I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 41 Entering Middle School (Liu's parents ask the matchmaker to cancel the engagement wi

(Section Two) Second Brother's Love

The day after Yuqiu's wedding, all of Yang's relatives left, including his aunt's family and Yang Zhanbei's family. Yang Jun returned to his former educated youth settlement.

Liu Shulan, the mother, apologized to Yu Han for misunderstanding on New Year's Eve that she had brought a death telegram from her eldest sister's house and slapped her. Yu Han did not hold a grudge against her for this, and the mother and daughter reconciled.

Life in the compound continued as before, except for the health of the two elderly people, the death of their eldest granddaughter, and the absence of Yuqiu in the compound.

He usually looked down on Liu Shulan in the south wing for only giving birth to maids, and had never given the mother and daughter a kind look in his life. Now that his third granddaughter had gotten married and left, he suddenly felt that the courtyard was empty.

The two elders' health has deteriorated significantly; they have been constantly ill.

Time flies, and before we knew it, it was September, time for the new semester and grade advancement.

It's been almost a year since the Yang Family Compound saw off Yuqiu's wedding. Yuqiu is heavily pregnant and about to give birth. The Yang Family Compound has already started a new season of entertainment.

Yang Yuhan entered junior high school, which was located in the same village as the five-year primary school, in the same large earthen courtyard.

Liu Ying also moved up to the first year of junior high school.

On the first day of school, she cleaned in the morning and attended classes in the afternoon. She came to school to register for her new class wearing a pair of old black pants.

It's the same in every rural family these days; they face a shortage of social resources and lack clothes to wear.

She secretly borrowed Diao Yan's unpatched black polyester trousers a day in advance, and afterwards, Diao Yan scolded her behind her back for a long time.

Then, Yang Zhi went to the school to ask for pants in order to meet a girl from another village introduced by a matchmaker.

Then Yu Han changed into a new pair of pants. Diao Yan cursed Yang Zhi for lending Yu Han the pants, which Yang Hong overheard. He then ordered that the new pants be put on her so she could go to school.

The two grandparents were upset because their eldest granddaughter had suddenly died and their third granddaughter had gotten married and left before the new year. They hadn't been very nice to Yu Han until she was a girl, and because the last pair of cotton shoes that Yu Han had made for the old lady had been gnawed by rats. Only then did they start to have a good impression of her.

Yang Zhi was dumped by Liu Yue, the third sister of his first love Liu Ying, and took back a pair of women's fiber pants from the two bundles of the engagement and wedding gifts.

Yu Han put on the new pants that had been placed on her grandparents' heated kang bed and ran back to school to continue her lessons, much to Diao Yan's chagrin. Yu Mei was also furious and cursed her grandfather behind his back.

Yang Zhi dropped out of school, and no amount of opposition from others could change that. It all started with him dating his first love, then finding Zou Laqian to act as matchmaker, getting engaged, then breaking off the engagement—all because of the two bundles of returned items containing Yu Han's new trousers.

In his previous life, Yang Zhi did not marry his first love, Liu Yue. Instead, he married a girl from another village and began a life of being henpecked, which made her feel suffocated.

When he was dating Liu Yue, she never resisted when he hit her. The woman he married, introduced by the matchmaker, was a bit tall and strong, but otherwise useless; she was just a shrew.

In Yang Zhi's previous life, this big wife of his, after marrying into the compound, she beat everyone up. She fought with Big Brother Bai, Yang Chong, and then went to the north wing to lie on the heated kang bed and wanted to sleep with him.

Yang Chong's wife, Xu Fengying, was good-tempered and honest. It was because of this wife that Liu Yufeng dared to be so arrogant in her previous life, lying on his kang and making a scene. Later, when she went to her parents' home to take a bath, she saw that she was also tall and had four sisters. They came to the north wing and fought with Yang Chong together.

Yang Chong, who had been preparing to attack, had an axe under his buttocks. Xu Fengnian discovered this and calmed him down.

Yang Chong knelt down before his wife, and the matter was resolved. Many similar incidents occurred in the compound afterward, and each one ended with him kneeling down to settle things.

In their past life, he and Liu Yue went through a tug-of-war over their engagement, whether due to pressure from their parents or their own reasons.

In the end, the two went their separate ways in marriage. She married her husband, he married his wife, and then they each had their own children and lived their own lives.

In the end, they secretly suffered from unrequited love and were dissatisfied with their respective marriages.

Since Yang Yuhan was reborn at the beginning of her second brother's first love, she has to help them get married.

In fact, the marriages of the three Liu sisters in their previous lives were all secretly manipulated by their parents.

At this time, Yang Yuhan and Liu Ying, classmates and friends who had entered the same school in the first year of junior high, became spies for the Liu and Yang families.

Liu's mother carried her daughter Liu Yue out and sent the matchmaker Zou Laxian to the Yang family to propose breaking off the engagement. Diao Yan was not going to fall for her act. She immediately grabbed Yang Zhi and followed Zou Laxian to the Liu family to take the two bundles of betrothal gifts that the Yang family had given to Liu's third daughter a few days earlier.

When Liu Yue returned home and found out, she was furious and immediately went to Yang Zhi to explain, but the Yang family's door was tightly closed.

Then, she went home in a huff and started arguing with her mother.

"Mom, what right do you have to go to the Yang family to pursue my marriage without my permission? Don't you want me to marry well?"

"You're talking nonsense! What mother doesn't want her daughter to marry well? It's precisely because you wanted her to marry well that they broke off the engagement. Wouldn't it be better if you married a city guy? You wouldn't have to do farm work. Are you going to spend your whole life toiling in the fields?"

“You and your father aren’t farmers for life. You’re a farmer yourself, yet you say you’re no good.”

"Third brother, you've really got guts. You're usually so obedient and docile, but now you're doing this for that Yang Xiaoyan who's good at hanging wires but isn't tall. What's so great about him? You've got guts to talk back to me. What's so good about him? Besides having a pair of hands that can carry on the Yang family's ancestral carpentry skills, what else can he do? Can he compare to city people?"

“City people are good, but they also eat the grain grown by rural people.”

"No matter what you say, the engagement is off, so don't think about having anything to do with him again."

Whether we have any contact or not is not up to you.

"See if I don't beat you to death."

"Go ahead and hit me, even if you kill me, I won't go to the city."

"Alright, all of you, calm down. Leng Mei, I'm not trying to be mean, but I have no idea what's going on. The Yang family mother and son and the matchmaker suddenly came to 'break off the engagement.' So it was you who caused this. Aren't you afraid he'll blame you later?"

"You old geezer, you one-eyed bastard, you're pretending to be a good person now. Didn't you say that the Yang family has too many people and that having more sisters-in-law makes it easier to serve them?"

“I was just saying that, who knew you would take it seriously. Alright, tomorrow I’ll have Zou Laqian, the matchmaker, bring the engagement gifts back to see.”

"Dad, you're so good to me." Liu Yue smiled and hugged her father's thick waist.

"no!"

Yang Family Compound

While Diao Yan was having an internal struggle with Yang Zhi, Da Sheng scolded, "Yang Zhi, you must go on a blind date tomorrow. It's the eldest daughter of the family you and your second uncle went to to do carpentry work in Qianjia Village last time. Didn't you see that girl? She's several times prettier than Liu Yue from the East Courtyard. Besides all those long braids that go past their knees, what else is there about the Liu family's girls?"

"She's just better than other girls. If you want to go on blind dates, go ahead. Go whoever you want. I'm not going."

"Yang Dazhi, don't forget, it was Liu Yue's family who first proposed breaking off the engagement. You're shameless enough to never find a wife, yet you keep targeting her."