Lin Yuhbin and Zhou Jia's father and son walked away with a pout on their faces, unhappily asking, "Auntie, why didn't you let me speak?"

  "You want to scold him, but you have to find a place where there are no adults around. Otherwise, if you say something unpleasant, Zhou Shi will be embarrassed. Should I stop you or not?" Lin Qingwen said to her: "If I don't stop you, it seems like I'm petty and narrow-minded towards him. If I do stop you, then you'll be unhappy and I don't want to scold you."

  "Does that little girl hold grudges or not?" Lin Yubin looked at her stubbornly.

  Lin Qingwan couldn't help but laugh and said: "Never mind."

  Lin Yuhbin turned his back in a huff.

  "Silly child," Lin Qingyan rubbed her head and explained, "Firstly, this is a matter between you children, I don't want to intervene. Just like Zhou Tong and his two classmates who got into a fight, one of them had his head cracked open and another broke his leg. Did you see their parents coming to our doorstep?"

  "It's partly because they were in the wrong first, and secondly, this is a matter between your children, it's not good for adults to intervene too much. Otherwise, do you think they don't know that you're intentionally hurting people? Compared to you, they are even more seriously hurt. Although they were in the wrong, if we really calculate from a legal perspective, then you are still more at fault."

  Lin Yuhbin was somewhat unwilling, but still listened in.

  "As long as it doesn't cross the bottom line, you all handle it."

  "What is the bottom line of the little aunt?"

  "Like someone bullying you in school and you can't fight back; or someone scolding you for being an orphan, attacking you with your family."

  Lin Yuhong was stunned.

  Lin Qingwan turned her head and looked at her seriously: "Yubin, if someone treats you like this in the future, just tell Xiaojie, I'll take care of it."

  Lin Qingwan always thought that fighting among classmates was no big deal, you hit me and I hit back, we're even, even if one side gets hurt a bit more, it's just that they're not as skilled.

  But unilateral bullying and domestic violence are different. The former is self-evident, and the violent acts that cannot be resisted have a great impact on people's psychology and physiology.

  The latter is even more damaging to people's psychology, and the harm to children is also not small.

  A quarrel between classmates, you scold me for being hypocritical, I scold you for being pretentious, neither of which is considered serious, that's a personal attack. With Lin Yuhong's eloquence, she wouldn't worry about the other person losing face.

  But attacking her family is a no-go, that's not only rubbing salt in Lin Yubin's wounds, but also leaving her nowhere to counterattack.

  She didn't want her baby to suffer, so she had to take care of these things herself.

  This kind of bottom line was passed down from her grandfather. When she was young, after fighting with her classmates and returning home covered in dust, her grandfather would smile and ask one question, knowing that she had also fought back, he wouldn't ask any further questions.

  But once a classmate cursed her as an unwanted wild child, after the grandfather knew, he personally went to the school to find the teacher and also went to the classmate's home to find the other parent. From then on, no one dared to attack her in this way again.

  She no longer has to endure that kind of anger and frustration with nowhere to vent, only able to pick up stones and throw them back in a powerless gesture.

  She hopes Lin Yuhong can also have someone to protect her like she does.

  At this time, although there were occasional fights in the school, it was still relatively peaceful and no one would dare to attack Lin Yuhong for the time being.

  So Lin Yuhbin's eyes were dazed, and when she saw her little aunt's bad mood, she comforted her in a low voice: "Auntie don't worry, classmates are very friendly, they won't say that."

  People who say things like that are usually not well-educated.

  Lin Qingwan patted her head and smiled slightly: "Alright, don't worry little girl, go find Bi Hai quickly. I heard she learned a set of health exercises from Dr. Xu that she wants to teach you, hurry up and learn it."

  Lin Yuhbin pouted, "Why didn't Dr. Xue teach me directly? Bi Hai's explanation was a bit vague."

  "You can't blame Mr. Xu, you came back from school at his busiest time, he didn't have the spare time to teach you. Now he's gone out to meet friends, if there's something you don't understand just put it aside for now and ask him when he gets back."

  Xu Daifu didn't just treat the two women, but also the servants in the mansion, the farmers and tenants on the estate, and even the short-term workers would come to him when they fell ill.

  Xu Daifu generally doesn't charge money and provides free medical consultations. If he happens to have some medicine that he has just collected, he will also give some to the patients.

  The people in the farm were busy with their work, so they usually came to see the doctor at noon and in the evening. Therefore, when Lin Yubin returned home from school, Dr. Xu was often busy, so he could only teach Baduanjin to Bi Hai first.

  Anyway, Bi Hai is here to teach Lin Yubin martial arts, and she has already started learning archery from her father. Once Lin Yubin's body gets a bit better and his strength increases, he can learn archery from her too.

  Lin Yuhai ran to the backyard to find Bi Hai, Lin Qingwen looked at her lively figure with a satisfied smile. Yuhai's body was getting better and better, believing that in two or three years it would be even better, maybe breaking the curse of the Lin family not living beyond fifty.

  For five consecutive days it was sunny, and the wheat ripened quickly. As far as the eye could see, the wheat fields were a brilliant yellow.

  The Lin family's farmhands and short-term workers began harvesting.

  Suzhou except Linjia planted spring wheat, only a few scattered farmers chose to plant spring wheat because they missed the winter planting season.

  So at this time, labor is not in short supply, and almost no one leaves.

  So many people worked together and in less than three days, all the wheat was harvested. Zhong Daguan began to assign people to thresh the wheat, while others continued to return to the fields.

  Lin Qingwan received a letter from Mrs. Xie at the busiest time of wheat harvest.

  The grandma is coming!

  Lin Qingwan felt a slight tension, thought for a moment and said: "Let someone clean up Chunxiaoyuan, thank the madam for coming to stay, open the treasury, and change the layout inside."

  "Is Mrs. Xie staying for a long time, or..."

  "She had someone clean up the other courtyard of the Xie family, but since it's in Suzhou, she'll definitely come over to stay for a while from time to time, so let's decorate it as if we're going to live here long-term."

  Lin Guan bowed his head in response.

  Lin Qingwan had always maintained a respectful distance from Mrs. Xie, not only because she was her sister-in-law's mother-in-law, but also because she was the person most familiar with her outside of the Lin family.

  After Ziwu's sister-in-law passed away, it was Mrs. Xie who raised her. If not for avoiding suspicion, Lin Jiang would have liked to send his sister to live with the Xie family permanently.

  Moreover, due to their equal status, Mrs. Xie was actually more familiar with Ruan Jia than Lin Daiyu was. If anyone in this world could discover that Ruan Jia's heart had changed, it would be either Li Chun or Li Qia, or else Mrs. Xie.

  Lin Qingwan didn't dare underestimate Xie Furen's intelligence, so she always tried to avoid her. Except for festivals and holidays, the only other time they had contact was on Xie Erlang's death anniversary.

  Now that someone is coming to live with her for a long time, how can Lin Qingyuan not be nervous?

  But again tense and worried, when she saw the wheat harvest, she couldn't help but smile, and her mood improved a lot.

  In July, when the heat was at its peak, Madame Xie arrived on one of those last sweltering days, and Lin Qingwen went out ten miles to meet her, waiting for her at the Long Pavilion.

  Yang's wife heard the report, lifted the curtain and took a glance outside, then turned back to smile at her mistress: "The young lady must have arrived before dawn."

  Mrs. Xie saw her so solemn and was delighted in her heart, but she couldn't help saying with a tinge of sadness: "Why bother with these empty formalities, just wait at the city gate."

  "This is the young lady showing respect to you, but indeed it's too early, from west of the city to north of the city, and then to welcome out for ten miles, I'm afraid as soon as the city gate opens, they will enter the city."

  It's summer now, and the city gate usually opens at 5 am. Now it's around 9 am, so the young lady may have been out for two hours already.

  As they were talking, the carriage arrived at Changting, Lin Qingyuan came down to greet them, and Yang Nainai hurriedly got off the carriage and paid her respects, "Young Mistress."

  "Yang Ayi," Lin Qingyan leaned forward to look at the carriage, "is Mother all right?"

  "Don't worry," said Mrs. Xie, beckoning to her: "The carriage has been traveling slowly for three days, and I'm not tired at all. Come on up and sit with me."

  Lin Qingwan hastily waved her hand at Lin An and said: "You all go ahead."

  Having said that, he supported Yang's hand and entered the carriage.

  Mrs. Xie pulled her hand and looked around, pursed her lips and smiled: "You've gained some weight, also got darker, but you look spirited, how's life in Suzhou?"

  "It's good, I'm now living in the west wing of the city, no one disturbs me, it's very quiet. Outside the west wing is our Lin family farm, every day watching the farmers work is also quite interesting." Lin Qingwen saw that Mrs. Xie's face was pale, her hot hands were cool, and she was sweating on her forehead, and couldn't help but worry: "Mother, are you not feeling well?"

  "Nothing's wrong, I'm fine," said Mrs. Xie with a smile as she shook her head.

  Lin Qingwan glanced at Yang Nainai, who lowered her head and didn't speak. She smiled and changed the subject, "That's good, Mother doesn't know that half of my farm hasn't been cultivated yet. You've come just in time to help me sort it out."

  Mrs. Xie looked at Yuanniang, who was very different from before, and her eyes were a little dazed. This child seemed to have become much more cheerful, with a firm gaze, and didn't seem like the timid girl Old Master Zhong had described in his letter. Had she been deceived?

  Even Yang's nanny felt that Lin Qingwan had changed a lot. The young lady in the past was also clever and capable, but she wasn't as fiery and resilient as this.

  It's a wonderful feeling that in her perception, the young lady is much gentler than the person in front of her.

  Mrs. Xie didn't ask in detail, this matter still needs to be seen by Old Master Zhong to know.

  After entering the city gate, Lin Qingyan pushed open the car window to let Mrs. Xie see the scenery on the street. She said with some embarrassment: "Because I rarely go out and am not familiar with this place, let me take a look first, and then I'll accompany you out for a walk later."

  Mrs. Xie shook her head and said: "The towns in this world are all about the same, and it's not as good as the scenery in the countryside, so there's no need to come over."

  Lin Qingwan nodded slightly, she also felt that Mrs. Xie wouldn't be in the mood for this.

  The horse carriage went from the north of the city to the west, and then directly out of the city gate to another courtyard. Lin Yubin received the news one step ahead and brought the people from the Lin Mansion to wait at the gate to welcome them.

  Mrs. Xie saw Lin Yubin's health had improved a lot and couldn't help but sigh, "Suzhou's climate is indeed good for people."

  "So it's better for Mother to stay a few more days and recover her body before leaving."

  Mrs. Xie smiled and insisted: "My body is very good, but you are still young, indeed need to take good care of yourself."

  Lin Qingwan nodded, "Xu Daifu has listed many recipes for me to nourish myself, and my mother will try them out later. I think it's better than taking medicine."

  Mrs. Xie was even more surprised in her heart, this didn't seem like someone who had lost their mind at all, it seemed she really had been deceived.