And in the house, Tuoba Ling stood by the window, hands behind his back.

A calm countenance, his eyes peered through the dilapidated and grimy windows of the Ge family home, gazing out.

Behind him, a guard walked over and whispered, "Sir, although we don't lack those few coins, isn't it strange that we keep buying land and peanuts?"

After the message was released, my subordinates went around the village and heard nothing but rumors about me from the villagers.

“Some people even say, sir, that your brain...”

The guardsman didn't dare to say anything more.

Tuoba Ling slightly tilted his head and glanced at the guard.

"Why don't you continue? Go on." he said.

“I dare not speak,” the guard said.

"Are you saying I got hit in the head by a door, or that water went into my brain?"

The guards shook their heads. "None of them."

"What is it?" Tuoba Ling asked, "Just say it, don't beat around the bush, it's annoying to watch."

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The guard said, "They say your head was kicked by a donkey..."

Tuobali's head was full of black lines.

But he shook his head and smiled at that.

How can a sparrow know the ambitions of a swan? Let these villagers guess as they please.

What he needed was not the peanuts themselves, but the soil that clung to these peanut roots.

These soils conceal secrets, and he needs those secrets.

Even if he were to be paid one tael of silver per jin of soil, he would still take it.

"Ling Boss?" The door opened, and Ge Dading poked his head in.

The guard was a little unhappy, just about to reprimand this Ge Dàdàn for being so impolite. He didn't even know to knock and ask permission before entering?

Tuo Ba Ling raised his hand, gesturing for the guards to stand down.

He turned around and glanced at Ge Da Dan, "What's wrong, Big Brother Ge?"

Ge Da Dan smiled and said: "Ling Boss, everything is ready, just waiting for you."

Tuoba Ling gave a faint smile and nodded. "I'm all set here, let's go. When we do business with the villagers later, I'll have to trouble Big Brother Ge with it."

Ge Dandan laughed and waved his hand: "No trouble, no trouble, you don't let me work for nothing, one hundred wen a day, I feel good doing it!"

As he spoke, Ge Da Dan rubbed his hands together.

This action, who doesn't understand?

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Tuo Ba Ling glanced at the guard beside him. The guard then took out one hundred wen and walked over to stuff it directly into Ge Da Dan's hands.

Tuoba Ling's voice sounded again: "Brother Ge, you help me with this well, I won't treat you badly."

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Ge Dading held a hundred copper coins in his hand, so heavy it felt like a treasure. He was so happy that his mouth almost stretched into a bloom of flowers.

Ever since last year when I got my hands on some silver to buy Yu Jinguì, that old hag, for half a year now, this is the most money I've had in hand.

A hundred articles a day, if Boss Ling stayed here for ten or half a month, that would be a lot of silver.

Besides Boss Ling's reward, whoa, we might be able to get two or three taels of silver.

With these two or three taels of silver, they could go out and buy a obedient wife who wouldn't run away to give birth to sons for the three brothers. Gaga gaga.

“He's here, he's here! Get the soil... oh, no, that's wrong. It's the big boss who buys peanuts!”

When she heard the villagers in the flower field next door calling out, Yang Ruqing raised her head.

This is a test.

Indeed, I saw four or five men coming from that direction. The village was situated relatively lower than this cultivated land.

Therefore, Yang Ruqing was now practically looking down at the four or five men from a superior position. She ignored Ge Daodan, the leader, and immediately spotted Tuo Ba Ling.

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Dressed in ordinary clothes, he was dressed as a merchant.

Among several men, he stood out as the tallest and most erect.

He claimed to be a merchant, yet he lacked any trace of the common scent of commerce. Instead, there emanated from him a chill and imposing aura.

This momentum suddenly reminded Yang Ruqing of the person at home.

However, even though both of them have the title "War God," Yang Ruohong still felt that her family's was more imposing and charismatic.

Just as she was secretly making comparisons, she suddenly felt a gaze, as if it were tangible, fall upon her.

Following that gaze, Yang Ruohua's eyes met those of Tuoba Ling.

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Eye to eye, Yang Ruqing, having psychological preparation, appeared very calm and composed.

With just a glance, she nonchalantly looked away and then returned to her work.

And Tuo Ba Ling, a flicker of surprise crossed his steady eyes.

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"This little brother, why do I have a sense of déjà vu?"

Tuobaling asked himself in his heart.

But no matter how hard I racked my brains, I couldn't remember where I had seen him before.

At this moment, Ge Da Dan had already been surrounded by several villagers, including Big Mo and Little Mo.

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Everyone was eager to ask Ge Dandan and confirm whether the peanut with soil, priced at one yuan per jin (500 grams), was really going to be collected.

When they received a definite answer from Ge Dandan, everyone cheered.

Then one by one, they all brought the peanuts they had dug up earlier to Ge Dandan for weighing...

Yang Ruqing noticed that almost all the people in this crowd were young masters, with hardly any women to be seen.

She didn't have time to ponder this right now; her mission was under the supervision of Tuo Ba Ling.

Hey? Where's Tuo Ba Ling?

Just a moment ago, you were standing right there, and now you're gone? Where did you go?

Yang Ruqing stood up abruptly. As she turned, a magnified face suddenly appeared before her.

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"Goodness gracious! This is frightening!"

She patted her chest, hurriedly stepped back two steps, and looked unhappily at Tuoba Ling who had suddenly appeared behind her.

Tuoba Ling was a little embarrassed and raised his hand to touch his nose.

"Sorry, did I startle you?" he said.

"I don't know, as a man, you are actually this timid…" He said again.

"Yang Ruqing certainly didn't like to hear that, and she gave Tuoba Ling a withering look.

"As I said before, people are afraid of things that scare them. This has nothing to do with gender."

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"If you don't believe me, let me scare the pants off of you! You might even wet yourself!" she said.

To this sarcastic and slightly mocking call, Tuoba Ling surprisingly did not get angry.

He glanced around and said, "Young brother, are you also from this village?"

Yang Ruqing said, "Yes or no? What about you? Where are you from? Where are you going?"

“To engage in such a losing trade, are you stimulated by something and deliberately scattering your wealth in this way, just to make people remember you?”

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Facing Yang Ruoqing's barrage of questions, Tuoba Ling only paused for a moment, his expression returning to normal.

"You're quite curious, little brother!" he said.

Yang Ruqing said, "I don't have wine, but I brought tea to replace it. You have a story, Mr. Ling, right? Dare you find a quiet spot on the dike and have a few cups of tea with me, and tell me your story?" Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

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