[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-431":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543816,2006,"Chapter 431 - 431 441 The Letter Is Gone","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-431",431,"\u003Cp>431: Chapter 441: The Letter Is Gone 431: Chapter 441: The Letter Is Gone Having listened to the story, Gu Youyou could only come to this conclusion: This man is utterly insane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To throw people stricken with the epidemic into the army, weakening our own forces and then letting the enemy take advantage of it, he’s capable of such an act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t this treason?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zijin, he’s committing treasonous acts, and the Emperor doesn’t care?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not that he doesn’t care, but rather…” Jin Zijin suddenly let out a wry smile and said in a low voice, “Maybe he’s just a foolish ruler.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt it was normal for someone like her, a woman who had traveled through time, to call the Emperor a fool, but hearing such words from Jin Zijin, with his firmly entrenched feudal thinking, was rather shocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, he was indeed a foolish ruler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Knowing that the State Preceptor harbors malicious intentions, the Emperor just lets him have his way?” Gu Youyou asked with a worried expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such an Emperor and such a State Preceptor, Zhuzhao Country might well end up in ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin was taken aback, then rubbed her head and chuckled, “You are smart but still don’t understand the relationship between the State Preceptor and the Imperial Court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There could be a thousand and one bizarre reasons to take a signboard…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no matter how absurd those reasons are, as long as they’re not too excessive, the Emperor will grant them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou chuckled dryly; she obviously didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This odd Taoist, this peculiar Imperial Court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, he’s lost this move but seems to have posed us a new problem in the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By making me the target of everyone in the medical profession in Lingnan City, does he intend to force us to leave Lingnan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Smart,” he said, smiling, “That makes you want to give up running Jisheng Hall, doesn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah…?” Gu Youyou looked at him in surprise, then snorted, “How can that be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmph, I think he miscalculated again, vastly underestimating Grandmother’s strengths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if all those good-for-nothing fighters in Lingnan banded together, they wouldn’t pose any threat to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Competition among hospitals was common, pushing into the market, sidelining other rival hospitals, or being sidelined by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was all too familiar with this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was her forte.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re that confident?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m gifted, Divine Doctor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gift Qin Changlin sent to Gu Youyou was a box of exquisitely packaged lotus seeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the season, these were indeed the first batch of lotus seeds to be harvested from Lotus Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lotus seeds were plump, large, and beautiful, presented in a delicate little bamboo basket and sealed with a handkerchief, which had a lotus embroidered on it, hence the fancy gift box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t help but smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Changlin was thoughtful, often sending her some local specialties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wondered if she should send some specialties from Lingnan to Qin Changlin in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to Grandfather as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, last time she gathered quite a few snow lotuses, she could make them into medicinal pills and send some over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou put the basket aside but felt something was amiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Banxia had brought it to her she had opened it and seen an envelope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, when she went out to collect the golden signboard, she had forgotten all about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was the letter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Banxia, have you seen the letter in my parcel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Banxia, wearing an apron, poked half her body out from the backyard and said, “What letter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, the parcel from Qingshui Town?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t know, I never opened it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou believed Banxia when she said she hadn’t opened it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she have seen it wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That seemed impossible; she wasn’t someone with failing sight but was actually quite perceptive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked up towards the upstairs floor, holding the lotus seeds and clambering up the stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zijin, have you seen the letter that Qin Changlin sent me?”\u003C\u002Fp>",664,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","0d257495d4ffd7f2f7be15a483a2a75f3a4384cf401f475f2435f9786d5ed422","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-432","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-430",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]