Why did you provoke me?

"Mom and Dad don't know about this yet. We're just talking about it privately. I don't know what kind of trouble Mom will cause this time." Dali is also feeling helpless. Whenever her mother cries, she can't say anything.

Jiang Mingfeng didn't respond to this. Instead, he picked up a piece of fish from the plate and put it in Dali's bowl. "Eat more fish. I caught it myself."

Yu Meng put down her chopsticks and left. She didn't want to witness their public display of affection; it was too cloying.

After dreaming for a long time, she decided to confront her parents.

Dali and Jiang Mingfeng returned to town the next morning.

After dinner, Yu Meng did not return to her room as usual.

She sat in front of her parents.

"Xiao Si, is something wrong?" Yu's father asked.

Yu Meng nodded. "I want to open a purchasing shop with my brother in town."

Aunt Yu glanced at Yu Meng but didn't say anything; she just listened quietly.

"I'm going to sell things I make myself. Originally, I planned to open it with my older sister and brother. But my older sister disagreed, saying that would cause conflict because one of them is getting married and the other is getting married."

"But you're still so young, what if there are troublemakers?" Mother Yu finally couldn't help but ask.

Yu Meng smiled. "I still have my dad and mom, don't I?"

"You want us to go to town too, but what about this house? If no one lives in the house for a long time, the rats will eat it up," Mrs. Yu said worriedly.

Looking at her mother like this, Yu Meng suddenly felt a warmth in her heart; her mother cared about her too.

"We can't let the land at home go to waste. We'll still come back from time to time," said Mr. Yu from the side.

"So, Mom and Dad agree with what I just said."

"You're very smart, and I trust you with everything you do. That way, your brother won't have to work for the mining company after he graduates. I heard from your father that working for the mining company is quite dangerous," said Aunt Yu with a smile.

"If Dad has time in town, could you help me find a shop? It needs to have a yard in the back so our family can live there," Yu Meng continued.

Mr. Yu nodded, and Mrs. Yu didn't say anything more.

See, that's the difference. Some things aren't impossible to do, it's just a matter of who does them. If it were the young man who suggested it, Yu Zheng would probably be crying and making a scene again, but if it were Yu Meng who suggested it, everything would make sense.

I don’t know when it started, but whenever little Yu Meng makes an opinion, her parents will consider it carefully and won’t directly refute it.

When Dali found out about this, she was still thinking to herself, "My little sister is really something."

Yu's dream has faded; with her current level, she's probably among the top in town. To access more new knowledge, she needs to connect with even more accomplished people.

The goods in the small shop will serve as a link. Perhaps many people will come to her after seeing what she makes.

Yu's father asked Dali to pass on a message to Yu Jun: "Come back and discuss your marriage."

Yu Jun has been working very hard lately. He also knows that living in his wife's dowry room indirectly proves his and his parents' incompetence, and he doesn't want his parents to be pointed at and gossiped about because of him.

Guo Fangting was helpless after learning his thoughts. "We really don't think that way. They just want me to live closer so they can take care of me in the future."

Yu Jun patted her arm with a smile. "I'm a grown man, I have to give you a home. That's what I should do as a husband. If I can't even do that, would you still want to marry me?"

"I know what kind of person you are, and I'm willing to marry you no matter what." Guo Fangting felt very happy to have found such a responsible husband.

Yu Jun went home with Dali. Because Yu Meng was preparing to open a shop in town, Yu's mother did not object to Dajun living in town.

Mr. Yu took out the money he had prepared and placed it in front of Yu Jun. "This is what the family prepared for you. We originally wanted to find someone in the village to approve a plot of land for you to build a house. Since you don't want to, then you can go to town and choose a house instead."

"How can this be? I have younger siblings. What will they do if I give all the money to them?" Yu Jun pushed the money back to his father.

Aunt Yu pushed the money towards Yu Jun with one hand. "This was originally given to you by your father and me. As for your younger brother's, we can save up for him later."

"No buts, here you go, just take it. Fangting is already of marriageable age this year, if you don't get married this year, you'll have to wait another year," Dali said.

Here, weddings are usually held in winter. Heavy snow closes the mountains, making many tasks impossible and thus providing more free time. Another reason is that the cold winter weather means leftover food won't spoil as quickly after the wedding banquet.

Yu Jun remained silent, which made Dali anxious. "Say something! Mom has already prepared the bedding for you. I'll buy you the rest of the pots, pans, curtains, and stuff."

Yu Meng chimed in from the side, "I'll pay for the clothes you wear at your wedding; you can buy them yourselves."

"You don't need to pay. You're opening a small shop, which will cost a lot of money. Mom will cover that," Aunt Yu said with a smile.

"Mom, I have to give a gift for my brother's wedding, right? You're taking away what I'm supposed to do, so what am I supposed to do?" Yu Meng clung to her mother, refusing to let go.

"Why don't you make a set of jewelry for your sister-in-law?" Dali suggested.

"She's a mask revealer herself, she can do it herself. Would she accept it if I made it? That's too perfunctory."

Dali laughed, "You don't know this, do you? As far as I know, there are very few people who can make jewelry."

Dali looked at Yu Jun. "Have you ever seen your sister-in-law make jewelry?" she said, extending her right hand and waving it.

Dali wore a string of emerald green beads on her wrist.

Yu Jun narrowed his eyes. "Did you make this yourself?"

"Of course, Sister Xiu has one too, and I even made a string for Mom as well." Dali proudly showed off the beaded bracelet on her mother's wrist.

"It seems Fangting really doesn't know how to do it. I've never seen her wear it," Yu Jun recalled.

Father Yu glared at Dali. This naive young woman. He knew Yu Meng's bracelets; one string sold for 25 gold coins. How many gold coins would a complete set of jewelry cost?

Dali was bewildered by her father's glare.

"You don't need to make a whole set of jewelry, just make her a bracelet," the mother said from the side.

Yu Meng's eyes drooped slightly. She wouldn't have needed a single gold coin to buy their wedding clothes. But her older sister's words had cost her over 20 gold coins. Her older sister was such a fool.

Yu's father sighed. "Don't make that thing anymore. It looks nice but is useless. Why don't you buy your sister-in-law a bicycle?"

"no."

"How can that be?"

Yu Jun and his mother both voiced their opposition.