Suddenly, Ye Xiaoxin glanced at Ye Beiping and asked curiously, "Beiping, did you... bring a female educated youth home last night?"
Ye Beiping's hand trembled slightly, and he looked up in a flustered manner, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Sister, what are you saying? I brought home a female educated youth. I'm very innocent, okay?"
He himself didn't believe that.
It would be a miracle if the soul of a seventy- or eighty-year-old man were pure.
Ye Xiaoxin stared intently at Ye Beiping, biting her chopsticks and muttering strangely, "Then why did you cut a hole in the bed sheet for no reason? If it weren't for that..."
Even if you've never eaten pork, you've seen pigs run. This is something the older women in the village often joke about when they get together.
Ye Xiaoxin blushed furiously as she spoke.
The two siblings quickly ate a few mouthfuls of rice and then went about their own business.
After that conversation, both of them felt a little embarrassed. One was incredibly shy, and the other was afraid of being exposed.
The nights in the countryside are very quiet, with only the sound of dogs barking.
Since there weren't many entertainment options, everyone went to bed early.
After washing the dishes, Ye Xiaoxin blinked and watched Ye Beiping enter the house, muttering curiously, "Has this kid changed his ways? He's not going out to play tonight?"
Despite her grumbling, she tidied up early and went back to her room.
The house was small with only two rooms, one for Ye Beiping and the other for his mother and Ye Xiaoxin. There were two beds in one room.
Ye Beiping went back to his room and lay down on the bed, starting to think about what kind of business he could start to make some money and improve his family's living conditions.
Looking at the sky gradually darkening outside the window, I felt a little irritable.
Without capital, it seems pointless to do any business.
After having a dream in the afternoon, Ye Beiping couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Around eight o'clock in the evening, unable to sleep any longer, Ye Beiping sat up.
"I wonder if Su Xinyi is eating well. She's about to get pregnant, she can't be eating too poorly, right? How will her body handle it?"
Muttering to himself, Ye Beiping walked toward the kitchen.
They were completely unaware of the scattered sounds of people getting dressed coming from the house across the street.
Upon entering the kitchen, Ye Beiping sighed, "Sigh, with these conditions, let alone marrying Su Xinyi, even a rural woman wouldn't want to cook in a place like this."
As he spoke, he started rummaging through drawers and cupboards, hoping to see if there were any leftover noodles or something from the evening.
If you heat it up, it might still be edible.
Just as Ye Beiping was rummaging through the house with his butt sticking out, Ye Xiaoxin's stern voice suddenly came from behind him: "Ye Beiping, what's wrong with you? I thought you'd changed today. You've been staying home late to cause trouble just so you can rummage through the house and take things out to squander money, haven't you?"
"Oh my god."
Ye Beiping was startled by the voice, turned around and saw it was his older sister. He patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "What wasteful? I just..."
He couldn't bring himself to say anything more.
Seeing Ye Beiping's expression, Ye Xiaoxin sneered, "Heh, can't say it now, huh? Don't even think about it. I've hidden all those things away. You won't find a single grain of rice."
"Unless you tell me what you're going to do with it."
"I......"
Ye Beiping looked around for a while, his eyes darting left and right, when he suddenly saw the flashlight and said, "I'm looking for a flashlight."
He grabbed the flashlight and prepared to leave.
Unexpectedly, Ye Xiaoxin blocked the kitchen door and frowned, asking, "What are you doing with a flashlight?"
"I...can't I go up the mountain to hunt rabbits?" Ye Beiping pouted, feeling that his Oscar-winning acting skills had finally reached perfection.
He can make up lies with his eyes closed.
Ye Xiaoxin looked Ye Beiping up and down with suspicion, her brows furrowing even more: "Ye Beiping, something's wrong with you."
"I...Is something wrong with me?" Thinking he had been found out, Ye Beiping started to stutter.
"First, Peng Tian kicked down the front door, then he cut a hole in the bed sheet, and now he's coming to the kitchen looking for food late at night. Is he hooking up with that female educated youth? Is he planning to feed her?"
hiss!
Ye Beiping's heart was in his throat, completely unaware that his sister possessed the insight of Sherlock Holmes and had actually guessed correctly.
But he wasn't about to give himself away: "No...no, I just came to find a flashlight. We're not doing well at home, and Mom even had to go through all that trouble, humbling herself to borrow food from Grandpa and Grandma. If I could bring back some food, wouldn't that lighten the burden on you and Mom?"
"Really?" Ye Xiaoxin blinked her big eyes and asked doubtfully.
"Really, really."
Unable to contain the tense atmosphere any longer, Ye Beiping pushed Ye Xiaoxin aside to go find the axe and hoe: "Hey, move aside, move aside."
"I'm going into the mountains, don't follow me."
Watching the beam of a flashlight disappear outside the yard, Ye Xiaoxin put her index finger to her lips and kept biting it: "Changed her mind? Started thinking about the family? But it's already September, where are we going to give him anything to call?"
Ye Beiping, who had already left home far away, shook his head and sighed.
"I made a mistake, a real mistake. I didn't expect Ye Xiaoxin to be so wary of me. Sigh. But my family's situation is really bad. I can't use our things to help Su Xinyi. I should go to the mountains to take a look."
From childhood to adulthood, I've been either raiding bird nests, catching fish in the river, or hunting rabbits in the mountains.
Nothing can be caught.
Ye Beiping looked at the moon in the sky and said, "Heavens, whether we have a harvest tonight depends on you."
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