"Auntie, you're so unreliable! My dad won't beat me to death, but he'll spank my bottom until it's raw and bleeding." In the end, Xiao Mingchen took all the blame.
"Mother, save me, save your poor little son!" Xiao Mingchen pleaded with his mother, Wang Yitong, full of hope.
Wang Yitong: "Go easy on him, sir. If he gets seriously injured, we won't have the money for treatment. After all, he's our own son." Xiao Mingchen turned around in disbelief. Is this really my gentle and kind mother?!
Ye Tianyong: "Don't worry, I, as your husband, know my limits and will definitely not hurt this little bastard."
“Our son is Little Wang Dan, and what are you, you old bastard? You careless fool, aren’t you afraid that your elder brother, sister-in-law, second brother, and second sister-in-law will laugh at you?”
Ye Tianyong said innocently, "What are you laughing at, family?" Little Mingchen knew from his parents' expressions that he was definitely going to get a beating.
Wang Yitong laughed and scolded, "How did I end up marrying such a simpleton like you?"
The eldest sister-in-law, Lin Wan, and the second sister-in-law, Zhou Xiayun, teased, "What else could it be but blindness!" After saying that, everyone laughed heartily. Even though Yingbao's mother had three or four children, she still blushed and shyly returned to the west room.
The west wing was the mud-brick house where Yingbao's family lived. It was about 40 square meters and consisted of two rooms, both with large communal sleeping platforms made of adobe bricks and sand. One of the main rooms was where Yingbao, her parents, and her three older brothers lived, while the other room was where Yingbao's three older brothers lived.
Both kang beds were covered with straw mats, and a large quilt was placed at the head of each bed. However, one of them was bright red, which was the quilt used when Yingbao's parents got married, while the one in which his brother slept was covered with a bright green quilt.
Yingbao was once stunned when she saw a big green quilt in her brothers' room. After all, in the 2021st century where Yingbao lived, red and green really didn't look good together. There's a saying on the internet that goes like this: "Red and green are as bad as dog shit." It just goes to show that the aesthetics of different eras are different.
Although Yingbao found it hard to accept at first, she got used to it after seeing it many times.
"Ouch~~~, that hurts! Big brother, can you be a little gentler? I told you to apply ointment to relieve the pain, not to rub salt into my bottom." Xiao Mingchen lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) and gasped in pain, complaining to his older brother Ye Yuanhang.
"I think you deserve it. Your older brother is already being kind by applying medicine to you. Who told you to take Yingbao out without even telling your family? What if you two were kidnapped by human traffickers? How are your mother and grandmother supposed to live? Yingbao is their lifeline! Do you know that?" Ye Haoyu scolded Xiao Mingchen sternly.
While his second brother, Xiao Haoyu, was scolding him, Xiao Mingchen cried and fell asleep with his injuries.
"Little fatty, you're heartless."
Ye Tianwang, the second uncle, was named by Yingbao's grandfather in the hope that his son could return to his parents' ancestral home before he died, symbolizing his longing for his hometown. The second uncle married Zhou Xiayun, the daughter of his teacher, who was also his tutor. It is said that the second uncle actively pursued her, which infuriated his teacher, who exclaimed, "I'm teaching you, and you dare to covet my daughter!" The second uncle endured much hardship before finally winning the heart of his beloved. His teacher thus became his father-in-law.
My father, Ye Tianyong, was named with great care by my grandfather, who hoped that all future generations of the Ye family would forever remember the search for their homeland. "It's not about asking you to exhaust all your resources and go bankrupt in the search."
When you have the ability to help, please remember to move the graves of your grandfather's parents and grandfather Ye Yaozu back to their original location.
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