Yang Ruxin couldn’t help but laugh and cry, "Your Tianze can’t follow us for now. In a few days, your eldest sister will come to pick him up, okay?"
Only then did the children show their satisfied smiles.
Following that, the family sat together to drink tea, waiting for news from outside.
As the sun began to set, Liuyun finally came running in, "Lady Xinxin, our young master has woken up. He’s asking for you." His face, too, wore a smile.
Yang Ruxin nodded, asked the others to wait, and followed Liuyun to Xiyue Residence.
"Sister Xin..." Fang Tianze looked at Yang Ruxin as she entered and, feeling aggrieved, pouted with his eyes turning red.
"It’s alright." Yang Ruxin went over to touch his hands and feet, finding a slight sweat on his palms and soles, which completely eased her mind, "When you have recovered, you will return to the village. Then, I will prepare a medicine bath for you, and I will train you all to be immune to all poisons..."
Fang Tianze laughed at that.
"Since you’re alright, it’s getting late. I should also head back," Yang Ruxin patted Fang Tianze’s hand.
"Sister Xin..." Fang Tianze grabbed Yang Ruxin’s hand, not letting go. He didn’t want her to leave.
"I’ll come to see you again tomorrow," Yang Ruxin said with a smile.
Fang Tianze also felt his family situation was too complicated and didn’t insist further, but he made her promise to definitely come the next day.
After Yang Ruxin reassured him several times, she left Xiyue Residence. The butler had been waiting outside, knowing Yang Ruxin was leaving. The Fang Family heads were busy, so they had instructed the butler to see her off personally and had also prepared quite a few gifts for her.
Only after stepping out of the Fang Family’s grand gates did Yang Ruxin take a deep breath, feeling that the countryside was more fitting for her; such a grand household would suffocate her to death.
The Fang Family had intended to send a horse carriage for her, but Yang Ruxin said the distance wasn’t far and it would be better to walk, so she declined the offer.
"Sister Xin, you’ve finally come out," Qian Er ran over from the opposite side, "Everyone, quickly get on the cart."
"At this time, do you have some leads?" Yang Ruxin slightly raised an eyebrow and didn’t hesitate to ask in front of her family.
"In the past two days, we’ve seen seven or eight places, but we’ve tentatively settled on four," Qian Er said proudly, "One is a two-story shop with a large backyard, excellently located just on the next street. However, it’s quite large and the asking price is also quite high, at one thousand two hundred taels. There’s also a smaller shop with a little yard, a bit farther away, but it’s near two academies, priced at two hundred and twenty taels. Another, a bit farther away, is a three-section residential compound, once a resting place for a traveling merchant, very elegant, priced at five hundred taels. The last one is a small manor southwest of the county town, with more than twenty households and over a hundred mu of land. Although the land is not the best quality, there is a lake and several hundred peach trees within the manor, as well as some plum trees—the scenery is beautiful... When we came into the city, we could see it from afar..." Although Sister Xin hadn’t mentioned wanting to buy a manor, he had inquired and visited it, thinking she might like that place.
Yang Ruxin nodded, "You’ve really been running around quite a bit."
"Got help from some old friends," Qian Er scratched his head.
"Also, the price of ginseng is really hard to say; it’s something that has a price but no market. Honestly, anyone who has it wouldn’t easily let it go," Qian Er said with some difficulty, "So..." He hadn’t found out the price.