After dying early, I traveled to ancient times and became a boy

His words offended both Ye Laosi and Chen Jinhua. Before Chen Jinhua could even react, Ye Laosi went into the house and got a whip.

Ye Xunbai grabbed his brother's hand and said, "Brother, run quickly, or father will beat you again."

"Let him beat me!" Ye Xunqing said with a smile, "If he beats me to death, I will really have to marry his wife off to him as compensation."

Ye Laosi held the whip in his hand, not knowing whether he should put it down.

Ye Xunqing stretched his neck forward and said, "If you hit me on the neck and face, it's your fault if you die."

Ye Lao Si was so angry that he cracked his whip and said, "Why don't you go cook?"

Ye Xunqing said: "I'm busy, I'm going to sleep."

Ye Laosi could only vent his anger on Chen Jinhua, "You go cook!"

Chen Jinhua was no pushover either. She threw the wooden basin to the ground and shouted, "You old bastard, you can't beat me, so you want to torture me, right? You killed my first wife, are you planning to kill me too?"

Chen Jinhua's two sons were born. They looked like their mother and were not very good-looking.

"Father, how can you talk to Mom like that?" said Chen Jinhua's eldest son Ye Dayong.

Ye Laosi felt like the world was turning upside down. First, that little beast Ye Xunqing rebelled against him, and then came Chen Jinhua and his two sons. If he couldn't beat Ye Xunqing, how could he not beat these people who were trying to turn the world upside down?

"I'll teach you a lesson!" Ye Laosi picked up the whip from the ground and whipped Chen Jinhua, her mother and her two children hard.

Ye Xunqing and Ye Xunbai were watching from the side. They were the ones who got beaten in the past, but now it was finally someone else's turn.

After being beaten, Chen Jinhua stopped cooking and sat on the ground, throwing a tantrum and crying about the injustices she had suffered over the years. She also said that she had given birth to two sons for Ye Laosi, but had received nothing good. The family was so poor that they didn't even have enough money for their sons to marry.

The more Ye Lao Si listened, the angrier he became. He beat Chen Jinhua to death. Chen Jinhua's two sons protected their mother and opposed Ye Lao Si. For a moment, the entire Ye family courtyard was filled with the sounds of beating and scolding.

The neighbors nearby heard it and rushed over to separate them. They thought that Ye Lao Si was beating up the Ye Xunqing brothers again.

"Qing'er..." The aunt next to him saw Ye Xunqing standing in the yard and asked in confusion, "Didn't your father beat you?"

Ye Xunqing said, "I don't know what happened, but Father and Second Mother suddenly started fighting, and we couldn't stop them."

When the aunt next to them heard this, she didn't care whether they were fighting or not and said, "Have you two eaten yet? I've cooked dinner, go and have a bite."

Ye Xunbai spoke quickly and said, "Eat it. My brother cooked a delicious soup with rice and vegetables."

"White rice?" Auntie frowned and said, "Isn't it because you ate white rice that caused the trouble?"

Ye Xunqing was confused, "Can't we eat white rice?"

My aunt said, "You are about to get married, why are you still so confused? White rice is only eaten during festivals. If you eat it now, what will you eat during the festival?"

Ye Xunqing didn’t think too much about it, and he only found half a bag of rice. What else could he eat if not rice?

"Just eat it and you can't spit it out." Ye Xunqing will have to prepare more edible things in the future and make white rice a regular meal.

The aunt didn't care anymore. After hearing that the two brothers had eaten, she left.

Chen Jinhua was still sitting on the ground crying, but she was no longer shouting. Instead, she cursed from time to time. She must have been tired of crying.

Ye Xunqing took his brother back home for a nap. Their house was small and shabby. Fortunately, it was summer. If it was winter, they would have frozen to death in one night.

The house was quite dirty, evidently indicating that the previous owner wasn't one to clean. Ye Xunqing, a man of cleanliness, drew water from the well and washed the house inside and out, even taking the moldy clothes out to dry. In those days, there were no laundry detergents or liquids; washing clothes required lathering with soapberry from the soapberry tree. However, the Ye family didn't have this, so Ye Xunqing could only wash with plain water.

Ye Xunbai helped his brother wash the dishes. He was too weak and could only wring out a rag to wipe the table.

As soon as the quilt and clothes were washed and hung up to dry, Ye Dayong came over and called him.

"Don't pretend to be dead in the house. Father wants you to go to the fields to plant rice." Ye Dayong shouted, "If you don't go, you won't have any food tonight."

Ye Xunqing thought to himself: You left me without food, so I will leave you without food too. I have eaten up half a bag of rice, and we will all starve to death together.

But Ye Xunqing didn't say that. "I know. I'll go right away."

"Brother is going to plant rice seedlings. Is it okay for you to stay home alone?" Ye Xunqing was a little worried about leaving such a young child at home.

Ye Xunbai said, "Brother, I will go wherever you go. I want to help you carry the rice seedlings."

Ye Xunqing looked him up and down, then said with a smile, "Okay, I'll take you with me."

He didn't know where Ye Laosi and the others worked, but Ye Xunbai knew that he had been working in the fields with his brother since he was very young. At that time, his brother was planting rice in the fields, and he would sit under the shade of a tree waiting for his brother.

People working can be seen everywhere in the fields. Some people use oxen to plow the fields, while families without oxen have two strong men pull the plow together. Women and brothers and sisters also go to the fields to plant rice, and children also learn to work like adults.

Ye Xunbai sat on the carpet that Ye Xunqing had laid out for him. This carpet was made by Ye Xunqing using the burlap bags at home.

"Xiaobai..." A boy about seven or eight years old ran over, "Why didn't you help your brother carry the rice seedlings today?"

Ye Xunbai said: "My brother asked me to sit here and wait for him."

The boy also sat down next to him and took out a piece of candy from his clothes. "Xiaobai, this is for you. My sister brought it from town."

When Ye Xunbai saw the candy, he licked his lips inadvertently, but he did not accept the candy.

"If you don't want to eat candy, your brother will buy some for you, Xiaobai." Although Ye Xunbai said this, his eyes were still on the yellow candy.

"You kid, who told you to get so close to my brother?" Ye Xunqing stood in the field with a handful of mud in his hands. "Stay away from him, or I'll throw the black mud at you."

"Brother Xunqing, why are you different after jumping into the river?" The boy dodged to the side and said, "Why did you become so fierce?"

Ye Xunqing replied: "Why do you care if I'm mean or not? What are you doing with the candy? Are you trying to trick my brother?"

Ye Xunbai said: "No, Xiaobai doesn't eat candy."

Ye Xunqing looked at his appearance and suddenly felt a little distressed, "Xiaobai, be obedient. Brother will go to town to buy you some candy tomorrow."

The boy laughed so hard that his stomach hurt after hearing this. "Sugar is so expensive! Only two pieces of candy for one penny."

Ye Xunqing suddenly realized a serious problem. He had swept his entire house but didn't find a single copper coin, which meant he didn't have a penny.