Chapter 254: 254 going from door to door to borrow money Chapter 254: 254 going from door to door to borrow money Watching Mrs. He and Ye Jiu’s smiles, which resembled those of cats that got the cream, Old Man Ye secretly wiped off some sweat.

Ever since the soap business took off, the mother-daughter duo’s confidence and momentum had been growing stronger, making him feel somewhat inadequate as the head of the household.

But there was nothing he could do about it, after all, who made it so that the money earned by his daughter was clenched in his wife’s hands?

He himself still had to live by others’ faces, and thinking about his eldest daughter, Old Man Ye sighed inwardly. He truly felt powerless and unable to help.

“By the way, how are we arranging dinner?” Old Man Ye asked Mrs. He.

In the past couple of days, Mrs. He had been injured by Big Sister Ye’s push. Although it wasn’t serious, no one dared to take it lightly.

Thus, the meals for the main house were being taken care of in turns by the first and second houses.

Mrs. He hadn’t gotten a chance to reply when Ye Wenhao ran in, “Grandpa, Grandma, Wenzheng is going door to door, kowtowing to borrow money. He’ll be at our house soon.”

“Borrowing money?” Mrs. He immediately put down the needlework she was holding, “Didn’t everyone in the clan already give him some silver? Didn’t our family and the Clan Leader’s family give the most? Why is he still borrowing money?”

Two taels of silver, that could buy so many things, Mrs. He thought and felt a pang of heartache.

“They’ve only donated twelve taels of silver altogether, Ye Yun was sold by her grandmother for twenty taels, which is nowhere near enough for the ransom. Wenzheng probably has no other choice but to do this,” Ye Jiu explained.

“Right, Grandmother threw Wenzheng’s family out, and now they’ve even taken back their house. Wenzheng could only settle his fourth aunt in a dilapidated house in the village,” Ye Wenhao interjected.

Mrs. He grumbled unwillingly, “I can’t control other people’s affairs, but our family definitely can’t give anymore. Those two taels of silver were given for nothing, and now to lend more, how can Ye Wenzheng–a young lad–possibly repay so much money? It would all be given away for nothing!”

Old Man Ye didn’t oppose her, probably feeling that Mrs. He had a point.

Ye Jiu, however, did not see it that way; twenty taels of silver was but a mere trifle to her, but to others, it was life-saving money.

“Actually, Wenzheng is quite pitiful,” Ye Wenhao said guiltily.

Expecting Mrs. He to scold him, he was surprised when she nodded in agreement this time, “With a grandmother like that, Ye Wenzheng really is pitiful, and moreover, his grandmother is not good news, back then she…”

Mrs. He stopped herself mid-sentence and added, “Whether others are pitiful or not is their business, but can you take all the money from home and give it to someone else?”

Ye Wenhao quietly held his tongue.

Ye Jiu took Ye Wenhao outside and asked, “Wenhao, do you want to help Wenzheng?”

“I do want to help him, but I don’t have any money,” Ye Wenhao said with a troubled frown, then added, “Wenzheng is really nice, their family is poor, and Wenzheng often catches sparrows in the back mountains. Back when our family was poor, he even gave me bird eggs.”

Ye Jiu whispered a few words into Ye Wenhao’s ear, and suddenly he bounded out, jumping for joy.

“Cousin, what did you send Wenhao off to do?” Ye Wenqing asked after witnessing this scene.

Ye Jiu gave a perfunctory response, “I asked him to do me a small favor.”

Back in the house, Ye Jiu asked Mrs. He if she had any past grievances with Wenzheng’s grandmother, and then she learned that, initially, Wenzheng’s grandmother had been on good terms with Mrs. Li and hadn’t refrained from helping her come up with ideas to trouble Mrs. He when she first married into the family.

However, as Mrs. Li’s status kept declining, Wenzheng’s grandmother no longer associated with her.

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