Chapter 204: 204 is not from Old Man Ye’s bloodline. Chapter 204: 204 is not from Old Man Ye’s bloodline. When Ye Jiu got up, Mrs. Li was already grinding flour in the courtyard.
For the past few months, almost all of the flour their family ate had been ground by Mrs. Li, showing that Madame He didn’t need many tricks to grind a person down, yet could make one yearn for life yet unable to live, and yearn for death yet unable to die.
Madame He hadn’t kept Mrs. Li’s affairs from Ye Jiu, and Ye Jiu, upon learning that Mrs. Li had been unfaithful with a man, and that man was the uncle from the Ye Family’s main branch, felt heavy-hearted.
What was even more unfathomable was that Ye Erya might not be Old Man Ye’s bloodline.
The day Mrs. Li and Ye Ning’s affair was exposed was also the day Ye Jiu went missing. It is hard to believe that their exposure was not related to Ye Jiu’s disappearance.
In a fury, Old Man Ye accidentally broke one of Ye Ning’s legs.
Fueled by his anger, Ye Ning spouted a lot of obscenities, and also blurted out all about his adulterous activities with Mrs. Li over the years to provoke Old Man Ye, including the true paternity of Ye Erya, which he personally admitted.
Although Mrs. Li vehemently denied it, everyone, including Old Man Ye, had already made up their minds.
Ye Erya was the child born from the adulterous affair between Ye Ning and Mrs. Li.
Old Man Ye had his suspicions back in the day. He had promised Madame He that he wouldn’t touch Mrs. Li, but later he was once again calculated by Mrs. Li.
He was suspicious back then; with their first child, Big Ya, there was still room for explanation, but a few years later, to be tricked once again and having Erya, made this child’s arrival seem all too easy.
Now it makes sense, it wasn’t just him being tricked once—how many times had he been sowed without knowing, to end up with such a calamitous offspring.
When Ye Jiu learned of this, he was truly shocked, and Madame He didn’t forget to inquire about another matter, “Xiaojiu, tell your mother the truth, did Mrs. Li have anything to do with you being kidnapped?”
It would be best if not, but if there was a connection, just thinking about the consequences sent a grim light flickering in Madame He’s eyes.
If there was, she would definitely make Mrs. Li pay a dreadful price!
Ye Jiu remembered the past events.
She hadn’t seen anything before she was knocked unconscious, so she didn’t know if Mrs. Li was involved in her being sold off.
However, Ye Jiu guessed that the likelihood of Mrs. Li’s involvement was at least eighty percent.
At that time, the news of their family making soap hadn’t spread yet, and if it weren’t for someone from within leaking it, those people would never have known about the soap.
“Mother, did Goudan’s family show any reaction when I went missing?” Ye Jiu asked with a somber face.
She remembered clearly who had lured her to the back mountain, even though Goudan was only five or six years old then and understood nothing, he couldn’t avoid responsibility because it was his lie that made her suffer for no reason.
Of course, she was also foolish; having lived two lives, she still couldn’t see through such a simple trick!
“Goudan’s family, what could they have done?” Madame He pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, “Actually, there was something. When you went missing, it was thanks to Goudan’s father who suggested we look for Mrs. Li. Later, he told us to search in the back mountain, where we found Mrs. Li and Old Man Ye bound to a tree. Without his tip-off, we might have wasted a lot more effort!”
Ye Jiu’s expression suddenly darkened.
Had it not been for Goudan’s father’s hint, Ye Jiu might have believed Goudan had been deceived into tricking her and that his family wasn’t aware.