Luo Fengtang fell silent for a moment, then said, "Fine, let's not talk about the past. Let's talk about now."

He looked into her eyes: "Now, what is it you want most?"

Yang Ruqing curled the corners of her lips, chopping vegetables while deep in thought.

When she wasn't full, she said to herself, "I wish I could have three meals a day without worry, with both fish and meat."

When you can't keep warm in your clothes, you want to have two sets of clothes for each season so that you can wash and change them.

"When you have no connections or backing, you want to know some bigwigs, or maybe have one or two relatives in office to protect your family's business..."

"I met you and want to marry you."

"When I marry you, I want to have children with you, a boy and a girl. Then, I'll look forward to them being safe and healthy, and our elders being well too. And of course, I hope you can return home safely from the battlefield."

>I want too many things, it seems a bit greedy, I can't let go of any of them.

“But if I had to sum it all up in one sentence, I would say: may we all have a peaceful life and be reunited with our families!” she said.

After a while, he noticed that the hearth was still.

Did I, with my somewhat literary words, just baffle him?

She couldn't help but raise her head to look at him, and she saw him sitting there, his eyes blazingly fixed on .

“You…why are you looking at me like that?” she asked unconsciously.

Just like a starving wolf eyeing a piece of fat meat, it stared at her, making her heart race and short of breath.

Luo Fengtang grinned: "My Qing'er speaks so beautifully, she said everything I've been thinking about my whole life."

Yang Ruqing smiled with relief and said, "Although we don't have to worry about food and clothing now, and you are in a high position, our Lao Luo family is considered a new noble family in Daqi. We are the most low-key but also the most influential among the new noble families."

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But, I still hold myself to the same standards as you, reminding each other.

>Whether in the past or present, we must always remember our original aspirations!

Luo Fengtang nodded seriously: "Never forget your original intentions, and you will always succeed. Qing'er, don't worry, I am still the same me as before, your Tang Ya Zi!"

"If one day I hang up my armor and return to the village as a leisurely hunter, what do you think?" he teased.

Yang Ruoqing raised an eyebrow: "Then that's great, I won't even bother with the tavern then. I'll just travel and play with you, returning to simplicity!"

In the afternoon, Yang Ruqing took a break and went to her neighbor's yard to visit Xiaoduo. She also wanted to have a good talk with her.

Little Duo had just woken up from her afternoon nap and was sitting quietly on the bed embroidering. Although she wasn't idle, she kept a needlework basket beside her, using gauze to bandage a piece of floral pattern while concentrating intensely on her work.

“This isn’t very serious, is it? You're busy with embroidery work, aren't you?” Yang Ruqing asked with a smile, and then walked over to the bedside.

Seeing that it was Yang Ruqing, Xia Duo smiled, “Xiaojie will be getting married in a few days. I’m going to embroider a set of pillowcases for her dowry, and I still haven’t finished embroidering one pair of mandarin ducks. I have to work quickly.”

"Sister, you sit there. There's a stool over there." Xiaoduo pointed with her chin towards the table behind Yang Ruqing.

Yang Ruqing said, “Don’t worry, let me take a look at how your foot is healing first, and then I’ll change the dressing for you.”

Xiaoduo then put the sewing basket aside, lifted a corner of the quilt, making it convenient for Yang Ruqing to have a look.

After a busy while, Yang Ruqing remade the bed for Xia Duo.

“Not bad, just keep resting like this. In three or five days when the swelling goes down it’ll be fine.” Yang Ruqing said.

"However, I've got to avoid spicy and irritating foods these few days." She added.

Xia Duo nodded seriously: "I remember. Sister, there's clean water in the washbasin, wash your hands. You just grabbed my foot!"

Yang Ruqing smiled, turned around and washed her hands with fragrant soap, then brought a stool and sat beside the bed, adopting a posture of conversation with Xiaoduo. "Xiaoduo, let's not rush to embroider this mandarin duck pair for now. Sister has a few words she wants to tell you." Yang Ruqing raised her hand and held Xiaoduo's hand, saying softly.

Xiao Duo immediately stopped what she was doing, looked up in surprise at Yang Ruohua.

"Sister, what are you saying? You tell me, I'm listening." Xiaoduo said.

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Yang Ruqing said, "You are sixteen now, the best age to get married. Your parents have been busy with your marriage for the past two years."

“Xiaohua should have passed you by the wind. Our father is friendly with the ox seller from Xiangjiazhuang. Xiang Dabao’s nephew, Xiang Shengnan, is a young man our father has met twice and thinks well of. He wants to matchmake the two of you.”

Hearing this, Xiaoduo lowered her head a little sheepishly.

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"Xiaohua told me you don't want to go on a blind date with him and want to postpone tomorrow's dinner? Is that true?" she asked again.

Little Duo nodded, "Well, that's what I told Xiao Hua. My foot is sprained, people came to the house, and I couldn't help with anything. I felt a little awkward."

“Well,” Yang Ruqing nodded, “What you said is reasonable, but I don’t think that’s your true reason.”

"Let's be honest, you don't actually want to go on a blind date with Xiang Shengnan, do you?" she asked.

Xia Duo's eyes darted around a few times, "No, I naturally listened to my parents' arrangements. They are doing this for my own good. I just don't want it to happen so soon..."

Yang Ruqing said: “This isn't the first time you've gone on a blind date. Every time before, whenever I asked you to go on one, you readily agreed and went to take a look. After all, your own lifelong happiness is something you should care about…”

"Douer, just tell me straight up, why don't you want to go on a blind date with Xiang Shengnan? It's just a simple dinner. If you two hit it off, we can find another opportunity to meet again and get to know each other better."

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"If you don't get along, we can just pretend it's your father's friend coming to our house for a meal. Anyway, the villagers don't know about this, only our family knows, what are you afraid of?" Yang Ruqing asked.

Xiao Duo raised her head: "Sister, I'm not afraid..."

"What's it afraid of?" Yang Ruqing pressed.

Xiao Duo said, "When I heard Xiang Shengnan was a cattle killer, I wasn't very willing. I felt that he must have a bloody aura and too much killing intent."

Is that an excuse?

Yang Ruqing couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"What's wrong with killing cows? Look, your uncle and aunt still slaughter pigs, and Huang Mao still married into the Sun family. Look at the Sun family, is there anything wrong with them?"

"Slaughtering pigs and cows are different kinds of jobs, including selling incense at night. We should not look down on people because their jobs are different, don't you think?"

Furthermore, the fact that he was assigned to slaughter the ox doesn't seem like a bad thing. At least it shows that Xiang Shengnan's family is well-off in Xiangjiazhuang.

>Now that we are in an agricultural society without machinery, this ox is very valuable.

In a farmer's household, it was not common for each family to have a single cow. Only wealthy farmers could afford to own a cow independently.

Generally, four to five households would share one ox. Even so, some families couldn't afford to share an ox with others, so they could only rely on manual labor to cultivate the fields and prepare the land.

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