Ye Qingqing took Ye Tong to the Ye family's old house. The Ye family's old house only had two rooms. Although it had two floors, it was an old-fashioned wooden attic that looked very dilapidated, but it was still very sturdy.
However, after building a new house a few years ago, the whole family moved away, leaving the old house empty, filled with some miscellaneous items and firewood.
The old house was certainly not the Ye family's ancestral home. It was said to have belonged to the village's biggest landlord, the Zhou landlord who was also the old lady's lifelong idol. He was the one who would only add a plate of scrambled eggs with chives to the New Year celebrations.
According to the old lady, the Ye family's house and land were allocated to the Zhou landlord family because Ye Zhiguo's grandfather's generation were refugees from the north, and they were so poor that they didn't even have a single piece of clothing.
Luckily, he was fortunate enough to be part of the land reform, which not only distributed land but also houses, making Grandpa Ye extremely happy. He decided to settle down in Zhoucun and never return to his hometown.
The old house is not in a better location than the new house. It is located at the very end of the village and is not a detached house. It is connected to about ten other houses, forming a circle with a large open space in the middle.
In fact, these were all the ancestral homes of the Zhou landlord family, which were then divided up by the villagers and were never returned to the descendants of the Zhou landlord family.
The other families were all gathered in the open space sunbathing. They found Ye Qingqing very strange and surrounded her, asking her all sorts of questions and trying to find out about Ye Zhiguo.
Ye Weiguo chased them away. This time, his elder brother got into trouble, and these people were saying really bad things behind his back. Even the children suffered a lot of grievances.
The old lady's door was tightly closed, and there was no sound at all, so it felt like no one was inside.
"She's home, Mother Ye didn't go out!" the neighbor said definitively.
Ye Qingqing knocked on the door hard and told Ye Tong to call out "Grandma!" Ye Weiguo also called out.
But the old lady remained silent, and after a long while, there was a slight movement inside.
Lu Mo, with his keen senses, recognized the sound of someone coming downstairs and whispered it to Ye Qingqing.
Two red envelopes were slipped through the crack in the door, and the old woman's hoarse voice came out, "Go away, and don't come to see me again!"
The old lady behind the door looked even older, her back more hunched, and her once mostly black and sparse white hair was now almost entirely gone.
She sighed softly, hunched over, and shakily prepared to go upstairs to continue chanting scriptures. Her eldest son had committed so many sins; even chanting scriptures every day wasn't enough!
"Grandma, Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best!"
Ye Tong suddenly called out, and the old lady at the bottom of the stairs stopped, her face covered in tears. She turned around and walked back to the door.
But the door remained closed. Through the door, a trembling voice said, "Study hard and listen to your sister!"
Ye Tong obediently agreed, her big eyes filled with confusion.
He didn't understand why his grandmother wouldn't open the door to see him, and he didn't understand why so many people were missing from the house.
But none of this affected Ye Tong's mood, because her sister was there.
Home is wherever my sister is.
Other people don't matter.
"Grandma Ye, I'll bring Xiaotong to visit you whenever I have time. Xiaotong is very talented now; she's participated in several competitions and even won prize money."
Ye Qingqing took out a red envelope from her bag and slipped it through the crack in the door.
It was indeed the prize money Ye Tong won from the competition. During this period, Gao Fei and Catherine took Ye Tong to participate in some small-scale competitions. Although they lost a few times, Ye Tong's ranking improved as the competition progressed.
These were all small competitions with low prize money, totaling less than 1,000 yuan, but Ye Qing was very content.
She gave the old lady three hundred yuan, and saved the rest for Ye Tong's tuition.
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