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  Lin Lan An felt relieved and walked to Yao Jin Hua's side with a smile: "Sister, you're suddenly so concerned about me, I'm not used to it!"

  It's almost there!

  Yes! I'm very concerned, concerned about how to get a good price for her. Lin Lan pretended to be excited: "Sister-in-law, are you really making new clothes for me?"

  "Of course it's true, can this be fake?" Yao Jinhua had already calculated the cost for a whole night. To make new clothes for Lin Lan would at least cost 200-300 silver coins, not to mention her labor costs. Fortunately, Lin Feng had hunted a wild boar yesterday and sold it for 5 taels of silver, or else she really wouldn't have been willing to part with the money. However, if one set of new clothes could improve her relationship with Lin Lan, it was worth it, as long as Lin Lan was willing to become Zhang's concubine. Forget about 200-300 coins, in the future, even 200-300 taels of silver would be earned back. So Yao Jinhua answered very readily.

  "Then... I'd like to ask, is the money for making clothes the silver coins that my brother earned from selling wild boars?" Lin Lan smiled harmlessly.

  Lin Feng took over: "Yes! Yesterday's wild boar was sold for five taels of silver! Little sister, do you want anything else? Tell me, brother will buy it."

  Yao Jinhua kicked Lin Feng under the table, who asked you to act on your own?

  Lin Feng was kicked and let out a loud cry. Ye Zi slowly got up.

  "Brother, what's wrong?" Lin Lan asked knowingly, feeling annoyed in her heart. Her honest brother had been taken advantage of again.

  Lin Feng saw Jin Hua's face turn cold, looking very unhappy, but he didn't understand how Jin Hua could suddenly change her expression. Didn't she say it herself? These past few years, he had wronged his sister and needed to make it up to her. He also said that since his sister was grown up now, her attire should be more decent... Lin Feng muttered: "It seems like there's something in my shoe that's pressing against the sole."

  Lin Lan was too lazy to look at Yao Jinhua's hypocritical face, and only said faintly: "Oh! As long as it's brother's money, I'm relieved."

  She's saying ugly words beforehand, so when the time comes, Yao Jinhua won't jump out and say that she has received all the betrothal gifts and used them to make new clothes. Even if she said it, she wouldn't admit it anyway.

  Lin Lan took the basin out, and before she had left the yard, she heard her brother wailing again in the house. She was probably pinched on the ear by Yao Jinhua. Lin Lan quickened her pace, not wanting to hear anything.

  Today is a good day, the aunties in the village are all washing clothes by the creek, everyone is chatting and laughing, gossiping, doing their work with enthusiasm. Lin Lan especially likes this atmosphere, lively, warm, simple, unlike modern times where neighbors don't even know each other after living next door for years.

  "Zhuangzi's mother, is Zhuangzi going to get engaged?" an aunt asked.

  "Ah! It's true! I said it was the girl from Zhao's family in the neighboring village, and tomorrow they'll be sending the betrothal gifts."

  It's almost there~

  "If you say clever with your hands, in these ten miles and eight villages, who can compare to our village's Lin Lan?" Mrs. Jin, Baozhu's mother, was also squatting by the stream washing clothes, heard people praising Zhao's daughter, she felt a bit unconvinced.

  The aunt of Zhao's family laughed and said: "Who doesn't know that Old Lady Jin only has Lin Lan in her eyes? Lin Lan is a flower of our Ganxi Village."

  "Auntie Jin, you'd better hurry up, or someone will snatch it from you first!" someone jeered.

  "I'd like that too, but it's up to others if they're willing," said Jin Datie with a loud laugh, not hiding her fondness for Lin Lan at all.

  Aunt Jin said so, everyone cast their eyes on Lin Lan, and someone asked loudly: "Lin Lan, are you willing or not?"

  Lin Lan was so embarrassed that she had to lower her head and pretend to be deaf, the sound of the stick hitting the ground was loud and clear, these gossipy women would die if they didn't talk about her!

  Everyone burst out laughing.

  The second girl squatting beside her, not knowing the rules of propriety, poked Lin Lan's elbow with a stick and laughed very wickedly, saying: "Hey! Lin Lan, your future mother-in-law is asking if you are willing or not!"

  Lin Lan picked up a stone by the brook and threw it towards her, with a "thud" sound, splashing Er Niu's face with water.

  "Shameless, your future mother-in-law, future husband and future son are all calling for you, hurry up." Lin Lan said with a bad tone.

  The second girl was also very bold, and with a calm face, she touched the water on her face and said: "My husband is still in some woman's womb!"

  Lin Lan suddenly realized and looked at her: "Oh? So Er Niu likes Xiao Zhang Ah!"

  The girls on the side couldn't help but burst out laughing after hearing this, causing the aunties on that side to curiously glance over.

  Two girls were completely speechless, Lin Lan was even more fierce than her.

  "Whatever, I've got nothing to say, I'm just washing clothes..."

  Lin Lan wasn't really angry, it's just that this kind of joke had been repeated so many times that it became a fixed mindset, and everyone found it hard not to associate her with Bao Zhu. Lin Lan didn't like this kind of joke.

  "Hey! Lin Lan, look over there..." said Xi Shan, pointing at the other side of the river.

  Lin Lan raised her eyes and saw two people walking towards her on the small path leading into the village, two strangers.

  Xiashan said: "These two people came yesterday to ask about Li Xiucun! With a strong accent from outside, it's hard for me to hear. They've come again today."

  Lin Lan's heart skipped a beat as she looked for Li Xiūcái and still spoke with an outsider's accent...

  "Yesterday, they also asked my brother, and he said that the two men were still carrying knives on them. He didn't know what they wanted with Li Xiucun, so he didn't dare tell them that Li Xiucun lived in the back mountain." Er Niu also said.

  Li Xiuciai was quite popular in the village of Jianxi, from 80-year-old elderly women to young girls, everyone liked him, what can you do? He's handsome and cultured after all.

  Lin Lan was shocked, still with a knife? Won't it be detrimental to Li Xiuzai? Li Xiuzai entered the city yesterday, and now I don't know if he's back or not.

  Oh no! Those two stopped the cowherd boy, and he's just a little kid, who knows what he might say.

  As expected, those two smiled and patted the water doll's head, gave it something, then headed towards the back mountain.

  Lin Lan quickly threw the half-washed clothes back into the basin and said to Er Niu, "Er Niu, hurry back and call someone, I'll go take a look."

  "Okay, I'll go right away."

  "I'll go and call someone." Xi Shan volunteered himself.

  The three of them threw their clothes aside by the creek and went their separate ways.

  Lin Lan followed the two up the mountain, seeing that they were agile and light-footed, absolutely a master's apprentice. If these two wanted to harm Li Xiucui, Li Xiucui would definitely die miserably.

  Those two men walked very quickly, as if they were in a hurry to find Li Xiuciai. Lin Lan's plan to take a shortcut and inform Li Xiuciai first was ruined, so she could only follow them from a distance, hoping that Li Xiuciai was not in the broken hut at this time.

  They arrived at Li Xiucia's thatched cottage, and the two men knocked on the door a few times, but no one answered. One of them pushed open the door and went in, only to come out shortly: "Young master, he is not here."

  The man known as Gongzi furrowed his brow: "Where did that little brat run off to?"

  "What shall we do, young master?"

  "What to do? Just wait here, you can't escape from the temple even if you run, I've finally caught up with you..."

  Lin Lan listened to their conversation and felt more and more that these two people had come with ill intentions.

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