Lu Fei's words made the Ye family feel sad.
Especially looking at his skinny and small appearance, it seemed like he hadn't eaten meat for a long time. He finally caught a rabbit, but instead of eating it himself, he wanted to send it to the Ye family.
When the adults thought about the fact that they didn't want to lend the ox to Xiao Huang because of Ye Lai Zi, they felt a little uncomfortable.
Old Madam Ye stepped forward, rubbed Lu Fei's head and said, "Good boy, you know how to feel sorry for your mother at such a young age.
"Don't worry, I'll help you find a solution for the oxen."
Mrs. Ye originally wanted to return the rabbit to Lu Fei, but she thought that even if she gave it to him, it would probably fall into Ye Lai Zi's mouth, and the child would probably only be able to chew its bones.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Ye retracted her hand holding the rabbit and said to Lu Fei, "Come to my house at noon and I'll make you some rabbit."
Lu Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this. Although he had not been in the village with Xiao Huang for too long, he had heard that Mrs. Ye was an excellent cook.
He originally wanted to ask if he could take his sister with him, but when he saw Qingtian standing beside him, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Lu Fei thought about it for a while and decided to bring the rabbit meat made by Mrs. Ye to the field to eat with his mother and sister.
Realizing it was a false alarm, the Ye family turned around and went home.
On the way back, Ye Lao Er couldn't help but ask, "Mom, you said you would help them solve the problem of oxen. How did you solve it?"
Living in a village, it is inevitable that there will be some things that are beyond your control.
For example, regarding the matter of the oxen, although the Ye family members all sympathized with Xiao Huang, they wanted to lend her their own oxen.
But there happened to be a person named Ye Laizi standing in the way.
Ye Laizi had just had a conflict with the Ye family. If the Ye family lent the oxen to Xiao Huang at this time, the villagers would not think that the Ye family was repaying kindness with enmity, but would only think that they were weak and easy to bully, and that more people would come to bully them in the future.
"I'll go talk to the village chief," said Old Lady Ye, "since Xiao Huang has married into the village, she's a member of the village.
"It's not convenient for our family to intervene in this matter, but we can ask the village chief to find a way to coordinate it."
After all, the Ye family has made a lot of contributions to the village in the past few months, from repairing water wheels to assisting in suppressing bandits and hunting black bears and wild boars.
So for such a small matter, it was impossible for Wang Guangping to refuse to give her face when Old Lady Ye brought it up.
Sure enough, when Old Lady Ye went to the village chief's house and told Wang Guangping the whole story, he immediately agreed.
"I should have been in charge of the spring plowing, but I haven't been feeling well these days. Since the spring plowing hasn't started in the village yet, I stayed at home and was lazy for a few days. I didn't even know about these things.
"It's just borrowing oxen, I'll take care of it.
"I'll go back to the village and help coordinate. It's easy to resolve."
"Village chief, this matter..." Old Mrs. Ye wanted to ask the village chief to keep it a secret and not to say that this matter had anything to do with her.
Before she could even utter a word, Wang Guangping spoke first, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I know what's going on.
"I will definitely not mention your family to anyone, lest that Ye Laizi gets ahead of himself and causes trouble for your family again."
"Thank you so much, Village Chief. I'll have my second son bring some to you later when we make some rabbit meat at home."
"Sister-in-law, you're so polite! We haven't even finished the pickled vegetables you sent us last time!"
As Wang Guangping said this, he escorted Old Lady Ye out of his house.
Ye Lao Er and Ye Lao San were waiting outside the door, accompanying Old Lady Ye home.
Before the mother and her two daughters reached home, they heard the sound of wheels coming from behind them and a familiar voice.
"Mrs. Ye, Second Brother Ye, Third Brother Ye, where did you go? You just came back?"
The three of them looked back and saw that it was indeed Meng Yu sitting on the shaft of the cart.
"Brother Meng, how did you find time to come here today?" Ye Lao Er greeted, "Is Elder Cen here too?"
"No, I'm alone. The old man asked me to come and pick up Miss Qingtian to stay in the capital for a few days!"
"What are you talking about standing here? Let's go home first." Ye Lao San walked to the side of the cart, propped up the shaft with his hand, jumped on it and sat down, saying, "Let me borrow your light."
Meng Yu hurriedly asked, "Would Mrs. Ye like to come up and sit down too?"
Old Madam Ye waved her hand and said, “No need, you guys go first.
"It's only a few steps to home, let me stretch my legs."
It was indeed not far away, and those who took the car and those who walked arrived at the Ye family almost at the same time.
Mrs. Ye was preparing the rabbit in the yard, planning to cook it in a small pot at noon and let Lu Fei take it away directly.
After all, the rabbit is not big, and there are many people in the family. Each person will eat half of the rabbit in one bite. It would be better to leave it all for Lu Fei.
What's more, when Boss Ye was at home, he often went up the mountain to hunt. Hare and pheasant were the most common prey, and the family ate a lot of them throughout the winter.
Unexpectedly, Meng Yu saw the rabbit as soon as he entered the room and said, "Sister-in-law is making rabbit for lunch? Looks like I'm in for a treat today!"
Mrs. Ye didn't expect Meng Yu to come today. It was not certain that this was the only rabbit she had. She was thinking about whether anyone in the village raised rabbits. Maybe it was still in time to buy a few now.
But before she could think of anything, Qingtian beside her said quickly, "Uncle Meng, there's only one rabbit. My mother is going to make it for Brother Lu Fei, and we won't be able to eat it."
Although Meng Yu didn't know who Lu Fei was, he roughly understood what Qingtian meant and thought that someone had asked Mrs. Ye to help cook a meal of rabbit meat.
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