Chapter 200: Found Her
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The Zhao Manor, which had been idle for many days, welcomed its residents again. However, it was not Zhao Heng’s family, but a few new outsiders. This was the second time someone had moved into Lotus Flower Village after Young Master Wan.
As the poorest village in the surrounding villages, only people wanted to move out. No one was willing to move in. This year was a coincidence. One after another, they seemed to have encountered great luck. When the other party bought the house, Little Chen cheated them again. Little Chen actually sold the house for fifteen taels of silver. The other party took out the silver without a word, making Little Chen so happy that she almost lost her way.
“Is our village’s bad luck coming to an end?” Beside the ancient well, Aunt Bai brushed her cloth shoes and sighed.
Cui Hua was washing clothes beside her. “Why do you say that, Auntie?”
Aunt Bai turned her head and glanced at the Zhao family’s residence. “Do you see that carriage?”!!
Only rich people in the city could afford a carriage. Not only were horses expensive, but it was also very difficult to maintain them.
Up until now, only three families in their village had a carriage. One was the Ding family, who had already moved away. The other was the Wan family, who had stayed for a period of time and did not come back. Finally, they were the outsiders today.
“They won’t stay for long!” Aunt Luo fetched a bucket. “These rich people just want to see something new. When they get tired of living here for a few days, they move away. Isn’t Young Master Wan one of them?”
“Oh.” Cui Hua was honest and didn’t know how to be flexible. She felt that whatever others said made sense. She asked curiously, “What do they do?”
“Hunting, in the fur business.”
Little Chen grabbed a handful of melon seeds and silently appeared behind them. The few of them were shocked by this sinister voice! Aunt Luo, who was fetching water, almost fell into the well!
Aunt Luo composed herself and turned around to glare at her. “Can you stop acting like a ghost! Can you walk a little louder!”
Little Chen ate a melon seed. “…Oh.”
The news of the new residents of Lotus Flower Village also reached Yu Wan’s ears, but she did not care about it. As long as it was not the annoying Zhao family, it did not matter who moved into the village. Of course, even if the Zhao family moved back, she would not be too shocked. After all, she was not the Host. As long as the Zhao family dared to cause trouble, she had a hundred ways to deal with them.
“Sis.” Little Bruiser had finished copying the characters that Yu Wan had given him. Actually, it wasn’t much. There were only ten characters, and each character was written ten times. A total of a hundred times. However, as a beginner, Little Bruiser wasn’t very proficient in holding a pen. The difficulty of copying it could be imagined.
He felt so aggrieved that he was about to drop gold tears.
Yu Wan checked it and circled the good ones with a cinnabar. Each circle rewarded one candy.
Little Bruiser regretted it when he saw the few candies in front of him. If he had known that his sister was so sneaky, he would… he would have copied them properly!
The craftsmen were about to get off work. Yu Wan took the account book and purse and went to settle their wages for this period of time.
Little Bruiser hugged her. “Sis, you, you, you… set up another homework again!”
Yu Wan looked at him calmly. “Are you sure?”
Little Bruiser nodded vigorously. “Yes, yes, yes!” He must earn all the candy in Sis’ box!
Yu Wan then arranged ten big words for him, which was also meant to copy ten times each. This time, Little Bruiser was much more serious than before. When Yu Wan returned after paying the salary, he held the neat big words and said proudly, “Come!”
Yu Wan dipped her pen in the red cinnabar and began to draw circles on Little Bruiser’s calligraphy. However, this time, she didn’t circled the words that are written well, but she circled the words that are not written well.
Eight out of a hundred words failed. Yu Wan took off a candy every time he got it wrong. In the end, Little Bruiser was left with only one candy.
Little Bruiser, who couldn’t beat his sister no matter what: “…” He wanted to die!
The water in the vat was gone. Yu Wan picked up a pole and went to fetch water. Ever since Yu Shaoqing returned home, she had rarely done such menial work. It was not that she did not want to, but her father was too diligent and had finished everything before her. Today, her father had gone to the back of the mountain to see them open up the land. She treated Erniu’s injuries and washed a lot of gauze, finishing the remaining half of the vat of water.
When Yu Wan arrived at the ancient well with the bucket, Cui Hua and the aunts were discussing the new resident.
“Another hunter has come. Cui Hua, makes Stone’s father smarter. Don’t let them snatch all the prey!” Aunt Bai teased.
Cui Hua said seriously, “Stone’s father is very powerful! Who can defeat him in hunting? Even ten of them can’t compare to him!”
The villagers did not know if the hunter was good at hunting, but his bragging skills were really good.
The aunts all laughed.
As usual, Auntie Sun could not help but tease Cui Hua this time. “You’re both hunters. Look, they’re already sitting in a carriage. Let Stone’s father work harder and buy a carriage to bring you two to town to show off!”
“So be it. You guys watch. It won’t be long!” Cui Hua said angrily.
Yu Wan laughed. Stone’s mother was really… cute.
“Ah Wan is here!” Aunt Zhang noticed Yu Wan and waved at her with a smile.
“Aunt.” Yu Wan walked over and greeted the aunties, aunties, and Cui Hua one by one. She then filled their buckets with water.
Why else would everyone in the village like Yu Wan so much? She was diligent and capable. It was said that a few days ago, she even entered the palace to cook for the Emperor. When she returned to the village, she did not say a word. She was still the same as before, doing what she should do without any airs.
“Zhao Heng is really blind!” Aunt Bai said.
Everyone agreed. Wasn’t he blind? They couldn’t find another such a good girl.
“By the way…” Aunt Zhang cleared her throat.” My Erniu hasn’t been betrothed yet. ”
Everyone looked at her!
Aunt Bai raised her eyebrows without batting an eyelid. “My son didn’t propose marriage either.”
Shuanzi’s mother coughed lightly and said, “Shuanzi and his brother are the same.”
The atmosphere… froze for a moment.
The aunties who were originally squeezed together and laughing paused collectively. Then, they moved their basins away and distanced themselves from each other! All of them revealed fierce expressions! They glared at each other covetously!
Yu Wan still did not know that she had made the aunts in the village think about her. She was carrying a pole and walking back. When she passed by the Zhao family’s house, she glanced inside unintentionally. She swore that she did not mean to pry about the new resident, but his family’s carriage was not tied to the horse. The horse had run to Auntie Zhang’s front yard next door and was eating the radish leaves that Auntie Zhang had planted.
There was no one at Aunt Zhang’s house, so Yu Wan could only temporarily put down the bucket and pole. She pulled the horse’s reins and brought it back to the Zhao family. The door of the Zhao family’s house was tightly shut. Yu Wan raised her free hand and was about to knock when she heard a few men talking inside.
They were not speaking any dialect that Yu Wan had heard before, but for some reason, Yu Wan could understand them.
An old voice said, “Have you found it?”
The younger man said, “Not yet, but I’m sure Slave Bi came.”
The old voice continued, “Don’t worry about Slave Bi. He’s already dead anyway.”
Yu Wan was puzzled by these words. Who was Slave Bi? Where had he been? What were they looking for?
“Who is it?!” The old man’s vigilant voice sounded.
She hadn’t even knocked on the door, and he could already notice her? These five senses were even better than hers.
Yu Wan did not eavesdrop on purpose. She had serious business to attend to, so she did not feel guilty even if she was discovered. She said bluntly, “I’m from this village. I came to tell you that your horse was not tied up properly and ran next door to eat vegetables. You should tie the horse up.”
Soon, footsteps came from inside. The door was opened by a young man in his thirties. He was tall, with bronze skin and strong facial features. His face was smaller than most men’s, but his facial features were deeper and more defined.
He was wearing the clothes of a Central Plains person, but Yu Wan did not know if it was an illusion or something else, but she felt that this outfit did not suit him.
While Yu Wan was sizing up the man, the man also saw Yu Wan. When his gaze landed on Yu Wan’s beautiful and refined face, his pupils constricted!
Yu Wan asked strangely, “What’s wrong?” He seemed to be… surprised to see her?
The man tried his best to shake his head calmly.
Yu Wan handed the reins to him. “The horse has to be tied up. If it eat the food in the village again, you’ll be fined.”
The man took the reins.
Yu Wan turned around and left with the pole.
It was not until Yu Wan disappeared at the end of the path that the man rushed back into the house excitedly and said to the old man on the seat, “Grandma, I found her… I finally found her!”