Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Outside the city gate, a large number of refugees fleeing south and returning people gathered, and the two groups consciously stood in two groups.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the refugees on the opposite side.

I saw seven or eight refugees surrounding two ragged people, one big and one small. The one who made the noise was Lin Dongmei. Lin Chunfang behind her was holding her clothes tightly and was crying loudly in fear.

"Hey! How can you turn your back on us? Once you're in Longtan, you can go to heaven? You don't recognize us anymore?"

A woman with great strength was holding her arm tightly.

No matter how hard Lin Dongmei tried, she couldn't break free from the woman's grip. She was almost going crazy. She didn't know where this crazy woman came from and how she could grab her and not let go.

"I already told you that I don't know you, why are you so shameless?"

Pan Qingfeng and the secret guards nearby stepped forward and tried to pull the woman away.

"Auntie, please let go first and talk it over. It's not a good idea to keep holding on to me like this."

"Don't worry about it. She is our daughter-in-law. Please register our household registration and assign us a village."

Lin Yinan saw the woman's eyes flickering and guessed that there must be something hidden.

She walked quickly forward, her breath sinking into her dantian, and her cold voice could be heard from far away.

"What's the commotion?"

Everyone was frightened by the sudden sound, and they were stunned and looked in her direction.

Lin Chunfang seemed to have seen a savior. She immediately let go of her sister's clothes, squeezed through the crowd and ran towards Lin Yinan.

When he was about to reach Lin Yinan, he was stopped by the secret guards.

She raised her dirty little face and looked at Lin Yinan, "Sister Anan, please save me and my sister!"

"Who are you?" Lin Yinan didn't recognize them at first.

Before Lin Chunfang could answer, Lin Dongmei, who was caught by the woman, shouted hoarsely, "Sister Anan, I am Lin Dongmei!"

"Wow! I am Lin Chunfang." Lin Chunfang cried in grievance.

Lin Yinan was puzzled. Didn't the two sisters stay in Nanzhou Prefecture with Yu Suqin? Why were they here?

Seeing that the woman was still holding Lin Dongmei tightly and refused to let go, she winked at Yundong.

Yundong immediately strode forward and tried to break free from the woman's grip.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to force me?" the woman shouted in fear.

When she shouted, the seven men nearby surrounded Yundong.

Yun Dong's face darkened, and he immediately drew the sword from his waist, "What? Do you want to cause trouble here?"

As his sword was unsheathed, the archers on the city wall drew their bows and aimed at them.

Several people were frightened by this terrifying momentum. They fell to their knees and trembled on the ground.

Yundong took the opportunity to pull Lin Dongmei away.

When the woman saw the man coming up and snatching away her favorite daughter-in-law, she immediately refused to accept it. She sat down on the ground and started rolling around in a rage.

"Oh my! Look at this Longtan people who have no law and cruelly snatched my daughter-in-law away!"

She cried and howled, and seven men surrounded her, glaring at Lin Yinan and the others fiercely, but they dared not say a word or step forward.

"Sister Anan..."

Lin Dongmei was about to speak, but Lin Yinan waved her hand to stop her, "Let's talk later."

She has more important things to deal with now. Lin Yinan stared at the woman on the ground with cold eyes.

"You said she was your daughter-in-law, do you have any evidence?"

The woman was speechless for a moment, her eyes rolling, and then she said loudly, "We came all the way from the Central Plains to Longtan. She is the daughter-in-law we paid to marry in the Central Plains."

"Besides your family, who can prove that they followed you here from Central Plains?"

The woman turned around and looked at the people who had traveled with her, but they avoided her like the plague and turned their heads away from her gaze.

In a moment of desperation, she said, "She has been slept with by my son, how can she not be my wife?"

"Nonsense! I, I didn't." Lin Dongmei was a quiet person to begin with, and now she was so angry that she couldn't even speak clearly.

Lin Yinan gave her a look that told her to stay calm.

"Do you have a household registration certificate?"

"The household registration was lost on the way."

At this time, Aunt Liang, who was standing in the crowd, saw that the woman clearly wanted to make this girl her wife, so she stood up.

"I can prove that these two girls are not from the Central Plains. They set out with us from Hamawo Village in Yangjiao County, Nanzhou Prefecture, and only met this woman and her family after passing Changyi County. Since they met, the woman has been asking about this girl's situation, both openly and secretly."

After Aunt Liang said this, everyone suddenly understood.

Lin Dongmei gave her a grateful look and with trembling hands took out a small oil paper cloth bag from her underwear.

“I have a household registration.”

This was their original household registration in Pingcheng. After her sister married into the Yu family, Yu Shicheng used his connections to help their family get registered. Yu Suqin wanted to burn the original household registration, but she couldn't bear to have her father's name on it, so she secretly hid it.

Lin Yinan took it and looked at it. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly. He lifted his eyelids slightly and glanced at the woman coldly. There was an aura of majesty in his cold voice.

"Without a household registration, you still remember where your origin is, right?"

The woman lowered her head with flickering eyes. The fellow villagers who were traveling with them behind her, who had long been fed up with her behavior, jumped out and pinned the woman and her family to the ground and beat them to death.

"I know this. I traveled the same route as them and escaped from Jincheng County. When we escaped, her family had three daughters-in-law, two grandsons and three granddaughters. She sold her daughters-in-law and granddaughters in exchange for food. Fortunately, her grandsons got sick and none of them survived."

The words of the fellow villager were like a stone that caused a thousand ripples, and everyone was talking about it.

"I didn't expect this old woman to be so vicious!"

"No wonder all of them who survived are men!"

"If any girl marries into their family in the future, it will be unlucky."

"..."

The woman panicked and quickly protested, "No, you're talking nonsense!"

"Whether I am talking nonsense or not, I believe there are many fellow countrymen who know clearly."

The sons behind her also became anxious and stood up to beat the person who was talking too much and ruining their family's reputation.

"What are you doing? Stop acting wildly here!" Yundong shouted.

Such things are common on the road to escape, and they fully demonstrate human nature in the face of danger.

Lin Yinan would not allow someone with such bad character to live in the village and make everyone uneasy.

"Tie them up and send them to Xihe to mine!" she said coldly.

Yundong waved his hand, and several guards came out immediately, gagged the family and tied them up tightly.

Lin Yinan said to Pan Qingfeng, "The rest of the things are left to you."

"Don't worry, City Lord! We will get it done."

Pan Qingfeng felt a little ashamed, thinking that he had not done well enough and that he had to trouble her for such a small matter.

"You two come with me in." She said to Lin Dongmei and her sister.

She knew a little about the two sisters from the message sent back by Yun Si.

Lin Yiheng took Lin Fu and Lin Yuanzhi to work on the spring ploughing, while the household registration at the city gate was left to Pan Qingfeng and the newly recruited clerk.

Therefore, because Lin Dongmei and her sister did not find someone familiar at the first time, they were almost spotted by this rogue woman, who wanted to take them back to be her wife.