The rumors that Chen Xiaomi had dug up ginseng spread throughout the village and eventually reached Chen Xiaomi's ears.

"Are you going to tell people that I dug up ginseng?" Chen Xiaomi asked.

Lu Lin nodded and said, "That's right, we can't let the Lu family know that this money is related to me."

The Chen family has already been dealt with by Chen Xiaomi, but the Lu family hasn't been. You can tell from the last time Lu Tong came to ask him to do some work that he doesn't want the money to be earned by the Lu family.

Chen Xiaomi nodded and said, "That's fine too."

Chen Xiaomi agreed with Lu Lin's approach, but... "Aren't you afraid people will say you're a gigolo?"

Lu Lin smiled and said, "It's alright." Fame is something you can't take with you when you're born or when you die; what matters is your life.

Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and found him somewhat strange.

After the house was repaired, Chen Xiaomi went back into the mountains.

Lu Lin also went into the mountains, intending to dig up some yams to store.

Lu Lin squatted down and took out his usual dagger for digging yams.

As soon as Lu Lin took out his dagger, a cold voice rang out, saying, "Give me the thing."

Lu Lin's heart sank. He looked in the direction of the voice and realized it was Chen Xiaomi.

Lu Lin frowned. Chen Xiaomi had clearly left, but somehow she had returned, and her footsteps were too light.

Lu Lin tensed up for a moment, but quickly calmed down.

"Give it to me now!" Chen Xiaomi urged, her face stern.

Helpless, Lu Lin handed the dagger to Chen Xiaomi.

Chen Xiaomi took the dagger, brandished it with obvious delight, and said with a hint of pride, "It's mine."

Chen Xiaomi's tone was somewhat domineering, but Lu Lin wasn't angry. Instead, he found her rather cute, like a mischievous child who had just received a precious treasure.

Seeing that the dagger had been taken by the gunman, Lu Lin was not angry. He had several more of the same daggers in his shop.

The dagger was light and thin; it was the first time Chen Xiaomi had ever seen such a finely crafted dagger.

Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and asked, "Are you a human or a ghost?"

If he wasn't mistaken, Lu Lin seemed to have suddenly conjured the dagger; it didn't seem to have been taken out of his person.

"I'm the man you married! Of course I'm a person!" Lu Lin smiled.

Chen Xiaomi, hands on her hips, looked at Lu Lin and said, "Can you keep conjuring up food?" She had long been suspicious of the extra eggs, rice, and flour in the house. Chen Xiaomi thought that if Lu Lin could keep producing food, that would be wonderful; she wouldn't have to worry about going hungry in winter.

Lu Lin shook his head and said, "No, there's a room inside my body, filled with all sorts of things. Once it's all eaten, it's gone."

Chen Xiaomi asked excitedly, "Are there a lot of eggs in the house?"

Lu Lin nodded and said, "There are more than 800 eggs, but we've already eaten about 100."

Chen Xiaomi's eyes widened with excitement as she asked, "Did you eat about a hundred of them starting from the day you walked in?"

Lu Lin nodded and said, "Yes."

Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and thought he was really too wasteful. This guy had only been in the family for a little over twenty days, yet he ate five or six eggs a day. Even the richest families in the village wouldn't eat like that.

"You're not the same Lu Lin as before, are you?" Actually, before Lu Lin married into the family, Chen Xiaomi secretly went to see him and thought he was an honest person who wouldn't mistreat his younger brother after he entered the family. However, the Lu Lin who entered the family was completely different from the one she had seen.

Chen Xiaomi initially thought that Lu Lin might have died once, which was why he had changed his personality. However, thinking about the beads and the kang (heated brick bed), she felt that something was wrong.

Lu Lin nodded.

"Where did the little house come from? Are the beads from inside the little house?" Chen Xiaomi asked.

Lu Lin nodded and said, "The small house is from a completely different world. The bead was originally in the small house."

Chen Xiaomi snorted and said, "I knew it would be like this." Knowing that the beads were not stolen goods, Chen Xiaomi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"What about the kang (heated brick bed)? Did you see it in a book?"

Lu Lin rolled his eyes and said, "It's not one of these books."

"You used to be a scholar too."

Lu Lin nodded and said, "Yes! I studied hard for decades."

"Did you become an official? I don't think so," Chen Xiaomi asked.

Lu Lin: "..." It's true that he didn't pass the civil service exam, but it's not his fault. The civil service exam is so difficult! Not only do you need talent, but you also need connections.

"Looks like I didn't pass the exam." Chen Xiaomi thought to herself: Although I didn't become an official, having studied should still make a difference.

Lu Lin: "..."