Chapter 35 Yang Family Visitors
“Mengyao Gu, you little b*tch, listen up. This money belongs to our Old Yang family. Don’t push your luck, hand over the money quickly, or don’t blame me for letting Gou Dan beat you.”
“Exactly. It’s only because my third brother was kind enough to let his son marry into the Gu family. Now that he has money, he’s actually unfilial to his in-laws. She’s really something!”
“Mother-in-law, little sister-in-law, what are you waiting for? Just go in and take it! Anyway, all this stuff belongs to the Old Yang family, so we don’t have to give it to others.”
“Yes, this is all ours.”
Before Gu Yu could even get home, he heard a commotion.
After hearing the meaning of their words, he couldn’t help but frown, thinking that the people from the Old Yang family were really impatient and had come to their door so early.
The head of the Old Yang family, Xingwang Yang, was sold to a prominent family surnamed Qian as a servant when he was young because his family was poor with many children. After accidentally saving the young master, when Master Qian asked him what reward he desired, Xingwang Yang replied that he only wanted to marry a wife and settle down to farm.
Master Qian had a very good attitude towards Xingwang Yang, who had saved his son’s life. He directly married his personal maidservant, Chunhua, to him, and after giving them some rewards, he let the couple return to their hometown to live.
Afterwards, Xingwang Yang and his wife, Li Shuang, who had resumed her original name, returned to Yang Family Village and began their farming life of men plowing and women weaving.
Old Man Yang and Madam Li had a total of seven children over the years, five sons and two daughters.
The first four sons were named with the meanings of being accomplished in both literary and martial arts, respectively: Zhiwen Yang, Zhiwu Yang, Zhi Shuang Yang, and Zhi Quan Yang.
The eldest son, Zhiwen Yang, is thirty-three years old this year. He is a simple and honest farmer, and his wife, Juan Wang, has given birth to three sons and one daughter.
The second son, Zhiwu Yang, is thirty years old. Because he is lazy and unable to earn money, he just got married a few years ago. His wife, Mengzhu Li, has only given birth to one son.
The third son, Zhi Shuang Yang, is twenty-eight years old. He went hunting in the mountains a few years ago and then worked in town. His wife passed away early, leaving him with only one son to depend on. After his son married into the Gu family, he threw himself to death in front of the Old Yang family’s ancestral home.
The fourth son, Zhi Quan Yang, is twenty-eight years old and is the twin brother of Zhi Shuang Yang. He went to work in town at the age of fifteen and was taken a liking to by the boss of Wen Family Grocery Store. He married the boss’s only daughter, Shuangshuang Wen, and after having a son and a daughter, they have been living in town. Apart from sending money and goods back, they could only be seen during festivals.
Their eldest daughter, who married out early, is named Man Yang. Madam Li’s last children were twins, named Shun Yang and Jiaojiao Yang, respectively. Shun Yang, who passed the Tong Sheng examination at the young age of sixteen, is the pride of the Old Yang family.
The name Shun Yang also carries the meaning of a smooth journey.Because he was smart and clever from a young age, the Old Yang family, with their more than ten acres of land and the money earned by their sons working outside, managed to support Shun Yang’s studies.
When Shun Yang passed the Tong Sheng examination at the age of sixteen, the Old Yang family was overjoyed, believing that Shun Yang was destined to become an official.
After all, even though the village chief, Hong Yang, had passed the Xiucai examination, he was already in his forties and could not compare to the sixteen-year-old Shun Yang.
Therefore, Shun Yang’s status in the family was second only to Old Man Yang. Everything in the family was prioritized for him, even the Old Man Yang’s beloved eldest grandson had to step aside.
The information Gu Yu heard from others allowed him to understand the family structure of the Old Yang family’s ancestral home.
Ancient large families were truly numerous. The Yang family alone was a whole string of people… And now, Gu Yu only knew the names of Old Man Yang’s sons and daughters. As for the grandchildren, just thinking about them gave him a headache.
To have so many children, it was no wonder there were always wars in ancient times. If it were a period of perpetual peace, the imperial court might have had to implement a family planning policy.
