"Everyone, have a try. If you don't like it, you can also use chopsticks to pick it up and eat." Yang Ruqing said with a smile.

Others followed suit, with the Liu family taking the lead.

"Delicious, delicious!" Liu mumbled with a mouthful of food.

After finishing the first piece, she reached out to grab the second lettuce leaf. She took another piece of meat, and then another, and another. Just as she was about to take a fourth piece, Yang Huaming blocked her chopsticks.

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"About that's enough, you see, others are wrapping one piece, you're wrapping so many, what else are others going to wrap?" Yang Huaming asked.

Liu curled her lips and, as she retracted her chopsticks, unwillingly, poked at the braised pork on the side with them again.

A large chunk of fatty pork belly was wrapped in lettuce leaves and stuffed into the mouth, chewing loudly.

This scene, Yang Ruqing saw it all. She couldn't help but sigh inwardly, no wonder Fourth Uncle didn't like Fourth Aunt, this Fourth Aunt is really inconsiderate. Whenever Fourth Uncle takes her out to eat or anything, she just brings shame on him.

Fortunately, everyone here are relatives and close friends who have known each other for decades. We all know what Aunt Four is like and are used to her antics.

Here, Yang Yongjin's voice reached Yang Ruqing's ears. She turned her head and saw Yang Yongjin talking to her.

“Second brother, I just spaced out for a moment. What did you say? I didn't hear carefully, could you please repeat it?” she said.

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Yang Yongjin said, "Well, this way of eating is really good. The lettuce is crisp, the meat is tender and smooth, it's fragrant, spicy, and refreshing. Qing'er, how did you come up with this idea?"

Yang Ruqing smiled and said, "This way of eating is a Korean custom. I also discovered it when I went to the capital before and entered a Korean-run restaurant. So I learned how to try it."

In fact, she knew this way of eating in her past life, and she had even eaten it to the point of disgust.

Thinking of my great motherland, China, with its myriad of cuisines as numerous as the stars in the sky. Occasionally trying foreign food is just a slight change of pace.

After the adjustment is complete, we still need to return to our own diet.

Everybody heard that it was a way of eating from a foreign country, and they became interested. They all tried to imitate it again.

We had a truly enjoyable meal. It's been ages since we all enjoyed ourselves so much.

Even though Xiao Shunzi had a full table of delicacies for his full moon party last time—chicken, duck, fish, and everything else you could imagine—everyone was preoccupied with something else.

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It always feels like there's a sword hanging above my head, ready to fall at any moment.

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Things are looking up now, Tang's son and Da An have brought honor to the family, and the official document will arrive in Changping Village soon. Everyone is feeling relieved and enjoying themselves with meat and drinks, waiting for good news.

The first snow of the winter was falling outside, swirling and dancing in the biting north wind.

But in this room, it was warm like spring, everyone was enthusiastic and passionate.

Last night, Bao Chang came over to deliver a message. He brought a bunch of gifts. I didn't want to accept them, but he insisted that I take them at the time.

"It's already midnight, and it wouldn't be convenient to push and shove. I'll just put it away in the backyard room where your mother and I sleep for now. Later, you can go to town and try to figure out a way to get Dad's gift returned to the giver. We don't want it!"

By the time everyone had left, it was afternoon.

Yang Huazhong had a straw in his mouth, sitting opposite Yang Ruqing who was shelling sunflower seeds at the table.

Upon hearing this, Yang Ruqing let out a soft chuckle.

“Last time, my father and Uncle Luo went to his house to inquire about news. They hid from day till night, afraid of getting our family involved.”

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“This time our family safely weathered the storm, so I immediately rushed over to curry favor. This person's face is something else, it changes faster than a flipping book!” she said.

When Old Good Man Sun mentioned this, he was also very angry.

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"Yeah, we don't need those things. We can afford to burn silver-refined charcoal at two taels per jin right here at home, so we don't covet his stuff."

“Even if our family remained as poor as before, we wouldn't want his things. Getting something from him wouldn't make us wealthy, and most importantly, I don't want to have dealings with that kind of person!” Mrs. Sun said.

Yang Ruqing said, "Well, I'll go to town tomorrow and return it to him."

The next day, Yang Ruqing returned from town. The gift that the village head had sent was indeed returned.

But when she stepped into Yang Huazhong's living room, she saw that the table and chairs were all piled with things.

There were bundles of gifts, dried goods, and brave baskets filled with eggs.

There were chickens and ducks with their legs tied up, and baskets filled with cabbage, radishes, big fish...

In short, if Yang Ruqing hadn't seen her parents and two younger sisters standing in the middle of this pile of stuff with worried frowns, she would have thought she had accidentally walked into a junkyard.

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"My god, what's going on? How did all this stuff end up in the living room?" she exclaimed in surprise.

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Yang Huazhong said, "They were all sent this morning. Some are from our village, some are from the neighboring village..."

Yang Ruqing understood immediately.

As the saying goes, the poor have no one to ask for help even in a bustling city, while the rich have many distant relatives when they live in seclusion.

I had deliberately kept my distance from the Yang family, the Luo family, the Sun family, and the Wang family before, fearing that I might be implicated.

While doing laundry by the pond, I met Sun Shi and her granddaughter. Those women purposely moved to the other side to wash their clothes.

Míngmíng Sun and the other women had empty washbasins nearby, but they refused to use them. Instead, they crowded together to wash or lined up waiting their turn.

When they met Yang Huazhong and his villagers in the village, those villagers also hurried to detour. They were afraid that if they met face-to-face without greeting each other, it would be impolite. But they didn't want to greet each other either.

"These people, each and every one of them, are two-faced." Yang Ruqing said.

She came to the middle of these things, looking this way and that, "So many things want to be returned one by one, it's so much work. In my opinion, we might as well just take them all."

"Did you take it all? That's not good, is it?" Mrs. Sun said.

Yang Ruqing said, "There's nothing wrong with that. If they dare to send it, we dare to accept it. Just treat it as an apology gift for their deliberate distance from us before, and we'll take it all."

Sun hesitated for a moment, then continued, "It's shortest to eat people and take people's hands. If we accept everything they ask us to do..."

Yang Ruqing said, "Rules are written by the strong. In these ten miles and eight villages, our family is the strongest."

"If they want to come over and gaze up at us, grovel, fawn over us, then the deal itself is unfair."

"If they run into trouble and ask for our help, we'll see how we feel. If we're willing to help, we will, but if not, we won't. What can they do about it? Take it all!"

Yang Huazhong said, "My daughter is right. From now on, let's just do whatever we want."

“These past few months, I’ve completely seen through it. Some people are simply ungrateful white-eyed wolves. They were helped by our family during their most difficult times, but when we're in trouble, they disappear as if nothing happened.” he said.

Yang Ruqing continued, "This is still because the puppet emperor was in power at the time. Many local government offices simply wouldn't listen to him. Otherwise, if the soldiers and officers came to search our house, these gift-givers wouldn't hesitate to kick us when we were down!"

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