During my escape from famine, I survived by eavesdropping on the whispers of food.

The eldest son looked at Qin Shuangshuang, who was now unmoved by either soft or hard tactics and wouldn't listen to him at all.

She was furious, but seeing Lin Zheng staring at her with an angry look, as if he would be the one thrown into jail the next second, she had no choice but to swallow her anger.

At this moment, the fat landlord shouted, "Come on, come on, hurry up and come with me!"

Those who had originally come from the government office hurriedly tidied themselves up behind the fat landlord and were about to leave when the fat landlord noticed a group of villagers who had been hanging around with the eldest son's family, and they were still following closely behind.

The fat landlord immediately became angry and said to them, "What are you still doing with me now? I only hired you because you had some labor power to help me clean. Once I've used this house, I'll abandon you."

Now that I no longer live in this house, you don't need to follow me anymore. Go find somewhere cool and stay there!

The fat landlord, fuming, turned around and said to the eldest son, "I haven't married you yet, so don't go around claiming you're my concubine. When you come back to my house with me, you'd better behave yourself. If my wife isn't satisfied with you, don't even think about entering my house, and neither will your two old bastards!"

Upon hearing this, the eldest son became extremely embarrassed. The villagers who had followed him were now all focused on him, and they began to whisper among themselves.

"You can't just abandon us! We left Qin Shuangshuang behind to follow you!"

"Yes, I already said I'd treat us to the best of everything. That's right, Qin family's eldest branch, you said it yourself, you can't just leave us old folks out!"

“The young people are all following you now, along with their children. They haven’t even had breakfast yet, but they’re already helping you with the work. How can you just abandon them like this?”

Upon hearing this, the fat landlord grumbled, "That's his business, it has nothing to do with me, let's go!"

The fat landlord left with his entourage. The eldest wife watched as these people gradually surrounded her, and she quickly followed closely behind the fat landlord, saying, "Husband, why are you walking so fast! I can't keep up with you."

Just then, Old Mrs. Qin and Old Mr. Qin, who had been looking around at the situation inside, rushed over when they saw their eldest daughter-in-law with her new husband.

He quickly grabbed the eldest daughter-in-law's arm and asked her, "What's going on? I saw several groups of soldiers go in, but what happened?"

I didn't want to get involved with the two old people's first wife in the first place, and the thought of it made me angry. But when I thought about how I had personally witnessed the two old people secretly hiding jewelry, I felt that I couldn't just abandon them now.

She could only sigh and say, "It's all because of the child your second son's wife had that caused all this trouble."

If she hadn't brought a group of soldiers with her, insisting on thoroughly investigating everything in this government office and claiming the land deed belonged to the government, how could we have been kicked out? What should we do? Hurry and follow me, otherwise we might not even have a place to eat or stay."

Upon hearing this, Old Qin hurriedly made arrangements, saying to Old Lady Qin, "Let's go, let's go quickly! We finally have the fat master as our backer, we can't afford to lose him, let's go quickly!"

The last few people quickly followed the fat landlord.

The villagers followed closely, wanting to go with the Qin family's eldest son to their new destination. However, since they were traveling by carriage, they couldn't catch up and could only wail and cry out in despair on the long street.

Qin Shuangshuang ignored him and said to Lin Zheng, "What brings you here?"

Lin Zheng then looked at Lu Jun and Qin Shuangshuang and said, "I noticed that you two hadn't returned for a long time, so I thought something might have happened and came to check. Sure enough, if I hadn't come, I think it would have been quite difficult to resolve the situation with their mouths for a while."

Qin Shuangshuang smiled and said, "These women's mouths are bound to be a bit unreasonable. My relative who is no longer a relative has a mouth that everyone in the village knows is particularly sharp."

Lin Zheng said to her, "The county government office is now quite clean. After I take stock of the yamen runners, I will be able to officially take office."

"Oh, and I even found you a house. I'll go there to a quiet place, and we can work out a long-term plan to gradually build up our livelihood in the county town."

At this moment, Lin Zheng turned his head and said to Lu Jun in front of him, "On my way here, an old friend came to see me and said that you should go home quickly. The carriage is already prepared for you outside the door. Hurry up and leave."

By the time you return, the county town will likely have changed somewhat.

Lu Jun hesitated for a moment, then turned to Qin Shuangshuang and said, "After I leave, you must take care of your personal safety. If there is any danger, just have Lord Lin write to me."

Qin Shuangshuang comforted her, saying, "After you go back, you must not go against your second wife directly. You must write to me to let me know so that I can discuss this with you in a long-term manner."

Seeing her staring at him with wide eyes, Lu Jun couldn't help but smile slightly. "The way you're looking at me like that really makes me a little..."

The last sentence was left unsaid.

Qin Shuangshuang deliberately turned her head and coughed.

The sighs and groans that had been echoing along the street had mostly disappeared. She urged Lu Jun to hurry up and set off.

Just as Lu Jun was about to leave, Qin Shuangshuang weighed her cuffs. There were several silver ingots inside. She thought about how Lu Jun had come alone and probably didn't have a penny on him now.

She took some silver from her sleeve, hurriedly caught up with him, and gave it to him, saying, "Take this with you as travel expenses. If you come across anything that can be bought with food, don't skimp on yourself."

Looking at the snow-white snowflakes, Lu Jun carefully took the shadow from his hand and said thank you.

Lu Jun then left.

Qin Shuangshuang watched his retreating figure, "I've been wondering what your true identity is, and why you've always avoided talking about it."

Qin Shuangshuang sighed and stopped thinking about it. Now, she had to lead her team to make a living in the whole county, which was more important than anything else.

When Lu Jun saw the carriage in front of him, he realized that it was much better than the carriages he had ridden in before.

He then realized that his family had probably sent a carriage. After he got into the carriage, he saw several sets of clothes inside.

The attendant outside, who was driving the horses, said to Lu Jun, "This is what the general specifically instructed, young master. You should change quickly. We are going back to attend the second madam's birthday celebration. The general specifically told you to dress up nicely."

Lu Jun laughed and said, "It seems that my father still doesn't like me very much after all this time."