On the way back, they did not delay for a moment except for resting and feeding the horses, and finally arrived at Yanjia Village, Zuoyuan County in the afternoon of the 24th.
It had been exactly one month since they left Pengdong.
Tian saw Yan Qi crying so hard that she couldn't stop. Chunxiao was extremely tired at this time. She didn't bother to talk to her family and asked Shuwen to help drive the carriage to the end of the village. She said goodbye to Yan Bingfa and Zhou, went home, took a bath, and fell into bed and fell asleep.
I slept very soundly and when I woke up it was already the afternoon of the next day. I could hear the voices of Yan Bingfa and Zhou outside the house.
She got up, stretched, walked out and called "Dad" and "Mom".
"Did you sleep well? Look how tired you are." Zhou touched her face distressedly, "Wait, I'll go heat up some food for you."
Chunxiao was really hungry, "Dad, why are you here?"
"Hey kid, after you left, your mother and I came here to stay and look after your house. We must have not rested when we came back, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed so many extra things in the house."
"Is my sister-in-law okay?" Tian had fallen ill before.
"Okay, she was originally worried about Xiaoqi falling down. Now that she sees Xiaoqi back, she's naturally better. She wanted to look for you, but you were asleep the whole time. Oh, by the way, what are all those piles of things on the table in the main hall? And do you want to move the cloth in the carriage down?"
Chunxiao looked at the two carriage frames unloaded in the yard, "Forget it, I'll deal with it when I have time, just leave it there for now." Chunxiao returned to the main room, "Dad, Mom, come here." She began to rummage through the cloth bundles inside, "I bought new clothes for you all, nice-looking ones, come, take a look and see if they fit you." Chunxiao took out all the clothes.
"How much did you buy? So much!" Zhou came over with the food, but there was no place to put it on the table, so she had to put the food on the table in Chunxiao's bedroom, "Eat first."
"Everyone in the family has one, even Changxing, so of course there are many. I haven't even met little Changxing yet. Is he going to leave?"
"He could walk two months earlier, and not only could he walk, he could talk too." Zhou laughed as she spoke of the child. "Eat first. I'll invite everyone back for you so you can meet them properly. Even if you don't see them now, they're still waiting to see you." Zhou flipped through the items on the table. "You bought so much? This box is beautiful."
"That's rouge and powder for Shufeng, something the little girl likes."
Zhou swung the drum again and said, "You bought a lot of fun things for Changxing."
"I bought everything I saw interesting on my way back." Chunxiao was eating while holding the bowl. "Mom, nothing happened at home while I was away, right?"
"Apart from the incident with Xiaoqi, there's nothing else. It was this incident that nearly scared the hell out of our family. I'm still not at peace even after returning home. The village head said yesterday that from now on, each of the several families with children going to school will have one person take turns picking them up and dropping them off."
Chunxiao ate spareribs and asked, "Did our aunt and the others come during the Qingming Festival?"
"He came." Zhou glanced at Yan Bingfa. "He came and made a scene, but I chased him away."
Chunxiao looked at Zhou with burning eyes, "Why are you making such a fuss? Are you here to return the money?"
"Bah, if it's about paying back the money, would I need to scold her? I'm telling you, your aunt is just a paper tiger, she can't control her family at all. Your cousin's wife somehow found out about the cotton planting and instigated your cousin, aunt, and uncle to come to us and ask for an explanation, saying we're helping outsiders instead of our own people. She threw a tantrum at us, and I doused her with a bucket of water. She thought I was soft-tempered, so of course I had to teach her a lesson."
Her mother was indeed majestic, and he looked at his father again.
"Look at what your father does. He's extremely disappointed with your aunt's family. If I don't throw the water, I'm afraid he will do it."
"Is this true?" Chun Xiao laughed. She thought the situation must have been very ugly, otherwise her father wouldn't have ended up like this. It was a pity that she was not there.
"Why bring up these things? It's better not to mention them. Mingyuan was a good person, but he was led astray by his wife. An unvirtuous wife means a restless family. Erni, Erni is too indulgent." Yan Bing's expression revealed his disappointment.
"Well, let's not talk about it. Our father won't want to hear it."
"Your cousin Yuqing has also been here and brought us a lot of food. She bought a few acres of land. Since she couldn't grow cotton this year, she planted grain instead. She's finally come to her senses. Life will get better every year."
Chunxiao listened to the old couple's chat with great interest. When it was almost time for dinner, Shuwen and Dahe each drove an ox cart to bring their family members over.
It was the first time Chunxiao saw little Changxing walking. She was so surprised that she rushed forward to hug him. "Second brother, you are so interesting. Your home is only a short distance from here, yet you drove a bullock cart here. My land is so big that I can't even fit both cows and horses."
"Of course I rely on your big place. I can't help it. My Changxing likes riding in an ox cart." He pinched the face of the child beside him, "Dad is right, isn't he, Changxing?"
"Don't pinch his face." Chunxiao slapped his hand away and hugged Changxing away. "If you pinch him too much, he'll drool."
"I told your second brother not to pinch the child's face, but he never listened." Zhang carried Pan'er down from the ox cart.
Shuduo and Pan'er immediately ran over and hugged Chunxiao, "Auntie."
Shufeng also helped Tian get off the ox cart, "Aunt, my mother said she wanted to come to your place for a meal, saying that you must be awake by now."
Shuwen took a backpack from the ox cart and said, "Aunt, didn't you say you had no money?"
"I'm out of money. All I have is just over 50 taels of silver." Plus a silver note worth 1,000 taels.
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