"We're just passers-by, we can't help you, you can go by yourself." Lin Youcai said with a cold face.

The girl named Xiangling suddenly felt desperate, but she also knew that she was a trouble, so she didn't dare to say anything more, so she knelt down and kowtowed three times, thanked her, and got up to leave.

"Wait a minute!"

Lin Meiyi suddenly spoke, Xiangling only thought it was Tianlai, she turned her head in surprise, thinking that the father and daughter had changed their minds.

"Yiyi?" Lin Youcai frowned and looked at his daughter, shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice, "We can't take her away." ”

"I know, dad, don't worry, I'm just giving her some money, this girl has the guts, push her and maybe she'll succeed." Lin Meiyi smiled lightly and signaled her father not to worry, and walked towards Xiangling with the money bag.

"Girl?" Xiangling looked at her expectantly and suspiciously, hoping that she could take her, but also fearing that her expectations would be disappointed.

Lin Meiyi doesn't have so much sympathy, this matter is troublesome at first glance, she won't make trouble for herself, especially now that she doesn't have that strength, let alone set herself on fire.

Chong Xiangling smiled shallowly, Lin Meiyi opened the money bag, counted out a hundred Wen from it, put it on her handkerchief, wrapped it, and handed it to Xiangling.

"This is a hundred yuan, you collect it, I don't know what you can do, but it's better to have money than no money, to tell you honestly, we can't solve your family's troubles, but if you solve it yourself, it won't let your appearance bring trouble to my family, then you can come to the mountain village to find me, I can provide you with a job."

After speaking, Lin Meiyi turned around and left.

The girl suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed the corner of her clothes, as if grasping the last straw, she looked at her and said with tears in her eyes:

"Take me away! I can be a slave for the girl, you only need to pay ten taels of silver to buy me from my father, I can work, I can do anything, please...... I don't want to marry that old man as a concubine, please! ”

Lin Meiyi looked at the corner of her clothes that she was caught, and asked curiously, "That man was your father just now, right?" ”

Xiangling nodded, her eyes full of disappointment, if she could, she would never want to be this man's daughter.

"Then I can't help it, your father's person is not a good thing at first glance, if he knows that I took you away, he will definitely take the opportunity to blackmail my family with a large sum of silver, and when the time comes, my family will feel that it is too much of a loss, and they will still hand you over to him."

Lin Meiyi shook her head, raised her hand to grab Xiangling's hand, and pulled her hand off the corner of her clothes, "Let's go." ”

This time, Xiangling didn't reach out to grab her again, but hurriedly asked, "Girl, what's your name?" ”

"My surname is Lin." Lin Meiyi replied.

Xiangling nodded, looked ahead helplessly and angrily, and after a while, took the money and went back into the woods.

She wants to run, and she will never accept this arrangement at home!

Lin Youcai looked at the direction she left, and could only shake his head and sigh, "Her father is really not a thing!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Lin Meiyi, who was already sitting beside him, and raised his eyebrows proudly, "How is it, do you think your father is very good now?" At least your father and I will never let my family be a concubine. ”

He was talking about the previous incident of Zhu Tang's family, Lin Meiyi listened, and couldn't help but think of the young man who was made to cry by herself last night, coughed uncomfortably twice, and hurriedly mumbled twice to divert the topic.

Although they encountered Xiangling's little episode on the way, they didn't delay much, and at about ten o'clock in the morning, the father and daughter entered Shanwa Village, found someone to ask the location of Old Man Wu's house, and looked for it.

Lin Meiyi's ears were tippy, and when she heard the villagers mention the name Xiangling, she kept an eye on it, secretly listened to it, and finally figured out what happened to Xiangling's family.

It turns out that Xiangling's surname is Zhao, in addition to her, there is a foolish eldest brother and a thirteen-year-old brother in the family, the family is very patriarchal, and the female baby can't be a person in the Zhao family at all, that is, the existence of livestock, Zhao Xiangling and her father Zhao De are famous bastards in Shanwa Village.

But recently, this bastard has made a fortune, and suddenly he has become a rich man in the town, first bought a slave to apply for himself, and now he wants to sell his daughter to this old man who is about to enter the earth as a concubine, so as to say goodbye to the stupid son of the family.

It's a pity that before the relatives went to congratulate her, Xiangling ran away.

Many women in Shanwa Village feel that Xiangling runs well.

But everyone is also worried that she will be caught, after all, she is a little girl, penniless, how far can she run?

This world is not peaceful, there is a war in the north, there are fewer men in the village, and many bastards have come out to move, if they are caught and sold in the kiln, it is really better to come back and honestly be a concubine for the master.

Lin Youcai saw that his daughter listened to these gossips attentively, and he also listened to them, and when he heard the words of these women, he couldn't help but sigh a little.

Raising his eyes to look at the girl beside him, he reached out and gently helped her tidy up the hairpin in her hair, and felt that the person was beside him, and then he felt at ease.

"Daddy?" Lin Meiyi glanced at her father suspiciously, not understanding why he was sentimental.

Lin Youcai shook his head and didn't say anything, the old father was embarrassed to tell her, Dad is reluctant to let you marry, in case you marry someone like Zhao De again, Dad can be so distressed that he vomits blood.

If her father didn't say it, Lin Meiyi didn't ask anymore, after all, men also have small emotions, understand and understand.

"Get out of the car, this should be the place." Lin Youcai regained his good mood, stopped the ox cart, bolted it to the low tree on the side of the road, and let Lin Meiyi watch the ox cart here first, and walked up to knock on the door.

Most of the houses in the village are not closed, and the old man Wu's house is the same, Lin Youcai only knocked on the door frame, and the people in the courtyard greeted him.

It was a young woman, and when she saw Lin Youcai, a strange big man, she subconsciously didn't dare to approach, and asked suspiciously, three meters away:

"This big brother, who are you looking for?"

Lin Youcai hurriedly smiled and asked, "This little sister-in-law, is this Uncle Wu's house?" ”

The young woman nodded cautiously, "Are you?" ”

"My name is Lin Youcai, I am from the mountain village, I heard that Uncle Wu is a good hand at planting mulberry and raising silkworms, I specially came here to ask for advice, I don't know if Uncle Wu is inconvenient?"

When the woman heard this, she saw Lin Youcai talking and smiling, and the fear in her heart dissipated, and she invited him to come in and sit down, and went to find her father-in-law by herself.

The yard is full of wooden frames for raising silkworms, and the white silkworms are drilled in the mulberry leaves, clicking and gnawing, and the yard is relatively quiet.

Fortunately, this torment did not last long, and someone soon greeted it.

It is the father and son of the Wu family, Uncle Wu and his son Wu Dayou.

Wu Dayou looked younger than Lin Youcai, he first helped Uncle Wu, who was not very good-looking, into the hall, and then came to the courtyard to greet Lin Youcai.

"Brother Lin, please come in." Wu Dayou warmly invited.