The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

Chapter 893: 893 had been planning this for a while too.

If she became pregnant, it would be possible for her to find a way to have the fields transferred to her name. For now, she would wait until this crisis passed.

If he took her advice, she would stay with him. If he really had nothing at all, she would leave.

Xiao Yishan’s expression relaxed when he heard her say this, “You’re right, I need to save these fields for Yue’er first.”

“Brother Xiao has finally seen the light,” Li Rong’er sighed in relief.

The fields that were originally in Xiao Yishan’s name were untouchable to others as long as he was unwilling to transfer ownership.

Xiao Yishan stared at her beautiful face with cold eyes, “Rong’er, you’re so insistent that I don’t give up the fields because you don’t want to live a hard life with me, right?”

Li Rong’er had anticipated he would say this and knelt by the bed, tears streaming down her face, “Brother Xiao, only when I’m misunderstood by you do I realize how much my heart hurts. I have given you my pure and clean self, and even if I can’t marry anyone else in my lifetime, Rong’er doesn’t want to be misunderstood by you. I am your woman and naturally think of nothing but what is best for you. If you don’t trust me, then I… I’ll just leave.”

Kneeling before him, she bowed her head, “Your servant will leave now, take care, second young Master!”

With that, she stood up, ready to leave.

Xiao Yishan panicked and grabbed her hand, “Rong’er, don’t leave!”

With her back to him, the corners of her mouth curled up; she knew he would ask her to stay. With her understanding of him, even if he didn’t ask her to stay, given what had already happened between them and how satisfied he was with her performance on the bed, as long as he didn’t lose the fields, it would be all too easy for her to manipulate her way back into his life.

For instance, if she became pregnant, coming back would be the most natural thing.

Even if she wasn’t pregnant, she could take a page from that wench Liu Haitang’s book, produce a child, and claim it was his.

But his heart was softer than she expected; he wouldn’t even let her pretend to leave.

She wiped away the smile from the corner of her mouth and turned back to him with tears streaking her face, “Brother Xiao, I won’t leave. If you don’t trust me, what meaning is there for me to stay in this home?”

He embraced her sorrowfully, his deep male voice filled with pity, “Rong’er, I trust you!”

She looked up at him with her teary face, “Second young Master, do you really trust me?”

“Fool.” He felt very fond of her and liked her very much, “You’ve said it yourself, you are a woman of Xiao Yishan. If I don’t trust you, whom can I trust?”

…

After eating breakfast, Su Qingyue carried a basket of herbs out from the pharmacy and laid them out on the medicine rack in the front yard to dry.

Having spent several months gathering the herbs from the mountain, she didn’t need just any kind of herbs.

The most valuable thing in this house wasn’t the fields or the taels of silver in her hands, but the herbs she possessed.

She had already made herself well-acquainted with the current prices of medicines beforehand.

After a few months, the herbs she had gathered could easily fetch several thousand taels.

Yet, she was in no rush to sell.

Last time she was about to leave, if her third brother hadn’t stubbornly stopped her, she would have planned to load the herbs onto a horse-drawn cart and take them all with her.

Although Xiao Qinghe had learned many drug names and medicinal effects under her tutelage and was already capable of checking the pulse to a certain extent, he was unaware of the medicine prices. Thus, he didn’t know that the herbs at home were the most valuable.

Su Qingyue thought of her vendor third brother, who was so clever that he could even concoct poison; he surely knew.

Yet third brother had never inquired about her herbs and their prices.

Xiao Yishan and Li Rong’er came out of the room together.