No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

The weather is getting hotter day by day, and the cicadas in the woods are chirping louder.

Lin Mingyan and the other person had become familiar with each other in Yuzhuang. From time to time, they would send some gifts to Widow Wang's house, which made her burst into tears of gratitude.

Widow Wang is a typical rural woman, grateful but not very principled.

She knew that it was not good to accept other people's things, but if accepting some things could give her a better life, she couldn't help but accept them.

Under Lin Mingyan's offensive of small favors, Widow Wang is now the best friend in the world with her.

She was also a clever person. She saw that although Lin Mingyan and the others came to the village in poverty, they did nothing all day long and were not afraid of eating up all their savings.

So he advised: "Sister Lin, you guys should take advantage of the fact that you have some money now, or buy some land in the village."

"Sweet potatoes are a good thing. Once they're planted, they won't need much care. By autumn, they'll be enough to feed the whole family."

"Otherwise, this money will eventually run out. What will we do then?"

Lin Mingyan waved her hand: "No, although we don't work, we can get some food..."

As if she had let something slip, she suddenly stopped the topic and closed her mouth.

When Widow Wang heard her say that there was a place to pick up something, and that she was being mysterious, she felt like she was being scratched by a cat, and she wanted to pry her mouth open.

But she hinted and hinted several times, but this young lady who was very kind to her just kept her mouth shut and said nothing.

She was really anxious. After all, if they could find a place to get rice and grain, their life would be much better.

After a few days, Widow Wang tried every possible way to provoke Lin Mingyan.

Lin Mingyan then pretended to be reluctant and said, "Sister Wang, I'm telling you this because you're a good person, but you must never tell anyone else."

Widow Wang immediately swore, "My dear sister, your sister-in-law has the tightest lips in her life. No matter what secrets enter my ears, I will never reveal them."

"You can see it too. It's not easy for a woman like me to take care of four children. Please show me a way."

Lin Mingyan then told her mysteriously that there was a kind-hearted man on the back mountain who always did charity work by donating rice and food.

The couple moved to Yuzhuang after hearing about this, otherwise they would not have lived in the village.

"...This great philanthropist is so kind. Not only is there enough rice and grain, but there are also meat and eggs distributed from time to time. It's much better than farming on my own," Lin Mingyan said in a low voice.

Widow Wang was stunned: "Then... then it's free?"

She couldn't understand this. How could such a good thing happen so easily?

If it were her, she would be heartbroken for a long time even if she gave a sweet potato to Yu Laoer's family in the east for free.

How could someone be so bored as to give rice and grain to strangers, not to mention meat and eggs?

"Why would I lie to you? We didn't charge you a penny!" Lin Mingyan even tugged at her clothes. "Look at this fabric, isn't it soft? It was all given by a kind-hearted person!"

Widow Wang reached out and touched the fabric on her body. The soft touch was something she had never touched before.

Even the wedding dress she wore on her wedding day was not made of this material.

Really... for free?

"Then...how can we get there?" Widow Wang's mind was still blank, but she couldn't wait to ask.

Lin Mingyan knew she had taken the bait, so she said slowly, "Actually, there's nothing to do. This kind man likes to talk about books, and we just need to sit and listen for half a day."

"Ah?" Widow Wang's eyes widened, and she hesitated, "But I can't read. What should I do if I don't understand?"

Is she not blessed enough to get rice?

Lin Mingyan waved her hand: "It's okay, who knows if you can understand it?"

"If you sit there for half a day, you can get a bag of brown rice..."

After some deception, Widow Wang and Lin Mingyan reached an agreement.

Tomorrow morning she would get up early to collect grass for the pigs, and then follow them to the kind-hearted family in the back mountain to listen to stories.

Although it was a pity that she couldn't work for the whole morning, even if she worked non-stop for the whole morning, she still couldn't earn a bag of brown rice.

Remembering the last time Sister Lin gave her brown rice, she steamed a pot of brown rice in the evening and Xiaohua ate it with great relish, so she made up her mind.

This time she went to the back mountain to get some rice, and then cooked it for the children so that they could have a good meal.

The Fourth Master listened to her nonsense and tricked Widow Wang, such a hardworking person, into becoming a pirate.

I thought that Cha Cha's eloquence was a bit of a waste of talent.

But this time I stayed here for so long just for this day.

He wanted to see whether the Han people would rebel against Manchu rule if given the chance.

Widow Wang was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night. She almost stayed up all night and came back from the mountain to collect grass for pigs with dark circles under her eyes.

She was really sleepy, but she thought that since she couldn't understand it anyway, she would just doze off while listening to the storytelling.

Su Peisheng and others had already made preparations at the farm on the back mountain. When Lin Mingyan and the other two came over, they saw a group of people sitting there without any sound.

These were servants and guards in disguise, in order to confuse Widow Wang.

Widow Wang was extremely sleepy, but seeing that no one else said a word, she didn't even dare to yawn.

When the kind man above started talking, she nodded like a chick pecking at rice, and soon fell asleep.

The Fourth Master was amused and fiddled with Lin Mingyan: "Cha Cha, can this woman really understand what this is?"

The person above is saying some outrageous words, but the person below is sleeping soundly.

Lin Mingyan smiled and said, "If you don't understand it once, you will understand it after two or three times..."

Widow Wang slept for half the morning, and finally took a bag of brown rice back home. She almost knelt down to Lin Mingyan.

After that, I had no more doubts and followed them to the back mountain to listen to stories every day.

But after a few days, Widow Wang's complexion began to look bad.

The gifts given out that day were eggs, and each person could get twenty eggs. Logically, she should have been very happy.

But when she took the eggs, she was absent-minded and almost dropped all the eggs on the ground.

This would have been impossible before, as she valued eggs more than her own eyes.

The Fourth Master looked at Lin Mingyan and knew that she had discovered something.

The White Lotus Society and the Red Flower Society were indeed very famous, and the imperial court was on high alert against them, and would show no leniency once they were discovered.

When Widow Wang returned home, she didn't even bother to clean up the eggs and just left them on the table.

She looked around and saw that the rice, noodles, clothes and eggs she had collected during this period had almost filled up the house.

She felt confused and restless.

That night, Widow Wang quietly went out under the cover of darkness and strong winds...