His new clothes were torn, his father had grown tired of beating, and the couple faced tears in the New Year.
Ye Jiaxing, facing his crying parents, could not blame them for the pain he was enduring; he could only sigh that his family was too poor and had been bullied because of their poverty.
Ye Jiaxing's brothers were not much better off; they too were dragged home by their parents and beaten.
But they all said they had done nothing, merely helped a brother who was about to be beaten.
How could brothers not stand up for each other!
Their parents called them fools. If others were fighting, why should they get involved?
Ye Jiaxing had fought with a rich family for the sake of a girl, not considering the situation of his own household. Would the daughter of Hongji's house marry him?
The boys, thus admonished by their parents, were not seen in a good light, and chastised again for not having any fields to cultivate after the New Year. What were they to do!
