Outside the city gate, a large number of refugees who had fled south and returning residents gathered, and the two groups stood in two separate factions.
Everyone's attention was drawn to the refugees on the other side.
Seven or eight refugees were gathered around two ragged people, one big and one small. The one who made the sound was Lin Dongmei. Behind her, Lin Chunfang was tightly clutching her clothes and crying loudly in fear.
"Hey! How could you turn your back on us like this? Now that we're in Longtan, you think you can fly to the moon? You don't recognize us anymore?"
A woman with great strength grabbed her arm tightly.
No matter how hard Lin Dongmei tried, she couldn't break free from the woman's grip. She was furious and wondered where this crazy woman had come from, grabbing her and refusing to let go.
"I've already told you I don't know you, how can you be so shameless?"
Pan Qingfeng and his bodyguards stepped forward to try to pull the woman away.
"Auntie, let go first, let's talk this out. It's not good to keep holding onto her like this."
"Don't worry about her, she's our daughter-in-law. Hurry up and register our household registration and assign us a village."
Lin Yinan noticed the woman's shifty eyes and guessed that there must be something going on.
She strode forward, focused her energy, and her clear, cool voice carried far.
What's causing this commotion?
Everyone was startled by the sudden sound and froze, looking in her direction.
As if seeing a savior, Lin Chunfang immediately let go of her sister's clothes and squeezed through the crowd to run towards Lin Yinan.
Just as he was about to reach Lin Yinan, he was stopped by the guards.
She looked up at Lin Yinan with her dirty little face, "Sister Yinan, please save me and my sister!"
"Who are you?" Lin Yinan didn't recognize the people at first.
Before Lin Chunfang could answer, Lin Dongmei, who was being held by the woman, shouted in a hoarse voice, "Sister Anan, I am Lin Dongmei!"
"Waaaaah! I'm Lin Chunfang." Lin Chunfang sobbed pitifully.
Lin Yinan was puzzled. Weren't the two sisters supposed to stay in Nanzhou Prefecture with Yu Suqin? How did they end up here?
Seeing that the woman was still holding onto Lin Dongmei tightly, she gave Yun Dong a wink.
Yun Dong immediately strode forward and tried to break free of the woman's grip.
"What are you going to do? Are you going to force yourself on me?" the woman shouted in fear.
As soon as she shouted, the seven men surrounding her surrounded Yun Dong.
Yun Dong's face darkened, and he instantly drew his sword from his waist. "What? You want to cause trouble here?"
As his sword was drawn, the archers on the city wall simultaneously drew their bows and aimed at them.
The group was terrified by the intimidating aura and fell to their knees with a thud, trembling.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yun Dong pulled Lin Dongmei away.
When the woman saw the newcomer snatch away her chosen daughter-in-law, she immediately became furious, sat down on the ground, and started throwing a tantrum.
"Oh dear! Look at these people from Longtan! They have no law and heartless motives! They've snatched my daughter-in-law away!"
She cried and wailed, surrounded by seven men who glared fiercely at Lin Yinan and the others, but dared not utter a sound or step forward.
"Sister Anan..."
Lin Dongmei was about to speak when Lin Yinan waved her hand to stop her, saying, "We'll talk later."
She had more important things to deal with now, Lin Yinan stared coldly at the woman on the ground.
"You say she's your daughter-in-law, but do you have any proof?"
The woman was speechless for a moment, her eyes darting around, before she said loudly, "We came all the way from the Central Plains to Longtan. She is the wife we paid to marry in the Central Plains."
"Besides your family, who can prove that the two of them came from the Central Plains with you?"
The woman turned to look at the people who had once traveled with her, but they avoided her like the plague, turning their heads away to avoid her gaze.
In a moment of desperation, she blurted out, "She's already slept with my son, so how could she not be my daughter-in-law?"
"Nonsense! I, I didn't." Lin Dongmei was never one to talk much, and now she was so angry that she couldn't even speak properly.
Lin Yinan gave her a reassuring look.
Do you have proof of household registration?
"My household registration was lost on the way."
At this moment, Aunt Liang, who was standing in the crowd, saw that the woman clearly wanted to make this woman her daughter-in-law, so she stepped forward.
“I can prove that these two girls are not from the Central Plains. They set off with us from Hamaowo Village, Yangjiao County, Nanzhou Prefecture. They met this woman and her family after passing through Changyi County. Ever since we met, the woman has been inquiring about this girl’s situation, both openly and secretly.”
After Aunt Liang said that, everyone immediately understood.
Lin Dongmei cast a grateful glance at her, her hands trembling as she took a small oil paper bag from her inner clothes.
“I have a household registration.”
This was their original household registration in Pingcheng. After her older sister married into the Yu family, Yu Shicheng used his connections to help them get registered. Yu Suqin wanted to burn the original household registration, but she couldn't bear to part with her father's name on it, so she secretly hid it.
Lin Yinan took a look, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly. He lifted his eyelids slightly, glanced coldly at the woman, and his clear, cold voice carried an aura of authority without anger.
Even if you don't have a registered residence, you must still remember where your family originally came from, right?
The woman lowered her head and her eyes darted around. Behind her, her fellow villagers, who had long disapproved of her behavior, jumped out and pinned the woman and her family to the ground, beating them mercilessly.
“I know that. I was with them, escaping all the way from Jincheng County. When we escaped, her family originally had three daughters-in-law, two grandsons and three granddaughters. She sold her daughters-in-law and granddaughters to buy food. Fortunately, in the end, none of her grandsons survived because they all got sick.”
The fellow villager's words stirred up a storm, and everyone began to discuss it.
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