The more cowardly a person is, the more wild they are; I've driven the villainous minister craz

Yu Wan sensed that Yun Shang, who was holding her, had done something.

In an instant, those people had surrounded them.

The sound of blades being drawn from their sheaths rang out one after another. Yu Wan's heart tightened as she racked her brains for a solution when Yun Shang suddenly led her out from behind the tree.

Yu Wan: "!" What's going on?

"Who are you?"

Behind them, Yun Shang's deliberately gruff voice rang out, "Brothers, spare us! My wife and I heard there was money to be made in Wushaoling, so we thought we'd try our luck here, but we got lost in the mountains..."

Yu Wan: "..." The male lead's drama just started out of nowhere.

The man leading the group was a burly man with dark skin and solid muscles. He held a large knife in his hand, which gleamed coldly and made people feel intimidated.

Yu Wan fearfully hid behind Yun Shang.

She said timidly, "My lord, I'm scared~"

As she spoke, she looked up and froze when her peripheral vision caught sight of Yun Shang's face.

Yun Shang's face—

"Cough cough cough—" Yu Wan almost choked on her saliva.

When did this guy change his attitude?!

Yun Shang's face now is not exactly different from his previous face; in fact, they are completely unrelated.

A fleeting smile crossed Yun Shang's eyes. He put his arm around Yu Wan's shoulder, patted her, and said, "Why did you choke from being so scared?"

"These guys look like good people, don't be afraid."

The men opposite, who were considered "good guys," exchanged glances and fell silent.

The man in the lead exchanged a glance with the others.

Unspoken to each other.

The man, weighing the knife in his hand, frowned and asked, "Where did you hear that you can make money in Wushaoling? You actually believe that you can make money in this desolate wilderness?"

“We didn’t believe it at first either,” Yun Shang sighed. “But we saw that people from the same village often sent money home through intermediaries. The intermediary said that they needed many more people. My husband and I didn’t have any other skills, so after thinking it over, we came here following the intermediary’s method.”

The burly man's eyes flickered slightly as he asked, "What are your names? Where are you from?"

Yun Shang answered fluently, “My name is Niu Dazhuang, and she is my wife, Ma Cuicui. We are both from Xinghua Village in Yunyang County. The person who introduced us is a middle-aged woman, and everyone in our village calls her Aunt Yuan.”

Niu Dazhuang, Ma Cuicui, hahahahaha—

Yu Wan's face was almost contorted from trying to suppress her laughter.

How exactly did Yun Shang manage to say those two names with such a straight face?!

This name is obviously made up; the big man would probably see through it at a glance.

However, to Yu Wan's great surprise, the burly man opposite her suddenly signaled his men to put away their knives, and his originally fierce face became very kind.

"So it was Aunt Yuan who introduced us. Then we're practically family now. What a coincidence! I'm also from Xinghua Village, but I haven't been back for four or five years."

"By the way, Brother Niu, does that well at the entrance of our village still produce water? I remember the year I left, there was a severe drought, and even that well at the entrance of our village almost dried up."

Yun Shang looked puzzled. "Could it be that you've been away from your hometown for so many years and have misremembered? I remember there was no well at the entrance of the village. The only well in our village is in the village chief's house, and it's filled with spring water that's sweet and refreshing."

Yu Wan: "..."

Got it, they're setting traps for each other.

The big man laughed a few times, "Hahaha, I misremembered. There really isn't a well at the entrance of our village. I haven't been home for so long, I can't remember things very clearly."

Yun Shang nodded, indicating his understanding.

The burly man continued, "Why didn't you come with Aunt Yuan? If you had, you wouldn't have gotten lost in the mountains."

"Can we still come with Aunt Yuan?" Yun Shang asked with just the right amount of doubt on her face. "Aunt Yuan only told us to come to Wushaoling. She said that once we got here, we should just walk straight into the mountains and we would find a place to work. She didn't say that she would bring us along."

Upon hearing this, the wariness in the big man's eyes completely disappeared.

He walked up to Yun Shang with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I misremembered. As you get older, your memory isn't so good, and you tend to forget things easily."

"Come with me, I'll take you to where we're going to work."

Yun Shang and Yu Wan exchanged a glance.

Yu Wan turned her head and asked expectantly, "How much will I get paid working here? Will the money really be delivered to my home every month?"

Her eyes reddened and she choked up, "To be honest, we have elderly parents and young children to support. If we weren't so desperate for food, my husband and I wouldn't have come all the way to Wushaoling to find work..."

"My elderly parents and children are waiting for money to save their lives. Can we negotiate the wages first?"

This appearance made the big man even more convinced of the two men's identities.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, the pay here is very generous. If your family is really short of money, you can work for three to five days and explain the situation to the manager to get a month's salary in advance to send home for emergency relief."

Yu Wan couldn't believe it, her face filled with surprise and delight. "Is that even possible?"

"Of course, if you're willing to work here, you'll never have to worry about money."

Yu Wan couldn't wait, "We have nothing but brute strength, we'll definitely work hard!"

The big man smiled with satisfaction.

Yun Shang and Yu Wan also showed satisfied smiles.

The burly man raised his hand, and two men stepped forward, each holding a black cloth.

Yu Wan asked nervously, "What are you doing?"

The burly man explained, "Don't be afraid. This is the rule for everyone who comes here to work; you have to be blindfolded."

Yu Wan turned her gaze to Yun Shang, then tightly embraced his arm and said with pursed lips, "We are willing to be blindfolded, but we cannot separate my husband from me."

The burly man smiled understandingly, "That's natural."

Yun Shang and Yu Wan let them blindfold them.

The two held hands and were led a long way.

When blindfolded, one cannot discern directions. Yu Wan only felt the grass under her feet gradually thin out, and the soil beneath her feet gradually became harder.

After walking for about half an hour, they finally stopped.

There were people talking not far away, but Yu Wan couldn't hear what they were saying because they were too far away. She could only vaguely hear a few indistinct words.

Yu Wan summarized that the other party probably told the mine manager that they had picked up two fat sheep in the mountains and delivered them to his door.

Yu Wan chuckled inwardly.

It's still uncertain who the sheep and the wolf are.

At that moment, she felt a tingling sensation in her palm.

Yun Shang scratched her palm with his fingertips, as if he had written something on it.

Yu Wan tried hard to decipher what he had written—"waiting for an opportunity to act."

When I was thinking of responding to him in the same way, a sudden inspiration struck me.

and many more.

She also has the persona of being illiterate!

How could she possibly know what Yunshang was writing?

Yu Wan broke out in a cold sweat from the shock.