It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 309

"Thank you, Madam Wen." Jiang An walked into the mansion carrying a bamboo basket and thanked Madam Wen again for the message. Before he left, he was stopped by Qiao Kuiniang.

"Young man, please wait. Who was the girl you were talking to just now?"

Jiang An looked at the strange woman in front of him warily.

Qiao Kuiniang explained: "Don't think too much, she just looks very familiar to me."

Jiang An said: "She is a sister from our village."

"What is your name?"

Jiang An pursed his lips and didn't want to say anything more. He nodded to Mrs. Wen and left quickly.

Qiao Kuiniang once again took Mrs. Wen's arm and kept shaking it: "Mrs. Wen, you know, right~"

"Be more normal." Mrs. Wen's face became even more serious. "That was Jiang Yan, the one that was rumored in the mansion not long ago."

Jiang Yan became famous in the entire Fu Mansion within a few days because he passed the assessment but was unwilling to sign a contract with the Mansion.

Although the name was lost due to mispronunciation or deaf ears soon after it was spread, people who missed the instant gossip because they were out doing things might not know about it. Even Fu Nulang, Baoqin and Tingying in the backyard knew about it.

However, people were not allowed to walk around the mansion freely, and Jiang Yan only went between the courtyard where she worked and the dining hall, so there were only a few people who had actually seen her in person.

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Qiao Kuiniang and Fang Ertan walked some distance out of the city, but she was still concentrating on what had just happened.

She was very sure that she had never met Jiang Yan in the mansion, but her appearance looked very familiar...

"Kui Niang, be careful when you walk and don't get tripped by the grass on the ground." Fang Ertan supported the staggering Qiao Kui Niang.

Qiao Kuiniang was stunned. She looked at Fang Ertan, then at the weeds on the ground, and in an instant all her memories came together.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?" Fang Ertan asked nervously.

Qiao Kuiniang smiled suddenly and said, "I just suddenly recognized the person I had been traveling with when I fled home. It turned out to be just as I guessed before, that he had given a fake name."

"Who?"

"The girl who taught us to read on the way, her name is not Jiang Cao, her real name is Jiang Yan."

He became excited: "Jiang Cao and Jiang Yan are the same person, the same person?" Without hesitation, he took Qiao Kuiniang's arm and was about to walk back.

Qiao Kuiniang was unable to react: "What are you doing? Aren't you going home?"

"Yes, but first go to the mansion to collect the reward money."

Qiao Kuiniang grabbed Fang Ertan tightly and refused to let her move. "Tell me clearly, what reward? I'm telling you, she helped us back then. Don't expect me to be the one who caused trouble."

Fang Ertan was a little embarrassed: "The head of the family has several good managers. He must have something important to ask her. It's not like he's going to cause any trouble for her."

Qiao Kuiniang laughed as she listened. "There was a time when the courtyard you often entered was separated from where I worked by two alleys. The smell was so strong then that only someone with a broken nose could not smell it when the wind blew. Do you dare to say that any of the women sent there ever came out intact?"

Fang Ertan hesitated, unable to refute, but finally said, "But the reward the government promised is five taels of silver..."

Five taels of silver, he only has 130 wen a month now if he's not on a business trip, plus Kui Niang's 60 wen a month, if he doesn't eat or drink a penny, it will take him two and a half years to save up...

Qiao Kuiniang was indeed tempted. She pinched the soft flesh on the inside of her arm and gritted her teeth, saying, "Absolutely not now. Let's go home and discuss it with my parents-in-law and sister-in-law first."

"Okay, okay, a few days won't make a difference." Fang Ertan knew that Kuiniang was somewhat relentless but couldn't make up her mind. She had to think about it carefully. It would be best if someone gave her a push, so she was not as anxious as before.

The reward is there and it won't run away.