"Alright, Lord Shen, stop guessing. None of those bandits on West Vulture Mountain were innocent. Killing them was doing justice. It's just that I promised that man I wouldn't betray him..."
Liu Yingying sighed and began to fabricate a lie as soon as she opened her mouth.
"Actually, the reason this plan was able to be completed so smoothly was all thanks to someone's help. However, after he helped me complete this task, he went down the mountain alone, and he was the one who killed the guards at the gate!"
After hearing her words, Shen Shangxu suddenly understood.
"I see!"
He said it himself, this is definitely not a task that a woman can accomplish!
Shen Shangxu wanted to ask more about the details of this "knight-errant," but Liu Yingying only said that he was a man in his early forties with an ordinary appearance.
She didn't even know the other person's name.
Shen Shangxu felt only regret; how wonderful it would be if such a chivalrous person could be recruited to work in the government...
Finally, Shen Shangxu specially sent someone to take Liu Yingying back to Taoyuan Village by carriage.
As soon as she left the government office, she ran into Zhang Hui.
"Sister Liu!"
"Huiniang, are you taking your son back to your husband's home?" Liu Yingying asked as she stepped forward.
"Yes, at least I need to go back and tell my parents-in-law about Da You's murder. His body is still in Xijiu Mountain; I need to have his brothers take it back to the ancestral grave for burial..."
Zhang Hui's eyes reddened as she spoke.
She looked very haggard, and Liu Yingying was worried that she might do something rash.
"The child is still young, you have to be strong..."
As she spoke, Liu Yingying secretly took out a gold ingot from her bag and slipped it into her hand.
"Take this and go back to live a good life!"
This is an ounce of gold!
Zhang Hui was extremely shocked. Where did Liu Yingying come from?
But she soon realized that Liu Yingying was a great contributor to the suppression of the bandits, and Lord Shen would surely reward her for it.
"This won't do! No! I can't accept it!"
Liu Yingying immediately channeled her domineering CEO persona, saying in a forceful tone, "Take it if I tell you to, don't try to refuse! Alright, I'm going home now, see you again sometime!" With that, she quickly boarded the carriage.
Zhang Hui watched the carriage slowly disappear into the distance, waving goodbye with tears in her eyes; "Thank you, goodbye!"
After parting ways with Zhang Hui, Liu Yingying did not go straight back, but instead begged the young constable driving the car to take her to the money exchange first.
It wasn't safe to carry so much gold on her person, so she kept only one or two ounces and put the rest into the system's built-in storage space.
In the countryside, gold is considered a high-denomination currency, which is both conspicuous and inconvenient to carry around.
She wanted to go to the money exchange to exchange for silver.
In that era, one tael of gold was equivalent to ten taels of silver.
One tael of silver is equivalent to one string of copper coins, which is one thousand coins.
Liu Yingying exchanged one tael of gold for five taels of silver and five strings of copper coins.
As she left the money exchange, she realized that she had been away from home for almost ten days and the food she had left behind was almost gone.
Although we still have some points that can be exchanged for supplies directly from the store, if things are kept being taken out of thin air like this, even the most clueless kids will become suspicious.
To avoid attracting attention, Liu Yingying went to the morning market again.
I bought ten catties of brown rice for fifty coins and five catties of coarse flour for forty coins.
One pound of oil costs 100 coins, and one pound of pork costs 35 coins.
It's currently a drought, so vegetables are scarce and expensive. Liu Yingying bought some pickled vegetables to go with her rice, which cost her five coins.
All in all, it cost 230 coins.
The family lacks everything, and these supplies are neither comprehensive nor plentiful.
However, with these items to use as cover, she could exchange other necessities from the system store.
After buying the goods, the young constable continued driving the carriage towards Peach Blossom Village.
Liu Yingying leaned against the wooden plank and closed her eyes to rest along the way. The young constable did not speak to her, but occasionally he couldn't help but turn around and glance at her out of curiosity.
Liu Yingying found it somewhat amusing; they were still quite far from Peach Blossom Village, and the journey was rather boring.
So he decided to tease the young constable.
Just as the young constable turned to peek at her again, Liu Yingying suddenly opened her bright and clear almond-shaped eyes and looked at him.
"Cough! Cough cough!"
The young constable was so startled that he almost tumbled off the carriage.
"I...I'm sorry...I...I didn't mean any harm, it's just...it's just..."
Liu Yingying frowned slightly. So she had a little stutter?
She deliberately put on a stern face and asked in a serious tone, "Why do you keep peeking at me?"
The young constable's face instantly turned red to the roots of his neck.
He was already handsome, and this expression made him even more endearing.
This reminded Liu Yingying of her younger cousin who was still in high school before she transmigrated...
"May I have your name?"
"Cheng Zhuo!" the young constable replied, his face flushed, but he dared not look directly at her again. After thinking for a moment, he still tried to explain, "Um...you...you don't misunderstand, I'm not a bad person, I...I'm just curious, they said that you single-handedly dealt with those bandits from Xijiu Mountain last night, is that right?"
"Pfft!" Liu Yingying finally couldn't help but laugh out loud. "So, all along the way you've been secretly looking at me, just to see what a woman who could take down those bandits looks like, right?"
"Mmm!" Cheng Zhuo nodded shyly.
Liu Yingying spread her hands generously, looking quite magnanimous, "Then take a good look, I'm just a normal ordinary person, I don't have three heads or six arms or anything!"
"Pfft!" Cheng Zhuo was amused by this.
At first, he was a little afraid of Liu Yingying, afraid that he would displease her and get beaten up.
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