"Nieces of the Ye Family!"
At this moment, the Ye family was happily having dinner when they suddenly heard someone softly calling Ye Zhinan at the door. She quickly put down her chopsticks and went out to greet the person.
There stood Sixth Aunt covering her hand at the door, timidly peeping inside.
"Why have you come?" Ye Zhinan asked, noticing the other's hand. "What's wrong with your hand?"
"It's nothing. I got burned, so..."
"Come in quickly! Let me have a look!"
Seeing the blisters all over Sixth Aunt's hand, Ye Zhinan quickly invited her into the house.
Han Xiangmei immediately told Ye Yingfeng to fetch a large basin of water from the well. "Quickly put your hand in it."
"I'll dirty your water." Sixth Aunt dared not put her hand in and said tremulously.
Without hesitation, Han Xiangmei grabbed her hand and pressed it into the water.
At this time, Ye Zhinan also ran out with some ointment. After examining the injury on Sixth Aunt's hand, she started to disinfect it.
"You should soak your hand in cold water immediately after getting burned. This burn wasn't just now, was it?"
Sixth Aunt nodded and then shook her head. "It wasn't long ago. Sister Ten told me to come to you when she saw it. Everyone knows you're highly skilled in medicine. Besides, I'm a guilty person and don't dare to ask for anything else."
As she said this, her eyes turned red and tears streamed down like rain.
Ye Zhinan frowned slightly when no one was noticing, but the next second, she showed a concerned look and said empathetically, "Why would you say such a thing, Sixth Aunt? You've always been kind to me. Just come to me if you have anything."
"I bothered you last time. How could I always trouble you? I thought I'd try to study making marinated ducks and not rely on you for everything. Who would have thought it would turn out like this? I still have to trouble you."
Hearing this, Ye Zhinan's eyes flashed slightly, and she immediately understood.
It was all about this in the end.
Flashing her big, smiling eyes, she said, "Isn't it just marinated ducks? I'll teach you when I'm free."
Han Xiangmei gave her a glare, but Ye Zhinan pretended not to see it. She sent Sixth Aunt off with a big smile and even gave her several sets of ointment, repeatedly telling her to be careful not to let her hand get wet and to pay attention to hygiene.
"Are you really going to teach them?" Han Xiangmei looked worried. "It's not that I'm petty, but I just think the Wei family isn't trustworthy. You can take care of Sixth Aunt in other ways. If you teach her the marinated food recipe, it's like giving away our business. What will happen to Yanlai and Ruonan in the future?"
Ye Zhinan was not worried but rather happy. A mysterious smile flashed in her eyes.
"I have my own plans. We're going to entertain Inspector Qin tomorrow. I'll go and deal with that wild boar first."
"Nan Nan..." Han Xiangmei wanted to continue, but Ye Zhinan had already run away. Ye Shenyan coughed lightly and comforted her, "Our daughter has her own reasons. We don't need to worry about it!"
"You're so carefree. Since we were exiled, our daughter and son have suffered so much. Just as our life is starting to improve, the Wei family has set their eyes on us. What should we do!"
Ye Shenyan shook his head. "We're bound to suffer when exiled. As the saying goes, when Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first makes his mind endure suffering, his sinews and bones labor, his body... "
"Alright, stop talking about starving. Go and rest!" Han Xiangmei didn't want to hear Ye Shenyan's high - sounding words. She picked up the chopsticks and hurriedly ran into the kitchen.
Ye Shenyan didn't finish his sentence. He turned to look at Ye Yingfeng, who was stuffing half a mouthful of rice into his mouth while holding the bowl.
"Starve his body!"
Hearing this, Ye Yingfeng got the second half of the mouthful of rice stuck in his throat and couldn't swallow it for a long time.
"Dad, we've only had full meals for two days."
As Ye Yingfeng was speaking, a gentle breeze blew, stirring up the dust on the ground. The dust got into Ye Zhinan's eyes, and she rubbed them for a long time.
"The weather in the northern border changes so quickly. We need to skin the wild boar quickly. We can air - dry the skin and make a leather coat."
Just as she was calculating how to make use of the wild boar, her train of thought was suddenly interrupted by a burst of laughter.
"I wondered what delicious food your family was having. So it's this wild thing."
There was Wei Shishi straddling the wall, her eyes full of disdain.
"I wondered where that sound was coming from. So it's a wall - climber." Ye Zhinan glanced at her and ignored her, continuing to cut the pork.
"I heard you're collaborating with my aunts on a business. What exactly are you up to?" Wei Shishi was not polite at all. Her eyes were gloomy and cold, and her face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.
Ye Zhinan looked up and sized her up. Only then did she notice that the girl's makeup was thicker than a few days ago, and there were faint dark shadows under her eyes.
It seemed that she had been bullied a lot by the Wei family aunts.
Master Wei had taken thirteen concubines. Although Wei Shishi's mother had entered the family early, her status was low, so Wei Shishi was also not valued. All the tiring and heavy work in the family fell on her. Naturally, the task of raising ducks was also hers.
Ye Zhinan stopped what she was doing and walked towards the girl with her hands covered in pig blood.
"What do you think I'm up to?"
"Don't you dare scheme against me!" Wei Shishi glared at her. Looking at those bloody hands, her stomach churned, and she almost vomited.
Ye Zhinan blinked innocently. "It was them who came to me. I can only help them for the sake of the long - standing friendship between our two families. If you don't want to do it, you can just go and talk to them. Why come to me?"
With that, she waved her bloody hands, and the fresh blood on them splashed directly onto Wei Shishi's dress. She was startled and fell off the wall.
"Ye Zhinan, you wait!"
"Why should I wait for you! You'd better take care of yourself!" Ye Zhinan shouted across to her and then secretly stuffed the blood bag in her cuff back into her space.
The blood of the wild boar had already been drained. After seeing Wei Shishi, she had quietly taken out a blood bag from her space, which was why she had enough blood to "decorate" the girl.
"What a pity to waste a bag of fresh plasma!"
Just as she turned around, she saw Lu Yanlai running in anxiously from outside.
"Something's wrong with the land."
Ye Zhinan was shocked. Without even bothering to wash her hands, she ran to the saline - alkaline land with Lu Yanlai.
Most of the land was flooded.
When the canals were opened for water diversion, no consideration was given to her piece of land which wasn't originally a field. Qin Yihuai rushed over after hearing about it and saw Ye Zhinan standing there in a daze looking at the land.
"Sorry, there was a miscalculation!" Seeing the other's disappointed look, he knew that an apology was useless.
"Compensate me for the land."
"Okay. There's a vacant piece of land at the foot of the mountain. I can allocate it to you."
"I don't want that. I want this piece."
After hearing this, everyone thought she was talking nonsense because of the shock. Lu Yanlai tugged at her cuff and whispered, "This land is flooded."
"Help me turn it into a pond!"
"A pond!" Everyone exclaimed in unison.
Ye Zhinan stared intently at the flooded area and then pointed to the mountain. "Look, there are fish."
Everyone looked up, and sure enough, there were two or three fish in the water.
"Dig a pond for me. I want to raise fish."
Qin Yihuai's eyes flashed, and he nodded. He immediately told Chen Zhenhai to lead some people to dig the pond.
Although Ye Zhinan pouted and seemed unhappy on the surface, her heart was overjoyed the moment she saw the fish.