Chapter 169 The Visitor is Different

Ye Mingzhu waited in the space for an hour before she mustered up the courage to leave. It was already past noon and there were few people on the road.

She did not enter the post station again, but quietly took a road she had never taken before and went to the town entrance first. Uncle Yan was already anxiously waiting there, his eyes fixed on the road out of the town. The moment she appeared, Uncle Yan noticed her and walked quickly towards her.

"Did something happen?"

Ye Mingzhu was thinking about something, and was stunned by Uncle Yan's question: "What's the matter?"

"Have you encountered something worrying?" Uncle Yan looked Ye Mingzhu up and down with a hidden gaze, and was relieved to find that nothing was wrong. But seeing that she was thinking about something while walking, he guessed that she had encountered something.

"Uncle Yan, what do you think is the most attractive thing? What will make rich and powerful people want it?" Ye Mingzhu knew that Uncle Yan had been in Beijing for many years, and his vision and pattern must be different from ordinary people.

"The world is bustling with people, all for the sake of profit; the world is in turmoil, all for the sake of profit. No matter how rich and powerful a person is, they cannot escape these words. What people want is nothing more than huge wealth and all-powerful authority." Uncle Yan didn't know why Ye Mingzhu asked this, he just expressed his own thoughts.

"As for specific things, gold, silver, jewelry, magical weapons, ancient military books..."

Ye Mingzhu's pupils shrank. The gold mine on the small island in the sea only appeared in recent years and should not have been discovered yet. So why did these people come to such a remote town?

Divine weapons and sharp blades? Ancient military books?

Aren't there things dug out from the small courtyard they bought? Are these people coming here just for the things in the courtyard?

She wasn't sure, but she felt that the courtyard was like a hot potato and she really couldn't keep it anymore.

Fortunately, they only stayed there for a short time, so no one should suspect anything, right?

Uncle Yan saw that Ye Mingzhu didn't say anything after hearing what he said. Instead, he looked thoughtful and raised his eyebrows: "Mingzhu, if you have anything to say, tell me."

Ye Mingzhu came back to her senses and forced a smile: "Uncle Yan, I'm fine, let's go back to the village."

Uncle Yan saw that she was unwilling to talk, so he didn't ask any more questions and let her get on the ox cart and go back.

Ye Mingzhu lowered her head, seemingly sleeping, but in fact her brain was working rapidly.

Only she and Jiang Hongyu knew what was dug out from the well and the stove, but the whole family knew what was dug out from the small garden.

Although the things were all in her space and would not be discovered, it would be dangerous if someone suspected them. She was thinking whether she could find a reason to sell the courtyard as soon as possible so as not to arouse suspicion.

Is the family running out of money and needing to sell their house? Do they rarely live in town? Are the neighbors too annoying? ...

Each reason seems to make sense, yet not sufficient.

Ye Mingzhu hadn't thought of a reason until she reached the doorstep. Although she didn't show it on her face, she was already feeling extremely bitter inside.

"Mingzhu, if you have any difficult problems, why not tell us and we can find a solution together." Uncle Yan naturally noticed that Ye Mingzhu was absent-minded along the way and asked again.

Ye Mingzhu shook her head. This was a serious matter. It wasn't that she didn't trust Uncle Yan, but she didn't want to drag him down.

"Sister, you're back." Ye Yun'an had been waiting in the yard. When he heard the voice, he immediately opened the door.

"Uncle Yan, have you eaten? Why don't you come in and eat with us?" Ye Yun'an warmly invited Uncle Yan.

Uncle Yan glanced inside the door and shook his head: "No, I have food at home. I'll take the cows out to eat some grass and bring it back to you later."

"Uncle Yan, don't go. I steamed a lot of buns today. I'll get them for you." Ye Yun'an turned around and ran back to the yard to get the buns.

Uncle Yan paused as he was about to leave.

Ye Mingzhu also tried to persuade him, "Uncle Yan, since we have already made some buns at home, you can take a few. Brother Yu is not at home, and we can't eat that much."

As he was speaking, Ye Yun'an came out with a basket. He took a few quick steps and stuffed the basket into his hand: "Uncle Yan, these are ten buns."

Uncle Yan could already feel the warmth of the buns through the basket, and the faint aroma of flour wafted through the air. He was reluctant to return the basket.

Ye Yun'an had already grabbed Ye Mingzhu's hand: "Sister, let's go back. My aunt and I have eaten. I left some buns for you. I'll make you some egg soup."

Ye Mingzhu put aside the thoughts in her mind and followed her brother into the house to eat.

In the next few days, she thought of countless reasons, but felt that each one was a bit far-fetched.

Because she was worried, she had been eating and drinking less these days. Aunt Jiang saw this and avoided Ye Yun'an and asked her, "Did something happen to Brother Yu?"

"Something happened? What happened?" Ye Mingzhu asked subconsciously.

"I see you haven't been eating much these past few days. Is there something wrong?"

Ye Mingzhu took a deep breath and expressed her guess: "Mom, do you think they are here to look for military books?"

Aunt Jiang's smile faded, and she looked thoughtful. "Are you saying that many important people have come to town?"

"Yes, those people are obviously different from the ones who came to our village. Now it seems that these people in the village seemed to have been set up as a smokescreen. So many people went out to sea and found nothing, but the people in the town are obviously dressed differently from them."

As Ye Mingzhu spoke, she began to feel something different.

"And those people seemed pretty sure there was something in town."

Her first instinct was that those people were looking for military books, because they were dressed very luxuriously and didn't look like they were looking for treasure.

She told Aunt Jiang all the ideas she had in mind.

Aunt Jiang's expression was relatively calm: "Let's find a chance in the next two days and go to the town to take a look. Then we'll decide what to do."

Ye Mingzhu's heart also calmed down.

The opportunity came quickly. Two days later, Uncle Ye brought a message from Lin Dongjia, saying that he had something to discuss with her.

Ye Mingzhu guessed that it was about buying a shop, but Aunt Jiang was a little worried: "I'll go with you."

Ye Mingzhu didn't want Aunt Jiang to go. If there was any danger, she could hide in the space, but it would be inconvenient to take Aunt Jiang with her. She tried hard to persuade Aunt Jiang: "...Mother, we don't know what the situation is yet. We can't lose our composure."

Aunt Jiang shook her head: "Brother Yu is not at home, I can't let you do anything dangerous by yourself."

Ye Mingzhu was very touched and finally agreed to let Aunt Jiang go with her. Ye Yun'an knew about it and wanted to go too. Finally, she decided that they should all go together. Since the house was there anyway, they might as well go and take a look together.

Uncle Yan saw so many of them going to the town, and without asking why, he just followed them.

After entering the town, the group went straight to Linglong Pavilion, but Sister Chunlan said that Mr. Lin did not come today and asked her to go to Lin's house to find him.