Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich

Chapter 75: Chapter 74 Don’t Bully My Sister

Ye Shiqi had carved an original wooden doll on the first day, followed by some strange and quirky wooden toys. She didn’t store away those finished toys while continuously playing with them.

All she knew was that her father took them to be polished and painted, but he never returned them to her.

Hongji, recognizing his young daughter’s talent in carving, meticulously helped finalize the work, painted the toys, and once the paint dried, stored all of his daughter’s toys in a small wooden box in the toolbox.

He thought of giving his wife a surprise when she returned home.

After 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., as usual, Daya took her two sisters outside to work, anxious and hopeful for their mother’s return and afraid to stay at home, not tending to the fields outside.

In those days, they had grown accustomed to working outside in the morning, carving after lunch, fetching vegetables and digging wild grass for pig feed, cooking dinner upon returning in the evening, and then studying carving at home.

During this period, the village children would come to their yard to play and watch them carve. The adults at home also bought them carving knives to practice with in the yard.

“Daya, how about we compare our skills at noon? I think my carving is better than yours.”

Daya, carrying a basket on her back and working in the paddy fields with her two sisters, encountered Gou Dan and a few boys playing by the roadside, seemingly catching small bugs to put in a box.

“No need to compare, you’ve already lost. Look at you, all sloppy. Do you think you can learn anything?”

Daya had always disliked Gou Dan, who was not only mischievous but also dirty, always mixing with other village boys. Some diligent boys were already cowherders, helping at home, and would eventually learn to become delinquents.

“Don’t look down on people, Daya. Even if I love to play, I’m still a boy. Can you, a girl, match that? Hmph.”

Gou Dan felt humiliated in front of his brothers as Daya spoke thus, and his brothers were laughing at him.

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“Give me a break… How are you anything like me? Just because you’re a boy?” Daya quickened her pace after speaking, ignoring Gou Dan.

“Hahaha, brother, you’re being laughed at, right?” the boys teased Gou Dan.

“What… you really look down on me, you girl, this is absurd… If I, Brother Gou Dan, don’t show my power, everyone will think I’m just a sick cat…”

Seeing Daya walk away, unwilling to be ridiculed, Gou Dan quickened his steps, caught up to her, grabbed her sleeve, and said:

“Alright then, Daya, you, a girl, dare to look down on Brother Gou Dan? I need to show you my strength so you realize just how formidable I am.”

“Let go… men and women shouldn’t be in physical contact, what? Do you want to hit me?”

Daya was both ashamed and angry at being grabbed by a boy. She forcefully shook off Gou Dan’s hand with more strength than before, nearly causing Gou Dan to stagger.

“Ah, hahaha…”

The boys watching the drama laughed out loud again.

Gou Dan, laughed at by his friends again, clenched his fists tight, his face flushed red, eyes glaring at Daya. He felt extremely humiliated, as normally he considered himself strong as an ox and his friends couldn’t defeat him in wrestling or fighting.

“Gou Dan, get out of here, you’re not allowed to bully my sister.”

“Get out, you can’t bully my sister.”

Er Ya and Sanya blocked Gou Dan, not allowing him to step forward, ready to fight him if he moved any closer.

“You all… women and villains are difficult to raise.”

Gou Dan was stared down by three girls, and although he loved to play, he couldn’t bring himself to hit a girl. If it had been a boy, he would have punched him already.

Daya grabbed her two sisters’ hands, ignoring Gou Dan, and quickly ran towards their own fields.

“Gou Dan, aren’t you going to chase them? Weren’t you going to compete with her?”

Seeing Daya and her sisters run off, Gou Dan’s buddy felt the show was over and urged him to chase after them.

“Chase what? Didn’t I arrange to compete with her in carving at noon? It’s not about competing in the fields. Let’s continue catching crickets. I’ll catch a bigger and more impressive one later. Don’t cry if you lose.”

Gou Dan almost lost face in front of his brothers, preferring to be ridiculed by them than to chase after a girl to fight.

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Shiqi had finished her breakfast and was bored to death! Sitting around waiting for her mother to return was even worse than taking her fourth sister to learn carving with their father.

This morning, her father and grandfather were working in the tool shed. Normally, Huilai’s kids, maybe because they felt it was boring to come here every day, wouldn’t stay all day long; some would go play in the morning and come back in the afternoon.

Some didn’t listen to their parents and stopped coming altogether.

“Clip-clop”

The sound of horses and carriages echoed from afar at the entrance, gradually drawing nearer to their house.

The loud noise from working in the tool shed initially drowned out the sounds from the entrance.

Gradually, the sounds at the entrance grew louder, unnoticed by those working in the shed, but Mrs. Lai, who was eating sunflower seeds and drinking tea in the courtyard, fixed her gaze, quickly stood up with her plump body, and walked briskly to stand in the yard.

Ye Shuzhi and Ye Shuzhen, at the room’s window, could clearly see outside the courtyard gate.

Seeing the mounted guard was a middle-aged man, a young lad, with two horse-drawn carriages following behind, Ye Shuzhi couldn’t help but walk out to the courtyard to watch.

The rider entered the courtyard first and dismounted, followed by the carriages. Finally, an old woman and maids came out of the carriages, and Mrs. Li emerged from one carriage, cradling a boy about three years old as she stepped down.

With such a commotion, Hongji and his son, who were carpentering in the tool shed, put down their tools and quickly went to wash their hands.

Siwa and Shiqi also stopped their carving, their gazes fixed intently on their mother, who was holding another boy.

“Siya, Wuya, why are you two holding knives at such a young age? Knives can cause injuries; put the knives down quickly.”

Mrs. Li had just put the boy down on the ground when she saw her husband and father-in-law, mother-in-law, and two younger sisters-in-law; especially seeing the youngest daughters with knives in the tool shed side had her trembling with fear.

“Mommy… Mommy, you’re back, boo hoo.” Siya cried as she ran over and hugged her mother’s thighs.

Shiqi stood still where she was; she could stand and walk with support but couldn’t run towards her mom like Siya had. She too felt the impulse, stretched out her arms for a hug, and stared intently at her mother.

Tang Shunyan, when being carried off the carriage by the wet nurse, noticed the dilapidated house here, and also saw a shabby house built of wild grass.

From this rundown house rushed out a girl of about his age holding a small knife, and even a younger girl was holding a knife too.

When the youngest girl stretched out her hands, his body involuntarily walked over, wanting to pick up the girl, completely oblivious to the fact that he himself was very small and had just been carried.