Shen Xingwan met Lin Zheng's sharp gaze. You didn't flinch, but asked softly and steadily, "Are you okay?"
Lin Zheng looked at Shen Xingwan, who was becoming more and more graceful, with mixed emotions.
When he first met Shen Xingwan, he disliked her. She was out of tune with the people in the village because she, Su Jingyi, left.
More importantly, she comes from the capital city that Sanniang Wen quietly mentioned.
"What kind of place is the capital?" Lin Zheng asked in a hoarse voice, with expectant but disdainful eyes.
Shen Xingwan didn't expect that he would ask this.
After thinking for a moment, he said seriously, "A prosperous yet indifferent place."
"Really..." Lin Zheng said in a daze.
Wen Sanniang mentioned this place more than once to the old servant in a complicated tone. Even the person who set fire to the Wen family today and attempted to kill and silence came from that place.
Lin Zheng staggered closer to Shen Xingwan, with a ferocious expression on his face, "Why did you come back from there?"
Shen Xiaoguo stepped in front of Shen Xingwan and looked at Lin Zheng defensively.
In the end, Lin Zheng stretched out his hand and tried his best not to pull the corner of her clothes, but fell to the ground.
Shen Xingwan breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Zheng was picked up by the adults in the village and finally sent to the Shen family.
After all, the conditions of the Shen family are among the best in the village. As a scholar, Shen Sheng also cares about face. When encountering such a thing, of course he has to do his best to gain a good reputation.
Mrs. Zhang touched the forehead of Lin Zheng who was placed on the bed, "It's a little hot, I guess she's scared, poor child."
"It's so pitiful to lose your mother at such a young age." Ms. Li wiped her tears aside.
The two quickly changed Lin Zheng into clean clothes, wetted the handkerchief with cold water and placed it on his forehead to cool down.
The village chief looked on with satisfaction, praised Lin Zheng a few times and temporarily entrusted Lin Zheng to the care of the Shen family.
Shen Sheng felt upright and responded, "Don't worry, village chief, we will definitely take good care of this child."
Shen Xingwan stood silently in the corner, watching Mrs. Zhang busy as she took care of Lin Zheng with all her heart.
It was late at night, and the fire outside finally burned out, and Lin Zheng didn't have any fever, but he was still sleeping.
Shen Xingwan was sleepy, and he was so hazy that he couldn't open his eyes.
"Go back to sleep." Mrs. Zhang touched her head in a funny way.
Because of today's unexpected incident, the family did not return to the town. Instead, they simply packed up their previous rooms and stayed in their hometown for one night.
After Shen Xingwan simply washed up, he didn't even take off his coat. He was arranged to sleep in the original room of the Shen family. The room was already full of messy things, and the bed was covered with a thin quilt.
Ms. Zhang frowned and said, "Just make do with it for one night."
Shen Xingwan, who was extremely sleepy, nodded, climbed into bed and fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the pillow.
Fat Meow jumped onto the bed, nestled next to her and fell asleep.
Mrs. Zhang walked out gently and closed the door.
Shen Xingwan suddenly dreamed of himself in his previous life, so his sleep was particularly uneasy.
Her cheek was suddenly hit hard by Fat Cat's big fluffy tail. She grabbed the big tail and said, "Don't make trouble, Fat Cat."
Fat Meow meowed loudly, "Wake up quickly, your life is going to die!"
Shen Xingwan opened his eyes and met a pair of dark eyes.
"Ghost!" Shen Xingwan blurted out.
The dagger in Lin Zheng's hand was cold and pressed against Shen Xingwan's neck, "Don't scream."
Shen Xingwan felt the coldness on his neck calm down and became completely awake.
"What do you want to do?"
Why did this little yandere attack her so quickly? It was against common sense.
Lin Zheng firmly grabbed the dagger in her hand and asked Shen Xingwan, "How to get to the capital? If you don't tell me, I will make your blood splatter on the spot."
Shen Xingwan couldn't help but glare at Lin Zheng, "You are so cruel. The Shen family took you in. My mother took care of you most of the night, and you treat me like this?"
Lin Zheng felt a little uncomfortable, her face was still cold, and the hand holding the knife began to use force, "Are you going to say it or not?"
Shen Xingwan felt some pain in his neck. The kid was so ruthless. He was worthy of being the ruthless future governor of Dongchang.
"I didn't say I couldn't say it. Why are you so excited?" Shen Xingwan said speechlessly.
"Then tell me quickly!" Lin Zheng said in a tight tone.
"You first go to the code in town, where there are boats to Jiangnan, and then go directly from Jiangnan to the capital." Shen Xingwan explained the route happily.
Lin Zheng wrote it down carefully, thinking about whether to knock Shen Xingwan unconscious.
"You are going to the capital, do you have money? Making a boat is very expensive." Shen Xingwan asked.
Lin Zheng was silent. His home had been destroyed by a fire, and of course he had nothing.
Shen Xingwan recalled that in the plot, the reason why Lin Zheng, who would be ruthless in the future, only treated Su Jingyi differently was because Su Jingyi helped him when he was at his lowest.
From then on it became the only light in his life.
Shen Xingwan didn't want this kind of treatment. He just hoped that when they faced each other in the future, Lin Zheng, a yandere, wouldn't help Su Jingyi kill her.
"I have money, let me go and I will give it to you."
Lin Zheng looked at her in disbelief, met Shen Xingwan's bright and sincere eyes, hesitated for a while and then slowly let go.
Mrs. Zhou directly gave Mrs. Zhang the three taels of silver she just received, "If it's not enough, I'll make up for it."
"That's enough." Shen Tang said, "Three taels of silver are enough for the three of you for two rooms."
Early the next morning, Shen Tang took Shen Yu, who was resting, to pay the money and go through the formalities.
Shen Xingwan finished his night of wild vegetable porridge as usual in the morning and began to pack his things.
Her main possessions are various exquisite clothes and some fabrics brought back from the Hou Mansion in early summer, autumn and winter.
Originally, she didn't plan to take it with her when she left, but Madam Hou sent her maid to help her pack her luggage, and she wished she could bring all the things in the house with her.
The dignified Marquis's residence has no shortage of these. Shen Xingwan simply showed his sense of interest when leaving, and Madam Hou didn't want to make things too ugly.
Still, Shen Xingwan insisted that it would be difficult to carry too many items on the road and would not be needed when returning to the countryside, so in the end they were streamlined a lot.
Zhang had almost finished packing, and looked at Ban Xia and Shen Xingwan sorting out the gorgeous clothes, "When you live in the town, you can wear them without having to hide them."
"These untouched fabrics will be used to make beautiful clothes for my mother." Shen Xingwan said sweetly.
Mrs. Zhang said in high spirits, "That mother will definitely make a lot of money so that you can have the confidence to wear these clothes."
Shen Xingwan has been wearing relatively simple clothes in the past few days since she came back. Unfortunately, she is still eye-catching. Some people in her old house and in the village look at her with jealousy.
Mr. Zhang didn’t say anything, but he always saw it in his eyes.
"Our family is hard-working and we will get better and better when we get to the town." Mrs. Zhang is full of energy. Her son and daughter are both smart and clever.
It's worse now.
Shen Xingwan felt a little guilty. She couldn't endure hardship at all and just wanted to lie down.
In the afternoon, Shen Tang specially spent money to rent an ox cart from the village and prepared to move.
First put some soft goods on the bullock cart and throw away those bottles and cans. The two families together don’t have much.
Finally, Da Ya was put on the cart and put on a quilt for her to sit on.
