Chapter 49: Being a Stepmother 16
In the end, the captain decided to exchange the seeds. He couldn't make a wasted trip. But he had the final say on the amount. As for whether to exchange it for Ye Changtian's family, he hadn't decided yet.
Ye Zhiqiu didn't care about the seeds after she exchanged them. Whether to exchange them to the Ye family was up to the captain. The college entrance examination would be next year. When she left the village, the Ye family would become a thing of the past, remaining in her memory at most, the kind that she would occasionally forget.
As autumn turned to winter, when it was time to plant winter wheat, everyone stared at Ye Zhiqiu, ready to follow her footsteps. If it worked out, that would be the best, but if it didn't, there wouldn't be a big loss based on last year's harvest.
Some people came to ask her how much she had harvested, but she dared not tell them. What if she didn't get the harvest she wanted and someone unreasonable came to ask her for compensation? She said she couldn't guarantee the yield, only the germination rate, because there were too many factors that affected the yield.
If she dared to guarantee the yield, someone would dare to plant and harvest every day and then come to cause trouble. The villagers were very bad. She was a woman with a child living in a remote place, and some people climbed over the wall at night. Fortunately, she had martial arts skills.
It's not possible to fight ten people with one, but it's possible to chase away two petty thieves. I don't know what Han Dalin was thinking when he built the house. The remote place is far away from the old house, but if something happens, there are no neighbors around, and no one can hear you when you call for help.
It would be fine if he was at home, but he was not at home and he was still at ease with his ex-wife living with the child. He was really careless. When she complained, she didn't think that if she wasn't careless, how could she leave the child to her care.
The two of them were strangers, so he felt relieved. If they met her, they would be ruined if they met someone with bad intentions. Well, since he trusted her so much, I would send him some food for the New Year.
Han Dalin couldn't come back for the New Year, and Ye Zhiqiu was happy that he didn't come back. In her mind, the two of them were almost strangers, at most pen pals, with a fixed monthly letter, but most of the things they communicated were related to the children.
Just because Han's father is at ease with Ye Zhiqiu doesn't mean that Han Yue's in-laws are at ease with her. They come to visit her from time to time, and every time they see Han Yue, they remind her not to forget her biological mother, saying that her biological mother died to give birth to her.
Ye Zhiqiu disagreed with this, but she would not say anything. She had no feelings for Han Dalin, just regarded him as a partner, and had no expectations for Han Yue. It was good that she did not forget her mother. If someone else married Han Dalin and was treated like this, the better the relationship, the more unbearable it would be.
I don’t know what Han Yue’s in-laws are trying to do. No matter how good she is to the child, she can’t replace the biological mother. She admits this. But the child lives with her now. If she is unhappy, is that good for Han Yue?
Han Yue also wanted to ask this question. Every time her grandmother came to see her, she brought nothing, not even a piece of candy, but she always held her hand and said that they were the closest to each other, that stepmothers were unreliable, and that all stepmothers in the world were bad. She also said that if there was anything, she must go to her grandmother or uncle.
Humph! She didn't know what biological mother and stepmother meant. She only knew that whoever gave her candy was good. If someone came to her house to cheat her without even candy, she wouldn't want to go to her grandmother's house.
Ye Zhiqiu was very satisfied with Han Yue's performance and made delicious beef jerky as a reward for her. The beef was stored in a space, which meant that they lived far away and were not afraid of the smell spreading. If there were neighbors around, she would not dare to make beef jerky.
Not to mention beef jerky, even eating meat had to be carefully counted. If you eat too much, people would suspect where the money came from. The landlords didn't have the money to eat meat every day, and the workers in the city couldn't eat meat every day even if they had a salary every month. She couldn't explain it in the village even if she had Han Dalin's salary.
Han Yue didn't know that Ye Zhiqiu had to think a lot before eating meat. When she saw the meat, her eyes were already smiling: "Wow, I like it. I promise not to eat it outside and not tell anyone, not even Dad. Aunt Ye, don't worry."
Although Han Yue was young, she knew that delicious food should be hidden away. If Ye Zhiqiu didn't tell her, she wouldn't take it out to eat. She didn't want to share the delicious beef jerky with others, and it would be troublesome if she didn't give it to others. Every time she ate meat, many friends would surround her. She didn't have enough to eat, so she couldn't bear to share it.
Ye Zhiqiu divided the beef jerky into two and sent the other half to Han Dalin. Unexpectedly, Han Dalin also sent her some seaside specialties after receiving the things. She received a big bag full of various dried goods. Fortunately, she knew how to cook them. Otherwise, she would not know how to eat them properly.
In order to be able to eat delicious food openly, Ye Zhiqiu cooked it in various ways, making Han Yue's mouth full of grease. Wherever he went, he was asked what delicious food he had eaten.
Han's father was fine, and Ye Zhiqiu sent the things he received to the old house, but the Ye family couldn't even smell the smell of fish, and they were very angry. But this time, not to mention Ye Erniu, even Huang Lamei would only curse behind closed doors and didn't dare to come to the door to cause trouble again.
The last time Ye Zhiqiu was in trouble, somehow the news reached Ye Rong's parents-in-law, and the man almost broke off the engagement. This time, they would never dare to do it again. Ye Daniu had threatened that if anyone ruined his daughter's marriage, he would not let them go no matter who the culprit was.
Ye Daniu is a ruthless man. If Qin Xiaoyu dares to extort money from him, he will find a way to send her to another man's bed. With other men, Qin Xiaoyu no longer keeps an eye on him. The key is that he has more than one lover. If he says that Ye Daniu forced her in the future, no one will believe it.
The other members of the Ye family didn't know about this, but Huang Lamei knew it very well, so she didn't dare to make a fuss. She could only curse Ye Rong in her heart, calling her an ungrateful person who married into a wealthy family but didn't help her family.
In fact, she was too cautious. The other members of the Ye family also had a lot of complaints about Ye Rong. If someone in the family scolded Ye Rong, they would just pretend not to hear it.
Ye Zhiqiu had another reason to complain about his family. When Ye Rong got married, his family had no money but they still prepared a good dowry for her. But she didn't care about them, her uncles and aunts. At the wedding, she despised them because they were from the countryside and had muddy feet. She even refused to let them go to the wedding.
That would have been fine, but after marriage, Ye Rong kept meddling in her parents' affairs, suppressing them with words and deeds, not letting them take advantage of the situation to cause trouble. She said that if they heard any bad rumors, don't blame her for turning against them.
Ye Daniu not only kept silent about Ye Rong's attitude, but also warned his brothers and parents like her not to hinder his daughter. Ye Daniu also knew that this was not a good thing to do, so he made promises to everyone, saying that everything was only temporary, and that after Ye Rong had her baby and was on her feet, she would definitely find a way to help her family find a job.
With the thick and strong carrot of work hanging by their side, Ye Changtian didn't need to say much, and the other people in the family consciously suppressed their dissatisfaction.
This time Huang Lamei wanted to make trouble for Ye Zhiqiu, but she gave up the idea only after being persuaded by Ye Sanniu and Ye Siniu. The two brothers were the smartest people in the family, and they did this because Ye Daniu gave them benefits in private.
Compared with the job that they don't know when they will get, the two brothers are more concerned about the benefits they get. They are satisfied, but they don't know that Ye Rong is making a voodoo doll every day in her husband's family, wanting to know who told her parents-in-law about the bad things in her mother's family.