In accordance with tradition, on the night before the wedding, two children had to be found to press down the bridal bed, symbolizing the early arrival of a precious child.
However, the children in the village who were of age were all too dirty. Nowadays, the conditions in the households had changed, and the children were naturally cleaner. They never lacked clothing, changing every three days, sothing that those who wouldn’t change their clothes even once throughout the winter could not compare to.
Thus, Mrs. He was afraid the children pressing the bed would dirty the new bedding, and she could only instruct her staff to bathe the children and change their clothes before sending them to press the bed.
Being able to receive a new piece of clothing for free naturally made the children’s families happy.
At this ti, after clarifying the situation, Mrs. He explained, "This silver was in your child’s pocket when he ca last night."
"How is that possible?" the woman didn’t believe it. She knew her own family’s situation well enough to be certain they couldn’t have that much silver, let alone to put it in a child’s pocket.
Thinking this, the woman hurriedly asked the child standing in front of her, and thus ca to a conclusion.
As it turned out, soone had asked for directions yesterday and then given the child sothing. The child, never having seen silver before, didn’t know what it was and had absentmindedly stuffed it into his pocket.
Knowing that the person had been inquiring about Ye Jiu’s household, the woman couldn’t help but look awkwardly towards Mrs. He, "Auntie, what do you think about this..."
Since the person was just asking for directions, in principle, they shouldn’t accept the silver. Therefore, since the person was a guest of the Ye Family, they naturally had to ask the Ye Family mbers what to do.
Mrs. He herself didn’t understand the situation either since, after all, the couple from the Jingwang household did not co looking for her yesterday.
Luckily, Ye Jiu was right behind her at that mont and readily answered, "The guest who ca yesterday wasn’t short on money, that silver is probably a reward given by the noble person. Since it was given, sister-in-law, just keep it. It’s what you deserve."
With Ye Jiu’s words, the woman finally felt relieved, and the people around couldn’t help but feel envious.
Mrs. He was indeed remarkable nowadays, having given birth to a pair of good children. Even the visitors to her house were extraordinary; the reward money casually given looked to be several taels of silver, clearly indicating unusual wealth.
While there was so free ti, Ye Jiu noticed Wenyu trying to stifle a yawn and pulled him to a quiet corner to ask, "How’s it going, is the mountain cleaned up yet?"
Since Ada and the others had not returned yet, Ye Jiu didn’t know the situation. However, since Wenyu hadn’t returned yesterday and had moved out with Ada and the others, he should be aware.
"Those corpses, they say, have all been taken to the manor. It took dozens of trips back and forth to finish pulling them, and it wasn’t until dawn that the cleanup was completed. So that we missed woke up from the drug and ran off. As for the bloodstains on the ground, they’re hard to deal with, and without rain, it’s feared they won’t wash away; they’re still out there hanging," Wenyu explained.
Only then did Ye Jiu feel relieved. Otherwise, if the villagers saw so many animal carcasses, it would surely cause a commotion!
If they knew she was responsible, they might even think she was a monster.
"And what about Ada and the others?" Ye Jiu asked again.
"They’re in the manor dealing with those animals; there are so many, and the courtyard is stacked full of them. Just the sparrows filled up two carts, and that’s not even one-tenth of them—the rest that woke up flew away," Wenyu continued, wiping sweat from his brow.
No one knew what kind of divine concoction was in the soup last night, but it had attracted so many animals to go mad. Fortunately, those that didn’t die woke up today and left on their own, otherwise having to do this all over again would really be deadly.
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