Chapter 39 Good Things Are About to Happen

Ye Daquan and his siblings, as well as Ye Jin’er, were anxiously sitting outside Ye Caiping’s door.

Even Old Man Ye Youtian and his wife were so worried that they squatted in the courtyard.

With a creak, the door opened, and Ye Caiping stepped out.

“Little sister, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?” Ye Daquan immediately rushed over and whispered in her ear, “How about we go to Li Family Village together and throw a bucket of dung at them while they’re getting married?”

“Poof—” Ye Caiping couldn’t help but laugh and shot him a glare. “No way! Otherwise, they’ll never let us off the hook. We already said that our marriages have nothing to do with each other.”

Yan Fang immediately came forward, saying, “That’s right, we can’t go cause trouble. Otherwise, people will think Caiping is still interested in him. If the matchmakers hear about it, how will she get married?”

Although Yan Fang was also angry, she had to think it through at this moment.

Ye Daquan’s face twisted a bit. Right, his little sister still had to get married! It wouldn’t be good to ruin her reputation.

“As long as they don’t come to provoke us, we won’t bother them either. We just need to live our own lives well.” Ye Caiping stretched lazily.

Although she was set up as the cannon fodder whose role was to die  and provide ginseng, and supply space tools.

But heaven had shown her mercy, and she awakened to the plot. Now, this life was hers, and she could choose whatever path she wanted.

She didn’t necessarily have to be enemies with Li Jiaojiao; it was enough for her to live her own life well.

At that moment, Ye Daquan’s stomach let out a loud growl, and Ye Caiping was startled. “Haven’t you eaten yet?”

“No, we’re waiting for you. Your sister-in-law has already reheated the buns and porridge twice.”

“Come on, let’s eat!”

Seeing that Ye Caiping had recovered, Yan Fang and Old Man Ye felt a heavy stone lift from their hearts and smiled.

The family happily finished their meal, and then Ye Caiping took her two daughters back to their room to count money.

Today, since she had prepared an extra bucket, she earned 500 wen more, totaling one tael and eighty wen.

Ye Caiping felt that the money-making speed was a bit slow. She needed to upgrade her space to sell some items.

However, upgrading the space required ten taels.

After selling the ginseng last time and buying spices and hot soup ingredients, she was left with four taels of silver. With the earnings from the past couple of days, she now had six taels.

It wasn’t enough; she needed to save for a few more days.

Seeing her sigh, Ye Jin’er anxiously asked, “Mother, about the ginseng on the mountain…”

“What ginseng?” Ye Huan’er looked at her with curiosity.

“Nothing much, just your sister daydreaming, thinking she can dig ginseng on the mountain.” Ye Caiping replied.

Ye Huan’er burst out laughing.

Ye Jin’er furrowed her brow, almost unable to sit still in her anxiety.

She didn’t understand why their mother wasn’t worried and was even lying to her sister.

“Here, let me give you some pocket money.” Ye Caiping, just like yesterday, handed each of them three wen. “Go have some fun!”

Ye Huan’er giggled and stuffed the wen into Ye Caiping’s hand, saying, “Mother, save it for me. I’m going to catch grasshoppers!”

After saying that, Ye Huan’er ran out of the room.

Ye Caiping watched her retreating figure, smiling and shaking her head.

“Mother, about the ginseng…” Ye Jin’er was almost beside herself with anxiety.

“Don’t mention ginseng again.” Ye Caiping didn’t know how to explain it to her at the moment, so she thought for a moment and said, “I think… something will happen over the mountain soon.”

“Huh?”

Just then, someone outside suddenly shouted, “Oh no! A big python has appeared on the mountain, over ten feet long! Who’s going with me to catch the snake?”

“I’ll go! I’ll go!” It was Ye Daquan’s voice, “Where’s the snake?”

“By the jujube trees.”

Ye Jin’er looked at Ye Daquan’s figure running outside and was left in a state of confusion.

The ginseng was not far from the jujube trees.

Ye Caiping curled her lips in a mocking smile.

They had already discovered the ginseng, but in the book, they had not been able to dig it up for a long time, needing to wait until a specific day. There must have been various factors hindering their progress.

“So there really is something going on.” Ye Jin’er looked dispirited. “Then why didn’t Mother just tell my sister the truth?”

“She’s too young; I’m afraid she might let it slip.”

Ye Caiping still trusted Huan’er. Not telling the truth was simply to avoid having one more person coveting something that didn’t belong to them.

Ye Caiping had considered getting the ginseng before the female lead, but she knew that she couldn’t go up the mountain before the fated day.

And that fated day… was the day of her and Jin’er’s life-threatening ordeal!

She didn’t want to risk their lives for a piece of ginseng.

“The clothes still haven’t been washed. Let’s go to the river to do the laundry. Oh, and we still have the tub and bowls from selling spicy soup this morning,” Ye Caiping said.

The mother and daughter tidied up a bit and headed to the river to wash their things.

Ye Caiping chose a spot that was where they soaked the cassava.

As soon as they arrived at the river, they heard a commotion of gasps.

Ye Caiping walked closer to see Tie Niu’s wife, Zhuzi’s wife, and two boys a little over ten years old.

Ye Caiping recognized them; these two boys were the sons of her cousin Ye Sanquan, named Ye Xing and Ye Wang.

The group was standing at the water’s edge, looking nervously into the water.

“Brother Yong, keep it up, do you still have breath left?” Ye Xing urged.

“You little brat, what nonsense are you talking? Just get to the shore!” Tie Niu’s wife glared at him.

Ye Caiping walked over and saw Ye Yong struggling in the water, dragging someone along. From the clothes, it looked like a girl.

Before long, Ye Yong made it to the shore, and the girl was also pulled up, placed on the grass.

“Xiuxiu? Xiuxiu, what’s wrong?” Ye Yong kept slapping her face.

After a while, Hu Xiuxiu vomited the water from her stomach and weakly nodded, “I… I’m fine. It’s all thanks to you, thank you…”

“Hurry, put on a coat. Let’s go home first.” Tie Niu’s wife quickly took off her outer garment and put it on Hu Xiuxiu.

Hu Xiuxiu shivered with cold; the autumn water was very chilly.

She was embraced by Iron Bull’s wife as she stood up, then glanced back at Ye Yong before leaving.

“What happened?” Ye Jin’er guessed the gist of it but still asked.

“Oh, it’s Caiping.” Zhuzi’s wife walked over.

Ye Yong and the two boys from Sanquan’s family immediately called out, “Auntie, Auntie.”

“Let me tell you… just now, Tie Niu’s wife, Xiuxiu, and I were washing clothes together. Xiuxiu’s clothes floated away, and she went to retrieve them, but she slipped and fell into the water. Your nephew Yong saved her…”

Zhuzi’s wife couldn’t hide her smile and leaned over to Ye Caiping’s ear, whispering, “Your nephew is about to have a good thing happen with Xiuxiu.”

Zhuzi’s wife had heard a little about what was going on between Ye Yong and Hu Xiuxiu.