The Prestigious Family’s Young Miss and The Farmer – Chapter 24 Part 2

CHAPTER 24 PART 2 THE OLD HUNTER

Yang Tiezhu was sitting on a small seat in the courtyard, stroking Dahei’s back, who was sitting beside him, as he narrated a few happenings in his childhood and about old hunter to Lin Qingwan

Lin Qingwan was sitting beside him, as she listened to him quietly.

At this moment, it was quiet all around them with the occasional cry of insects and birds. Looking at her husband, who was sunk in his memories, Lin Qingwan felt kinda deep admiration in him for that old hunter. 

Don’t know how Yang Laoye and He-shi would feel upon hearing all of these. The status of one’s parents in the heart of their son was not even significant as old hunter, who didn’t have any relatives. 

老爷子 (lǎoyézi): polite appellation for an elderly male, one’s father (In earlier chapters old father was used.) 

Anyhow, if a disaster was mandated by the heavens, one can still be forgiven, but if the disaster was brought by oneself, there ought to be retribution. Everything was the consequences of their actions. 

A good son was pushed away. He-shi ought to understand one thing – nothing remains the same. And Yang laoyezi also cannot avoid this blame. 

Sometimes not doing anything elicits more sorrow than committing an error.

A gust of calm wind passed by. Yang Tiezhu seemed to be in a daze for quite a time before he came back to himself.

He turned his head and smiled at Lin Qingwan, once again becoming his usual and honest self. 

“Are Dahei and Erhei born from that old black dog? I had never seen you bringing them home back. Do you keep them at dagu’s place?” This question, Lin Qingwan have been wishing to ask for a while but couldn’t. 

大姑 (dàgū): Eldest aunt; father’s eldest sister

She had never seen Dahei and Erhei the past few days she had lived in the Yang family. But contrarily, they spend at Yang-shi’s place quite a lot of time comparatively. If Yang Tiezhu didn’t go into the mountains, Dahei or Erhei would either stay at Yang-shi’s place or go out by themselves to eat.

Yang Tiezhu’s complexion became dark. Nevertheless, he still opened his mouth to reply: “My mother prohibits from raising pets in the home, saying raising dogs costs food. So usually, Dahei and Erhei stays at my dagu’s place. Only at the time I go into the mountain, I take both of them along with me.”

This He-shi….

 Lin Qingwan had speechlessness across her whole face. Raising a dog costs food; raising a person doesn’t cost anything? By raising dogs, they at the least help in hunting and all, but raising people can also lead to raising a few scums! 

Fine, this sentence was somwhant offensive; as such Lin Qingwan also didn’t speak out.  

“I want to remove the weeds around Wu shu’s grave. Do you want to come? Or will you stay stay here?” Yang Tiezhu asked.

叔 (shū): uncle (Wu is the surname of the old hunter)

Is there still a need to ask? She would go certainly. Displeased, Lin Qingwan glared at him and stood up.

Every time Wanwan glared at him, Yang Tiezhu felt he was rather foolish, and could only giggle. 

He chuckled and held her hand carefully. As there wasn’t anyone around them, he need not be afraid of being seen.  

Seeing that there was no one around apart from both of them and the two dogs, Lin Qingwan also didn’t try to let go of his hand.

Both of them went around the wooden house to the backyard and walked into the grove. After walking into the grove for a while, they stopped in front of a small grave. 

Lin Qingwan was a bit surprised, as there wasn’t any stone tablet on the grave.  

It was just a blank small grave.

As if understanding her surprise, Yang Tiezhu explained: “Wu shu asked not to have any stone tablet.”

Only after hearing ‘Wu shu’ twice did Lin Qingwan realize Wu was the old hunter’s family name.  

Yang Tiezhu squatted down and started weeding around the small grave. Seeing both of them stop, the two dogs happily ran to the side.

The small grave was surrounded by a thicket of weeds. If it weren’t for Yang Tiezhu stopping here, Lin Qingwan would just have seen it as a bulge, and be unable to identify it as a grave. 

Lin Qingwan also squatted down, wanting to lend him a hand. However, Yang Tiezhu refused to let her do so, saying that her hands might get pricked by the weeds, leaving gashes on them. 

Then Yang Tiezhu quickly pulled out all the weeds neatly.

Finishing the weeding, he stood up in front of the old hunter’s grave for a few minutes before leaving with Lin Qingwan. 

Coming out the grove, Yang Tiezhu looked at the colour if the sky and said to her, “It’s not early anymore, shall we head back?”

Lin Qingwan nodded. Both of them thereupon directly walked out of the courtyard and headed to the village.

 They slowly walked back in the same way they had come from. By the time they reached Yang-shi’s place, she had already cooked the supper. 

Lin Qingwan looked at the sky outside. The sun hadn’t set yet. Recalling that a wife should return to her husband’s house before sunset, she could only sit down to have the meal. 

As they overate for the lunch, and also were eating the supper early, the three of them didn’t eat much. After casually eating a few bites, Lin Qingwan stroked her stomach, unable to eat anymore.

After finishing the supper, Yang-shi sent them off the courtyard gates before sunset.

Lin Qingwan felt that this day the time passed way too fast. In a blink of an eye, the day was already over.   

Soon her first three days upon becoming a new daughter-in-law would be finished. Lin Qingwan was also aware that it was unlikely for her to have this kind of carefree days again in the future.

Tomorrow is the real start of her days as a daughter-in-law.

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