16: Let your children follow you!

He walked and talked.

“You don’t go look for me.”

“I’ll go kneel before him.”

“I’ll go admit my mistake to him.”

“Even if I die in front of him,”

“I’ll still make the children follow him.”

Yang Ming was startled.

He quickly rushed out and embraced his wife.

“You can’t go.”

“I don’t have to go.”

“You go find Yang Yi right now.”

Yang Ming didn’t want to argue with his wife.

He could only nod.

After his wife and children returned to the courtyard,

he left.

He didn’t go to Yang Yi.

Instead, he went to deal with other matters of the Yang family.

He couldn’t bring himself to ask Yang Yi to take in his children.

He also couldn’t bear that humiliation.

Inside the small courtyard,

Yang Yi praised the five children’s performance without reservation.

He also had the kitchen prepare a rich dinner for them,

telling them to go to their rooms to eat later.

Yang Yi rarely ate with them.

Because if Yang Yi sat at the dining table,

the children would be very reserved when eating.

They also wouldn’t gobble down their food like they did the first time.

To let them eat as they pleased,

Yang Yi would not eat with them.

Leaving the courtyard,

Yang Yi prepared to wander around the Yang family.

To see the situation of the Yang family.

He had been back in the Yang family for several days.

But he didn’t understand the situation of the Yang family.

Not long after he walked out of the courtyard,

two women walked towards him.

The two of them supported each other,

and quickly came before Yang Yi.

They immediately knelt down.

Startling Yang Yi.

“What are you doing?”

One of the women wiped away tears, and said tearfully,

“Patriarch, you are wise and mighty.

“You are a great person who doesn’t stoop to the level of a small person.”

“Please forgive our ignorance.”

“My child also wants to follow you.”

“Follow me to do what?” Yang Yi asked with a smile.

The woman was stunned for a moment.

She pouted and started crying.

“Wuwuwu.”

“Following you is naturally to learn skills.”

“Those useless ones followed you,”

“and in half a month, they all became experts.”

“My son’s Aptitude is quite good.”

“If he follows you,”

“he will definitely be stronger than them.”

“Please accept my son.”

The words “useless ones”

made Yang Yi frown slightly.

His expression instantly turned cold.

The other woman, however, was smart.

She knew Yang Yi didn’t like what the first woman said.

She nudged the woman with her elbow.

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“They are all children of the Yang family.”

“How can there be any useless ones?”

“They are all heaven-blessed talents.”

“Even if not,”

“with a Patriarch like you, who is like a god,”

“you can also make them heaven-blessed talents.”

After speaking,

she smiled at Yang Yi again and said,

“Patriarch, my son’s Aptitude is average.”

“Without your guidance and help,”

“he will hardly achieve anything in this life.”

“They are all children of the Yang family.”

“You can’t show favoritism.”

“Since you can help those five,”

“why can’t you help other children?”

These words were well-reasoned.

Even Yang Yi

was a little speechless.

After a moment of silence,

Yang Yi answered earnestly.

“Those five children indeed have poor Aptitude.”

“They are willing to trust me.”

“So I gave them a chance.”

“Your children’s Aptitude is still acceptable.”

“You should still work hard to Cultivate.”

Leaving these words,

Yang Yi strode away into the distance.

The two women looked at each other.

They wanted to catch up with Yang Yi,

but they didn’t dare.

After Yang Yi walked far away,

the woman who had spoken earlier pouted and grumbled softly.

“The Patriarch is really something.”

“I don’t know what benefits he received from those children.”

“He’d rather help them than my child.”

“He’s too biased.”

The other woman smiled bitterly.

“We can’t blame the Patriarch.”

“At that time, the Patriarch did ask all the children to go.”

“It was us who didn’t choose him.”

“Can we blame ourselves? He didn’t tell us he had this ability.”

“If he had told us, who wouldn’t choose him?”

After speaking,

the woman stood up.

She patted the dust off her knees.

And walked away angrily.

Along the way,

Yang Yi met many Yang family members like the two women.

They all hoped their children could follow him.

However,

Yang Yi rejected them all.

Although those children’s Aptitude wasn’t very good,

they still had a glimmer of hope by diligently Cultivating on their own.

As for the five children who followed Yang Yi,

they truly had no hope.

Therefore,

Yang Yi could give them the Life and Death Great Strength Pill.

But this matter,

could not be told to the Yang family.

Once this matter was leaked,

it would likely attract covetous gazes from outsiders.

It would bring endless disaster to the Yang family.

Currently, the Yang family’s strength was too weak.

They could not contend with certain forces from the outside world.

They needed to bide their time.

As he walked forward,

suddenly, Yang Ming’s angry shout came from not far away.

“Everyone, stop.”

“Do you want to die?”

“Don’t you know what the Patriarch once said?”

Yang Yi frowned slightly.

He didn’t know what had happened.

He quickly came to the front.

He stood silently at the doorway,

with his hands behind his back,

observing everything in front of him.

In a dilapidated small courtyard in front,

a young boy lay battered on the ground.

His clothes and face were covered in blood.

Not far from him,

stood three children of similar age in a row.

At their feet were several bloody wooden sticks.

Clearly, these children had beaten the young boy lying on the ground.

In front of the three children was Yang Ming, his face full of rage.

“Luckily, the Patriarch didn’t see it.”

“If the Patriarch saw it,”

“he would skin you all alive.”

“If you dare to bully others again in the future,”

“don’t blame me for being impolite.”

“Now, get out.”

The three young men felt as if they had been granted a great pardon.

They scrambled out of the courtyard.

However,

as they looked up and stepped to run out of the courtyard,

they suddenly froze in place.

One young boy maintained his fleeing posture,

but his body dared not move an inch.

His eyes were filled with fear.

The other two young men, upon seeing Yang Yi,

were so scared that they plopped down onto the ground.

“What’s wrong? Did you see a ghost?”

Yang Ming shouted angrily.

He turned to look.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Yang Ming’s legs went weak.

He almost sat down on the ground as well.

He forced out a smile,

and with an open mouth, he called out “Patriarch.”

He couldn’t say anything else.

Yang Yi silently walked into the courtyard.

He came before the young boy lying on the ground.

He squatted down and asked,

“Why did they hit you?”

“Did you provoke them?”

The young boy sniffled,

and shed a few tears of grievance.

“No.”

“They rely on their higher Cultivation to bully me every day and make me do chores.”

“I’m sick today.”

“They told me to go to the mountain to fetch water.”

“I said I’d go in the afternoon.”

“They didn’t like that.”

“So they hit me.”

“Do they often hit you?” Yang Yi asked again.

The young boy nodded weakly.