Lin Sheng nervously and awkwardly tugged at her sleeves, her eyes dodging and she didn't even dare to look him in the eye.
After a moment, Lin Sheng's somewhat timid voice sounded.
"I'm older than you, by several years."
"It's okay, I don't mind. It's not a bad thing. You don't have to indulge me just because I'm young. I will do my best to shoulder the responsibilities that a man should have."
Although Han Zhi is young, he sometimes sounds a bit mature when he speaks.
Lin Sheng's heart was changing again. He had experienced everything from worry to joy, just like the changes of the four seasons. But at this moment, he still couldn't make up his mind.
Han Zhi didn't want to force him, so he changed the subject.
"Brother Lin Sheng, can you take me out for a walk? I haven't been out for a walk since I came here. I want to go to the village and take a look."
Looking at his bright and harmless smile, Lin Sheng agreed.
The two walked side by side on the muddy road at the entrance of the village, passing many fields along the way. When the villagers who were busy working in the fields saw this scene, they all stopped their work and looked at the young man who was dressed in an extremely bright and handsome manner in surprise.
Some of the gossipy aunties and grandmas among them have already started to chatter about whose son this is and where he came from.
There were also a few young girls who took a fancy to him, looking shy and sneaking to look at him.
Lin Sheng took him from the beginning to the end of the village. When they passed by the village chief's house, they were stopped by the village chief.
"Brother Sheng, is this the guest from your family?" The village chief asked in a pretentious manner, but in fact he wanted to gossip about where this young man from a rich family came from and what his relationship was to their family.
Lin Sheng nodded politely: "Uncle Village Chief, this is a friend of mine. He came here to play for a few days."
Lin Sheng didn't want to reveal too much, so he just gave a brief explanation to get the point across.
The village chief was also a smart man. He greeted the two of them with a tactful smile and then went back into the house.
Rumors always spread quickly. Lin Sheng had just gone out for a walk in the morning, and in the afternoon people in the village said that she brought a man home.
When Lin Sheng heard these words, he didn't care. However, some people were secretly worried for a long time.
In the afternoon, Lao Gu's family of three were packing up their things. Lin Mo decided to let Tuanzi live with Lao Gu and his family in the town. He couldn't let the child be separated from his parents for a long time. After much deliberation, he decided to reunite the family and focus on the shop in the future.
Lao Gu and the others went back to open the shop, and Fu Yanzhi happened to come back in the afternoon, so Lin Mo started to arrange some things for them to do.
After the machine was debugged, Lin Mo took Fu Yanzhi and Lin Wu with him to teach them how to use it and control production quality.
Su Mu took Su Yunxia and the others to the field to dig peanuts, and gave the prepared peanuts to Lin Mo to extract oil.
The process went relatively smoothly. In this era without electricity, Lin Mo used other methods to make the machine run, using the resistance of the water flow to drive the movement of machine parts.
In the next few days, Lin Mo spent most of his time in the factory. All the peanuts purchased from outside were used by Lin Mo to extract oil.
He used the remaining oil residue to feed pigs.
Some of the oil was taken to the shop for supply. When it was first put on the market, it caused quite a stir and made considerable profits.
Han Zhi also stayed at the Lin family, slowly recuperating, and also attended Lin Wen's wedding.
That day, the Lin family's house was still full of guests, with big red lanterns hung high, and they entertained the entire village.
Tang Jie successfully married into the Lin family and became the first person in Maolin Village to marry into the family. He then officially moved into the Lin family.
Widow Tang still lived with her youngest son in the original place, but Lin Mo helped them build a new house. Although it was not big, it was very comfortable.
Many people in the village joked that Tang Jie was lucky to be able to marry into the Lin family, and that he was sure to have a good life in the future.
Although there are some people who slander him, saying that he will do anything for money, even daring to marry a fool, and that he does it by having a door-to-door relationship.
But these words have no effect on Tang Jie and Lin Wen. As long as they truly love each other and live their own lives, no matter what they say, they will not be sour grapes.
After Lin Wen finished his business, Su Mu, Lin Mo and their group quickly returned to the town, and Han Zhi also went back with them.
Lin Mo's newly opened shop quickly recruited staff and started business quickly, and business was still booming.
Su Mu continued to make handicrafts and gave them to Su Yunxia to sell, and his business began to flourish.
Lin Mo began to help Su Mu plan, wanting to help him open a shop and sell ready-made clothes, which would be better than selling his own design drafts to others to make money.
After a month of hard work, Su Mu's clothing shop finally opened.
Su Yunxia also became the owner of this shop. In reality, it was only his and Su Mu's shop. Lin Mo only played a role of giving advice and helping to find a shop location.
While everyone's life was getting better, the relationship between Lin Sheng and Han Zhi remained the same, with no significant progress.
During this period, Han Zhi confessed his love to Lin Sheng more than once. He also went to the shop every day and gave Lin Sheng a different surprise almost every day.
Mingfan would follow Han Zhi wherever he went every day, even when he went out to date.
Although Lin Sheng did not express his feelings, in the eyes of Lin Mo and others, it was almost the same.
On this day, Lin Sheng thought that Han Zhi would come to the shop to find him as usual, but he waited for a whole day and did not see Han Zhi. Even Ming Fan did not come to inform him.
He secretly had a bad premonition in his heart.
That day, Han Zhi took Ming Fan out to meet the eldest daughter of the Lan family.
He originally wanted to cancel the engagement, but the Lan family seemed to have received news in advance and refused Han Zhi's visit, giving him a cold reception.
But Han Zhi was not angry about this. Instead, he directly made an appointment with Miss Lan for a private meeting.
They met in a pavilion in the suburbs. Han Zhi brought Ming Fan with him, while the eldest daughter of the Lan family only brought a personal maid.
Miss Lan arrived at the location as promised, and Han Zhi and the others had been waiting there for a long time.
Seeing the eldest daughter of the Lan family coming, Han Zhi first greeted her politely. However, before he even started asking, the eldest daughter of the Lan family, Lan Ting, directly refused.
"No need for that. Just say what you want to say. Don't go through all this red tape. I'm not used to it."
Mingfan and Han Zhi were stunned at once. This had nothing to do with the image of her as being well-behaved, sensible, gentle and virtuous as spread by the outside world.
Han Zhi immediately understood that most of those who said things were so good that they were beyond belief were just exaggerating.
He got straight to the point and said, "I'm here to cancel the engagement. Strictly speaking, there was no actual engagement between our two families. It was just a verbal decision between our parents."
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