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"Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan! Something big has happened! Something big!" Lan Hua came running, her already somewhat dark little face even redder. As soon as she saw Lin Yuan, she didn’t even care about the black-faced Young Master by her side, and directly pulled her over, anxiously saying, "Your, your family’s Young Miss, she’s been carried away! "

Carried away?

Lin Yuan was puzzled. She had just seen her happily hopping around, so how could she suddenly be dead and carried off in the blink of an eye?

"Yes, carried away! It was a really fancy sedan chair! A lot of people from the village came out to watch! And also, your Aunt was both crying and laughing, holding a heavy purse in her hand!"

Lin Yuan’s face flushed with embarrassment.

So, she was carried away by a sedan chair, not dead.

.. Wait a minute, a sedan chair? Could it be the Magistrate’s sedan chair?

But wasn’t Lin Siyu supposed to be carried into the Magistrate’s home to become a Little Concubine next month? Why had she left today?

But, thinking back to what she had heard at Fuman Building about Lao Fan going to give the Magistrate’s Little Concubine a pulse diagnosis to protect her pregnancy, she figured it out.

No wonder the Madam County Magistrate was so eager to protect that concubine’s pregnancy, she was thinking of keeping the baby first, then taking the opportunity to send in her own person, Lin Siyu, to snatch away the Little Concubine’s favor!

This woman, she really was something!

Lin Yuan snorted. The affairs within these prominent households were really intricate.

She just didn’t know whether Lin Siyu, once entering the door, would still be on the same side as Madam County Magistrate.

If she sent away a tiger only to usher in a wolf, then Lady Jin would truly be crying to death.

"Alas, you didn’t see your Aunt’s demeanor.

She cried like something watching her daughter ascend the sedan.

But then someone gave her a purse, and your Aunt, oh, she immediately laughed, bowing and curtsying while holding the purse!

I didn’t expect she would really have the heart to sell her daughter off!

" Lan Hua pursed her lips, an expression of both disdain and contempt on her face.

Yet Lin Yuan had already anticipated all of this from the moment she learned that Lin Siyu’s intended was the County Magistrate. She then looked at Xia Zheng swinging his stick boredly while driving the donkey beside her, acting as if Lin Siyu’s afternoon visit had nothing to do with him at all.

Ah, Lin Siyu was to be pitied too. Whatever her reasons, she had placed her whole heart on Xia Zheng. Perhaps she just wanted to take one last chance before she left, yet she was mercilessly rejected.

Because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, a day for family to reunite, Lan Hua delivered the news and hurried back home to celebrate the festival with her parents.

For dinner, Lin Yuan cooked several fresh dishes, including scallion tofu with newly grown tender green onions from their own vegetable garden, especially fresh and tender.

There was also steamed fish, caught by Xia Zheng in the river in the afternoon.

Saying he "felt" for the fish would be more appropriate than saying he "caught" it; a small fish was cornered by him but still couldn’t be caught smoothly.

In the end, Lin Wei and Xiao Linshuang disdainfully brought over a net made by their elder sister, and only then was the fish finally caught.

Among the other dishes, there was also an egg tofu soup, originally intended to give Lady Liu a good nourishment.

However, Xia Zheng ended up eating more than half of it.

After a full day of interaction, Mr. and Mrs. Liu were no longer as estranged from Xia Zheng as in the beginning.

His down-to-earth and not greedy or gluttonous demeanor was fully exposed, but they still found this well-off young man quite endearing.

Thus, they were not at all angry about him eating their egg soup; on the contrary, Lady Liu was quite pleased and even instructed Lin Yuan to make more for Xia Zheng the next morning.

Lin Yuan agreed verbally, but her heart was not pleased. Her mother had only eaten a few bites of the egg soup, and this guy just had to finish it off, completely unaware of how to take care of a pregnant woman’s feelings.