On the other side, when Ye Zechuan sent Wen Yu's chess pieces to the patriarch's room, Ye Tianhua had already taken the medicine and was lying on the bed.

In order not to disturb the patriarch's rest, he put down the chess box and left quietly.

Ye Zechuan planned to go back to the kitchen to help his mother with the work, because there were five more people living in Penglai Courtyard at once, and the workload of their mother and son to prepare dinner tonight was doubled.

Halfway there, he thought about it and turned back to the lake, and brought the lotus root that had been pulled out back to the kitchen.

"Mother, I'm back." When Ye Zechuan walked into the kitchen in the backyard, his mother, who was chopping wood next to the well, hurriedly put down the lotus root and walked over quickly, "Mother, your waist is not good, and I will do this kind of rough work in the future." ”

As he spoke, he had already taken the axe from the woman's hand.

The woman raised the boy beside her face, her eyes were full of love: "Ah Chuan, I'm not old or eighty yet, and I can still do this little thing of chopping wood." "Her voice was very nice, thin and soft, very soft.

As she spoke, the sun hit the side of her face, which was a very young and stunning face. The apricot eyes are black like paint, the autumn waves are gentle, and the smile on the face of the unpowdered Dai is faint, like a blooming lotus.

And in the same position under the corner of her left eye, there is a tear mole exactly the same as Ye Zechuan.

She wore her hair in a bun, a coarse cloth gown and a long skirt, but she still couldn't hide her gorgeous and extraordinary temperament.

Such a woman can be unforgettable at a glance.

Her name is Ye Suxue, and she used to be the first beauty in Ye Island.

"Mother, you know what? Of the five people who lived in Penglai Courtyard this time, I met three today, and one of them should inherit the position of patriarch in the future. Ye Zechuan didn't say what Xixi did against him today, but just picked up some simple but important news to tell his mother.

They often come and live in the backyard, cut off from almost all communication with outsiders, and his mother is mild-mannered but cold, showing indifference to anything that happens outside the world except him.

"Really?" Ye Suxue smiled faintly, sat down on the wooden bench next to her son, and began to lower her head and concentrate on picking vegetables, without the slightest intention of asking any more.

"Mother, they are also surnamed Ye, but none of them are from our island." Ye Zechuan raised his axe and split a thick piece of wood in half, and then continued, "Mother, don't you think it's strange? Why did Grandpa Tai pass on the position of patriarch to someone other than Hajima? ”

Ye Suxue's hand-picking action did not stop, but replied casually: "There's nothing strange about it, hasn't Ye Dao sent out fewer people in recent years?" Hasn't your second uncle been living outside the island as well? ”

The patriarch decided to send his descendants to live and study outside the island thirty years ago, and the purpose at that time was to let him learn the advanced technology of various countries and strengthen the entire Ye clan when he returned.

At that time, Ye Zechuan's father was the heir who was most valued by the patriarch, Ye Suxue and his childhood sweetheart, and he was inevitably sent out of Ye Island when he was ten years old.

It's a pity that many Ye clan members failed to withstand the temptation of the Huahua world, and after being affected by various bad social trends, they became selfish and selfish, and even killed each other with their clansmen for money and power.

The simple Ye clan that used to be harmonious and indisputable in the world has long since gradually disappeared under the erosion of the modern Ming Dynasty.