Yu Dong gave a nod to Old Master He before walking past him, after the fierce battle that took place at the village that belonged to Hawk Eye, she was rather tired and hungry as she hadn't eaten anything since the morning. The only good thing was that the situation in the village was not as bad as she thought it was, it was enough to take a load off her chest.
Chen Mi and Fang Chi started to gather some dry firewood to start cooking while Ye Liu broke a few eggs to start making omelettes for dinner.
As for the rest of the mercenaries they only handed them rice and dry goods, they did not want to spoil these people who tried to kill them just a few hours ago. But at the same time as they were useful, they could not kill them either by starving them.
" Your wife might never come back, what are your plans now?" Yu Dong sat down on the floor on a soft pillow and then turned to look at Lu Huo who was playing with the children of the mers who left their kids behind as they were busy working in the main house's kitchen.
When Lu Huo heard that Lin Yiyi might not be coming back, he paused but the sadness he was waiting to creep inside his heart did not come, in fact, he felt relieved. He turned to look at Yu Dong and asked, " What about my in-laws?"
" I am afraid they were eaten by the wild animals in the mountains," Yu Dong replied honestly without holding back. She was not surprised upon seeing how brutally the Lin family was killed as they were the stupid ones to climb up the mountains in such a situation.
With the heat getting worse than before, it was not even a surprise that the animals residing in the deep areas of the forest were coming down. Only fools would think of heading inside the mountains at night and that too without any special protection.
Lu Huo stiffened upon hearing Yu Dong's response. Though he hated the Lin family he did not want to see them dead, he looked at Yu Dong and then said with a slight frown, " Are you sure that the ones who were killed were the Lin family?"
In fact, he thought that as long as Yu Dong worked hard to get this hairpin which she did, he would ask her to stop looking for it. Never did he think that she would be able to find it!
" You should thank Mi for this. He was able to draw the hairpin really well which helped me in narrowing down the gap," explained Yu Dong. She then paused and added, "Mistress Song helped me a little as well."
Finding the hairpin was indeed not an easy task but when Yu Dong announced that she was going to offer three hundred taels for this hairpin which was only a hundred taels or so, more than just a few people came with the information including the seller who swore that she had no idea where this hairpin went.
But of course, she had to suffer a loss as the buyer of this hairpin refused to sell it at three hundred taels after finding out its importance. The two of them quibbled for a long time before that old mer sold it for four hundred taels.
When Xiao Hua heard the entire matter, his eyes could not help but turn red as he pinched Yu Dong. He said, " Why did you have to waste so much money? As long as you have told me, I would have been happy with it as well."
Though he was happy at getting the only memento of his father, Xiao Hua felt guilty for troubling Yu Dong. He knew that his father bought this hairpin for less than a hundred taels, and for Yu Dong to buy it for four hundred, he could not help but feel a bit embarrassed.
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Can I receive two dragons, please?
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