"That..." Yang Rusong rubbed his hands together, his expression suddenly becoming serious, "Big Cousin, I just found out that you actually separated from the family..." The last time he encountered his cousin and aunt, he had wanted to go back and ask about the situation, but then he went to the medical hall and learned that his aunt had fallen into a coma. He didn’t know why, but he had just retreated and pretended not to know about it all along.
"Hmm," Yang Ruxin nodded, "It’s been several days now."
Yang Rusong’s brow furrowed. He hadn’t expected her to look like that. Originally, regarding the family matters, his idea was to just play dumb, but he hadn’t expected his father to come to him today, saying a lot of things. Naturally, they were about Yang Dani’s unfilial defiance—he even said she got Silver yet didn’t give a cent to the family and even threatened to prevent him from taking his examinations and so on. Yang Rusong was naturally extremely angry. He prided himself on being educated, different from those country bumpkins, and felt Big Cousin’s thinking was problematic. So, he wanted to argue with his cousin, at the very least to make her realize where she went wrong.
"And then?" Yang Ruxin’s eyebrows lifted slightly.
"Firstly, the Saint said parents should not be travelled away from when they are alive..." Yang Rusong sighed, "Gran and Gramps are still here, yet you proposed to separate from the household, which is against our ancestral traditions..."
"Hmm," Yang Ruxin instantly knew what he meant. He had come to reprimand her. She wasn’t angry but instead smiled, "And then?"
"Moreover, filial piety to parents is a natural duty. The kindness of parents is greater than heaven, yet for your own selfish desires, you disregarded kinship, disregarded righteousness and shame, disregarding benevolence, and disregarded filial duty..."
"Can you stop showing off and just speak plainly?" Yang Ruxin lost her patience.
"How rude." Yang Rusong frowned, but knowing that his cousin was uneducated, he let it go. "Okay, I’ll just be blunt with you. What you’re doing is extremely unfilial. Having Silver means you should take care of your family, but you’re just selfish, worse than a Beast..."
"Are you done?" Yang Ruxin’s expression didn’t change at all.
Yang Rusong subconsciously nodded his head.
Yang Ruxin turned and walked away; she was hungry and didn’t want to waste time with a fool.
"Yang Dani, what do you mean by this?" Yang Rusong watched as Yang Ruxin walked away before reacting, hastily chasing after her and grabbing her arm.
"Don’t touch me." Yang Ruxin shook off his hand with a backhand, her face darkening, "Otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude."
Yang Rusong frowned, his expression also darkening: "Yang Dani, I’m telling you, today you must recognize your errors and correct them immediately..."
"Pah!" Yang Ruxin suddenly spat toward Yang Rusong.
"You..." Yang Rusong was startled, hastily retreating two steps to dodge her spit.
"Think you’re something special just because you’re a scholar? Coming to show off to your sister?" Yang Ruxin sneered, hands on hips, "What are you to lecture me? You think you’re worthy?"
"You..." Yang Rusong stared in disbelief.
"What ’you’?" Yang Ruxin scoffed, "The money you spend all comes from these people’s hard work. Now you’re saying this and that is wrong with a flip of your lips? If it’s wrong, don’t eat the rice and wheat we grow. All those years before, it was all our hard toil that produced it. What right do you have to talk, a person who can’t distinguish the five grains and is idle all day. You got some nerve!"