"What's wrong with you?" Meng Zhuo's breathing was a little heavy.

"I like you too." After saying that, Ning Yue gently pushed Meng Zhuo and ran into the house.

Meng Zhuo's mind went blank for a moment, and he quickly followed her inside.

Not long after.

The sound of the bed creaking and shaking came from inside the room...

"This bed keeps making noise."

"After a while, once I've finished working in the fields, I'll go up the mountain to cut wood and make a new one, a sturdier one that won't break no matter how much I shake it."

"good……"

...

The Lan family.

The people inside had already heard the news.

Lan Qinyu's father, Lan Zichang, was still ill in bed. Standing at the door were Lan Qinyu's mother, Gu Shi, and her brother, Lan Xiucheng.

Linghu Lan's face was veiled, making her unrecognizable. She gracefully stepped down from the sedan chair and stood elegantly before the crowd.

Looking at Linghu Lan's figure, Gu Shi noticed a vague resemblance to her daughter, but her overall demeanor was definitely not that of her daughter.

A pang of sadness welled up in her heart.

Everyone said her daughter was dead. She hadn't seen it with her own eyes, but everyone knew that the Prince's Mansion had held a grand funeral for her daughter.

She secretly wiped away her tears. Although her daughter was unfilial, she was still her own flesh and blood, and she felt sorry for her.

If her father hadn't been so badly injured while hunting, he wouldn't have thought of selling his daughter for money.

They got the money from selling their daughter, but their future in-laws wanted to back out of the engagement.

With the head of the family crippled, her daughter's reputation ruined, and her son's engagement broken off, finding another marriage would be incredibly difficult. She had intended to use the money to treat her husband's illness first, but he insisted on waiting until the marriage was settled before considering anything else.

Left with no other choice, they had to use the money from selling their daughter to help their future in-laws, set a wedding date, and wait to get married as soon as possible to bring good luck, and then raise money for medical treatment.

However, most of the villagers were poor, and the only one with some spare money was probably Ning Yue, the young lady from Meng San's family.

But my daughter always went against Ning Yue, and I don't know if Ning Yue would be willing to lend me money.

Now, some aunt from the Prince's mansion has come to our door again. I don't know what they're here for. Their daughter is dead, and they haven't even come to us yet, but they've already come to us.

This person came to our door not to claim kinship, but to ask for a refund.

Thinking of this, he panicked a bit more. He felt both pity and hatred for his daughter. He hated her for not enjoying herself in the palace and instead trying to kill herself and implicate her parents. He also felt sorry for her because she was already dead and there was no one left to hit or scold her. He felt another pang of sadness.

Although Madam Gu was a country woman, she knew a few words and was familiar with etiquette. She bowed to Linghu Lan and hurriedly asked, "May I ask what brings you to my home, Grandma?"

Linghu Lan looked her up and down.

Ms. Gu was only in her thirties, and she was very beautiful. She also dressed up regularly, so she didn't look old.

Lan Zichang had an accident some time ago, and then there was another incident at home. She was exhausted, which is why she looked a bit older. Even so, she still looked much younger than the average village woman.

Before this, her life had not been filled with major hardships. The only hardship was that her real daughter had actually died, and the one who came back to life was the real Ning Yue. However, she was unaware of this hardship at first, and only later did the aftereffects gradually appear.

A pair of hands scrambled the pieces, and the game was about to end.

Unexpectedly, the unwilling chess piece finished the game itself and determined the winner.

Linghu Lan stopped her random thoughts and smiled, "I wonder if Master Lan is feeling better?"