Facing Ye Shian's fierce eyes, Old Lady Ye felt fear towards her granddaughter for the first time.

Xiaoshan on the side was frightened and started crying loudly. Tian hurried over to comfort him: "Be good, Xiaoshan, don't cry."

During the whole process, Ye Hai and Ye Lian'er didn't say a word, nor did they have any intention of stopping them.

Ye Shian swept the stick towards everyone present, then slowly said: "Mom, let's go back to the house."

In all these years in the Ye family, today is the first time that the eldest wife has not suffered any loss.

In the evening, it was time for San'er to feed again. The little milk from Yu Xiuying was not enough for him to drink. After feeding for a long time, San'er cried anxiously.

Partial room.

Ye Shian came in from outside holding a bowl: "Mom, drink some water."

Yu Xiuying took the bowl handed over by Ye Shian with a worried look on her face. At the moment, she was upset by Xiao San'er's crying. It was normal for her to not be full now. But without milk, what would Xiao San'er eat...

Hey, why does this water taste different from the usual ones? After drinking most of it in one breath, Yu Xiuying realized that the water today tasted a little strange.

It tasted a little sweet, and had a flavor that she couldn't quite put her finger on, as if mixed with the scent of herbs.

Yu Xiuying came to the window with the bowl in her hand, wanting to see the water in the bowl clearly in the moonlight. The middle-class family was poor and did not light a lamp at night.

"This water?"

"Is it delicious? I secretly put some sugar in it."

Yu Xiuying had been suffering from long-term malnutrition and deficiency of qi and blood, so Ye Shian specially made some sugar water with red ginseng for her to drink.

"Sugar? Where did you get the sugar?"

"Of course I stole it from my grandma." Ye Shian lied without blushing or beating his heart.

Yu Xiuying got anxious when she heard this: "Shi'an, how could you steal things, and steal from grandma? What if she finds out..."

"Don't worry, mom, we won't be discovered."

Ye Shian carried San'er to the bed and sat down. There was no moonlight in this place, so it was difficult to see clearly what she was doing.

She took out the bottle and stuffed it into Xiao San'er's mouth in the dark. Xiao San'er bit the nipple and immediately started sucking. Listening to Xiao San'er drinking milk in big gulps, Yu Xiuying turned her head.

She seemed to hear a swallowing sound, but then she thought it was impossible and must be her illusion.

"Mom, have you ever thought about leaving this home?"

After the commotion at the dinner table today, Ye Shian had no intention of staying in this family any longer. The things in her space were enough to support the three of them, so there was no need for them to be slaves in the Ye family.

Yu Xiuying's hand trembled as she held the bowl. She had a hard life in the Ye family. Even though Ye Zhantao was gone, she had never thought of leaving. Besides, where could she, a woman with two children, go?

Ye Shian was not surprised at Yu Xiuying's attitude. Dayuan Kingdom was not a dynasty she was familiar with, but in ancient times, women obeyed their fathers at home and their husbands after marriage.

"Before I had my father, even if it was hard to be in this family, I still had hope. Now that my father is gone, if you still stay, have you thought about the future? What should I do in the future? What should Saner do in the future?"

"If they dare to sell me out once today, they will dare to sell me out a second time tomorrow. With your temper, you won't be able to protect us."

"But, where can we go if we leave here?"

"We can go anywhere. Anywhere is better than here. This place is close to Wu State. If the army fails, we will be easily implicated. We might as well make plans early."

In her previous life, she was not born into a wealthy family. Her grandmother lived in the countryside. When she was young, she spent her winter and summer vacations at her grandmother's house. Her grandmother taught her a lot. She followed her to the fields, helped with housework, and took care of her uncle's two little kids who were naughty and causing trouble...

That period was her happiest time.

But the countryside here really made her unable to adapt.

Take the house they live in now, for example. It is a low thatched house with only one small window. The whole house is dark and gloomy. From the original owner's memory, she learned that the house leaks when rain falls.

In this room, there are two beds, one for her and her elder sister, and one for her parents. This is the bedroom for their family of five, and there are farm tools placed at the base of the wall.

Then there was food. Not to mention that they only had two meals a day, the soup was the water used to wash the pot. The vegetable pancakes were rough, irritating to the throat, and had a grassy taste. Apart from that, there was no other taste. She even suspected that the vegetable pancakes had no salt at all.

She could tolerate not having a mobile phone or the internet, but she really couldn’t tolerate living in such an environment.

In fact, she had thought about separating the family, but they would still have to live in this village, and it would be difficult to improve their quality of life. Moreover, being so close to Jipin, there was no guarantee that they would not be harassed, so the best option was to stay away from here.

"But we are orphans and widows..."

Of course she was willing to leave this family, but when she thought about having to raise two children alone, it was hard for Yu Xiuying not to hesitate. The world was too difficult, not to mention that she was a woman with two children.

"Mom, do you really want to watch me die again?"

Ye Shian knew that it was difficult to let Yu Xiuying leave, but for the sake of a happy life in the future, she had to tell her the seriousness of the matter.

Under the moonlight, Yu Xiuying's body trembled. Was her daughter dying again?

No, no, no, she doesn't want her daughter to die. Now the child's father is gone, and her eldest daughter is nowhere to be found. Only Shi'an and San'er are by her side. She will never allow anything to happen to these two children again.

But if she left with her two children, how would she support them?

"I, please let me think about it carefully..."

Seeing that Yu Xiuying had taken her words to heart, she didn't say anything more. For women in ancient feudal society, this was indeed not an easy thing to do.

"Mom, let's give San'er a name."

Speaking of San'er, Yu Xiuying sighed silently. It was not that she didn't want a girl, but she hoped that San'er would be a boy. If women like them could not give birth to a boy in their husband's family, then the family line would be cut off.

Seeing Yu Xiuying silent, Ye Shian seemed to have thought of something: "With these three shabby thatched houses of the old Ye family, there is really no need to favor boys over girls. It's not like there is a throne to inherit."

Seeing Ye Shian's outrageous words, Yu Xiuying couldn't help but frown: "What nonsense are you talking about, girl? You dare to say such things, be careful to be arrested by the government."

"Mom, it doesn't matter whether you have a boy or a girl. As long as you educate your children well, they can both become people who contribute to society."

"Yes, is that so?" Although she couldn't see her daughter's face, her daughter's firm tone made her a little dazed.

"Yes, mother, Xiao San is pitiful. We are the only two relatives around her, so we must not treat her badly just because she is a girl."

Speaking of being treated unfairly, Yu Xiuying felt sad: "Poor Xiao San'er, she has been born for so long and she hasn't even had a full meal. I, as her mother, owe her so much."

"Then let's love her well from now on."

"Ah, if this continues, I don't know if she..."

Yu Xiuying didn't finish her words, but Ye Shian knew what she meant. If Xiao San'er went without milk for such a long time, he might not live for many days.

"Mom, let's give her a name." When she comes, Xiao San'er will be plump, healthy, and live a long life.

"Since the purple iris was in bloom when she was born, let's call her Purple Iris."

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