At this time, Boss Ye was playing sandbags with Qingtian on the kang.
Qingtian's hands were small and he couldn't even catch a few stones, so he always lost to Boss Ye.
Seeing Sister Ye coming back, she quickly dropped the sandbag in her hand, pushed the pebbles forward, stood up and shouted, "Mom, you're back!"
Seeing this, Boss Ye also put the pebbles he won together with Qingtian's, then rubbed her head and said lovingly, "Little rascal."
"No way!" Qingtian walked to the edge of the kang and reached out to Mrs. Ye to hug him.
Mrs. Ye didn't understand what the father and daughter were talking about, but she was still afraid that Qingtian would fall, so she quickly stepped forward and put her arms around her.
"Mom, it hurts!"
But Qingtian cried out in pain as soon as she hugged him.
"What's wrong?" Mrs. Ye didn't understand at first. After loosening her grip a little, she saw Qingtian rubbing his chest with a puzzled look on his face.
"Mom, what's in your arms? It's so hard!"
Mrs. Ye then remembered what she had been worried about, and quickly took out all the silver in her arms and poured it all out on the kang.
Boss Ye was so shocked that his eyes widened. He lowered his voice and asked, "Where did you get the silver? Did you steal it? No, did you pick it up?"
"Bah!" Mrs. Ye slapped Boss Ye on the shoulder. "Am I that kind of person?"
"Where did that come from?" Boss Ye looked at the silver on the kang stupidly. He looked at it several times but couldn't estimate how much it was.
"These are the rewards I got today!" Mrs. Ye said proudly. "When Mr. Jiang asked me to look at them, I was stunned."
"I'm almost stupid now..." Boss Ye muttered, "How much silver does this cost?"
"I estimate it's about thirty or forty taels." Although Mrs. Ye's voice was low, her tone couldn't hide her excitement. "The third daughter-in-law and the other kitchen helpers each got about twenty taels. As the head chef, I should get at least double that, right?"
Mrs. Ye would never say these words outside, and only when she was at home, with the door closed, could she help but let them out.
Boss Ye's expression became more and more solemn, and he didn't speak for a long time.
Sister Ye reached out and nudged him curiously: "What's wrong with you? Are you really stupid?"
Boss Ye suddenly said in a muffled voice: "Wife, I didn't realize it before when we were outside the customs. You are too good at making money, aren't you?
"Compared to you, am I really useless?"
Mrs. Ye hadn't expected Mr. Ye to think this way. She sat on the kang and said, "When we were outside the Great Wall, you had to work in the fields and go hunting in the mountains. You didn't let me do any heavy work. Did you think I was useless back then?"
"Of course not!" Boss Ye said quickly, "But this is different!"
"What's the difference?" asked Mrs. Ye.
"I'm a man, I should earn money to support my family..." Boss Ye said, his head drooping involuntarily again.
But then I heard Sister Ye say: "We are a family. Whoever makes money is making money for the family. What's the difference?
“Before, if the two of us were well fed, the whole family would not be hungry, so I never thought about going out to work and earn money.
"But don't we have sunny days now? I don't want my children to stay in the village all their lives like us.
"Let's both work hard, make more money, and then take Qingtian to live in Beijing.
"Qingtian is such a smart kid, I want to send her to a girls' school!
"Didn't you say before that if you can't find a son-in-law you like, you'll have to support Qingtian for the rest of your life? How can you support him if you don't have money?"
Boss Ye was a little confused by what Sister Ye said, and thought to himself, when did I ever say such a thing?
But what he said was true.
"Okay, put all the silver away and go to bed early." Seeing that her words had fooled Boss Ye, Mrs. Ye quickly changed the subject, put away the silver and the children's toys on the kang, and picked up Qingtian, preparing to take her to wash up.
Boss Ye quickly stood up and said, "I've boiled some hot water. Be careful not to burn yourself. I'll pour it for you."
After Mrs. Ye washed Qingtian and herself, she carried her back to the house. Then Boss Ye used the remaining water to wash himself, poured out the water, and cleaned the basin before returning to the house.
When I returned to the house, I saw Mrs. Ye asking Qingtian, "Where did this come from?"
When Boss Ye came closer, he saw that Mrs. Ye was holding a jade pendant that looked very valuable.
"What's wrong?"
"Look at this kid. I don't know when he got a jade pendant around his neck. It doesn't look like a cheap item to me!"
Although Mrs. Ye doesn't know much about jade, but from the carving, luster, and warm feel of this thing, one word is evident inside and out - expensive!
"Brother Qin gave it to me." Qingtian said, "I said I didn't want it, but Brother Qin said that I gave him a Jingbaleng, so he wanted to return the favor.
"Brother Qin also said that with this, I can go to the Qin Mansion to find him anytime in the future, and no one will dare to stop me."
Mrs. Ye was even more terrified after hearing this. Could this jade pendant still have some use for her? Was it just being given away by these two children as a gift?
"Take it off quickly. This thing is very expensive. We can't afford the compensation if it is broken." Mrs. Ye said as she carefully took the jade pendant off Qingtian's neck. Then she held the jade pendant in both hands, not knowing where to put it for a moment. No matter where she put it, it felt unsafe.
Finally, she placed it in a small drawer of the kangqin, and then warned: "From now on, no one is allowed to touch this drawer.
"After I finish making breakfast tomorrow, I will return the jade pendant to Young Master Qin."
Although Qingtian felt a little reluctant, but after hearing Mrs. Ye say that the jade pendant was very expensive, he sensibly didn't say anything.
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