"This child's surname is Lian?" Ye Baien said.

"Grandpa Ye, you are so awesome. How did you know that brother Lian Jin's last name is Lian?" Doudou looked at Ye Baien with admiration.

Lian Jin also looked at Ye Baien with a puzzled look.

Ye Baien coughed lightly and said, "I know his family in the capital."

Lian Jin's face lit up with joy. "Is what you said true? Do you really know my family? I was thinking of going to the capital to visit my family, but I haven't raised enough money for the trip yet."

Xie Yunjiao would give him a monthly stipend every month, but this amount was not enough for the travel expenses.

"How do you make money when you are so young?" Ye Baien asked.

Lian Jin told Ye Baien the whole story of Xie Yunjiao taking him in.

Ye Baien nodded in appreciation at Xie Yunjiao. This girl really had a way, otherwise he wouldn't have met Lian Jin here.

If he hadn't met Lian Jin, he would still be worried about how to bring Gu Huai back to the capital.

Now there is a good idea, but the time is not yet ripe and it is not time to go back.

Ye Baien told Lian Jin that his grandfather had angered his father so much that he ran away from home and had never been heard from again. Now he wanted to find his son who had been missing for many years but couldn't find him.

Lian Jin said "oh", seeming to understand the matter clearly.

"My father asked me to go back and tell my grandfather that he was right," said Lian Jin.

Ye Baien didn't expect that both the father and son of the Lian family were so stubborn. One was waiting for his son to go back and apologize, while the other insisted that he was not wrong.

"Since you are not in a hurry, why not learn some more skills before going back, so that your grandfather will know that your father really did not make the wrong decision." Ye Baien said.

Lian Jin felt that Ye Baien's words made sense, and he quickly agreed, and showed even more respect for Ye Baien.

Gu Huai brought over a bowl of water and wanted Ye Baien to drink it.

Ye Baien said thank you but clenched his fist and attacked Gu Huai.

Gu Huai immediately defended himself, but Ye Baien said that the water could not be spilled.

Gu Huai knew that Ye Baien was testing him to see if he had been practicing hard recently, so he worked even harder.

Even though he tried his best, he still lost to Ye Baien, and the water soaked him all over.

Gu Huai looked at the bowl without a drop of water left in astonishment, his heart filled with disbelief.

He thought he had been practicing martial arts hard during this period and thought he was already very powerful, but he ended up losing so completely to Ye Baien.

Seeing Gu Huai so depressed, Ye Baien walked over to him and patted his shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, you are practicing while I am practicing, we are making progress every day. It's good enough that you can keep the bowl from breaking."

Gu Huai responded, but he was still a little depressed. After all, he was hit hard.

"Master, when did you come back? Why didn't you tell us in advance so that we could pick you up?" Xie Yunjiao said.

Ye Baien took a deep breath and said, "What is this? It smells so good. Could it be that he knew that Master was coming back and specially prepared something delicious for me?"

Ye Baien looked at Xie Yunjiao with a smile.

Xie Yunjiao didn't want to discourage him. These pieces of meat were braised dishes she brought back from Zhou Jinhai. She had spent a lot of time teaching Zhou Jinhai and his wife how to make braised dishes. Zhou Jinhai was afraid that they would not have enough time to cook when they came back, so he wanted to keep them for dinner. However, there was not enough rice at home, so he stuffed a large piece of braised meat into Xie Yunjiao's mouth to take back and eat.

Xie Yunjiao cooked rice quickly and fried some bean sprouts. Everyone ate very well with the fragrant braised meat.

After resting for a while after dinner, several men in the family pestered Ye Baien to practice martial arts.

Xie Yunjiao was bored so she started practicing too.

But now that Ye Baien is back, the house is obviously not big enough, so there is no choice but to let Ye Baien and the two children sleep together.

When he woke up the next day, Ye Baien felt sore in his back and waist and complained of discomfort.

"Gu Huai's wife, good news."

As soon as the sky brightened, the village head came to find Xie Yunjiao with a happy face.

He said that Xie Yunjiao's application for residential land had been approved, and she could build a house on the land she selected starting today.

Xie Yunjiao almost forgot about this, but it did solve the urgent problem.

After thanking the head of the village, she hurried to find the village craftsman. Coincidentally, the craftsman happened to have some free time at that time, so he agreed to help Xie Yunjiao build a house.

When Xie Yunjiao showed the blueprint to the craftsman, he was shocked and immediately said that work could only start later.

Xie Yunjiao asked him if there was anything difficult to do. The craftsman said that there was nothing, but it would be difficult for him and his sons to build the three courtyards alone. They had to find more people to work together, otherwise the construction would take a long time.

After consulting Xie Yunjiao, I learned that she didn't care about the price, as long as she could move in as soon as possible.

So the craftsmen in the village immediately went to their colleagues for help.

Xie Yunjiao asked the village Feng Shui master to tell her fortune. Combining the birth dates of everyone in the family, she found the most suitable day to start construction and started building the house.

In order to make her work less hard, Gu Huai told her not to run back and forth between the town and the village. She only needed to look after the shop in the town, and he would take care of the house building.

On this day, Xie Yunjiao was supposed to teach Yue Manlou a new dish. As soon as she arrived at the door of Yue Manlou, she saw a man with a pair of peach blossom eyes walking towards her.

She moved aside, but the man deliberately walked in the same direction as her.

Just as they were about to collide, Xie Yunjiao suddenly stopped and quickly took a few steps back.

She looked at the man unhappily: "What do you want? Can you still walk properly?"

Didn't he see that she had tried her best to give in to him, yet he was still making trouble here?

She pulled the knife from her waist and twirled it in her hand.

At this moment, several men suddenly appeared near the man and attacked Xie Yunjiao.

Xie Yunjiao was startled and shouted, "I have no grudge against you, why are you doing this?"

"Step back! Look how scared you are of the young lady!" The man looked at Xie Yunjiao frivolously with a smile in his peach blossom eyes.

Those people made way for them, and Xie Yunjiao walked past without even saying thank you.

The man looked at Xie Yunjiao's slender back with interest, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but raise: "This woman is quite interesting."

Gu Lan had been hiding in the dark and watching the man for some time. When she saw Xie Yunjiao shamelessly squeeze forward to have a conflict with the man and yell at him, she couldn't help but hate Xie Yunjiao in her heart.

She is a married woman, why are you trying to snatch her man from her?

"That woman Xie Yunjiao is just like that. She has no manners at all, is barbaric and unreasonable, and has offended everyone in our village.

Even her parents-in-law couldn't get a good look from her, let alone you, young master." Gu Lan walked over weakly, holding a handkerchief in her hand, half covering her face.