I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 48 The Yang Family Breaks Off the Engagement with the Village Girl (The glass window is smas

Wang Qing hurriedly tried to explain, rattling off a whole bunch of things, but before he could finish, Diao Yan stopped him.

Diao Yan turned and left. When she got home, she immediately told Yang Zhi that she was breaking off her engagement with Wang Chunmei.

Everyone was quite surprised. She explained the reason, and the Yang family was furious and gave her a good scolding. Yang Zhanxi was about to go to Wang Qing's house to argue with him when he was stopped by Old Yang Hong.

Diao Yan said angrily, "My son Yang Zhi is still a young man. Wang Qing is such a scoundrel. He introduced his divorced niece to my son. With his carpentry skills, my son has no trouble finding a wife. Girls in the countryside are lining up to marry him. He wants her to be his wife, who is divorced! I'll break off this engagement tomorrow."

"Mom, what are we returning?"

"Silly, why are you returning it? Why are you reluctant to part with it again? You're not still thinking about that Liu guy from the East Courtyard, and now you're not letting this secondhand item go?"

“Mom, what are you talking about? What do you mean by secondhand goods? We don’t want her anymore, and we shouldn’t badmouth others. What I’m telling you is that we only have a written dowry list, and we didn’t actually exchange the dowry with the betrothal party. It just got around in the village, and everyone knows about it. You didn’t go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy salt, and that’s when you heard about it and went to Wang Qing’s house.”

"What's the big deal about returning a dowry? You make it sound so easy. This time, breaking off an engagement is different from when it happens to girls from other villages. Breaking off an engagement in another village doesn't damage the girl's reputation, but this is a girl from our village. Besides, the Wang family isn't an ordinary family. Breaking off an engagement would be a disgrace to the Wang family and make them unable to hold their heads up in the village."

"Yang Zhanxi, are you scared? Does our son, a grown man, have to marry a divorced woman? So what if she's divorced? Why did the matchmaker hide it from us? And the man she divorced was that man?"

"Which man?" Yang Zhi asked.

"There's another man out there, and if I told you, he could kill you?"

"Alright, stop beating around the bush and just tell me," Yang Zhanxi asked impatiently.

"that is..."

Liu Family

The handsome man from the Liu family has been gone for a day. His sudden departure was due to Liu Yue's unexpected pregnancy.

He thought that he hadn't done anything to her. She had stayed at the Liu family's house for a few days, and he hadn't even touched Liu Yue's finger, yet she got pregnant.

Her pregnancy delighted Liu's mother. Every day, Liu's mother kept staring at the handsome man's face, just like she thought her third daughter was pregnant and the handsome man was the culprit. But this was the outcome that Liu's mother liked the most.

Her third daughter was able to marry into the county town and work as a sewing machine operator at her mother-in-law's clothing factory.

This thwarted Liu's mother's plans, as the handsome young man revealed the truth to the Liu family before leaving!

He said he was a divorced man and currently had a young son and daughter living with his grandfather, who was the deputy manager of a garment factory, and his grandmother, who was a technician.

He was a young, handsome man who had been divorced, but no matter what, he couldn't marry a pregnant woman who was carrying another man. He originally had a town household registration in the county and was entitled to a government-subsidized food supply. If he hadn't gotten divorced, he could have gone to the countryside to find a wife.

His parents were low-level managers at the garment factory; surely they could find a better wife. As for his ex-wife, she was also from this village. He only hooked up with her with that mysterious look in her eyes because she was his middle school classmate.

Then, Wang Qing, who was somewhat related to his mother, acted as matchmaker, and the handsome Wang Dashun and Wang Chunmei got married in a flash.

Then the two of them lived happily with their parents for three years. Later, she did not get along well with her in-laws, and the young couple's personalities clashed, so they divorced.

Then, Wang Qing started to arrange a marriage for the handsome Wang Dashun again. At first, he stopped trusting the matchmaker and wanted to find a girl who also lived in the county town and was on a government-subsidized food supply.

Urged by his parents, and after mentioning that he had been divorced for over two years and hadn't found a girl in the county to marry, he nodded and followed his mother to the Liu family. He was quite satisfied with Liu Yue, especially her two long braids that hung down to her knees.

In the end, Wang Dashun went from being overjoyed to Liu Yue's inexplicable nausea and pregnancy, which greatly disappointed him, leading him to leave the Liu family and the Daxing'an Village that had hurt him again.

Coincidentally, when he reached the west entrance of the village, he unexpectedly encountered his ex-wife, whom he hadn't seen for several years. She was Wang Chunmei, the mother of his two children, a boy and a girl, who were currently living with his parents.

Then, since the two weren't mortal enemies, they started talking to each other and hitched a ride on a horse-drawn carriage from another village to the bus station of Tuandingshan Commune.

Then, the two were seen walking together by Zhang Cuihua and her young girl, who lived on the west side of the village, which led to the scene where Diao Yan went to the village's supply and marketing cooperative.

Then, Diao Yan angrily went to the matchmaker Wang Qing and accused him of deceiving the Yang family by introducing a divorced woman to his son.

What angered her even more was that Wang Chunmei was walking arm in arm with the handsome Liu family man.

Of course, the claim of them putting their arms around each other's shoulders is just a fabricated rumor.

This matter gave Wu Sanbao and Zhang Cuihua, the gossips in the village, a new topic of conversation. It started spreading from the village's supply and marketing cooperative to all over the Daxing'an village. The spread was exaggerated and fabricated. Good things don't go unnoticed, but bad things travel a thousand miles!

The infamy of the Yang Family Compound has been exposed once again, and there's more to come!

The scandalous news of Liu's third daughter's pregnancy spread like wildfire throughout the village and the neighboring two villages to the north and south.

The initial disseminators of this dream were, of course, Wu Sanbao and Zhang Cuihua, the loudspeakers of Daxing'an Village.

Wu Sanbao, Zhang Cuihua, and three or four old women from the village would sit on the edge of a large stone millstone in front of the village supply and marketing cooperative all day long, chatting about whose bastard child Liu Yue was pregnant with.

Before long, the large millstone was surrounded by gossipy men and women. One minute she said it was the handsome son of the Liu family, the next she said it was Yang Zhi's son. Finally, the old bachelor Chen Erlai said with a grin, "Could it be her one-eyed father's child?"

Then, "Haha!" they laughed loudly and the party ended.

Liu's mother started to feel uneasy. The more she looked at Liu Yue's big belly, the more displeased she became, and she lost her appetite. Then she began to wonder, how could her belly have grown so big so quickly when it hadn't been there a few days ago?

One-Eyed Dragon just sat on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) smoking old man's yellow cigarette, his one wide-eyed stare constantly glancing at the bewildered Liu's mother.

"What are you doing, waving your arms around right under my nose? In a minute, you'll dangle my good eye out of my sight!"

"You still know you have one eye to see, how could you not keep an eye on your third brother? He did something shameful, the whole village knows, he'll never be able to face anyone again. All you do is smoke, why don't you think of something?"

"Mom, don't keep blaming Dad. What can he do? I went to the county hospital to ask the doctor today."

"What did the doctor say?"

"Mom, don't worry. The gynecologist said that we need a marriage certificate or a certificate from the village committee before the hospital doctor will perform an abortion for my third sister."

“She’s not married yet, so how can she have a marriage certificate? She shouldn’t embarrass herself in the village. We need to marry her off quickly. The child can’t be born in her parents’ home. Otherwise, where will I put my face in the village?”

"How dare you, as their mother, say such things? If you hadn't insisted on interfering with Lao San and Yang Zhi, they would have already gone through the engagement and betrothal gifts. If you hadn't interfered, they would have gotten married and had children. Would you still be disgracing your family?"

“Dad, please say less. I tried to persuade Mom before, but she wouldn’t listen. She only wanted what was best for our third sister, so she could marry into a city and work as a factory worker. This isn’t the time to blame each other; it’s the time to solve the problem.”

"What problem can it solve? Didn't you run around to the side to withdraw from your job? You're just short of getting a certificate from the brigade."

"Mom and Dad, I forgot to tell you, I went to see the brigade leader before I came to your house, and he said that I also need a marriage certificate to get the certificate."

“Young lady, how could you take it upon yourself to go to the brigade and ask Captain Wang to open that thing? Aren’t you ashamed? Alright, go back now. This is none of your business. Go do what you’re supposed to do.”

“Dad, I’ve been running around all day, spending money on the round-trip bus fare to the county town, and I’m still getting nothing in return. Fine, nobody cares about your family’s mess. My third sister can marry whoever she wants, even if she marries that old bachelor Zhang Erlai, I don’t care anymore.”

Liu Daya stormed out, only to be stopped by Liu Juhei. "Daya," he said, "wait a minute. What did you just say?"

"Why are you calling me now? Weren't you just yelling at me?"

"I'm asking you, who did you say you'd marry in your last sentence?"

"I told her she was going to marry Chen Erlai, the bachelor from the east end of the village, and I didn't care. Ah! Father, you wouldn't actually let Third Sister marry Chen Erlai, would you?"

"Yes, I'm going to marry my third son to Chen Erlai, that old bachelor, and that will solve the problem."

"you dare?"

"You old hag, you'll see if I dare."