The Lucky Farmgirl-Chapter 1948 - 1923: Disgusted (March Bonus Ticket Extra 6)

Xia Yi no longer listened to her, and along with his wife, he sprinted towards the village. Because he ran too fast, he fell down with a big thud, making so much noise that even Manbao, who had run quite a distance, could hear it and felt a stabbing pain in her knee.

She groaned twice, withdrew her head from the window back into the carriage, and said to Bai Shan, "Tomorrow, let the guards go and urge Patriarch Xia to collect the past rents, as well as the rents Officer Xu holds, and have Patriarch Xia collect them. The land is ’leased’ by him, so it’s only right for him to collect them."

He took her land, yet couldn’t even manage to accomplish the simple task of memorial sweeping, humph!

Bai Shan nodded with a smile, quite fond of her angry demeanor.

Xia Yi ran so fast that he even lost his shoe. When he ran back home, he saw a bunch of people sitting in his yard, with piles of broken straw against the wall. While the entire house was still a dirt-yellow color, he could tell the difference with just a glance: the straw on the roof was much cleaner and neater, definitely newly replaced.

The youths were drinking water and boasting when they saw Xia Yi return, they shouted for credit, "Uncle Yi, you’re back. Look at what we’ve done for you. Doesn’t it look good?"

Xia Yi trembled, turned around in place with quivering lips, and asked, "Where, where is my furniture? What happened to the stuff I moved back from the city?"

"It’s inside," the youths were still bragging, "We’ve fixed everything for you."

Xia Yi ignored them completely and rushed directly into the house. He checked all three rooms and found that everything inside had been replaced. He felt like he was struck by lightning and immediately rummaged through the boxes. Seeing the box he was looking for, he reached out his hand to feel inside...

He took out a cloth bag from inside, and upon seeing the money still inside, he finally breathed a slight sigh of relief but remained furious. He shoved the money back inside and charged outside, instantly bumping into the curious youth who had followed him in.

By this moment, the curiosity and smiles were gone from the youths’ faces, and the leader among them grabbed Xia Yi, shouting, "Uncle Yi, what do you mean by this? Are you suspecting me of stealing?"

Xia Yi shook off their hands, "I don’t have anything to say to you guys, where’s Dalang, Dalang—"

Xia Dalang heard the commotion and ran back from outside, his face covered in mud, excitedly saying, "Dad, you’re back. Where’s Mom?"

Xia Dalang rushed forward to grab him, receiving a smack on his backside from a large hand, unrelenting. The smacks sounded sharp, his face turning bright red as he angrily shouted, "I asked you to watch over the house, how did you do it? Who let you allow outsiders to touch the things inside our home, huh?"

Scolding while vigorously shaking his arm, in just one sentence, he slapped him seven or eight times. The youths were momentarily stunned but soon reacted, stepping forward to restrain him, "Uncle Yi, what are you doing? Dalang helped tidy up the house today, isn’t that good?"

"Exactly, and didn’t you just check, did you lose any money!" a youth sneered, "Even if we were short on money, we wouldn’t steal money, let alone with Lady Xin’s cousin here. Would we steal money in front of an officer?"

Not mentioning Zhou Man was fine, but upon mention, Xia Yi became even angrier. However, he was not ready to argue with the youths, so he turned around to grab the red-eyed Xia Dalang and continued beating, "I told you to be obedient, how dare you disobey me! Didn’t I tell you to keep a close eye on the house, on your siblings, not letting anyone touch the things inside our home..."

"Uncle Yi, what are you doing..."

The youths saw him getting more and more vicious, and couldn’t help but intervene, "If you keep this up, you’ll hurt him..."

"No matter what, you shouldn’t hit the child, right?"

"So we ended up helping wrongly? You should’ve said earlier, brothers, let’s remove the roof, take our straw back..."

While the room was in an uproar, Xia Yi’s family, who had trailed behind, finally arrived, panting heavily. Upon arrival, she saw Xia Yi hitting her son and instantly became displeased, stepping forward to push him away, "Why are you hitting the child, if you injure him, are you going to pay for medication?"

Once separated, Xia Yi’s wife brushed Xia Dalang’s face with her hand, wiping away his tears and urged him away, "Take your younger siblings to the kitchen, I’ll talk to your dad..."

Xia Dalang limped over to drag his cowering siblings back to the kitchen, meanwhile, in the yard, Xia Yi began to quarreling loudly with the youths from the clan.

Xia Erlong was terribly frightened, and with trembling voice asked, "Big brother, does it hurt?"

Xia Dalang wiped his tears and shook his head.

Sister Xia then asked, "Big brother, should we give our parents the money?"

Xia Dalang gritted his teeth and said, "No, none of you should tell them we have money."

Xia Erlong and Sister Xia were basically led by Xia Dalang for fun, without hesitation, they nodded, deciding to listen to their big brother.

Xia Dalang was already quite grown up, naturally passed the age where anything the parents said was followed. He turned his head to look outside, seeing his parents drive the people sitting in the yard away while swearing, he said with reddened eyes, "Dad is wrong to do this, tomorrow let’s go out and apologize to those people."

Xia Erlong was puzzled, "Why?"

Xia Dalang didn’t really know why. After thinking a bit, following his feelings, he said, "People helped us, we should at least thank them."

Not knowing Xia Dalang was beaten up, Manbao sat in the car and said to Bai Shan, "In the future, when he lies in bed, he’ll think, this bed was set by me; looking up at the roof, he’ll remember, this roof was repaired by Big Brother and Fifth Brother; sitting down to eat, he’ll recall, this was cleaned up by the Zhou Family, let’s see if he can sleep or eat peacefully."

Indeed Xia Yi felt somewhat sleepless and lost appetite. Looking at the drastic change in his home, he didn’t feel especially happy, rather he felt like throwing everything out and arranging them back according to his own liking, ideally even replacing the roof.

However, his wife was not as energetic. Seeing him being so restless, she just let him vent his anger as long as he wasn’t smashing things inside the house.

"Why don’t you smash those scraps in the yard to vent a bit?" The yard was filled with the old beds and tables from before, all dirty and rotten, while now the ones inside were brought back from the county town.

Seeing her all accepting attitude, Xia Yi was so angry that smoke nearly came out of his nose, he shouted, "You use the things they’ve fixed, doesn’t it bother you?"

"No," Xia Yi’s wife replied, "Weren’t these things also used by Lady Xin’s family before? Not bothered while living in it before, how is it bothersome now that they’re moved back?"

Xia Yi: ...

He was so furious that he couldn’t utter a word, "That’s not, not the same..."

"Why isn’t it the same? I think they’ve done a pretty decent job, otherwise the house was so messy and dirty, when would we finish cleaning it up ourselves? The wheat in the fields needs harvesting, the beans are almost ready, all of this needs work, are you still going to work in the city now? If we’re busy with home, how can we find time to tidy up? If these things were left outside and got rained on and ruined, what then?"

Xia Yi’s wife said, "If you ask me, they’ve done a good job, if you want to hate them then hate them, but why did you offend the people from the clan just now?"

Xia Yi spun around and walked away, not wanting to listen to her any longer. Xia Yi’s wife was exhausted and tired, also too lazy to keep talking. She directed her three children to cook, prepare dishes, and heat the water for her to bathe.