Chapter 160 From now on, we'll live together!
Yao Shisan didn't know if Xiao Shu's men had caught up, and she dared not take any risks.
Duan Feiyang and Dan Niang went to the night market, while she stayed at the inn to look after the three children.
Children have limited energy, and soon, three even breaths came from the bed.
Yao Shisan had been on the go all day. When he was on the boat, he kept feeling like pursuers were chasing him closely when he closed his eyes.
After a day of constant anxiety, she dozed off against the headboard after her child fell asleep.
Yao Shisan was half asleep. She felt like she was in a noisy area, but there was no sound at all.
Fu'er and Xiao Pangxi, who had always been by her side, had disappeared, and she couldn't find them anywhere.
She tried to call out the names of her two children, but couldn't.
They couldn't say anything or make any sounds.
Suddenly a tall, dark figure appeared behind her, holding her two children in its hands!
The large, dark figure spoke, telling her to go back with him and get married.
The large, dark figure was Xiao Shu; he was gripping a child's neck with one hand.
Xiao Shu said that if she disobeyed, the price she would pay would be the lives of her two children!
He tossed the two children high into the air!
"don't want!"
Yao Shisan woke up covered in sweat.
She looked at her three children sleeping peacefully on the bed and let out a long sigh of relief.
My heart, which had been pounding wildly, gradually calmed down.
She rubbed her aching neck, got up and went to the outer room, only to find Dan Niang secretly wiping away tears.
"Danniang?"
Dan Niang quickly wiped away her tears. "Madam Yao, did I wake you up when I came back?"
"No, I just came out to get some water because I was thirsty." Yao Shisan sat down beside her. "What's wrong?"
Dan Niang looked at her with red eyes, "Madam Yao, I'm not going back to Ding County. I'll go with you. We can look after each other if we're together."
"Don't be impulsive." Yao Shisan patted her reassuringly. "Did you have a fight with Duan Feiyang?"
Dan Niang sobbed twice, "Madam Yao, Duan Feiyang is reliable, but not someone I can rely on."
“I want to live a good life, but he’s just dragging us into his own quagmire.”
"He still thinks of his younger brother and that his sister-in-law is the only one who has ended up like this because she has no job."
Yao Shisan frowned. "The biggest problem with the Duan family is that his mother is unfair and his father doesn't care."
She didn't have much contact with the Duan family, but she knew from their first meeting that Dan Niang's mother-in-law disliked her.
Duan Feiyang and Dan Niang are both ambitious and hardworking young people.
Unfortunately, the Duan family was sandwiched in the middle.
Duan Feiyang is foolish again, and he hurt his wife's feelings.
If Duan Feiyang could realize his mistake and only provide emergency relief to the Duan family without offering long-term support, the couple's problems would naturally be resolved.
Duan Feiyang was too naive. Did he really think he could change his brother's lazy and greedy nature?
Dan Niang couldn't help but tear up again.
Her voice trembled and rose a few decibels, "Even an outsider understands, he remains stubbornly deluded!"
"He also wanted me to bring Wang Su'e into the city, while he would bring his younger brother into the navy."
Dan Niang has given up hope.
“Madam Yao, I’ve made up my mind. Wherever you go, I’ll go with you.”
“Staying in Ding County will ruin me now, and it will ruin my daughter later.”
She stared intently at Yao Shisan, "If you can walk, so can I!"
"There's nowhere in the world that can't be home, why should I rot in the mud with him!"
Looking at her face, Yao Shisan seemed to see himself back when he was determined to leave the capital.
She pursed her lips slightly, "This journey will be very arduous."
“I’ve thought about it. Duan Feiyang makes sense. If we want to avoid Xiao Shu, we should go to the capital first, use the capital as a transit point, write to my brother, and then decide where to go next.”
I think it's a good idea!
Dan Niang's dejected expression vanished, replaced by longing. "I've never even been to Yuzhou, and now I can go to the capital!"
Seeing how quickly she changed, Yao Shisan couldn't help but chuckle.
The next day.
Yao Shisan only found out when he got to the dock that there were no daily boats to the capital and that reservations had to be made through a boat company.
She turned around and went to the shipping company.
The boat was still the same as always; as soon as you entered, you were greeted by a wave of heat, and in no time you felt your frozen hands and feet warm up.
"Is there anything you need, sir?" the boatman asked as he approached.
Yao Shisan asked, "When will there be a ship going to the capital?"
"Servant," the servant said, "the ship to the capital won't be until the day after tomorrow."
"It'll be the day after tomorrow..." Yao Shisan said somewhat anxiously, "What about the ship to Jizhou?"
Yesterday, she asked the boatman if she wanted to go to Bianzhou, and he said that she could first take a boat to Jizhou and then travel by land.
"Servant," he said, "will be available this afternoon."
Yao Shisan no longer hesitated, "To Jizhou! One upper cabin!"
The waiter said, "Yes, sir, please pay here."
The clerk at the counter wrote her a ticket for a seat on the boat.
Yao Shisan breathed a sigh of relief as he held the ticket; he could leave soon.
As she walked out, Wang Lingyan happened to come out of the backyard, and she happened to see Yao Shisan leaving with the boat seat ticket.
The servant saw the customer off and turned around to see her. "Miss."
Wang Lingyan narrowed her eyes slightly. "What's she doing here?"
"Servant," she said, "she's going to Jizhou and has bought a superior cabin for today."
She looked away. "Bring me her bottom line."
According to the rules of the Wang family's shipping company, no money can be collected at the bow of the boat, and everyone can only board the boat if their seat ticket and bottom ticket match.
Wang Lingyan tore her ballot in half!
"She is not allowed to do business."
The servant looked troubled. "But we've already received the money."
She turned her head sharply, her face contorted with anger, and said, "What do you mean by taking money? She has a fake ticket!"
She still remembers the slap she received!
Now that we're here, I still want to ride on her family's boat!
No way!
Yao Shisan was unaware that Wang Lingyan had torn up her ballot. When she returned to the inn, she heard Dan Niang and Duan Feiyang arguing again.
Duan Feiyang: "Luo Danniang! How have you become so unreasonable!"
"Are you trying to get someone to accuse me of being unfilial?!"
Dan Niang's eyes were red. "I didn't ask you to be unfilial! But you can't make me and Xuan'er suffer for the sake of your filial piety!"
Duan Feiyang couldn't understand, "When have I ever wronged you!"
Dan Niang said, "Then why is it that we're always the ones paying the bills! Why am I the one who does all the laundry and cooking! I even took care of Wang Su'e during her postpartum period!"
"Why did Wang Su'e only have to take care of the children after marrying into the Duan family, and not do anything else?"
"Even a fool like Duan Feicheng knew to tell Wang Su'e to feign illness and slack off! Yet you've made me do it all!"
"I'm not afraid of hardship, so why am I the only one being bullied!"
Dan Niang cried so hard she could barely stand, and the children huddled in the house in fear.
Yao Shisan quickly ran back.
"Duan Feiyang! If you're a man, you should go back and intimidate your parents and brother, instead of showing off in front of Dan Niang!"
When Danniang looked up and saw Yao Shisan speaking up for her, she immediately hugged her, buried her face in Yao Shisan's shoulder, and burst into tears!
Duan Feiyang looked at her with great dissatisfaction, "Madam Yao, I escorted you to Chuzhou, and you want to break me up with Danniang!"
While comforting Dan Niang, Yao Shisan glared angrily at him.
"Was it me who broke you and Dan Niang up, or was it yourself?"
"You can't see Dan Niang's grievances! You can't see your mother's favoritism either!"
"Since you're so eager to be filial to your parents, go back and be filial to them yourself! I won't accept this injustice!"
Duan Feiyang nodded, turned around and went into the inner room to carry Xuan'er out.
Xuan'er was so frightened that she burst into tears!
"Alright, Luo Danniang, I'll let you go. Let's go home, father and daughter."
"What are you doing! Put Xuan'er down!"
When Danniang saw him about to take the child away, she rushed forward and tried to snatch her away, shouting, "This is my daughter!"
Duan Feiyang: "Xuan'er's surname is Duan, she's a daughter of the Duan family! If you don't come back with me, Xuan'er must come back with me!"
"What would I do if I went back with you? Become your two nephews' maids?!"
Danniang held her daughter tightly and wouldn't let go.
Xuan'er clung tightly to her mother's clothes, crying, "I want my mother!"
Duan Feiyang never expected that neither his wife nor his daughter would want him.
"Xuan'er! I am your father, why won't you come with me!"
"I want my mother!" Xuan'er was terrified. She clung tightly to her mother and cried loudly!
Fu'er also ran out, grabbed Duan Feiyang's leg, and bit down hard!
"Don't you dare bully Xuan'er!"
"Ah!" Duan Feiyang let go.
Dan Niang quickly pushed Xuan'er and Fu'er into the inner room.
She instructed the two of them to stay with their younger brother, Pangxi, and not to go out.
Dan Niang turned to Duan Feiyang and said, "If you don't want to harm Xuan'er, then don't try to take her from me."
“Your family doesn’t like her, and no one will protect her now that I’m gone.”
Duan Feiyang looked hurt. "I am Xuan'er's father. How could I not protect her!"
"You cherish Xuan'er, and I cherish her too!"
Dan Niang no longer wanted to argue with him. "You can leave now."
Yao Shisan said, "You can't wake up someone who's stubbornly clinging to their delusions. Go back now."
"Perhaps you will understand Dan Niang's pain when you are also dragged into the quagmire and unable to move."
Duan Feiyang walked out of the room with his hands hanging down.
His wife and daughters no longer wanted him.
Mother was right. Dan Niang no longer approves of him, and he can't hold onto her.
He trusted Dan Niang so much.
Dan Niang slapped him hard, waking him up.
Yao Shisan hugged Dan Niang, who seemed to have lost all her strength, and said, "Don't be afraid, I've already bought the boat tickets, we'll be leaving soon!"
Danniang buried her face in her shoulder, her voice trembling, "We can never go back to the way things were."
How could she not understand? Duan Feiyang would cherish his wife and daughter. He was a normal person outside, capable and reliable.
He changes whenever he's with his family; he becomes unconditionally tolerant and even demands that Dan Niang be tolerant with him.
He was the eldest son of the Duan family, but Dan Niang was not.
He and Danniang finally managed to get out of this predicament because they had an ambitious spirit.
But his brother is not.
If Duan Feiyang doesn't come to his senses, he and Dan Niang will have no future.
Yao Shisan said, "Perfect. Let him go back on his own. He'll see things clearly. Give him a chance."
"If not, we'll live together from now on!"
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