"Xiuxiu, don't pay attention to those gossipy people, they'll regret it!" Lin Anniang said confidently.
The Mountain Goddess has already spoken, so the disaster that is about to happen is certain. All they need to do is do their best.
Lin Xiu nodded; she was just angry that her uncle's family was talking nonsense.
“Those people can’t beat me!” Lin Xiu raised her arm.
Lin Anniang was both amused and exasperated. She smoothed her daughter's hair and then looked at Ning Xiangqiao beside her.
"Xiang Niangzi, these are the needles, thread and fabric we brought for you." She handed a package to the other person.
Ning Xiangqiao had been thinking of doing more embroidery to earn money, but she hadn't been able to go to the county town for the past few days. She just passed by those shops and bought some.
"Xiang Niangzi is also skilled in embroidery!" Old Mrs. Gongsun, who was still standing nearby, said with a smile in her eyes.
Ning Xiangqiao blushed and waved her hands repeatedly: "I just messed around with it myself. I lost my memory before, and when I woke up I didn't remember anything except these skills. I guess before I lost my memory, I probably learned from some embroiderer."
She thought for a moment and took out the mandarin duck handkerchief she had embroidered earlier.
Ning Xiangqiao planned to sell these in the county town. She hadn't embroidered many handkerchiefs lately, only a few with mandarin ducks playing in the water and peony patterns.
"I can only earn a few hundred coins, barely enough to make ends meet," Ning Xiangqiao sighed.
She had saved up for so many years and only managed to accumulate ten taels of silver. If a famine were to occur, this amount of silver certainly wouldn't be enough to buy much food.
Not to mention building a house on the mountain and buying household items.
Ning Xiangqiao was lost in her own emotions, but Old Madam Gongsun's pupils contracted. She took the handkerchief with mandarin ducks playing in the water and a big red peony and examined it carefully for a while.
"Xiang Niangzi, have you been to the capital before? This is the skill of those embroiderers in the capital. The needlework you used is very exquisite. You must have been instructed by a very skilled embroidery master."
Old Madam Gongsun was, after all, a princess in her time, and her insight was very sharp; she could tell the difference at a glance.
"You said you could barely make ends meet by selling these embroidery pieces? That shouldn't be the case. With this kind of skill, even if you only embroider a handkerchief, you could sell it for ten taels of silver."
"Even if the shops in the county town try to lower prices, it shouldn't be this low. They must have been cheated by that shop owner!"
Ning Xiangqiao hesitated instead: "These handkerchiefs have always been taken to the county town by my family. They said the price was negotiated up by us."
What Ning Xiangqiao didn't say was that she felt her family didn't like her, and after all these years, she still felt like an outsider who didn't belong.
"Which side of your family are you from?" Lin Anniang asked as well.
After listening to Xiang Niangzi's introduction, Old Lady Gongsun looked surprised.
"I know the Ning family in Hongyao Village, but you don't look like any of them!"
The old lady had visited Hongyao Village a few years ago. She was invited there by the village head and met everyone in Hongyao Village. She had a very deep impression of the Ning family at that time.
Because this Ning family member really does resemble that horse in some ways, both having long, thin faces and small eyes, making them unforgettable at first glance.
Ning Xiangqiao, on the other hand, was very beautiful and had the air of a well-bred lady. Although she had been tormented by marriage for the past few years, she was still far superior to ordinary villagers.
Grandma Gongsun had previously thought that Ning Xiangqiao had worked as an embroiderer in a wealthy family, but it seems there are some secrets behind this.
“Xiang Niangzi, you should pay more attention to your parents. I didn’t see you at the Ning family when I visited a few years ago. You are definitely not a child of the Ning family.”
Hongyao Village is far away. If it weren't for Grandma Gongsun's visit a few years ago, we really wouldn't be able to be sure, let alone the other people in the village.
Now it was Ning Xiangqiao's turn to be stunned. She murmured, "I really don't have any memories from before. My mother said I just forgot because I fell down the mountain. She said that I was betrothed to Lin Genzhu of the Lin family since childhood, so she made me marry into this family..."
So, it's true that she was marrying in place of the Ning family's daughter, but her own background was a lie? But why did the Ning family do this, and what were they after?
If this marriage is not good, why not just change to another one?
"Stop talking, I'll take you there!" Lin Anniang said seriously.
Grandma Gongsun: "..."
Madam An is truly a heroine; she's ready to fight at the slightest provocation!
"Don't worry, old lady, I will definitely not implicate Lin Family Village. Xiang Niangzi and I will both wear masks!"
Lin Anniang was already gritting her teeth, about to rush out.
"Don't rush, don't rush, don't you want to analyze it more?"
Grandma Gongsun quickly pulled the person back.
"Even the name 'Xiang Niangzi' might not be real. What if we alert them and completely lose our lead?"
"Don't you want to find out Xiang Niangzi's true identity?"
…
Inside the temple.
While waiting for her faith points to increase, Yu Luo guessed a name: "Is it the female lead Lin Lian, or someone related to her?"
Ning Xiangqiao's daughter was tortured so badly by the female lead, so Ning Xiangqiao's background might also be related to the female lead.
"You guessed very close. By the way, how did you feel about that wisp of purified power you just absorbed?" The system popped out again, this time in the form of a small golden ball.
Yu Luo smacked her lips, savoring the taste: "It tastes like white peach soda, but there's only a tiny bit of it, what a pity."
After her mouth had been idle for so long, she finally tasted sweetness and truly missed the false god hiding in the shadows.
"How about we take the initiative? I want to try drinking white peach soda in one gulp! It would be even better with some ice!"
system:"……"
You're ordering drinks now?
"Perhaps you could also grab another ice-flavored pseudo-god, and put the two together, and it would become the chilled white peach soda you've been craving."
Yu Luo's eyes lit up: "You're right!"
"Do you have roast chicken or barbecue flavor? I've roasted chicken several times and I can only smell the aroma!"
Speaking of it, she felt grief and indignation.
"Should it be possible?" The system hesitated as well.
Anyway, they're all harmful false gods, so it's fine to eat them; otherwise, keeping them would only bring more harm to the world.
Yu Luo was completely relieved and decided to take advantage of the believers' perspective to observe those strange courtyards more closely.
Meanwhile, the low-level false god was unaware of what being was targeting him.
An old woman in Dahe Village was quietly asking Granny Ma, who was eager to have a grandson.
"When you came, no one else was with you, right? Let me tell you, this place is a secret base, and we can't easily let outsiders in!"
"Yes, yes, of course we'll listen to you. We'll be careful along the way!" Grandma Ma's eyes lit up.
"So, is this place real? My old friend really got a big, fat grandson from here?"
"Hmph, we'll know whether it's a big, fat grandson or not once your old sister's daughter-in-law gives birth. Hurry up and come in, before you're discovered!"
The two quickly arrived at the backyard and disappeared.
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