Chapter 302: Ordinary News
Ye Mingzhu was so scared that she immediately stood up and went out to check.
Ye Yun'an was beating a rat with a stick: "I told you to scare me, I told you to scare me..."
Ye Mingzhu: ...
Uncle Yan heard some noise behind him, turned around and saw Ye Mingzhu, and asked, "Mingzhu, why are you out? Is it too cold in there? Can I make you a fire?"
Just now when they were going to bed, Uncle Yan built a fire outside. He originally wanted to build one for Ye Mingzhu in the house, but in such weather, firewood was hard to find, so Ye Mingzhu refused.
Anyway, she was wearing warm clothes and covered herself with a blanket, so she wasn't cold.
She shook her head: "Uncle Yan, I'm not cold, don't bother me. I just came out because I heard Yun An shouting. What happened?"
Ye Yun'an's face turned a little red under the light of the fire. He opened his mouth but no sound came out.
Uncle Yan moved towards Ye Yun'an, blocking the rat with its stomach ripped open on the ground.
"Just now a mouse ran out and scared me, but it's fine now. Mingzhu, go back and rest first."
Ye Mingzhu looked at Ye Yun'an with concern: "Is Yun'an scared?"
"No," Ye Yun'an answered quickly: "I'm already this old, how could I be scared by a mouse?"
In fact, he wanted to go to the bathroom and stepped on a mouse. He was frightened and picked up a stick next to him and hit the mouse.
The mouse that had just been stepped on was knocked to death.
Ye Mingzhu wanted to go over and take a closer look, but Uncle Yan quickly waved his hand: "Mingzhu, it's getting late. You should get some rest quickly, otherwise you won't have the energy tomorrow."
As he said this, he turned around and winked at Ye Yun'an.
Ye Yun'an didn't understand at first, but when Uncle Yan's eyes swept over the mouse on the ground, Ye Yun'an finally reacted. He quickly stood in front of the mouse, put his feet together, covered his mouth with his hands and yawned: "Sister, I'm sleepy and want to sleep. You should go to sleep too."
Ye Mingzhu looked carefully and found that Ye Yun'an was really fine, so she walked back to the bed on the ground with peace of mind.
She didn't know if it was because she had just heard that there were mice in the house, but she kept feeling that there was a "rustling" sound in the house. She stood up and tried to open her eyes wide to look at the ground, but she found nothing.
She missed her own space very much, but Uncle Yan and Ye Yun'an were sleeping outside. What if she fell asleep in the space and didn't come out in time?
She thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution, so she could only grit her teeth and lie down.
But the board beneath her was too hard and she was wearing too thick clothes, so she slept very uncomfortably. But she didn't dare to turn over for fear of falling.
Ye Mingzhu woke up countless times that night and was almost always in a half-asleep state, so when she woke up the next morning, her dark circles were very obvious.
Ye Yun'an frowned and looked at his sister: "Sister, did you not sleep well last night? Is the bed too hard?"
Ye Mingzhu was speechless when she saw the energetic Ye Yun'an. It was clearly him who found the mouse and killed it, but he slept until dawn. She didn't sleep well because she was worried.
"Sister?" Seeing that she didn't speak, Ye Yun'an called out again tentatively.
Ye Mingzhu came back to her senses: "Yes, I'm not used to sleeping outside."
Uncle Yan guessed something, but he didn't say it. He just said when they were about to set off after breakfast, "Our carriage will go slower today. Mingzhu can sleep in the carriage for a while."
Ye Mingzhu thought about it and refused: "No, Uncle Yan, riding in a carriage is slower than riding in a boat. If we slow down the journey any further, I'm afraid we'll have to spend the New Year away from home."
Uncle Yan originally wanted to say it was okay, but this was Ye Mingzhu's first year after marriage, and it was not appropriate to spend it outside.
He nodded without saying anything more, went into the shabby house again to check it out before getting into the carriage.
Ye Mingzhu was already sleepy, and after sitting in the swaying carriage, she really felt sleepy.
To pass the time, Ye Mingzhu asked, "Yun'an, after I left this time, did Pingping come to see me?"
"Yes." Ye Yun'an nodded. "The day after you left, Sister Pingping came and wanted to invite us to a house-warming feast. I didn't expect you to be away, so Uncle Yan and I couldn't go, so we just sent a gift."
"But when Sister Pingping came, she happened to run into my aunt, and they chatted for a while."
They both hoped that Wang Dahu would get married soon, so they privately called Jiang Yue "aunt".
Ye Mingzhu raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that Jian Pingping could get along with Jiang Yue. These two people didn't seem to be of the same kind.
"By the way, Sister Pingping also left a letter for you." Ye Yun'an suddenly felt guilty. They had to go home suddenly, and he had really forgotten about the letter.
"Letter?" Ye Mingzhu was about to ask where it was when Ye Yun'an started rummaging around in the carriage.
Finally found it among a pile of books.
Ye Mingzhu held up a letter thicker than two coins and asked Ye Yun'an, "Is this from Pingping?"
Ye Yun'an nodded: "It was sent by Bihe, who is with Sister Pingping."
Ye Mingzhu then opened the envelope, and found that the handwriting inside was indeed Jian Pingping's.
The first half of the letter described her new home and invited her to visit. The middle part described her visit to her uncle's house. When her uncle learned that she lived outside, he was very unhappy and wanted her and her sister to move to the backyard of the government office. In the end, it was her aunt who persuaded her uncle.
Originally, her aunt wanted to send a few servants to Jian Pingping, but she had just bought two houses a day in advance, so her aunt only sent one maid to teach her the rules.
And Mei'er, turned out to be her cousin from her aunt's side, who now lives in her uncle's house. The two of them almost had a conflict when they met for the first time, so she didn't want to move in, and her uncle agreed.
As for her marriage, my uncle either forgot or didn't care about it, so he didn't mention it for the time being.
At the end of the letter, she wrote that she and Jiang Yue hit it off at first sight, and the two of them planned to open a shop selling rouge and powder together. She also asked Ye Mingzhu to visit when she was free.
Seeing Ye Mingzhu's expression change several times, Ye Yun'an asked tentatively, "Sister, is there something wrong with Sister Pingping?"
"It's okay," Ye Mingzhu shook her head. "Sister Pingping and my aunt are planning to open a shop selling rouge and powder together."
"Ah?" Ye Yun'an's eyes widened. He asked curiously, "How did Sister Pingping and my aunt get together?"
Ye Mingzhu couldn't explain it clearly, as the letter didn't mention these details.
"We didn't tell Pingping when we came back. If we come across a post station on the way, I will write a letter to Pingping."
"Okay, I want to write a letter to my uncle too." Ye Yun'an felt that only one day had passed and he already started to miss his uncle.
Ye Mingzhu naturally agreed, but they didn't expect that it would take two or three days to see a post station.
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