Chapter 119: The Toad Wants to Eat the Swan Meat
Ye Caiping knew that Wu Quan's marriage had emptied out Aunt Ye's family's wealth.
Even though Ye Sanquan had already received two months' wages and paid off part of his foreign debt, the New Year was still a bit miserable.
Ye Caiping went to the chicken coop and caught a large fan-shaped chicken. She also put fifteen eggs in a basket and stuffed them into Second Aunt Ye's hands:
"I want to eat chicken and scrambled eggs for lunch, so Second Aunt can make them for me!"
Second Aunt Ye was somewhat touched: "I'll just take a chicken, but as for the eggs..."
"Don't worry, my mother caught six big hens more than a month ago, and now she can pick up six eggs every day."
Aunt Ye smiled and asked, "How do you want to cook this chicken?"
"It's all right. Second Aunt can just be a master."
…
Xiaodu Village——
Mrs. Du sat in the main room with a bad look on her face, while Ye Daquan, Ye Yong, Ye Xuan and Jinhua were standing guard at the door.
Du Shi and his wife Luo were looking at her with smiles on their faces.
"Aren't you going back to your mother's home?" Mrs. Du rolled her eyes at them.
"Knowing that my eldest sister was coming back, I rushed back without even eating." Mrs. Luo said with a smile.
She had heard a long time ago that the Ye family was making a lot of money selling spicy soup in the town.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Luo looked at Mrs. Du. Her yellow dress was brand new and made of cotton. Even the four people outside the house, father and son, were all wearing cotton clothes. It seemed that they had really made a fortune.
Mrs. Du pulled the corner of her lips. She couldn't hide her words. She snorted:
"What's the matter? You rushed back to stare at me, afraid that I would drink one more mouthful of your rice bran porridge?"
Du Shi's face fell: "Big sister is too vindictive, and is still looking up old facts. And I never chased you away."
"It was my brother-in-law who came to pick you up personally."
The more he spoke, the lower his voice became, until it turned into a mumble.
"Alright, alright, that's not what I meant, right, sis." Mrs. Luo quickly tried to smooth things over and looked at Mrs. Du.
Mrs. Du didn't want to quarrel on New Year's Day, so she said, "It's just a joke, haha."
Luo also laughed and said while eating melon seeds: "I heard that my elder sister and brother-in-law set up a stall in town. How is the business? Is it good?"
After what happened to Xiuxiuniang, Mrs. Du became very sensitive. Whenever the Hu La Tang business was mentioned, she would become cautious and would just laugh it off casually:
"It's been closed for a long time. I'm just delivering goods. And that's not my business. We are just hired workers who get paid. We don't know anything."
"Big sister is so lucky. By the way, I heard that you split up the family?"
“Well, a big tree has many branches.”
Mrs. Luo saw that Mrs. Du was ignoring her, but she still insisted on chatting.
Seeing that she didn't ask about the secret recipe and was still smiling, Mrs. Du thought that Mrs. Luo just wanted to get closer to them because she saw that they were rich.
It was not until after lunch that Mrs. Luo took her hand and said, "Your sister-in-law has been living at her parents' home for four or five months. If she continues to live there, she will be laughed at."
Mrs. Du was annoyed and glared at her: "Am I stingy? My sister-in-law can stay as long as she wants, she's not living in your house!"
Luo choked and smiled, "That's not what I meant. My eldest sister is of course generous. Even if she continues like this, it's not a big deal."
"I heard that Mr. Li has married. Your sister-in-law must find another one, right?"
"I know she was divorced and has a bad reputation, but if you put your heart into it, you can always find a good one."
"Let me tell you about someone you know. He's my eldest brother, and he hasn't married yet. He said he doesn't mind Caiping being an abandoned woman, nor does he mind her bringing up two maids, and he'll even give her three taels of betrothal gifts! As long as she agrees, they can get married after the Chinese New Year!"
As soon as these words were spoken, one could hear a pin drop in the entire hall.
"You are such a good Luo!" Mrs. Du was furious. "After saying so much, I thought you were planning to get the secret recipe of Hu La Tang. Who would have thought that you have such a big appetite and actually set your sights on my sister-in-law!"
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Du's mother, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, ran over.
Ye Daquan, Ye Yong and others also entered the house.
"I..." Luo's face turned pale. "My brother has never been married. Now he has agreed to marry a divorced woman with a child. You are still unwilling?"
"What?" Ye Daquan was confused.
"Who is your brother? He's never been married? He's obviously greedy and lazy, and can't find a wife! Now that he sees my sister-in-law making money, he's got his eyes on her and wants to bring her to your house. Do you have any shame?"
Ye Daquan finally understood and suddenly picked up a chair beside him, "Damn it, you dare to hit on my little sister, I'll beat you to death!"
As he said this, the chair was about to hit Luo's head.
Du Shi and his mother were startled and rushed to stop them.
Ye Yong and Ye Xuan were also afraid of something happening, so they grabbed Ye Daquan.
"Dad, calm down." Ye Xuan said, "If you hit someone and something happens, my aunt will definitely be angry."
Ye Daquan thought about it and felt that his younger sister didn’t like him doing this kind of thing.
"Hmph!" He threw the chair heavily aside.
"Wow...my elder sister and brother-in-law are really going too far!" Luo was so scared that she started crying.
"Shut up, you are just a toad wanting to eat swan meat! What kind of person is your elder brother? You think everyone knows him." Mother Du glared at her, then looked at Ye Daquan with an apologetic look:
"Son-in-law, she just made a mistake for a moment, can you please forgive her?"
Ye Daquan didn't want Du's mother to look bad: "Mom, my little sister is a delicate one. Not everyone can marry her."
"Yes, we got it."
Not to mention now, even in the past, Ye Caiping was the most pampered one in the family and looked down on Luo's eldest brother.
Mrs. Du was also very angry: "It's getting late, let's go home first."
After they packed up their things, they left.
Du Daya lay by the door, staring at the people going away, her eyes falling on Ye Xuan.
…
After returning home, Mrs. Du and Ye Daquan went to find Ye Caiping and told her about the matter in a rush.
Ye Caiping felt nauseous when she heard this.
What the hell!
Old Lady Ye glanced at Ye Caiping and said, "Alas, since you are alone, you will be missed."
Ye Caiping said: "No matter if they are men or women, as long as they have some money, they will be targeted. We just need to ignore them."
"We have to go to Nanwa Village early tomorrow morning, so we should rest early!"
The next day.
Just after noon, Aunt Ye and her group came over.
In addition to Ye Hufen's family of four, there are also Ye Ershen and his wife, making three or four complete.
On Ye Caiping's side, only Ye Caiping and Old Lady Ye went together.
Otherwise there are too many people and the oxen cannot pull the cart.
Before getting on the bus, Ye Caiping returned Ye Hufen's basket to her.
Ye Hufen saw only half a basket of white rice, two pieces of brown sugar, two pieces of bacon, and five eggs in the basket.
This gift is really heavy!
Ye Hufen wanted to return some of the money, but since Yang Guangzong was there, he dared not say anything.
Yang Guangzong's unhappiness finally dissipated a little, at least the gift was not given in vain! Make money!
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