The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1071: Feeling Bitter Inside

Chapter 1071: Chapter 1071: Feeling Bitter Inside

Just arrived in Yejun, Lin Caiqing found everything new and fascinating.

For her, not to mention Yejun, even Qianlin County was a place she had only visited a few times, and Yejun was always something she could only imagine, an unreachable destination.

Today, she finally arrived here.

"It’s almost noon, let’s go eat."

Lin Caisang didn’t mention anything else but pulled Lin Caiqing to a restaurant owned by Ya Molian. Filling their stomachs was a priority, everything else could wait.

"Oh, oh."

Lin Caiqing allowed Lin Caisang to lead her into the restaurant.

...

After they left the restaurant, the two of them went to the main street outside the residence of the land officer.

Having previously threatened the land officer, she knew where he lived, so they didn’t need to look for it—directly coming over by horse-drawn carriage was possible.

"Sister Sangsang, did you come to Yejun to buy these things?"

Lin Caiqing was led by her sister into a rouge shop, where many young ladies were browsing and selecting items.

"Do you like anything?"

Lin Caisang, holding a rouge box, asked Lin Caiqing.

Hearing this, Lin Caiqing hurriedly shook her head.

"These things are too expensive; it’s better to buy a few more acres of land in the village. I don’t want them."

As soon as she entered the door, she had heard someone asking for prices, and the shopkeeper was quoting them—it was enough to make her hair stand up. A box of rouge cost over ten taels—who would buy it?

"If you don’t like it, let’s look at something else." Lin Caisang glanced at her, put down the rouge box, and continued to browse other items.

Meanwhile, a group of young ladies was gathered together, discussing the rouge in their hands and smiling broadly.

"Ling’er, I heard your miss is engaged? Which family is it? Such a big occasion, and the land officer’s household kept it so secret, not even a hint of gossip leaked."

Suddenly, one little girl asked another who was dressed like a maidservant.

Upon hearing this, Ling’er curled her lip, "That’s my master’s business, not something a servant like me should inquire about. Stop making it hard for me."

At this moment, she was feeling bitter inside. She was her miss’s personal maid and would inevitably accompany her in marriage. She knew the Zhou family like the back of her hand.

And her miss?

Having served her miss for ten years as her personal maid, how could she not know what her miss was thinking?

If she did indeed marry into the Zhou family, things were bound to get rowdy there, who knows what could happen?

Besides, her miss always had that person with her...

"You girls keep picking, I’ve bought everything my miss commanded me to buy, so I’m heading back first." Not wanting to stay with those young ladies and expose the irritation she was feeling inside, she quickly left.

"Tsk."

Just as she left the shop, the same little girl who had spoken to her earlier scoffed.

"Who doesn’t know about her miss, that she’s engaged to Zhou Liang from that poor Zhou family of Qianlin County? What’s there to be proud of? She’ll have her day of tears!"

"The Zhou family? How can it be the Zhou family?"

The other young ladies, hearing her words, were all incredulous.

"Wasn’t it said that Zhou Liang failed even to pass the imperial examination for a scholar? How could the land officer fancy him? That’s ruining his daughter’s life. Clearly a mismatched marriage."