The younger sister-in-law falsely accused the sickly uncle and ran away with the baby

Yu Ruyue learned the whole story and understood the reason for his worry.

He thought for a moment and pulled Yu Shi into the house. "Brother! What do you think the probability is that you can make a name for yourself in this chaotic world with your own abilities?"

Yu Shi was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly, "If I'm lucky, maybe one in ten..."

Yu Ruyue shook her head, "Brother! It's not that I look down on you. You want knowledge, but I don't have it. You want martial arts, but I don't have it. You want family background, but we are just ordinary people. We don't have the special halo of other people's protagonists. We even..." You and I are just cannon fodder who will die early.

She didn't say the rest of the words, but Yu Shi understood what his sister wanted to say.

"I admit, I'm such an incompetent person. If it weren't for you and my parents, I wouldn't be alive today. I might have been sold by my grandparents and tortured to death. Even if I survived and escaped the famine, I would just be eaten as food..."

"But now that I've made it this far, I don't want to live my life in mediocrity, I don't want to always rely on you, I don't want to always be deceived..."

"Sister! I want to prove my ability. I want them to know that I'm not just your brother, not just my parents' son, but also myself. Maybe this way... I can protect you when you're down! When others say we're not a good match for General Shen, I can stand up and tell them that my sister isn't marrying up, but marrying down!"

"I... I don't want to see what happened before. We just lost a noodle factory, and you just upheld justice, but those people dared to come to my house to humiliate me and cancel the engagement..."

"Sister! I...I don't want to go through something like that again..."

"I know you find all this ridiculous, but... I still want to try my best!"

Yu Ruyue looked at Yu Shi, whose eyes were red, and felt very upset. She didn't expect that he had so many things weighing on his mind...

She even thought about the prejudice against each other that she and Shen Zhiheng would have to go through in the future.

She looked at her brother, who was much taller than her, and finally realized that he had grown up...

Yu Shi took out two silver ingots from his bag. "I've been carrying these twenty taels with me all the time, never spending them. I take them out and look at them every night to remind myself..."

"Sister! I know I'm stupid! But, I'm your brother, and I want you to be able to rely on me, so can you tell me why you did this? I really want to help you..."

Yu Ruyue endured the soreness in her eyes, smiled and nodded, "Okay! I'll tell you!"

"Before I tell you this, I have to tell you first that I never thought you were stupid. You and my second brother just started your education later. It's amazing that you've achieved such great knowledge in just a few months! And don't put too much pressure on yourself. If you want to be our support, we naturally want to be yours too."

Yu Shi's nose felt sore and he couldn't help crying. He quickly turned his head away, picked up his sleeve and wiped his tears, trying hard to control himself and not cry in front of his sister.

Yu Ruyue took his hand and stood on tiptoe to wipe his tears personally.

"Brother! Everything I do is for us, for our family."

"You should also know that if the saltpeter mine in the mountain is known to others, we won't be able to protect it, and we may even lose our lives."

Yu Shi thought about the magic of that thing and felt that he could not keep it.

"Besides, we can't live in the mountains forever without any contact with the people down there. What I'm doing now is just preparing for that time!"

"When everyone is on the verge of death and helpless, finding a source of water is definitely a great achievement!"

"But we can't just do good deeds in silence. We must spread the word and let them know who paid the price to find the water source!"

"By then, even if it's maintenance or reward, there will be someone to choose from!"

Yu Shi looked at his sister with great admiration, "Once this matter gets out, we will be heroes! Will everyone in Qingtian Prefecture thank us!?"

Yu Ruyue smiled and said, "I'm grateful, but what I want is reputation. As long as the Yu family's reputation gets out, anyone who wants to touch us in the future will think twice. And this reputation can't just be about doing good deeds, it also has to be a bit mysterious!"

"If those people think of us, they will be wary of us!"

Yu Shi finally understood, "Is this why you said we are warlocks!?"

Yu Ruyue smiled and nodded. "Smart! If we were just ordinary people who found a water source, we might get some thanks, but when the benefits are big enough, those people will still attack us. If we are sorcerers, it's different. Our methods are beyond their imagination. So even if the benefits are big enough, when we want to attack the Yu family, we have to think about whether we will be retaliated against!"

Yu Shi really admired his sister more and more.

"Did you have this idea when you discovered the river? Were you just waiting for an opportunity to go down the mountain?"

Yu Ruyue shook her head. "No! When I discovered saltpeter, I was thinking about how to make a name for myself in these troubled times so that I could better protect my family after the war subsided!"

Of course, what made her decide to go down the mountain and do this in the name of a sorcerer was that she heard from Shen Chou that Qin Haowen's father later made great use of those talented people. In other words, anyone with a little ability was recruited by Qin Guoan.

Moreover, Qin Guoan knew that he was rebelling and was not upright, so he took these sorcerers who claimed to be able to communicate with heaven and earth very seriously, fearing that they would say nonsense.

This is exactly the attention Yu Ruyue wants!

This was the conclusion she came to after thinking about it day and night. In this chaotic world where women were treated like grass, she had no martial arts skills, no political skills, and she couldn't even write the characters of this world. So she didn't think she could become an empress like other women in time-travel novels!

But she would not sit idly by and wait for death. She would not willingly depend on Shen Zhiheng and place all her hopes on him just because she knew that he would eventually become a marquis!

She came into this world with only one purpose from beginning to end, to give herself and her family a better life!

And this is an opportunity!

After today's communication, Yu Shi is now full of energy!

Early in the morning of the third day, with the help of Shen Zhiheng, all the people in Qingtian Prefecture knew that Yu Ruyue, the sorcerer who suddenly appeared, would help them find water today.

Even Yan Han from the neighboring city knew the news and wrote to Shen Zhiheng to ask whether it was true or not!

Qin Wanrou and the people who had run here with Yu Ruyue before were also waiting at the gate of Yu Ruyue's yard early in the morning.

They looked at the vermilion gate and the new plaque with the words "Yu Mansion" on it, their hearts filled with worry.

Finally! The door creaked open, and an extremely beautiful girl, dressed in plain clothes and without any makeup, walked out.