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Yi blinked, feeling that her earlier anticipation had been premature.

"Ah right, we also need to change your name. Yi, it sounds too domineering and too murderous, which isn’t fitting for a long worker.

How about this, you’ll be called Lin Yi, since you’re a long worker in my household, it’s appropriate for you to share my surname, don’t you think so?

Hmm, you not saying anything means you like this name.

I think it’s not bad either, Lin Yi, Lin Yi, sounds pretty nice. "

Yi, no, Lin Yi cracked his whip and lashed it against the horse’s rear, as if venting something.

Liuzi, who was beside him, had long since vomited until he was drowsy and sleepy, and hadn’t taken in a word Lin Yuan and Lin Yi had said. Even if someone gave him a gold ingot of one hundred taels right now, it probably wouldn’t catch his attention.

The arrival of Lin Yi naturally caught the attention of Lin Jiaxin and his wife, but when they heard he was sent by Xia Zheng before he left to protect their family, they didn’t say anything.

Lin Jiaxin even joked, "Protect what? We’re just country folks here; who could we possibly offend? Ah Zheng is just worried about our Da Ya."

Lady Liu also broke into laughter.

But Lin Yuan could only force a dry, bitter laugh. If her parents knew that she’d almost been robbed by a group of bandits on the road today, she wondered if they would still say the same.

In the Jin Mansion, Jin Lingling was in her room, enjoying grapes that a servant had just washed. Her slender, nearly translucent fingernails gently peeled the purple-red skin of the grape and she popped it into her mouth, chewing with satisfaction.

Hong Mei had said that she found the most formidable bandits from the nearby mountains, ones even the Government Office couldn’t handle. This time, that little bitch Lin Yuan was definitely not coming back.

Picking up another grape, Jin Lingling curved her lips into a smile, "Rural girl, don’t blame me for being cruel.

I originally only planned to ruin that chair you sold to that bitch Jin Yuyu.

But who asked you to provoke me at the vinegar shop?

I had no choice but to find you a good husband.

Rest assured, I’ve heard that the bandits show quite a bit of respect to the Bandit Chief’s Wife.

As long as you cozy up to the bandit leader, I think it will be a while before he shares you with his brothers, hehe. "

Her bell-like laughter rang throughout the room, as if Lin Yuan had already been taken away by the bandits.

Just as Jin Lingling was reveling in her scheme, Hong Mei suddenly stumbled in, her face a mix of red and white: "Mis-, Miss."

Jin Lingling picked up a grape, thinking her maid’s excitement was because of good news, and smiled with raised eyebrows, "What is it? Is it done?"

Unexpectedly, Hong Mei fell to the ground with a thud, her eyes full of fear as she shook her head repeatedly, "No, Miss, a young servant who just returned to the mansion said that Master Magistrate has led all the officials and soldiers out of the city. They said, they’re dealing with bandits."

Jin Lingling’s eyes shifted, her lips curving, "Dealt with? So that means that little bitch Lin Yuan was violated by the bandits? That’s perfect, the more people who go, the more she loses face.

The best thing is for all the officials and soldiers to see her body, to make her too ashamed to continue! "

As she spoke, Jin Lingling couldn’t help but clap and giggle with glee.

However, Hong Mei bit her lip and urgently said, "It’s not like that, Miss, I heard, I heard that it’s not that little bitch the Master Magistrate dealt with, but that group of bandits! They said that the bandits were caught in a sweep, all of them, all of them were captured."

"What?!" Jin Lingling couldn’t laugh anymore, her delicate little hand tightly clenching the grape beside her, crushing it fiercely together, the red juice instantly staining her fair hand.