Duan Ruoqing was amused by her mother. "Mother, do I have big hands?"
“Before, I only gave you a little money, so even if you wanted to be generous, you didn’t have the chance. Now it’s different. When Lao Bai gives you money, it’s a thousand taels at a time.”
"..." Her mother's words seemed to make sense. She used to be always worried about not having enough money. "Then you can remind me from time to time in the future."
"good."
After Lao Bai and Duan Ruoqing's relationship was settled, Sisi and the others stayed for a few days before heading back.
Duan Yuchen really wanted to go back with Lao Bai, but his parents wouldn't allow it. They said he had to send his sister off to her wedding.
Duan Yuchen was a little annoyed.
Seeing that he was depressed, Lao Bai told him that once he and his sister got married, they would be a family and could live together.
Duan Yuchen was overjoyed. "Sister, hurry up and get married to your husband. I want to live with him."
Everyone was amused by Duan Yuchen.
Master Duan: "You brat, you're not even grown up yet and you already want to leave your parents behind and go play by yourself."
Mrs. Duan: "Oh no, I'm getting a son in with me when I marry off my daughter."
Feng Chan: "These two have such a good relationship. People who know them would think they are brother-in-law and brother-in-law, but those who don't would think they are father and son."
Old Bai said, "That's a good idea. Yu Chen, from now on, when we go out, we'll tell people we're father and son."
Yu Chen: "Okay."
Feng Chan glared at Lao Bai. "You're talking nonsense again. Be careful that Master Duan and Madam Duan don't marry their daughter to you."
Sisi: "Exactly. You'll be crying then."
After chatting and laughing for a while, Sisi, Fengchan, and Lao Bai set off.
Feng Chan had been looking forward to Lao Bai's marriage for a long time, hadn't she? Feng Chan not only talked about it, but she also prepared things for him.
Before Lao Bai even met Duan Ruoqing, Feng Chan had already prepared everything for Lao Bai's wedding.
There was no need to buy anything. With Ma Zi and Lao Hei looking after Twelve and Thirteen, and Old Master Yun watching over them, Feng Chan wasn't in a hurry to go back.
In addition, Sisi also needs to check with Ning Yirong to see if the officials along the way are doing their jobs properly.
So, on their way back, Sisi and her group walked slowly. Because they were slow, people came to visit them.
When they arrived, officials along the way who wanted to visit them couldn't catch up.
Feng Chan is now able to deal with the wives of officials with ease.
Given Sisi's reputation and the fact that she might become empress in the future, the officials' wives dared not disrespect Fengchan.
Most people came to get attention from Feng Chan and Si Si. Some also came to ask Si Si and Feng Chan for help.
Sisi, Fengchan, and Lao Bai had just returned from their stroll outside and were about to wash up when a maidservant who had stayed at the inn came over.
The maidservant bowed to Sisi and Fengchan. "Greetings, Third Young Mistress, Greetings, Sixth Miss. The wife of the magistrate of Ping'an County has arrived."
Sisi raised an eyebrow.
Feng Chan was somewhat surprised. "Daughter, Ping'an County doesn't seem to be on this road, does it?"
"She's not only not here, she's also quite far away. Let her in."
"yes."
A moment later, the maidservant led the wife of the magistrate of Ping'an County to arrive.
The wife of the magistrate of Ping'an County bowed to Sisi and Fengchan. After bowing, she said that it was her great honor to meet Sisi and Fengchan and that she had long wanted to pay her respects to them.
Feng Chan exchanged a few polite words with her.
After they had finished talking, Sisi looked at the wife of the magistrate of Ping'an County and asked, "How are the people of Ping'an County doing?"
The magistrate's wife was secretly pleased. "It's alright, it's just..."
"What is it? Speak." The magistrate of Ping'an County is a proper scholar; he shouldn't have sent his wife from so far away to curry favor with the mother and daughter.
"Let me hear if I can help you solve this. If I can, I'll help you solve it. If not, you'll have to think of another way."
The wife of the magistrate of Ping'an County thought to herself, "This little girl is really clever." "Thank you. I didn't want to trouble you, but... my husband is so worried. I saw him losing his hair from worry, so I secretly came to find you."
"I... I want to apologize to you first. I really couldn't think of any other way, so I came to beg you."
Feng Chan knew from her words that the matter was quite troublesome. "You really think too highly of her. She's just a girl, she can only help you with family matters, she can't handle matters of the court."
The magistrate's wife dared not elaborate any further, lest she be prevented from speaking. "It's not a matter of the imperial court. There's a village in Ping'an County called Dahuaishu Village. It's said that more than two hundred years ago, Ping'an County suffered a severe drought. A villager surnamed Yang in Dahuaishu Village dreamed that their deceased clan chief told him that there was a water vein in the back mountain, and that he could find it by digging down thirty or forty zhang."
"He dreamed about it and casually mentioned it to his wife, and she then spread it around."
"The villagers of Dahuaishu Village, with a desperate attitude, dug around and found water after digging only about 20 zhang (approximately 13 meters)."
"Thanks to that well, all the villagers of Dahuaishu Village survived. Not only did they survive, they also encouraged the surrounding villages to fetch water from them. Although they weren't allowed to fetch too much, they didn't die of thirst."
"And so, the village of Dahuaishu and the surrounding villages survived. After they survived, the mountain became a sacred place for Dahuaishu Village. The surrounding villages also felt that the mountain had saved them."
“A few months ago, a feng shui master suddenly came to Dahuaishu Village. At first, no one paid much attention to it. However, a few days later, a large group of people came. As soon as they arrived, they wanted to build a tomb on that mountain.”
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