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

Ye Xunqing had the money in his pocket and felt very happy. This was the largest income he had earned in recent times. Most families in Yejia Village could not earn six taels of silver a year, but Ye Xunqing earned six taels in one go.

Too much money will arouse jealousy. Ye Xunqing gave Feng Jingheng four taels of silver and said, "Use this money to buy things, but don't say that the silver was given by me or how you got it. Just say that you earned it in town."

Feng Jingheng felt a little helpless. He couldn't even take out a tael of silver and had to ask his wife for money.

Ye Xunqing saw his embarrassment and said, "Ah Heng, thank you for helping me and supporting me. If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have gotten here before my things were snatched away."

Feng Jingheng replied: "Protecting you is what I should do."

"So please continue to protect us from now on." Ye Xunqing hugged Feng Jingheng and kissed him on the cheek, "Ah Heng, is that okay?"

Feng Jingheng's heart softened. He smiled foolishly and said, "I will protect you forever."

Ye Xunqing was very happy, but at the same time he emphasized: "This sum of money cannot be used to pay off the debt now. After we get married, we can slowly earn money to pay off the debt, understand?"

Moreover, Ye Xunqing will need money to buy ingredients in the future. If he spends all his money, he will have to continue digging for ingredients in the ground.

"Yeah, I understand. This is your money. I won't let anyone spend your money." Feng Jingheng was determined to guard Ye Xunqing's silver to the death and would not give it to anyone.

In the afternoon, Ye Xunqing bought some snacks for his two younger brothers, some spices that the house was short of, and then a large bag of sugar and a large bucket of rapeseed oil. These two things were not cheap, and he spent half a tael of silver in one go.

Ye Xunqing doesn't feel bad about spending money because he thinks these are all necessary to buy.

Feng Jingheng helped him carry the oil and sugar into his room. Before he entered, he saw that the lock on the door was missing.

He asked, "Ah Qing, did you lock the door when you went out?"

Ye Xunqing walked in and said, "It's locked, but the lock doesn't look useful. Someone broke it."

Feng Jingheng asked Ye Xunqing to step back, "Be careful, the thieves are still hiding inside."

Ye Xunqing said calmly, "No. Even if you guard against it day and night, you can never prevent a thief from roaming your own home. I know who did it."

After he walked in, he first checked where he'd kept the sugar. It was there. Then he checked his closet. Nothing was missing, but it was messed up. Not just the closet, but also the bed and the boxes—everything was messed up. Even the broken pot he'd picked up to make a vase was smashed.

After Mo Yuyan entered the house, he thought his house had been robbed and immediately said he would report it to the police.

Ye Xunqing asked him to calm down, he knew which bastard did it.

Ye Xunqing picked up a basket-weaving cane from the yard and hit the wall of the main hall with it, cursing, "Ye Lao Si, get out of here!"

Ye Laosi hadn't found much money and was already feeling unhappy. When he heard Ye Xunqing calling him by a nickname, he immediately rushed out and cursed, "You little bastard, how dare you call your father by his nickname? I think you're tired of living."

Ye Xunqing wasn't afraid of him at all. He cursed, "Old bastard, who the hell told you to break my lock and rummage through my things? You shameless old man, you've had enough of being a human, you want to be a rat, right? What did you want to steal from my room? Money? Look at the look of death on your face. You swallowed up all my eight taels of betrothal gift. I'm not even asking you for it anymore. What else do you want? Do you think you're worth that little money?"

Ye Laosi was completely bewildered. Hadn't Ye Xunqing, that little bastard, been swearing all the time? Why was he cursing so much now? Could it be that he was really going to heaven to see the gods?

"Fuck you, you didn't get beaten enough last night, did you? You want another beating today?" Ye Xunqing swung the cane, making a crackling sound. "Come on, if you dare to take one step forward, I'll break your legs and paws so you can't steal anything!"

The neighbors heard the noise from their house and thought that Ye Laosi was beating the child again, so they came over to stop him.

"Fourth brother, why do you always beat the children? Last night... didn't you beat the children?" The neighbor came to separate them, but found out that the person was the wrong one.

"Qing'er, you are wrong. How can you point a cane at your father? Put the cane down quickly. There is no overnight grudge between father and son. No matter what, you can't hit him." The neighbors thought they were reasonable, but in fact they were biased. It is natural for a father to beat his son, but it is against the will of heaven for a son to beat his father.

"Get lost!" Ye Xunqing shouted back at them. "Whoever comes to stop the fight will have to pay back those dozens of copper coins on behalf of Ye Lao Si!"

Ye Laosi said, "I'm your father, what's wrong with taking a few copper coins from you?"

The neighbor Li Zhongke said again, "Qing'er, it's not easy for your father to raise you to this age. You will get married soon, and after that you will belong to someone else's family. How much money you make will have nothing to do with your father. While you are still at home, you should be more filial to him."

Ye Xunqing sneered, "Why should I be filial to him? Just because he married me to Wang San Tuzi for six taels of silver, and forced me to jump into the river and die? It wasn't easy for him to raise me up, was it really him who raised me? Why don't you ask him why he wanted to take a concubine? Where did he get the money to marry a concubine? It can't be that he earned it himself! If he really earned it himself, why can't he make any money now?"

Everyone knew where Ye Laosi's money came from. In this village, if you were knowledgeable and literate, you would never starve to death. The Yang family was a rare family of scholars in Yejia Village, and Yang Shu was also literate. In his early years, he taught the children in the village to read and earned a lot of money.

With him around, Ye Lao Si became rich. Unfortunately, Yang Shu gave birth to several boys in a row. If he had given birth to a son, Ye Lao Si would not have married a second wife.

"Qing'er, this is all in the past. Aren't your family doing well now?" a woman said.

"Really?" Ye Xunqing said with a smile, "Then I'll pay for your man to marry a concubine and let you work like a slave for her. Do you think you can still smile?"

The woman's face was grim. She muttered, "Kid, I mean well..."

"Auntie, if you are okay, please go back, so as not to hurt you." Feng Jingheng spoke, holding a wooden stick in his hand, as if to say, if you keep talking nonsense here, I will beat you to death with this stick.

The woman smiled awkwardly. "I just remembered I still have some food stewing in the pot. I'll leave now."

As soon as she left, the other neighbors who had taken sides also ran away. All of them together were not enough to beat the second son of the Feng family, so they didn't want to join in the fun.

After all, Ye Xunqing and Ye Laosi are a family, so he can't be cruel to Ye Laosi.