Chapter 26 Discovering the Difference

Aunt Jiang saw Ye Mingzhu and said gently, "Go and dry your hair quickly. I'll ask Hongyu to bring the medicinal bath bag. Just soak for half an hour."

Fang glared at Uncle Ye San secretly, then turned to Aunt Jiang and said, "Mingzhu is a child who knows how to live. She always wants to go to the sea to collect pearl clams."

Uncle Ye continued, "I will keep an eye on Mingzhu and will try to stop her from going to the beach."

Mrs. Fang was so moved by her husband's stupidity that she cried. Mingzhu has a younger brother to raise. If she doesn't go into the sea, she can't rely entirely on her husband's family. Aunt Jiang is Mingzhu's future mother-in-law.

Aunt Jiang didn't think too much about it. She just nodded with a bright smile on her face: "Then it's a deal. We'll be there tomorrow at 9:00 PM."

Fang smiled and nodded: "We will all wait at home tomorrow."

Only then did Aunt Jiang leave.

Fang's smile faded and she glared at Uncle Ye: "You said that when you came back at this time, you just happened to run into Aunt Jiang."

Uncle Ye looked at Ye Mingzhu in confusion. Ye Mingzhu shook her head. She didn't understand what was going on either.

"Mingzhu, go inside first. I want to tell you something. You can go back later."

The three of them entered the main hall together, and Fang told Aunt Jiang the reason for her visit today: "Although Mingzhu and Hongyu are verbally engaged, Aunt Jiang wants to come here to formally propose marriage tomorrow and then set a date for the wedding."

Uncle Ye's face was full of joy: "This is the best."

Ye Mingzhu was very calm. After all, the marriage had been decided and the betrothal gift was just a formality.

Aunt Jiang originally wanted to talk about the betrothal gift, but seeing Ye Mingzhu so calm, she thought she already knew it, so she didn't say anything more. She just asked Ye Mingzhu to go home and pack well today, and they would go to her house together to propose the betrothal gift tomorrow.

Ye Mingzhu nodded: "Then I'll trouble Uncle San and Aunt San tomorrow. We will thank you properly after we are done."

Fang smiled and was about to say a few polite words, but Uncle Ye shook his head vigorously: "Mingzhu, don't say that. We are family, we don't have to say two different things."

Although Uncle Ye had taken care of Ye Mingzhu and her brother before, Fang felt that Uncle Ye's attitude today was particularly attentive.

Ye Mingzhu didn't stay long. She had to go back and take a hot bath, otherwise she would always feel like there was too much salt in her body.

Uncle Ye San accompanied Ye Mingzhu to the door before returning.

Fang said dissatisfiedly, "Are you being too nice to Mingzhu? She needs our care now, but you're acting like she's taking care of us."

"Shh..." Uncle Ye put his hand to his lips, went to look in the yard again, and finally carried the wooden barrel containing the pearl oysters to the main room.

Fang was a little puzzled: "What are you doing? It's just you and me at home. Yunping and the others are out playing."

Uncle Ye closed the door and windows, and the room became dark in an instant.

Fang was a little embarrassed: "What are you doing? In broad daylight."

"Come and take a look at what this is?" Uncle Ye didn't hear what Fang said clearly. He carefully took something out of the wooden barrel and held it in front of Fang.

Although Fang had never been to the sea, she still had some vision.

She covered her mouth tightly, her eyes wide open, and after a long while she whispered, "Is this coral?"

Uncle Ye's face was full of smiles, like a mouse that had just eaten sesame oil: "Yes, there are still several."

Fang stared as Third Uncle Ye took out a dozen coral branches. When she opened her mouth again, her voice cracked: "Where have you been? How come you have so many corals?"

She was not making a fuss. There were so many pearl divers and fishermen in Yuanshan Village, but very few could find corals. Some old people said that there were no corals in their sea, only pearl clams.

But today, Uncle Ye brought back so many corals. Even if they were just small branches, they could definitely be sold for a lot of money, so his two sons wouldn't have to go to the sea anymore.

As the saying goes, two people cannot sleep in the same bed together. The couple has the same idea, they are both children.

"I was able to find the coral today thanks to Mingzhu. She was the one who discovered the coral first and asked me to go into the sea to catch it. I wanted to share some with her, but she refused." Uncle Ye felt more and more guilty as he spoke, feeling that he had taken advantage of his niece.

Fang asked in disbelief, "Are there still pearls there? Are there still large corals in the sea?"

Uncle Ye recalled and shook his head: "No, I only found these in the sea. They seemed to have floated from somewhere. There are only small pieces. These should be two kinds of corals, with two colors."

"It would be great if we could find a big coral. Then the children would never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives." Fang reached out to touch the coral, but then retracted her hand.

"What are you dreaming of? We are blessed by our ancestors for being able to get these corals." Uncle Ye glared at her and said, "Mingzhu doesn't want the corals. When we sell them, we'll prepare some dowry for her."

Fang was not angry. She thought for a moment and said, "The Jiang family has prepared ten taels of silver, two pieces of cloth, one hundred kilograms of fine grain, and two thick and thin beddings. Let's make Mingzhu a set of clothes and buy her a silver hairpin. It will definitely make her proud."

Uncle Ye's attention was drawn to the Jiang family's betrothal gifts. He glared at Fang and asked, "Why are the Jiang family offering so much? Do they have the money?"

"It was your good sister-in-law who did it. She proposed these betrothal gifts, and Aunt Jiang said that her family couldn't let Mingzhu down. In the end, it was like this. However, I asked them to give the silver to Mingzhu alone to prevent some short-sighted people in the village from causing trouble for Mingzhu and her family."

Uncle Ye felt that his wife was right. They had to give Mingzhu some dowry quietly, otherwise there would be gossip in the village and his sister-in-law would make trouble.

The two of them chatted in the house for a while, planning to go to the town to inquire about the price of coral after the Jiang family paid the betrothal gift tomorrow. If it was not easy to sell in the town, they would probably have to go to the county.

After the two of them opened all the pearl oysters, they looked at each other and fell silent.

Uncle Ye collected pearl oysters today, but only two of them did not contain pearls.

After putting pearls of all sizes into the sea water, Fang decided to make another pair of shoes for Ye Mingzhu.

Ye Mingzhu, who had returned home, was also opening pearl oysters.

The pearls collected from the pearl oysters today were not big, so she put them all in the space. She fished out a dozen large pearl oysters from the space, took out the pearls, and put the pearl oysters back.

Since the pool water in the space can nourish the pearls in the pearl oysters, it must also be able to feed the pearl oysters from which the pearls are taken.

When everything was done, she noticed that the sea monster and the three coral trees were gone.

She clearly remembered that she had received them all into the space, but why did they disappear?

Are they all in the water?

She looked at the bottomless pool, gritted her teeth, took off her clothes and dived in.

As soon as she entered the water, she felt the difference. Although she could breathe in the sea, the sea water was cool and somewhat uncomfortable. But the pool water was warm and she did not feel uncomfortable at all.

The pool didn't look big from above, but when she got in the water, she found that it was very deep. She sped up and dived to the bottom of the water, where she saw three coral trees. However, they were a little different from the coral trees she had found in the sea.