The son left as soon as he finished speaking, leaving the old clan chief in a dilemma.
Should he still go and pay his respects to the county magistrate?
go?
It seems I've disturbed the adults' rest.
Not going?
Wouldn't that make him seem disrespectful to adults?
He didn't dwell on it for too long. Village Chief Lin went to tell his wife about the requirements Li Shiye had mentioned, then came out and went into the main room with Clan Chief Lin.
As the host, you have to keep your guests company.
The main room was eerily quiet, with a somewhat oppressive atmosphere.
But no one dared to make a sound and disturb Lord Tang, who was pretending to rest with his eyes closed.
The silence in the room was broken only when the village chief's wife finished preparing the meal.
After the meal, rooms were naturally arranged for Magistrate Tang and his entourage to rest. There were plenty of rooms in Village Chief Lin's house. However, the guards did not all go to rest, but were arranged to take turns on duty.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Village Chief Lin or the old clan chief.
After Magistrate Tang and his men had rested, the old clan chief asked his son:
"What brings Magistrate Tang here this time?"
In the past, it was for sweet potatoes, for sweet potato seedlings, for the emperor's reward. This time, it seems nothing much has happened.
When the various natural disasters finally ended, he had heard that Magistrate Tang had gone to the countryside to inspect the situation, but he hadn't come to their village.
It came all of a sudden at this time; surely it couldn't be for the wheat harvest a month ago? Or the autumn harvest a little over a month from now?
"I did hear that Magistrate Tang came down to inspect the people's conditions, but isn't this kind of thing just a formality? Usually, it's done in a few villages near the county seat, so why did he come all the way to the very edge of our area?"
Village Chief Lin was also puzzled. What was Magistrate Tang doing traveling nearly two hundred miles to their village?
"Could it be Lin Yueshi?"
The clan chief's wife came over to check on the father and son, and upon hearing their conversation, she couldn't help but chime in.
"What's going on?"
The father and son turned to look at the clan chief's wife. How did this turn into Lin Yue's affair?
The clan chief's wife couldn't help but cough, clear her throat, and then said in a low voice:
"I heard it, I only heard it, that Magistrate Tang has some ulterior motives towards that Lin Yue family."
After hearing this, the Lin clan chief and the Lin village chief couldn't help but open their mouths in astonishment, and they couldn't close them for a long time.
"What is all this nonsense? Who told you this?"
The father and son found this unbelievable. How could two people who were completely unrelated spread such a rumor?
"Don't talk nonsense! If the magistrate hears you, you'll be in big trouble!"
Chief Lin couldn't help but scold the old woman who had no self-control. She was getting more and more senile with age, daring to blurt out all sorts of nonsense. Didn't she know who she was talking about? Was she allowed to spout off about a county magistrate?
"Hey! I'm just chatting with you two behind closed doors, there's no one else here!"
The clan chief's wife muttered to herself, "Even if there were no outsiders here, I wouldn't say anything. After all, I still have to maintain the airs of a clan chief's wife and mother-in-law."
"Be careful, the walls may be listening!"
Chief Lin glared at his wife with exasperation. Did she think those two guards standing outside were just for show? Those men were clearly not ordinary soldiers. They looked like they knew martial arts, and their aura was extraordinary. He wondered if they had been on the battlefield; they exuded a menacing presence.
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