When Lin Yuan and Lu Ziyi came back, Lin Zhi and Lin Cui were sitting in the yard, waiting for them with frowns.

When the two young men saw them coming, they immediately smiled and greeted each other, "Brother Lu, sister." They happily opened the yard door.

Lin Yuan touched the heads of the two and smiled slightly, "Brother Lu just gave Chunsheng a lesson. They will not dare to bully you again."

Lin Cui was overjoyed, turned around and looked at Lu Ziyi, and smiled sweetly, "Thank you, Brother Lu."

Lin Zhize blinked his round bean eyes and asked Lu Ziyi with his head tilted, "Brother Lu, when will you marry my elder sister?"

Lu Ziyi's ears turned red and he nodded, "I'll go to the matchmaker to ask about the day when I go home."

"You're going to hurry up! The faster the better!" Lin Zhi wanted to tell everyone that Lu Ziyi was his brother-in-law, and that bad guy Lin Chunsheng would no longer dare to bully him and Cui'er.

"Okay." Lu Ziyi nodded embarrassedly.

"You little brat!" Lin Yuan patted the back of his head with a funny look.

The emperor is really not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry!

Lu Ziyi gave Lin Yuan the herbs he brought from his home and told her how to take Niuer.

Seeing that it was almost late, Lin Yuan asked Lu Ziyi to have supper before returning.

But Lu Ziyi disagreed no matter what he said, "There are opportunities in the future."

Is this a shame? Lin Yuan guessed that after all, the two of them had not formally engaged, and he frequently went to and from her house, the villagers would gossip.

The ancients have always had many rules!

Lin Yuan was also forced to put the tea tree mushrooms picked on the road, the wild chickens they beat and the three wild eggs they picked into a cloth bag, and stuffed them into his arms, "If you don't eat at my house, then you can cook them yourself when you go home."

After saying that, she turned around and walked into the house.

Lu Ziyi looked at the heavy cloth bag and the corners of his lips were quietly bent.

...

When Lu Ziyi returned home, he entered the yard and saw his mother sitting at the door of the main hall with an unhappy expression. When he saw him coming back, he looked at him without saying a word.

Lu Ziyi took two steps, "Mom, have you had dinner?"

Madam Lu sneered, "Do you still know that I am a mother? I thought you had already gone to the Lin family's big room as a son-in-law!"

"Mom, why do you say that?" Lu Ziyi sighed, "Ayuan bought a sick cow. I went to see the cow's condition. Her family had never raised a cow. I was worried that she would raise the cow to death. With their family, their life was better. Wouldn't our family benefit from it?"

"It will take an afternoon to see a doctor?" Mrs. Lu's face was still not good-looking. "Look at that girl, right?"

Lu Ziyi put the cloth bag in his hand in his mother's hand, "It was given by A Yuan."

Madam Lu was stunned.

"I picked some herbs for Niu'er on the way, and it took some time. In order to express my gratitude, Ayuan asked me to bring this back."

Mrs. Lu opened the cloth bag and found that there were only freshly beaten wild chickens, three fresh wild eggs and a handful of mushrooms.

She glanced at her son, then said nothing, and went to the backyard to cook.

Mrs. Lu threw the wild chicken into an old wooden basin and began to scoop water into the large iron pot on the stove.

Pheasant needs to be scalded in boiling water before they can pluck their hair.

Lu Ziyi followed into the kitchen. He walked to the small wooden stool in front of the stove and sat down. He grabbed a handful of leaves and stuffed them into the stove and lit the flint, and began to make a fire.

Mrs. Lu scooped the water, covered the pot, looked up at him, "Have you figured out a way for your fifty taels of bride price?"

Lu Ziyi had already started the fire in the stove and was busy adding finer dead branches to the fire.

He said without raising his head, "It's being prepared."

Madam Lu looked outside the kitchen and found that her daughter had not come back yet. Then she lowered her voice and said, "I don't care how much money you give her, but you must not move those things."

The things she said were all kinds of jewelry brought by her early escape.

There are earrings inlaid with gems, hollowed-carved gold bracelets, and heavy gold hairpins, and the long-lived gold lock that Lu Ziyi wore when he was full moon...

Anyone who picks one to sell it in the county town can sell it for hundreds of taels of silver, and there is a three-tailed phoenix hairpin, which was worth more than 1,800 taels back then. Now the market is about the same price.

When talking about the hidden treasures at home, Lu Ziyi's expression immediately became a little sad, "Mom, I won't touch those things."

Madam Lu closed her eyes, "Your father took a ring to pawn the county town, which caused the death disaster. I don't want it..."

Lu Ziyi looked up at his mother, "Mom, my son has learned a lot of skills and can earn money by relying on his own skills. Mom, don't worry."

"It's fifty taels, how can you make it so easy to make it in a short period of time?" Madam Lu snorted.

...

When it was getting dark, Lin Dazhu and his wife came back from the ground.

Lin Yuan was making dinner, and she called Lin Cui to fetch water to wash Lin Dazhu and his wife.

Calling Lin Zhi to move a stool to rest for his parents.

The two little ones were busy helping with things, not mentioning what happened today.

Because Lin Yuan had told them in advance that they should not talk too much to their parents, she was worried that the honest Lin Dazhu and his wife would feel uneasy.

When Lin Dazhu and his wife saw their youngest son and daughter who had always been lazy, they were now well-behaved and sensible, and they couldn't stop smiling.

I praise Lin Zhi and Lin Cui.

The two little guys worked harder to help with housework.

There was constant laughter in the yard.

Lin Yuan was cutting wild vegetables in the kitchen. She looked outside through the window and smiled.

Madam Lin washed her hands and walked into the kitchen, "Garden, go play, I'll come, I'll do it."

Lin Yuan put down the kitchen knife and pushed Lady Lin out, "Mom, you have been busy in the field for a day. Leave this cooking matter to me. Go and talk to your father and Cui'er Zhi'er. The soup is already hot. I can make two more wild vegetable cakes and eat."

"This kid." Madam Lin smiled, "Okay, okay, I'll go out to rest."

Soon, Linyuan's supper was ready.

The situation at home is much better now than a month ago. The food is no longer a large handful of wild vegetable soup, mixed with a small amount of millet or rice, but a small amount of wild vegetable powder sprinkled in the white glutinous porridge.

Half of the wolf meat was marinated with salt, and the other half was stamped into pieces and boiled into soup.

There was no refrigerator in ancient times, and the weather was the end of the third month of the lunar calendar, so meat could not be stored for a long time. In the past two days, Lin Dazhu and his family were full of food and drinking soup.

Gnawing on the wolf meat patty.

The dog Xiao Hei even ate the bones beautifully and dragged a few bones into its doghouse. Two sparrows jumped to its doghouse. It thought it was a thief who stole the bones and kept calling jealously.

The family was sitting around the yard, having supper, listening to Lin Zhi’s talk about going to the Lu family to receive warm hospitality. At this time, someone shouted loudly in the front yard, "Lin Cui, come out for me! Where is my son Chunsheng?"

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Chapter completed!