Chapter 470: Just Have a Clear Conscience
Yu Lingye asked: "What is the most important reason?"
"Because I know the truth, I know that Chen Yu is indeed my biological mother." Xie Yingmian sighed.
"In my initial subjective experience, the Xie family treated me badly, killed my mother, sold me to Prince Ling's Mansion like merchandise for a wedding, replaced my dowry, bullied me, and so on..."
"No matter how you look at it, I have an irreconcilable hatred with the Xie family."
"At first, I was aiming to destroy the Xie family, but later..."
Later, she learned some unbelievable truths.
Xie Yingmian looked into Yu Lingye's eyes: "Aye, let me ask you a question."
"Do you like me?"
The tips of Yu Lingye's ears turned red.
He looked away, his fingers slightly clenching the blueprint on the table: "Aren't you talking about the Xie family? Why are you suddenly talking about me?"
Xie Yingmian: "If one day, someone takes over my body, I will become another person."
"That person's personality, hobbies, and temper are nothing like mine."
"She won't let you touch her, won't let you get close to her, and you can clearly feel that she is not me."
"She's even pregnant with someone else's child. What would you do?"
Yu Lingye: ...
He will kill people!
I will try every possible way to get rid of the monster that occupies her body and try every possible way to get her back.
Xie Yingmian said: "You should have the answer in your heart."
"From my original perspective, the Xie family gave birth to me but didn't raise me, and tortured my mother to death. For all that the Xie family has done to me, it wouldn't be excessive for me to destroy the Xie family."
"But, if we look at it from Xie Tao's perspective, perhaps my mother and I are the bad guys."
"I've investigated, and everything Xie Tao said is true."
"Xie Tao did fall in love with my mother, or more precisely, Miss Shen, at first sight. Miss Shen also had a good impression of Xie Tao."
"Given the status of the Shen family, it would be unwise for Miss Shen to marry into the Marquis's mansion as a concubine."
"Xie Tao married her against all odds, proving his true feelings for her. However, the wife he had married with so much difficulty had already changed her heart. This heart rejected Xie Tao and was pregnant with someone else's child."
"I don't know how to describe this contradiction, or how to describe how I feel."
"Xie Tao lost his lover, gave up on himself, and turned to hooking up with someone else. Is he a scumbag? He visits prostitutes, has countless concubines, and even has affairs with the beautiful maids in the Xie Mansion. He is definitely a scumbag."
"But, even though he's a scumbag, he didn't betray my mother."
"He is not my father. He has no obligation to support me. The Xie family has nothing to do with me. There is no such thing as giving birth but not raising."
"The Xie family attacked my mother. From my point of view, the Xie family is the murderer."
"But from Xie Tao's perspective, Xie Tao might be thinking about killing my mother all the time and bringing back the real Miss Shen."
"To put it bluntly, the Xie family has nothing to do with me. My origin and my tragedy mainly stem from my mother, not the Xie family."
"Of course, the Xie family knew that I was not a child of the Xie family, but they still married me to Prince Ling's Mansion for the purpose of betrothal gifts, which is another matter."
"Based solely on the source, it's difficult for me to judge who is right and who is wrong, and it's also difficult for me to judge the right and wrong between the Xie family and my mother."
Xie Yingmian sighed: "After the dowry incident, I almost lost contact with the Xie family."
"The Xie family has already paid back the dowry several times over. It's not a small amount. I've also written off their plan to marry me off to Prince Ling's mansion to bring good luck. From now on, we'll just go our separate ways and be strangers."
"Originally, I thought that I would never have any intersection with the Xie family again."
"Until Xie Tao came to me for help."
"I don't want to blame myself for Shen Yu occupying Miss Shen's body, but no matter what, I am the ultimate beneficiary, so I decided to save Xie Tao's life and make some extra money."
Yu Lingye held Xie Yingmian's hand.
He whispered, "Just do whatever you want to do. Don't worry about the consequences. Just have a clear conscience."
Xie Yingmian was stunned for a moment.
After hearing what Yu Lingye said, her confusion instantly disappeared.
yes.
The past cannot be changed, and she has no ability to change it.
Having a clear conscience is enough.
Xie Yingmian looked at the drawings that Yu Lingye placed on the table.
The drawing shows what a cassava workshop looks like.
"How is the construction of the cassava workshop going?" Xie Yingmian asked.
Yu Lingye gets a headache when talking about this.
"It's still under construction. It's a huge project. The fiefdom is very poor, so it requires a lot of manpower and financial resources."
"The people in the fiefdoms suffered from hunger year-round. Some had never had a full meal in their lives. When they first learned that cassava could satisfy their hunger, they were so frightened that they only wanted to stockpile the cassava instead of selling it to the cassava factory."
"Besides this, the fiefdom's environment is harsh, the land is vast and the population is sparse. There was also a large-scale conscription process before, so there aren't many young and strong laborers in the fiefdom, and the manpower is extremely short."
It is easy to get people to sell cassava to factories by just paying a higher price.
The most difficult problem is the shortage of staff.
In recent years, due to the extreme poverty of the fiefdom, very few people moved in, but many people moved out.
The people often don’t have enough food to eat and the birth rate is low.
Without labor, many projects cannot proceed.
Xie Yingmian thought for a moment and said, "Aye, do you still remember the time when we were trapped in Plum Blossom Village?"
"The heavy snow blocked the road, and we were anxious to return to Shangjing."
Yu Lingye: "Remember, thanks to the generous reward, all the men, women, and children in the village came out to clear the snow. The roads that would normally take one or two days to clear were now completed in just one or two hours."
Xie Yingmian smiled and said, "That's right."
"A great man long ago once said that women hold up half the sky."
"People have the inherent concept that men are responsible for the outside world and women are responsible for the home. As long as men are willing to work hard and diligently, it is not difficult for them to find a job. But it is different for women."
"Almost all types of work exclude women. A few women have skills like embroidery and painting, while most ordinary women can only do hard and tiring work like washing."
"It's not fair."
"Women at home have to serve their parents-in-law, their children, and their husbands. Besides these, they also have to farm, cook, and wash clothes. In their free time, they have to weave and make clothes. From the time they are old enough to understand, they have almost no free time."
"They are not weak in strength. On the contrary, they are more hardworking and busier than most men. They also have the ingenuity and delicacy that men lack. Many types of work are more suitable for women."
"What I mean is that when recruiting workers for the fiefdom, we should break the tradition of only recruiting men and not women. We should treat men and women equally, give them equal pay for equal work, and promote those who perform well to become the leader."
"Let the young and middle-aged women in the fiefdom participate in the construction, allocate some positions suitable for the elderly and children, and provide adequate compensation. I think this can temporarily solve the problem of insufficient manpower."
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