Ye Chengyang looked horrified and said to Ye Qingqing in an almost breathy voice: "We won't be chopped up and made into steamed buns in the middle of the night!"
Ye Qingqing:......
It turns out that in addition to "The Overbearing Prince's Love Every Night", you also read the classic "Water Margin"! (It's just a joke, not that there is really a "Water Margin" here!)
"It's okay, we just pretend to be asleep. It's freezing, so they won't be able to listen for long." Ye Qingqing finished in a low voice.
Then she stretched out and said in a relaxed voice: "Dad, my legs were swollen and hard after riding in the carriage all the way. I didn't wash up and just went to sleep."
Ye Qingqing said it was okay, and Ye Chengyang relaxed and said very politely: "Go to sleep quickly, I can sleep until tomorrow night if I touch the pillow now."
After saying that, he snored like thunder, and immediately started rumbling without losing a moment.
While pretending to snore, he raised his eyebrows proudly at Ye Qingqing: Dad is awesome!
Ye Qingqing:......
Although it was already the beginning of spring, the spring was cold and the northwest wind was still blowing. The people listening in the corner outside saw and heard nothing and left with a few unlucky curses.
Hearing the sound of footsteps moving away, there was another sound of opening the door and closing the door.
After waiting for a while, Ye Qingqing cautiously got out of bed, opened the door a crack and took a look outside. After making sure that no one was outside, he turned around and locked the door.
Then she moved the box containing her father's storybook and placed it at the door, blocking the door before returning to the kang.
"Is the person gone?" Ye Chengyang asked quietly.
It has to be said that Ye Chengyang has a unique talent in pretending.
While talking quietly to her, he could still keep snoring, which not only covered up the sound of talking, but also created the illusion of a deep sleep.
"Yeah." Wrapped in a quilt that was as heavy as a piece of iron, Ye Qingqing shrank and lay face to face with Ye Chengyang.
"Dad, I feel like this family is different from what you said on the road."
Ye Chengyang introduced him on the way that Master Zhen said that this family was very simple and kind-hearted and treated Master Zhen very well.
For this reason, before Master Zhen left here, in order to express his gratitude for his upbringing, he also took five hundred taels of silver from the Marquis Mansion to them.
Not to mention whether they really have five hundred taels.
When Ye Hui was moving the box, he kept asking about what was in the box, both openly and secretly.
While eating, my face was indirectly torn because of the scrambled eggs.
Mrs. Zhou asked Mrs. Li to scramble eggs. It was obvious that the family was putting on a show to get money from them.
Ye Qingqing is very knowledgeable about this kind of thing.
Don't ask for too much, five coppers today, ten coppers tomorrow... I can give it to you slowly. If you don't give it, she can say you are unfilial.
Fortunately, today Ye Chengyang insisted that he had no money.
Ye Chengyang sighed and took the time to play a few more times.
"The real young master didn't tell the truth. When he came back to the house, he took away a few pieces of jade pendants from me. However, no one in the house believed what I said. They all said that I lost them while eating out.
"What a joke, how could I lose it if I am not drunk for a thousand cups? He said he gave five hundred taels, maybe for his own good reputation, but in fact he didn't give it at all.
"But regardless of whether I give it or not, my daughter, I feel like something is not right here.
"Why don't we leave? When Mrs. Zhou grabbed me to talk today, I always felt that her eyes were weird and scary."
Although she is his biological mother, Ye Chengyang is not used to calling her mother yet.
"But our identity documents are here, where can we go?" Ye Qingqing sighed, "She just wants money, but we really don't have any.
"This is not terrible. Just be afraid. When spring comes, we will start plowing the fields, and when the awns are planted, we will start planting crops. Dad, we must go to work in the fields."
Ye Qingqing thought about it on the way.
It is impossible to work in the fields!
"You have to get up and dig and weed in the fields before the rooster crows. Even if the dogs are asleep, you are still digging and weeding in the fields. This is the food at home..."
"I'm so depressed!" Ye Chengyang almost burst into tears, "I still remember Master Zhen's hands when he first came back. They were as dry and rough as tree bark, and his face looked as old as my grandfather's...
..."
How could Ye Qingqing shut up so easily? She continued: "Not only that, if you don't do well, they will definitely beat you, but maybe they will sell me for money and let me marry a lame man in his fifties or sixties.
One-eyed old bachelor.
"At that time, we will not be able to resist because we have no money in our hands! Moreover, if we resist, it will be unfilial, we will look down on their poverty, and we will miss the glory and wealth of the Hou Mansion. All the faults are ours!"
Ye Chengyang's eyes were gradually filled with fear.
Seeing that the heat was coming, Ye Qingqing slowly threw out the bait, "So, dad, now we have only one way out to save ourselves."
Ye Chengyang seemed to be grasping at the last straw, even forgetting to fight, "What?"
"You go and study!" Ye Qingqing said eloquently.
Ye Chengyang was so startled that he sat up from the kang and looked at Ye Qingqing dumbfounded, "What did you say?!"
Ye Qingqing also sat up, glanced out the window, and said firmly: "Go study!
"As long as you study, you don't have to work in the fields. Look at those scholars who are all white and tender."
Ye Chengyang licked his lips with difficulty, "Daughter, why are you so stupid and so naive? How could they spend money for me to study?
"Haven't you heard? My eldest brother's son is studying."
"I'll provide it to you." Ye Qingqing said firmly.
Ye Chengyang suddenly looked moved, "Daughter! You are really my father's good daughter, but... my father can't study!"
"I only know how to fight crickets, walk with birds, bet on dice, and listen to music. I...I only know how to play!"
"It's okay, everything starts from knowing to knowing, from scratch to something, let's take our time!" Ye Qingqing continued to guide slowly.
"But I...no, no, no, I get a headache when I study, it hurts so much that I can't breathe, my nose hurts, I can't breathe, my feet hurt, I can't breathe, and...
.....
"Hey, that's not right, my daughter, if you have money for me to study, wouldn't we have money to survive?"
Hey!
He's quite good at grasping the key points!
"Then you farm!"
Ye Qingqing spoke concisely and to the point and fell asleep.
The lesser of two evils, Ye Chengyang, who was very aware of current affairs, immediately said: "Then I will study."
While the two men were talking, panicked voices suddenly sounded outside, followed by an exclamation from the main room.
"Old lady, old lady, what's wrong with you!"
It was the voice of old man Ye Shoude.
The sound just fell, followed by the sound of the door opening, and the old man's urgent shouting sounded in the yard.
"Huizi, Huizi, your mother has a terrible stomachache, wake up quickly!"
Ye Qingqing and Ye Chengyang immediately looked at each other.