Chapter Nine: Girl, Please Help Me
After Jiang Mi finished speaking to Huo Ran, she walked past him to the pile of sweet potatoes, picked them up and put them into the bamboo basket woven by her father, then carried them outside.
Just as Jiang Mi was about to leave the cave, Huo Ran pursed his lips and called out to her, "Miss, could you please do me a favor?"
Jiang Mixin's heart tightened instantly, and she looked at Huo Ran warily.
Seemingly sensing her wariness, he gave a helpless wry smile and pointed to the sweet potatoes in the basket she was carrying: "I want some sweet potatoes to breed back home."
Huo Ran took out a silver note from his sleeve and handed it to Jiang Mi: "Here are five hundred taels. I'll buy you five sweet potatoes."
Jiang Mi looked at Huo Ran, then at the sweet potatoes in the basket, and then at the silver coins handed to her.
He suddenly tensed up.
Jiang Mi squinted as she sized up Huo Ran.
Just when Huo Ran thought she would refuse, she looked away: "I can sell you sweet potatoes, but you have to exchange the silver notes for silver."
Putting aside the fact that banknotes are troublesome to use in the countryside and are easy to counterfeit, even if this man had counterfeited them, she wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.
Money is more practical.
Huo Ran was taken aback when he heard Jiang Mi say that, then chuckled. He had forgotten that this was a small mountain village where banknotes were not in circulation. So he looked at her and said, "Okay. I'll give it to you after I exchange the money."
Jiang Mi nodded, picked up her basket, and left.
Huo Ran smiled and watched her leave.
After she left for a while, she gathered her energy and used her lightness skill to follow her.
As night fell, many wild animals had already come out to hunt, and he was genuinely worried about leaving her to go home alone.
After Huo Ran left, the guards who had been hiding not far away were shocked once again.
Is this still his master?
Could it be that his master has suddenly become enlightened, or that his master no longer loves the noble ladies of the capital, but prefers the plump girls of the countryside?
What kind of peculiar hobby is this?
He simply dared not speak, much less stop them.
Because his master has a bad temper, even the emperor has to give his master some face.
As Huo Ran left, the guards secretly followed behind him.
Jiang Mi hurriedly left the cave. She glanced at the darkening sky and heard the howls of wild beasts mixed with the howls of wolves. This made her heart tighten, and she quickly walked towards home.
On the treetop behind her, Huo Ran silently floated, occasionally plucking a few leaves and shooting them at the ferocious beasts attacking this way, silently eliminating the dangers hidden in the shadows and protecting Jiang Mi to ensure her safe return home.
The guards who had followed him were shocked to see this scene.
This was the first time in his master's history that he had been so devoted to protecting a woman.
This is unbelievable!
It seems his master has finally come to his senses and is now escorting women home. He must send this news back to make the prince and princess happy.
With Huo Ran's protection, Jiang Mi successfully returned home.
After watching Jiang Mi enter the house, Huo Ran turned around and prepared to leave.
Huo Ran had just turned around when he met the strange expression on the guard's face.
The guard hesitated for a moment, then finally asked, "Master, have you fallen for that girl? Should I...?"
Before the guard could finish speaking, he received a cold glare from Huo Ran and immediately lowered his head, not daring to ask any more questions.
"Yi Nian, how many years have you been following me?" Huo Ran asked calmly, looking at his bodyguard.
“Fifteen years,” Yinian quickly replied in a low voice.
"So do I need to teach you what you should and shouldn't do?" Huo Ran's voice turned cold: "If there's a next time, you can go back to my mother's side."
His body tensed at the thought, and he immediately knelt down: "This subordinate dares not do it again."
The response to Yi Nian was the sound of wind created when Huo Ran used his lightness skill to leave.
Yi Nian's expression immediately turned bitter.
On the other side, Jiang Mi pushed open the courtyard gate and saw the family busy making torches in the yard.
Upon seeing Jiang Mi return, Jiang's mother immediately rushed over and hugged her, saying, "Honey, you're finally back! If you hadn't come back, we would have gone up the mountain to look for you."
Father Jiang Cheng, eldest brother Jiang Yan, eldest sister-in-law Liu He, second brother who went to town to visit his studies, second sister-in-law Liang Lan who had just returned from her third brother's trip, and third sister-in-law Su Yindi—the whole family gathered around, looking Jiang Mi up and down. Seeing that she was unharmed, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Of course, Honey, what did you go out to do? Why are you so late?" Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Jiang Mi, and finally noticed the bamboo basket Jiang Mi was carrying: "What's in that basket?"
“Sweet potatoes.” Jiang Mi handed the basket to Jiang Yan.
"You came back so late just for this thing?" Jiang Yan frowned disapprovingly. "What's the point? You've just made us worry for nothing."
Before Jiang Yan could finish speaking, his mother slapped him hard across the arm: "If you can't speak properly, then shut up."
After scolding Jiang Yan, Jiang's mother looked at Jiang Mi. She felt that her daughter was unusually well-behaved today. In the past, her daughter had always been quite gentle and delicate, but today her attitude towards others was very abnormal.
Her attitude towards her good friend Yang Liu was particularly strange. The two of them used to have a very good relationship. Even if Yang Liu had schemed against her, given her daughter's attitude, she wouldn't have openly turned against Yang Liu like this.
Jiang's mother pulled Jiang Mi's hand: "Honey, tell me, what are these sweet potatoes for? Why would you go and get sweet potatoes so late at night?"
Jiang Mi hesitated for a moment, wondering whether she should tell her mother the truth.
To be a good woman is to be honest and trustworthy.
[Task: Please selectively tell your family the truth.]
[Reward: 10 large sweet potatoes with a yield of 1000 jin per mu, Good Woman Value: +100]
[Punishment: 3 electric shocks, 5 minutes each]
As Jiang Mi hesitated, the system's cold voice suddenly popped into her mind.
Jiang Mi couldn't help but roll her eyes: You're everywhere!
However, when she thought of the reward, her eyes lit up, her face fell, and she remembered the tragedy that had happened to her family years ago. Tears welled up in her eyes.
Her tears left her family at a loss.
"Oh, my sweet baby, don't cry! Don't cry! If you don't want to talk about it, Mother won't ask. Don't cry." Mother Jiang hugged Jiang Mi tightly.
Father Jiang and Jiang Yan also came up, looking at Jiang Mi helplessly, their reproachful eyes falling on Mother Jiang.
Jiang Mi's sister-in-law looked at Jiang Mi, who was surrounded by people, with some envy.
As for the second and third sisters-in-law, they exchanged a glance and pursed their lips. They were already used to the family's doting on Jiang Mi.
"Here's what happened. Actually, what Yang Liu and the others said today was right. I was almost bullied by Wang Jie!" Jiang Mi said.
The family was immediately furious.
Before their anger could flare up, Jiang Mi spoke up again: "And this is what happened. Last night I had a dream. I dreamt of my white-bearded grandfather who claimed to be my ancestor. She showed me the future of our family."
After thinking it over in her mind, Jiang Mi told her family what had happened.
The fact that she was reborn was concealed, and it was transformed into her ancestor appearing in her dream to tell her about the series of experiences that followed, as well as the tragic fate of their own family. As for the sweet potato…
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