Old Mr. Yun stared at Clan Chief Ya, briefly acknowledging the old woman.
Clan Chief Ya felt his scalp tingling under Old Mr. Yun’s gaze, to the point where he could no longer feel the pain in his right hand.
"Auntie Zhuo, please handle the affairs here."
Zhe Jue couldn’t stay any longer and entrusted the old woman with the matters at hand before preparing to leave.
"Chief, please rest assured, I will definitely manage things here efficiently," Auntie Zhuo said respectfully to Zhe Jue.
Zhe Jue gave a slight nod, cast another glance at Clan Chief Ya and left.
The marriage news from Clan Chief Ya’s family exploded like a bomb, with his grandson and granddaughter getting married at the same time. Moreover, his granddaughter had even managed to secure a man to marry into their family, which was a great surprise for the village.
Everyone hadn’t seen Yun Mo and Yun Xiang, and had no idea what they looked like. However, within these three days, Old Yun had become well-versed with the villagers, laughing and chatting with them.
As for Clan Chief Ya, he just hung his head low, following behind Old Yun.
The expression on his face wasn’t exactly one of gnashing teeth, but the look in his eyes seemed to show his resentment towards Old Yun. One could guess how much he must have cursed Old Yun in his heart.
"I can’t believe you came up with this idea."
In the courtyard of the Lin Family, Lin Caisang’s basket, which was filled with medicinal herbs she had gathered from the mountain, was taken off by Ya Molian.
"We can’t kill him, but we can assign someone to watch him," replied Ya Molian.
Staring at the herbs in the basket, he couldn’t help but wrinkle his brow, somewhat disapprovingly looked at Lin Caisang, and asked,
"Sang’er, don’t you have... your own medicinal garden? Why do you still need to gather herbs from the mountain?"
Now, unlike the cold season, most of the wild animals in the mountain had come out, especially those snakes and insects. They could appear under your feet at any time and were hard to guard against.
"Some herbs can only be gathered from the mountain." Lin Caisang pursed her lips and said,
There really are some medicinal herbs that her own garden cannot provide, such as the low-grade ones with weak medicinal effects which the garden considers as fertilizer.
But she needed those herbs, so what could she do? She had to gather them.
Moreover, the main reason was that the herbs on the mountains were also valuable. If she didn’t gather them now, they would wilt when winter came and become useless.
It would be better if she gathered them now, so they could be put to good use.
"I thought Ya Yulan was a pretty nice guy. Is it really appropriate for you to find him a spouse ?" she asked.
She had seen Ya Yulan a few times. He seemed to be a sincere young man, always engrossed in reading books but never attempted to take the primary scholar or the civil service examination.
Now, Ya Molian had abruptly found him a wife. She had a feeling that... it was a bit odd.
However, you can’t judge a book by its cover. While Clan Chief Ya had always been a bit stingy, she wouldn’t have guessed that he would stoop so low as to eavesdrop on Ya Molian’s family affairs from the haypile near her house for a mere sum of money.
Could it be that he had overheard something about her family as well?
She reminded herself that her room was close to that alleyway - sticking her head out of the window, she was right next to the haypile.