In the days that followed, she deliberately avoided Aunt Tang whenever she came to see her, and even when she did come, she would not speak to her.
Aunt Tang asked anxiously, "Huanhuan, why are you ignoring me? Didn't we agree to go house hunting together?"
“I’ve looked at several more houses these days, and they’re all quite nice. Shall we go take a look?”
Upon hearing this, Liu Huan replied, "No need, I've already found it, so I won't trouble you."
Upon hearing this, Aunt Tang smiled and said, "Really? Where is it located? Do you need to move? I'll help you move."
Liu Huan turned to look at her, "Can't you understand human language? I said I don't need it. Is it so hard to understand a few words like 'don't need'? Who am I to you? Why do you need to care so much?"
Aunt Tang waved her hand: "No, I just wanted to help you..."
“I don’t need it. If you really have that energy, you should take good care of your husband and children. We outsiders are not worth your trouble.”
Aunt Tang seemed to realize something. Her eyes widened, filled with panic: "No, Huanhuan, let me explain. I... I had no choice."
Liu Huan grew angrier as she listened, and shouted, "What do I care if you have no choice or not? I don't care at all. Please stop bothering me. I have a family, parents, older brothers and sisters, money, and I'm friends with the Guan family. I also know the prefect. I lack nothing."
Since things had come to this point, Aunt Tang naturally knew what she meant.
So he left, dejected and heartbroken.
When she got back, she saw her husband, Yang Xiucai, waiting at the door. She didn't dare to look up at him and said with her head down, "You're back. I'll go cook."
Yang Xiucai shook his head, "No need, I'll buy it to eat later. Tell me what you want, I won't be angry."
Back then, Scholar Yang knew that his wife was not a virgin, but he loved her. Although he had reservations, he still persuaded himself to accept it.
Just like now, even though he knows his wife has a problem, he pretends not to know, and when he sees her with red eyes, he even tries to comfort her.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Aunt Tang said, crying as she apologized.
The two stood at the door for a long time before going inside. Once inside, Aunt Tang said directly, "Husband, please divorce me. I'm sorry."
"Is that really what you think?"
Aunt Tang fell silent. That wasn't what she thought; she just felt sorry for him.
Tell me, let's face this together, okay?
Aunt Tang then revealed the secret she had kept for over a decade.
That year, Aunt Tang was a teenage girl, the village beauty of Tangjia Village. She fell in love with the village chief's son when she was young.
The man was handsome and refined, and the two secretly fell in love and consummated their relationship.
As a result, they were discovered, and the boy was taken away from his hometown by his family overnight. The Tang family wanted their daughter to abort the child, but the child was already too old, and if they aborted the child, both the adult and the child might be in danger.
Left with no other choice, the family moved to town. After giving birth, Tang's mother took the baby and threw it away, lying that the baby had died.
After her confinement period ended, Aunt Tang began searching everywhere and encountered Scholar Yang on the road.
Yang Xiucai fell in love with her at first sight and inquired everywhere, sending people to act as matchmakers. Tang's parents were overjoyed and threatened to kill themselves, so Tang Aunt gave up the search for her child.
She married into Qingyang County and has kept this secret ever since.
"I'm so sorry, please divorce me, waaaaaah!"
When Yang Rui entered the room, he saw his mother kneeling on the ground crying. He rushed forward and hugged her tightly. "Mother, Mother, what's wrong? Father and Mother didn't mean it. Please forgive her."
In a fit of anger, Yang Xiucai left the house and was not home for several days. Aunt Tang packed her things at home and waited for her husband to give her the letter of divorce.
When Yang Xiucai returned, he pretended that nothing had happened, saying, "I went to the private school and will be back for dinner in a while."
Aunt Tang's tired face lit up with joy: "Okay, I'll go buy groceries."
A few days later, the two made up completely, because Yang Xiucai decided after some thought.
He still couldn't forget her and couldn't bear to let her go.
Even if she made serious mistakes in the past, so what? She still gave birth to my son and takes good care of me. As long as the elders in the family don't know, that's fine.
I came back after trying to convince myself.
He accompanied Aunt Tang to the entrance of the courtyard rented by Liu Huan, only to find that she had already left.
The lock was covered in dust, and when I asked someone nearby, they said it had been gone for a long time.
When I went to Chunhuilou to ask, they also said they hadn't been there in a long time.
Actually, she had moved. Liu Huan didn't want to see her again; she was just a stranger, and seeing her would only cause him more trouble.
She planned to focus on making money, because nothing was more loyal than money.
A few days after moving into the new house, the Su family from town came to visit.
It was Liu Huan who delivered the letter. Since they had bought a house in the county town, they naturally wanted to invite relatives to celebrate the housewarming. They only invited Guan Chang and Lian Lou, as well as a few students who were friends with Su Yi.
Two tables were set up.
Guan Chang was slightly tipsy when he accidentally bumped into Cao'er, who was walking in. No, she's not called Cao'er anymore, she's called Su Wan.
Everyone changed their names, so naturally she had to too. She was a grown woman of seventeen or eighteen; she couldn't still call herself "Cao'er" in front of outsiders.
"Wan-meimei, are you alright?"
Although Guan Chang calls Su Yi "Brother Su," it's just a title; he's already nineteen years old this year.
Cao'er blushed and lowered her head, saying, "It's nothing," before returning to the kitchen.
No one except the parties involved knows about this little incident.
The next day, Su's mother began to think about the shop in town. "I want to go back. The shop at home has been closed for a few days."
Liu Huan suggested, "Mother, why don't we hire someone to watch over the shops in town, and you can come and live in the county too?"
Giving up would be something they definitely wouldn't want to do, since the Su family's general store was the most profitable, even more so than the cold dish shop.
Because the county gets all the chili peppers it needs from there, everyone knows they have a relationship with the Guan family, so no one dares to cause trouble.
Su's mother hesitated for a moment: "No, we don't know what we can do here. We might as well go back and look after things ourselves."
Liu Huan called her aside and whispered something to her before she said, "Then we have to go back too. We'll come back once we've made arrangements."
The newly purchased courtyard house is a large two-section house. Su's parents live in the main courtyard, while the best view on the east side is reserved for Su Yi. Cao'er, Liu Huan, and Chen Lian live in the side courtyard.
Da Shi and Fang Yi live in the south.
Xiao Shi and Chen Yang lived on the west side, while Chang Sheng volunteered to live in the front yard.
Da Shi and Fang Yi originally wanted to go back, but Liu Huan stopped them, saying, "Brother and sister-in-law, why don't you stay in the county and see what kind of business you can do? Anyway, you've already bought a house, so you don't have to worry about where to live."
Upon hearing this, Su's father felt that since everyone was there, there was no reason for Da Shi and his wife to go back. He said, "Then you all stay. Your mother and I will go back and settle things at the shop in town before we come back."
Da Shi was worried and wanted to go back with them, but was stopped. "Why are you worried about us going back? You just see what you want to do, make a name for yourself, and everything will be yours in the future."
Upon hearing this, Da Shi was moved but also felt bad. Fang Yi accepted generously, saying, "Thank you, parents. Da Shi and I will take on the responsibility of this family in the future."
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