As the three chatted, the carriage swayed and bumped until it arrived at the town's dock. Xingxing and the others went to their own family's tavern first, while the town's tavern was still managed by Mo Tianzhu's family.
As soon as I stepped off the carriage, I saw a woman with delicate features, a petite figure, and a woman's hairstyle. She looked to be about eighteen years old, with a wheatish complexion and a long stride. She seemed to be a straightforward and decisive person.
This girl must be Mo Tianbao's wife. Mo Baodi is also married, and Mo Baolu is also married. This family is living a very prosperous life now. Both the newlywed wife and son-in-law are honest and hardworking people who manage Meizhou Tower very well.
Mo Baolu's husband was a porter at the dock. His family lived in the town. He had many brothers and was relatively poor, but he was honest and reliable. The Mo family did not mind and took him in as their son-in-law.
Sigh, in the blink of an eye, adults have grown old, and children have grown up to be our own children.
The three of them didn't stay long at their own tavern before heading to Zhou Lao Er's tavern. It just so happened that Zhou Da Fa's fiancée was delivering goods to the store that day, including a small wild boar and a few pheasants.
The three of them arrived at just the right time. They met the person as soon as they arrived, and they quickly became friends with her. The prospective cousin-in-law's full name was Song Kang, a very neutral name.
"There are many small fish in the stream in our Qiaotou Village. The biggest ones are as big as two fingers. You can catch more than a dozen with a scoop. These fish don't grow very big and have a lot of bones. We have to cook them first and then dry them in the sun. We eat them as snacks." Song Kang was a talkative girl who praised her village to the skies.
"Don't you really want to go and see? You can stay at my house if you go, and I'll bring you back tomorrow."
Although Xingxing listened with great interest, she declined the invitation. This cousin-in-law was really bold, taking them back to the village and then sending them back the next day.
These three girls wouldn't dare to go to other villages to stay overnight; it's against the rules, and people would gossip if they found out. Xingxing didn't care, but Chunchun and Ruru had made a promise, and their reputations couldn't be ruined.
The Zhou family has a horse-drawn carriage, so they should be able to make a round trip in one day. However, Xingxing didn't want to go to Qiaotou Village. She thought Yegou Village was quite fun. She came today to see if she could happen to meet her future cousin-in-law. Now that she had, she was satisfied.
After saying goodbye to the outgoing Song Kang, Xingxing and her two friends strolled around the town again. What they didn't see was that after parting ways with her, Song Kang was preparing to go to the town gate to take the village's oxcart.
Several people were already sitting on the oxcart. Two of them were burly men from Qiaotou Village, and the other three were women: a beautiful middle-aged woman and two young women. The three had similar features and were clearly a mother and her two daughters.
One of the young women was pale, as if she had been seriously ill and had not yet recovered. These three were not from Qiaotou Village; they lived in a small village that they had to pass through on their way to the town.
Song Kang felt that the three of them were acting strangely. When they arrived, they had stopped the oxcart to ride, even though there were still empty seats. The old man driving the oxcart only agreed to let them hitch a ride because they gave him half a coin. He didn't expect that the mother and her two daughters would come to ride the oxcart again on the way back.
Halfway there, the three of them got off the oxcart and headed towards a nearby village. Song Kang glanced at it a few more times, but didn't pay much attention.
If Xingxing were here, she would definitely recognize that these three people were none other than the Yokoyama mother and daughter, whom the secret guards had lost track of and had never been able to find.
“The family that saved us is quite well-off. Last night I saw the couple counting silver, two hundred taels of it. Why don’t we go back, deal with them, and then take the money and leave?” Yokoyama Eiko said with a ruthless expression.
Chiyo Yokoyama glanced at her and said coldly, "No matter what, they saved our lives. It's not right to repay kindness with enmity."
It wasn't that Chiyo was particularly kind or grateful, but rather that she felt Eiko's actions were too much like a supporting female character. Someone who even killed her benefactor probably wouldn't even make it as a supporting female character; she'd be cannon fodder.
In order to avoid becoming cannon fodder, she could only try her best to straighten out the people around her.
“They are all from the Great Jin Dynasty. If they find out we are from the East, they won’t let us go.” Yokoyama Eiko felt that her older sister was sometimes really contradictory, despite being a very insidious and ruthless person.
Yet they have many concerns. They used to blame their brother for massacring the village, but now they say that innocent people cannot be killed indiscriminately. The Japanese and the people of the Great Jin Dynasty have always been at odds. It's either you die or I die. Why should they consider the consequences?
"In short, I disagree. Don't do anything rash. Listen to me." Although Yokoyama's injuries had healed by about 50%, she still held the power of speech. Neither Eiko nor Keiya Nishi dared to act recklessly in front of her. Once she spoke, the mother and daughter had to listen to at least 70% of what she said.
With less than twenty days until the eighth day of next month, Song Kang had not even finished embroidering her wedding dress. She was truly terrible at needlework, her needlework skills were zero, and she could bend a needle in her hands. The calluses on her hands could snag the fabric.
Therefore, the task of embroidering the wedding dress could only be left to her mother, her two older sisters, and her two younger sisters. She herself still went to the mountains every day to hunt and sell the game she caught in town.
Aunt Song couldn't do anything about her. She had always worried that her third daughter would never be able to get married. Most families wouldn't dare to take someone so bold. No one expected that her third daughter could sell herself by sending prey every now and then.
The mother-in-law was also easy to talk to. She had told Aunt Song earlier that the Zhou family liked Song Kang's good physique and his ability to do anything.
“My third daughter doesn’t know how to do needlework. She’s too wild and can’t settle down to do careful work.” Aunt Song was an honest woman. She laid out all her daughters’ shortcomings. Rather than saying she was afraid her daughters wouldn’t get married, she was more afraid that her daughters would be returned after marriage.
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