, but she didn't say."
When Han Jinan asked, Wei Qiuyu remained silent, knowing that a single lie required countless lies to cover it up. She was certain that if she didn't speak, they wouldn't be able to guess the origin of the multiplication table and the table.
Everyone came up with something through this. Wei Qiuyu didn't treat them as family members.
A man does not speak of gods and ghosts, and the Han family did not think about it. They just speculated where she stole it from and from whom.
"Honestly, I'm starting to admire Yao Chunnuan a little bit now," Han Laosan sighed. While she'd lived better than all the other prisoners during their exile, he'd simply considered her a lucky culinary talent. Now, he was impressed by her ability to think ahead.
"You're only boosting others' morale and destroying your own," Han Xiaosi said dissatisfiedly. The atmosphere at home was already gloomy, and the third brother was praising the enemy. Didn't he consider the impact?
Han Lao San shook his head. "Yao Chunnuan's power is a fact. If I don't say it, will it disappear? When we first reported her, she was completely on the defensive. I believe she was caught off guard. But in such a short time, she launched such a powerful move, which has completely controlled our Han family and has caused us great harm to this day. I can't believe she is really a village girl."
Han Lao San's words silenced the Han family. Although they didn't want to admit how powerful Yao Chunnuan was, the fact was so hurtful.
The other members of the Han family asked, "Then what should we do next?" If their Han family was really targeted by the Third Prince, it would be really despairing.
Han Jinan pinched his brows. "Be prepared! We, the Han family, are going to have a hard time." Originally, they should have laid low for a while after arriving in Yichun. The Han family's revival required steady progress and careful planning. But now, with his wife's actions, any such lay-still situation became a joke.
His words filled the mouths of everyone in the Han family with bitterness. Aren’t these days hard enough?
Han Xiaosi said, "Since we can't go against the Third Prince, how about joining him?" Can they try another way? They can't just go down the same path forever.
"It's useless," Han Jinan explained. "The Third Prince isn't a broad-minded master. Because of Yao's near-prophetic statement, he'll always be wary of us." Compared to the other forces and people who had joined him, they were inherently underdeveloped. For subordinates without their master's complete trust, no matter how hard they worked, no matter how high they climbed, it was like a castle in the air, vulnerable to collapse at any moment due to their master's suspicion.
"This won't work, and that won't work either. Second brother, tell me what we should do!"
Only then did the Han family deeply feel the far-reaching impact of Yao Chunnuan's words in court.
Han Jinan actually didn't know what to do. There seemed to be no light in the road for their Han family.
The current situation is that the emperor is old, the crown prince is in a coma, and the third prince is in his prime, with his career at its peak. None of the other princes can fight. Unless the third prince loses power or dies, how easy is that?
"Second brother, to be honest, I'm a little regretful that our Han family plotted against her. Do you think the little benefit we got can offset the far-reaching impact of her counterattack?" The current situation is too desperate.
Han Jinan couldn't answer him. If he didn't report her, and couldn't change his exile, there was no telling how many people would be left in his family. After all, as long as you were alive, everything was possible. Comparing that hypothetical situation with the current dire situation, it was hard to say which was better.
Han Jinan even had a very bad premonition. No matter what kind of power the Han family joined, no matter how hard they tried, they would probably only live a simple life. If they wanted to touch power, forget it. As for the Han family, those forces would only use it and not trust it.
When the atmosphere in the Han family was depressed, the Wang family was also in chaos.
Wang Lang was very tired, both physically and mentally.
He used his past life memories to secretly vote for a young general who had great potential in the future. Now he was assigned to that person's account and served as a general. On the surface, he was a handyman, but secretly his status was similar to that of a staff member.
The other party was only a junior officer, and their relationship was secret. Therefore, it was impossible for him and his family to be given much care in public. With so many people in the Wang family, he could only take care of his mother and ask the higher-ups to assign her lighter tasks.
In addition, the younger generation in the family also needs to be taken care of a little to prevent them from dying young, which requires the use of some of the Wang family's old friends and disciples. These relationships are really used less and less, but for the sake of the younger generation, there is no other way.
As the saying goes, it's not the lack of work that's worrying, but the inequality of it. The women, who worked so hard, envied the older and younger members of the family for having less work, but they couldn't help but feel resentful, thinking that he had the ability to make their work easier, but was unwilling to do it.
When a person is full of resentment, he will be dissatisfied with everything. The resentment of several women accumulated and the Wang family was in chaos every day.
As a result, the whole family worked hard all day, but when they got home they had no hot meals to eat, and of course they were in a bad mood.
It was such a vicious cycle that the Wang family lived a nightmare.
This left Wang Lang so busy that he had no time to deal with this matter.
"Mother, sister-in-law, you must take control of the family. We can't let this chaos continue. This is Yichun, not the capital, and we are no longer the Wang family of the Censor. Here, we have to use all our strength to survive, and our family must put our strength into the same goal." Wang Lang said seriously.
No one said anything.
Wang Lang continued, "You can tell us whatever grievances and dissatisfactions you have, and we will take them seriously. But if you don't say it today, and then find fault with me for no reason in the future, I will not tolerate it." Today, he wanted everyone to express their dissatisfaction and grievances, and to correct their mistakes if necessary and encourage them if not, so as to eliminate the barriers between family members.
Zhang was impatient and was the first to speak out, "Then I'll speak first! I'm just not satisfied..."
"Then let me tell you something..."
The people of the Wang family expressed their dissatisfaction one after another, and Wang Lang addressed them one by one in a targeted manner. He talked about the current difficulties and told them what efforts they needed to make, when he would provide help, and how to help them get a satisfactory result.
After a frank discussion, the Wang family finally became much more harmonious. After the meeting, everyone even spontaneously went to do some work at home.
Only Mrs. Wang, Wang Lang, and his eldest brother, Wang Yang, were left in the living room. Wang Yang was someone Wang Lang had left behind on purpose because he felt his eldest brother had the biggest problem in the family.
Wang Lang looked at his elder brother, who was in a very bad state, and couldn't help but say, "Brother, what's wrong with you lately? Are you too tired?"
When his name was called, Wang Yang looked up in a trance and forced a smile. "Second brother, I just realized that I am a loser. You are much better than me. The family will rely on you from now on."
Old Lady Wang sighed. She had sensed that her eldest son had been too comfortable these past few years and couldn't handle the big things. She felt distressed and helpless about her son's lack of success, as well as a sense of regret.
Hearing his disheartening words, Wang Lang's eyes darkened. He clenched his fists, suppressing the rage that was escaping from his heart. Was he trying to shirk his responsibilities as the eldest son simply because he was outstanding? How could his elder brother know that his excellence was the product of countless hardships in his previous life?
"Brother, I don't know why you think this way, but do you think that I can support our family by myself? Do you want me to die of exhaustion?"
Wang Yang said softly, "With great power comes great responsibility."
Wang Lang suppressed his anger and asked, "Do you know that you are shirking your responsibilities, the responsibilities that belong to you, the eldest son of the Wang family?" He is outstanding and hardworking, and his elder brother is content to be decadent? What bullshit!
Wang Yang remained silent. What kind of eldest son was he?
On the night his father committed suicide, they were woken up by their second brother. At that time, his father was breathing more than he was breathing, and the brothers who were hurriedly woken up only had time to say their final goodbyes to him.
He urged them to live well and asked them to discuss anything they encountered.
He didn't think much of it at the time, until after his exile and arrival in Yichun, when his younger brother found him a job and also found easier work for the family's young and old. He wasn't stupid, and he soon realized that his father had handed over all the family's remaining connections, wealth, and other resources to his younger brother. Now that he thought about it, his father's words were clearly meant for him, telling him to listen to his younger brother.
Wang Yang, the eldest son, had always been a child of destiny. Suddenly, his family was struck by a drastic change. His entire family was imprisoned, and then his father committed suicide unjustly. The entire family was sentenced to exile. Arriving in Yichun, he faced hardships and an uncertain future...
All these things happened one after another, and they had already made him breathless. He was very hesitant and confused inside, but he always remembered that he was the eldest son in the family, so he tried his best to hold on.
But after realizing that his father handed over the Wang family to his second brother instead of him, his spirit was instantly dissipated.
Wang Lang didn't say anything else. He frowned and thought, what went wrong?
Old Lady Wang was anxious. She sincerely hoped that her sons were all well and that they would support each other and work together.
Wang Lang pondered for a long time, vaguely understanding his elder brother's thoughts, and was speechless. It seemed that his elder brother was not suffering enough, otherwise he would not be in the mood to think about so many things! When he found an opportunity to give him a strong dose of medicine, he would know how naive his current thinking was.
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