Her inner gossip was growing wildly, and she finally understood why the beautiful woman was always so gossipy whenever she encountered something related to her.
The more you care, the more you want to know.
Her bright eyes lit up with a smile, a hint of mischief flashing in them: "Sister-in-law Li, may I ask you some questions?"
Seeing her like this, Sister-in-law Li was suddenly lost in thought.
I didn't pay much attention before, but now that I look at her, I realize that the young lady and the madam are exactly alike when they were young, even their smiles are nine-tenths similar.
After a long pause, she slowly nodded: "Of course."
"Were you already in the Fu family when my mother gave birth to my eldest brother?"
Sister-in-law Li nodded, then added, "I am your mother's personal bodyguard. I have been with her since she was ten years old, so I have watched the young masters grow up."
Hearing this, she finally understood why her sister-in-law always looked at her brothers with such loving and gentle expressions when they parted.
She probably treated these children as her own.
"So, was my older brother like this even when he was a baby?"
Sister-in-law Li shook her head, recalled the past, and smiled. After a while, she said, "When your eldest brother was a child, he was just like any other child. He was spoiled by his family. As the eldest son, he always bullied your second brother."
Tang Yaoyao, thinking of her eldest brother's aloof and gentle temperament, couldn't imagine him and her second brother fighting like madmen.
She felt a little disappointed, as she had missed her brothers' childhood.
The parting sister-in-law seemed to see her disappointment and began to recount the past: "Back then, the eldest young master couldn't tolerate the other children of his wife, especially when the second young master was born. He always thought that the second young master was here to steal his love."
"Then what?"
"When he was in kindergarten, he got into a fight with one of the kids in his class. He could have won the fight, but the kid called his older brother, and they beat him up badly. After that, he understood the meaning of being an older brother."
Tang Yaoyao asked again, "After we go back, will you love your second brother very much?"
"His attitude improved, and with the Madam's education, he truly began to regard the Second Young Master as an important part of his life when the Second Young Master was one and a half years old and started calling him 'brother.' From then on, he understood the responsibility of being an older brother. It only took a day or two. In fact, the eldest and second young masters had been fighting since they were little, and that's how their relationship developed."
"Oh, I see..."
Seeing her brothers so united and loving, she assumed they had been connected since birth. It seems they were just like children from ordinary families, whose rivalry for affection eventually turned into deep brotherly love.
Tang Yaoyao asked with great interest, "Weren't the two brothers doing well? Why did you have me?"
"It all started with Dr. Gu's younger sister. The second young master was playing at the Gu family home and got along very well with the Gu family's little princess. After leaving the Gu family home, he kept crying for his sister. Madam had no choice but to agree to his request. However, he kept asking for his sister every day. In addition, the relationship between the master and madam was already very good, so you came into being."
Tang Yaoyao found it hard to imagine that her arrogant and charming second brother would cry and clamor for his younger sister all day long.
It seems she should thank her second brother for her birth.
"Then why did your parents adopt your third brother?"
My eldest brother told me that my third brother was the first child my parents adopted.
"Most of the battles within wealthy families are over the inheritance. Two brothers turn against each other, causing one side to lose their wife and children. The lady was worried that the eldest and second sons would suffer the same fate when they grew up, so she brought the third and fifth sons back when they were very young."
She picked up an apple, peeled it, and continued, "Madam thinks that if there are many brothers, they can be united and friendly from childhood and make progress together. When they grow up, they will be role models for each other, and each of them can achieve something. Naturally, there will be no scene of fighting for the family property."
So that's how it is.
I have to say, Mom's way of educating her kids is fantastic.
At least, she has a very good relationship with the brothers she has recognized.
Even the usually aloof and unapproachable Master Xiao showed great respect for his elder brother and was very protective of his younger brother.
There is no one out of the ordinary in the Fu family.
Did they all get along well at first?
Thinking back to that time, Sister-in-law couldn't help but laugh and cry. She told her, "It wasn't good. Everyone has a temper. In the first ten years when the husband and wife started taking care of the children, every day it was either this young master crying or that young master making a fuss. The house was in complete chaos. The young masters learned to form gangs when they started elementary school, and they would fight in the back garden every day."
Tang Yaoyao was terrified when she heard this.
The brothers are too noisy.
Fortunately, my mom has a good temper and tolerated it, so she didn't kick any of them out of the house.
"The lady had a bad temper. At first, she tried to persuade him gently, but no one paid any attention. After that, she built a Buddhist temple and set a rule that as long as someone committed a crime, no matter who was right or wrong, all of her dozen or so brothers would be locked in the Buddhist temple and not allowed to come out for a week."
Upon hearing this, Tang Yaoyao laughed until her stomach hurt, and it took her a while to calm down: "Then wouldn't the Buddhist hall be destroyed by my brothers?"
"That was indeed the case at first. They fought outside and inside. When they went in, they were all precious young masters of the Fu family. When they came out, they were all little beggars on the streets, with injuries here and there, and they all smelled terrible. They even had to go to the bathhouse and help each other bathe."
As Tang Yaoyao listened, she suddenly felt a great admiration for her mother.
Taking care of these naughty children would probably give her a huge headache.
However, Mom does have a lot of tricks up her sleeve when it comes to educating her child.
After committing the crime, locking everyone up was actually a way of telling the brothers that this was a family, a group, and that when relationships were in trouble, no one could escape unscathed.
After they came out, they had them take a bath together.
They were supposed to give each other the silent treatment after their fight, but the Ghost Princes were all very clean, so they had to hold their breath and help each other take a bath. As they bathed, their relationship improved.
"This went on for two or three years. One time, the eldest and second young masters each led six of their underlings and got into another fight. Everyone thought that they would be released after being locked in the Buddhist hall for a week, but the madam locked them up for a month."
After they came out, they weren't allowed to take a shower; they all obediently knelt in the back garden.
That time, the lady was truly determined to teach this group of disobedient young masters a lesson.
After clarifying the details of the matter, the second young master said it was the eldest young master's fault, that he wanted to take over his brother's position and set a good example.
The eldest son sensed her anger. After all, he was young and would fight whenever things got heated. During the month they spent in the Buddhist temple, their relationship warmed up again. He couldn't bear to see his younger brothers suffer, so he admitted that he, as the eldest brother, had done wrong.
Even though the lady knew perfectly well that things weren't like that, she still lashed out at the eldest young master in front of everyone.
Then, they cruelly threw him over their shoulder, resulting in the young master breaking his arm.
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