Because her daughter is filial.
"You all take advantage of Xuancao's filial piety and bully her all day long! Now that the Ji family's son is injured, Xuancao herself agreed to go with the army to take care of him. What right do you have to call him back?"
The old village chief glared at the Zhao family of three, his face full of anger at their lack of self-respect. "If only you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place? Let me tell you, the village will not stand up for you. You stay at home all day pretending to be dead and not doing any work. When the time comes and you don't get any food and go hungry, you can't blame anyone else!"
After saying this, the old village chief ignored Zhao Tiezhu's attempts to persuade him to stay and left with his men.
Without the support of the villagers and unable to return the bride price, the Zhao family dared not argue with the Ji family.
The women of the Ji family gave the Zhao family of three a good scolding, and only when they were exhausted from scolding them did the whole family leave.
Yu Mingxiang watched a grand spectacle, then, arm in arm with her daughter-in-law, followed the crowd of onlookers away.
On the way back, Xue Ru looked worried.
Seeing this, Yu Mingxiang comforted her, "Don't worry, although the Ji family has a lot of people, they don't seem unreasonable. They are making a fuss about returning the betrothal gifts, but they are actually sure that the Zhao family can't return them. They don't want your sister to go back to the Zhao family, that den of wolves."
"Um."
Xue Ru nodded, "I think the Ji family is quite nice, but I'm just worried about my sister..."
Yu Mingxiang smiled upon hearing this.
"What are you worried about with your sister? Are you worried she's not thinking straight?"
Seeing that no one was around, she patted Xue Ru's hand and said, "Don't worry! Your sister isn't blindly filial. She just doesn't know her own background and treats the Zhao family as her blood relatives. Once she knows the truth, she'll be fine."
Yu Mingxiang had complete faith in her daughter.
After all, in her previous life, her daughter was loved to death by a talented man like Ji Zichen, so how could she be bad?
Relieved, Xue Ru and her mother-in-law returned to the clinic together to continue seeing patients.
Time flies, and it's already mid-July.
The wheat in the field turns yellow as soon as the wind blows.
The village has already begun preparing the threshing ground.
Yu Mingxiang originally thought that Gu Guanhai would not stay in the village for long, but he ended up staying for almost a month.
Living under the same roof, Gu Guanhai openly and secretly helped Yu Mingxiang a lot, and even accompanied her to the mountains to collect herbs every day. Everyone in the village saw this, and over time, rumors about the two of them began to circulate.
After meals, the villagers would gossip about the two of them.
Wu Xiangju, who went to the countryside with Yu Mingxiang, was particularly animated when talking about their gossip.
"What good things can possibly happen between a widow and a bachelor living together?"
"Let me tell you, I saw that guy surnamed Gu helping Dr. Yu get water to wash her clothes. Tsk tsk, the way they were looking at each other, they were practically drooling!"
"It's alright at home, at least there are three children there. But they went up the mountain together, and there was no one else on the mountain. Tsk tsk, like dry wood meeting a raging fire, who knows what they did?"
"..."
Rumors were flying everywhere, and Yu Mingxiang was seeing patients at the clinic every day, so she had to deal with people all the time.
Soon, someone asked about her face.
"Dr. Yu, you and Gu Guanhai..."
The visitor was an old woman from the next village, her eyes gleaming with gossip. "Dr. Yu, are you considering remarrying? If you are, I can introduce you to someone better. After all, Gu Guanhai's eyesight is bad, and he's unreliable..."
Yu Mingxiang: ...
As they spent more time together, she came to think Gu Guanhai was a good person, but...
Now that things have come to this, some things must be brought to a close.
If Gu Guanhai won't break through that thin layer of paper, then she will be the one to break through it!
Although she looks about the same age as Gu Guanhai, she has no intention of remarrying, despite having the mind of an old woman inside her.
When Xue Ru saw the old lady from the next village arrive, her mother-in-law looked solemn and somewhat uneasy.
Time will tell, and she now really thinks highly of Uncle Gu.
He is down-to-earth and capable, and also knows how to conduct himself appropriately and when to advance or retreat.
But……
She doesn't have the final say on this.
That night.
When Yu Mingxiang and her daughter-in-law returned home from get off work, she saw her daughter-in-law go to the backyard and then knocked on Gu Guanhai's door.
"Please come in."
Gu Guanhai's deep voice came from inside the room.
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