I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 23 Reconciliation as before

"Pah! You're talking nonsense! If you dare to say another word, I'll tear your mouth apart." The old lady, her mouth full of blood, was enraged by these indecent and outrageous words and went berserk, scratching at Zou Laxian's face.

Everyone rushed to pull the old lady's outstretched, bent arms and stopped her.

The adults at the table all put down their chopsticks, staring at Zou Laxian as if she were an enemy.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I let it slip. It was my second aunt. That morning, Yu Han, Yu Qiu, my fourth uncle, and Zou Jun were there. I didn't go that day. Someone from your compound went to Zou Jun's house that morning and told my second aunt about it. That's why my second aunt told them not to go to the county hospital."

"Who is that person who went to the Zou family to spread rumors? Tell me right now!" Yang Wei snapped.

"Ahem!" Diao Yan coughed twice from the side.

Zou Laqian quickly closed her mouth, which was about to open, and then turned her head to look at Diao Yan, who was staring at her with a fierce look in her eyes.

Instead, Diao Yan launched a counterattack to cover up her attack on the other party, coldly shouting at Zou Laxian who was looking at her, "You, what are you looking at me for?"

"Alright, everyone stop pressing us for answers. Let's stop here if things don't escalate any further."

Suddenly, Yang Zhanbei gracefully walked out from behind the partition wall behind the kitchen table.

"Ah! Fourth Uncle, you, you finally have the courage to step out and face the past." Yu Han smiled as she walked closer and took his hand.

Yang Zhanbei smiled slightly at Yu Han, then knelt on one knee. "Father, Mother, it's my fault. I shouldn't have run away secretly."

“Whether you sneak out or not, you’re not their biological child. Since you’re not their biological child, it’s possible you wrote that letter to Yuqiu.” Zou Laxian’s voice was barely audible, only she could hear it.

"Zou Laqian, what are you muttering about? Are you still not convinced about those immoral things you just said?" Yang Hong continued.

Everyone stared at her, which frightened her so much that she shut her mouth tightly.

Diao Yan raised a smirk at the corner of her dry, cracked lips, exchanged a glance with her daughter Yu Mei, and the two of them smiled at the same time, then fell silent.

Zou Laxian walked out of the courtyard.

The old man and woman each took one of the fourth uncle's hands and slowly walked into the east room of the east wing. Then the three of them sat on the large heated kang bed in the east room and reminisced about the past.

And so, the love letter that Fourth Uncle wrote to Yu Qiu was placed into Yu Han's dream space.

If the Zou family continues to pursue this matter without finding a solution, the only outcome will be for the man and woman to go their separate ways.

Therefore, the Zou family began to prepare for the wedding and the preparation of the wedding ceremony, as Tang Zeng was about to complete his pilgrimage and attain enlightenment.

Whether it will be the Yang family or the Zou family that ultimately achieves a happy ending is unknown; perhaps both families will reach a consensus!

The old man and woman of the Yang family did not pursue the matter further. They knew without asking that Diao Yan must have relayed to Zou's wife about the love letter that Fourth Uncle had written to Yu Qiu.

Everyone knows what kind of person she is; the whole village probably knows she's a troublemaker. And so, this whole thing just passed by in a ridiculous way.

Fourth Uncle has also reconciled with the two elders and will return to the city to continue his business after Yuqiu and Zou Jun's wedding is completed!

The elderly couple, upon hearing that they were about to lose their fourth son again, and knowing that he was still unmarried, stayed up all night crying before he even left.

That night, the parents cried all night. The fourth uncle lay in the west room of the north wing with the two children and also secretly cried until dawn.

The next day, the weather was fine with a slight breeze of level three. Usually, in the Northeast Plain, after a heavy snowfall in winter, strong winds blow and swirl up the snow, forming large swirling clouds.

If a person walks outdoors in complete darkness, they will get lost and freeze to death.

Zou Laqian and Zou Jun took advantage of the good weather to quickly prepare for their two children's wedding.

These past few days, Zou Jun and Yu Qiu took the white horse-drawn cart driven by an old ox to the commune office to buy what they needed.

The weather forecast he heard on the new radio cassette player that his grandfather and fourth uncle bought for him said that there would be heavy snow and strong winds soon.

If there are strong winds, heavy snow will blow, and the resulting thick smoke will block the dirt roads, so people will have to wait for several days and can't go out until the wind and snow stop.

Originally, Yang's second maternal grandmother planned to keep Yuqiu until after the Spring Festival, and then hold a wedding with the Zou family, so that she could stay in the Yang family for the last days as a young lady.

With the whole family gathered, we can enjoy a reunion for the New Year.

The Zou family hopes their son will get married soon. With the Lunar New Year approaching, having another new member will make the celebrations more lively, and it will also allow the elderly couple to hold their grandson soon.

The Yang family elders proposed to keep Yuqiu for a little over a month of the New Year. Taking advantage of the return of their fourth uncle, Yang Chong's wife and two children, they asked the matchmaker to convey their request for a family reunion during the New Year. The Zou family father and son readily agreed.

But this difficult Yu Yanli flatly refused, and sent Zou Laqian back to the Yang family to tell them that she was eager to have a grandson.

Yang Zhanbei said he would stay at home for the New Year, as he had business to attend to in the city. He would attend the wedding if Yuqiu could get married soon, otherwise he would return to the city immediately to continue his business.

The old lady has been crying all day these past few days. She usually looks down on Yuqiu and Yuhan, not because she thinks their mother can only give birth to girls and can't even have a boy. She's always finding fault with them. But Yuqiu is still good to the two of them, washing their feet every day and trimming their nails every seven days.

Now that Yuqiu is getting married, they finally remember how good she was. Now that she's gone, Yuhan and Yumei will never take care of those two old hags.

The long-lost, single fourth son is about to leave, and the dutiful third granddaughter will soon be begging for food from her in-laws again. Suddenly, the compound loses two children.

Although Yuqiu married into the same village, no matter what, once a girl is married, she belongs entirely to her husband's family.

The more the old lady thought about it, the more she loved it, and tears streamed down her face in secret.

Yang Zhanbei accidentally saw his mother wiping away tears all day long, and guessed what it meant. So he agreed to stay in the Yang family compound and spend a reunion year with everyone!

The Zou family had four thatched houses, and the one in the middle was prepared as a new house for Zou Jun.

The westernmost room was reserved for the youngest son, Zou Jun, who used it when his younger brother got married while he was in elementary school.

The new furniture in Zou Jun's new house was, of course, made by Yang Zhannan, a carpenter from a well-known carpentry company, with Yang Zhi assisting him.

Yang Zhi was as intelligent as his second uncle, a carpenter. His imitations of the old carpenter's work were as exquisite as Yang Zhannan's; anyone who didn't know them would think they were father and son.

The Yang family's carpentry skills were passed down from generation to generation. In Yang Hong's generation, they were passed on to his second son, Yang Zhannan.

Yang Zhannan is over fifty years old. He and his wife Liu Shulan have no sons, so they have to pass on their family's carpentry skills to their brothers' sons, who are more intelligent.

The family's carpentry skills were passed down only to men, not women. Yang Chong, the son of the old uncle in the compound, was not as clever as Yang Zhi from the third uncle's family.

He used to go to other villages to make wood furniture, tables, chairs, benches, build houses, make wooden window frames, make house frames, and make coffins for the elderly after they passed away. He would take Yang Chong with him to learn carpentry.

Everything Yang Chong made was grotesque and mangled, causing the employer to lose the cost of the timber. Of course, Yang Zhannan was responsible for covering the loss.

Anyway, later on, because of the succession of the carpenter, there will be a great war between the brothers!