After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

She poured a bowl of water and put some sugar in it. When she brought it over, Aunt Hua was holding Zhou's hand and talking.

"Qingya, put the water next to your Aunt Hua and go back to get busy." Zhou instructed, also worried about dirtying her daughter's ears.

Ye Qing put down the water, walked to the door of her room, picked up the needle and thread and continued sewing.

The door of the room was only two or three meters away from where the three people were chatting. They didn't deliberately lower their voices when they spoke. Ye Qing tried to reduce his presence as much as possible and listened secretly.

"Aunt Hua, please continue. I just started talking and I haven't understood it yet."

"It's still Xu Feng's family. After Xu Feng fell, his sons are still idle as before. The family relies on Xu Zelan and her mother to dig wild vegetables for meals."

"Then what? How could this farming family raise a few children who don't work?" Zhou couldn't understand it. Her eldest son had been working in the fields since he was young.

"I just found out about this. Xu Feng has three brothers, and he is the third one. The other families all have daughters, and all the housework is done by those daughters. Because Xu Zelan has several brothers, his family favors him a little more. On the way to escape famine, the three families got separated, and his grandparents didn't make it, so only this family is left." Aunt Hua told what she knew.

"Look at these children, they are so fair and clean, it turns out they have never been exposed to the sun." Zhou always felt it was strange, as she had never seen such fair children in the village.

Ye Qing complained in his heart, wondering if the separation was intentional. Who would be willing to serve this family?

Aunt Hua continued, "The girl didn't want to serve him after a few days and regretted it. Especially when she saw that other people in the village had built houses, she thought about looking for our Dalang again."

"That won't do. Our family can't stand being entangled by this family." Zhou felt uncomfortable just thinking about that scene.

"Her brother wanted to take her to a family in the mountains to exchange for money, but she thought the mountains were poor and didn't want to go, so she came to find Dalang."

"His father doesn't care, he only has this one daughter." Li loved her daughter very much and couldn't stand any family treating her daughter badly.

"His father is thinking of exchanging the money to find a doctor to check his waist. He can't wait to send him there immediately." Aunt Hua looked down on Xu Feng's behavior. How could she bear to let her daughter, whom she had raised with great difficulty, be so far away from her?

"Fortunately the engagement was cancelled. With a family like this and several boys from his family, it would be difficult to get married in the future."

"Isn't it? I said a few words in a tactful way. Do you know what this girl did?"

"Her Aunt Hua, this has been said to her face, what else can she say?" Zhou felt that if someone said this to her, she would be so embarrassed.

"She knelt in front of me and begged me to help her. She wanted to recognize you as her godmother and serve you in the future." Aunt Hua looked scared.

Zhou was confused. "Our two families have called off the engagement. Why would we need to recognize a godparent? I have a son and a daughter. I need her to take care of them. Besides, my family has three boys. How dare she think about it?"

Li curled her lips and said, "How can this be called a godparent? You still have to rely on my family."

Ye Qing was stunned. This was too shameless. After she moved in, she could say that her elder brother bullied her and successfully entered the family.

But does she think that her family members are stupid? They can make her adopt her as their godchild just by crying a few times, and it’s not like her family has done anything wrong to her.

"I scolded her at that time and explained it clearly to her. If she bothers Dalang again, I will go to the patriarch of the Xu family." Aunt Hua didn't want to continue talking nonsense with Xu Zelan, so she threatened her directly.

"Then what? Did she agree?" Zhou asked.

"She was afraid that her reputation would be ruined, so she agreed verbally. But I felt that something was wrong in her eyes. We'd better let Dalang be careful. This girl is very cruel." Aunt Hua felt a chill on her back when she thought about that sinister look.

"They are really not from the same family. They are not from the same family. This girl is also selfish." Li concluded.

"Aunt Hua, thank you for making this trip. You have cared so much about my Dalang. I will ask Dalang to bring you a fish to try. My eldest brother just caught it this morning." Zhou was sincerely grateful to Aunt Hua.

"Sister-in-law, what you said is too polite. They are our own children, there is no reason for us to worry about them. Your family has helped our family a lot over the years, do you see how polite I am to you?" Aunt Hua really loves these children. She has watched them grow up. Both families have the surname Ye, so they are closely related.

Li was still a little anxious, as the matter was not over yet. "Old eldest wife, tell Dalang to tell the family when he sees this girl. Don't save face for her, just go to Ji Village and ask if all the girls in the Xu family are like this. Dalang is such a good child, he can't be wronged like this."

"I'll listen to you, Mom. If it happens again, I'll go there myself."

Aunt Hua explained the situation clearly and stood up to go back.

Ye Qing put down the clothes in his hand and stood up to see Aunt Hua off.

When she came back, she picked up the clothes she had sewn and took a closer look. Her face turned red. She had been so absorbed in listening that the clothes were sewn crookedly. She quickly took them apart and sewed them again before Zhou noticed.

Ye Qing had no other choice. After all, the girl had only come to see his eldest brother once and had not really done anything. He could only wait and see what would happen next.

Ye Dalang has been more cautious in recent days, and has someone accompany him whenever he goes out or comes in. Ye Lao Da feels sorry for his son, so he takes him to the wasteland to harvest sweet potatoes.

There were three acres of wasteland, and only some wood ash was sprinkled on it. The fertility was insufficient, so the sweet potatoes were planted far apart.

Several people went out in the morning and came back in the evening. They were so busy that they didn't have time to eat. It took them several days to harvest all the sweet potatoes in the field and bring them home.

Old man Ye filled six bags of sweet potatoes, cut them into slices, and laid them out on the field to dry, saving them for later use in porridge.

After Zhou finished harvesting the sweet potatoes, she remembered to ask her son, "Da Lang, that girl hasn't come to see you recently, has she?"

Ye Dalang thought about it carefully, "I've been with you guys recently, and I haven't seen her come over. Just yesterday, I seemed to see a figure, and it left when it saw you guys coming. I don't know if it was her."

Ye Qing thought back to when a figure flashed by yesterday afternoon and he thought it was someone passing by. Thinking about it this way, the figure was indeed very similar.

"Brother, don't be afraid. As long as we are upright, we have nothing to fear." Ye Qing encouraged his brother.

Ye Dalang also figured it out. Since he was a man, he would not be the one who suffered.

After Ye Dalang figured it out, he no longer stayed at home and returned to his previous lifestyle, but he never saw the girl again.

Auntie Tianhua came in mysteriously and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to worry about Xu Zelan anymore."

"What's wrong? She got married." This was the only reason Zhou could think of.

Ye Qing took a few bamboo sticks and sat quietly next to the two of them, leaning over to listen to the gossip.

The two were so engrossed in their conversation that they didn't notice Ye Qing was beside them.

"No, she didn't want to marry into the mountains, which is understandable. The mountains are not as convenient as the foot of the mountain. But this girl is cunning. She stole the pass and the family's money and ran away." Aunt Hua sighed.