"Daddy, why haven't you said a word the whole way?" Gu Xiaoran noticed her father's unhappiness and tightly gripped his arm with her little hands.
"Father has just been away from home for a long time and is a little homesick." Gu Qian sat silently, as quiet as a statue.
Like Gu Xiaoran, Qiu Yan also grasped Gu Qian's arm.
"Gu Qian, don't worry, everything will be alright."
"Mm." Gu Qian nodded. "I'm fine."
He was just a little nervous.
Soon, they were near their home.
Qiu Xu and Qiu Ling'er were originally reading books together inside the house.
They heard the clatter of horses' hooves immediately.
The two walked out of the room at the same time, glanced at each other, and had the same guess in their hearts.
Qiu Ling'er: "It's my sister who's back!"
Qiu Xu nodded, his entire body already bursting forward.
At this moment, Qiu Dafu, Jiang Liu, and Cuizhu Cao Shi also heard the noise outside the door and ran towards the courtyard gate together.
Outside the courtyard gate, before the carriage sounds had even stopped, Gu Xiaoran had already jumped down from the carriage.
Upon encountering Qiu Xu and Qiu Ling'er, he hurriedly greeted them before running off to his master's courtyard.
Qiu Ling'er was almost knocked to the ground by the clumsy Gu Xiaoran, but luckily her brother pulled her up.
"Xiao Ran? Brother, is that little girl Xiao Ran?"
Qiu Xu glanced back and said, "It looks like it." Then he looked at the carriage that was slowly approaching in the distance.
The brother and sister immediately noticed Qiu Dayu and Xia Minhan following closely to the left and right of the carriage.
Next came Ling Qi, Ling Ba, and then Ling Yun and Ling Zhi.
"Ling'er, A-Xu, I'm so glad to see you!" Qiu Dayu waved excitedly to the two of them and then pulled Xia Minhan along as they ran towards the courtyard gate.
"Second brother, I'm back!" Qiu Dayu said, and just as he ran to the courtyard gate, he bumped into his second brother and his sister-in-law rushing out. He excitedly hugged his second brother.
Immediately afterward, when he saw Jiang Liu following beside his second brother, he visibly froze, then let out a hearty shout.
"Second Sister-in-law!"
He wondered if his second brother and sister-in-law were married yet.
Jiang Liu smiled and nodded. "Fifth Uncle, has Xiao Yan returned?"
"You're back, right behind us." Qiu Dayu waved to the carriage behind him, which had slowly come to a stop.
Qiu Yan lifted the curtain and saw her family gathered. She then jumped off the carriage.
At the same moment, Zhu Juan also got off the carriage. Upon seeing Cao Shi, the mother and daughter embraced and wept bitterly because they had not seen each other for a long time.
"Juan'er, you're finally back." Cao said, wiping away tears, showing how much she had worried about her daughter over the past year.
Just now, the moment she saw the young master, she had been searching around for her daughter.
"Sister, Uncle, why did you come back together?" Qiu Ling'er asked.
Qiu Dayu: "You'll have to ask your sister about that." He wanted to know the answer to that question too.
"Ling'er, A-Xu." After getting out of the car, Qiu Yan hugged her two younger siblings and then looked at her second uncle and aunt.
"Second Uncle, Second Aunt, I'm back."
Seeing Qiu Yan, Qiu Dafu and Jiang Liu felt relieved.
"Xiao Yan".
She actually went to the battlefield.
Immediately, Qiu Dafu's gaze fell back on the carriage.
Jiang Liu's face was filled with the joy of reunion.
She stepped forward and grasped Qiu Yan's wrists with both hands.
"Xiaoyan, let's go home. Your second aunt will make you something to eat."
"Mm." Qiu Yan nodded with a smile, but did not move her body.
She turned to look at the carriage, her eyes filled with unease.
"Qian'er." At this moment, Li Zheng carried Gu Xiaoran to the front of the car.
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