Seeing his expression, Yang Cui knew he had misunderstood, and quickly said, "Don't misunderstand. What I meant was that I still have a house in Zhou'an Village. That house is better than the one I live in now, and it's fully furnished. If you live there, it will be more convenient for you to come to Anjia Village to see Qiuqiu in the future, saving you from having to travel back and forth every day. In this hot weather, you're prone to heatstroke. However, that house was a divorce settlement given to me by the Lin family. Now that Lin Rongguang is dead and Lin Mingcai is in jail, if you move there, no one from the Lin family should cause you any trouble for the time being, but you still have to be careful. So... do you want to consider it?"
During their time together, Yang Cui could tell that although Cen Xiao was wealthy, he wasn't someone who looked down on the poor conditions in the countryside; otherwise, she wouldn't have made that suggestion.
“Okay,” he replied.
"Then pack up today and move in tomorrow morning. I can go there in the morning and tidy up the house a bit more, and then we can all have lunch together."
"No need to wait until tomorrow, we can move there today."
"Oh? So fast? Isn't that too rushed?"
"Won't."
Without hesitation, Cen Xiao returned to the inn and packed his things. Dao Ba and Dao San also came with him.
"Is this all the three of you have?" Yang Cui couldn't help but ask when she saw that the three of them were only carrying a small bundle.
"We're men, we're not as particular as you girls. A couple of changes of clothes are enough for us," Dao Ba chuckled.
"But we still need to prepare things like washcloths, bath towels, sleeping mats, and thin blankets! If we don't have these things, that's one thing, but if we do have them, why can't we live a more refined life?"
Afterwards, Yang Cui took them to buy three thin quilts, towels and bath beans, as well as some food and vegetables for the next day's meal.
"There's so much stuff, the oxcart probably can't fit it all."
Looking at this pile of things, Yang Cui was also troubled.
This oxcart belongs to Cen Xiao. It's already full of stuff, and if four more people were to sit on it, even the hardest-working ox wouldn't be able to carry it.
"It's alright, let them take the public oxcart back."
The "they" referred to here are Dao San and Dao Ba.
The two of them were quite sensible and headed straight for Zhou Daniu's oxcart.
...
Yang Cui didn't go back to Anjia Village first, but instead accompanied them to Zhou'an Village to tidy up the house.
The people of Anjia Village knew Cen Xiao, but the people of Zhou'an Village and Lin'an Village did not. So when the villagers of Zhou'an Village entered the village and saw Yang Cui and Cen Xiao sitting together on the oxcart, their gossip instincts were ablaze.
"Xiao Cui, I heard you have a fiancé, is it him?"
"The young man is tall and handsome, and his physique makes him look like a good worker."
"Not bad, he's much more handsome than that heartless bastard."
...
The villagers were talking about it.
Yang Cui introduced with a smile: "This is my fiancé, Cen Daniu."
"Oh! It really is your man!"
When are you planning to get married?
At this moment, the villagers noticed that the oxcart behind Yang Cui was full of things: "Xiaocui, are you planning to move back here?"
"It's good to move back; we can look out for each other."
"Yes, it's good to move back. Anyway, the Lin family is like a wilted eggplant now, they won't dare to do anything to you anymore. Don't worry about coming back to live here. If anything happens, we Zhou family are here for you."
"Yes, you also have the Zhou family to help you!"
Yang Cui helped the Zhou family make money, and the Zhou family members all remember that.
Yang Cui covered the items on the oxcart with a straw mat that Cen Xiao had just bought, so they didn't know that it actually contained valuable Huanhua brocade. They thought it was Yang Cui's luggage and that she was bringing it back.
"By the way, Xiao Cui, is your fiancé marrying into your family or are you marrying him?" a villager asked again. After all, Yang Cui had said that she wouldn't marry anyone, but would only find a husband. Now everyone wanted to see if Yang Cui was really going to find a husband.
Yang Cui smiled faintly: "He is going to marry into the family, but the fortune teller said that it is not auspicious for us to get married in the next two years, and we should wait three years before we can get married. He will be staying in Zhou'an Village for the time being, and we hope that all the uncles and aunts will take good care of him then."
Yang Cui's words caused an uproar!
There are actually people willing to marry into another family!
Suddenly, everyone's gaze towards Cen Xiao changed. In the eyes of the world, a good man would not be willing to become a live-in son-in-law, and similarly, a man who is willing to become a live-in son-in-law must not be very good.
Yang Cui is now seen as a hot commodity. People really don't understand why Yang Cui would choose such a man. Is it for his looks? Or for his physique?
Yang Cui could roughly understand what everyone was thinking. In order not to let everyone look down on Cen Xiao, Yang Cui couldn't help but make a Versailles-like gesture: "Auntie, my family doesn't have a cowshed, and there's nowhere to keep the cows. Could you do me a favor and let me keep the cows in your cowshed for a few days? I'll bring them back once we finish building the cowshed."
"What did you say? You bought this cow?"
The villagers were astonished.
“I didn’t buy it, it’s my fiancé’s, it’s part of his dowry.”
As she said this, Yang Cui felt a little guilty and secretly glanced at Cen Xiao. Seeing that he wasn't angry, she felt relieved.
However, the mention of "dowry" shocked everyone even more!
In this era, buying a cow was as important as getting married or buying a house. In some places, you couldn't find a single cow in several villages, which shows how valuable it was.
"Xiao Cui, what did you say this cow is? A dowry? Did I hear you correctly?"
“Auntie, you heard me right. He bought this cow as part of his dowry,” Yang Cui affirmed.
"If he can afford to buy cattle, why is he becoming a live-in son-in-law?"
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