Soon!
Through her spreading the word, the entire village came to know that Su Zhiruan had a childhood friend, someone they had never met, named Brother Erniu who had returned and was staying at her house. They had even exchanged tokens of love when they were kids.
Many young men in the village, who had secretly admired Su Zhiruan, felt like frosted eggplants upon hearing the news—deflated and disappointed.
After completing all this, Su Zhiruan leisurely returned to her home.
By this time, dusk was approaching, the sky gradually darkened, and the villagers who had been farming all began to pack up their tools to head home.
Su Zhiruan walked around her small courtyard and thought it quite nice—she could use it to grow some slightly expensive medicinal herbs. By planting them herself, she wouldn't need to venture up the back mountain to collect herbs laboriously anymore.
