Chapter 127: Chapter 126: Sneaking Snacks Without Wiping Your Mouth

“Elder sister, you’re stealing food…” Ye Shuzhen didn’t expect her elder sister to steal food. She quickly looked through the room’s window, ran out with a thump, and grabbed chopsticks to eat meat in the kitchen too.

Ye Shuzhi, of course, wouldn’t lose to her younger sister. She also followed her into the kitchen, and the two sisters disregarded not having eaten their meal and competed for the meat.

“Hey, really now, we’re about to eat! If you finish all the meat in a moment, will there be any left for the meal?” Mrs. Lai said this about her daughters, but she didn’t stay idle either and joined them in eating the meat.

Daya and her two younger sisters in the kitchen could only watch the three adults eating the meat with envy but didn’t dare join them.

Ye Shuying had only eaten two pieces of meat and was not yet satisfied when she was pushed aside by her mother’s plump behind. Hearing her mother-in-law, Ms. Ding, calling from outside, she reluctantly left the kitchen and went home.

She stepped out to the yard’s entrance where her mother-in-law, Ms. Ding, seeing her daughter-in-law’s greasy lips, glared at her and said, “Really, eating meat and not wiping your mouth. Your son’s grandmother is here, and you don’t invite us in to eat.”

“Mom, shall we go in to eat and then leave?” Ye Shuying thought the two pieces of meat were too delicious, better than what she normally cooked herself, a credit to the disciple she and her mother had trained.

“Forget it, they don’t allow guests in anyway. Let’s go home to cook and eat! Your husband’s matters are the most important.”

Mrs. Ding actually wasn’t too keen on entering the Ye family home, but couldn’t say why. Perhaps it was due to being a widow, she was too jealous of Mrs. Lai, who had a husband earning money and enjoyed the riches brought by her daughters-in-law and son.

“But mom had already cooked my meal. If it weren’t for grandmother calling me, I’d still be eating here.”

“Eat, eat, eat, that’s all you know. And doesn’t your son’s grandmother need to eat? If you don’t go home to cook, what will we eat?”

“Grandmother, even when I’m not home, you could cook too!”

“Talking back now, are you? I’ve been watching your child all morning, and still you want me to cook for you? How do you behave as a daughter-in-law?”

Ye Shuying didn’t dare say anything more after Mrs. Ding’s words, fearing most that her mother-in-law would complain to her husband, leaving her the one to suffer.

The Ye family’s lunch that day was fortunate for each child to have a small piece of pork in their bowl. Even this tiny piece of pork was a rare treat, satisfying their cravings.

“Wuwa, today’s meal has meat, look, pork. Grandma is the most generous today.”

Siwa expressed his happiness joyfully and didn’t try to snatch the meat from his sister’s bowl.

“Generous? If it wasn’t for father saying so, we sisters wouldn’t have had any meat at all.”

As the eldest, Daya kept silent, but Er Ya, the second sister, couldn’t help but speak up, and Sanya in the kitchen also knew the inside story and nodded along.

Ye Shiqi looked at the piece of pork in her bowl and felt tempted. In her previous life, she had been tired of delicacies from land and sea, tired of rich foods, especially eating steak in Western countries. Later, she preferred Chinese food with less oil and more vegetables.

Coming to ancient times, it wasn’t that she was unambitious, but that eating vegetarian daily just lacked flavor.

Ye Shiqi didn’t give this piece of meat to her sisters. Seeing her sisters eating so joyfully, she happily ate her meal, tasting the meat cooked by her sisters, their culinary skills not bad at all…

By evening, Housekeeper Tang and the village chief, with their group, had measured the land and prepared the prices and documents, just waiting for the government office’s seal.

Housekeeper Tang had arranged for the village chief to take these people to the county government office the next day to stamp the land deed, and thereafter, this land would no longer belong to the villagers.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Housekeeper Tang didn’t return to discuss the matter with Hongji, instead letting the village chief inform him.

Housekeeper Tang had also treated the village chief and the land measurers to a meal in town at noon.

Without calling Hongji, knowing that the small boss was busy with carving and such minor matters didn’t require troubling him.

After dinner, the village chief went to the Ye family and relayed the information entrusted by Housekeeper Tang to this nephew.

Hongji was pleased to hear from the village chief that the villagers had sold the land, enabling the factory to be built quickly.

With so many valuable timbers stored at home, and guarded by guards, it was truly inconvenient, especially as the weather was getting colder, making it too cold for the guards to stand outside.

It was also inconvenient to let them inside, as the reputation of his younger sisters was important. Having two young men in the house always felt awkward.

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Ye Senhai and his brother returned home that evening, tired and hungry. They didn’t bother to eat first but immediately asked Ye Shuying how the matter concerning them had been resolved.

“My elder brother initially said, ‘Husband, you are a man, and these matters should be discussed between you and him.’ Later, when some villagers came to give gifts, I mentioned that others were accepted, so shouldn’t ours be accepted too?”

After hearing Ye Shuying’s words, Ye Senhai silently picked up his bowl and started to eat, while still thinking about the matter.

“Elder sister, did your elder brother agree or not? We dared not quit our jobs today, in this bitterly cold weather, really not wanting to rise early and retire late.’

Ms. Ding, after hearing her son’s words, was quite heartbroken. Her two sons had been working so hard, partially because they had no father, and their filial piety and understanding comforted yet pained her.

‘Shuying, didn’t you send the pork? Couldn’t you settle it with that?’

After hearing her mother-in-law’s question, Ye Shuying wasn’t so sure of what to say, as her elder brother seemed different from before.

Even the tone of his speech was not as weak as before.

Ye Shuying dared not promise anything, silently lowering her head to feed her son.

‘I should go later then. My elder brother said that it’s a man’s job; it’s not right for me to let a woman take the lead,’

Ye Senhai said, and his brother and family could only nod in agreement.

Ye Senhai quickly finished his meal, thinking, his wife had already given a gift that noon, and there was nothing valuable left at home to give.

Carrying only a fire branch, he went alone to his father-in-law’s house, despite Ye Shuying’s desire to accompany him, he stopped her, insisting she stay home and take good care of their child.

It had been a long time since Ye Senhai had visited his father-in-law’s house in the same village, not even during festivals or holidays.

The last visit to his father-in-law’s house was either when his son was born, or perhaps even earlier when he married his wife?

Arriving at the courtyard gate of his father-in-law’s farmhouse, the house was still the same, though it seemed much more imposing because there were two young men guarding the door.

He looked at this house and was moved; the ordinary farmer’s house seemed poised for prosperity and rise.

Back when he had set his sights on Ye Shuying, it wasn’t for her person but because her father and brother were skilled craftsmen.

Among many suitors, Ye Shuying had chosen him, probably because she saw his tall and handsome features.

She didn’t mind that he had no father, and he was quite touched at the time; however, after marrying, maybe because he felt he had already secured a wife,

he often expected his wife’s family to help with work, never speaking out as a husband should.

Naturally, there was no expression of gratitude, always feeling it was expected.

Yet, he had never thought of going to help his father-in-law with anything!

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