Everything Qiuju had prepared for her wedding was ready. If Su Yi hadn't come and Anzhi hadn't been arrested, the two might have gotten married long ago.
"Great! Our family hasn't had a happy occasion in a long time."
Su's mother was very happy. As people get older, they enjoy lively and joyous occasions. They no longer felt regretful about their youngest son's marriage, and she was also very happy to hear that it was their youngest son's brother getting married.
Even though she was new to Nanchang County and unfamiliar with the place, she still insisted on personally making the purchases.
Liu Huan, who usually didn't like going out, could only go shopping with her and bought several sets of jewelry as part of her dowry at the gold shop.
"By the way, is the wedding room ready? They're already married, they can't still live with you."
Liu Huan said, "It was prepared a long time ago. I bought a small courtyard house right next to ours. I bought it a long time ago, but Qiu Ju didn't know."
"That's good. Then we'll go and tidy up tomorrow. We can't forget to put up the window decorations and red silk."
In ancient times, women, especially maids, had few opportunities to meet men outside the home. If they were engaged, they could go back to their families to get married when they reached a certain age.
If you don't want to go home, or if you meet a servant you like, you can ask your master to grant you marriage.
Some maids who came with their wives as part of their dowry were promoted to concubines by their masters, and some of them never married and served their masters until old age.
Qiu Rong and Qiu Ju treated Liu Huan and their child with genuine kindness, so how could she bear to let them stay with her for the rest of their lives without getting married or having their own home?
With the wedding day fast approaching, Ermo has started his holiday to focus on preparing his wedding room, and Qiuju has also put down her work to await her marriage.
The wedding room was a small courtyard house with three rooms, simply bought for the two of them to get married, since it was uncertain how long they would live there.
"The house you bought is great; it's perfect for the young couple."
After hanging up the red silk and cutting out paper-cut window decorations, the room was completely transformed in just two hours.
October is the golden autumn month, a season when everything is covered in gold.
Qiuju and Ermo got married.
Neither of them had parents; the witness at the wedding was Su's father, and the guests were people from the county government.
After a lively wedding, Liu Huan gave the couple ten days off to enjoy time together, and the two children didn't have to go to school during the autumn harvest holiday.
She then took her child and Su's mother on a picnic.
The chosen location was at the pier, where there were places to take boats, have fun, and eat, with views of mountains above and the sea below.
You can also take your children swimming.
Anran loved to run and jump around with her older siblings, while Anzhi quietly read a book on the side.
An Ran suddenly strode over, "Brother, hurry up, let's go take a boat."
She grabbed the book from Anzhi's hand, put it down, and pulled him outside.
It was a two-story pleasure boat, which Su Yi had specially arranged for; it felt quite large even for the whole family to sit on.
The pleasure boat has all kinds of delicious food and fun activities, as well as fishing rods made by Liu Huan.
Liu Huan arranged the children to sit in a row and gave each of them a fishing rod to fish.
"You guys fish hard, there's a reward for whoever catches the most!"
Upon hearing that there would be a reward, everyone became very enthusiastic and sat quietly waiting for the fish to bite.
Fang Yi found it amusing, "You have no idea how naughty they are at home, they're so noisy they give me a headache."
Fang Yisheng has three children, two boys and one girl, and together with Chen Yu, the four of them live a lively life at home.
Liu Huan said, "You know what, both of my kids are very mischievous, especially An Ran. I even suspect that their personalities were switched in the womb."
Su's mother busied herself getting water and food for the children, while Su's father and Da Shi fished nearby. The family was having a lively time.
Wow, I have a fish!
An Ran shouted loudly and lifted the rod, and a small fish fry was hooked.
Everyone looked over, and Anzhi naturally went up to her, took the small fish off, and replaced the bait with fresh bait. "Alright, cast your line."
Seeing this, Su's mother was extremely pleased; her grandson was so thoughtful and caring.
After fishing for a long time, the children finally couldn't sit still any longer and filled their tub with fish of all sizes.
Anran shouted at the top of her lungs, "Mommy, I don't want to go fishing anymore."
Liu Huan was so comfortable inside that she almost fell asleep. Hearing the noise, she said, "Then let's stop fishing and rest for a bit."
Fishing is simple for Anzhi: he just picks up a book, reads it, and waits for the fish to bite.
They played on the pleasure boat until the afternoon, when Su Yi came to pick them up in a small boat after his shift ended, and they returned to the courtyard by the dock.
An Ran showed Su Yi the fish she had caught, "Daddy, look, I caught all of these."
Although they were just small fish fry, Liu Huan patiently processed them and made fried small fish for them.
An Ran then took her older cousins out to play. Before they left, Su's mother wanted to go with them, but she wouldn't let her, saying, "We'll go by ourselves and be back in a little while."
They did indeed return shortly afterward, accompanied by a person covered in blood.
"Mother, this man is dying, please save him."
The people inside the house came out after hearing the noise and were shocked to see a middle-aged man in black clothes lying on the ground, soaking wet and covered in blood.
He looks like someone from the martial arts world.
"Where...where did you meet these people?"
Changbai stepped forward and surrounded the man to check him. "Master, he's still breathing."
Hearing that he was still breathing, Su Yi had someone carry him inside and said, "Go find a doctor."
The guards fetched water to wash away the blood along the way, and at the end of the road, they saw several martial arts figures searching for something.
As they searched, they came to the guards and asked, "May I ask if you have seen a person dressed in black, covered in wounds and with a sword at his waist?"
The guards shook their heads, indicating they had never seen it before. Several burly men looked at the water on the ground and asked, "How did you get so much water here?"
The guard, without changing his expression, said, "What? Do you even care about sprinkling water or sweeping?"
Those people looked inside, then left unwillingly.
Anran craned her neck to look inside, asking, "Mother, is that person dead?"
Liu Huan patted her head and said, "It's okay, your father is inside."
A moment later, Changbai entered with a doctor—the official physician of the government—who kept his mouth shut. “His injuries aren’t serious; they just got infected from being in the water for too long.”
After taking care of the person, they put them on the tatami mat inside to rest. The Su family ate outside; the fried small fish smelled delicious, and the children ate with great relish.
After finishing her meal and packing her things to go back, Anran asked before leaving, "Mother, what about that person?"
What could she do? Liu Huan didn't know either.
"What do you want to do?" she asked her daughter.
“Let’s take him home, he looks so pitiful.”
Liu Huan frowned. Why was An Ran so concerned about a middle-aged man she had never met before?
"Why not? You don't even know him."
Anran said, "Because he was very pitiful. He almost died when I found him in the water. Didn't Mother say that we should be kind people? Now I am."
Liu Huan was speechless. "Okay, you decide."
She approached Su Yi, "An Ran wants to take this person back, is that alright?"
Su Yi thought for a moment and said, "Take it to my place, I'll keep an eye on it."
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