Chapter 67.2

Translated by Aviana

Hi Guys! Sorry for the wait. Stuff happened and was a bit busy. After counting the number of chapters I missed, I realised I owe you guys 7 regular chapters (including this weeks’) and 7 bonus chapters !!!😅 Hopefully, I will be able to complete them all soon…. And to catch up with all the pending chapters I will temporarily not accept any requests for bonus chapters on ko-fi till I am back on the track.

Thank you for waiting till now patiently though I am an irresponsible tler 😳 and supporting me nevertheless.

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“Wife, you are so kind!” Yang Tiezhu applauded. But he didn’t applaud her because he still harbored vain hope and feelings or whatnot for the people in the main room. Rather he truly appreciated how Wanwan handled the matters was upright and open-minded, not allowing others to find any faults.

There were only a few women who weren’t narrow-minded—this was what Yang Tiezhu felt after being bitterly disappointed again and again by the people in the main room. After all the heart-chilling things they had done, for Wanwan to still be able to candidly decide to give end-of-the-year gifts was something only broadminded people could do.

Although Yang Tiegen didn’t say anything, he too had a similar opinion as he gazed at Yao-shi.

Lin Qingwan and Yao-shi felt slightly embarrassed by their husbands’ gaze. Indeed it could be said that they displayed broad-mindedness in their conducts, but that was because they dreaded inviting troubles.

It was just a matter that could be done by expending a little over ten copper coins. As such, why give a chance for others to point fingers at them and feel dispirited later?

No matter how unkind the elderly couple was, the younger generation would still have to fulfill their duties. Even if it was just for the others to see it, they still had to do it. In that way, they won’t have anything to say, and outsiders won’t have anything to criticize as well.

Lin Qingwan was a person who was clear about herself. She had always been upright and honorable in her conduct and work and had always been open with her actions. If one does everything they had to do justly, one would be devoid of fear of becoming unreasonable. Even when driven to the corner to the point of feeling helpless, it wasn’t proper to choose to cheat others in the dark. Rather, she would lay the options before you and have you decide for yourself. And whether the result of that choice was good or bad would be solely borne by yourself and couldn’t be blamed on others.

Just like the incident when they separated from the family. She merely let a few rumors spread across the village, and what choice to make was entirely in the hands of those from the main room. Had they made another choice, things would have been quite different from how they were at the moment. She had given them space to make a decision, but human nature and their selfishness were too terrifying.

How to say, a leopard cannot change its spots. The same was the case with He-shi and Yang-shi as well. Both encountered a similar situation, but with two different people making decisions, the outcome was different. If Xia Dacheng happened to be He-shi’s son and similarly returned battered with nothing back to the village, He-shi would surely have long expelled him from the house. But, Yang-shi chose to cross a river along with him on the same boat.

狗改不了吃屎 (gǒu chī shǐ gǎi bù le): a dog can’t stop itself from eating shit/ a leopard cannot change its spots/ old habits die hard/ bad habits are hard to change 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì): cross a river in the same boat — to pull together in times of trouble

Family – What is a family? A family means diving through difficult times and experiencing hardships together as one. The same goes for happy times and good fortune as well.

They all unanimously concluded not to think much over these matters and resumed their eating from the bowls in their hands. In contrast to the pleasant and harmonious scene in the second branch, there was pandemonium in the main room, as the loud noises that side never ceased.

Post supper, the couple from the third branch retired to their rooms. Amidst the Wang-shi’s never-ending chaotic shrieks and yells from the main room, Lin Qingwan also prepared to turn in for the night.

As for who emerged victorious in the fight that night, Lin Qingwan didn’t know, for she soon drifted into slumber. Regardless, early in the next morning, He-shi called a butcher and sold the family’s big, fat pig.

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, when both the couples from the second and third branches were going to attend the Pig Slaughter Feast in the Yang-shi’s house, they chanced upon Wang-shi in the courtyard, whose face was still enshrouded with gloom.

Unlike Yang jia’s hushed and desolate courtyard, Yang-shi’s small courtyard was bustling with noise and excitement.

By the time Lin Qingwan and others arrived at Yang’s place, many people were already standing around the yard.

Yang-shi was quite popular in Luoxia Village. Coupled with the virtue of her kindness and honesty and her disinclination to gossip and making thoughtless remarks on others, many people in the village tended to have good relations with her.

But of course, Yang-shi didn’t invite everyone else just to have a pig slaughtering feast; she had other intentions as well. That’s why she not only invited a lot of people, but also the Village Chief and many venerable elders in the village.

No sooner than Lin Qingwan and the others stepped in, several people greeted Yang Tiezhu.

“Tiezhu, is your injury healed?”

“How is your injury now? It doesn’t look severe now. Can you move from the bed this quickly?”

Yang Tiezhu raised his bandaged arm before saying, “The rest of the injuries have more or less healed, but can’t move this arm yet…”

Most of the Luoxia villagers were pretty kind and honest. Being aware that his arm was crippled, they, too, didn’t make any cynical remarks.

Just as the pig butcher and several other strong young men were about to kill the pig, Lin Qingwan and a few other timid married women hid in the house.

Just because Lin Qingwan was fine with eating pork didn’t mean she would be alright watching a pig getting butchered. She was scared that after seeing the pig getting slaughtered, she would not be able to eat pork anymore.

It was getting quite rowdy outside while all the young married women crowded inside to have a chitchat.

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Chapter 67 Part 3 Teasers

Lin Qingwan couldn’t help but exclaim at Yang-shi’s wit and shrewdity. Many villagers were invited by Yang-shi for the Pig Slaughtering Feast; The mouth that eats others food is softened. In the future, when gossiping about Yang-shi’s son, Xia Dacheng, their mouths would involuntarily favour him. And if at all, any person, despite eating her food, still ridicules her son for returning in dire straits, she reckoned that the rest of the villagers would surely hold the other person in contempt. Not to mention, Yang-shi also won the symathies of several venerable village elders. Later on, if she wanted to do anything in the village, it would be much easier for her.

— Tomorrow

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