Yang Yongxian shook his head, "Sir, this is a critical moment. You can't give yourself a chance to retreat or take a breath. As long as you get through this difficulty, everything will be fine in the future."
Lao Yangtou nodded, his eyes burning brightly.
As expected of the eldest grandson of my old Yang family, this perseverance is great!
Yang Yongxian was practicing walking in the yard. Old Yang looked around but did not see Liao Meiying.
So he asked the third girl who had just come out from the east room to help Tan change her diaper: "Third girl, where is your sister-in-law?"
The third girl was a little confused and glanced around: "I don't know, I've been busy with things in the milk house."
After saying these words, the three girls turned around, packed up, and went to the entrance of the village to wash themselves.
Old Yangtou then told Yu Xingkui: "Go to the front yard and see if Yongxian's wife is in the house. If she is, ask her to come over. Yongxian is practicing walking here. Why can't her wife be with you?" It’s here!”
Yu Xingkui was a little embarrassed. To be honest, he got two taels of silver a month and came to serve the old man's food and daily life. He didn't want to offend anyone by intervening in the big house's affairs.
"Old Uncle Yang, it's not appropriate for a grown man like me to find a younger wife, so I recommend you to go there yourself? Otherwise, we have to wait? Maybe Yongxian's wife is busy with other things?"
Old Yangtou said angrily: "What is she so busy with? Isn't she just taking care of the children, washing and cooking? It's not a serious matter!"
"What's wrong with washing and cooking? Washing, cooking and taking care of children is not a job or a serious matter? If this is not a serious matter, then Yang Yongxian won't have anything to eat, drink or wear?"
When Liao Meiying's voice sounded, people also came to the backyard with dark faces.
She had an apron tied around her waist, her sleeves rolled up to her arms, and she looked like she was sweating profusely from work.
Seeing Liao Meiying defending herself as soon as she came over, Lao Yang's face turned dark.
"Things like eating, drinking, and defecating are all trivial matters compared to practicing walking with Yongxian. You can put the trivial matters aside for now and don't do them in a hurry. You can take some time to do them after you finish practicing walking with Yongxian." Is that all right?" Old Yangtou asked.
Liao Meiying smiled, "Master, you are really not afraid of back pain when you say this. Oh, I am a woman like a fairy. I have to accompany your grandson when he walks. When he is tired and rests, I will continue to cook. While he is eating, I will I just go to do the laundry and take care of the child, and then wait for him to rest and practice walking. I have to keep up, what? I'm not a human? I'm not tired? I don't need to rest?"
Old Yang's head was choked by Liao Meiying, and his face turned the color of pig liver.
On the side, Yu Xingkui looked at the two people who were quarreling with each other. He was afraid of getting angry, so he walked over to Yang Yongxian and pretended to help Yang Yongxian.
Yang Yongxian naturally heard the argument here. He pretended not to hear it and continued to practice his own.
Because arguments like this can be heard almost every day. Once I come here, I will criticize Mr. Liao.
And Mr. Liao also changed from the low-brow and submissive attitude of the past, and was tit-for-tat with me everywhere.
Yang Yongxian's husband can no longer be revived by Liao Meiying.
What is a woman most afraid of?
She was divorced by a man!
But what Liao was least afraid of now was being divorced, so Yang Yongxian really had no choice but to turn a blind eye.
Here, Lao Yangtou and Liao Meiying were still arguing. Lao Yangtou said: "As a granddaughter-in-law, this is how you contradict your elders? How did your parents teach you?"
Liao Meiying twitched her lips: "You should ask my parents about this. You can ask them when they come over next time, and you can ask them for me as well."
He couldn't even suppress his mother-in-law's family, and Old Yang was so angry that he almost died.
Although Liao Meiying won the argument, she felt it was no fun. She glanced at Yang Yongxian and said coldly: "The food is ready. If you want to eat, come here. If you don't want to eat, don't force it. The child is sleeping, and I have to go back and watch." He doesn’t have time to bring you food.”
After saying these words, she turned and left.
Her heart was still cold, because Yang Yongxian obviously knew the reason why she was not here to practice with him.
She cooked meals in the front yard and took care of her children. She was not idle.
But when faced with the old man's questioning, Yang Yongxian refused to say anything and deliberately made the old man question.
Yang Yongxian, you hypocrite, you really don’t deserve my kindness to you.
Liao Meiying's midday meal is very simple, including a bowl of fried vegetables, a bowl of braised small hairy fish, and a bowl of sesame oil and egg custard.
When Yang Yongxian returned to the kitchen to eat, she was feeding her child rice mixed with sesame oil and egg custard.
After Yang Yongxian entered the house, he played with the child for a while. The child looked at the strange father blankly without any reaction.
Liao Meiying ignored Yang Yongxian's presence and continued to feed the child with a straight face.
When the child was almost fed, she filled herself with rice and ate it herself. When Jin came over, Liao Meiying stopped the bowl and chopsticks and filled Jin with rice and passed it to her.
Jin glanced at Liao Meiying gratefully, and Liao Meiying just smiled faintly, then sat back and continued eating.
Yang Yongxian has been secretly sizing up Liao Meiying, but hesitated to speak several times.
Finally, he put a piece of small hairy fish into Liao Meiying's bowl: "Meiying, eat more fish, you are tired..."
Liao Meiying pulled the fish aside and dug into the rice. After eating, she put down the bowls and chopsticks and stood up with her child in her arms and left the kitchen.
Yang Yongxian looked over and saw that the small hairy fish he had caught was left alone at the bottom of the bowl.
He also lost his appetite, put down his chopsticks, sat there and sighed softly.
…
In the afternoon, Liao Meiying took her children to visit her eighth sister at the entrance of the village. Yang Yongxian felt tired after practicing in the backyard for a while and sat under the sun to rest.
Old Yangtou came over again, and the grandfather and grandson sat side by side and talked.
"Yongxian, I'm really happy to see you practicing tenaciously like this now. This is the happiest I've been in a while!"
Lao Yang raised his hand and patted Yang Yongxian's shoulder, feeling happy in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, and even in every wrinkle.
Yang Yongxian smiled lightly: "Sir, I just want to recover quickly, walk, run, and do what I want to do like a normal person."
"Yes, only if you have a good body can you continue studying and take the exams for merit." Old Yang said.
Yang Yongxian shook his head: "Master, I don't want to take the exam again."
"What?" Old Yang thought he heard wrongly, and put his hand on Yang Yongxian's shoulder harder, "What are you talking about? You don't want to take the exam?"
"Yes, I won't take the exam. I'm not suitable. To be precise, I don't have the destiny to be an official." Yang Yongxian said with firm eyes, not at all depressed.
But Lao Yangtou was so depressed that he felt depressed.
"Yongxian, do you think your master has lived a happy life for two more days, and you have to do something to upset me?" The old man asked heartbrokenly.
"You said that you have reached this age and all you have to do is study. Now you suddenly don't want to take the exam for merit and honor. So what can you do? You are not good at anything, you can't even let me die in peace!"
