Chapter 74: 74 wants to eat a bowl of plain noodles.
Madam He may not be very good to her sons, but she has never wronged Ye Jiu, so Ye Jiu is the least qualified person to criticize her.
The only thing Ye Jiu could do was to try to maintain the affection between her mother and brothers, making sure it never reached a point of rupture.
“Mother, Fourth Brother got frostbitten because of me, can you really bear to see me distressed?” Ye Jiu cooed while thinking this.
Worn down by Ye Jiu’s persistence, Madam He had no choice but to give in under her daughter’s cajoling, “Alright, alright, it’s just that you, girl, are too soft-hearted. When you were still unmarried, it was fine since mother was here to protect you, and no one dared to bully you, but what will you do once you’re married to a husband’s family, eh? With this temperament of yours, won’t you be devoured to the point where not even bones are left!”
“Mother, you think too far ahead. Besides, I’m not someone who can be bullied by just anyone; I’m only kind to those who are good to me,” Ye Jiu said.
Moreover, Ye Jiu wasn’t planning on getting married in the future.
Now, her only goal was to make a lot of money.
In her previous life, her father’s preference for sons over daughters led to the eventual breakdown of the family, and ultimately, Ye Jiu became the unwanted burden her parents disdained. This time, Ye Jiu again became a victim of power, and all of these experiences made her feel that relying on oneself is better than depending on anyone else.
She needed money, lots and lots of money, to at least have the capital to not be the one abandoned anymore.
With her personality, Ye Jiu was destined to be someone who found it very difficult to trust others,
And in this world, even slightly capable men had multiple wives and concubines, appearing as if they hated not being able to gather all women into their arms.
Such men, regardless of what achievements Ye Jiu might have in the future, even if she remained a simple farm girl for life, she would not choose to marry this type of man.
Even an average farmer, who bows and scrapes to others outside, would come home and lord over his family with arrogance. Such a marriage held no desire for Ye Jiu.
And how difficult is it to find a man who is truly devoted in this world?
So, it’s better to live alone.
With the Plane Space at her disposal, once she made money, she could do whatever she wanted. Why would she foolishly impose such a shackle upon herself!
These thoughts, however, were only kept in Ye Jiu’s mind, and she wouldn’t speak of them to Madam He now, as mentioning a future without marriage could either scare her or certainly cause her to worry.
In the past, Madam He herself had suffered much from her own marriage, and she knew it all too well. She would definitely not let Ye Jiu end up like a spinster as she had.
Ye Jiu successfully obtained the key to the cupboard from Madam He, and as she left, Madam He instructed Ye Jiu to have Zhang prepare more noodles, arguing that since Fourth Brother was already eating noodles, adding one more bowl for her daughter wouldn’t matter.
As for the others, being well-fed and watered was already a blessing; naturally, they weren’t fortunate enough to afford white noodles.
Ye Jiu then returned to the kitchen and opened the cupboard.
Inside the cupboard, there were several cloth bags, one of which was a large one containing white flour, while the other smaller bags contained various grains and dried vegetables grown locally.
Seeing there was still quite a bit of white flour in the bags and smelling the delicious scent of bones cooking in the pot, an idea suddenly came to Ye Jiu’s mind.
When Ye Jiu returned to the main house, she lay on the kang bed with a pleasing look at Madam He, inciting a pang of unease in Madam He’s heart.
Madam He asked, “Have you taken enough flour? Did you lock the cupboard?”