After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife married the living devil

Mother Lin looked up at the sun and saw that it was about to set completely. She said hurriedly, "It's getting late. Auntie won't keep you any longer."

She turned around and called to the main hall, "Zhizhi, Yanqi is going home, come and see him off."

Under Lin's mother's understanding gaze, Li Yanqi gave her a grateful smile.

Lin Yanyu held the silk ribbon tied around her waist and walked side by side with Li Yanqi in the yard in silence.

Li Yanqi kept turning his head to observe the fair cheek that wanted him to bite it. When he reached the door, he didn't even wait for the pink little mouth to speak.

I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, and asked her: "Why did you suddenly become a gourd with a sawed mouth? Don't you have anything to ask me?"

Lin Yanyu glanced at him unhappily and pouted her lips childishly, "It's all settled now, what else can I say?"

Li Yanqi loved her calm and self-possessed expressions. He couldn't help but pinch her face and said, "You told me that you would marry me as long as your parents agreed. Now your parents have agreed. I don't care."

"How dare you say that! That old monk you found has made my mother so stunned. Who knows, he might become my mother's treasure in the future. Even I have to stay out of her sight. You are not allowed to pinch my face!"

Lin Yanyu reached out to knock away the restless claws, but unexpectedly, he took her hand.

"How could that be possible? You are the treasure of your parents and I."

She retracted her hand, unable to take it back, so she simply let him go, but there was one thing she had to ask clearly.

"Li Yanqi, tell me honestly, where did you get so much money? Don't tell me it was the commission from debt collection. And how did you get the Shujin and Jinxiu Pavilion wedding dresses and bedding?"

The total amount of that box of Shu brocade and the embroidery from Jinxiu Pavilion would not be less than five thousand taels, so it was no wonder that her mother was afraid. Although she had just made up an excuse to appease her mother, she was going to marry him later, and as a couple, she didn't want to be confused and not understand the source of the family's expenses.

Li Yanqi looked at her serious expression and sighed helplessly: "Okay, my little ancestor, I will calculate it for you one by one now. Come, it's tiring to stand, sit down first, and I will explain it to you slowly."

Li Yanqi pulled Lin Yanyu to sit on the stone stool in the corner of the Lin family's house and began to tell the story.

"Liu Yishou from the Yongsheng Casino came to me when I was fourteen. At first, I was short of money to support a family of four, so I took all orders, big or small. Later, we never failed to collect debts, and gradually more and more people came to me. I stopped accepting orders below a thousand taels and took 30% of each order. I didn't have much to spend, so I saved it all."

Lin Yanyu opened her eyes in surprise. What Li Yanqi described was a world she had never been exposed to before, and she couldn't help but feel very curious.

"Why do you never fail? Do you have any secret?"

"Everyone has desires. Money is just a way to achieve desires. There is nothing much to say."

Lin Yanyu realized that he didn't want to say more, so she didn't ask any more questions and asked, "Then...where is the box of fine Shu brocade?"

"Shu brocade...Shu brocade is..."

Li Yanqi's thoughts went back to the time when he escorted County Magistrate Dong to Chongzhou Prefecture.

In order to save time, the group took a small path and passed by a dense forest.

Suddenly, Ma Xigui stopped in his tracks and said seriously, "Brother, there are people on the road ahead that we must pass, probably dozens of them! They have knives, I heard them, what should we do? Go back the same way and take the official road or...?"

County Magistrate Dong was a little surprised when he heard this. He leaned forward and looked forward, wondering, "There's nothing here."

Li Yanqi's eyes darkened, and he pulled out a black dagger from his sleeve, analyzing: "If we return the same way, we won't be able to reach the state capital today, and we will have to spend the night in the wild, which is even more dangerous."

Wild beasts were easy to deal with, but encountering bandits and deserters was troublesome. County Magistrate Dong, a moving burden, made things a bit tricky for the three brothers.

He ordered Chen Ermu and a dozen yamen runners behind him, "Ma Xigui and I will go ahead to investigate first, you guys proceed normally. If a fight breaks out later, don't leave the county magistrate's side for even a step."

Seeing his frightened expression, County Magistrate Dong looked around in panic, "Lieutenant Li, my life and property are all in your hands. You must protect me."

Li Yanqi took Ma Xigui and a few others and leaped away from the main force.

Before I got close, I heard Ma Xigui say, "Brother, there's a woman crying, so sad."

"I heard it, let's take a look."

Two gorgeous carriages were parked on the path, with more than a dozen corpses lying in disorder outside the carriages. They seemed to be the bodyguards and servants who were escorting the convoy, as well as two elderly mothers.

There were only three young women still alive in the convoy. The one who was crying was the most gorgeously dressed. She was being carried by two soldiers wearing the uniform of some unknown force in front of a man who looked like a superior.

The woman was obviously trembling with fear, tears streaming down her face, but she still threatened stubbornly: "Let me go! Let me go! Do you know who my father is? If you dare to touch a hair on my head, be careful that my father will cut you into pieces."

The officer was not afraid at all. "Oh, I am so scared. My beauty, please stop struggling. Let me and my brothers have a good time. Otherwise, I will let you know what it means to be unable to die."

When the woman saw the officer starting to pull at her belt, she was finally so scared that she started to cry out, "Please, please, don't touch me. My father is very rich. I have two maids who will be given to you. Please let me go."

The two maids turned pale with fright.

Unexpectedly, the officer was not moved at all. "The maidservant is not as interesting as the young lady. I will give her to my brothers."

When the remaining soldiers heard what their commander said, they immediately surrounded the two maids.

"Brother, do you care?"

"Is there any benefit?"

Ma Xigui understood immediately that this meant he didn't want to get involved. Well, big brother's life motto was to mind his own business and worry less.

Ma Xigui was lying on a tree observing, and suddenly said, "Hey, big brother, look what fell out of the car behind, the color is quite beautiful, and it even reflects light in the sun."

Li Yanqi immediately looked carefully and saw a dozen cloths of various colors, shining brightly in the sun. It was obvious that they were not ordinary items.

Li Yanqi's mind moved, "Let's go down."

"what?"

The woman's clothes had been torn to tatters. She lay on the ground crying in despair, thinking that her innocence was in jeopardy.

Then, a man in black dressed in a tight suit appeared in front of everyone. His dark eyes stared at her face, as if he was buying tofu at the market, and asked, "Hey, is that cloth on the carriage behind yours?"

"what?"