Chapter 213: 213 Li’s Foot Binding Cloth Chapter 213: 213 Li’s Foot Binding Cloth Although she had already warned He Shi, Ye Jiu still lay on the kang unable to sleep, feeling uneasy.

Ye Erya had a high chance of having heard their conversation and would definitely inform Li Shi once she returned. Li Shi might take the chance to leave tonight, but how would mother prevent Li Shi from doing so?

He Shi went straight to Ye Gaosheng’s room as soon as she left the house, but now Ye Gaosheng was not there, leaving only Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu living in the room.

“Wenqing, Wenyu, grandmother has a task for you today. If you can complete it, when your father comes back, grandmother will give you all the silver earned from the soap business during this period,” He Shi said.

At this moment, He Shi couldn’t help but miss Zhao Family.

Zhang Shi, this daughter-in-law, knew how to behave and was adept at social interactions. She was somewhat scheming but not utterly malicious. However, she was too good at socializing, which made her seem not very intimidating, and her capacity for action was inadequate.

Therefore, the merits of Zhao Family stood out particularly at this time.

If Zhao Family were here, she alone could have handled everything without needing to involve her two grandsons.

Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu exchanged glances and soon spoke, “Grandmother, just tell us what you need; we will do our utmost.”

“As for the matter of the silver, it’s better if it stays in Grandmother’s hands,” Wenyu said.

Last time, because of that issue of twenty taels, his mother had been sent back to Zhao Family for several months now, and he didn’t know if she had made any progress during this time or if father would agree to let her come back.

Having the money on hand was good, but Ye Wenyu also feared that once his mother returned, she might turn the family’s finances into schemes for Zhao Family.

“You two go to the firewood room and tie up both Li Shi and Erya. Send Li Shi to the government office first thing tomorrow morning,” He Shi instructed.

Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu exchanged a complicated look. “Grandmother, this… might not be appropriate?”

The two young men, tying up an old lady who was also their grandfather’s concubine…this indeed seemed quite improper.

“What’s wrong with that? If Li Shi dares collude with human traffickers to sell your little aunt, I must make her pay the price. Not drowning her straightaway is already letting off this old thing lightly,” He Shi disdainfully said, then questioned Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu, “Human traffickers are not good people. If we don’t send Li Shi to the government office now and they start investigating, our whole family might be implicated by this old thing.”

Thus, Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu also became cautious.

Being targeted by the government office was no trivial matter, and they were not individuals of great abilities, hardly able to withstand an inquiry from the government office.

In the dark of the night, the firewood shed echoed with Li Shi’s mournful voice, but it wasn’t long before He Shi, annoyed, picked up a piece of cloth from inside the rotten shoes on the ground to gag her.

Ye Wenqing tied a knot in the rope he was holding, loosened his grip with a look of disgust, and silently resolved that he must never offend his grandmother.

The old lady was not the deadliest, but her repulsiveness was unbearable and made one wish they could die.

Li Shi’s foot-binding cloth hadn’t been washed for who knows how long, was black with mud and emitted a foul smell, being gagged with it, one couldn’t imagine the torment.

Just as Ye Wenqing and Ye Wenyu, holding the rope, approached the corner where Ye Erya had already been scared into tears, she suddenly mustered the courage and rushed to hug He Shi’s legs, a move so swift that the three of them were taken aback.