Yu Yuehui sighed helplessly, as if she had made a great decision, and said, "Second Aunt and Cuihua's father."
Xie Yan froze instantly. "???"
He doubted he had heard correctly and asked uncertainly, "What did you say?"
Yu Yuehui repeated it again in a low voice.
Xie Yan swallowed hard, his voice trembling with disbelief: "Are you sure? Second, Second Aunt?"
"Mmm~" Yu Yue responded softly.
Xie Yan thought about it carefully, and the voice really did seem to be her second aunt's.
But this was so different from the impression my second aunt usually gave me; the sense of incongruity was almost overwhelming.
My second aunt usually seems like a typical virtuous wife and loving mother, managing both the household and the outside world, and keeping the days in perfect order.
Moreover, my second uncle was a complete chauvinist, always acting arrogant and swaggering. Who would have thought that he would also be cuckolded?
Xie Yan smirked with schadenfreude, but then, remembering Yu Yuehui beside him, he forced a change of expression and asked in a low voice with great concern, "Does Second Uncle know about this?"
Yu Yue shook her head. "I don't know!"
"But I've also seen my second uncle rummaging through cornfields with other people!"
Xie Yan: "..."
Good heavens! This is really good heavens!
This couple is really something!
They're cheating on each other!
Seeing Yu Yuehui's calm demeanor, Xie Yan felt like he was making fun of an old feudalist.
This incident had a tremendous impact on Xie Yan, causing him to be in a daze for several days afterward.
The main problem was that he really didn't know how to face his aunt's family in the future.
Especially his second aunt. Previously, his second aunt's image in Xie Yan's mind was almost perfect, but now that image has collapsed, Xie Yan feels that his worldview has been severely impacted, and he finds it hard to accept for a while.
The most damaging thing was that this incident completely ruined Xie Yan's mindset, causing him to unconsciously develop a suspicious attitude towards everyone around him.
Everyone seems a bit suspicious!
He felt that staying cooped up in the house all day was not good, and that he was prone to overthinking when he was alone.
That day, Xie Yan saw that the weather was sunny and the sun was shining, so he thought he would go out for a walk to clear his mind.
The lake here is said to be frozen solid, and many people have gone ice skating there. Xie Yan hasn't been there yet, so he plans to go and join in the fun this time.
Before he even reached the lakeside, he heard a child's pitiful cries and pleas for mercy, the voice sharp and filled with endless fear.
Normally, Xie Yan wouldn't meddle in these kinds of parenting disputes, since everyone believed in the saying "spare the rod and spoil the child" in that environment.
Besides, it's someone else's family matter, and I don't know the inside story, so Xie Yan immediately wanted to walk towards the lake.
But as they walked, Xie Yan gradually realized that something was wrong.
He could hear the sound of the stick hitting the object clearly even from this distance, which showed how much force the person who hit him used and how hard they hit him!
Most parents discipline their children with a scare tactic and wouldn't actually hit them so hard.
Xie Yan's heart tightened. After hesitating for a moment, he turned a corner and headed towards the source of the crying. A short while later, he saw who had been hitting the child.
It turned out to be Xiao Mei, a well-known old lady from Xiliu Village.
Xie Yan was actually quite familiar with this old lady, after all, she was considered an oddball in Xiliu Village.
She is the only villager in Xiliu Village who speaks Mandarin.
Actually, she wasn't from Xiliu Village; she was said to be from the southern part of the country.
As for how she traveled across half the country to come to Xiliu Village, that's quite a romantic story.
When Yu Dalang was young, he was a notorious scoundrel in the village, spending his days idly wandering around.
No one knows how he managed to go to the south back then, but two years later, he returned with a wife.
At the time, the villagers all praised him for his abilities, after all, he was disliked by everyone in the area, and no girl wanted to marry him. Mainly because he wasn't a very upright person.
But he actually managed to marry a woman from another region, and at the time, Yu Dalang was quite the celebrity.
But later, people started saying that Yu Dalang had abducted someone else's wife.
The abducted wife was Xiao Mei.
She was already married with three children: two sons and a daughter. Her youngest daughter and son were twins, a rare pair.
Xiao Mei didn't know how she ended up with Yu Dalang. After being affectionate for a while, they decided to elope. Xiao Mei abandoned her child and husband and ran back to Xiliu Village with Yu Dalang.
It is said that she did it for so-called "true love".
Xiao Mei herself said that on the day she left, her youngest son and daughter seemed to sense something, and they pulled her eldest son and refused to go to school, insisting on staying with her.
The little girl cried and held her brother's hand, "Brother, please believe me, okay? Mom is really leaving. I overheard it. Don't go to school anymore, stay with us and stay with Mom."
The little boy next to him also nodded, tears streaming down his face.
Xiao Mei felt a pang of sadness, so she specially bought a bag of chicken cakes and coaxed and tricked the child away. Then she followed Yu Dalang to a distant place.
At that time, marriage certificates were not very common, and they did not get a marriage certificate. Once they left, they completely lost contact with the other side.
All these years, I've never visited my child.
She had a good plan: children can be born again.
But after all these years, Yu Dalang and Xiao Mei have still not had a child.
Gradually, Yu Dalang began to reveal his true nature.
He wasn't a good person to begin with. At first, he tried to coax and deceive Xiao Mei in every way, but as time went on, once he was sure that Xiao Mei wouldn't leave, he revealed his true colors. He became short-tempered and sometimes even hit her.
At this point, Xiao Mei already regretted it, but there's no going back in life!
Amidst the heavy farm work, Xiao Mei gradually lost her former appearance and became no different from the rural women born and raised here.
She is currently taking care of Yu Erlang's two children.
Yu Erlang was not a responsible person either. He married a mentally challenged woman and had two children, after which he stopped caring about her.
One day, the foolish wife disappeared somewhere.
Anyway, she disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead, and of course, no one went looking for her.
At first, Yu Erlang was able to take care of the children, but gradually, as the two children grew older, especially since the younger one was a girl, it became less convenient for Yu Erlang to take care of them.
I don't know what she was thinking, but she directly handed both children over to Xiao Mei to take care of.
These two children went from being completely unsupervised to being controlled in everything they did—eating, sleeping, even the volume of their voices—with no gradual transition in between.
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