The shoes I made were also for my maternal family.
Your hands are frozen... serves you right!
Zhang Xiangliang never expected that Ye Ting would come to the inn the next day.
Ye Ting stood at the door. The servants who greeted guests all recognized Zhang Xiangliang, so they let her in.
Ye Ting entered the courtyard, clutching the hem of her clothes with both hands, but her eyes kept glancing towards the second floor.
The guards on the second floor immediately noticed her gaze.
As she kept looking up, a strikingly handsome man with a smirk on his lips slowly descended the stairs from the second floor and stopped three feet away from her.
Smiling, she asked, "Are you...Sister-in-law Zhang?"
Ye Ting is seventeen years old and has never traveled far from home before. This marriage to Longmen Town is the farthest she has ever been in her seventeen years.
How could she resist the deliberate provocations of a playboy in the capital?
This man is so handsome! A red dot between his brows, his features are exquisite, like a celestial being. He's dressed so elegantly; could he be the nobleman from the capital my husband mentioned?
Her face was flushed, she lowered her head, and stammered, "Yes, yes."
The man took a five-tael silver coin, stepped forward, and gently placed it on her frostbitten hand, saying softly, "Sister-in-law is too frugal."
Ye Ting quickly withdrew her hand: "I don't want to..."
The silver fell to the ground. The man smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, is it too little?"
He didn't pick up the silver, but took out two more ten-tael ingots from his sleeve and placed them in her hand, his voice extremely gentle: "Sister-in-law, go buy a pair of gloves."
Ye Ting's heart was pounding. Twenty taels! That's twenty taels!!
She stopped pulling her hand away and kept her eyes on the five taels on the ground. As long as that person didn't pick it up, she would.
The man gave her twenty taels of silver, but didn't ask her to do anything. He turned around and went upstairs without hesitation.
She didn't dare to look up until the man had walked quite a distance and she was sure he had reached the second floor. There was no one in front of her anymore.
She looked around, but there was no one there. Instead, she heard footsteps behind her.
"Ye Ting." Zhang Xiangliang's voice.
Ye Ting quickly picked up the five taels of silver on the ground and stuffed them, along with the twenty taels of silver, into her sleeve.
What brings you here?
"Husband, I want you to come with me to see Mother after work. I heard that my sister is going to be married. Let's get her a piece of cloth."
Hearing her say that, Zhang Xiangliang felt much better. Even though they had separated, they were still connected. Ye Ting was willing to visit her mother and think of her sister, so there was still hope.
His voice was much warmer as he said, "You should go back first. I'll ask Manager Sheng for some money to buy a piece of cloth later."
Ye Ting didn't dare to say she had money, and left with her head down.
She left the inn, looked back at it from the street outside, but didn't see the person again.
I couldn't quite describe the feeling in my heart; there was excitement, disappointment, and a strange sense of exhilaration.
Zhang Xiangliang only received eleven taels of silver as a reward for speaking to influential people several times, while she received twenty-five taels of silver without saying anything.
And his voice is so nice! He asked me to buy gloves, even though my hands were freezing. But Zhang Xiangliang, whom I see every day, never asked me to buy a pair of gloves.
She blushed and her heart raced at the thought of that person's face.
He was handsome, though not as good-looking as Jin Yi. But Jin Yi was an idiot, a cripple, and a destitute man whom no one cared for.
As Ye Ting walked, her heart pounded with every step, her legs felt unsteady, and she practically floated home.
She sat absentmindedly for a long time, pricking her fingers several times while sewing shoe soles.
When Zhang Xiangliang returned, she hadn't even boiled water or turned on the lights.
That evening, Zhang Xiangliang and I went to Aunt Zhang's place. We originally wanted to give Zhang Xiangxiu a piece of cloth, but Aunt Zhang was so angry that she blocked the door and wouldn't let us in.
"Liang'er, where did you get the money to buy the cloth?"
"Yes, it was a gift from a noble person."
"Heh~" Aunt Zhang looked at Ye Ting, "Was Liang'er's money really a gift from a noble person?"
Ye Ting clutched the hem of her clothes and said, "I don't know... Mother, we heard that my sister was going to be matched with someone, so we tore off a piece of cloth for her."
"No need, you can take it back. Your nephew might need a piece of cloth."
Aunt Zhang sneered and said, "Zhang Xiangliang, you sent all the reward money to her parents' house, didn't you? Don't deny it, I've already asked around."
Aunt Zhang slammed the door shut and said through the door, "I don't have sons and daughters-in-law like you, and my Xiu'er doesn't have brothers and sisters-in-law like you either. You don't need to come anymore."
Zhang Xiangliang left the Zhang family in silence and walked towards the old house with Ye Ting, one after the other.
The two hadn't gone far when they heard the clatter of hooves in the distance. In the dim light, a tall horse galloped towards them from afar.
A man appeared immediately, wearing a black cloak tied in a knot at the front, a hood over his head, his face covered by a collar, and a mask.
The horse arrived at Yin Jin'an's courtyard in an instant.
When Zhang Xiangliang and Ye Ting heard the sound of hooves stop, they couldn't help but turn their heads to take a look.
However, the horse only paused at the door for a moment before continuing to run forward.
It turned out to be just a passerby!
They left, unaware that the horses that had run far away had stopped.
Inside the cloak, the little dumpling asked, "Second Uncle, is something wrong?"
"There are people monitoring the yard."
"You saw it?"
"I heard two breathing sounds."
"My second uncle's martial arts skills are getting better and better."
Yes, with enhanced senses and increasingly profound internal strength, the hidden skills of the secret guards can no longer fool Master Yin.
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