Chapter 137: How did the marriage with the Ding family come about?
"The neighbors next door didn't know that Miss Lin was in trouble. They thought she was at home. Of course, we didn't reveal anything about Miss Lin to the outside world."
When Assistant Li heard this, he asked, "How is surveillance bad?"
"It's just a screen flash. Just flash a few times."
Suddenly, Assistant Li thought of the surveillance video he had been watching for the past few days, and it seemed to flash across the screen.
He walked out quickly and came to the front door of Miss Lin's house, and carefully checked the pile of weapons.
Then, his eyes lit up!
There's one box missing.
There were too many things, and without the box buried inside, it couldn't be seen from the outside.
He was afraid of disturbing something, so he just kept observing through the surveillance camera and didn't come closer to take a look.
He prepared everything himself.
He knew exactly what was in that box.
Three hot weapons, large, medium and small sizes, and corresponding bullets.
If it was not unexpected, the flash screen should be the energy field fluctuation. After the energy field fluctuates, the two spaces can be connected. After the connection, not everything can be transmitted...
It is not clear yet what can be transmitted and what cannot be transmitted.
But it can be transmitted, that's for sure.
It was already a huge surprise.
He himself felt it was ridiculous these days because he could not see the chat records of that day afterwards.
He thought he was dreaming and was too tired.
We are doing this with a try-it attitude.
As a result, there was no movement for several days.
Now, he felt at ease.
It wasn't his hallucination.
The eldest young master and his mistress are truly trapped in another dimension.
He said he would do whatever it takes to help them out of their predicament.
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Peach Blossom Village.
After Zhou Lang rested for a few days, he gradually recovered.
Finally, three days later, the two entered the space of the Concentric Lock again.
Lin Shiqi also felt relieved.
These past few days, Zhou Lang did not show up for meals. Lin Shiqi brought food back to him. When others asked about it, Lin Shiqi said mysteriously that the mountain goddess had advised Zhou Lang to study more at home, and that she would guarantee that he would pass the examination and become a student next spring.
Everyone suddenly realized that it was such an honor to be guided by the Mountain Goddess!
Can't help but look forward to it.
Mrs. Zhou was a little worried, but she went to the room where Lin Shiqi and the others were several times and always saw Zhou Lang reading a book in the room.
But I didn’t think much about it.
Old man Zhou was somewhat satisfied, yet somewhat dissatisfied.
Before, Zhou Lang only worked and didn't study, so he thought Zhou Lang was a complete waste of money.
Now Zhou Langguang is studying and not working, which makes him feel that he has combined work and rest.
Fortunately, after Zhou Qinan was injured, he stayed in his room all day reading, never going out of the front door or the back door, and his meals were served to him.
It's not surprising that two scholars are so hardworking.
Lin Shiqi and Zhou Lang sighed, "Thinking back to when we first came here, we fought over a bowl of coarse grain rice. It's still fresh in my memory!"
Zhou Lang pursed his lips and raised his head, "Your rice is a bit too unpalatable."
"What? It's good enough to have something to eat, why are you choosy about whether to drool or not?"
"I dare not, I dare not."
After a few days of rest, everyone in Taohua Village calmed down from their sadness and panic.
The Zhou family also resumed delivering tofu to the county town every day.
When Manager Xu of Xu's Trading Company learned that there was a robbery in Taohua Village, he became worried about them and raised the price of their tofu by one cent.
They say the New Year is coming soon and the demand is huge.
Before the New Year, there would be price fluctuations, so the price for them was also increased by one cent.
I hope to increase the quantity and make some money before the New Year.
So, the Zhou family started to get busy again. Since they could not handle it themselves, Mrs. Zhou invited capable young wives and sisters-in-law from the village to help their neighbors.
Everyone had just been robbed by bandits, and many people didn't even have enough food for the New Year.
The order volume of Xu's Company doubled one after another, and the Zhou family worked day and night.
Every day, when delivering goods, one horse-drawn carriage could not carry them all, so the village sent out three ox-drawn carts to help deliver the goods.
Later, it was changed from one trip a day to two trips a day.
In the last few days, the goods were not only delivered to Jixiang County, but also to several neighboring counties, all of which had branches of Xu's Trading Company.
It was not until New Year's Eve that the Zhou family finally rested.
It's considered a holiday.
Mrs. Zhou waited at the door for a long time, but she didn't see anyone, but she did see a letter.
It was brought back by Zhou Laowu.
She took it to Zhou Lang and asked him to read it to her.
Zhou Lang summarized, "Mom, my fifth brother said that he will not be back for the New Year this year. The Ding family is busy pressing oil during the New Year, so he needs to help over there, so he will stay at the Ding family for the New Year."
Mrs. Zhou spat, looking as if she had expected this.
"Bah! He might as well just go to the Ding family and be a live-in son-in-law! Throughout the year, he was nowhere to be seen, and there was no money. At the end of the year, he just sent his parents away with a letter. He was also busy in the Ding family's oil press during the New Year. Bah! People saw that he was big and needed him as free labor. Did they really think they treated him as a family member..."
Seventeen asked curiously, "Mom, how many years has Fifth Brother been in the county? How did he arrange a marriage with the Ding family?"
"The Ding family used to run an oil press in our town. Our family had a lot of land, so we were the largest oil presser in the Ding family. So the Ding family took the initiative to marry into our Zhou family. The daughter of the Ding family was pretty and good at flirting with people, so she bewitched Lao Wu and he often went to the Ding family to help. The Ding family had only one daughter and no sons. Lao Wang was very strong when he was young, and the Ding family's oil press required a lot of hard work, so Lao Wu, the unmarried son-in-law, did a lot of the heavy work..."
Mrs. Zhou started complaining and couldn't stop.
She continued, "Later, the Ding family said they were going to open an oil mill in town, but business wasn't very good. Ding's mother had a relative living in Dayuan County, so she went to live with her relative, rented a house in Dayuan County, and opened an oil mill. She also suggested that Lao Wu go to Dayuan County to find a job, so that he wouldn't have to eat the Ding family's food, wouldn't have to be supported by them, and could continue to work for their family. Lao Wu really went, and I couldn't stop him. Your father also said that a man with ambitions will have more strength the more he uses, so let him go..."
"In the first two years, he came back to celebrate the New Year and brought us some things. Later, he said that his mother-in-law kept all his money for safekeeping, and that they would save it in the future to buy a small house for the couple in the county town to live in. In the future, they would be city dwellers. Your father also agreed, saying that our family is poor and your fifth brother wants to be a city dweller. We can't help him buy a house, so it would be great if he could save money with the woman and buy a house together..."
"Your fifth brother works as a clerk in a pawnshop in Dayuan County, with a fixed salary of 500 coins per month. Your fifth brother is strong and eloquent. Sometimes when he makes a big deal, the shopkeeper gives him a commission. I won't say how much, but he definitely makes more than ten taels of silver a year, and all of it goes into the pockets of the Ding family. I gave birth to him and raised him, but apart from buying me two sets of clothes in the first two years, I haven't seen a hair from him since then. He also said that the Ding family didn't want to see us, the Zhou family, go to him, so they asked us, the Zhou family, to go to him less..."
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