Seeing Meng Fei's face flushed with anger and his neck stiffened, Yu Jiao patted him lightly on the back.
"How can you talk like that? You and your mother have moved out, so this house is just sitting there idle anyway. Your cousin and I can move in and help take care of the yard."
Zhu Mei looked at Meng Fei with reproachful eyes, but was also concerned about Yu Jiao and the maids and guards behind her. It was spread throughout the nearby villages that the eldest daughter of Meng Qingyun's family was the daughter of a high-ranking official in the capital. After entering the house, Zhu Mei also asked around in a roundabout way, fearing that she would offend people. She cleared her throat and restrained herself a little. "I don't know much about this house. I got married to Meng Qiang just a few years ago. It was my parents-in-law who asked us to move in. Meng Qiang went to work in the fields, so I went to call him back to talk. You two go in and sit down first."
After saying that, Zhu Mei went out in a hurry. She first called her parents-in-law and explained the whole story to them, and then went downstairs to call Meng Qiang.
Meng Fei held his mother's urn, looked at the table in the house where his father's tablet was originally placed, which was now empty, and burst into tears.
When Liu Sanniang took him to Cangwu County, she did not take Meng Qingyun's tablet with her. She had told Meng Fei in person that Mengjia Village was their root and his father's grave was in Mengjia Village. No matter how far away they were from home, they would return to their roots in the future.
"Why are you crying?" Yu Jiao took out a handkerchief and helped Meng Fei wipe away his tears.
Meng Fei's voice choked up, "Dad's tablet is gone."
Yu Jiao sighed softly, knowing that he was sad. First, he lost his mother, then he wandered all the way to the capital, and when he returned to Mengjia Village, his house was occupied by others.
She touched Meng Fei's head and said softly, "The Meng family will rely on you to support them in the future. You are the only male in the family. If you are bullied, you should fight back. Tears can't solve the problem. Even if they can, they are only a woman's weapon."
Showing weakness is a woman’s weapon, not a man’s.
Yu Jiao doesn’t know how to teach children, but she doesn’t want Meng Fei to be raised by her and become weak and incompetent, and to swallow his anger.
Meng Fei nodded, looked up at Yu Jiao and said, "Sister, I won't cry anymore."
Yu Jiao pursed her lips and smiled, then held his slightly cold hand again, "Then take the house back and find father's tablet."
Meng Fei hummed vigorously.
Yu Jiao asked Jianjia to move out two chairs, and she and Meng Fei sat in the yard to bask in the sun. Times have changed, and now the dirty deeds of the Meng family can no longer affect her at all.
Not long after, a man and woman in their 50s came in through the gate. The woman shouted to Meng Fei, "Brother Fei and eldest girl, why are you both back?" She looked around the house, "Where's your mother? Why are you two the only ones back?"
Meng Fei looked at the two of them with hostility. Uncle Meng was most annoyed when this brat stared at him with hatred. He said sarcastically, "Didn't you send someone back from the capital? I was wondering how a golden phoenix could fly out of our pheasant's nest!"
Meng Fei was furious and said angrily: "My father passed away, and you robbed my family's land and bullied our orphans and widows. Our two families have long stopped talking to each other. You should move out of here immediately and don't force me to sue you in the county government!"
Yu Jiao looked at Meng Fei with approval, knowing that moving the county government office to bully others was also a way to solve the problem, but this method might not work for the couple in the eldest branch of the Meng family.
As expected, Uncle Meng sneered, "What do you know, little brat? Your mother ran away with you. If this house doesn't belong to us, the Meng family, who will it belong to? I will go to the county government to sue your mother for being unfaithful to her husband. She said she was there to mourn Qingyun, but in the blink of an eye, she ran off with a wild man and I don't know where she is!"
Uncle Meng's words were very harsh. The insult to his deceased mother was simply intolerable to Meng Fei. He clenched his fists and said angrily, "Shut up!"
Uncle Meng was not afraid of this young boy, and sneered, "Qingyun is gone, and it is still unclear whether you are a descendant of our Meng family!"
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