The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1049: What Are You Here For?!

Chapter 1049: Chapter 1049: What Are You Here For?!

"Go take a walk outside Sister Yushui’s house and check if the two kids are crying," he instructed. "Then come back and let her know."

"Oh."

Lin Changyi glanced at Liu Yushui’s retreating figure before looking back at his biological father and nodded in acknowledgment.

"Dad, I heard that of all the Lin Clan, Liu Yushui contributed the most money. Why does she still come here to work? Wouldn’t it be better for her to stay home and take care of the kids?"

In the village, the amount of money each family contributed was based on how much land they had, and it was always the same person from each family who came to work.

Since Liu Yushui was a woman with two infants only a few months old, she naturally gave the most, contributing the amount for an extra measure of land, saying that sometimes she couldn’t come to work because she was alone with the children.

Clan Chief Lin had agreed at the time to exempt her from coming.

So why did she insist on coming? Moreover, every morning when he came here to pick up stones, he would see Liu Yushui.

"Who knows? Go and check on it," Lin Baiyi said, unable to understand Liu Yushui’s motives.

He had no idea of the hardship Liu Yushui held in her heart.

Back when she was at the Liu Family, she was a noble young lady, one to whom food and clothing came without request.

Now, however, she was living alone with her two children in Ya Village, and everything had to be done by herself. She might not care how well she prepared their meals, but what if she bought several acres of land and then failed to grow crops? Wouldn’t they starve?

Sure, she had managed to get fifty taels of silver from Zhou Liang, but even fifty taels would run out someday. She couldn’t keep spending that money forever; she had to save it for emergencies.

Therefore, she had to learn how to farm, to earn her own living like the other women in the village, to provide for herself and her two children.

Of course, she had to learn many things, and even had to slowly build up her own strength.

"Oh, I’ll go then." Lin Changyi agreed and ran off.

Liu Yushui clenched her teeth and dumped two baskets of earth in the designated spot in the village before she planned to head back. But after only a couple of steps, she saw a hand blocking her path.

Looking up, her face immediately darkened upon recognizing the visitor.

"Zhou Liang, what are you doing here?!"

"Yushui, I... I came to see how you are. Why are you doing this kind of work here? Have you spent all the silver I gave you? No problem, I’ll go home and get more for you. You don’t have to do this," Zhou Liang said, his brow furrowing at the sight of the blisters on Liu Yushui’s hands and her slightly jaundiced complexion.

"Tsk."

Hearing his words, Liu Yushui scoffed.

If she were still the Liu Yushui of the past, she might have foolishly believed that Zhou Liang realized his mistakes, had a change of heart, and wanted to treat her well again.

But now, she had already survived a brush with death, and if she still couldn’t see Zhou Liang’s true colors, she might as well take her two daughters and jump into a river.

"Stop with the pretense. You think I don’t know what you’re really thinking?"

"You... Why would you say that? Yushui, I really want to make amends with you. It doesn’t matter that the child is gone; we can have another. As long as you can forgive me, I promise you anything," Zhou Liang said, trying to reach out and stop her as she started to leave, but she dodged away.