The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

Yu Ming's hand, which was lifting the blanket, paused. Looking at Huang Lianxi who was close to his eyes, he panicked for a moment. She looked exactly like Xiao Rou.

Am I dreaming? Has Xiaorou really come back to see me?

Seeing that Yu Ming was stunned, Huang Lianxi took a step back, feeling her heart beating even faster.

Xiao Cui brought the medicine over. "Miss, you can drink the medicine now. It won't be good if it gets cold."

Huang Lianxi took the medicine from Xiao Cui, her face flushed with embarrassment as she dared not look directly into Yu Ming's eyes.

"Young master, please drink your medicine first!"

Yu Ming took the medicine Huang Lianxi handed him and drank it all in one gulp. "Thank you."

The room fell silent for a moment.

Huang Lianxi broke the silence and asked, "May I ask your name, young master?"

Yu Ming clasped his hands in greeting, "My name is Lin Zhao."

Huang Lianxi muttered the name twice under her breath, then left with Xiao Cui. Before leaving, she told Yu Ming to rest and recuperate at home for the time being.

Yu Ming watched Huang Lianxi's departing figure, his hands clasped tightly together. "Xiao Rou," he thought, "this time I won't let you leave me, absolutely not."

After discussing the matter, the three people in the teahouse left He Qi alone to secretly keep an eye on Fu Man Lou, while Li Zhe and Jiang Su went to investigate how Wu Shi San had entered the restaurant.

Li Zhe and Jiang Su split up into two groups: he investigated the Jin family's side, while Jiang Su investigated the county magistrate's side.

Li Zhe hid a hundred meters away from the Jin residence, watching Jin Cheng leave with a large number of servants. He had just glanced around the Jin residence; the guards were quite tight, so it seemed he could only wait until nightfall to go in and investigate.

Jiang Su was in the same boat. Now that it was broad daylight, he couldn't sneak into the county government office to investigate, so he could only wait until dark.

Yin Baicai looked at Shen Jin, whose work was becoming more and more complicated, and gave him a thumbs up. "Wow, my brother is amazing. You've been doing this for a short while and you're already doing it better than me."

Shen Jin stopped husking the corn, raised her eyebrows, and said smugly, "You think this little task is too difficult for me?"

Yin Baicai patted him on the shoulder: "Work hard, young man, we'll have a big meal tonight."

Shen Jin began to look forward to it, after all, the lunch he had at Yin Baicai's house was indeed quite good. Although it wasn't a lavish meal, Yin Baicai had cooked the dishes very well. She was even better at cooking than the master chef in his household who had been in business for over ten years.

Shen Jin: "I also want to eat sweet and sour pork ribs."

Yin Baicai: "Okay, all arranged."

Tang Xiaoyan, who lived not far from Li Zhe's house, watched Yin Baicai pat Shen Jin's shoulder and muttered, "Shameless, vixen."

Her mother, Wenying, also witnessed this scene and instructed Tang Xiaoyan, "Xiaoyan, don't be like that jinx from the Yin family. He's already engaged, but he's still flirting with other men. You have no idea what the villagers are saying about him. They say he was having an affair with the Ge brothers when he was building his house. It's just unbearable to look at."

Tang Xiaoyan nodded: "Mother, I understand."

Wenying suddenly asked her, "Xiaoyan, I heard you've been going to Li Zhe's house every few days lately. What are you going there for? The villagers hate him now. Ever since he came back, our village has been like it's been cursed. Something happens every few days. You didn't see it, the village's reputation is ruined by what he's done. You should avoid contact with him in the future."

Tang Xiaoyan fell silent, then retorted to her mother, "Mother, that was the fault of the Li Jiang family. What does it have to do with Brother Li? If they hadn't done evil, they would have been beheaded!"

Wenying pouted, "As the saying goes, even if you're cut off by blood, you're still connected by tendons. We're all family. He made a big fuss about it, and now our Peach Blossom Village is a laughing stock. Let me tell you, I overheard that many people don't want to stay in the village anymore and are trying to find a way to leave!"

Just as Wenying said, two families have come to the village chief's house to discuss leaving the village!

Yang Huai, as the leader, came to inform the village chief, "Uncle, we're moving out of the village in the next few days. We'll pay you the taxes collected in the fall in advance."

Li Hui wanted to persuade him further, but Huang Zhong stopped her with a look, and she stopped puffing on her pipe. "Have you found a place to go?"

Yang Huai nodded: "Found it. Let's go to my distant cousin's village."

Huang Zhong nodded in agreement, left the grain they were supposed to hand over, and waved for them to leave.

After everyone left, Li Hui looked at the things left behind by the Yang and Huai families and said to Huang Zhong, who was still smoking his pipe, "Old man, why did you agree to that? Now that they're gone, our village is already small..."

Huang Zhong thought to himself: What can he do? Their village's reputation is now like that of rats crossing the street; the surrounding villages all laugh at them. Now the villagers can't stand it anymore and want to leave; how can he stop them?

Looking at her husband's increasingly graying hair, Li Hui stopped herself from saying anything.

What terrible things has happened to their village? They've produced two wicked people, Li Jiang and Wang Huanhua, and there's also the Li family's affair. Now the village's reputation is ruined.

Many young women and men in the village are of marriageable age but can't find spouses. What should they do?

I'd heard long ago that many people in the village were planning to sell their land and leave. Now that my husband has agreed to these two offers, I'm afraid even more people will leave.

Yang Huai and his family had just left the village chief's house when everyone in the village learned that they were leaving the village.

Yin Baicai and Shen Jin, who had just finished tearing up the corn and were carrying it back, naturally heard what the villagers were saying.

Shen Jin has been staying in town for the past few days. With the Li Jiang family's affairs causing such a stir, it's hard not to know!

He glanced at Yin Baicai and said, "Little Baicai, I'm afraid your whole village will be wiped out in the future."

Yin Baicai: "Whatever, it doesn't affect my eating and drinking anyway."

Shen Jin poured the corn from the basket into Li Zhe's yard and then lifted the basket down. "Speaking of which, why aren't you and Li Zhe married yet? Look how close the walls are between your two families. Once you get married, you can knock down the wall and turn it into one big courtyard."

When Yin Baicai heard Shen Jin mention this, she felt a pang of confusion. Yes, hadn't she been quite resistant to the idea of ​​being engaged to Li Zhe before? Why didn't she feel so averse to it now?

Shen Jin looked at the dazed man and waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Snap out of it! What are you thinking about? I'm hungry. What about the feast you mentioned?"

Yin Baicai: "Yes...yes, come on, let's help out."

Yin Baicai locked the gate to Li Zhe's house and looked at the key in her hand. It was the key that Li Zhe had given her, and almost half a year had passed, yet it was still in her possession.

As dusk approached, the sunset painted half the sky red. Smoke curled from the chimney of Yin Baicai's small courtyard. Shen Jin sat in front of the stove adding firewood, watching Yin Baicai quickly prepare a dish, his mouth watering.

"The bok choy smells so good. Why don't you come to my house and be my cook? I'll pay you."

Yin Baicai glanced down at Shen Jin, who was sitting on a small stool, and said, "I'm not going. I'm just too lazy to rush things. Otherwise, do you think I wouldn't open my own shop?"

Time slipped away unnoticed as the two bickered, and by the time all the dishes were served, Li Zhe had not returned.

Remembering what Li Zhe said when he left, Yin Baicai figured he must have encountered something difficult, and called out to Shen Jin, "Try it quickly, you've been busy all day."

Shen Jin casually mentioned, "Aren't we waiting for Li Zhe?"

"Let's eat first. We don't know when he'll be back."

While greeting Shen Jin, Yin Baicai also took care of Li Mo, putting whatever Li Mo wanted to eat into his bowl.

Seeing the two people so engrossed in their food that they couldn't even lift their heads, Yin Baicai looked at the setting sun on the horizon and thought, "Li the bully should have eaten by now!"