Chapter 2362: 2362: Punishment (6)

Capítulo 2362: Chapter 2362: Punishment (6)

Yang Ruxin looked at him with a half-smile.

Zhou Xiao felt all kinds of uncomfortable under her gaze, feeling extremely guilty, but he still held his ground, refusing to budge. He couldn’t let his future wife get punished.

“Big sister, don’t blame Dabao.” Sanni wanted to step forward, “It was my idea, you know, Dabao only listens to me.” But she was immediately pulled into Zhou Xiao’s arms and couldn’t move.

Over the past two years, Zhou Xiao had been eating well at the Yang Family and exercising every day. He had grown quickly and was now half a head taller than Sanni, and much stronger too. Once he exerted his strength, Sanni really couldn’t budge.

Yang Ruxin rolled her eyes: “Men and women should keep a proper distance; what are you two pulling at each other in front of me for?”

Zhou Xiao immediately let go.

Sanni wriggled over: “Big sister, I know eavesdropping is bad, but weren’t we curious? If you want to punish, then punish me.”

“Punish me!”

“Enough, both of you will be punished.” Yang Ruxin waved her hand, “Horse stance for an hour.”

“Okay.” Sanni and Zhou Xiao immediately chuckled. Half an hour of horse stance was no big deal for them, so they turned around and started to leave.

“Come back.”

The two quickly turned back.

“Tell me, what did you hear?” Yang Ruxin suddenly chuckled.

“I knew you were curious too, big sister.” Sanni burst out laughing and rushed over.

“Go ahead.” Yang Ruxin nodded. She was indeed curious.

“Dabao, you go out first.” Sanni glanced at Dabao and waved him away, “It’s not suitable for you to hear.”

Yang Ruxin’s mouth twitched: “Didn’t he hear it already?”

“He was on lookout.” Sanni waved her hand.

Zhou Xiao could only leave helplessly.

“Big sister, the Ma Family are really despicable.” Sanni pouted, “Wang Baozhu’s clothes were stripped off and she was locked in a room.”

Yang Ruxin frowned. This was illegal detention, but since Wang Baozhu was improper, it might not be so bad to lock her up.

“I also heard Tian Jinhua and Ma Laifu discussing inside, saying that since Wang Baozhu couldn’t hold herself back, they might as well not bother. They were planning to take her to town…” Sanni spread her hands, “Then someone came, and I couldn’t hear anymore.”

Yang Ruxin frowned but said nothing, only giving Sanni a smack on the butt: “Go do your horse stance.”

In the blink of an eye, it was the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as the Little Year, and villagers began slaughtering pigs, also called Year Pigs. The sound of pigs crying could be heard everywhere.

Although everyone would cover their ears, whenever a pig was slaughtered, everyone would be especially happy. It meant they could eat meat beautifully for the New Year — it was a prosperous year.

The days passed quickly in such busyness.

Soon it was the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month, the day for tomb-sweeping.

The custom here was to visit the graves of the deceased on the two days before New Year, the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month, to call the family members home for a reunion. Although Yang Anshi had nothing to do with the first household, Yang Baiyue was the father of the first household’s children, so they needed to visit the graves.

However, custom dictated that unmarried women and pregnant people could not participate in tomb-sweeping, so in the end, it was Yang Baixiang along with Dong Wenxiu bringing Erni, Gu Yao, and Xiaofeng to the graves.

Additionally, Du Chengxiu and his wife accompanied them, so Yang Ruxin wasn’t worried about anything happening.

But everyone carried some regret as Gu Qingheng was not home due to the war; otherwise, he should have gone to the tomb-sweeping as well.