Seeing that the gate of Widow Liu's house began to crumble, in order to prevent the situation from getting worse, the village chief finally came and persuaded the Tian family in time.
"Village chief, you can't favor Widow Liu's family."
"This is my old lady's life. We will never let it go."
Wang Guangping thought to himself, you all live in the city, leaving such an old lady alone in the village, and you don’t come back to visit her often. Now that something has happened, you all rush to help.
"Don't worry, I won't take sides with anyone in this matter.
“But it’s no use for you to surround her house like this.
"It's already happened, so we should calm down and sit down with our two families to discuss what to do next, don't you think?
"Even if the weather isn't so hot now, we can't just leave the old lady here without celebrating her death, right?"
Ye Xianglei was holding Qingtian and watching with great interest when someone suddenly grabbed his ear.
“Ouch, it hurts, it hurts—who is it!”
"What do you think?" Ye Juan'er twisted her son's ear and pulled him out of the crowd, "It's fine if you just want to join in the fun, but you also want to hug Qingtian?
"I think you just haven't been spanked lately, and your skin is itching!"
Ye Juaner said as she took Qingtian from her son's arms, touched her head and asked, "Qingtian, are you scared?"
"No, Xiao Su brought me to watch the fun. Auntie won't hit Xiao Su." Qingtian quickly spoke up for Ye Xianglei and even went over to blow on his ears that were twisted red. "Xiao Su, blow it and it won't hurt anymore."
Seeing this, Ye Juaner couldn't help but kiss Qingtian on the little face.
"Why are you so well behaved, Qingtian? I'd love it if you were my daughter." Ye Juan'er asked, "Would you like to go home with me?"
"I want to find my mother..." Qingtian became anxious when he heard this. He twisted his body and refused to let Ye Juaner hold him, for fear that she would really take him home and he would never see his parents again.
Seeing that she was about to make the child anxious, Ye Juan'er quickly coaxed her, "Auntie was just joking with you! Don't cry, don't cry. Auntie will take you to find your mother right away!"
Mrs. Ye was also shocked when she couldn't find her daughter after dinner. Fortunately, when Ye Juaner saw that her son was not at home, she immediately understood what was going on.
Sure enough, not long after she went out, she came back holding Qingtian.
As soon as Qingtian saw Mrs. Ye, he quickly reached out to her for a hug.
Mrs. Ye hugged Qingtian in her arms, and her heart finally settled down.
"It's all my brat's fault. He took Qingtian out without even saying a word."
Ye Xianglei hurriedly apologized to Sister Ye: "Sister-in-law, it's all my fault. I made you worry."
"It's okay." Since everyone said so, Mrs. Ye couldn't blame her anymore. She just said, "You can carry her out. I have nothing to worry about. Just tell me next time."
Ye Juaner quickly scolded her son a few more words, and the matter was over.
In the following days, the two families continued to be busy with the autumn harvest, threshing and drying of grain.
After all the grain was spread out on the threshing ground to dry, Ye Juan'er asked Liu Quan and Ye Xianglei to watch over it, and she finally had time to go to the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village to inquire about the latest news.
"I heard that the Tian family insisted on asking for fifty taels of silver at the beginning!"
"Fifty taels of silver?" Ye Juan'er gasped. "The Tian family is so bold to ask for that!"
“Death is the greatest thing. No matter how much money you give, people can’t survive, right?
"Later, the village chief also did a lot of work, and finally we reached an agreement.
"As long as the widow Liu's family compensates the Tian family with thirty taels of silver, the Tian family will not pursue the matter further and will not file a complaint with the authorities."
"Thirty taels is not a small amount!" Ye Juaner sighed.
"Don't be fooled by the fact that Widow Liu is usually very stingy. In fact, Dafeng has been helping her family a lot over the years. She has plenty of money!"
When she heard the other party mention Dafeng, Ye Juaner suddenly remembered to ask, "Have they harvested the crops in her fields?"
"What are you harvesting? I agreed to this with the Tian family this morning, and then in the afternoon, Widow Liu went around the village looking for someone to help her with the autumn harvest.
"If this incident hadn't happened, everyone would have almost finished harvesting their crops by now, and for the sake of money, we would have been able to find help.
"But now that Mrs. Tian's incident has happened, I want to stay away from her house as far as possible."
"I just saw Widow Liu, Wang Dalong, and Jiang Shi carrying sickles and heading to the fields. They must be going to harvest the crops."
At this point, the topic quickly veered off track.
"We were told to hurry up with the autumn harvest, saying it would rain continuously, but now everyone has finished harvesting and there hasn't been a drop of rain!"
"Who says it's not? It makes me sad just thinking about it. If we could harvest it a few days later, maybe we could get a few more kilograms of harvest!"
"Juan'er, your family is better off. You have helpers, so you can collect the crops several days later than us."
Ye Juan'er quickly said, "This is just a coincidence. Next year, they will have to farm on their own, so naturally they won't have time to help my family."
When the others heard this, they realized that this was indeed the case, and their jealousy dissipated a lot.
After hearing the news from the village, Ye Juaner ran to Old Ye's house, sat on the kang and started chatting with Old Mrs. Ye.
The two of them forgot about time as they chatted until Sister Ye came into the room and asked, "Auntie, let's have dinner at my house tonight!"
Ye Juan'er then realized that it was getting dark outside, and quickly stood up and said, "No, no, we have some ready at home. I'll just heat it up when I get home."
As she spoke, she walked outside. When she reached the yard, she saw Qingtian dragging the puppy and insisting on letting it into the house.
Although the puppy only likes sunny days, it is now very energetic. It runs around in the yard every day and digs holes and soil everywhere.
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