"I really don't know why you agreed to let her go up the mountain! She said she was going to find herbs, and you actually believed her?"
The older brother spoke anxiously, struggling to use his limping legs to go out and find someone.
His sister-in-law, He Zhilan, couldn't bear to watch and stopped him: "Don't go! How can you go like this? I'll go find it myself!"
Lin Xiao frowned and refused: "What if something happens to you, a woman, going out in the middle of the night?"
“I…you…” He Zhilan was angered by his words.
She was about to start arguing with her husband.
The next second, a familiar voice rang out in the darkness: "Big brother and sister-in-law, I'm back~"
He Zhilan and Lin Xiao looked in the direction of the sound at the same time and saw Lin Qixia walk out from the shadows in the corner.
She was still having some difficulty walking, but it seemed she hadn't suffered any serious injuries.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao and He Zhilan both breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's good that you're back," He Zhilan said softly to her.
The eldest brother, Lin Xiao, snorted angrily, "So you know how to come back! What were you doing running up the mountain all by yourself? Didn't you learn your lesson last time?"
He was clearly referring to the incident where Lin Qixia had been injured on the head by those thugs.
Lin Qixia knew that her older brother was concerned about her, so she wasn't angry. Instead, she patiently said to him, "Brother, don't be angry. I'm back safe and sound, aren't I? Besides... look what I brought back!"
As she spoke, Lin Qixia took the basket off her back and handed it to them.
He Zhilan took it and looked at it, her expression full of confusion: "What is this?"
The basket on her back was full of herbs she didn't recognize. He Zhilan was puzzled that Lin Qixia had brought back these things after a day out.
Lin Xiao, the eldest brother, also frowned, waiting for Lin Qixia to explain.
Lin Qixia said to them, "This is Atractylodes macrocephala. I've had a fruitful trip up the mountain this time. These things can fetch a good price at the pharmacy."
In reality, she probably wouldn't make much money selling it at a pharmacy; she just needed it as a cover.
She had anticipated this situation when she returned from trading with the system, so she kept some of them unsold.
"Herbal medicine?" Lin Xiao was surprised by his sister's answer.
He Zhilan and Lin Xiao exchanged a glance, and He Zhilan asked her, "How do you know herbs?"
"Do you remember the master I met when I was being beaten up by those thugs on the mountain? He's the one who saved me, and I even became his disciple!"
Lin Qixia calmly said to He Zhilan.
Lin Xiao: "A master? Should I become his apprentice?"
He frowned, looking at He Zhilan with some confusion, clearly she had never told him about this.
He Zhilan quickly said to him, "Oh, she did mention it to me before, but I didn't take it seriously. I didn't expect that she would become someone's apprentice."
"Really?" Lin Xiao looked at Lin Qixia after hearing this: "It seems that Xia'er is indeed lucky to have met a kind person."
He Zhilan smiled and said, "Brother Xiao is right. Not only did they take Xia'er as their apprentice and give her a lot of food, but they also taught her to identify medicinal herbs and be self-reliant. Our family is indebted to them now."
"We'll prepare some gifts and visit them to express our gratitude another day," Lin Xiao said.
Lin Qixia was relieved because they accepted her explanation, but she became nervous the next second because of Lin Xiao's words.
"No! No need!" she quickly waved her hand.
Lin Xiao frowned: "How have I always taught you? How can you be so disrespectful to your benefactor?"
"Hehe, it's not like that." Lin Qixia scratched her head with a troubled expression. "Actually, it's because... our benefactor is a hermit who lives deep in the mountains and doesn't like to be disturbed. If we go and bother him, it will only displease him."
"I see."
Lin Xiao gave up after hearing what she said.
Lin Qixia breathed a slight sigh of relief when she saw that he was no longer insisting.
He Zhilan put her basket of herbs aside, came over and touched Lin Qixia's face, casually picked the withered leaves from her hair, and said softly to her, "Look how tired you are. It must have been hard to find these herbs."
Although Lin Qixia was not injured, she had spent a whole day on the mountain and looked quite disheveled.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao said to her, "Go and rest."
"Alright! Big brother and sister-in-law, you should get some rest too." Lin Qixia replied with a smile.
After getting past her older brother and sister-in-law, she finally relaxed.
Afterwards, she turned around and went back to her room. After a quick wash, Lin Qixia lay on her bed and sighed, "Today has been truly fruitful!"
Apart from the appearance of Zhao Shao and his gang of useless people, which caused me to waste 100 gold coins, everything else went relatively smoothly.
There are 427 gold coins left in the account.
This money is very useful to her right now.
Lin Qixia was planning in her mind what to buy the next day when she fell asleep.
...
She slept soundly without any dreams, and the next morning she got up and stretched.
The moment I opened my eyes, I saw a handsome young man's face.
"Ah!" Lin Qixia was so frightened that she instinctively shrank back behind the bed and grabbed the blanket to cover herself.
At the same time, she stared at the boy in front of her with wariness in her eyes: "Why haven't you left yet?"
Lin Qixia was puzzled by the boy's actions and also somewhat angry.
I don't know why he's still here. It would be hard to explain if other family members saw him.
"I……"
The boy opened his mouth, about to say something, when a scream from outside the door interrupted him.
"Ah!" Lin Jiudong asked her exaggeratedly, "Who is he?"
Originally, it was because Lin Qixia woke up late today that her sister-in-law asked her to come and call people. Unexpectedly, when she was led in, she saw Lin Qixia alone in a room with a strange man!
Lin Qixia covered her face; just what she feared most had come to pass!
"Brother! Sister-in-law! Come quick! There's a strange man hiding in Lin Qixia's room!"
Lin Jiudong reacted quickly and ran away, having finally seized the opportunity to complain to her brother and sister-in-law.
At this moment, Lin Qixia looked speechlessly at the boy standing by her bed: "Are you satisfied now?"
"...I'm sorry." The boy lowered his head guiltily.
Lin Qixia frowned: "Who exactly are you? What do you want?"
The boy replied, "My name is Huo Yanqing... I don't remember anything else..."
"Huo Yanqing?" Lin Qixia's eyes widened slightly when she heard him answer with that name.
Isn't that the name of the main villain in the original book?
Good heavens!
Her luck... she just randomly picked up this role.
"You say you don't remember? Don't you even remember how you got hurt or how you ended up in this place?" Lin Qixia asked cautiously.
Huo Yanqing shook his head: "I don't remember most of them."
Lin Qixia was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay."
It seems very likely that the injuries were caused on the mountain, given how many external wounds there were.
It's not surprising that some of them suffered brain damage.
Although the other party didn't remember, she knew the general situation of this person in the original book.
Huo Yanqing came from the Huo family, a prominent military family during the Great Yin Dynasty.
Because his achievements overshadowed his master, his entire family was murdered. According to the timeline, it is now the eighteenth year of Qinghe, and his family members had already met with misfortune in the northern frontier several months ago.
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