Why does it feel so awkward to use someone’s dowry to buy grain seeds?
"I'll go with you!"
After having breakfast and putting away the dishes, Li Yuyan carried a small bamboo basket on her arm and followed Lin Xiao out of the house, looking very much like a newly married daughter-in-law.
As soon as they went out, they met a group of village women chatting and gossiping.
When they saw the two of them, they immediately started talking privately.
"Black Widow is Black Widow. Look, Xiao Linzi's face is getting paler."
"Isn't that right? I didn't even have the strength to stand just now. Xiao Linzi is probably in danger!"
"A scholar has been blinded in vain. If his mother sees it in the sky, she will die with eyes closed!"
"Xiao Linzi...you are doing evil!"
…
Those harsh comments reached the ears of Li Yuyan and Lin Xiao word for word.
Li Yuyan had long been tired of hearing these words. He snorted coldly and ignored them, ignoring them all.
Lin Xiao, on the other hand, looked at Li Yuyan's arrogant look and thought that her "little wife" was pretending to be strong. She suddenly felt unbearable, so she softly comforted:
"Don't listen to their nonsense, you are not the black widow, you are my new wife."
Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Li Yuyan was slightly startled, and his affection for Lin Xiao deepened in his heart.
This idiot who has read books seems to be quite sensible.
"Lin Xiao, I didn't realize it. You're a very brave bitch. You actually dared to choose the Black Widow without fear of being defeated by her!"
Wang Le appeared out of nowhere with a bamboo stick in his mouth, walked up to Lin Xiao and challenged Lin Xiao.
"ignorance!"
Lin Xiao snorted coldly: "Do you know what it means that a blessed woman will not enter a home that is not blessed?"
Wang Le: "..."
"Forget it, it doesn't make sense to an illiterate like you!"
"You are a blessed girl, but you are in an unlucky home. I think you are not going to survive!"
"I won't bother you to worry about my affairs. You should take care of your one-third of an acre of land first, and then come and talk to me! Get out of here!"
Lin Xiao pushed Wang Le away with all her strength, took Li Yuyan's hand and walked out of the village.
"Lin Xiao, you damn bitch, you've offended me, please be careful when you go out next time!"
Lin Xiao was too lazy to pay attention to him and left with Li Yuyan without looking back.
Looking at the retreating figure, Wang Le's anger suddenly rose to the top of his head.
Out of anger, he simply imitated the talkative woman's behavior and spread rumors in the village that Li Yuyan was a black widow and would bring bad luck to the village.
Countryside people are ignorant and listen to the wind and it will rain. Many villagers believe it.
"This black widow won't really bring bad luck to our village, right?"
"If we want to defeat this guy, we'll have to start with Clin Xiao. As long as he doesn't die, we'll be safe."
"No matter what, stay away from his house in the future to avoid any bad luck!"
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It's about thirty or forty miles from Linjia Village to Jiuzhou Town, during which time you have to climb mountains and cross rivers.
Therefore, villagers will never go to town unless absolutely necessary.
Jiuzhou Town is not as bustling with people as imagined, nor is it as prosperous as imagined.
There were only a few small vendors selling vegetables and necessities on both sides of the road, greeting pedestrians.
Calligraphy and painting shops, poetry societies and the like don’t exist at all!
Lin Xiao, who was still thinking of selling poems for money, looked disappointed.
She finally understood why the poetry and songs of the Great Xia Dynasty were nonsense.
Because they don’t pay attention to the development of cultural knowledge at all!
Li Yuyan looked around warily, fearing that he would be recognized by the secret guards hiding in a hidden place.
Lin Xiao thought he was nervous because it was his first time in town, so he comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, just follow me."
Jiuzhou Town is just a little bigger than Linjia Village, and the two of them quickly reached the end of their stroll.
Lin Xiao was bored and had to go home.
Li Yuyan, on the other hand, returned with a full load.
His basket contained some grain seeds and brown rice.
Lin Xiao originally planned to persuade Li Yuyan to buy some salt for emergency use, but he did not expect that the salt particles in the Daxia Dynasty were very rough and had a lot of impurities.
She once again firmly decided to make her own salt.
After all, table salt is something that is eaten into the stomach. There are too many impurities, so I might as well explain it here.
On the way back, Lin Xiao was hungry, tired and bored. She thought she could use knowledge to support herself, but the reality gave her a loud slap on the ear.
She ignored the harshness of the poor people towards her. Something that clings to elegance like calligraphy and painting is not as good as brown rice, the meat is real!
Just when she was feeling depressed, her feet slipped and she almost rolled down the mountain. Fortunately, Li Yu's quick eyesight and quick hands caught her.
"The mountain road is slippery, be careful!"
Lin Xiao tightly grasped Li Yuyan's strong arm, and fearfully looked at the place where she almost slipped down, feeling a chill down her back.
Below is an abyss of 100 meters!
"Thank you, thank you!"
Lin Xiao came back to his senses and found that there was no grass growing at the bottom of the abyss.
There are only two reasons for such a miracle to occur.
One is that there is a thick layer of white ash in the soil at the bottom of the abyss.
Another thing is that there is a lot of rock salt in it.
If it’s the latter, that’s perfect!
Lin Xiao was overjoyed. She grabbed Li Yuyan's hand and unconsciously tightened her grip:
"Yu Yan, do you know how to go down?"
"There is a path over there that you can go down, but there is nothing down there. What are you going to do?"
“You’ll know when you go there!”
After saying these words, Lin Xiao hurried towards the bottom of the abyss from the path pointed by Li Yuyan.
Although Li Yuyan was reluctant, he followed her obediently out of fear that she would be in danger.
The abyss seemed very high, but in fact it was not too high. It only took the two of them half an hour to reach the bottom.
There are more than a dozen translucent stones shining with tiny lights scattered on the sandy ground.
Could it be a rock salt block?
Lin Xiao picked up a piece and smashed it hard on the ground. It broke into pieces instantly. The hardness was low enough, in line with the characteristics of rock salt.
Then, she picked up a small piece of broken stone, blew the ashes on it, and licked a small sip on her tongue.
salty!
Salty!
It’s a rock salt block, that’s right!
I was really sleepy and someone gave me a pillow, which came just in time!
Lin Xiao was overjoyed: "Quick, take these rocks home!"
However, these stones were like poisonous snakes in Li Yuyan's eyes. He looked at Lin Xiao like an idiot:
"These are salt stones. Salt stones are poisonous. If you eat them, you will die!"
"They may be poisonous to you, but to me, they are a good helper in making a fortune. Go ahead and move as much as you can."
Li Yuyan couldn't understand more and more what Lin Xiao was trying to do, but he still copied it.
He has decided that if Lin Xiao is poisoned to death by these salt stones, he will definitely find him a good tomb for the sake of their love as a couple!
After a lot of effort, the two finally moved nearly fifty kilograms of rock salt blocks back home.
At this moment, it is already evening.
The two of them were already hungry.
Li Yuyan was about to make dinner when a young daughter-in-law in her twenties walked into the yard carrying a basket.
"Sister Xiangmei, why are you here?"
Continuing from the last time, in some countries in Southeast Asia, during the Hungry Ghost Festival, they will set up a stage to sing a big show. No one can sit in the first few rows. That’s because the first few rows are specially reserved for ancestors. Did you guess it right?