This kind of pretentious answer is really annoying. Doesn't he know?

Gu An'an left somewhat angrily.

Twenty-Three looked a little confused. Why was this woman suddenly getting angry at him for no reason?

He was telling the truth. There were already undercurrents in Anzhou Prefecture. The Jiang family mother and daughter had obviously gone at the wrong time. They might have been swept away by the undercurrents and died without a burial place.

Wasn't she at odds with that sister-in-law?

I was just saying what she wanted to hear, so why is she angry?

Women, I just don't understand them.

This was just a minor incident and didn't affect Twenty-Three much. "Let's go?"

Lin Yan nodded, "I'll go find my wife and pack some things."

Twenty-Three was slightly surprised. "You're taking her with you?"

"Husbands and wives are like birds in the same forest. She is my wife, so naturally she will advance and retreat with me."

But why didn't you mention the sentence that follows?

When disaster strikes, everyone flees for their lives.

He never expected that Lin Yan, who had lived in seclusion in the countryside for so many years, would choose to bring a country woman back to the capital at this time.

Did he not know that the capital city, though seemingly prosperous, was rife with hidden dangers?

Bringing people back will only bring you endless trouble.

Lin Yan didn't care about Twenty-Three's thoughts at all. He went to Gu An'an's house and found Jiang Cuicui. He smiled and said to her, "Say goodbye to your third aunt. We're leaving now."

Jiang Cuicui felt her head spinning. "Do we really have to leave?"

Lin Yan was very patient, just like when he taught her to read before. "Don't you want to leave with me?"

The girl quickly denied it, "No!"

She just never expected to leave this small mountain village.

"Then I'll go say goodbye to my third aunt. Can I tell my mother too?"

She hated her parents, but she was reluctant to leave suddenly, wondering when she would see them again.

Lin Yan looked somewhat troubled. "We're leaving soon, and I'm afraid we don't have much time left."

Not saying goodbye to the Jiang family is for their own good, to avoid future trouble.

As for Gu An'an, ever since she saved his life, she had already boarded the Lin family's pirate ship.

It was my fault that she was hurt.

Jiang Cuicui was surprised by the rush. She hurriedly went to find Gu An'an, only to find her in the kitchen washing rice and preparing to cook porridge, calmly as if nothing had happened.

"Thank you."

When she was abandoned by the Jiang family and deserted by everyone, only Gu An'an still gave her some warmth.

All my words can be summed up in one sentence: Thank you.

Gu An'an laughed, "As long as you don't regret the path you've chosen."

Whether she has reached a dead end or found a new and prosperous path, that depends on Jiang Cuicui's fate.

The girl wiped away her tears, turned and left as if she had never been there.

The mountain village quickly returned to its usual tranquility during the first month of the lunar calendar.

When Jiang Mingzhu arrived, she saw Gu An'an standing there in a daze.

"Mother, is she in danger?"

A lot of rice grains have fallen to the ground, which is clearly not right.

Gu An'an snapped out of her daze, "There are always risks in making choices. Maybe she'll be lucky and live a better life than us? Zhu'er, are you jealous of her?"

No way.

"Even if she went to the capital, adorned with jewels and dressed in fine silks and satins?"

“You said it was her choice. I’m already very grateful that I can stay with my brother and baby, and that we’re well-fed and clothed.”

Jiang Cuicui might even envy her, envying that she has a stepmother who is better than her biological mother.

Be content.

Contentment brings happiness.

Gu An'an laughed, "That's good too. It's good enough for our family to live a harmonious and happy life together."

...

Jiang Cuicui and Lin Yan's departure went unnoticed at first. The next day, villagers went to Lin Yan's house looking for them, wanting him to help them repair a hoe, only to find that no one was home.

After several days of no one coming, the villagers realized something was wrong.

Jiang Ersao was shocked to find her daughter had disappeared right under her nose.

No matter how angry she was that Cui Cui was disobedient, she was still her daughter whom she had carried for ten months and given birth to. Now that she had disappeared without a trace, what was going on?

Having learned that Cui Cui had gone to Gu An'an's house, Jiang Ersao didn't care about anything else and immediately rushed to Gu An'an's house.

But to their surprise, the gate to the courtyard was also locked from the outside.

"Gu An'an, come out here! I know you're home!"

The loud banging on the door finally made Aunt Li come out of her house. "What are you yelling for? Can't you see there's no carriage outside? Xiao Gu took the child to the county town. I don't know when they'll be back."

I went to the county town.

It must have been Gu An'an who abducted her Cui Cui to the county town and sold her to someone as a maid.

Back then, she offended Gu An'an by trying to sell Jiang Mingzhu, and that woman was very vengeful!

Aunt Li wanted to beat up the person who was muttering to himself. "Do you think everyone is like you, thinking about selling other people's daughters? It was the blacksmith Lin's family who came looking for their relatives and took the young couple away."

"Lin San?" Jiang Ersao was even more confused. "I'm his mother-in-law, why hasn't he come to see me?"

Aunt Li glanced at her disdainfully, "Didn't you kick Cuicui out of the house? What's with the airs of a mother-in-law?" With that, she closed the door, bolted it, and ignored the woman.

Jiang Ersao was furious; nothing had been going right for her lately.

It's like it's been possessed by an evil spirit.

Jiang Ersao stubbornly sat at the door of Gu An'an's house and waited, but no one showed any sign of returning even as darkness fell.

Since there was no one to cook at home, Jiang Lao Er went out to look for someone.

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