The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

"..." Mu Shaoling looked at him and felt a sudden throbbing pain in his head. This mother and son pair truly had no equal.

Upon hearing this, Commandery Princess Dongyang chuckled heartily.

"We haven’t decided when to return yet."

"Is that so?" Yang Chuxia said with a tinge of disappointment, "I was thinking, if you were planning to return to the Capital City, we could travel together. Brother An and I agreed that after Qingrui gets married, we are going to Shandong, so if we could accompany each other on the road, it would be nice to have someone to rely on."

"Why don’t you go after the New Year? The child is still so young," Commandery Princess Dongyang remarked.

"Tsk, you think she wants to go? It must be Ye Zi’an’s doing—that guy is good for nothing, acting like he can’t live without his wife."

Yang Chuxia really wanted to ask him, can you leave your wife? It’s been so long since Dongyang gave birth, why haven’t you scurried back to the Capital City?

But before she could ask, her family’s little helper spoke up, "Uncle, you and Aunt Dongyang are also inseparable, right?"

"Oh, you know about being inseparable, do you?"

"Of course, my mother just told me that," the little guy said, extremely proud of himself for knowing how to use the idiom.

"Haha, this child is really clever." Commandery Princess Dongyang happily pulled him into a hug, holding him for a while before letting go. "Since you are going to Shandong, we will return to the Capital City as well. We need to go back to celebrate the new year anyway; whether we return earlier or later, it’s all the same. When we’re back in the county, I’ll start packing. Just send me a message about the departure date."

"Then it’s settled," they agreed.

The next day, on the tenth day of the ninth month, Yang Chuxia got up early.

By the time she arrived at the Yang Family, Yang Qingtong, Yang Qingbao, and their brothers, along with Yang Qingrui’s classmates, had already set off to the town to move the dowry.

By 9:00 a.m., the team carrying the dowry had returned.

Yang Chuxia estimated that the dowry wasn’t large—only twelve loads, which certainly couldn’t compare to her own wedding, but this was within her expectations, so she didn’t mind.

However, Ms. Wang, upon seeing the dowry, pursed her lips in discontent. She felt that their family had given a substantial bride price, and yet, this was all the dowry amounted to? The dowries of the more affluent families in town were at least sixteen loads, mostly around twenty; those who doted on their daughters had nearly twenty-three loads, and here they only had twelve.

The Zhang Family’s father was indeed stingy; as the saying goes, an egg would lose a piece in his hands.

But Yang Chuxia hadn’t anticipated that someone could be stingy to such an extent, especially when it came to marrying off a daughter.

She had initially seen that Ms. Wang was unhappy and thought to offer some comfort, but the moment she entered the harem, she immediately lost any desire to persuade.

Because at this moment, Qingbao, who had been moving the dowry, came to call for her.

"Sister Xiaxia!"

"What’s wrong?" Yang Chuxia asked, seeing the troubled expression on Yang Qingbao’s face.

"Sister, you should come and look at the dowry. There are two loads that are completely empty."

"How can they be empty?" Yang Chuxia was also startled, as she had never encountered such a situation before, "Is there nothing inside at all?"

"You should come and see for yourself, sister." Yang Qingbao felt uncomfortable even mentioning those chests.

Hearing this, Yang Chuxia went with Yang Qingbao to Yang Qingrui’s courtyard. The others had already left, leaving only four people who didn’t know what to do with the chests. Yang Qingbao explained that these four were the ones who had been carrying the chests.

As they saw Yang Chuxia approaching, they quickly said, "We felt that these chests were a bit light while we were carrying them."

"That’s right, we didn’t take anything out. With so many people around, even if we wanted to, we couldn’t have done it," they defended themselves.