She had been accumulating resentment from two lifetimes, and the exhilaration of this life, and now she couldn't help but unleash it all.
As Xu Zhenzhu spoke, she stared intently at Xu Ningyan's face, wanting to see expressions of terror, fear, regret, and unbearable pain on Xu Ningyan's face.
Xu Ningyan glanced up at her and asked in a very calm and polite manner, "Are you finished?"
Xu Zhenzhu froze for a moment, whether from anger or something else, her words suddenly became incoherent: "I, I'm done, you—"
Xu Ningyan gently shoved Xu Zhenzhu aside: "Get out of the way after you've finished speaking! Even a good dog doesn't block the road! The truck is carrying goods that our brigade is going to sell at the department store. If you miss the bus to the county town because of this—"
Xu Zhenzhu regained some of her senses, but before she could even process what was happening, she was already being pushed back several steps.
Old Yang, who was driving the carriage, didn't quite hear what Xu Zhenzhu said in front of him.
He heard Xu Ningyan's words clearly. Immediately, he raised his whip and shouted, "Giddy up!"
The oxcart rolled forward a long way.
Xu Zhenzhu was left behind.
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but Xu Ningyan, sitting on the oxcart swinging her legs, looked over with a smile: "Xu Zhenzhu, you have such a sharp tongue, your heart must be very bitter, right? Since you're getting married, hold on tight to your Brother Lu, lest the duck you've got flies away—"
He gave Xu Zhenzhu a meaningful smile, hummed a song, and slowly walked away with the oxcart.
For some reason, Xu Zhenzhu suddenly had a bad feeling.
Once the oxcart was far away, Old Yang asked with concern, "What did Pearl say to you just now? Did she say something unpleasant?"
Xu Ningyan smiled, waved her hand, and brushed it off vaguely.
If she were the original owner of the body, Si Ya, after hearing Xu Zhenzhu's words, she might actually be influenced by her, becoming anxious and doubtful about Gu Zhiyuan.
But now it's her, Xu Ningyan. Even if her marriage with Gu Zhiyuan was just a sham, or even if they were really married, she wouldn't cling to him if he wanted to leave her and go back to Beijing.
I will definitely let go without hesitation!
If she guessed correctly, Xu Zhenzhu's words, while stemming from resentment from her past life, were likely instigated and encouraged by Lu Kai.
Either they want to sow discord between her and Gu Zhiyuan, making her cause trouble every day and distracting Gu Zhiyuan from his work.
Or perhaps they want to use her to cause trouble, ruining Gu Zhiyuan's reputation and cutting off his future before he can establish himself firmly.
It's a pity I ran into her!
The relationship between the pure golden thigh and his leg ornament is as solid as a rock, unbreakable!
Back in the county town, they first used Li Jianguo's connections to sell the various herbs they had brought from the Tuanjie Brigade to a medicinal herb purchasing store.
This was the first time the Tuanjie Brigade had sold herbs. Xu Ningyan had asked the herbal medicine shop what kind of herbs they needed and how to process them to make money. After understanding everything, he went back and led the Tuanjie Brigade members up the mountain to collect herbs, teaching them how to identify and process them.
The first batch of finished products were all carefully selected, for fear that the herbal medicine store would have a bad impression on them and would not buy their herbal medicine in the future.
Fortunately, Xu Ningyan taught diligently, and everyone in the united brigade learned earnestly, after all, it concerned their own wallets.
The people at the medicinal herb purchasing store opened the package and looked inside; they found that these were all medicinal herbs that the store had been in high demand for recently.
Although they are all common medicinal materials, the quality of the processing is quite good, so the price is also good.
Especially at the end, the store staff even offered to let their entire team use this quality of medicinal herbs from now on, and they could take as many as they wanted.
They even found a herbal medicine picture book and asked Xu Ningyan to take it back so that everyone could see and remember it, and that they could pick and sell the herbs they saw in the picture book in the future.
Things were going so smoothly that Xu Ningyan had gotten used to it.
She now understood Li Jianguo's influence. Although he was just the head of the supply and marketing department of a small department store, he had a wide network of connections in Jingshan County.
Invoices were issued, and settlement was made on the spot.
After counting the money, just as I was about to leave, I was stopped by the staff at the store: "Don't rush off. Did you come alone? No one came with you?"
Xu Ningyan nodded, finding it strange that they asked that question.
The staff at the store explained the reason: their medicinal herb store buys medicinal herbs from the entire county and even neighboring counties.
While common medicinal herbs are not worth much, precious medicinal herbs can be quite valuable.
Someone previously unearthed a precious black ginseng, a medicinal herb comparable to gold.
The man made a few hundred yuan and left triumphantly. Not long after, he was spotted, knocked unconscious from behind with a stick, and robbed of his money.
Later, there were several more incidents of robbery targeting drug sellers.
It was probably a gang crime; even though militiamen passed by from time to time, people still got caught in the crossfire.
The shopkeepers saw that Xu Ningyan was thin and weak, and that these herbs had sold for several tens of yuan. They were worried that if she went out, the gang would take a liking to her.
So when they called out to her and saw that she was alone, they gestured for her to go out through a back door that they usually use to get to and from get off work.
Xu Ningyan thanked the people at the store and left through the back door.
The back exit leads to a small, narrow alley where various odds and ends are discarded. On weekdays, few people use this alley except for the staff of their store who are in a hurry.
Xu Ningyan peeked out and saw that there were few people in the alley. She took three steps at a time and walked out, putting on a dusty gray jacket as she went. She also changed her hairstyle, making her look completely different from when she went in.
If you weren't someone you knew very well, you wouldn't recognize them at all.
She walked out of the alley with her head down. After walking a distance, she turned her head at the turn and saw that near the entrance of the store, in addition to the long line of people selling medicinal herbs, there were a few men sitting in twos and threes not far away. They seemed to be chatting or working, but their eyes kept glancing towards the store.
Occasionally, they would exchange glances, and someone would subtly squeeze to the front of the store, pretending to be a drug seller who had been waiting anxiously for a long time. While chatting with the people in front to find out what was going on, they would occasionally glance into the store.
Fortunately, there was a half-length curtain hanging at the entrance of the herbal medicine store, and the inspection of herbs was done in a separate room. Even if they stuck their heads through the curtain, they couldn't see what was going on inside.
Having made up her mind and memorized the physical characteristics of the men, Xu Ningyan hopped on the bus and returned to the small courtyard where she and Gu Zhiyuan were temporarily staying.
Before she even stepped inside, the lackey, having somehow caught her scent, suddenly emerged from the shadows, wagging its tail at Xu Ningyan and barking occasionally, as if complaining: "Human, you're finally back! If you hadn't come back, I, the lackey, would have starved to death!"
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