Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside

Chapter 1626 - 1628: Where Did She Go?

But since things have come to this, there’s no other way. She instructed her young daughter not to go out these days, not to be discovered by anyone, but to first let her face heal.

Yang Xiaocui nodded in agreement. In her current state, she couldn’t go out either. She had no way to explain if any villagers saw her like this.

"But, Mom, about next door..."

At the mention of next door, Auntie Lan Hua replied, "Why are you still talking about next door? The person paying the wages is gone, so what’s the point of going? The work done these past few days was for nothing!"

Yang Xiaocui thought about it. Since Li Chuntao next door was gone, she would probably be overwhelmed with tasks and wouldn’t notice her absence. But if she didn’t show up without reason, it wouldn’t be good. "Mom, let’s go next door and resign from the job to avoid gossip."

"Alright!"

Auntie Lan Hua agreed and stepped out.

Her young daughter couldn’t work for nothing. No matter what, she had to get the wages back. With this determination, she headed to the neighbor’s house.

As soon as she stepped out of the main door, she saw the little maid from next door rushing out hurriedly.

She immediately went over and was just about to speak when she heard the little maid say, "Auntie, if there’s anything, let’s talk about it tomorrow."

The person hurriedly went on their way.

She guessed the young lady hadn’t returned home and was anxious.

After thinking it over again, she decided to drop the idea of her daughter resigning for now. It would raise suspicion amid this turmoil. She decided to just ask for a leave tomorrow and deal with it after some days. With this plan, she returned to her courtyard.

At this moment, Alu was indeed very anxious. Her young lady hadn’t come back even by nightfall. She was getting worried and thought of going to the Yang Family to inquire about the situation.

Yang Family

After dinner, everyone was chatting casually in the house.

"Where has the fourth brother gone? Why isn’t he back yet? Is he skipping dinner? Third sister-in-law, didn’t he go to the back mountain with you?"

"I don’t know what he went to do either. He just said he had something and told me to lead the group up the mountain first, but I didn’t see him go up the mountain later," Xiaoxiao replied. She was also anxious inside, wondering where Yang Dong had gone.

What could keep him from returning home?

At this moment, Old Father Yang spoke, "Don’t worry about it. He’s not a kid anymore, a full-grown man. What could possibly happen? Maybe he’ll be back in a little while."

With that, everyone stopped asking, but just then, there was a knock on the courtyard door.

The thumping sound was strong and forceful, as if someone had something urgent, followed by a call, "Is Lady Yang home? It’s Alu."

Upon hearing someone was looking for Xiaoxiao, Old Father Yang quickly said, "Boss, go open the door."

Yang Chun thus went to open the door, and soon Alu was brought into the house by Yang Chun.

Seeing her young lady wasn’t in the room, Alu became even more anxious.

Seeing how anxious Alu was, Xiaoxiao quickly asked, "Alu, what happened? Did something happen to Chuntao?"

Asked about her young lady, Alu broke into tears, "Lady Yang, my young lady hasn’t returned home yet. She went out this morning and said she was coming to see you."

At this moment, Yang Ming’s mother spoke, "She did come in the morning. I told her you went to the back mountain, so she went back. I said if there was something, you’d look for her when you got back, but she said there’s no need, nothing important, and I forgot about it after being busy all day."

Hearing this, everyone was alarmed. She came in the morning and hadn’t returned even after so long. Where could she be?