The group boarded the carriage, and Ye Xiaoqian sat opposite Yuan Doudou, looking sullen.

"Auntie Xiaoqian, what's wrong?"

Anji sat next to Yuan Doudou and noticed Ye Xiaoqian's sour face as soon as he got in the car.

"It's all your mother's fault. She dares to take things from just anyone. Isn't she afraid of being poisoned?" Ye Xiaoqian muttered, glancing at Yuan Doudou, and said irritably.

Yuan Doudou felt a chill run down her spine and didn't know how to comfort her.

"What does it mean by not saying anything? Do you think I'm meddling?" Ye Xiaoqian felt increasingly uneasy. How come Yuan Doudou seemed so nonchalant about everything?

She's a Bodhisattva, doesn't she have joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness?

Yuan Doudou couldn't help but chuckle. Ye Xiaoqian was a few years older than her, but her mind was a bit younger. People Ye Xiaoqian disliked would always dislike, and the same would be true for those she liked.

"You're still laughing, you're making me so angry." Ye Xiaoqian pretended to be angry and crossed her arms.

Yuan Doudou had no choice but to coax her like a child.

"I was wrong, don't be angry anymore, okay?"

Ye Xiaoqian, now in control, asked, "Where did we go wrong?"

"The mistake was accepting Haitang's gifts and speaking kindly to her," Yuan Doudou said sincerely.

Ye Xiaoqian's face changed from cloudy to partly cloudy, and then from partly cloudy to sunny.

"Good to know. Remember this in the future: never be soft-hearted towards those who have hurt you. Li Xueqing is a cautionary tale." Ye Xiaoqian said solemnly.

Yuan Doudou nodded obediently, knowing in her heart that Ye Xiaoqian was putting herself in her shoes.

The carriage stopped, and Yuan Doudou got off first, then turned around and carried Anji down.

Lu Xi helped carry some small, miscellaneous packages from the car and followed Ye Xiaoqian out of the car.

“An Rong hasn’t arrived yet, let me open the door first.” An Rong had two keys and gave her one.

As soon as Yuan Doudou opened the door, someone stood at the door looking around.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" Yuan Doudou asked softly.

The newcomer was a middle-aged woman with shiny black hair piled up at the back of her head, wrapped in a headscarf, wearing a clean blue cloth dress, and carrying a bamboo basket in her hand.

“I live next door. My name is Li Juan. I came over to take a look when I saw someone moving in.”

After a conversation, Yuan Doudou learned from Li Juan that the original owner of the house was a businessman who made his fortune in the cloth business and moved to Kyoto with his family.

Li Juan also said that the house has excellent feng shui, making it easy to make a fortune in business, and suggested that she definitely start a small business.

Li Juan herself can make clothes and runs a tailor shop.

She got along well with her former landlord, and when people bought fabric from the shop, the landlord would recommend that they have their clothes made at Li Juan's place.

After listening for a while, Yuan Doudou finally understood that Li Juan's purpose in coming was to get her to continue doing the fabric business.

It's estimated that the landlord closing the shop negatively impacted her business.

However, this was not their original intention. Whether it was a tavern or a teahouse, they would not consider the cloth business.

"Big sister, I understand what you mean. To be honest, we've already set up our business and can't easily change things." Yuan Doudou could only come up with an excuse; they were all neighbors, and she had to save face.

"What kind of business is that girl doing?" Li Juan was displeased, but she still forced a friendly expression on her face.

Yuan Doudou told the truth: "It's not a big business, I just want to open a small tavern, just enough to support my family."

Li Juan thought to herself, "A tavern is not bad either. People come and go, which can bring some popularity to my place."

"A tavern is good. There isn't a tavern on this street yet." Li Juan replied casually, but in her heart she thought Yuan Doudou was silly. Business is better when everyone works together. Opening a restaurant on a fabric street is really something else.

Li Juan was not optimistic about the tavern's business and guessed that it would go out of business soon.

Yuan Doudou could also hear the politeness in her words, but they had made a decision and would not change it easily.

Li Juan left with a smile, and Yuan Doudou pretended not to have seen her, busy packing her things.

A short while later, An Rong arrived pushing a flatbed cart.

"DouDou, you sit down, I'll take care of it." As soon as An Rong came in, she saw DouDou busy running around the room.

Yuan Doudou continued tidying up, hoping to get everything arranged before lunch.

"It's nothing much, I can handle it." She was only pregnant, but her limbs were still agile and it didn't affect her work.

An Rong knew she wouldn't listen to reason, so he silently went out to unload the things from the car.

Ye Xiaoqian had few belongings, so she quickly arranged the room and came over to help Yuan Doudou tidy up.

"You don't realize how much stuff you have until you move," Yuan Doudou said, looking at the scattered items on the floor.

This was Ye Xiaoqian's first time moving, and she was surprised to find that moving was so troublesome.

She only took a few clothes, a water bag, and a sword with her when she came down the mountain.

"It's normal for a family to accumulate more and more possessions over time." Ye Xiaoqian thought of herself, all alone, so naturally she didn't have any odds and ends.

Yuan Doudou neatly arranged Anji's clothes in the wardrobe according to the order of spring and autumn, summer and winter, and then continued to fold her own clothes.

"Where is Lu Xi?" Yuan Doudou suddenly realized that she hadn't seen him since she came in.

Ye Xiaoqian glanced outside and saw Lu Xi bustling around the flatbed cart.

"Lu Xi is really good, sensible and capable." Ye Xiaoqian thought highly of Lu Xi.

Yuan Doudou was happy because she had met almost all good people: Wang Qiqiang, Ye Xiaoqian, Lu Chaoyang, and Lu Xi.

"Why do you think Lu Xi is so determined to follow you?" Ye Xiaoqian couldn't understand.

Logically speaking, Yuan Doudou didn't do anything remarkable, nor did she help Lu Xi much.

Why would Lu Xi give up such good conditions in the Lu family and unconditionally follow Dou Dou?

Yuan Doudou had also thought about this problem, but couldn't figure it out.

"I don't know either." Lu Xi was willing to follow, and she happened to like Lu Xi too.

Naturally, they only allowed him to follow her because they saw her as a good child.

“Perhaps this is fate; you and Lu Xi are siblings.” Ye Xiaoqian even wondered if they might be biological brothers.

Yuan Doudou is an orphan, and Lu Xi was abducted, so it's not impossible that they were.

However, she didn't dare to voice this bold guess, lest she upset DouDou.

They don't even know where Lu Xi's home is, let alone Dou Dou's family.

An Rong came in and set out a table, stools, and some household items.

Soon, it was noon.

One room in the right wing is the kitchen, and the other is the woodshed.

Before anyone could say anything, Lu Xi went to the woodshed and started chopping with an axe.

At the age of twelve or thirteen, he was full of energy; he could split a log as thick as a bowl in one swing of his axe.

"Lu Xi is really capable." Yuan Doudou passed by the woodshed and saw Lu Xi chopping wood.

Lu Xi blushed, and her hand holding the axe trembled slightly.