Chapter 226: 226 Green Prairie where horses can run Chapter 226: 226 Green Prairie where horses can run After dinner, as they lay on the Kang, Old Man Ye spoke up, “Wife, the silver we’ve earned these days should also be divided.”
He Shi immediately guarded her provisions, “What now? Those two whelps have filled your head with sweet nothings, and you’ve lost all sense of direction? The fourth hasn’t come back yet, so what’s there to divide?”
He Shi didn’t want to admit that she simply couldn’t bear to hand over her silver to someone else.
Old Man Ye sighed, “Ye Gaosheng and the second one have been out looking for Xiaojiu these past few months, and there’s been hardly any income at home. Zhang Shi has never asked for money before, and now that sowing season is upon us, there will inevitably be some expenses. Since we initially agreed to divide the business, we can’t keep dragging our feet, lest we chill the children’s hearts.”
“Xiaojiu, what do you say?” Old Man Ye knew that his wife wouldn’t listen to him, but she would consider the words of their daughter, whether right or wrong, which is why he asked the daughter who was sleeping on the other end of the Kang.
It really was a man’s sorrow.
However, it was he who had wronged He Shi in the past, so Old Man Ye could not deny it.
“What?” Ye Jiu, whose consciousness had sunk into a space where she was sending clothes to Zhao Fa, hadn’t heard the conversation between Old Man Ye and He Shi.
Old Man Ye thought that Ye Jiu shared the same view as He Shi, hence she pretended not to hear on purpose.
Helpless, Old Man Ye could only sigh, “It’s nothing, it’s getting late, let’s go to sleep.”
As Ye Jiu lay on the Kang, worried about Ye Gaosheng’s predicament, she found it difficult to fall asleep for a long time.
Meanwhile, she kept hearing the whispers between Old Man Ye and He Shi from the other side, which made her helpless.
How she wished she could soon have her own room, so it wouldn’t be so awkward.
Early the next morning, before even waking up, she heard persistent knocking on the door.
Shortly afterward, a woman’s shrill cries echoed from the courtyard.
Disturbed by the noise, Ye Jiu had no choice but to get up and get dressed.
When she stepped out of her room, Ye Jiu saw a middle-aged woman in the courtyard, hugging Ye Erya and sobbing bitterly, with Old Man Ye standing not too far in front of them.
“Dad, after all these years, don’t you know Mom well enough? She has been so oppressed that she couldn’t even eat her fill, her days filled with nothing but labor. When would she have had the time to commit adultery? Mom has been devoted to you for all these years, how can you so readily believe others and treat her , even sending her to the government office…”
Ye Daya, who came back for holidays quite a few times, was recognized by Ye Jiu.
Now whenever Li Shi was mentioned, Old Man Ye’s face would distort with distress, and his tone took on a veiled sarcasm, “Daya, we don’t need to talk about your mother’s affair. I witnessed her adultery with my own eyes, and Erya is the bastard child she had with her lover. Back then, the clan wanted her to be drowned in a pig cage. It was your Aunt who kindly spared her life, yet who could have foreseen that she would collude with human traffickers and sell your little sister to them? Her current plight is her own doing; no one else is to blame.”
“I don’t believe it, my mother would never do such a thing, she must have been framed,” Ye Daya insisted.
He Shi sarcastically interjected, “Framed? If others could frame her once, could they do so for over a decade? We’ve even ended up raising her and her lover’s bastard all these years–who else could frame her to the point of bearing someone else’s bastard child!”
Every word He Shi uttered struck deeply in Old Man Ye’s heart, reminding him of the vast Green Prairie that could run horses on his head.