Lin Ye was utterly speechless. He had only gone out to buy a few things, so how had he managed to run into so many strange people?
Afterwards, Lin Ye went to buy rice, flour, and other staples. Once he had made the purchases, he arranged for the merchants to deliver everything to the horse market. He bought twenty jin each of rice and flour, along with some cornmeal, sweet potato flour, potatoes, and other foods that could be stored through the winter.
Speaking of storing food, there was also a small cellar beneath the kitchen at Lin Ye’s house.
Perhaps people who had survived the apocalypse all developed an inexplicable attachment to food. Lin Ye’s little cellar was always packed to the brim. Even though there were only two people in the household, he still couldn’t help transporting food home like a hamster stocking up for winter.
After finishing his food shopping, Lin Ye wandered around the city for a while longer. Before he knew it, his arms were already full of things.
When he finally returned to the horse market, he loaded everything into the carriage.
Then, leading his horse, he bought some bolts of cloth, firecrackers, incense for worshipping the gods, and a large amount of charcoal.
As a result, when Lin Ye returned to Yunjia Village, the villagers were greeted by the sight of him returning with a carriage loaded to the brim.
Everyone stared curiously at his newly purchased carriage.
Some villagers who were more familiar with Lin Ye simply stopped the carriage and asked what he had bought.
“Why is your carriage so full? Just looking through the windows, you can see that it’s packed with things!”
The downside of a newly purchased carriage was that it didn’t have curtains covering the windows.
Now that the villagers had stopped him, they couldn’t say they could see everything inside at a glance, but they certainly saw plenty—both things they ought to see and things they probably shouldn’t have seen.
The several bolts of brightly dyed cloth especially made the ge’er‘s eyes itch with envy.
People here usually wore gray clothing because fabrics in such colors were easier and cheaper to dye. Garments in bright, vibrant colors were generally affordable only to wealthy families.
Yet Lin Ye’s carriage alone contained several different kinds of brightly colored cloth.
Many people couldn’t help wondering:
Just what other good things could possibly be inside that carriage?
After buying the horse and carriage, Lin Ye finally realized that his courtyard was simply too small.
Originally, when Lin Ye built the house, he had not considered so much. He felt that having a slightly smaller courtyard was more cozy, but now that he had a horse carriage, it was inconvenient.
Lin Ye thought that if it really did not work, tomorrow he could expand the courtyard a little to the side? He couldn’t possibly just let the horse carriage occupy half of the courtyard like this, could he?
Thinking this way, Lin Ye had not even finished moving all the things inside when he went out to look for the village chief.
Actually, matters such as breaking ground and building houses were really inconvenient in winter, because when using water and mixing mud, it was very easy for them to freeze.
However, the weather had been quite good these past few days, and Lin Ye was only building a moderately sized courtyard beside it; he also did not need to build a house or anything like that. If he called over a few more people, it could be completed in two or three days.
Moreover, Lin Ye was willing to pay money. Fifty copper coins a day. When the people of Yunjia Village heard this, they were all willing to come over and help.
After this was settled, Lin Ye planned to start the work tomorrow.
What Lin Ye did not know was that the way he spent money so generously had instead brought disaster upon him in the eyes of certain people.
After Dong Suisui saw the carriage full of things belonging to Lin Ye, he became even more certain that he had to carry out his plan.
Originally, he had wanted his family to support him, but he had not expected that the few people in his family were all timid and afraid of getting into trouble. Apart from Dong Lao’er, not a single one dared to come forward and help him.
Although the Dong family members did not come forward to help Dong Suisui, deep down they still hoped that Dong Suisui could succeed.
Especially after seeing all the good things in Lin Ye’s carriage, on the one hand, their hearts were extremely envious, while on the other hand, they hoped that Dong Suisui really could marry Lin Ye.
If that happened, wouldn’t their Dong family be able to eat delicious food and drink fine wine from then on?
Now, everyone in Yunjia Village knew that Lin Ye had the problem of occasionally fainting. Dong Suisui planned to make use of this point.
In the northern part of Yunjia Village, besides the broken house where Yun Jiu lived, there was also a house where nobody lived.
Dong Suisui wanted to drug Lin Ye and make him fall unconscious, and then have Dong Lao’er take the person there.
Dong Suisui would then force himself on Lin Ye while he was unconscious. At that time, Dong Lao’er would leave first and calculate the time so that after they had finished, he could call people over.
At that time, Dong Suisui would say that he had seen Lin Ye fainted, and he wanted to take Lin Ye to the old doctor. Who would have known that halfway there, Lin Ye had dragged him into the room?
Whether Lin Ye admitted it at that time or not, Dong Suisui would still have to enter the Lin family’s door.
Even if Lin Ye became suspicious, after marrying into his family, Dong Suisui would just properly coax him.
In Dong Suisui’s view, men all needed to be slowly coaxed. There was no man who did not like a beautiful and gentle ge’er.
Even if Lin Ye stubbornly refused to acknowledge it, by then the village chief, for the sake of the village’s reputation, would also suppress this matter.
Dong Suisui could cry and make a fuss; if it really came down to it, he could also ruthlessly extort a sum of silver from Lin Ye.
After making all these calculations, Dong Suisui told this matter to his second older brother.
The next day, early in the morning.
Lin Ye roughly pointed out a location and had everyone begin working.
Originally, even more people had come, but Lin Ye only wanted part of them. Using the reason that there was no need for so many people, he dismissed some of them.
Those left behind were all people in the village whose family circumstances were not very good, or people who were relatively honest and hardworking.
Originally, Lin Ye had said that each person would be paid fifty copper coins a day. But when they worked until the afternoon, Lin Ye saw that they were all especially capable and honest people, so he raised the wages to sixty copper coins.
When everyone heard this good news, they were all especially happy.
There were not only many people who came, but they were all very capable.
Originally, it was work that would take two or three days, but it was finished by the afternoon of the second day.
Lin Ye still paid them two full days’ wages.
Those villagers who had received Lin Ye’s kindness were extremely grateful for his generosity. However, those who had not gotten the opportunity to help were inevitably talking behind his back.
That same day, Lin Ye built the horse stable and placed the horse carriage inside it.
With a happy expression on his face, Lin Ye still did not know that he had already become someone else’s target.
Speaking of it, the thinking here was still relatively open.
Just from seeing those ge’er walking around everywhere, and seeing that when they encountered Lin Ye they were not only not shy but would even actively come over to take a look, it could be seen that this place was ultimately different from ancient times in his original world.
Another example was Yun Jiu’s situation.
Yun Jiu had become a widower shortly after his wedding and had been driven back to Yunjia Village by his husband’s family.
Although he was also rejected by people and had people point at him and talk about him, he had not been driven out because of it.
It could be seen that although the people here were also superstitious and feudal in their thinking, overall, they were still much better than the people in ancient times in his original world.
As the sky was about to become dark, Lin Ye originally wanted to go see how Yun Jiu was doing.
He had not seen Yun Jiu for several days already, and he did not know how that little fool was doing on his own.
Thinking this way, Lin Ye started walking toward the north of the village.
Then, at the bend of a small path, he suddenly saw someone squatting there.
Lin Ye was just feeling puzzled when he saw that person greet him.
“Isn’t this Lin Ye?”
Lin Ye had never seen Dong Lao’er before, so he found him somewhat unfamiliar.
Dong Lao’er was a relatively lazy person. He usually stayed at home and rarely went out, so it was not strange that Lin Ye had never seen him.
“Who are you?”
“You actually don’t know me? Let me tell you…”
As Dong Lao’er spoke, he moved closer to Lin Ye, but his eyes were looking Lin Ye up and down.
Lin Ye found it a little strange that this person was getting so close to him.
Suddenly, he saw him wave something in his hand.
“You?”
Lin Ye smelled a strange scent.
His heart was greatly alarmed.
He immediately used his ability to rapidly circulate throughout his entire body, resisting the numbing sensation that was quickly spreading through his body.
Dong Lao’er quickly looked around.
The farmers here had no entertainment activities, and normally, once it became dark, they rarely went outside.
For the past several days, Dong Lao’er had been squatting around waiting for Lin Ye every day.
He was very bold and careful in doing things.
Even if someone happened to see him, he would simply say that Lin Ye had fainted and that he had come over to help take Lin Ye to the old doctor.
Carrying Lin Ye on his back, Dong Lao’er quickly turned into a dimly lit small path.
Although Lin Ye was still unable to move on his own, his mind was completely clear.
And at this moment, as Lin Ye expanded his ability, he immediately discovered that someone was following behind them.
As Lin Ye expanded his ability even further, he discovered that the person following them was actually Yun Jiu?
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