"No problem!" Wei Yilin immediately became happy, "I knew that my sister loves me the most. Unlike that new person, I don’t know what she does every day, and today she even begged mother to let her go out."
“She has already gone out? Where did she go?” Wei Qingwan asked in surprise.
“She went to the north of the city and went to see the farm. Isn't she very strange? If she likes farming so much, she can just stay in the countryside, why does she need to come back?” Wei Yilin said disgustedly.
"Did Mother accompany her there?" Wei Qingwan continued to ask.
"She went on her own. Mother is so busy, she has to worry about so many things at home, and she doesn't have time to accompany her to do that kind of thing!"
"So it’s like that……" Wei Qingwan pondered, with a slightly downcast expression.
Seeing Wei Qingwan's sad expression, Wei Yilin quickly comforted her: "Sister, do not worry, although Mother is very good to her, but I’m sure, Mother's heart is the same as mine, she definitely likes you far more than Wei Qingruo!"
Wei Qingwan shook her head: "It is okay. She has suffered in the countryside all these years, so it is only right for father and mother to treat her better. It is me who owes her, how can I still ask Father and Mother to treat me better than they treat her?"
"Sister, you think too much and think of other people too much." Wei Yilin flattened his mouth and said helplessly.
"We are a family, it is appropriate for me to think of everyone. Yilin, you are not a child anymore, you have to think more of your parents and stop causing trouble."
"I get it, I get it." He promised, but did not take it to heart at all.
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On the way back from the north of the city, Wei Ruo looked at the scenery along the way through the window of the carriage.
She saw many beggars begging along the streets, more than anywhere else she had been.
The streets were not as bustling as she had imagined for a county town, nor as lively as in Huaibei Town.
She asked Mo mo Zhang and learned that many of them were local fishermen, who were unable to fish and had no livelihood due to the troubles caused by the Japanese pirates. That was why they fell to this point.
In addition, the weather had been bad over the years, it was windy and rainy, so the rice production had fallen sharply and the farmers had not been able to harvest. Some of them even had deteriorated to begging for a living.
Knowing the reason, Wei Ruo looked at those ragged and skinny beggars again, feeling a little depressed.
Especially when their gaze met her, a rich young lady dressed gorgeously sitting in a carriage accompanied by servants. Wei Ruo, a soul from modern times, could not help but tremble slightly.
There was no light in their eyes, and when they looked at Wei Ruo, their eyes were empty and numb, without jealousy or hate, as if they had accepted this suffering life.
After riding for a while, Wei Ruo saw a peddler selling seafood.
After asking, she learned that he was a fisherman that went out to fish in the middle of the night at the risk of being killed by Japanese pirates.
But because everyone's living conditions were not very good, the seafood remained unsold and there was still a large basket left.
Seeing that the seafood was very fresh, Wei Ruo asked Xiumei to buy them all.
When she heard Wei Ruo say that she would buy them all, Mo mo Zhang, who was accompanying her, immediately widened her eyes and then said to Wei Ruo as politely as possible: "Miss, seafood is not cheap. Nowadays there are fewer seafood sellers and the price is too high, this big basket will cost at least two taels of silver!"
Where did Wei Ruo get the money to buy so many things? Do not take things and not be able to pay for them, it would disgrace the Colonel’s Mansion.
Otherwise, she would have to take credit first and have someone collect the money from the Colonel's Mansion. Then the Colonel Mansion had to pay for her impulsive actions.
"Well, I know, I use my own private money." Wei Ruo could see what Mo mo Zhang was worried about.
Her own money? Where did she get it?
What kind of servant wonders about their employers pockets? Tsk. Looks like someone needs to be re-educated.