It’s not that I’m afraid of people talking about me for not coming home all night.
They were leaving to escape the famine tomorrow, and Gu Linbei knew immediately that Village Chief Zhou would leave early. They had to hurry back, especially if the Song family discovered their belongings were missing tomorrow and couldn't explain it.
Lu Yan doesn't care about these.
After all, she emptied the Gu family's granary yesterday and the Song family's warehouse today.
If anyone thought about it carefully, they would suspect her.
But so what?
So many things disappeared for no reason. Even if they reported it to the authorities, they couldn't blame Lu Yan. Besides, An County was in such chaos, and Suicheng was captured yesterday.
At this moment, the government has no time to deal with these trivial matters.
Lu Yan was not afraid at all.
But seeing Gu Linbei like this, Lu Yan couldn't help but remind him: "We have to escape the famine on the road tomorrow, you'd better rest a bit."
After all, a large group of people are traveling together.
It was difficult for Gu Linbei to just go into the space and have a good rest.
"Okay, I'll take a nap."
Gu Linbei is different from Lu Yan. Lu Yan likes to sleep in, but Gu Linbei's biological clock seems to be fixed.
Every day he gets up before dawn.
After hearing what he said, Lu Yan just nodded and closed her eyes.
Gu Linbei woke Lu Yan up when the time was almost up.
The couple walked together and went straight back to Xiaohe Village.
But no one expected that as soon as they returned to Xiaohe Village, they would find their doorstep surrounded by people. After Lu Yan pushed through the crowd, she saw Old Lady Gu crying and wailing.
"Fifth and Sixth Old Man, Dad and Mom know they were wrong! Please forgive us this time and come back!"
The sound of crying and shouting came from not far away, making Lu Yan's ears buzz.
She turned her head and looked at Gu Linbei.
The previous separation was for the sake of a better life in the future, but I didn’t expect that after the family was divided and nothing was taken, they are now entangled with each other again.
Gu Linbei's face was clearly filled with helplessness, but seeing his wife's expression, he patted Lu Yan's arm soothingly and said, "I'll take care of it."
After all, she was his wife, and Gu Linbei couldn't bear to see Lu Yan stand up for him again and again and suffer injustice.
Upon hearing this, Lu Yan nodded.
She really didn't want to get involved in these things, so she simply stood behind the crowd and watched the fun.
Gu Linbei took a detour to the back of the yard, then climbed over the wall and entered the yard.
At this moment, Yu Nian and Gu Linxuan both had grim expressions in the courtyard. Qingqing, who had been frightened by Old Lady Gu since she was a child, hid behind Gu Linxuan and poked her head out to look outside.
Gu Linbei came out from the backyard and everyone's eyes fell on him.
Especially Old Lady Gu, her eyes turned red the moment she saw Gu Linbei.
"Son."
Old Mrs. Gu spoke as soon as she came up.
Gu Linbei had already figured out the whole story when he was outside the crowd.
His mother was afraid that he would take advantage of her when she had money, but now that the family has no food, she sees him as a retreat.
"Son, please help Dad, Mom, and my brother... We've run out of food at home."
"Okay, you and Dad are my and Lao Liu's responsibilities. You should live with us in our old age. I definitely can't support the rest of the brothers by myself. But they have hands and feet, so they definitely don't need me to support them."
As soon as Gu Linbei said this, everyone in the old Gu family looked strange.
Especially Old Lady Gu, she couldn't even cry anymore.
This was not the result she wanted. She clearly wanted Gu Linbei to take care of their family. Just like before, even if the sons had to work in the fields, not all the burdens would fall on them.
"Old Five, it's not easy for our family. Do you have to do it so drastically?"
Old Man Gu finally spoke at this time.
All his arrogance now is based on Lu Yan's absence.
However, just as Old Man Gu said this, Lu Yan slowly walked up from the back of the crowd. She stood in the crowd, her dark and deep eyes full of smiles.
She crossed her arms over her chest, showing an extremely obvious aggressive attitude.
Old Man Gu choked on the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and the expression on his face suddenly became strange.
"Dad, it's not our family's responsibility to support my second brother." Gu Linbei said frankly. He looked at the villagers again, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "This journey is full of dangers. If there is a hunter to take care of us, I think everyone will have a smoother journey, right?"
The implication of Gu Linbei's words was already very obvious.
As for Village Chief Zhou, he can only choose one between him and the old Gu family.
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