""Eavesdropping, thatâs what I heard."
"Eh, youâre eight years old, and you still went eavesdropping?" Yang Chuxia looked at her incredulously, "Dongxue, youâre a big girl now, you canât do that in the future." After saying that, she asked, "By the way, what did you hear?"
Yang Dongxue looked at her as if she had seen a ghost, then said, "My second cousinâs mother-in-law wants my second cousin to give birth to a child for her brother-in-law."
"Um"
Upon hearing this, Ms. Wang said, "What are you talking about, child?" Ms. Wang couldnât understand it for a moment.
Yang Chuxia turned her head and said incredulously, "Mother, didnât you understand?"
Well, what Yang Dongxue said was a bit confusing, but it didnât prevent her from understanding.
Itâs just that the people in Yang Dongzhiâs husbandâs family were a bit disgusting.
From what Yang Dongxue said, Yang Dongzhiâs mother-in-law wanted her to help her brother-in-law have a child.
What the hell were they thinking? Who would the child belong to? Would it be enough just to have the same bloodline, no matter who it belonged to?
Before she knew it, Yang Dongxue spoke up again.
"Also, my second cousinâs mother-in-law wants her to have a child for her brother-in-lawâs elder brother."
"Pfft..."
Yang Chuxia spat out a mouthful of water. Ms. Wang couldnât stop choking either, and now she understood.
Yang Qingbao was even lowering his head, unwilling to speak.
"If thatâs the case, how could she return?" Yang Chuxia was puzzled, "Her mother-in-law was planning to have her give birth to children for her husbandâs elder and younger brothers, so she shouldnât have let her run away. What if she runs away for good?"
"My second sister sneaked back." Yang Qingbao finally spoke, but his voice was low and his head down.
Yang Chuxia thought to herself, no wonder people in ancient times didnât like to marry into the mountains, it turned out that there was a lot of sharing wives in ancient mountains. If Yang Dongzhi gave birth to children for both her husbandâs elder and younger brothers, wouldnât she become a shared wife?
Well, as a modern person, she couldnât accept it, and Yang Dongzhi, as an ancient person, couldnât accept it even more.
"What do your parents plan to do?" Yang Chuxia asked.
If Yang Dongzhiâs husbandâs family had such an idea, they wouldnât let her go easily. They might come to her parentsâ house to take her away soon. Once this happens, the whole Yang Familyâs reputation would be tarnished, and Yang Chuxia couldnât help but think that Yang Dongzhi really was determined to give Yang Family some gossip even in death.
Yang Qingbao shook his head, "My parents donât know, they havenât said anything, my mother is crying at home."
At this moment, Ms. Wang was also furious, "This family is really too much. Although itâs in the mountains, theyâre not extremely poor. If itâs really difficult to find a wife in the mountains, they could have bought a couple from outside, right? At the beginning, looking at the betrothal gifts for Dongzhi, their family didnât seem poor at all."
"Itâs not necessarily. Maybe theyâre not poor, but what if her mother-in-law is stingy about money?"
As it happened, Yang Chuxiaâs guess was spot on. In fact, Yang Dongzhiâs mother-in-law was thinking the same way â one wife, three uses, itâs so cost-effective!
While a few people in Yang Chuxiaâs family were discussing this matter, the old house was already in chaos.
It turned out that Yang Dongzhiâs husbandâs family had arrived, including her mother-in-law, husband, her husbandâs brothers, and all their cousins.
They were determined to take Yang Dongzhi away, but Yang Daâan and Ms. Liu refused to let them take her.