Lin Yan said with a serious expression, "After you left, I went to chat with Zhang Guodong's wife."
"Today she told me her name is Xu Manyu, that she's educated, and that she was probably abducted to this village and forced to become Zhang Guodong's wife. He seems to have been violent towards her in private."
Lu Jinghuai's eyes paused, and he became more thoughtful. He looked at Lin Yan and asked.
"Can we unite with her?"
"I'll try." Lin Yan raised her eyebrows and spoke, but she couldn't help but complain in her mind.
If it weren't for your little white moonlight, I might have already succeeded.
Lu Jinghuai was silent for a while. Although Song Jingya was indeed a little tactless, he still had to bring Song Jingya with him this time.
At noon when the sun was high in the sky, Zhang Guodong also came back. Lu Jinghuai had already left the room. When he saw Zhang Guodong come back, he asked naturally.
"How's Brother Zhang? Has the village chief relented?"
Zhang Guodong smiled brightly, patting his chest and saying, "My second uncle will definitely relent if I intervene, but he's still a little hesitant. How about you stay a few more days? Give him some time to slow down."
Lu Jinghuai paused, and Lin Yan frowned beside him, pretending to hesitate. "How many more days are we going to stay? It will be difficult for our application to be approved by then, and they might even say we've missed work, which would be bad. How many days? There has to be a fixed time, right?"
Lu Jinghuai didn't say anything, obviously agreeing with what Lin Yan said, but Zhang Guodong was stunned. He couldn't let his cooked duck fly away.
His eyes rolled around a few times and he spoke quickly.
"How about the day after tomorrow? The elders in my family will be coming over the day after tomorrow, and I'll ask them to come and persuade my second uncle then."
Lu Jinghuai and Lin Yan looked at each other and nodded reluctantly.
…
Lu Jinghuai and Lin Yan did not wait for the elder that Zhang Guodong mentioned, but waited for a familiar person.
After lunch, the two pushed open the gate of the courtyard. They originally planned to observe the situation in Xiaoliang Village more, but when they were at the door, they saw someone who looked somewhat familiar?
That man was a villager from Daliang Village, quite young, about twenty years old, named Wang Tiezhu. I had a very deep impression of him at that time, because most of the young and strong villagers in Daliang Village went out to work.
During the population census that day, he was the only one who did not go out and stayed in Daliang Village this year.
At that time, the village chief seemed to have explained that Wang Tiezhu and his cousin were getting engaged this year, so he did not go out to work and would wait until next year.
Wang Tiezhu was also a little surprised when he saw Chen Jinghuai and the others: "Why did you come to Xiaoliang Village, leaders?"
Lu Jinghuai explained with a calm expression on his face.
"Our poverty alleviation efforts are not limited to one village. We are responsible for the surrounding areas, and we need to understand the specific situation."
Wang Tiezhu seemed to understand and nodded. Without waiting for Lu Jinghuai and Lin Yan to ask, he introduced the purpose of his visit.
"My uncle's family is from Xiaoliang Village. You know our place is poor, so generally no one is willing to marry into it. So we arranged a marriage through a nearby village."
Wang Tiezhu said this with a shy smile.
"My cousin and I are of the right age. If nothing goes wrong, we can have a wedding banquet next month. The leaders can come to the wedding banquet when they are free."
After Wang Tiezhu finished speaking, he felt that it was a little inappropriate and said, "But I guess there will be no chance. By then, the leaders will have left here."
Lu Jinghuai also nodded in congratulations.
"Cousin." Lin Yan couldn't help herself and said, "The government doesn't allow close relatives to marry now, right? You and your cousin."
Wang Tiezhu scratched his head, seemed a little embarrassed and silent, but finally explained.
"People in our village can barely afford to eat, and the poor can't afford to marry. We're lucky to be able to get married, so we don't care about those things."
Lin Yan fell silent for a moment. Since the other party said that it didn't matter, she didn't know what to say.
She insisted on stopping this behavior, but she seemed unable to do so.
Wang Tiezhu still had to go to his uncle's house, so it seemed inconvenient for him to continue talking to them. After a simple goodbye, Wang Tiezhu left.
After Wang Tiezhu left, Lu Jinghuai and Lin Yan also returned to the yard. On the way back, Lin Yan couldn't help muttering.
"I never thought that in the 21st century, there would still be such cases of inbreeding."
Lin Yan muttered to herself, and suddenly stopped in her tracks. As if she had thought of something, she subconsciously looked at Lu Jinghuai beside her.
[Wait, maybe it’s not necessary to marry close relatives. Just look at the marriages from Xiaoliang Village to Daliang Village…]
Lin Yan seemed to have captured some useful information at this moment.
[Lu Yingqian is not in Daliang Village in July and August, and Wang Tiezhu is getting married next month.]
Lin Yan paused for a moment to clear her mind.
According to the plot, Lu Yingqian will appear in Daliang Village in October. Oh my god, could it be that the cousin that Wang Tiezhu is going to marry is Lu Yingqian?
Lin Yao was so lost in thought that he didn't notice that Lu Jinghuai's expression was extremely dangerous and terrifying, especially his pupils had darkened.
"But I'm not sure. I'll have to try it out later. I don't know if intermarriage between the two villages is common."
Lu Jinghuai also heard Lin Yan's self-comfort, and he tried to sober up and calm down, but the veins on the back of his hands were bulging from his tightly clenched hands.
For a moment, he didn't know whether he hoped that the girl Zhang Guodong was talking about was his sister, or whether he didn't want that girl to be his sister.
He also didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing if the cousin Wang Tiezhu was talking about was his sister?
A good-looking girl was abducted and sold. If she could live to this age and get married normally, it would be considered a good thing, right?
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