"I think it's okay!" Uncle Lu was the first to express his firm opinion!

"This money was originally earned by Er Gouzi in order to marry a husband, so he should spend it on her!

We couldn't afford so much silver before, but what a coincidence, God let Ergouzi kill a tiger and get so much reward silver.

What does this mean? This is God's will! It was God who allowed Er Gouzi to marry a husband.

We can’t go against God’s will!”

Uncle Lu even pulled up the banner of heaven.

The ancients believed in gods and ghosts. After Uncle Lu said this, Mother Lu also began to seriously consider this matter.

Originally they had saved up eight taels of silver for Ergouzi, thinking that two taels would be used as a betrothal gift and six taels would be used for the wedding.

Now Ergouzi has earned all his expenses by himself, and the original eight taels can be saved.

The Lu family did not lose out.

"Okay! These twenty taels were earned by Er Gouzi himself, so it's right to spend them all on her.

If he couldn't marry Zhao Cuizhi, it would be the same if he used her to marry someone else.

Let’s do it!”

Mother Lu also agreed.

"Mom, Dad, since you two have agreed, I will go ahead and do it!" My eldest brother-in-law smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

Ergouzi seemed to be saved, and the haze in the main room dissipated a little.

In a mud house on the west side of the main hall, although Lu Yaoren was lying on the bed, he was always paying attention to his parents' movements.

The house here is not soundproof, and the loud conspiracies in the main room reached Lu Yao's ears word for word.

After hearing the elders' strategy of using high-priced betrothal gifts to cast a wide net, Lu Yao still felt uneasy.

Judging from the situation when I went to the Zhao family to propose marriage today, the original owner Er Gouzi’s reputation was extremely bad!

Lu Yao really doubted whether her next blind date would go smoothly.

If she still hasn't found a husband by next year, Lu Yao thought of the iron law of the court and felt nervous.

Exile = death!

She must not be exiled!

Then you can only pay a huge fine.

Sixty taels of silver!

The reward for killing the tiger was twenty taels of silver, and there was twenty taels in the exquisite purse. Lu Yao thought that she already had forty taels.

Next, she only needed to earn another twenty taels to save her life.

Lu Yao cannot put all her hopes on finding a husband, she needs to make preparations for both scenarios.

There was no one in the room, so she turned over and looked under the bed.

This is a large bunk bed made up of several wooden beds lined up together. The Lu family has many people but few rooms, so many of the younger generations sleep together on this large bunk bed.

The bed board is made of wooden slats of varying widths, and there are gaps in many places.

Lu Yao took advantage of the gap to wrap the exquisite purse containing twenty taels of silver with the original owner's smelly foot binding cloth and tied it firmly under the bed.

After covering it with straw and bedding, it was not visible at all.

Although she had traveled through time, she had no personal space and no room of her own, so she could only use this method to secretly hide her huge sum of money under the bed.

She took advantage of the fact that no one was around to look at where the money was hidden, and found the bag of silver was still there.

......

There is a large courtyard on the hillside east of Shanyang Village.

Built against the mountain, the houses are scattered in an orderly manner, and they are all made of blue bricks and large tiles. At first glance, it is obvious that they are the residences of wealthy families.

Xie Jingran lives here.

Under the shade of the green trees, beside the carved window frame, a young man in blue put down the book in his hand and asked the servant who was doing needlework beside him:

"Songyan, it's been three days. How's the benefactor doing? Have you found out anything?"

Xie Jingran did not forget to thank the tiger-fighting hero.

Songyan continued with the work in his hands: "Don't worry, sir, I have been keeping an eye on that Er Gouzi these days!"

After all, they are all in the same village. Although they live a little far away from each other and the rich and the poor don’t talk to each other, as long as the servants come out and ask around, they can still find out a lot about the village.

"That Er Gouzi got a reward of 20 taels of silver for killing a tiger!"

Because of Liu Fang's vigorous publicity at the time, the whole village knew about this matter. When Song Yan came out to inquire about the matter, this was the thing he heard the villagers talk about the most.

"This reward is not small. I heard from the villagers that this money is enough for the whole family to eat and drink for several years without worrying about anything!

That county magistrate is quite generous!" Songyan smiled as she reported to her son while sewing a pair of new shoes.

Xie Jingran listened, thought for a moment, and asked, "How did you deal with the dead tiger?"

Song Yan was surprised: "I don't know. No one in the village is talking about that. Sir, do you have any explanation?"

Xie Jingran smiled and said, “What a coincidence, I once took a rough look at Dafeng’s Code at my grandmother’s house in the capital.

There is another very interesting regulation in it, which talks about this situation.

The body of a killed tiger will belong to the killer, regardless of whether he has received any reward from the government.

The purpose is to encourage those who are capable to take action and eliminate harm for the people."

"So that's how it is!" Song Yan suddenly realized, "No one in the village mentioned the dead tiger. It seems that no one knows about this rule, and that Er Gouzi didn't bring the tiger carcass back.

Oh, it's a big tiger. Just the skin and bones are worth a lot of money!"

Although Songyan didn't know the regulations, he knew that tigers were full of treasures, and very valuable ones at that.

Many dignitaries in the capital like to drink wine soaked in tiger bones, and it is very expensive and difficult to come by.

"That idiot Ergou." Songyan suddenly felt that the twenty taels of silver reward was not attractive anymore.

Xie Jingran shook his head: "Don't jump to conclusions yet. After all, we don't know what's going on."

But in all likelihood, that Er Gouzi didn't get the tiger's corpse.

"Songyan, although that benefactor received a reward from the government, one thing is one thing, and that reward cannot represent my gratitude.

Go find Madam Xie and prepare some gifts, and go to the benefactor's home with Zhan Ying to thank him on my behalf."

It was not convenient for Xie Jingran to go and express his gratitude directly, so he asked his personal servant and guard to do it for him.

"I know, sir!" Song Yan agreed, "But if you really think about it, that Er Gouzi didn't go out of his way to save you that day.

She saved everyone, but no one else thanked her. Only you, who are well-educated and polite, regarded her as your savior."

Songyan has some opinions on this point.

Xie Jingran listened and frowned: "Songyan, as a man, you should be grateful and repay your kindness. That tiger may not bite everyone to death, but it would definitely bite me to death at that time.

Therefore, she is my savior and I must thank her."

"Yes, sir, I know I was wrong."

"You and Zhan Ying should take the things and go there sooner rather than later."

"Yes." Song Yan stood up and called for Guard Zhan.

Guard Zhan was practicing Kung Fu in the yard in front of the house.

Ever since that day when he failed to protect his master and was whipped away by the tiger's tail, Zhan Ying has been ashamed of his own abilities.

From then on, whenever I had some free time every day, I would seize it to practice martial arts, striving to improve myself.

"Zhanying, come with me. The young master has asked us to go to our benefactor!" Songyan called to Zhanying.

"Oh." Zhan Ying originally responded indifferently, but then he changed his mind and realized that his benefactor was the girl who fell from the sky and killed the tiger. His eyes lit up instantly!

"it is good!"

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