"One hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight taels of silver."

Xie Xiao looked at Old Madam Li with unusual sincerity in his eyes, "However, I don't have that much right now, only 80,000. I will pay the rest within a year."

Wow! One hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight taels!

"What an outrageously expensive bride!"

"Aunt Liu, I can't go on, please help me."

The aunts and uncles of Black Wind Village were all stunned, never having heard of spending so much money to get married.

I sympathize with the head of the gang for the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

Old Lady Li smiled and said, "Let me think about it and give the chief an answer in a few days."

How could I agree on the spot?

It's better to let him know how precious her granddaughter is later.

"Alright, thank you all for your hard work today. Tomorrow is my great-grandson's one-month celebration, and Miss Li said she'll add some dishes for everyone." With tears in her eyes, Old Mrs. Li went back into the house with a smile.

Looking at the hunchbacked old woman, Li Ruo was filled with mixed emotions.

Does the old lady care about that little bit of money?

Judging from how she gave General Li's merits to Song Zhijing without batting an eye for the sake of the original owner's happiness, she is not a mercenary person.

Grandma Li probably felt that her previous approach to planning for her granddaughter was wrong; people who offer themselves up are not meant to be cherished.

She deliberately made things difficult to see how much her granddaughter meant to him. She also asked Xie Xiao about his future plans to see if he could protect his granddaughter for the rest of his life.

Of course, this was Li Ruo's guess.

Even if that's not the case, Grandma Li cleaned her body for half a year, so it's worth any dowry.

Sun Ergou looked bewildered: "Boss, does this count as a success or a failure?"

Xie Xiao flicked his wrist and shook the stray hairs from his forehead. "Don't you have any eyesight? Didn't you see Grandma's smile that made your teeth and eyes disappear? It must have been a success."

After saying that, he strode towards Li Ruo.

Before Li Ruo could react to what he was about to do, he suddenly squatted down, lifted her up by the backs of her knees, and laughed like a big trumpet flower.

"You—" she exclaimed in surprise.

The brothers and sisters around them were so excited by Xie Dad's crazy antics that they danced wildly.

Cheers, whistles, and shouts of "Let's go to the bridal chamber!" rose and fell.

"I'm happy, can't I even hug my wife?" Xie Xiao looked up at her.

Li Ruo blushed. "You called too early. Put me down! I have something important to tell you."

Chief Xie put the person down and said with a smirk, "What, can't wait to discuss the wedding date?"

Li Ruo laughed, "Silly boy, are you really going to give me an 180,000 yuan dowry?" Although he wasn't losing out at all, the things in her space were worth far more than that.

The day before the flood alone cost 100,000 taels of silver.

“Too few.” The person’s eyes shone with an astonishing light. “Besides, isn’t there more coming right away?”

Li Ruo was somewhat surprised, "You know what I'm going to say?"

"Ah, we're on the same wavelength."

Li Ruobai glanced at him, then turned and shouted to the onlookers, "Old Wang of Ziyang Peak, Daoist Liao, Yang Huahua, and the leader of Black Wind Village, Er Gou and the others, stay here. Everyone else, disperse."

At this moment, Baiyun Peak.

The county magistrate of Yongjia, Liu Ren, the head of the Liu family, and the heads of the other two major families, the Fan and Zhen families, all had their eyes light up after hearing the scouts' report.

“Isn’t that perfect?” said the county magistrate of Yongjia. “Ziyang Peak will surely let its guard down tomorrow.”

That Xie Xiao dared to look down on her before, and now he has killed so many of her people. If she doesn't avenge this, she will be unworthy of being a county princess.

"My son was killed, and I would be a disgrace if I didn't avenge this!" Liu Ren roared. His Liu family was one of the top ten families in Yuzhou, how could they be bullied by a group of women and bandits?

The head of the Zhen family, Zhen Xun, was also furious. He was in an even worse situation, as his son Zhen Huan and daughter Zhen Zhu were both dead. "I wish I could kill them right now."

The head of the Fan family said, "Since the leaders of Black Wind Stronghold have all gone to a banquet, we can take advantage of this opportunity to attack Black Wind Stronghold, catch them off guard, and wipe them out in one fell swoop."

If there's enough time, their full moon celebration will be a celebratory banquet prepared for them.

“But don’t let your guard down. Xie Xiao is said to have several thousand men,” Yongjia said. “And their defenses are very tight.”

The head of the Fan family said, "What's there to be afraid of? We also have more than four thousand people, and more than six hundred of them are the best fighters from our respective mansions."

"If you promise them a hundred catties of grain each after the deed is done, won't they attack relentlessly?"

"We also need to capture Li Ruo alive so we can claim our reward from the Prince of Runan and the Prince of Jiangning," Liu Ren said.

It's really strange how the Prince of Jiangning knew that woman, and why he suddenly sent people to give them a batch of weapons, saying that if they captured Li Ruo, they would be rewarded with 50,000 catties of grain.

That woman is really valuable.

After discussing their plan, the Princess of Yongjia said, "Tomorrow night, we'll utterly annihilate them."

Xie Xiao, you'll regret not allying with this county magistrate.

The following day, Li Xingran turned one month old.

A chilly wind was blowing, and a mountain rain was brewing.

What's so surprising? When Li Xingran was born, it was during a great flood that swept through Yuzhou, when storms raged.

His big days are always a little unusual.

Early in the morning, Black Wind Village delivered a large, fat pig as a full-moon gift for Xiao Xingran.

Besides this, Xiaoxingran received many other gifts.

A tiger-head hat made by Grandma Li herself.

New clothes, new shoes and socks made from intertwined branches.

Li Yi made a shuttlecock out of pheasant feathers.

The peace charm was drawn by Master Liao after he fasted and bathed.

The little bib made by Lin Dazhu's wife, the parrot caught by Zhou the hunter, the small wooden sword carved by Yang Huahua, and a lump of... Oh, let go, it turns out to be a cute little squirrel.

"Hehehe..." Xiao Xingran laughed until she had no teeth and no eyes.

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