"Should we follow them and see what's going on?"
Hearing from his third brother that there might be someone among those people who was even more powerful than the prefect, Lin Chaobei became restless.
"What are you looking at! Be careful you don't lose your life!"
Lin Chaodong scolded Lin Chaobei, and his pace slowed down, making Lin Chaobei, who was pulling the cart, so tired that he wanted to stick out his tongue like a dog. Forget about watching the show, his back and legs ached so much that he wanted to lie down on the spot and never get up.
However, some excitement is something they can't simply ignore just because they don't want to see it.
For example, the place that Magistrate Tang led his men to today is their home, and the three brothers have no choice but to go and participate.
Although they got home a little late, they missed the initial excitement.
"These are my three children. This is the eldest, whose full name is Lin Chaodong. This is the third, whose full name is Lin Chaonan. This is the fourth, whose full name is Lin Chaobei. My second child went to serve in the military three years ago and hasn't been heard from since. I don't know where he is or if he's doing well."
Yue Jiuyue introduced her three sons to the visitors, and then there was no need for her, an old woman, to entertain the guests. After all, she was a woman and it was inconvenient for her to entertain guests.
"Our family..."
Well, the person who came was just a palace eunuch. He said he was there to deliver the emperor's reward to her. She thought she would finally see an imperial edict from this dynasty, but it turned out to be just a verbal order. Moreover, the reward would not be given until she had made a name for herself with sweet potatoes.
Now, all they've given as rewards are some cloth, porcelain, and a pitiful five hundred taels of silver. This makes Yue Jiuyue, who watches TV dramas where emperors readily reward their subordinates with tens of thousands of taels of gold, feel utterly disheartened.
Was the emperor in the TV series too magnanimous, or was the emperor of this dynasty too petty?
You traveled all the way from the capital to this godforsaken mountain village just to deliver five hundred taels of silver? Don't you think this trip was a waste of time?
Yue Jiuyue felt sorry for that eunuch!
Lunch was inevitably another sweet potato feast. With the eunuch serving the emperor present, Lady Liu put in all her effort, creating far more variety than when Doctor Li was there recently. Yue Jiuyue even personally made a candied sweet potato dish, and the eunuch ended up taking the recipe from her.
However, they took the practice of extorting and demanding bribes to a whole new level.
Not only could Yue Jiuyue not utter a single complaint, but she also had to present the recipe with both hands while smiling obsequiously, and even gave the eunuch two baskets of sweet potatoes, truly humbly to the extreme.
Fortunately, they wouldn't be staying overnight in Linjiagou Village, otherwise Yue Jiuyue probably would have gone crazy.
Why would anyone want to grovel and serve others when they can live a perfectly good life? Yue Jiuyue, for one, certainly wasn't.
Just because Yue Jiuyue was unwilling didn't mean others were unwilling. A few days later, Yue Jiuyue heard Liu Shi say that a family wanted to send their daughter to a nobleman from the capital, namely that eunuch, but the family refused.
"That girl, it'll be hard for her to find a good family to marry into in the future!"
Liu clicked her tongue in admiration a few times, but her needlework continued without interruption.
"At first, the girl was quite happy, thinking that he was really a high-ranking official from the capital. Later, she heard that the man was a eunuch who couldn't have sex, and his howling could be heard three miles away."
Liu rarely went into the village, but if she happened to overhear someone's gossip, she would eagerly share it with Yue Jiuyue.
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