Jin'er and her sister followed Yinhua out of the room.
Lady Wei was standing in the courtyard.
Jin'er said, "Second Aunt, Yinhua's foundation is not good to begin with. Although she learned to read with Cousin Xuan when she was young, she can't remember many of them and has to learn them all over again."
Madam Wei smiled and said, "Ah, Jin'er is right. But as you know, your second uncle works outside every day, and your cousin Peng is in school. I'm really too busy to get away this time, so I won't ask her next time."
Yinhua glanced at Ye Jin'er gratefully: "I'd better go back and help first."
Yinhua simply couldn't let go of the chores at home.
Yinhua followed Wei dejectedly.
Jin Hua was in a great mood every day because her family had agreed to her marriage.
Although he couldn't go to the cloth shop, he wrote a note and found a boy in the village to deliver a message to Jixiang Cloth Shop, saying that his parents had agreed, but they still needed to inquire further to reassure Zhou Ziyang.
That evening, Jin Hua received a reply from Zhou Ziyang, telling her to stay home and that he would wait for her good news.
Jin Hua looked at the letter, her smile never fading.
On March 18, the Ye family officially took up their main beam, and the Ye family was bustling with activity once again.
On March 19, spring was halfway over, the winter wheat was ripe, and the villagers began to harvest it.
The Ye family members also began to harvest wheat in the fields.
Because the family only separated last year, the crops in the fields were harvested by both families together, and then divided.
Ye Yong, Ye Xuan, and Ye Peng even took a day off, and Ye Erquan also stopped working for two days.
Everyone in the Ye family, regardless of gender, wore straw hats and went to the fields together.
Because there were many people, the harvest of all 6 acres of land was completed in just one and a half days.
After harvesting the wheat, they began to irrigate and soak the fields.
After soaking for three or four days, the rice seedlings can be transplanted.
When the family property was divided, Ye Caiping didn't ask for a single acre of land. Ye Daquan and his brother each gave Ye Caiping the harvest from two acres of land.
Ye Caiping looked at her overflowing granary and was speechless: "There are only 6 mu of land in total, but they sent 4 mu of grain. Aren't my eldest and second brothers going to eat it?"
Ye Erquan chuckled, "I'm not short of money. Little sister, you don't have land, so we'll send you grain."
Ye Daquan looked guilty: "I really was stupid. When the family divided the land, my mother allocated land to me and my second brother, but I forgot to allocate two mu to my younger sister."
Ye Caiping laughed and said, "Alright, how much is two acres of land worth? I'm already very happy that my older brothers gave me so much grain."
It took Ye Caiping a lot of persuasion to convince Ye Daquan to leave.
Ye Erquan pulled Ye Caiping into the room, mysteriously took out an oil paper package, and handed it to her: "Take this."
"What is this?" Ye Caiping opened it and found it was a package of bird's nest, weighing three or four ounces.
"I bought this precious stuff especially for you to eat; I heard it's the most nourishing thing for your body."
"How much does this cost?"
"Hey, not much."
Ye Caiping estimated that such a package would cost at least twenty or thirty taels of silver: "What will my sister-in-law do if she finds out that my second brother is spending so much money?"
Ye Erquan said, "We're able to earn so much money thanks to you, so it's only right that we buy you some nice things. If she keeps nagging, I'll get angry with her too."
"Don't overthink it. Here, take it. I'm going back now."
After Ye Erquan finished speaking, he quickly left.
After Ye Erquan left, Old Lady Ye came in and said with a smile, "Although this is expensive, you can afford it, so eat with peace of mind."
Ye Caiping nodded.
Grandma Ye said, "For the past six months, we've been so busy with business that we've forgotten about the important things. You should buy some land to cultivate."
"Even if you don't work in the fields yourself, it's good to hire some people to do the farming. Only with land and food can people feel at ease."
Grandma Ye had long since accepted the fact that her daughter was wealthy, so she naturally didn't expect her to do farm work herself.
Besides, their daughter has been pampered since childhood and has never done any heavy work. Even if she were willing to do it, they wouldn't be willing to let her.
Ye Caiping nodded: "It's time to buy land."
...
When Ye Erquan returned home, Madam Wei learned that Ye Erquan had spent dozens of taels of silver to buy bird's nest for Ye Caiping, and she felt a wave of dizziness.
"How much did you say? Twenty-eight taels? How could you spend so much money?"
Ye Erquan rolled his eyes at her: "Hasn't my little sister helped our family enough? Let's not even talk about the thirty taels she gave us at the beginning. Later, when we built our house, she even provided meals. The meals alone cost seven or eight taels of silver. Didn't you happily accept them back then?"
"Later, she also delivered our spicy soup and built latrines. She could earn eighty or ninety taels a month, which would be over a thousand taels a year! You took so many benefits from her, did you ever properly thank her?"
Mrs. Wei stammered, "Didn't you treat me to dinner last time?"
Ye Erquan took a deep breath: "You have the nerve to say that about a meal?"
Madam Wei choked for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "If you calculate it this way, twenty or thirty taels isn't much. I was just shocked when I suddenly heard that you spent so much money. We only spent thirty taels to build the house."
Ye Erquan sighed, "Alright, just change your stingy ways!"
Thinking it over, Madam Wei called out, "Yinhua."
"Hey." Yinhua ran in.
“I heard last time that your aunt’s cured meat was all gone. We still have more than a dozen pieces. Pick out five or six of the best ones and send them over.”
"good."
Yinhua ran into the kitchen, picked out six fat and lean fish, and carried them to Ye Caiping's house.
Ye Caiping was delighted to receive the cured meat: "When I ate at the Shen family's house last time, Manman said she liked cured meat, so this is a perfect opportunity to send it over."
The next day, Ye Caiping packed the cured meat in a basket, along with twenty salted eggs that Wu Quan's wife had given her, and had Ye Jin'er take them over.
Taking advantage of this time, Ye Caiping went to the village head's house to buy land.
She bought fifty acres of fertile land and thirty acres of poor land, securing eighty acres in total. As for what to plant, she needed to think it over carefully.
Every village was filled with the lively atmosphere of spring harvest and spring plowing, a scene brimming with vitality.
Some are happy while others are sad.
At this moment, the Li family was filled with worry.
The whole family stood on the edge of their field, staring at each other in bewilderment.
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