No sooner had Lao Hei finished speaking than Ning Dafu's wife showed up. "Ning Dafu! You come out here!"
"What are you yelling about? Come in."
A moment later, Ning Dafu's wife came in. As soon as she entered, she pointed at Ning Dafu's nose and said, "Ning Dafu! How dare you marry off Qiya without consulting me?"
Currently, Ning Dafu's youngest daughter, Ning Qiya, is unmarried in the Ning family.
The fifty carriages that Lao Hei brought were all decorated with red flowers, clearly betrothal gifts.
Ning Dafu glared at his wife. "Those betrothal gifts belong to Dong'er, not Qi Ya."
"Don't try to fool me. Dong'er was abandoned by that heartless family a long time ago." With things in such chaos outside, her poor niece is probably long gone.
Ning Dafu looked at Lao Hei. "You tell her."
"Okay." Old Hei walked up to Ning Dafu's wife and bowed to her. "Hello, Auntie, Uncle..."
"My goodness!" Before Lao Hei could finish speaking, Ning Dafu's wife darted behind him. "My husband knows martial arts, you...you better leave now, or I'll have my husband arrest you and send you to the authorities."
Old Hei was used to it. "I'm not a bandit, I'm Dong'er's fiancé."
Ning Dafu's wife didn't believe it. "Husband, Dong'er and Jun'er have fallen into the hands of bandits?"
"He's not a bandit; he's a member of the Yun family."
"How could the Yun family have such a person? Are you afraid that people will say you have a bandit nephew-in-law, so you say you're a member of the Yun family?"
Ning Dafu gave Han Dongyu's letter to his wife. "Read it yourself."
"What are you looking at? I can't read?"
"..." He was completely bewildered by the Yun family. "Go and call my eldest sister."
He called her "Big Sister"? "He...he's really from the Yun family?"
"Um."
"Aren't all the Yun family members good people?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Go and call your older sister."
"oh."
Ning Dafu's wife walked out, hugging the wall.
"Your aunt hasn't seen much of the world."
"fine."
"Could you tell me about the situation on your end?"
"Yes, it's possible. Our place is much more lively than yours."
"More lively than here? You mean your troops are more numerous than ours?"
"No. I don't know how many soldiers you have. It's incomparable. I'm just saying that there are more people on the streets of our place than on the streets of yours."
Doesn't that mean the same thing?
Where are ordinary people left these days?
When things get urgent, even the elderly, weak, women, and children become soldiers.
Ning Dafu felt that every word Lao Hei said had a hidden meaning.
On the other side, Ning Dahua was sewing shoe soles when her sister-in-law arrived. "Dahua, someone has come to propose marriage to Dong'er."
Ning Dahua was delighted to hear this. However, she asked, "Why is he here? Did the Han family bring him to show us around?"
"No." Ning Dafu's wife told Ning Dahua about the Han family keeping Han Dongyu and her brother in their hometown and about Lao Hei. "We didn't dare tell you because we were afraid you'd worry. The man who proposed to Dong'er looks fierce, but he's from the Yun family and he's generous. Your older brother wants you to go over there."
Ning Dahua now knew why her older brother had arrested Han Lao Er! "How could they do that?!"
“It’s all in the past. That man must have really liked Dong’er, otherwise he wouldn’t have prepared so many betrothal gifts. Do you know how many betrothal gifts he prepared? Fifty cartloads! I’ve never seen so many betrothal gifts before.” Back when the Han family married her younger sister, they only prepared twenty cartloads of betrothal gifts.
Ning Dahua's mood improved a bit. "Fifty carts?"
"Yes. Every vehicle is fully loaded."
Ning Dafu had only asked a few questions when Ning Dahua and his wife arrived.
To avoid a repeat of what just happened, Ning Dafu blocked Lao Hei when he saw Ning Dahua arrive. "This is a letter Dong'er wrote for you, take a look first."
After Ning Dahua married into the Han family, Old Master Han hired a female tutor to teach her to write.
In the letter, Han Dongyu told her mother that she liked Lao Hei, that she wanted to marry Lao Hei, that she would no longer acknowledge the Han family, and that although Lao Hei looked fierce, he was very gentle to the people he cared about.
After reading the letter, Ning Dahua wanted to see how fierce Lao Hei looked. "Brother, move aside."
Ning Dafu stepped aside.
Old Hei bowed to Ning Dahua.
Ning Dahua: "..." This...this is too fierce, isn't it? Dong'er...how could Dong'er like such a fierce person?
Ning Dafu coughed twice. "Ahem! Please sit down. Dahua, the Han family wants to tell others that they gave Dong'er and Jun'er to you a long time ago. What do you think?"
"Huh?!" Ning Dahua was still wondering how her daughter could possibly like such a fierce person.
Ning Dafu repeated it again.
"Let's do as they say. Dong'er's grandfather has been very good to me, Dong'er, Jun'er, and me."
"Alright. Let's discuss Dong'er and Lao Hei's marriage then."
"good."
Old Hei glanced at Ning Dahua. Luckily, his wife wasn't like his mother-in-law. "Uncle, are you all just covering up for the Han family for nothing?" My wife has suffered so much.
Ning Dafu: "..." Right! His niece's dowry is still undecided. Besides, letting them off so easily would be too lenient.
The next day, Ning Dafu came over as soon as General An arrived at the military camp. "General, good day. The Yun family gave us two cartloads of medicine as part of the betrothal gifts. Those medicines are for treating knife wounds. I've brought those two cartloads of medicine over."
Two truckloads of finished medicine?
Is the Yun family trying to tempt him?
Even if he had the money, he wouldn't be able to buy so much medicine for knife wounds.
"How come the Yun family has so many over-the-counter medicines?"
"Old Hei said they have a medicinal mountain."
"Medicine Mountain?"
"Yes, it's a mountain specifically for growing medicinal herbs."
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