Chapter 92: No Punishment, But Reward
Wu Yue ran behind Ye Mingzhu, lowered his head and shrank his neck, without saying a word.
Wu Jiang asked her to come out, but she shook her head vigorously and grabbed Ye Mingzhu's clothes, shaking Ye Mingzhu from side to side.
Wu Jiang stretched out his hand several times but couldn't pull it out. He could only gasp with a dark face.
In the end, Jiang Hongyu reached out and pulled Ye Mingzhu over, saying to Wu Jiang, "You two should handle your own family affairs."
Wu Jiang pulled Wu Yue away and raised his hand. Wu Yue lowered his head and bent over, his voice full of guilt: "Brother, I was wrong, I was wrong, brother, please forgive me."
Wu Jiang's hands began to tremble even more violently, and he finally stopped filming. "If you do it again, I'll lock you up at home and never let you out again."
Wu Yue nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "You are really my good brother. I won't dare to do it again."
"Go home now and make a pair of shoes for each family member before you can leave." Wu Jiang knew how to control Wu Yue.
Wu Yue raised her head suddenly, her face full of resistance. She opened her mouth several times and finally whispered, "I want to take my boss to see Tianbanger. How about I wait until my boss leaves before I start making shoes?"
Before Wu Jiang could speak, Wu Yue looked at Ye Mingzhu and said pitifully, "Boss, can you please ask my brother for mercy on me and punish me later?"
Although she knew it was wrong, Ye Mingzhu inexplicably wanted to laugh. The brother and sister were like performing a double act. She waved her hands and said nothing.
Wu Jiang knew that the boss didn't care. He glared at Wu Yue and said, "For the boss's sake, we can start again in two days."
Ye Mingzhu had long seen that Wu Jiang was all talk and no action, and would not punish Wu Yue severely in the end. They were siblings, and it would be foolish for her to get involved.
Ye Yun'an quietly asked Ye Mingzhu: "Sister, is it difficult to make shoes?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Yue turned to look at her brother and whispered, "I hate patching up scraps of cloth the most. There are so many people in our family, how much cloth do we need to patch up? And then we have to sew the soles of the shoes bit by bit. Oh, every time I make a mistake, my brother punishes me like this."
Ye Yun'an asked curiously, "What on earth did you do? Why did your brother ask you to make so many shoes?"
Wu Yue didn't say anything at first, but when they were almost there, he couldn't help but say it.
In order to prevent Wu Jiang from going out on time, she soaked Wu Jiang's shoes in water, including Wu Jiang's eldest son's shoes, which were also soaked in the basin.
Ye Yun'an's eyes widened. Is this her biological sister? How could she do this?
"Whose shoes was your brother wearing? How did he get out of the house?"
Wu Yue quietly glanced at the shoes on Wu Jiang's feet, her eyes full of smiles: "Those are my sister-in-law's shoes, with embroidery on them. He deliberately smeared mud on them, but the shoes didn't fit his feet, so he couldn't wear them."
As soon as these words were spoken, several people looked at Wu Jiang's feet.
Sure enough, it was a pair of blue shoes with stains on the uppers. When the heels were stepped into them, it was like wearing slippers, and there was a clicking sound when walking.
Wu Jiang was sensitive to the gazes of several people and moved his feet unconsciously: "What's wrong? What are you looking at?"
Wu Yue reacted the fastest and looked up at the sky: "The weather is nice today."
The corner of Ye Mingzhu's mouth twitched, and then she looked up: "The sky is so blue today."
Jiang Hongyu glanced at the sky, somewhat speechless, and pointed ahead and said, "Isn't that the sweet stick ahead?"
Ye Mingzhu immediately looked forward and indeed saw the vague shadow of sugarcane.
Everyone stopped chatting and quickened their pace.
When you get closer, you can see that the sugarcanes are tall and strong, standing upright in the wind, and the emerald green sugarcane leaves wrapped around them are swaying gracefully in the wind.
When you get closer, the air is filled with a sweet smell. The fresh and natural air has the fragrance of soil and the scent of sugarcane.
Ye Yun'an looked up at the sugarcane that was taller than him and asked Ye Mingzhu, "Sister, is this really edible?"
This was also Ye Mingzhu's first time seeing a sugarcane field, and she was also shocked.
Wu Yue suddenly stepped forward and broke off a piece of sugarcane. He removed the leaves from it and showed it to Ye Mingzhu and the others: "Boss, look at this sweet stick. It's very juicy and delicious. We can eat less after eating it."
Ye Mingzhu was speechless. She was not afraid of tooth decay even if she ate candy as food.
Wu Jiang sighed inwardly, then stepped forward and explained, "Life is tough on our farm. Some families have trouble raising children, so they grow their own sweet potato sticks. When they're hungry, they come over and break off one."
Sweet sticks cannot be eaten as meals, but after the wild vegetables on the farm are eaten, they can be considered a kind of food.
Ye Mingzhu understood Wu Jiang's implication. Some children in the village depended on the sugarcane forest for their survival.
"They are all good children. They take good care of the sugarcane field. There is not even a weed in it." Wu Jiang glanced at the children around him, thinking of pleading for them.
Ye Mingzhu also followed Wu Jiang's gaze and saw a group of children in tattered clothes, most of them were girls, ranging from four or five years old to about ten years old.
"How do they know how to grow sugar candies?" Ye Mingzhu was a little surprised. These sugar candies were grown very well and didn't look like they were grown by a group of young girls.
Wu Jiang opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
"I asked my brother to help turn the soil, but we did everything else ourselves." Wu Yue added in a low voice.
Ye Mingzhu nodded. Although Wu Jiang doted on his sister, he probably didn't want the girls on the farm to starve to death.
"Mr. Wu, can the land on the farm be used to grow such sweet sticks?" Ye Mingzhu suddenly spoke.
Wu Jiang didn't know what Ye Mingzhu meant, so he instinctively replied, "Yes, this is the poorest piece of land on the farm. If we change it to other land, the total yield will be higher."
Ye Mingzhu's eyes were full of smiles, she felt that she was about to get rich.
Wu Jiang felt even more uneasy when he saw that she just smiled and didn't say anything.
Wu Yue closed his eyes and knelt on the ground: "Boss, I planted these sweet sticks. If you want to punish me, punish me. I forced my brother to help us turn the soil."
The girls who were far away saw Wu Yue kneeling on the ground and immediately rushed over and knelt on the ground as well: "Boss, don't blame Aunt Yue. Aunt Yue saw that we were hungry, so she planted the sweet sticks for us. You should punish us."
Ye Mingzhu felt a little uncomfortable and moved aside. Wu Jiang bent down and said, "Boss, I didn't manage the farm well. Please punish me."
Ye Mingzhu: "...Everyone, please stand up. Not only will there be no punishment, there will be rewards."
The children looked at each other in bewilderment. Wu Yue got up first, brushed off the dirt on his trouser legs, and moved closer to Ye Mingzhu: "Boss, what's your reward?"
Ye Mingzhu looked at her with a smile on her face. She felt that Wu Yue was a real talent. He knelt down as soon as he was told to and stood up more quickly than anyone else. If he were a man, he would definitely be able to carve out a place for himself in this era.
Girl? She decided to give her a chance.
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