When San Ya and Da Bao heard that they had a common secret with this beautiful sister, they nodded vigorously.

Only then did she notice that the air in the house was not good. It was stuffy and damp, with a faint strange smell.

Gu Liyue said, "Let's go to the yard and talk."

So she brought the two little people to the yard. Erya obediently took two small stools for Gu Liyue and Dabao to sit on, and she squatted on the ground.

Dabao looked at Gu Liyue and said, "Are you the Fairy Sister? The Fairy Sister is so beautiful!"

"I'm not the Fairy Sister. My last name is Gu. You can call me Sister Gu."

San Ya frowned and said, "It's not a good thing that Sister Gu is so pretty. I heard from Xiaohua next door that pretty people will be bullied."

Gu Liyue didn't care much after hearing this and just asked, "What is the name of your place?"

San Ya said, "Our village is called Xize Fishing Village."

"Where are your parents? Why aren't they home?"

Dabao quickly answered, "They went out to sea to fish and will be back by dark."

"Is there anyone else in your family?"

San Ya said, "So there are two older sisters. One is married, and the other went to sea with her parents."

She kept looking at the clothes on Gu Liyue. After looking for a while, she couldn't help but say, "Sister's clothes are so beautiful! I have never seen such beautiful clothes. Even the clothes of those officials are not as beautiful as Sister's."

Gu Liyue looked down at the robes on her body. They were made of silk and embroidered with dark patterns. The sunlight shone on them, reflecting a faint light.

She looked at the two children and the coarse cloth clothes hanging in the yard, and decided to change into a set of robes that could be transformed into coarse cloth clothes.

So she said to San Ya, "Sister, I'm going to change into a new set of clothes in my room. Can you watch the door for me?"

San Ya patted her chest and said, "Okay, sister, leave it to me."

When Gu Liyue walked out of the room, she had changed into a coarse cloth dress of a similar style to San Ya's. She also made her skin darker, her facial features more ordinary, and her long hair was casually tied with a hairband.

Dabao took one look at her and said, "Hey, sister, how did you become like this? You're not pretty anymore."

San Ya said, "This is more like the people in our village. It's better if they are not pretty. If they are too pretty, they will be captured."

Gu Liyue heard San Ya say again that being too beautiful is not good, but this time she was talking about taking her away.

"Why? Sanya, why would you be captured just because you're so beautiful?"

"San Ya didn't know why, but Xiao Hua said her sister was so beautiful that she was taken away by officials and never came back."

Gu Liyue repeated her words: "If you look too good, you will be arrested by the officials."

San Ya nodded and responded emphatically: "Yeah!"

Gu Liyue looked at the sky, then at the two houses of Sanya's family, and said, "It's getting late. I'm going to go find your village chief to see if I can find a family to stay with."

She felt that she had come to this place by chance, so she decided to stay there and see if there was any way to go back.

San Ya said to Da Bao, "Da Bao, look after the house. I will take Sister Gu to find the village chief."

Dabao looked at the dried fish and clothes drying in the yard and nodded.

After crossing half of the village, the village chief's house is in the middle of the village. It is the one with the largest yard.

San Ya went up to knock on the door. The village chief's yard was not surrounded by a fence, but was made of stones, which looked sturdy.

An old man came to open the door and saw San Ya. He said coldly, "San Ya, what are you doing here?"

San Ya didn't notice his expression and said, "Grandpa Village Chief, this Sister Gu wants to find a place to sleep tonight."

Upon hearing this, the village chief smiled. He looked at Gu Liyue and said, "Miss Gu, you're planning to stay in our village, right? How long do you plan to stay here?"

Gu Liyue remembered that she didn't have much money on her! It was all left by her previous self when she was still in Donglin City. If she couldn't leave this place for a long time, she should find a way to make money.

She had no choice but to say, "Stay here for two days first. If you feel comfortable living here, you can stay longer."

The village chief looked at Gu Liyue and asked, "Miss Gu, are you alone?"

"Yeah, can't I live here alone?"

"Not really. If you want to settle down in our Xize Village, you need to have a livelihood, or join our collective sea voyage."

The village chief saw that she was a weak woman, and if she stayed in Xize Village and occupied the village houses without paying, it would only cause trouble.

Gu Liyue said, "I plan to rent a house for a few days. I wonder if there are any vacant houses in the village? I can pay five days' rent first."

When the village chief heard that she wanted to pay rent, he smiled and said, "Yes, there is one in the village. I can take you to see it."

He closed the gate and took Gu Liyue and Sanya to look at the house.

Along the way, Gu Liyue chatted with the village chief and learned that Xize Village was a small fishing village. The villagers made a living by fishing at sea and relied on the sea for their livelihood.

Crops cannot be grown in the woods behind the village, so the fishermen's lives are not very good.

This place is also very far away from the town. It takes two days to go into the city and back. Of course, this is the walking distance for mortals. For cultivators, a distance of seventy or eighty miles can be reached in an instant.

When they arrived at the empty house, the village chief pointed to a house with a yard and said, "This is it. It's very new and sturdy. There's no need to worry about safety issues."

Gu Liyue looked at the village chief and asked, "What safety issues are there in your village?"

The village chief's eyes flickered for a moment as he said, "There's really no safety issue. It's just that we're by the sea, and there are sometimes strong winds. This house is far from the sea, so even if the seawater rises, it won't reach here."

"That's true." Gu Liyue looked at the forest behind the house. "There won't be any wild animals in that forest, right?"

The village chief said nervously, "No, no, how could it be possible? Even if there were, we wouldn't build our house here! There are no big beasts in this forest, only wild animals like rabbits and foxes."

Looking at him, Gu Liyue thought that even if there were no wild beasts in the woods, there must be other dangers. She just didn't know what they were.

She glanced at San Ya, who was still a child after all, and she also looked confused.

She asked again, "Is this the only house?"

The village chief said, "This is the only one left in the village."

"Okay, then how much is the rent for this room? How much is it per day?"

The village chief thought for a moment and said, "Ten copper coins a day, fifty copper coins in five days."

Gu Liyue said, "I only have one or two taels of silver on me. I wonder if you can find it."

When the village chief heard the word silver, his eyes lit up and he looked at Gu Liyue as if he was looking at a wealthy man.

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