Jiang Bai was startled by Lin's words. He had been raising an eyebrow at them, thinking that with Jiang Qian's proud and arrogant nature, it would be strange if she knelt down to him.
Before she could even finish her thought, Jiang Qian actually stepped forward and knelt down in front of her with a thud.
Jiang Bai's expression changed, and he stood up abruptly, stepping aside. He looked coldly at Madam Lin and said, "What is Aunt up to?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the two sisters, Jiang Cui, Jiang Lan, and Jiang Zi, kneeling down behind Jiang Qian and facing Jiang Bai.
"Da Ya, please save them for the sake of us all!"
If they weren't afraid of offending Jiang Bai too much, both Lin and Zhang would have knelt down before him.
"Oh? I didn't know the old house had gotten into any trouble that it needed my help?" Jiang Bai's expression was not good. Although she felt that she could accept it even if all of them knelt down for her, their act of kneeling down at the slightest disagreement still made her angry.
She thought about it several times in her mind, but couldn't find any major trouble at the old house recently.
Even if Jiang Songzong was injured, it was only a minor injury.
“We won’t lie to you, Daya, our family’s food supply can only last until the end of the year at most. Your cousins can only eat one meal a day. If this continues, they will starve to death.”
Lin felt a pang of bitterness in her heart, and Zhang, who was beside her, nodded repeatedly in empathy.
Is there no food left in the old house?
Jiang Bai was slightly taken aback; she hadn't considered this possibility.
After carefully calculating in my mind, I realized that the old house had a total of 15 mu of land. Based on a yield of 150 jin per mu, the total yield would be about 2,250 jin.
With more land, and based on last year's average of 260 jin, they will have to pay a total of 1,170 jin of grain tax this year. Adding the more than 100 jin of grain they were compensated with before, the old house should still have about 1,000 jin of grain left.
The old house has a total of sixteen people, half of whom are the main breadwinners.
Assuming each person consumes half a jin of grain per day, the old house would consume eight jin of grain per day. In other words, at this rate of consumption, it could only last for a little over four months.
If we're frugal, we can eat until the end of the year, which should be about right.
Not to mention that the fifteen acres of land belonging to the old house were not all paddy fields, but also dry fields. Dry fields do not yield grain, but taxes still need to be paid.
In other words, the old house had less grain than it needed.
Withholding food from several girls was something Wang and Jiang Minchang were capable of doing.
If it weren't for the fact that her daughters-in-law still had to work in the fields, she suspected that those two old hags, Wang, would have embezzled their grain as well.
"Then how do you want me to save them?"
Jiang Bai had some guesses in his mind, but he was still not quite sure he could believe it.
Lin said with a determined look, "Buy them! Let them work for you."
Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow; it was indeed just as she had guessed.
but……
"Auntie, are you kidding me? Why would I buy them for no reason?"
"Don't tell me I don't have the money. Even if I did, what could I do with them? Could they help me clear land or farm the land?"
"After I buy them, do I still need to feed them?"
"Don't tell me I don't have enough food to feed so many people, I don't even have enough water!"
Jiang Bai found them ridiculous. When they lost their parents, these people took their family property without a second thought. Even when Wang Shi wanted to sell them, these people didn't say a word. They might even be happy that selling them would give them a good meal.
Now that the old family is struggling to afford food, they're begging her to help them buy the person back.
Does she look like some kind of saintly, innocent saint?
When Jiang Bai refused outright, Lin's face turned pale.
At this moment, she deeply regretted robbing Jiang Bai's family of their belongings.
Zhang was also a little anxious. Seeing that Lin was unable to handle the situation, she quickly stepped forward and said, "Baiya, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. When your father and the others were separated, your second uncle and I spoke up for your parents."
"As for stealing your family's things, your second uncle and I were forced to take action because your grandparents pressured us."
"Blue Girl and Purple Girl secretly brought food to you two sisters back then. It's all our fault as adults. We only ask that you accept them, considering that these two girls also have a kind heart."
She ignored the two maids from the main house and only spoke of her own two.
Jiang Bai frowned slightly, went out and called Jiang Lu over, asking her what happened after she hanged herself. When she learned that Jiang Lan and Jiang Zi had indeed brought her food while she was unconscious, her expression improved slightly.
Jiang Lan and Jiang Zi were slightly taken aback. They looked at their mother and wondered if their mother had asked them to deliver it.
Zhang glared at them but didn't let them tell the truth.
Upon hearing Zhang's words, Lin's face turned pale, and Jiang Qian and Jiang Cui, who were kneeling on the ground, also changed their expressions.
If Jiang Lan and Jiang Zi had once brought food to Jiang Bai and the others, then they had also thoroughly ridiculed Jiang Lü. Doesn't that mean they had no chance at all?
Only then did Jiang Qian feel a pang of regret.
"What about Awen? He was taken to the old house and he's still not fully recovered."
The expressions of the Lin mother and her two daughters changed again, but Zhang's eyes lit up.
Noticing her expression, Jiang Bai's heart stirred, and he said to the three women, Lin and her mother, who were standing to the side, "Aunt, my second aunt and I still have some things to discuss. Please leave!"
"Da Ya, I'm begging you, please take these two girls in!"
Lin's tears flowed instantly. For the sake of her two daughters, she was willing to go all out and knelt down directly in front of Jiang Bai, this junior.
"Mother!" Jiang Qian and the other woman cried out anxiously.
Seeing that Jiang Bai remained unmoved, Jiang Qian stood up angrily and grabbed Lin Shi's arm, saying, "Mother, get up. We won't beg her."
"At worst, I'll make more embroidery; I won't really starve to death."
Her face was covered in tears, but Jiang Bai felt no sympathy whatsoever.
Jiang Cui also grabbed Lin's other arm, and the two sisters managed to pull Lin away from Jiang Bai's house.
Seeing them leave, Jiang Bai sneered, but didn't care.
She looked at Zhang, who first sent Jiang Lan and Jiang Zi away, and then whispered in Jiang Bai's ear about what she had seen back then.
"bump."
The table inside the room suddenly collapsed and shattered into pieces. The flying wood fragments even hit Zhang's feet, but she looked at Jiang Bai with a look of horror and didn't dare to breathe.
"Jiang, Song, Zong".
Jiang Bai gritted his teeth and spoke slowly, each word distinct, his eyes flashing with a terrifying red light.
When he turned to look at Zhang, his eyes seemed to be filled with tears of blood, which frightened Zhang so much that she fell to the ground.
“I…I know I…Your second uncle and I were also wrong, we failed to stop him. We are willing to atone for our sins, we only ask that you give us a chance.”
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