HCB Chapter 142 The Provincial Examination Ends
Chapter 142 The Provincial Examination Ends
The three of them stared at Shen Wanning, waiting for her to state her request.
Shen Wanning said slowly, "You must promise me that if you want to seek justice, you must tell me beforehand and not act on your own. Otherwise, if my family is implicated, I will never let any of you go."
The three nodded enthusiastically, "Of course. The young lady is kind-hearted and willing to let the three of us disabled people work and give us a place to live. Naturally, we will not harm the young lady and her family."
The few of them were very smart and started calling for girls right away.
"Okay, go to the basement and move all your things out! I'll go with you and take a look at the mechanism over there." Shen Wanning stood up and went out with them.
There was actually a basement in the yard, which was a pleasant surprise.
Several people walked to the rockery, and Wang Wu pressed a small protruding stone on the rockery. The area near the entrance of the rockery cave immediately opened up, revealing a small path.
It was the time to show loyalty, Wang Wu walked down first, followed by Shen Wanning, and finally Li Si supported Zhang San.
Shen Wanning couldn't completely trust them, so when she went down the tunnel, she kept an eye out for the anesthetic needles and electric batons in the delivery station. If anything went wrong, she could take them out at any time and deal with these people.
Fortunately, when we walked into the basement, these people were all well-behaved and did not move.
The basement was a cellar, and now there were three beds, if, of course, the rags thrown on the straw could be called beds.
Plus some daily necessities, such as clothes and some not-so-fresh food.
They were a little embarrassed. "There are only three of us grown men, and it's hard to put things here, so things are a bit messy."
"It's okay, let's move the things up now! After we're done, we'll clean this place up and use it as a cellar to store vegetables and other things." Shen Wanning said as she looked at the cellar.
A few people responded and quickly began to pack. Actually, there wasn't much to pack, mainly just their clothes and food. As for the bed, they would move the straw back into the room after they moved their things out. They would just make do with it for the next few days; they were used to it anyway.
Nothing happened until they left the cellar, and Shen Wanning basically believed these people.
On the way, Shen Wanning asked some more questions.
"Why didn't you pretend to be a ghost to scare us before, but suddenly you come out to pretend to be a ghost and try to scare us away these few days?"
Zhang San quickly answered, "When you first moved in, you usually left early in the morning and didn't come back until the evening. So we could sneak out during the day to beg and come back before you did. We thought we could live in peace like this. But then one day, you came back with some saplings during the day, catching us off guard. We were almost discovered, so we decided to scare you away."
No wonder she felt like someone was peeping at her when she put the cotton seedlings into the warehouse that day. It turned out that her feeling was not wrong.
"What about the day before yesterday? Why didn't you come out the day before yesterday?" she asked.
Li Si lowered his head embarrassedly and whispered, "Because we basically didn't sleep at night for the past few days pretending to be a ghost, we were too tired, so we decided to take a day off."
"So that's how it is." As they were talking, they soon arrived at the wing room in the backyard. Shen Wanning asked them to live there. The three of them took turns guarding the gate and sleeping in the gatehouse.
From then on, they no longer had to work as waiters in the milk tea shop or as gatekeepers in the house.
When Lin Jingce and his friends returned that night, Shen Wanning told them about the three ghosts they had captured. Initially, they were filled with righteous indignation and wanted to beat them up to vent their anger. However, after hearing about their experiences, they felt sympathy for them and their anger subsided.
The haunting of the Lin residence was resolved, and everyone slept soundly that night. Before leaving for the milk tea shop that morning, Shen Wanning gave each of the three a hundred coins, saying it was an advance on their wages for the day, and that they could go out and buy whatever they needed.
Lin Jingce hadn't been home for several days, so after selling milk tea that day, the others returned to Daqing Village. It happened that they had already planted the tea trees that day, but Yu Qian remained in Daqing Village to teach them how to fertilize and dig ditches for watering.
Hearing about Wen's birth, Lin Jingce couldn't wait to ask Lin Jingcheng to bring Lin Hai out and play with him for a while. Seeing Lin Jingce like this, Xu felt a little uncomfortable. She didn't say a word during the meal and just ate the rice silently.
In order to allow the refugees to work and earn wages in the remaining time, Shen Wanning discussed with Aunt Zhang and bought some wheat seeds to plant wheat this year.
On one side, they were busy planting trees, growing wheat and resettling refugees. On the other side, Lin Jingyou's nine-day provincial examination finally came to an end.
Lin Jingyou strode out of the examination room, feeling relieved.
it is finally over!
His body was sticky from sweating, but luckily he had applied some Fengyoujing (medicated oil) in the exam room, otherwise you could imagine how it would smell. The first thing he wanted to do was go back to the inn, take a shower, and change into clean clothes.
As he took a step, Yan Hui caught up with him. "Brother Jingyou, why are you running so fast? Wait for me! I'll go back with you."
As he said that, he ran to Lin Jingyou and put his arm around Lin Jingyou's shoulders.
Lin Jingyou pushed his shoulder away in disgust, "You stink of sweat, stay away from me."
Yan Hui raised his arm, put it under his nose and sniffed it, almost vomiting, "It stinks! Why didn't I smell it just now? But what is Brother Jingyou using? Why does it smell so good?"
As he said that, he put his nose close and sniffed Lin Jingyou.
Lin Jingyou pushed his head away again, "How can this be done in public? Brother Yan, please don't do something that could lead to misunderstandings, lest people think we have a homosexual bent."
"Hey, Brother Jingyou, please don't be so boring! I will go back to the capital after the results are announced this time. I'm afraid we won't meet again until next year." Yan Hui's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke. He was really reluctant to leave here.
He was originally a troublemaker in the capital, and even after arriving in Qinghe County, he remained the same. Most of the students in the academy admired him because of his status, but Lin Jingyou refused to fawn over them and always went his own way.
When he first arrived, he couldn't stand Lin Jingyou's personality and often made trouble for him. Then one day, a classmate tried to use his connections to get help, and he suddenly saw through the true colors of those who flattered him.
On the contrary, he gradually began to appreciate Lin Jingyou, especially when he saw his literary achievements. Therefore, he began to call him "Brother Jingyou".