Chapter 36 Eating Honey

Ye Shuzhen, seeing her mother in the courtyard that afternoon, did not bring up switching tasks with Daya anymore.

In the afternoon, with Mrs. Lai helping out, the pace of threshing the rice quickened slightly. Mrs. Lai, who rarely engaged in such work, felt her back and waist ache after just half an hour.

Feeling unable to straighten her back, she used one hand to pound her plump backside, feeling soreness in her hands.

"Mother, now you know how hard we worked in the morning, don't you?" Seeing her mother's exhausted state, Ye Shuzhen was devoid of sympathy, instead harboring a mocking thought.

"Now mother must know, and from now on, she'll finish the chores at home before helping elder sister, don't you think, Mother?"

Ye Shuzhi vented the resentment she had been holding inside, saying thus to her mother's face. She knew that in this home, if her mother did not work, more of it would fall on her and her sisters.