I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 19 Uncle 4's Love Letter

After a day of sightseeing in Gucheng County, the five of them took a taxi from Beijiangyan in the county town back to the bus station, bought tickets for the last bus of the night, and returned to their respective homes in Daxingan Village just before dark.

After a long day of sightseeing in the county town, the Yang family rested after dinner.

Yang Yuhan lay in bed, secretly pleased. After a day of eating, drinking, and playing for free, Zou Jun, the iron hen of the Zou family, must be unable to sleep at this moment, constantly complaining about Zou Jun wasting money on other people's fun.

Sure enough, when Zou Jun returned home, Yu Yanli, the woman from the Zou family, started nagging him, saying he was an unfilial son and a spendthrift. She said he believed whatever his wife, who hadn't even married into the family, said, and they were practically inseparable.

She also ordered Zou Jun to continue going to the county hospital for premarital checkups at dawn, otherwise they could forget about getting married.

"Alright, stop nagging. Can't we just go for the check-up tomorrow? Can't a person get any sleep?" Zou La said, lying on the heated kang in the west room. She then covered her head with the quilt and ignored Yu Yanli, who was standing on the floor and nagging incessantly.

Yang Yuhan laughed for a while and then fell asleep. In her dream, she saw the handsome boy's mysterious gaze!

The incandescent lights in the other rooms of the Yang family compound were all turned off, and the room was filled with the sounds of sleep.

A sliver of dim light shone through the glass window in front of the east wing, and whispers could be heard inside!

The old man said, “We waited for him for more than ten years. Now that he’s grown up and returned to this compound, he won’t even come to our house.”

The old lady said, "If you hadn't forced him to marry a girl who was more than ten years older than him back then, he wouldn't hate you."

The old man said, "I was only doing it for his own good back then. He was so naughty that neither of us could control him. If things continued like this, who knows what bad things he would do when he grew up? His life would be ruined."

The old woman said, "What right do you have to arrange his marriage? Even if you are his... what? You shouldn't have let Zhan Bei run away from his marital home in the middle of the night..."

The voices inside the east wing became louder as the emotions intensified.

At this moment, a woman wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket came out of the outhouse on the west side. She saw a dim light coming from the east wing and heard her muttering softly.

She tiptoed to the glass window of the east room in the east wing and eavesdropped.

The old man: ……

Old lady: ……

The woman almost screamed after hearing this, quickly covered her nostrils with her hand, and hurriedly turned and left.

Suddenly, the door to the east wing opened, and the old man, wearing a thick black cotton-padded coat and holding a long wooden stick, came out and stood still. He looked around, and seeing that no one was there, he turned around and went back into the room. Soon after, the east wing was completely dark!

The woman instantly ducked and hid under a large soy sauce vat in front of the house.

With a loud bang, the door to the east wing slammed shut. The woman stood up abruptly, exclaiming, "Ouch!" Then, she thought to herself, "You stubborn old bastard, you've really hit my head! I'll teach you a lesson you old eggplant!"

She kicked the bottom of the large soy sauce vat hard. "My toe hurt so much, but it's all for the best. At least I overheard something that nobody else knew about in the family."

Then, forgetting her toe pain, she walked towards the west wing. Suddenly, she felt as if someone was following her. She turned around abruptly, "Oh my god, you scared me to death! Why are you scaring me in the middle of the night?"

"I'm going to the bathroom, what are you doing?"

"I... I just came out of the bathroom, and now I'm back in my room."

"I was in a bit of a hurry to use the restroom, and that's when I saw you squatting by the soy sauce vat doing what?"

"I didn't do anything, it was so cold I almost got scared to death by you, let's go back inside and talk."

"You're acting out of guilt; you're afraid someone's following you only if you have something to hide."

The two entered the east room of the west wing and snuggled into a warm quilt together.

"It's not that I have something to hide, it's that an old male ghost has appeared inside our Yang family compound."

"What nonsense are you talking about? If a ghost really appears later, I won't be responsible for you. Come here, let me warm you up."

"What are you talking about? I'm talking to you. Didn't you just see me squatting under the big soy sauce vat? I stole a secret from the east wing."

"Emma Diaoyan, did you really encounter a ghost? Why is your body temperature so cold tonight?"

"Get lost, you're the one who's encountered a ghost. I was eavesdropping on the old lady and old man's private conversation, and I got cold from eavesdropping for too long by the window. Women's body temperature is naturally lower than yours, how could I not be cold? We've been together for so many years, and you didn't know about this?"

"Why do you like to peek at the wall like Wu Sanbao from the east end? That's not good. Wu Sanbao has been docile since he was put in a sack, and now you've become his substitute. You're eavesdropping on people talking in their own homes? That's uncivilized. You should change this bad habit."

"How could I not know about my own affairs? I doubt you would know either. If you did know, you would have told me, right?"

"It depends on what happened. Don't say things you shouldn't, lest you keep your mouth shut. Tell me, what exactly did you hear? Did you go around spreading rumors? You shouldn't wash your dirty linen in public; you should know that."

"Put your ear here, I overheard something big about the handsome guy who's come to our compound now, from back in the day..."

"Isn't Zhanbei just someone the old man forced to marry into a wealthy family? What else could it be?"

"I already knew that, it's something else entirely. Come closer..."

"This matter! Everyone in the courtyard knows about it except you. But now that you've overheard it, don't go around telling everyone. Don't end up like Wu Sanbao, who was put in a sack and left without food or water for three days and three nights. The man stayed at Widow Li's house at the west end for exactly those three days and three nights."

"Yang Zhanxi, what exactly do you mean? Are you using Wu Sanbao's case to threaten me? And you all know about Zhanbei's background, but you kept me in the dark. Do you treat me like an outsider?"

Diao Yan grinned, got out of bed, and went to get another quilt from the kang cabinet to sleep under.

"What do you mean you're treated like an outsider? You might have been somewhere else back when Zhanbei was around."

He jokingly took the quilt from her hand and threw it onto the kang cabinet, then added, "Come on, don't be angry. You're sleeping alone, and your body temperature is colder than a crocodile's."

Then, there were sounds of heavy breathing coming from their bed...

The next day, after breakfast, the five of them continued what they had been doing the day before.

The original cast and crew, still in the same pose, are getting ready to board the bus.

Suddenly, Yu Yanli, with a bruised and swollen face, pushed her bicycle and ran over quickly.

"Zou Jun, take them home quickly, don't go to the county town for the medical check-up. I'll explain in more detail when we get back."

"Mom, what's wrong with you? I told you I couldn't come, but you forced me to bring them. Now you've come all this way on your bicycle, and what happened? This is really hard to accept!"

“Zou Jun, your mother doesn’t agree to go, so we’ll go back. Go to the station behind and get a refund for the five bus tickets you bought! Don’t embarrass your mother.”

The people gathered around the bus's power switch laughed. First, they laughed at the spectacle, and then they laughed at the seats left for the remaining five people to board the bus.

Zou Jun nodded to Yu Han, then rode his bicycle with Yu Yanli trailing behind him.

"Mom, let's talk about this between the two of us. What happened?"