Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life Chapter 1560 - 1549: Honest Fool

Reborn in this life, the original wish was not to foolishly sacrifice for parents and brothers anymore, but to take good care of his wife and daughters, protecting them from the misfortune of their past lives.

Ye Qiu organized his memories and opened his eyes. In this life, he chose the Level 8 Body Refining Technique skill.

"Calling you all, are you pretending not to hear? Don’t want to work anymore?" The door was pounded loudly, the not-so-sturdy wooden door seemed as if it might fall at any moment.

Ye Qiu hadn’t gotten up yet, but his wife Niu Xue Mei was already dressed. Not just her, the original owner’s two daughters also crawled up from the small bed beside them.

His eldest daughter, Ye Congying, whispered to her younger sister, Ye Congzi, "Sister, let’s get up quickly to catch bugs for the chickens to eat, or Grandma will scold us again."

"Sister, can I have an egg today?" The younger daughter said groggily, her tone full of hope.

"We can’t steal the eggs; Grandma says they’re for Big Brother and Second Brother." Ye Congying, though only a child, spoke with a serious tone.

"But I saw Uncle stealing one the other day. We take care of the chickens, so why can’t we eat the eggs? Yesterday, I was laughed at by Erya because she sometimes even gets to eat half!"

"We are not the same. Erya has a brother, and her brother gives it to her."

"But we also have Big Brother and Second Brother. They eat eggs every day. Why don’t they ever give us any?"

"It’s different; Big Brother and Second Brother are from Uncle’s family."

Listening to his daughters’ conversation, Ye Qiu felt a surge of anger. At just five years old, his little girl was already so understanding and had recognized the reality of this family. How much had she gone through?

It’s just an egg, which was taken care of by his two daughters every day, yet they couldn’t even have one. Meanwhile, Ye Conghui and Ye Conghuang, those two lads, only know how to play and fool around, but they get to eat eggs every day. Why?

The two brothers were eating eggs laid by the chickens that Ye Congying and Ye Congzi took care of every day. Not to mention sharing some with the sisters, it would be good enough if they weren’t bullied and mocked any given day.

The original owner was still hoping that these two nephews would support him in old age? In the past life, his two daughters were sold, and his wife was forced to death. Do such people have any conscience?

Fortunately, in this life, he’s here. He will never let his daughters suffer such a fate again. There must be a family division.

"Cong Ying, take your sister and go back to sleep for a while." Ye Qiu said.

Ye Congying paused in her dressing, hesitantly saying, "But if we delay feeding the chickens, Grandma will scold us."

"Let her scold all she wants. Don’t take it to heart."

"What’s wrong?" Niu Xue Mei asked, looking at him in the dim morning light. "We still have to go to the fields. Why haven’t you gotten up?"

"What’s wrong?" Ye Qiu’s voice rose. "Is my daughter not a daughter? They wake up so early every day to feed the chickens and can’t even eat a single egg. Why bother feeding them?"

"But someone has to do the household chores." Niu Xue Mei said timidly.

"Is this family just the four of us? You’re not allowed to get up either. Whoever wants to eat should make the food." Ye Qiu lay back down, fully clothed.

"Is this really okay? What if Father and Mother start scolding? Cong Hui needs to eat breakfast before going to school!" Niu Xue Mei, a woman entirely raised in a feudal society, had her thoughts poisoned by this environment.

In her understanding, having two daughters was letting the Ye Family down, so doing more work was expected. However, her submissive nature had a little advantage, as in this patriarchy society, she wouldn’t argue against any decision Ye Qiu made, so she truly didn’t get up to make breakfast.

Ye Congzi, a clever and crafty child, lay back down happily while her elder sister hesitated. After all, if there were no eggs to eat, then as Dad said, why bother feeding the chickens?

"What are you planning exactly?" Niu Xue Mei asked again.

"I had a dream last night. In it, the four of us lived miserably. Cong Ying and Cong Zi were hastily married because they had no dowry and suffered a lot. We as a couple couldn’t move when we were old and had to sleep in a drafty cowshed." Ye Qiu began to fabricate a story.

"How is that even possible?" Niu Xue Mei retorted, "Mother already promised to start saving dowries for Cong Ying and Cong Zi, and we’ve been so kind to Cong Hui. How can he disregard us? He is studying, will surely succeed big, and won’t leave his own uncle and aunt unattended, right? Don’t overthink it. Elders say dreams are often opposite of reality. Don’t anger Mother over this, I’ll get up and work."

"Do not go." Ye Qiu said angrily, then gave her a proper analysis, "You believed Mother just because she said she’s saving dowries for Cong Ying and Cong Zi? She even begrudges them an egg. I don’t believe she’ll give much to our daughters. Furthermore, Cong Ying and Cong Zi have been well-behaved and have done how much work for this family ever since they were little? If they have any dowry, it would be from their own hard work. How is that reasonable?"

"What village girl doesn’t work? Isn’t this just how everyone gets by?" Niu Xue Mei thought nothing of it because she herself had to work at home since she was young, even more than her two daughters.

"At least village girls get new clothes for the new year and have eggs to eat. What about our daughters?"

"Isn’t this because there’s no money at home?"

"No money at home?" Ye Qiu sneered. "Then where did the twenty taels tuition fee for Ye Conghui come from each year?"

"Twenty taels a year?" Niu Xue Mei was stunned by this number.

"Figure it out, that’s just the tuition. Add the cost of buying books, paper, pencils, clothes, and shoes, not counting food; it costs at least thirty taels a year for him alone. Is this a family with no money? Everyone in this family gets new clothes, except the four of us from the third branch. The more I think about it, the angrier I get." Ye Qiu’s angry voice echoed in the shabby house, emphasizing the bleakness.

Ye Congying, though only five, was sensible and felt unhappy hearing her father’s words. During New Year’s, all the girls had new clothes. Last year, she didn’t ask for new clothes, only for Grandma to buy her a red hair rope. Grandma refused, saying she was an outsider destined to marry off, so why spend so much family money?

She knew a red hair rope wasn’t expensive; two eggs could be exchanged for one, but Grandma still wouldn’t agree.

Now hearing her father, she felt even more aggrieved, and where she had felt anxious for not feeding the chickens earlier, she now calmed down. She thought maybe letting those chickens starve would even things out: if she didn’t get a red hair rope, then Big Brother and Second Brother wouldn’t get eggs either, and that would be fair.