"I haven't taken any tonics. I can't give up on my natural beauty." Ye Chuqiu snorted softly.
"Stop bragging. I don't know what you were like before. What you look like now is almost as good as those of the wives of wealthy families."
Mrs. Ye He put one hand on her waist and gestured very expressively with the other, "Our wife, Mrs. Qi, is over thirty years old and as young as a young girl. If you were younger, you would almost be able to catch up with her."
She came closer and lowered her voice, "What method did you use? Tell your second sister-in-law quickly. When the time comes, your second sister-in-law will give it to the wives in the back house, and you can make dozens of taels of silver by changing hands. You will be indispensable by then."
benefit."
"Oh, second sister-in-law, you are really smart, but I really didn't lie to you. The reason why I became younger is because of this famine."
Ye Chuqiu's mind turned around and he casually made up a reason, "When our family went out to escape, we had nothing to eat. We could only eat grass roots and bark. Later, we strayed into a mountain forest and I was very thirsty.
, I randomly picked a fruit and ate it, but the skin on my face and body began to peel. I thought I was going to be disfigured.
Several children know this. If you don't believe it, you can ask them. During that time, I always covered my face."
"That's right."
Hearing Ye Chuqiu's words, several children nodded repeatedly, "That's right, my mother had been covering her face during that time, and she is still used to covering her face until now."
"Really?"
Ye He's face was filled with suspicion, but seeing the looks on the children's faces, she became convinced. She said, "Then you must have eaten some fairy fruit. If you had picked a few more, you would have brought them to the city."
Wouldn't it be a great fortune to sell it here?"
"I didn't think much about it at the time. There weren't many fruits on the tree, and we didn't have enough to eat. How could we think about this?" Ye Chuqiu replied.
"Then you didn't hook up with rich people?" Ye He asked again.
"Oh, rich people are not fools. Although I am much younger and more beautiful than before, can I still be more beautiful than those fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls?"
Ye Chuqiu looked at Ye Heshi, and suddenly there was a bit of coldness in her eyes, "To be honest, second sister-in-law, I lied to my sister-in-law that day. Who made her greedy? She made me suffer so much before, and now she still wants to
Take advantage of me, let her dream, so I lied to her, saying that I hooked up with a rich man, and let her blow the cold wind in his backyard!"
After hearing what Ye Chuqiu said, Ye He was stunned for a moment, looked at her carefully, and then said: "Listening to what you said, you are different from before. In the past, you were very kind to your sister-in-law. What do you have at home?
I sent them all to her home, has she really changed her gender now?"
"I used to be stupid, as if they had drunk me with alcohol. Before I fled last year, I borrowed money from them. They didn't lend me a penny, and they humiliated me. To be honest, I fainted from anger. Later I
After thinking about it for a long time, I finally realized that it is better to ask for help from others than to ask for help from yourself, and it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others.
From now on, I won’t put my hope in anyone anymore. If I don’t have wealth or honor in my life, then it’s better to be an old country lady for the rest of my life. With just these children, I won’t starve to death.”
Ye He was silent for a long time. She looked at Ye Chuqiu and saw her radiant face and eyes shining with light. She was no longer the cowardly and let-you-be-kneaded person she was when she came to her parents' home.
She immediately said, "That's the reason, but we are all relatives, and we finally came to the same city, so we still have to help each other."
"That's not necessary, second sister-in-law, you are doing better than us, and I don't want to curry favor with you. We poor people have high self-esteem, and I don't want my children to eat leftovers anymore."
"How about you blame the second sister-in-law for this? Oh, this is the second sister-in-law's fault. The second sister-in-law will invite you out for dinner later. How about this as an apology?"
Ye He stroked her palm and said, "Just forgive my second sister-in-law, right? If your brother finds out, he will definitely be angry with me."
"Second sister-in-law, don't talk about our relationship so well. To put it bluntly, we actually have nothing to do with each other. I was sold by my parents a long time ago, and now I'm married again. What relationship do we have?
?In my opinion, from now on, if we meet, we don’t need to say hello, just pretend that we don’t know each other.”
Ye Chuqiu said, and said to several children: "Let's go back."
Everyone got on the bullock cart, Erhu was driving the horse in front, and Ye Chuqiu was sitting next to her. Ye He came to his senses after a while and chased after her. She wanted to say something, but she saw Ye Chuqiu's cold eyes.
, but she couldn't say anything.
While he was in a daze, he heard Ye Chuqiu say: "Second sister-in-law, please don't tell anyone my whereabouts, especially my eldest sister-in-law. Otherwise, if I meet her next time, I won't give her face anymore."
"Why……"
After hearing this, Mrs. Ye He thought about it and chased after her, saying: "Last time you tricked her, the couple met the night watchman and were imprisoned in the Yamen. They were imprisoned for more than half a month and used
A lot of money has just come out, and the errands in the government have been lost, and the couple are just annoyed with you."
"I know, it doesn't matter, it just so happens that I'm annoying them too."
Ye Chuqiu said, raising his hand towards her, the bullock cart turned a corner, and her figure disappeared in front of her.
"Mom, are you feeling better now?"
After exiting this alley, Lin Erhu asked timidly.
"Much better, it turns out they are not that scary." Ye Chuqiu replied.
Before, she was particularly afraid of meeting the Ye family, firstly because her appearance and personality were very different from before, and secondly, the original owner had always been suppressed by the Ye family, so she was unwilling to meet them again.
But this time when they met, she realized that they were nothing more than that. She had nothing to be afraid of when they met again. She had a big mouth and couldn't reason with her. If she really couldn't talk to them, then the worst she could do was to fight. They had nothing to do.
Scared.
"Mom, in the past, you always bowed your head in front of your eldest aunt and second aunt, but today it is your second aunt who bows your head to you. Is this something worth celebrating?" Sihu took advantage of the low oxcart.
The fence, peeking out from behind the bullock cart.
"How do you want to celebrate?"
Ye Chuqiu turned around and asked.
"I don't want to celebrate. I just want to eat cakes. Also, I want to walk around the city."
Lin Sihu rubbed his little hands, "Mom, can you give me a little copper?"
"sure."
Ye Chuqiu smiled, "I will ask your second brother to give each of you twenty coins later."
"Yeah, thank you, mother!"
Lin Sihu originally thought that it would be good to get two cents from Ye Chuqiu, but he did not expect to be able to get twenty cents per person. He was so happy that he almost jumped up on the bullock cart.
Lin Erhu on the side heard the movement behind him and couldn't help but smile. Ye Chuqiu said to him, "Erhu has worked hard today, and I will give you twenty coins."
Lin Erhu blushed immediately, "Mom, I didn't want to ask for money."
"I know you don't want money, but everyone has it, so we can't ignore you."
Ye Chuqiu said: "I gave you the money, you can spend it or save it. If you meet a girl you like next year, the money you saved will come in handy, so you should cherish it."
Every opportunity to make money.”
"Hehehe, the second brother is going to get a wife."
After hearing Ye Chuqiu's words, everyone made fun of Lin Erhu, which made him blush for a while.