Chapter 3174: A Sealed Kettle

gagement is confirmed, the talented scholar will be our Old Yang family's future son-in-law!""As my daughter-in-law, I've gained so much face just by going out!" Liu said."That's right, Zichuan is tal..."Who among you is going to the privy" Cao Baimei asked everyone after they came out of the kitchen.

Yang Ruqing and the others all nodded in agreement: "We've been holding it in all morning, just waiting for you to say that."

Cao Baimei said: "The outhouse is in the backyard. Let's go together and take care of it. When we get to the ancestral hall, we won't have to worry about this anymore."

Cao Bamie can't hold it anymore, she goes first.

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The outhouse at the Sun family's home was dilapidated and had been neglected for years. It didn't even have a door, just a bundle of firewood placed by the entrance.

As Caobaimei entered, she habitually removed the belt from her waist and flung it onto the firewood pile. Just as she was about to go in, Yang Ruqing called out to her.

"Eight Sister, there's no need for this. So many of us are standing here at the door to watch over you, no one will come." she said.

Cao Baimei was taken aback for a moment, then said, "Then you just stand at the door and talk, don't leave."

"Don't worry, we're not leaving. If we did and the old folks in the mountains came up to use the outhouse and saw your white, tofu-like backside, what would happen then" Yang Ruqing teased playfully.

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As a result, Cao Baimei twisted his arm and said, "You're such a cheapskate!"

Then she dashed into the outhouse.

Outside, Yang Ruqing, Xiaohua, Xiaoduo, and Xiaojie stood in a circle, blocking the outhouse door tightly.

“When we were having dinner, I noticed that Old Liu was quite a talkative woman. From the moment we picked up our chopsticks to the moment we put them down, her mouth wouldn't stop chattering,” said Xiaoduo.

“Her daughter, however, is a real wallflower. We tried to greet her, but she wouldn't even look up, she seems so shy.”

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Xiaojie said: "She has always been like that since she was little. I grew up in Sunjia溝 before I was six years old. Back then, a few of us girls the same age played together, but she never fit in."

"But, as I remember her, she was the most striking one among us girls. It's just that I don't know if she has gotten older in these past seven or eight years. She always kept her head down before, so I couldn't see her face properly." Xia Jie added.

"Grandma Ga has passed away, so now Granny Cui'er is in charge of the kitchen. I heard that she and her husband are also handling the accounts and funeral arrangements. I wonder what their relationship with Grandma Ga's family is like" asked Xiaoduo.

Yang Ruqing shook her head. Regarding the Sun family's relatives, she really didn't know much about them.

At that time, Cao Bajie emerged from the latrine, holding her trousers and sticking half her body out.

"Uncle Cao, you're cousins with my grandfather. My mother already told you about this before, didn't she" Caobaomei said,

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"Besides, their family has been in contact with your grandma's family these past few years. When they first moved out from Sunjia溝, that old man went to visit. Xiaojie and Xiaohua were too young back then so it's normal you wouldn't remember. Qing'er, you should remember though."

Upon hearing Cao Baimei's words, Yang Ruqing nodded and said: "There was once an old man who came here. He claimed to be my grandfather's cousin. At that time, he was quite old and said he went down the mountain to the town to buy food for his mother."

"Then we all thought he was such a filial son. As a result, my grandfather said that this old man wasn't a filial son at all when he was young, and he often beat his mother."

"Huh"

Xiaohua, Xiaojie, and Xiaoduo all listened with their mouths wide open.

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"Then why were you still filial in the end Are you just putting on a show for others" Xiaohua asked.

Yang Ruqing shook her head, "When I told you about this back then, I was about the same age as you are now. At the time, I remembered it clearly, but after so many years have passed, it's a bit hazy now. Wait until Auntie arrives and ask her to tell us."

Just as I was thinking about Cao Cao, his granddaughter, Da Sun Shi, arrived from over there.

She was looking around, Xiaojie quickly tiptoed over and waved to her: "Mother, here!"

Da Sun's eyes lit up, and she hurried over here.

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“Who is in the toilet” asked Mrs. Da Sun.

"This is Xiaoduo, she's about to be born." Xiaohua said.

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"Well, I happened to want to relieve myself too. Let's go together later."

Xiaojie eagerly grabbed Dàsun's arm and asked, "Mother, we're talking about Dagāgong right now. Qinger said that when Dagāgong was young, he was known throughout Sunjiagou for being unfilial. So why did he become filial later"

"What are you talking about all of a sudden" she said, sounding slightly annoyed as she glanced at the curious faces before her.

Yang Ruqing said, "It's just that I saw Liu Daniu's daughter-in-law, Liua Da Niang, and Cuier from Dagagong before, so I chatted with them casually."

> Dà Sūn nodded thoughtfully and said, "As for your great-grandfather, it is said that once when he was felling trees on the mountain, he took a break sitting under a tree. He looked up and saw a bird's nest in the tree."

A nest full of little birds chirped happily. It was a scorching hot day, but the parent bird diligently flew out again and again to find food, bringing it back to feed its hungry chicks in turn.

"You must have had a sudden realization, huh You remembered that your father passed away when you were still in the womb. It was your mother who toiled and struggled to raise you, just like this old bird protecting its chicks."

“At that moment, he saw his mother bringing him food halfway up the mountain. He didn't want his mother to tire herself out climbing such a steep path, so he hurried down the mountain to meet her.”

“He was running too fast at the time, didn't even drop his axe. And the way he ran, his face turned red, he looked kind of menacing.”

"When her mother looked up, she saw her son rushing towards her from afar, still carrying an axe. She thought to herself, 'Is he upset that I didn't send him food quickly enough and is going to hit me again'"

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“I was so scared that I dropped the basket of food and jumped off the cliff.”

"Hiss..."

Several girls all gasped, and Xiaojie even covered her face.

"Auntie, what happened then Was the person rescued" Xiaohua asked nervously.

Little Jie also quickly moved her hands away and stared at Da Sun with wide eyes, anticipating what she would say next.

"Perhaps it was fate," said Da Sun, nodding. "The clothes were caught on a branch jutting out from the cliff wall and that's what saved her."

“After being rescued, you all must reform yourselves completely. Be honest and hardworking at home, tending to the fields and serving your mother. Never go to other villages to drink or gamble again.”

"Later, his mother wanted to hold a grandchild, but this village was so poor, and your father-in-law is the poorest in the whole village. Where would a good girl from a decent family be willing to come here and suffer"

“In the end, there was no way out. You see, this fellow was going to be a bachelor for life. Perhaps it was heaven looking down on him and seeing he had turned over a new leaf. One time, he went to help out in another village. When he came back, he brought with him a little boy of five or six years old,”

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