Chapter 26: She’s a Treasure

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Before Ye Qingyu could finish speaking, the men of the Ye family were all unhappy. They widened their eyes and looked at her with heartache and dissatisfaction!

“Big sister, don’t belittle yourself!” Ye Qingshu looked serious.

“Daughter, you’re so good. So what if you’re disfigured? He’d be blind to look down on you!” Ye Dashan was furious.

“…What I mean is that even if he likes me, I don’t like him! I don’t want to get married yet. If you guys talk about this again, I’ll be angry!”

Ye Qingyu hurriedly changed her words. As expected, her father and brothers’ expressions softened a lot. She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but her heart warmed.

In the eyes of her family, she was a treasure!

This feeling of being loved and protected was really great.

“Father, we still have a lot of money on hand. Let’s go shopping and buy some food and meat. We can also take a look at Qingshu’s feet.

When we get home, we’ll find Grandma and Mother. Let’s not work today anymore. Let’s rest for a day, okay?”

Ye Qingyu was afraid that they would not let go of her marriage, so she quickly changed the topic.

“Alright, we’ll listen to you!” Ye Dashan agreed with a smile. His daughter was doing well, and his son was back. This was a double blessing. They really had to celebrate.

“We still have eight and a half taels of silver. Can we buy more flour? I haven’t eaten my fill in a long time.” Ye Qingfeng lowered his voice and said excitedly.

“In the future, big sister will also earn money. Not only will you eat your fill every meal, but you will also eat meat until you throw up,” Ye Qingyu patted his shoulder and said.

“…” Ye Qingfeng looked conflicted. “It’s good as long as I can eat meat. I don’t want to throw up from eating it.”

Ye Qingyu chuckled and rubbed his little head.

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Before they went to buy things, Ye Qingyu took out four taels of silver from her purse and handed them to her father. When they were buying things later, her father would pay.

They first went to the grain shop. Considering that there was still half a month before the autumn harvest, they bought 100 catties of coarse flour.

A catty of flour cost four copper coins. Just buying the flour cost 400 copper coins, nearly half a tael of silver.

Ye Dashan’s heart ached for his daughter. He wanted to buy a catty of fine white flour for her to eat, but he was stopped by Ye Qingyu. This was because fine white flour cost ten copper coins. It was more than twice the price.

Regardless of whether the food was good or not, they had to eat their fill first.

Eight and a half taels of silver were really not much.

That was because there were a total of 11 adults and children in Ye Qingyu’s family. If everyone ate their fill, they would have to eat almost five to six catties of flour a day.

This was understated. With her father and second uncle’s strong labor, work, and big appetites, they had to eat four to five steamed buns a meal.

If the other elders, women, and children ate only one steamed bun per meal. Their family of 11 people would eat 51 steamed buns a day.

A catty of flour with water could make about seven steamed buns.

Steaming more than 50 steamed buns would cost more than seven catties of flour!

In other words, if their family were to eat their fill, just the flour would cost 30 copper coins a day, not to mention the money for vegetables or meat.

With the Ye family’s current economic level, of course, they could not let everyone eat their fill. They could only eat half of their fill.

Moreover, only about half the things they ate were actual food. The rest was just wild vegetables to fill their stomachs.

Wild vegetables did not cost money. They went to the mountains to dig them up. In fact, the Ye family only spent five copper coins a day to eat at most. They were so hungry that their stomachs were growling all the time.