The fake daughter married into the mountains and had meat to eat every day during the famine

Song Yuntang was stunned.

"What wish?"

Before Lin Jingyao could reply, Xu Yongwang, who had just turned the corner on East Street and spotted Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye, shouted excitedly, "Qingye, Yuntang girl, you two have run into each other. I was wondering why this guy hadn't come for so long. I thought something had happened to him."

Xu Yongwang's powerful voice is hard to ignore.

Song Yuntang looked at him and said with a smile, "Nothing happened. I just happened to be buying rice, and Brother Xu helped me carry it for a while."

"What a coincidence."

Xu Yongwang got off the ox cart with a smile, and together with Xu Qingye, moved the bag of rice onto the ox cart.

However, there were too many things piled on the ox cart, and there was also a middle-aged woman with neatly combed hair and Xu Qingye's grandmother, Mrs. Hu, sitting on it. There was no room for more people to sit.

"Oh! There's no more room to sit." No matter how Xu Yongwang tidied, he couldn't find room for his buttocks.

After Song Yuntang and Hu greeted the unfamiliar woman, they turned to look at the car full of things.

"Uncle bought so many things, is there a guest at home?"

Xu Yongwang laughed heartily. "Silly girl, who would buy so many things for a guest? These are all the betrothal gifts I was planning to give you. Didn't Qingye tell you?"

Song Yuntang glanced in the direction of Xu Qingye, then immediately looked away.

"No." Then he said, "There are too many things in the car, so I won't go up. This place is not far from where I live. I will lead the way for my uncle."

After saying that, he turned around with an unnatural look and walked towards the southern suburbs.

Seeing this, Xu Yongwang jumped onto the oxcart and looked at Xu Qingye, who was still standing there. He said anxiously, "Come on, hurry up! Do you still want to ride in the oxcart?"

Xu Qingye glanced in the direction of Lin Jingyao, then raised his leg and followed Song Yuntang's footsteps.

As a man, there was something in the look in Lin Jingyao's eyes when he looked at Song Yuntang. Song Yuntang couldn't understand it, but he could see it.

Just now he was indeed thinking about what Lin Jingyao said, what if she got engaged to him just to piss off another man, instead of thinking that he was suitable as her marriage partner.

He had to reconsider the relationship between the two.

……

In the carriage, Lin Jingyao clenched his fists tightly, his face so gloomy that it seemed as if water could drip out.

Give the betrothal gift!

The Xu family came to town today to give her a betrothal gift!

Just to make herself angry, she actually went to this extent!

But looking at her expression just now, it was obvious that she had already had some interactions with the Xu family, and they got along quite well. Perhaps she really wanted to be angry with him at the beginning, but she was afraid that after getting along for a long time, she would really have different thoughts about Xu Qingye.

Although Xu Qingye came from the countryside, his knowledge was no less than his own before he fell ill.

She really found a good opponent for him.

After thinking about it again, he rejected his previous idea. Xu Qingye was just a scholar now and could not be considered his opponent.

Awang sat outside, holding the reins, and cautiously called out to the carriage, "Master, are we still going to the county town?"

"Mr. Ding and I have an appointment today, so of course I have to go." He paused and then said, "When you come back tomorrow, go find out where she lives now. From what they just said, it seems like she's moved to town."

Awang said yes and drove off in the carriage.

……

Seeing Xu Qingye catching up, Song Yuntang slowed down his pace to keep pace with him and asked quietly, "Why didn't you tell me you were here to propose marriage?"

Xu Qingye said calmly, "I haven't had time to say it yet."

Song Yuntang glanced back at the carriage that was already heading in the opposite direction and continued, "Lin Jingyao is a young man who has achieved success and is somewhat blindly confident. Don't believe what he says."

After all, Xu Qingye is my fiancé, so it’s better to talk things over with him.

Xu Qingye looked at her.

"He said you got engaged to me to spite him. Is that true?"

Some things must be asked clearly.

"If I tell you, will you believe it?" Song Yuntang asked.

She could understand that Xu Qingye had his own pride. If she was getting engaged to him just to find a suitable marriage partner, he might be happy in his heart. Even if they could not love each other in the future, they could at least respect each other. But if she was getting engaged to him just to piss off Lin Jingyao, he would definitely feel that he was being fooled, and even if they were engaged, he would distance himself from her.

Xu Qingye nodded without hesitation.

"If you say it, I will believe it."

"He and I were once just siblings, nothing more. I did say some thoughtless things before in order to stay in the Lin family, but that doesn't mean I have feelings for him." Song Yuntang looked at Xu Qingye and said seriously, "I didn't get engaged to you just to piss him off."

She continued walking forward.

"I proposed getting engaged to you because, on the one hand, I didn't want my family to continue introducing me to random people, and on the other hand, I wanted to put the Huang family's intentions to rest. And, most importantly, I thought you were suitable."

Xu Qingye turned his head to look at her, and his lips, which were originally tightly pursed, slightly raised.

Unless that's the reason.

No matter what she said or did with Lin Jingyao in the past, it didn't matter.

“Why do you think I’m suitable?”

Song Yuntang counted on his fingers and said, "He's mature and steady, tall and handsome, well-educated, and of the right age. Most importantly, he's not pedantic and can understand many of my actions. I'm afraid it's hard to find another person like him in all of Cile Town."

Take Lin Jingyao for example. Although they are both scholars, he feels that he is a heretic.

Hearing her answer, Xu Qingye couldn't help laughing.

"The rest is fine, but how can you say something like, 'Our ages are the same?'"

Song Yuntang naturally couldn't tell the truth about this, and only said, "I think the seven-year age difference is quite appropriate..."

Then she thought about it and said with a strange look on her face, "No, I'm so much younger than you. Normally, wouldn't the man be secretly happy? Why do you want me to comfort you?"

Looking at her appearance, Xu Qingye couldn't help laughing out loud.

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