"Auntie is awake!"

Ye Bao's shout startled everyone who was sweeping snow in the yard.

Miao Cuifang walked in from outside. "Xiaoxiao, why are you up? Let me see if your fever has gone down. Don't catch a cold again."

Although Ye Xiaoxiao had already decided to stay at the Ye family, she was not familiar with the family after all. Upon hearing this, she just rubbed her nose and said, "I've already cooled down."

"You have to rest well. It's too cold outside. Wear something warmer before going out."

Miao Cuifang dug out an old cotton shirt and gave it to Ye Xiaoxiao. Although it was patched, it was washed clean and much thicker than the one she was currently wearing.

Although the original owner brought a suitcase and the clothes inside were fashionable and nice looking, they were not warm at all.

"Thank you."

"We are all family, why should we be polite?"

Miao Cuifang was obviously at a loss. She turned around and picked up her grandson Ye Bao, saying, "Let's not disturb your aunt from resting."

Ye Bao is the child of Ye Xiaoxiao's eldest brother and is five years old now.

"I want to play with my aunt."

Ye Bao twisted his body in a frenetic manner. He was very curious about the sudden appearance of his little aunt in the family.

But a few days ago, my aunt ignored me.

"Listen."

Miao Cuifang reached out and patted Ye Bao's butt, and the child felt a little aggrieved.

"Let him play with me."

Ye Xiaoxiao looked at the aggrieved child and took the initiative to speak.

"Then you guys play for a while. There's hot water in the kettle. Wash your faces first. We'll have dinner soon."

Miao Cuifang did not hold back this time. She thought it would be good for Ye Xiaoxiao to spend more time with her family. She tapped Ye Bao's head before leaving and said, "Listen to your aunt and be obedient, or I'll kill you."

Ye Bao nodded with tears in her eyes, and as soon as Miao Cuifang left, she immediately smiled.

The little brat came over and hugged Ye Xiaoxiao's legs: "Aunt, you are so beautiful."

Ye Xiaoxiao: “…”

The brat has two faces.

"Xiaoxiao 뎃紀 is so sweet, let's go... Auntie will take you to wash your face."

Ye Xiaoxiao filled the basin with water, washed herself, and then washed Ye Bao's face.

She found some vanishing cream from her suitcase and applied it on both of their faces.

Seeing her luggage, Ye Xiaoxiao was already thinking that if she wanted to stay here for a long time, she would need to prepare a lot of things.

Ye Bao tilted his chubby face upward and obediently let his aunt rub perfume on him. He felt that the sudden appearance of his aunt in the house seemed different from the past few days, but he couldn't tell what was different.

It was not until dinner that Ye Xiaoxiao had a deeper understanding of the family situation of the Ye family members.

Sitting at the dinner table were the original owner's parents Ye Jianguo and Miao Cuifang, his eldest brother Ye Changqing, his eldest sister-in-law Zhang Xue, and two nephews, the eldest nephew Ye Baobo and the three-year-old nephew Ye Baoji.

Ye Xiaoxiao knew that the original owner still had a grandpa and grandma, and now lived with her uncle's family in front of the house.

In addition, my second brother is serving in the army and only sends some money back every month.

The third brother works in a forest farm across the river. He has a rebellious personality, a bad relationship with his father, and rarely comes home.

The Ye family's life was relatively good in this village because they had many sons and enough labor. However, even so, they only had simple meals every day and rarely ate meat.

Because usually there is meat left over from hunting in the village, which is exchanged for money and food outside.

Moreover, Ye Xiaoxiao also knew that when Hao Yanyan left the Ye family, she took away the savings that Ye Jianguo and his wife had saved for half a lifetime, making this already poor family even worse.

"Xiaoxiao is having dinner."

Miao Cuifang handed the only bowl of egg custard on the table to Ye Xiaoxiao.

Ye Bao stared at him with her big round eyes. It smelled so good, but her mother said it was for her little aunt, who was sick and needed something nutritious.

Ye Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and scanned the simple faces of this family, and finally met Ye Bao's face that was about to drool.

The youngest, Ye Bao, didn't know what was going on, but his big eyes were also staring at the egg custard on the table.

Ye Xiaoxiao picked up the egg custard and calmly divided it into three portions, placing two of them in the two children's bowls.

"Xiaoxiao, this is for you to eat. They...they usually eat a lot, so don't worry about them."

Miao Cuifang hurriedly stopped him.

She knew that Xiaoxiao was not used to the meals at home, and she had not eaten properly since coming to the village, and she looked thinner.

Ye Bao also said sensibly, "Aunt, you eat."

Ye Xiaoxiao smiled at him and said, "I don't like egg custard."

Hearing Ye Xiaoxiao say this, Ye Bao's eyes widened. My little aunt is so weird. She doesn't even like to eat egg custard.

He likes his aunt even more!

Ye Xiaoxiao picked up the bowl and took a mouthful of rice.

This was not fine rice but sorghum rice, which was coarse and hard. She chewed it for a long time before swallowing it, and it made her throat a little sore.

Ye Xiaoxiao thought that she could find joy in the midst of adversity, which could be considered as recalling the bitter past while thinking of the sweet future.

After the meal, Ye Xiaoxiao helped her sister-in-law pick up the dishes and was met with a pair of surprised looks.

Zhang Xue quickly snatched the bowl back from Ye Xiaoxiao's hand.

She had not forgotten that when this sister came to her house for her first meal, she threw the bowl down and said that it was not for human consumption.

Ye Xiaoxiao: “…”

Miao Cuifang and Ye Jianguo and his son were talking in the upper room. A few minutes later, Ye Xiaoxiao saw them carrying out Ye Changsheng, who was still running a fever.

Ye Xiaoxiao asked: "Where are you going?"

Miao Cuifang: "Old Four is still running a fever. Old Liu's medicine is not working. We have to go to the town to check it out."

Hearing this, Ye Xiaoxiao remembered the plot recorded in the original book. Ye Changsheng, the fourth child of the Ye family, was originally a top student with very good academic performance. However, because of a high fever, he became paralyzed and dropped out of school and lived a miserable life at home.

Ye Changsheng was miserable, partly because of the doctor's misoperation at the health center, but more because Hao Yanyan secretly took away the Ye family's money, and failed to send Ye Changsheng to the county hospital for better treatment after his health problems occurred, which led to his condition getting worse and irreversible.

After Ye Changsheng's treatment failed, Ye Jianguo and his son took him back to Baishi Village. On the way home, Ye Jianguo slipped and fell down the slope and died.

And many years later, the already famous heroine returned to Baishi Village, wanting to return dozens of times the money she took from the Ye family.

However, by that time, many members of the Ye family had died or were injured, and they couldn't even keep this yard.

The heroine has always felt guilty about this and uses her connections to search for the whereabouts of Ye's family.

However, as an inconspicuous minor character in the book, Ye Xiaoxiao didn't quite understand the final outcome of the Ye family after reading the entire book. She only knew that they all ended up in a tragic way.

Ye Xiaoxiao frowned. Could it be that this accident caused Ye Changsheng, a naturally arrogant man, to become paralyzed in bed?

The roads are difficult to travel on now. If you want to go to the town, you can only use a cart to pull people across.

While others were still talking, Ye Xiaoxiao went into the house and took out her wallet.

Although the original owner had a coquettish personality, she was treated well in the Hao family and had a lot of pocket money. This time she brought more than 500 yuan with her, and after deducting the travel expenses, she now had about 400 yuan left.

Thinking about the situation at home, Ye Xiaoxiao put the money in her pocket and ran out.

Ye Jianguo had already harnessed the car. In addition to Ye Changqing, Ye Changyuan, the elder brother from his uncle's family in the front yard, also came to help.

There was a quilt on the wooden cart, which tightly surrounded Ye Changsheng.

Ye Xiaoxiao: "I'll go too."

"Xiaoxiao, your mother and sister-in-law should stay at home. Even if you want to leave, you have to wait until the snow stops." Ye Changqing looked embarrassed.

"I don't want to leave. I want you to go to the hospital together."

As Ye Xiaoxiao spoke, she opened a small hole in the quilt surrounding Ye Changsheng and took in the pair of delicate features and flushed faces.

"Fourth brother's condition is very serious and he must be treated immediately. If the medicine at the clinic is useless, then we have to go to the county hospital."

Baishi Village is close to a highway, and the road there is rugged. Usually, only trucks from the forest farm come and go a few times a month, but they have stopped running in winter. Once the road to the town is easy to drive on, it will be easy to go to the county town as long as you have money.

Ye Changqing looked at Ye Jianguo...