However, I think it's not absolute. Don't worry, everyone. Maybe it'll be fine if we don't spill it.

Fan Qian only heard the first few sentences and didn't listen to the rest. He insisted, "Old village chief, I have silver. Sell it to me!"

We're all from the same village, and you're the village chief. You can't just think of your own family and ignore the lives of everyone else in the village.

The old village chief frowned, staring at the anxious Fan Qian, and said in a deep voice, "The matter is not serious yet, don't speak harshly!"

"Don't you want to sell?" Fan Qian asked, glancing sideways.

Fan Dazhu chimed in from behind: "Don't make it sound so nice! If it weren't serious, why would you have secretly bought it?"

"You have lime at home, of course you're not in a hurry, you can't possibly understand how we feel."

The old village chief's chest heaved violently with anger.

He watched Fan Dazhu grow up, but now it seems he's a good-for-nothing!

Others, unable to stand by and watch, stepped forward and said, "The old village chief said it before, and we all know it. It's just that my family didn't take it seriously and didn't buy it. I'm too ashamed to ask the old village chief to sell it to me now."

"Back then, you didn't even believe in the possibility of flooding, and you didn't prepare any firewood. You even had to borrow firewood from my house. Even if I told you to prepare lime, would you have prepared it?"

The Fan family was criticized, but it didn't seem to bother them at all.

They stubbornly insisted that the old village chief sell them the lime.

What does face matter in the face of a plague?

They are all unimportant.

Once he buys it, these people will regret it.

Uncle Ding's brows were furrowed even deeper than the old village chief's.

He previously strongly disapproved of the mother's approach, always feeling that repaying evil with kindness might be more effective, and that moving the family with goodwill would be a better approach.

Wouldn't it be better to make them realize their mistakes, so that the two families can see each other frequently in the village and get along well every time they meet?

The mother ignored his advice and insisted on doing things her own way.

Seeing the scene before him today, he suddenly realized that his wife was absolutely right!

That was absolutely right.

Some people are rotten to the core. If you repay evil with kindness, they will only take advantage of you, bully you, and morally blackmail you to get more from you.

The old village chief was in this predicament because of him. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a refined and steady voice coming from not far away: "Brother, how much lime do you need? Take the money to my place, and I can provide as much as you want."

The chaotic crowd all turned around and looked toward the source of the sound.

Fan Jin, dressed in a long, faded white robe, stood at the foot of the slope.

Gentle and refined, calm and reserved, as always.

In contrast, Fan Qian appears even more impatient and vulgar.

Fan Qian originally thought of buying lime from the old village chief because he heard Uncle Ding say that the price of lime would rise after the flood receded.

The old village chief was not related to him, so he could only buy it with money.

Fan Jin is different; this is his own younger brother. Does he really need his elder brother to spend money on a little bit of lime?

But now the surrounding area is full of villagers, and they saw how he was shouting that he would pay for it. If he changes his mind now and asks Fan Jin to deliver it, it will be too embarrassing, and Fan Jin will not agree to it!

Fan Jin watched his elder brother without showing any emotion.

Originally, Shuiqing said that these limes were to be given to the villagers, and he shared the same idea as Shuiqing.

As soon as the rain stopped, I came over to talk to the old village chief about this.

I never expected to see this.

However, it's good that the lime doesn't have to be given away for free anymore. If it were given away for free, I'm afraid his good brother and his family would buy all of his lime.

The eldest brother must pay the money; not a penny less.