Ye Caiping finished eating quickly.
Old Man Ye and the others, however, ate very slowly, as if each bite was about to be split in two. In these times, having anything to eat was already a blessing.
The Ye Jin'er sisters also looked very grateful.
The Li family was better off than the Ye family, but the only ones in the family who could afford to eat white rice were Li Zhiyuan and his wife.
The white rice that the Ye family used to send all ended up in Li Zhiyuan and Granny Li's stomachs.
Ye Caiping and her daughter could only eat brown rice porridge mixed with rice bran.
Thinking of this, Ye Caiping couldn't help but curse the original owner of the body once again.
Back at her parents' home, the original owner insisted on eating white rice, acting as if she would die if she didn't. She acted all high and mighty, like an ancestor.
Upon returning to her husband's family home, she proudly ate rice bran porridge and served as a servant to her mother-in-law, washing her smelly feet.
Is this a moral decline, a distortion of human nature, or a mentally challenged person going mad?
...
After lunch, Ye Jinhua went back to her room to do needlework.
Ye Yong, Ye Xuan, and Ye Peng went up the mountain to chop firewood with their machetes.
Old Man Ye and Ye Daquan put on their patched-up outer garments, picked up their things, and prepared to go out.
Ye Caiping stuffed the rouge into Old Man Ye's hand.
Ye Jin'er quickly wrapped up the candy and handed it over as well.
"No need, you can keep it for yourselves!" Old Man Ye gently patted Ye Jin'er's head.
Today's incident has hurt my two granddaughters.
Moreover, even if you're poor, you'd be too embarrassed to return just two osmanthus candies.
Ye Daquan, carrying the bag of white rice, looked at Ye Caiping with a resentful expression, as if asking, "Are you really not going to eat white rice?"
Ye Caiping glared at him, and Ye Daquan reluctantly followed the old man out the door.
Ms. Wei and Ms. Ye Yinhua were clearing away the bowls and wiping the table.
When Ye Huan'er offered to help, Madam Wei hurriedly said, "No need, no need, Lai Di... no, Huan'er, you should go back to your rooms and rest."
Ye Huan'er looked at Ye Caiping helplessly, wanting to integrate into the Ye family as soon as possible.
Ye Caiping said, "Let's rest for today. Second sister-in-law, from now on we'll take turns doing housework with you and eldest sister-in-law."
The eldest and second wives take turns doing housework, rotating every ten days.
Mrs. Wei was flattered, while Old Mrs. Ye, who was picking her teeth to the side, paused and scolded her playfully:
"What are you talking about? You're still injured. It'll only be three months or so. You should rest."
Grandma Ye was heartbroken.
Grandma Ye felt it was unfair that her daughter wouldn't eat white rice, as she had always doted on her. But the family was too poor to afford it.
There are plenty of people to do this housework, so she couldn't bear to let Ye Caiping do it.
Ye Caiping said, "This minor injury will heal in a few days. It's not just me now, there's also Jin'er and Huan'er. We can't just have three grown people doing nothing and waiting to be waited on, can we?"
Grandma Ye thought about it and agreed.
Three months later, the daughter will remarry, but Jin'er and her sister will still have to stay at home; it would be unacceptable for them not to work.
At worst, when it's her daughter's turn, she'll let her daughter rest while she takes care of her two granddaughters.
In this way, even the eldest son's wife, who was usually the most talkative, had nothing to say.
"Alright." Grandma Ye nodded. "Today is the second day of the second wife's turn. You still have eight days to rest."
Ye Caiping smiled and nodded.
Ms. Wei and Ms. Ye Yinhua left with their bowls and chopsticks.
Once inside the kitchen, Mrs. Wei felt a little better.
Although she didn't dare to make a scene like Du, she still harbored some resentment towards Ye Caiping.
Now that Ye Caiping is willing to share the housework instead of lying down and waiting to be served like before, Mrs. Wei is overwhelmed with gratitude, as if she had won the lottery.
...
In Ye Caiping's room.
Grandma Ye was sitting on the bed, having a private conversation with Ye Caiping.
"Does the injury on your head hurt? It's time to apply the medicine."
Just as Grandma Ye was about to open the dresser, Ye Caiping quickly pressed her hand down: "I applied it before dinner. The wound is much better now, it doesn't hurt or itch anymore."
She has already sold the wound medicine; she can't let Old Lady Ye know.
"By the way, Mother, how much grain do we have left at home?" Ye Caiping wanted to know about the family's situation.
Old Mrs. Ye's heart skipped a beat reflexively. In the past, after Ye Caiping asked this question, she would plunder all the remaining grain in the house and take it all back to the Li family!
But thinking that her daughter had already divorced, Old Mrs. Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief:
"Although the autumn harvest has only been a few days, after paying the grain tax and settling the grain debt, we only have about twenty catties of unpolished rice left. If we mix it with radishes and rice bran and eat it sparingly, it should last us for half a month!"
Ye Caiping felt terrible when she thought about the meal she had just eaten.
This bowl of radish, rice bran, and brown rice porridge wasn't even half full. I'd barely sat down when I was already feeling a bit hungry again!
"Is there no money left at home?"
Grandma Ye looked at her speechlessly: "You've emptied my and your father's savings for our funerals! You even dug out the half a penny we had hidden in the rat hole."
Ye Caiping was completely numb.
Could this original human be considered a human being? Obviously not!
Old Mrs. Ye: "Besides, when you were carried back the day before yesterday, you were already dead. We spent three taels of silver to buy two slices of ginseng, ground them up, mixed them with water, and gave them to you, and that's how you regained your breath. We still owe Doctor Zhao two taels."
"Besides that, there's five taels for the village head and three taels for your second uncle..."
The money owed to the village head and her second uncle was all borrowed on behalf of Ye Caiping.
At that time, Li Zhiyuan was going to take the imperial examination. The original owner of this body went back to her parents' home to ask for money and food, so she sold two pigs, as well as all the chickens and eggs...
Anyway, if Old Man Ye could be sold for money, she might have sold her entire maternal family.
After selling all the livestock and surplus grain from her mother's family, the original owner still complained that it wasn't enough. Old Man Ye and Ye Daquan were heartbroken and quickly borrowed money from the village head and her second uncle.
The memory flashed into her mind, and Ye Caiping wanted to slap herself hard.
The original owner was a complete idiot!
Why did you let her bear a debt of ten taels of silver?
No, she needs to get some money right away! She should go up the mountain tomorrow.
Grandma Ye also noticed Ye Caiping's worries:
“You don’t need to worry about this. Your father and two brothers will take care of it! Why don’t you think about how to find a good husband within three months? If you exceed the time limit, your sister-in-law will find you a scoundrel.”
"After I pick up your sister-in-law in a couple of days, I'll go find Matchmaker Huang!"
Ye Caiping choked, but Old Madam Ye wouldn't believe her if she said she didn't need to marry and would earn enough for thirty taels of silver herself, so she said:
"No matter which family the matchmaker finds, you can't agree to it. You must tell me and get my approval first."
Grandma Ye laughed and said, "Alright, alright, but don't be too picky."
Ye Caiping smiled without saying a word. It was impossible not to be picky! No matter what kind of family it was, there was no such thing as satisfaction, only dissatisfaction!
Her parents and two older brothers doted on her, so Ye Caiping wasn't worried that they would break their promise.
"Grandma." At this moment, Ye Jin'er and Huan'er walked in.
Ye Jin'er handed the osmanthus candy wrapped in greaseproof paper to Old Mrs. Ye:
"Grandpa told us to save the candy... I want to share it with my cousins, Grandma, please help me."
Ye Jin'er knew that the eldest son's family was prejudiced against them, so they dared not eat the candy.
Grandma Ye looked pleased and quickly put the candy away.
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