Chapter 310: People's Words Are Fearful
When they got home, Song Yuntang looked at Xu Qingye.
"Lin Zhaozhao smashing my shop isn't a secret. People can find out by asking around in town. You just went around in circles. Are you afraid that people won't know?"
Xu Qingye led the horse to the cowshed where the mule was previously kept and prepared fodder for it.
"People's words are scary, it's better to know them."
Song Yuntang followed behind him.
"Lin Zhaozhao is already notorious. She must have grown thicker than a city wall. Even if she knew, it wouldn't have much of an impact on her, right?"
Xu Qingye shook his head as he fed the horses hay, saying, "This time is different from the past."
"Why?" Song Yuntang was puzzled.
This time they only smashed the shop and took some personal belongings at most. Last time she teamed up with outsiders to plot against her innocence, this incident was even worse.
Otherwise, Lord Zhu would not have just asked her to pay some silver instead of taking her to the county government for interrogation.
Xu Qingye glanced in her direction.
"You brought down the Huang family, and I don't know how many people thank you. Lin Zhaozhao smashed your shop, and many people are willing to stand up for you."
After Xu Qingye's reminder, Song Yuntang quickly thought of the key.
"Won't Lin Zhaozhao be a street rat for the next period of time?"
Xu Qingye nodded lightly.
"Perhaps even the Lin family will be implicated."
Looking at the calm man in front of him, Song Yuntang had admiration in his eyes.
This man's brain is really incomparable to that of ordinary people.
Although it seemed like he had done nothing, he had already predicted the fate of Lin Zhaozhao and the Lin family. All those years of reading were in vain.
Then he looked at the horses eating grass in the cowshed.
"Did you rent this horse?"
Xu Qingye put all the fodder into the trough, clapped his hands and said, "I borrowed the horse from Lord Zhu. He usually treats it like a treasure. I talked to him for a long time yesterday before he was willing to ask someone to bring it to me from the Zhu Mansion. I have to return the horse to him before I go to the county tomorrow."
Song Yuntang nodded, thinking deeply in his heart.
Although the mule's carrying capacity is much greater than that of a horse, a high-quality horse can run much faster than a mule. Mules are good for pulling goods, but if you want to travel, you still have to use a horse.
When she has money in the future, she will buy a good horse.
Even for the horse-drawn carriages that usually go from the town to the county, the slowest pony sells for fifty taels and above. Lord Zhu's horse, with its well-proportioned muscles and steady limbs, would probably cost at least five or six hundred taels.
"Qingye, Tanger, are you in the house?" Just then, the voice of aunt Zhang was heard outside the yard.
"Aunt, we are at home."
Song Yuntang trotted to open the gate. Outside the gate was not only Zhang, but also Grandma Hu and several familiar elders from the village.
"Grandma, aunt, what's going on?"
"I heard from the villagers that something happened in your shop? What exactly happened?" Hu walked into the yard with the help of Zhang.
Song Yuntang hurriedly supported her other arm.
"Grandma, I have taken care of all the matters concerning the shop."
Mrs. Hu patted her hands and said, "Now that you are married to Qingye, you are a member of our Lushan Village. People in our Lushan Village protect their children and have never allowed outsiders to bully them. I vaguely heard them say that it was the daughter of the Lin family who was mistakenly adopted by you who did it. Is that true or not?"
After feeding the horse, Xu Qingye washed his hands. Seeing that Song Yuntang was busy at the moment, he picked some cabbage from the garden and went to the kitchen to knead dough for her.
Song Yuntang chatted with Hu for a while, and except for how much money the Lin family compensated her, he told her almost everything that happened in the town.
Mrs. Hu was very angry after hearing this, and several elders who came over also stood up for her.
After understanding the whole story, they let her have a good rest and left together.
Xu Qingye brought the cooked noodles to the main room and placed them in front of Song Yuntang.
“Try the noodles I made.”
Song Yuntang took the chopsticks, picked up a few noodles and put them in his mouth to taste. The noodles were of uniform thickness, with a strong wheat flavor and tasted very good.
Seeing Xu Qingye sitting opposite her and looking at her, she swallowed the food in her mouth and asked, "Where's your noodles? Don't you want to eat?"
Xu Qingye smiled slightly and shook his head.
"I just ate before I came back, so I'm not hungry now."
Looking at the two eggs and the blanched green leaves in the bowl.
"I had lunch late, so I can't finish all this..." She picked up a bowl of noodles with chopsticks and pushed the bowl towards Xu Qingye, "How about you eat with me?"
Looking at the noodles being fed to him, Xu Qingye was slightly stunned. Although he was not hungry, he still opened his mouth and ate a few noodles.
Seeing this, Song Yuntang asked with a frown.
“How does it taste?”
Xu Qingye nodded, "Not bad."
Seeing that he didn't seem to be really hungry, Song Yuntang didn't force him. He took back the bowl and slowly ate all the noodles, eggs and vegetables in the bowl.
Xu Qingye stayed by her side the whole time without saying a word. He watched her finish her meal, then reached out to take the dishes and chopsticks to clean up the kitchen.
After Song Yuntang had eaten, it was not convenient for him to continue sitting there, so he followed him like a little tail, and after helping him clean up the kitchen, he also sorted out the medicinal herbs that he had hung under the eaves.
Looking at the busy little figure coming in and out, the man's eyes flashed with doting.
"Tang'er, it's getting late. You should wash up and rest."
He lit a lamp, put on the lampshade, and held it up in front of Song Yuntang.
The moon is not visible at the end of the month, and the stars are even scarcer tonight.
Originally, I could vaguely see some things through the hazy mountain fog, but when the lit lights appeared in front of me, the sky around me seemed to suddenly become pitch black.
Song Yuntang turned his head to glance at Xu Qingye, then hurried into the house to get a basin, and fetched water from the kitchen with Xu Qingye's company.
Xu Qingye placed the lamp on the desk in the room.
"I'll leave the lamp here. I'll go wash up in the yard."
Song Yuntang turned around and looked at him.
"Can you see it? Why don't you wash it in the house and don't fall."
"It's okay. I can see."
After he said that, he turned and walked out.
After a while, the sound of water was heard outside the house.
After washing up, Song Yuntang went out with the water. As soon as he reached the door, he ran into Xu Qingye, who was only wearing an inner shirt and walking in while lowering his head to tie the belt around his waist.
There was still some moisture on the man's hair and the small area of skin on his chest. When he looked up at her, it was obvious that his Adam's apple rolled.
Song Yuntang's eyes dodged.
"I'll go get some water."
Looking down at the basin of water in her hand, the man reached out and took it calmly.
"There's a lot of moisture in the yard. Go back inside and I'll go pour it out."
Seeing Xu Qingye turn around to pour water, Song Yuntang hung up the handkerchief and went to bed.
The weather is getting colder now. The quilt I covered myself with before going to the county town was the thin quilt that Jiang had prepared some time ago. The temperature in the mountains is already low, and it feels a bit thin now.
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