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Wen Mingtang paused while cutting vegetables and looked at Tangyuan: “How can there be any hidden secrets about this fiancé?”

After a pause, without waiting for Tangyuan to speak, Wen Mingtang thought for a moment and said, “Could it be that the engagement has been cancelled, and the fiancé and his mother will not recognize her?”

Tangyuan rolled her eyes and shook her head, saying, “If Zhenzhen was already engaged, then it would be easier to say whether he is her fiancé or not, and it’s not as hard to say as of now!”

This made it even more confusing! Wen Mingtang asked Tangyuan curiously, “What do you mean?”

Tangyuan said, “The fiancé that Miss Chang is engaged to is named Yang. This marriage was arranged by Miss Chang’s grandfather and Master Yang’s grandfather in a drunken joke.”

“The Yang family had some assets in their early years and opened a cloth shop. When Miss Chang was five or six years old, the Yang family’s cloth shop business was getting better and better, while the Chang family’s rice shop had always been so-so, neither good nor bad. Master Yang looked down on the Chang family because of their good business and found fault with them. The Chang family tolerated it once or twice, but not more than that, so they naturally decided that it would be better to end the marriage between the two families.”

“Since the marriage was arranged while drunk, there was no marriage certificate or anything like that. It was only a matter of a few words for the two families to break off the marriage!”

“As luck would have it, on the day the engagement was broken off, Master Yang was probably very happy to have finally gotten rid of this poor relative, so he went to the tavern and had a few more drinks. As a result, he drank too much and on his way home from the tavern, he passed by the river and drowned!”

“The Yang family’s cloth shop business was entirely dependent on Master Yang. Madam Yang is a tyrant and a troublemaker. She is a ‘talented person’ who was asked to run the clothes shop. In less than a year, she had ruined the Yang family’s clothes shop!”

When Wen Mingtang heard this, she immediately understood: “Originally, the Yang family was better off than the Chang family, so they naturally didn’t want the Chang family as their in-laws; now that they have lost their cloth shop, they naturally want the Chang family as their in-laws again.”

Tanyuan nodded: “The Yang family’s behavior made the Chang family feel like they have swallowed a fly! Besides, the intentions of the mother and son of the Yang family are obvious. They are eyeing the dowry of the Chang family’s young lady and this Yue family. Naturally, the Chang family will not recognize it.”

“In this case, this marriage is difficult to define! The Chang family said that the marriage between the two families was just a joke. It can also be said that Master Yang had personally broken off the marriage with them before the accident.”

“The mother and son of the Yang family insisted that they had no idea that Master Yang had broken off the marriage, and they only thought that it was arranged by the grandfather of the two children.” Tangyuan said, “The two families talked about it, but it was just a verbal promise. There is no marriage certificate, and there is no witness other than the two families, so it is difficult to determine the matter!”

Wen Mingtang heard this and shook her head, saying, “Although it’s hard to define, the mother and son of the Yang family are so good at throwing tantrums. Besides, their family is now in decline. If they are accused of ‘disdaining the poor and loving the rich’, the Chang family will probably not be able to get away with it.”

“Isn’t it?” Tangyuan felt a little thirsty when he said this. She took the water handed to her by A Bing and drank it all. She said, “For so many years, the Chang family has been unable to get rid of this marriage. The mother and son of the Yang family went to the shop to make trouble once a month, and they had to pay two coins to send them away. Now that the incident with Miss Chang has happened, it’s even more…”

“It also gives the Yang family mother and son a handle,” Wen Mingtang said as he looked at the fish head bubbling in the casserole, “The Yang family mother and son will not give up until they bite off a big piece of meat from the Chang family!”

Tangyuan nodded and said, “My father said the same thing. He said that the mother and son of the Yang family have always been looking for trouble. Miss Chang’s willfulness not only hurt herself, but I’m afraid it also implicated her parents!”

“There is no other way to deal with such scoundrels!” Wen Mingtang said, “Even if they give them money this time, they will still throw tantrums and ask for more money next time, just like sticky silver candy that you can’t get rid of!”

“What should they do?” Tangyuan thought about it seriously and shuddered, “If I run into this kind of person…”

Before she could finish her sentence, Ah Bing interrupted her, “What are you thinking? You really think anyone would cling to you and throw a tantrum?”

Wen Mingtang raised her head and glanced at A Bing who looked nonchalant. Although his tone was nonchalant, the worry on his face was obvious.

This was the case with young boys of this age. They were obviously worried, but the words they said were very annoying! As expected, Tangyuan screamed in shock after hearing this, and pounced on him with her teeth and claws bared: “Are you looking for a fight?”

Wen Mingtang moved the cut frozen tofu on the table aside to avoid being affected by the fight between the two children. Fortunately, Ah Bing obediently took two punches from Tangyuan, and the two young people stopped and returned to Wen Mingtang to continue helping.

Although Tangyuan was preparing the side dishes, she was still thinking about the missing Miss Chang: “I don’t know if Miss Chang can come back. Even if she does, I’m afraid this mother and son will not let Miss Chang go. Who knows, after marrying her…”

“Then this Yang Gongzi probably has no intention of marrying Miss Chang.” Wen Mingtang shook her head and interrupted the two of them. “It’s already like this, what’s the difference between this and breaking up?”

If Yang Gongzi really wanted to marry Miss Chang and become the son-in-law of the Chang family, he would not go to her to beg for money from time to time. No matter how poor the Yang family had been, it had not reached this point!

“The purpose of the mother and son is to get money. If they really ask the Chang family to marry Miss Chang, it will make the Chang family desperate. They have already given her the money, what else can they do? If Yang Gongzi really hits Miss Chang or bullies her after the marriage, the Chang family can report it to the government. At that time, the worst that can happen is that they can divorce and get rid of the mother and son of the Yang family completely,” Wen Mingtang said, “In this way, it won’t cost much money for them, so they might as well take this opportunity to extort money from the Chang family!”

This was also the reason why the mother and son of the Yang family came to the Dali Temple to make a scene.

When Tangyuan heard this, she couldn’t help but tremble: “This mother and son’s plan is too cruel. Do Bai Sicheng and the Chang family know about it?”

“Of course, they know.” Wen Mingtang poured the frozen tofu into the pot and said, “This plan won’t fool Bai Sicheng. The Chang family has been running a rice shop for most of their lives, so they naturally understand all the ins and outs of it. In the end, I’m afraid that only Miss Chang doesn’t understand!”

In this case… Tangyuan couldn’t help but ask Wen Mingtang: “Is there no way to solve this problem?”

“The mother and son of the Yang family are so calculating and selfish,” Wen Mingtang said, and couldn’t help laughing. “Then Young Master Yang is not young anymore! I heard that he is pretty good at giving birth?”

Tangyuan thought of the mother and son who were throwing tantrums. The young man was dressed in a white robe, with proper eyes and nose, and his facial features were quite regular. But he took after his mother, and his pair of eyes that were darting and calculating made people feel a little uncomfortable.

Of course, this discomfort was only felt by others, but for Yu Yang’s mother, it was very comfortable! In her mind, her son was probably like Pan An in the world, so she had already started to plan for a suitable daughter-in-law.

The Chang family was just a money bag in the eyes of the Yang family mother and son.

“To deal with this kind of scoundrel, they need to find his faults and use that to deal with him!” Wen Mingtang said, “Just wait and see, Bai Sicheng will definitely not argue with the mother and son of the Yang family. On the contrary, he will be biased towards them on the surface. After coaxing them back, he will find the faults of the mother and son in private!”

(End of this chapter)

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