“You’re not allowed to go!” Zhang Meili started to push Xue Gouzi back roughly. “Your brother hasn’t fully recovered yet, so you should stay at home and take care of him! I’ll go to your uncle’s house and see if I can get an old hen for your brother to nourish his body. Your aunt is so biased, giving such a big old hen and even killing it for Jiang Yue to eat, but not for our family! Can’t you see that Xue Yan and Jiang Yue were picked up from the streets? They’re not as close to them as we are!”
Xue Gouzi was pushed so hard that he almost fell. He knew that Zhang Meili was in the wrong, but he didn’t dare to say anything. He was afraid that Zhang Meili would hit him again.
“If I don’t see you when I come back, I’ll teach you a lesson!” Zhang Meili left the house after she finished her sentence.
Xue Gouzi had no choice but to put down the basket and stay home.
He went to his brother’s room.
His brother was sitting on the brick bed and eating dried dates. This was what his uncle-in-law had brought with him this morning. All of them were for his brother, and he didn’t have a single one.
His brother had vomited the seeds all over the ground.
He went to get a broom and a dustpan to sweep the date pits on the ground.
In the end, his brother spat a date pit on his face and scolded him, “Don’t act nice now. When I’m well, you’ll be the first one I hit! Why can’t you do something at home instead of helping others dig up for silly seeds? Don’t you know how much I hate that family? I think you’re asking for a beating! Why didn’t mother hit you? That Xue Yan, how dare he point his ax at me. Just he wait, I’ll beat him up sooner or later. Let’s see if he still dares to do that ever again!”
At the end of his speech, Xue Zhuzi’s face was a little sinister.
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When the villagers saw Jiang Yue, Xue Yan, and Xue Wufu digging up the raspberries, they couldn’t understand why Xue Dafu and the others were doing the same. “Rich people are really funny. They even dote on their children to this extent. People who don’t know better would think that they are all fools. They didn’t even do the proper work at home and are going around digging for raspberries.”
“Alright, alright.” Village Chief Lu had also seen this and stopped these gossipmongers from continuing. “It’s their family’s business, it has nothing to do with you guys.”
However, to be honest, Chief Lu couldn’t understand it either. He just didn’t like to gossip.
However, the more something like this happened, the more it would spread.
Soon, all the villages in the surrounding area knew that the wealthy Xue family of Locust Village was indulging their two children in digging up strawberries.
Of course, Jiang Yue and the others had also been digging for raspberries in the surrounding villages. Many people in the surrounding villages had actually seen them digging for themselves.
In fact, Jiang Yue and the others had almost dug all the way from the village entrance to the town in order to dig for the seeds in the wilderness on both sides of the road.
Fortunately, they had dug enough.
Planting was fast, but digging was slow. After Li Hehua and Liu Guixia finished planting, they also helped to dig. They only continued to plant after they had dug a lot more.
She had thought that with so many people, two days would be enough, but it still took three days.
Jiang Yue was very satisfied when she saw that an acre of strawberries had been planted.
Since they had already told their family that they would go around to see if there were any wild berries they could dig up and plant themselves, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan went out with their baskets the next day to look around.
They might not even be able to dig anything out, so the family didn’t need to let anyone follow them, letting them look around first.
