Chapter 72 Cleaning Up
Yan Zhigao did not go to Shuangxinyuan to see Aunt Lin. He just asked Madam Li to ask a doctor to take a look. After finding out that it was not a serious illness, he did not ask about it anymore and concentrated on the handover matters.
Second room.
Sun was packing her luggage with Yan Yihan and Yan Yile, while Yan Zhiyuan and Yan Wenjie, father and son, sat beside them watching. The family seemed quite harmonious and warm.
"Mom, why do we have so many things at home?" Yan Yile asked curiously when she saw Sun constantly taking things out of the house, many of which she had never seen before.
Sun smiled and said, "These are all your mother's dowry." Then she looked at Yan Zhiyuan and said proudly, "If you count carefully, your mother's dowry is not less than your aunt's."
No matter what, the Sun family was a well-known landlord in the local area, and she was a favored child at home. When she got married, her parents gave her a lot of money.
Yan Yile's eyes lit up: "Really?"
Yan Zhiyuan put down the teacup in his hand and said unhappily, "What's so real?"
Sun was unhappy: "Isn't it true that when my eldest sister-in-law married into the Yan family, she brought 36 sets of dowry. When I married into the family later, didn't the Sun family also prepare 36 sets for me?"
Yan Zhiyuan shook his head. "You're always trying to compare everything. The number of items is the same, but are the contents the same? I've seen my sister-in-law's dowry, and every single one of them is packed tightly. Is yours like that?"
Hearing this, Sun was discouraged. Compared with her sister-in-law's family, the Li family, the Sun family only had more land, and they really couldn't compare in terms of money. However, she, who had always been proud, refused to accept it.
"Then I am definitely better than the third family!"
Yan Zhiyuan: "You're going backwards. Comparing yourself to the third family? Her family is a tenant, and yours is a landlord. Do you have the nerve to compare yourself like that?"
Sun wanted to refute, but she couldn't find anything to say, so she had to pack up her things.
Yan Zhiyuan didn't continue. He still had to save face for his wife in front of the children.
Yan Wenjie gave Yan Yile a look, signaling her to change the subject.
Yan Yile rolled her eyes and immediately thought of something. She smiled and said, "Yesterday, Uncle didn't go to see Aunt Lin, and Yishuang cried."
Sun immediately put aside the previous matter and said with a smile, "That concubine Lin usually seems quite smart, but what she did yesterday was really stupid. She didn't even think about it. How could he go to her place on the first day of his return? Even if she wanted to compete for favor, she had to postpone it!"
Yan Zhiyuan also sneered, "Some people, after being spoiled, forget their own status. Even if Big Brother doesn't care about others, he still has to consider Wen Xiu and the others."
At this point, Yan Zhiyuan paused and looked at Yan Yihan and Yan Yile: "From now on, you two must get close to Daohua. Do you hear me?"
Yan Yihan nodded obediently, but Yan Yile was a little unhappy.
Sun stopped what she was doing and asked, "Master, I seem to have heard that the reason why Big Brother got promoted this time seems to be related to that girl Daohua?"
Yan Zhiyuan nodded. "I'm not very clear about the details, and my eldest brother didn't tell me either. However, my eldest brother's promotion is indeed related to Daohua. I've said it before, that girl is not simple."
Generally speaking, how can a person who is arrogant be so arrogant without some support?
Before, he thought that his eldest niece relied on the old lady, but now it seems that she relies on him!
Sun's eyes flickered, and she said uncertainly, "Mother always said Daohua was a lucky star. Could it be true? The year she was born, my eldest brother passed the imperial examination. And it hasn't been long since we came to the county town from our hometown, and he's already been promoted."
Yan Zhiyuan's expression shifted, but then he shook his head: "Alright, stop talking like that. The biggest reason for Big Brother's promotion is his own ability."
Sun nodded, said nothing more, and continued to pack.
Three bedrooms.
Compared with the huge bags in the second room, the third room had very little stuff and hardly needed to be packed.
Mrs. Wu sat on the stepping stone holding her youngest son Wenhui, and together with Yan Zhiqiang, they listened attentively to their eldest son's account of everything he had seen in the provincial capital.
After hearing about their fight with the son of the Fanzhou prefect, Wu was terrified. Yan Zhiqiang was also tense and looked at his eldest son seriously: "Wentao, when you go out in the future, you must control your temper and never conflict with others."
Yan Wentao: "Dad, this time it's really not our fault. It's that Mr. Dong who is so abominable."
Wu: "When your father speaks, you should listen carefully. It's inevitable that people will suffer grievances. If suffering a little can help you avoid disaster, then it's a good thing."
Yan Wentao didn't quite agree with what his parents said, but he knew they were worried about him, so he nodded to show his agreement.
Yan Zhiqiang sighed: "Daohua is so bold, how dare she snatch people from the hands of human traffickers?" They had no idea about rescuing people before.
Yan Wentao: "I think Daohua did the right thing. If we hadn't saved Xiao Yeyang back then, we wouldn't have been rescued by Xiao Yeyang in the prefectural city."
Yan Zhiqiang still had a frown on his face. Like millions of other people living at the bottom of society, he was used to doing his duty. When faced with something out of the ordinary, he would instinctively feel scared and timid, and was not willing to provoke the powerful at all.
Mrs. Wu understood her husband. She patted his hands and said, "Daohua has her mother watching over her, and now she has her sister-in-law to teach her. Her temperament will gradually change."
Yan Zhiqiang nodded, looking helpless. "Daohua is such a smart girl. Every time I criticize her, she always finds many reasons to refute me. Every time I think she's right, I think she's right. Sigh, I can't win the argument with her."
Mrs. Wu smiled and said, "Sometimes, I also feel that Daohua's personality is a bit erratic, but sometimes, I think it's good this way. It's not easy to suffer losses, and I can live a comfortable life."
Yan Wentao glanced at his parents who were worried about Daohua and was speechless.
Why does Daohua need his honest parents to worry about him?
Main courtyard.
A batch of household items had been arranged by Mrs. Li to be on the road. When Daohua came over, Mrs. Li was instructing the housekeeper to go to Xingzhou first to clean up the residence in advance.
"Mom, is there anything I can help you with?"
As soon as Daohua came over, she asked directly. She didn't have much stuff, so she packed it up in no time.
Mrs. Li was not polite either. She gave Daohua an account book and asked her to go and take inventory of her warehouse.
Ping Xiao came back from outside with something in his arms. As soon as he came back, he went to Madam Li and said, "Madam, just now when I passed by Shuangxin Courtyard, I saw Master Qin go in."
Hearing this, Madam Li sneered: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about her."
Ping Tong shook her head: "Master Qin went to see Aunt Lin at this time, I'm afraid he wants to go to Xingzhou with us."
Ping Xiao sneered, "She's a teacher, but she wants to go to Xingzhou. Instead of coming to see the lady, she goes to see a concubine. She's read a lot of books."
Madam Li's eyes turned cold as she looked at Ping Tong: "Take out ten taels of silver and give it to Master Qin later. Tell her how much she appreciates teaching the three girls of the Yan family over the years."
Ping Tong and Ping Xiao smiled at each other and agreed happily: "Yes!"
Madam Li is going to formally dismiss Master Qin!
Deyi Academy.
Master Qin had just returned from Shuangxinyuan. Although Aunt Lin had repeatedly assured her that she would take her to Xingzhou, she was still very nervous.
At this moment, it would be a lie to say that she had no regrets in her heart.
As a hired teacher, she really shouldn't get involved in the fight in the backyard.
It was also because Aunt Lin had lived so smoothly in the Yan family's backyard over the years that she almost forgot that the one who could really decide whether she stayed or left was actually the head of the family, Madam Li.
"Master Qin!"
Hearing Ping Tong's voice, Master Qin stood up and rushed out to meet her at an unprecedented speed.
When she saw Pingtong holding silver and cloth in her hands, her heart sank to the bottom.
(End of this chapter)
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