Who would have thought that the third son of the Yun family was also a womanizer and the only one in the Yun family to take a concubine.
After her son was born, she always taught him to be a scholar.
So Yun Tianyi couldn't bear getting up early every morning to exercise and cried all the time, which melted her mother's heart.
Upon hearing her words, Old Madam Yun snorted coldly, "My Yun family is a family of military generals. Even for the civil service examinations, we still need to practice martial arts!"
Guo dared not speak again.
Yun Tianyi burst into tears again, “Grandmother! Third Brother beats me every day. He beats me if I can’t stand up straight, if I run too slowly, and even if I can’t shoot an arrow…Grandmother, I don’t want to practice martial arts, I don’t want to practice martial arts!”
Yun Tiankuang glared at him angrily and raised his fist.
Yun Tianyi first shrank his head, but then looked at Guo Shi and felt that if he didn't try now, he would have no chance. He cried again, "I want to be a scholar and pass the imperial examination with top honors. Why should I train myself to be smelly and unpleasant to others? I don't want to become a roughneck!"
Upon hearing her brother's words, Yun Manyin coughed violently.
Madam Yun slammed her chopsticks on the table. "Who said that martial artists are all uncouth?! Although your father was the least skilled in martial arts among the four brothers, he had been practicing since childhood. How could he be considered uncouth? Besides, your uncles and eldest brother are all on the battlefield..."
She choked up at this point.
She originally wanted to say that they had all made great achievements on the battlefield, but now... they have become negative examples.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became subdued.
Yun Manyin's coughing wouldn't stop, sounding especially jarring in the silence.
Guo was both anxious and angry, but she couldn't get up to go to her daughter's side and comfort her.
Yun Manyan could only gently pat her back from the side.
"Hehe, everyone, eat your food, eat your food!" Madam Zhou quickly smoothed things over. "After the spring, we can indeed ask someone about the tuition fees for the clan school. Also, I plan to rebuild that ruin into a separate courtyard, and preparations for our eldest daughter's marriage are about to begin. In the past six months, there have finally been some happy events."
The eldest daughter, Yun Manwan, patted her second sister's back to help her catch her breath. Hearing this, a blush rose on her cheeks, and she teased, "I'm the eldest, so the happy event will naturally start with me. Soon it will be my second sister's turn!"
In her view, her large family would definitely be staying in this village for at least a decade or more. Even if they could wait until her younger brothers, Yun Tiankuang and his siblings, passed the imperial examinations and returned to the capital, she and her second sister would already be past marriageable age. If they didn't find someone to marry in the village, were they really going to become old maids?
She had met Zhao Huai twice more in the past few days and found the young man increasingly handsome and kind. She thought that even a simple life with such a young man would be perfectly acceptable.
She said this purely out of a hope that her second sister could find a good family to marry into, preferably one in the village, so that they could live closer to each other.
Upon hearing this, Yun Manyin's face turned even worse, and she coughed even more violently and uncontrollably, waving her hands haphazardly and saying, "No, no, no, no."
The fifth daughter, Yun Manqian, said crisply to Aunt Shen beside her, "Aunt, my little cousin gave me a needle prick in my hand the other day, and my fever and cough stopped. Why didn't my second sister let my little cousin get a needle prick?"
Aunt Shen hesitated and didn't dare to speak. She put a dish into her bowl and whispered, "Eat quickly."
Hearing that her daughter's marriage was mentioned, Guo became even more depressed. She glanced at Su and said, "Speaking of which, I have to ask my cousin Su, your Chen-ge and Xiao You-ran have only studied medicine for a few days, yet they dare to stick needles into my Yin-jie. What if they hurt her?"
Madam Su smiled and said, "I trust my own daughter and son. If my third cousin-in-law doesn't believe, then there's no need to accept it. Whether or not to treat them is ultimately up to you. Of course, you'll also have to bear the consequences of their illness and pain."
Guo was furious. She snorted, "I don't know where you get your confidence from. A four-year-old girl and a seven-year-old brat..."
Madam Yun slammed her chopsticks down on the table again, "Third son's wife, what day is it today?!"
Guo's heart skipped a beat. "It's...it's New Year's Eve."
Madam Yun's voice grew even sterner, "You still know today is New Year's Eve? If Ya Rong hadn't brought this four-year-old girl and this seven-year-old brat here two months ago, would we be able to eat and dress so well today?! Don't you even go and see what dishes are on Da Zhu's table next door?! What clothes are they wearing?!"
Madam Guo also got angry, "You all keep talking about this lucky star and that lucky treasure! You cherish your Su family niece so much, why didn't you marry her in the first place? If you had, everything she's doing now would be her due! It would save us from having to worry about whether we owe her a favor or repay her kindness every day!"
Upon hearing this, Madam Zhou's face turned ashen. "Third sister-in-law, you'd better watch your words!"
Guo looked around, a cold smile on her face. "Heh, even if she marries in, she might not necessarily take your place! I'd rather she marry the third son than me!"
Li quickly pulled her aside, saying, "Third sister-in-law, what you're saying is getting more and more outrageous. There are children here!"
Guo was so angry she couldn't stop. She shook off Li's hand and said, "Since we've already gotten this far, I'm not afraid to say another word. Everyone said the Yun family had good family traditions and no concubines, but look, I've only been married into the family for a few years, and Yun Rui has already taken a beautiful concubine! I haven't even had a few good years before I've been demoted to a commoner and sent back to my hometown! Why should I, the daughter of the Minister of War, come here with you to be a peasant woman? I truly regret marrying into the Yun family! Besides, Yi-ge'er is my son. Whether he takes the imperial examinations and enters officialdom or not, whether he practices martial arts or not, is not up to me, his mother! And, if your Wan-jie doesn't mind these peasants, don't make our Yin-jie marry into this village too!"
Yu kept giving her meaningful glances, but she ignored them and finished her sentence in one breath. Still not satisfied, she continued, "Young Master Wen gave so many things, but only Wan'er received a gold hairpin. She's getting married, but doesn't she know what kind of poor boy she's marrying? Does she deserve such a big gold hairpin?"
"Shut up!" Old Madam Yun shouted, her voice trembling.
Yun Manyan felt extremely distressed.
But does she have a choice?
The room was completely silent.
After calming down for a moment, Madam Yun suddenly asked, "So, when you asked for a divorce on the day you left the capital, was that really what you truly felt?"
She always thought that Guo was just scared that day, and seeing her mother by her side, she impulsively asked for a divorce so that her mother would take her home.
Unexpectedly, after going through so much, just when things were starting to get better, she started acting up again?
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