As Xingnong left the grocery store, she saw Xinghui and Gu Zesen walking towards her quickly.
Xinghui was surprised to see Xingnong carrying two large bags of grain and something in a backpack.
Where does my sister get so much money to buy so many things
Did you pick up some silver
Xinghui wanted to ask, but decided not to in the end and decided to ask when he got home.
Gu Zesen was also surprised that Xingnong bought so many things.
But he was tactful enough not to ask.
He reached out to take the bag from Xingnong's hand: "I'll carry it."
"No, it's quite heavy."
"It's because of Shen that Xinghui and I should be the ones to bring it up."
"Yes." Xinghui nodded and reached out to take the bag.
Seeing this, Xingnong let go.
Xinghui took the bag of rice easily, but the cloth bag in Gu Zesen's hand almost fell to the ground.
A blush appeared on his handsome face: "My hand slipped, let's go!"
After saying that, he took a few quick steps forward, looking very relaxed.
Miscalculated! Seeing how easily Sister Xingnong carried it, he thought it was very light, but he didn't expect it to be so heavy.
Xingnong and Xinghui looked at each other and followed.
Gu Zesen had not walked far when he felt like his hands were not his own!
Just when he was thinking about whether to say that he could not lift it, a hand took the cloth bag from his hand: "Brother Gu, your hands are used to hold a pen. If you do too much of these heavy work, your hands will be sore. You still have to go back to copy books, so let me do it!" Xinghui said considerately.
Gu Zesen's face turned even redder, but he really couldn't lift it anymore, so he said, "It's okay, I'll take a break and try again later."
Let’s find a ox cart to go back later!
I can't lose face in front of my brothers and sisters! Gu Zesen thought.
There was a steamed bun shop and a pork stall near the city gate. Xingnong went there to buy twenty meat buns for forty coins, and also bought three catties of pork at thirty-five coins per catty, and three catties of large bones at ten coins per catty, spending a total of 135 coins.
Xinghui couldn't help it this time: "Sister, where did you get so much money?"
Xing Nong had already thought of how to explain it: "I sold a recipe in a restaurant."
Xinghui was surprised: "What recipe? Where did you get the recipe, sister?"
"When I was washing dishes in the restaurant, the cook was too busy and asked me to help with the cooking, and then I figured it out."
Xinghui thought of Xingnong's ability to apply what he learned to other arithmetic problems, no, to apply what he learned to ten other arithmetic problems, and stopped talking.
Gu Zesen smiled and said, "Sister Xingnong is really smart."
Outside the city gate, there were three or five ox carts parked there, all waiting for people who wanted to leave the city, hitchhike and make some money.
Gu Zesen was just about to say that he would take a bullock cart back when he saw his father driving a bullock cart over from a distance, waving vigorously: "Zesen, Xingnong, Xinghui, over here!"
Gu Zesen breathed a sigh of relief. His hands were still weak, and he was embarrassed to let his younger brothers and sisters carry heavy things all the way, but he really couldn't lift them. "My father is here, let's wait for him."
Xing Nong looked over. A middle-aged man with regular features and a thin body waved to them.
Xingnong recognized that it was Gu Yangbin, the village chief of the neighboring Taohua Village, who was somewhat related to the Gu family.
Whenever the original owner met him when he went into the city, he would let the original owner take a ride with him.
Village Chief Gu should have come to the city to take Gu Zesen home.
The oxcart soon came up to them.
Everyone greeted each other.
Gu Zesen asked, "Dad, why are you here?"
"I saw you didn't come home for a while, so I went into the city to look for you. It turns out you were with Xingnong and Xinghui!"
Xinghui said embarrassedly: "It's me who delayed Brother Gu's time."
"It's okay, he has plenty of time. Let's talk in the car first!"
The three of them got on the ox cart. When Village Chief Gu saw that they had bought so many things, he said:
"Ze Sen, why don't you help Xing Hui and Xing Nong carry something?" What's the point of twisting an empty chicken coop
Xinghui said hurriedly: "No, Brother Zesen helped just now, we take turns, this way, it's not so tiring."
Village Chief Gu knew his son couldn't lift it when he heard it, so he said bluntly, "You are a scholar who is too weak to even lift a chicken! Do more farm work when you have time to exercise your strength, or you won't even be able to hold the child when you get married and have children. Don't listen to your mother, who keeps studying all day long."
Seeing that Gu Zesen loved reading since he was a child, the village chief's wife let him concentrate on his studies and never let him do any heavy work at home, which resulted in him being weaker than other children in the village.
Gu Zesen was embarrassed, and two blushes appeared on his fair face.
Can you give yourself some face
He subconsciously glanced at Xingnong.
The girl's eyebrows curved slightly and her eyes brightened a little, making her look particularly lively and eye-catching.
That feeling came back again. He felt that the girl opposite him had changed. She became calmer and more confident and lively than before. She made people unable to take their eyes off her.
It’s still the same face.
What caused her to change
Noticing his gaze, Xingnong looked at him.
Gu Zesen was so scared that he subconsciously looked away, his face flushed again, and he hurriedly said to his father:
"Let's talk to Dad and Mom!"
Anyway, he knew that his father only had two words in front of his mother: My wife is right! Whatever my wife says, that's it!
But why did I look away just now? Wouldn't it be enough to just smile
"..." Village Chief Gu glared at him, then smiled and said to Xingnong: "Xingnong, Xinghui, sit down, let's turn around and go home."
The ox cart moved slowly.
The two villages are close to each other, so nothing can be hidden.
Village Chief Gu then talked about Xing Nong's report to the authorities, "... .., you were careless! There is no sales document, no land deed, and no one in Meihua Village is a human being. What's the point of you reporting to the authorities? Who will testify for you? You were beaten with a stick for nothing, so you should just roll on the nail board, right?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Zesen looked at Xingnong in surprise.
He has been living in the academy, and he will only go back this afternoon and tomorrow when it is a day off, so he doesn't know about this yet.
"No, I didn't sue."
Upon hearing this, Village Chief Gu said, "It's right not to sue. You shouldn't have sued in the first place. You've been beaten for nothing! If the eldest branch of the Shen family dares to drive you away in the future, come find me! I'll bring people and weapons and ask them if they have any shame!"
Gu Zesen was sweating. His father looked quite gentle, but why did he behave like a villain
Xing Nong smiled and said, "Okay."
"Don't worry, don't be afraid of them. As long as you don't move, they won't dare to really drive you away. Shen Zhiyuan still has to take the imperial examination, and they can't lose their reputation! However,..." Village Chief Gu said what he really thought, "In fact, your house is not suitable for living. The villagers of Meihua Village are not human beings. They all want to drive you and your widow away. Please persuade my aunt to take you back to Taohua Village. That way, life will not be so bad."
I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
Upon hearing this, Gu Zesen said, "Dad, our old house is idle anyway, can't we give it to my aunt and her family to live in?"
The Gu family and Village Chief Gu's family are somewhat related, so Gu Zesen calls Gu's aunt, but that was several generations ago.
"That's what I want to say, Xingnong, go back and persuade my aunt. If you move to Taohua Village, you can live in my old house. Your grandfather helped us build that house."
"Okay." Xingnong thought moving to Taohua Village might be a good idea.
Taohua Village was originally a refugee village. Perhaps because of this, the villagers were very united. Whenever they saw the original owner, the villagers there would greet him with a smile, unlike the villagers in Meihua Village who would call him a bastard.
"My aunt is as stubborn as a rock. You and Xinghui should say this..."
Village Chief Gu taught the two of them a lot of things in a vivid way, asking Xingnong how to take advantage of Xinghui's future, the marriages of their siblings, and the feng shui of the house. He even brought up the deceased Shen Zhongshan as an excuse.
Xinghui was stunned when she heard this.
Gu Zesen was sweating profusely. It was over. His father's image as a chatterbox and a gentlemanly villain could no longer be hidden.
Gu Zesen hurriedly said, "Don't listen to my father. You can't talk about deceased elders. My aunt will be sad."
Village Chief Gu said, "You don't have to tell me about this, but you have to follow my instructions about the rest. In short, you have to tell me that if you continue to live in that house, your family might be ruined and you might meet with an unexpected disaster! Only then will your grandmother move."
Gu Zesen: “…”
Xinghui: “… .”
Xing Nong: “… .”