At first, Yixuan thought there might have been some mistake, but after these items appeared, there had never been any talk of someone losing possessions or anyone coming to the Liang family to claim them. He was certain these gifts were deliberately sent to the Liang family by this unknown person, but he also didn’t understand what the other party’s intention could be? It’s hard to refuse gifts and favors, and even though someone had been secretly sending quite a few things, Yixuan had never used them. Besides, his family didn’t lack silver or food, but instead, he added a few packets of salt into the stash. Saving perishable items like chicken, duck, and goose eggs, he had them preserved, and now there was a large jar full of them stored in the cellar. "Where did this basket come from?" Dong Huiying stepped out from the dance, yawned, and upon seeing Yixuan, her expression paused. She then naturally averted her gaze and looked at Haoming, who was holding a basket to the side. Haoming answered sparingly, "Found it!" After that, he handed the basket to Dong Huiying, and he went off to the riverside with a bucket to fetch water. Yixuan gently bit his lip, his eyes fixed on Dong Huiying, remembering the words she said last night. She said that he had wounded her heart. And because of that sentence, he hadn’t slept all night. Influenced by his second brother, suddenly his sense of misfortune had deepened. He just, just... wanted to seek some assurance. Even if one day she reverted to her former self, but if by then she had already married him, and he was her husband, then his brothers would be free, no longer bound by a marriage contract. He just wanted to seek some assurance. But his heart couldn’t help recalling the past few months... In Zhu Family Village, when he was in despair, she saved him. At the Department of Surveillance, facing another bout of despair, she saved him once more. In the mountains, when Third Brother was close to death, his heart filled with despair, and she once again gave him hope. Concerning his second brother, the heavy burden that had weighed on his heart, the worries that had persisted, because of her, signs of resolution appeared. He wasn’t without feelings; he was just insecure, just afraid. The way she is now is good, he really likes it. But how long can she stay ? She had changed abruptly, without warning, from brutal to gentle, from malicious to kind. He didn’t even know why she changed. He even feared that everything she was doing now was just a whim. He had no sense of security. So he had to prepare for the worst, to secure that even when disaster struck, even if he himself couldn’t get out unscathed, at least he could secure an escape route for his brothers while he still could. But then she said that he had wounded her heart. Shu Yu, Shujun, and Yue Ning were still not up. Shu Yu was sickly and prone to sleeping in, which was normal given his poor health; Shujun was just lazy and, although awake now, didn’t feel like getting out of bed, whining under the blankets and, instead of getting up to quench his thirst, he lazily nudged Mist Capital with his toes. Yue Ning grumbled with a dark face, "Third Brother, what are you doing!" He opened his eyes groggily, irritated at being disturbed from his dreams by his third brother’s annoying foot. "Don’t you have hands? Get it yourself!" Despite saying that, Yue Ning quickly got dressed, huffily stormed out of the room, but took care to close the door gently as if afraid of making any noise that would wake his second brother on the kang. His consideration, however, came too late. Before, his loud voice had already potentially disturbed the second brother, and now it was too late to worry about waking him. Because Shu Yu had already opened his eyes.
