After Mrs. He left, Old Man Ye finally said to Ye Jiu, "When you have nothing better to do, don't listen to your mother's constant chattering; spend your time learning women's crafts instead. Stay out of adults' business."
Ye Jiu personally served Old Man Ye his meal and then asked in a low voice, "Are you still blaming me in your heart?"
"Hmph!" Old Man Ye gruffly continued eating his meal without speaking.
"Father, the wasteland behind the village is just a few acres, worth merely about a dozen taels of Silver. It's not valuable. Can't you just indulge Mother to make her happy? Or, if you want the land, we still have hundreds of taels of Silver. We can afford dozens of acres of good farmland. Why must you argue over that trivial matter with Mother?" Ye Jiu just couldn't understand.
