After hearing his daughter's voice in the hall, the middle-aged man who had been talkative all the way stopped talking about the desert with Tang Lin and said excitedly: "Girl, my daughter is back. I'll go out and take a look first!"

Tang Lin quickly stood up and helped him, "I'll help you!"

The middle-aged man said: "No, girl, you can continue to eat these steamed buns. I can walk alone!"

"Then be careful!" Tang Lin warned. After the middle-aged man left, her stomach was a little bloated from eating a steamed bun. She wanted to find some water in the hall, but she couldn't find it, so she had to go to the backyard.

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Wooden Wan picked up two baskets of vegetables and put them down in a corner of the courtyard, then faced his oncoming father with a cheerful smile on his face, "Dad!"

After helping his father, Muwan said distressedly: "Seeing that the light is still on, I know you are not asleep. Dad, please don't wait for your daughter so late. Remember to go to bed early in the future! Do you think you are still the same?

Is it the same as before?"

Mu's father smiled kindly, "Although one of my legs is lame, my body is still very strong. I remember back then..." As soon as he received his daughter's contemptuous eyes, he immediately stopped with a smile, "Okay.

Okay, Dad won’t mention what happened back then.”

Seeing that the two baskets of vegetables in the corner were as much as when his daughter picked them out in the morning, Mu's father's expression dimmed. He patted his daughter's arm and sighed, "Daughter, thank you for your hard work. If dad's leg was not lame, then

These heavy tasks will not fall on your shoulders. It is your parents who should support you, but since you were a child, you have always been supporting your father. Your father is really useless and has caused you suffering."

"Dad, don't say that. Being filial to your parents is what children should do. How can you blame your parents?" Muwan also patted the back of his father's hand and comforted him. He glanced at the carriage outside and asked: "

Dad, why are there two horse-drawn carriages outside? Whose are they? It seems that no household in our village has a horse-drawn carriage, right? Even if there were, there is no way it could be parked in front of our house!"

Speaking of this matter, Mu's father became a little more serious, "Two people from the city came to our village to do business. Since it was getting late and the journey was far away, it was difficult to return to the city, so they wanted to stay at our house tonight. Dad asked them to stay.

Okay. Just be polite and don't rush into the guests."

Muwan smiled and said: "The visitors are guests, and my daughter will not cause you any trouble. It's just that our village is so poor, what are the two guests doing in our village?"

Mu's father said: "As a father, it's not appropriate for me to ask too much about our guests. Let's go in, say hello to our guests, and then wash up and go to bed."

"It's dad, come here, my daughter will help you in!"

"You go in first, and dad will close the outer door!"

"Dad, let me lock you up!"

"No need, dad can still do this little thing himself!"

"Then please slow down," after saying that, Muwan turned around and walked into the house.

Seeing that there was no one in the hall, and there were only two steamed buns on the plate on the table, she glanced around, then scratched her hair in confusion, "Strange, didn't dad say someone had moved in? Why is there no one?"

After thinking about it, Muwan said nonchalantly: "Whatever, I'd better prepare clothes and boil water for a bath." After that, he went to the room.

After opening the curtain and entering the room, I saw a figure looking for something under the cabinet. He was sneaky. This person was wearing black clothes and black trousers, and he had a serious air of murder, but this figure seemed a little familiar.

Mu Wan thought, this must be the guest his father mentioned, why are you searching the room? Suddenly, a stomach of anger came out of his body, and he pointed at the figure, "Hey, what are you looking for?"

Yu Lingyan poked his head out from under the cabinet. When he saw it was a wooden bowl, his expression changed drastically, "Shrew? Why is it you?"

Mu Wan put his hands on his hips and said angrily: "Why isn't it me? You dead man, why did you come to my house? You are still rummaging around in my room. Look, what did you do to my room?" "

"Ha," Yu Lingyan stood up and said with great disdain, "So you are Uncle Mu's daughter. I thought you were as frank as he said, but you are just a shrew." But he confirmed one thing. This seemed very... The old girl is unmarried. It is probably because her mother died long ago and she has no education from her, so she has a bad temper.

Muwan said angrily: "I have never seen a guest like you. Why did my father let you live in this house? I'm so angry. People like you should be left on the street to freeze. of."

Mu's father heard the sound and came over, "What happened?"

Mu Wan pointed to her 'room', "Dad, please tell me, are there any guests like him? He made a mess of things in my room and really pissed me off. Dad, people like this are not worth it." We take it in.”

Mu's father glanced at the room and found that it was indeed a bit chaotic. He looked at Yu Lingyan with some confusion.

Yu Lingyan politely explained: "Uncle Mu, I just want to find some paper and pen to record some things. I wanted to find it and then clean it up, but I didn't know..." This shrew came back so quickly. This is still the shrew's home.

Has he owed money to the shrew for several lifetimes, and he has the misfortune to stay in her room tonight?

Mu's father listened to Yu Lingyan's explanation and understood it very well. He looked at his daughter and tried to make it a trivial matter, "Daughter, this young master didn't mean it, so please forgive him. He also said just now, he just wanted to Find some paper and pen, and when I find it, I'll help you tidy up your room."

"Okay, I will forgive you this time. If I don't see the room restored to its original state when I come in, you should get out of here right away!" After saying that, Muwan left the room coldly.

Mu's father was very ashamed and said to Yu Lingyan: "My daughter used to be very obedient, but she has never been so angry. It must be because she didn't sell the vegetables tonight. Please forgive me. As for the paper and pen... I'm sorry. Young Master, my family is poor and I can hardly afford to eat this kind of thing. Where can I get the money to buy a pen and paper? Please don’t laugh at me. Young Master, if you need it, I will go to another house to borrow it for you later. Let me clean this room. You are a guest, how can you let me clean it?"

Yu Lingyan also felt a lot of guilt in his heart. His behavior had indeed gone too far. And this uncle Mu was even more reasonable, which made him feel ashamed. "It doesn't matter if you don't have pen and paper. You don't need to borrow it from the next door. You'd better come down and clean up the room." After all, you are the one who made the mess. We, brother and sister, have already caused you so much trouble, how can we trouble you again." After saying that, he bent down and picked up the clothes that he had thrown into the wooden bowl on the ground.

The workmanship of these clothes was rough and the materials were rough. Compared with what he was wearing, they were as good as heaven or earth. Yu Lingyan couldn't help but sympathize with Muwan, a woman who couldn't even buy a decent set of clothes. What if. She is his sweetheart, and he must have bought a lot of things for her, but she is not and cannot be, and he will not like such a shrew.

Mu's father helped to clean up, "My daughter's temper is a little bit fierce tonight, please don't be the same as her."

Yu Lingyan is no longer angry with the shrew. Somehow, he never cares about trivial matters. Now he actually cares about selling vegetables in wooden bowls. "Does she pick so many vegetables to sell in the city every day?"

The journey back and forth is very long, and it basically takes a day to walk. How can this woman endure such hardship? It's cold in the morning, and she has to pick out such heavy vegetables, and it's even colder in the evening, and she has to pick out and sell them in the morning.

Even a man would be deterred from picking out dishes he couldn't eat, let alone a woman.

"Alas," Mu's father sighed deeply, and said, "When my daughter was just born, it was fine. We had land at home and could cultivate it rent-free. But later, the government and businessmen colluded, and the land rent needed to be collected, and the land rent became more and more expensive.

The higher the land rent is, especially in the past two years, it is so high that even the village chief’s family cannot afford to rent it. Now the only land is used to grow vegetables, and I have to pay several taels of silver. As a last resort, my daughter has to go out in the dark early.

The purpose of working is to sell vegetables. In this village with a radius of hundreds of miles, no one buys vegetables, so she can only choose to sell them in the city, but her vegetables are not fresh. In the past few months, she has sold vegetables.

There is very little food left. Tomorrow is the day to pay the rent again. She must be worried, which is why she is so angry. As a father, I have a lame leg. Apart from cooking at home, I can't do anything else.

I can’t help her, so I have to let her take care of me, a grown man!”

After listening to Mu's father's words, Yu Lingyan understood something about the wooden bowl. She aged quickly, probably because she had worked too hard since she was a child. That rude personality may have come from selling vegetables.

It was formed through bargaining. How could this woman have so much perseverance to survive until now in this kind of environment...

Mu Wan went to the backyard kitchen to boil water. When she saw Tang Lin boiling water, she was surprised and puzzled, "Girl!"

Tang Lin was also surprised when she saw that she was the 'shrew' in Yu Lingyan's words, "Girl, it's you." The girl in front of her must be Uncle Mu's daughter. "Haha, it turns out this is your home!"

When he saw Tang Lin for the first time, Mu Wan thought that this girl must be a rich girl who couldn't do heavy work. But looking at it, this girl was quite skilled at boiling water and setting fires. Could it be that she was wrong?

The girl's background is the same as hers? But the other person's clothes are as noble as that damn dead man's, not like a poor person!

"Girl, let me do this dirty talk." With that said, Muwan came over and motioned for Tang Lin to take a rest.

Tang Lin was sitting on the stool in front of the stove, rhythmically putting firewood into the stove. She smiled kindly at the wooden bowl and said, "It doesn't matter, I'm not that delicate. I can still do things like boiling hot water."

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Mu Wan no longer pressed, she pulled a small stool and sat next to Tang Lin. She asked curiously: "Girl, looking like this, you must be from a big family. My father also said that you are from the city."

Aren’t all city people very delicate?”

Tang Lin smiled lowly, "Yes, people in the city are very delicate, but it's not like there are people who can't make fires, right? I haven't asked the girl your name yet!"

Mu Wan smiled naively and said, "Girl, you are so well-educated in your speech, how can you be as rude as me? My name is Mu Wan, what about you, girl?"

Tang Lin said: "My surname is Tang, please call me Xiao Tang."
Chapter completed!