On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Ahfu's illness was completely cured. In order to conceal her illness, she still pretended to be sick and stayed in the house. After another five days, on the twentieth day, she finally went out and went to the upper room to eat breakfast.
The whole family was very happy to see Chen Ahfu. Especially Chen Ming, who had not seen her since she got sick, kept persuading her to eat more. Dabao started to act like a spoiled child again, sitting on Chen Ahfu's lap when eating, and kept calling "Mom" with tears in his eyes.
Ah Lu laughed at him, "You are still a boy, how can you act like a spoiled child in front of your mother like this?"
If it were normal, Dabao would be embarrassed. But today, he just refused to come down, and said with a pout, "It's my mother, it's my mother."
A Lu smiled and said, "We know she is your mother, so we won't compete with you for it."
Even Zhuifeng, Wangcai, Qiqi and Huihui were particularly enthusiastic and surrounded her and kept calling her.
Chen Afu was in a very good mood.
He also told Wang that Master Wuzhi said that Uncle Wang Cheng might still be alive, and Chu Lingxuan had agreed to write a letter to inquire about it.
After hearing this, Wang was so happy that she chanted Buddha's name.
Chen Ming also told a piece of good news. Someone sued Zhao Lizheng of Zhaojia Village for bullying the villagers, allowing his son to commit crimes, and forcibly abducting women. He has been detained. If the charges are true, he will not escape ten years in prison.
Chen Ahfu felt relieved after hearing this. That old woman who helped the tyrant deserved her retribution. Although the mastermind had not yet been punished, she believed that given the old lady's personality, she would definitely seek death.
He also reminded Chen Ming to send another ten taels of silver and two jars of wine to Hu Laowu, asking him to take care of Wang's family for a whole year. The fate of Wang Cheng's uncle was so tragic, and the original culprit was Ding.
After dinner, she went into the kitchen and made some plum cakes herself. But Dabao always followed her closely, pulling her skirt, which made her feel helpless and funny.
At 15 minutes before 9:00, she took Dabao, Zhuifeng, Wangcai, Qiqi and Huihui to Tangyuan. Now the alarm was lifted, Chen's old lady Zhao was under the care of Chen Shiying, and Zhao Lizheng had been arrested, so Chen Ahfu no longer needed a bodyguard.
Before they reached Tang Garden, they saw Chu Hanyan, Chu Lingxuan, the old marquis and others coming out of the corner gate. They were about to go to Lu Garden. When Chu Hanyan saw Chen Afu, she was so excited that she cried and ran towards her with her short legs.
She ran while crying, shouting, "Auntie, Auntie, sister...I miss you..."
Chen Ahfu also took a few quick steps and hugged Yan'er who rushed over to her. Yan'er hugged her neck and cried to her heart's content, which made Chen Ahfu feel sweet and sad. Seeing this, Dabao also hugged her legs and sobbed.
This made the old marquis and Chu Lingxuan who were following behind laugh helplessly. It turned out that happy things could make people cry like this!
The group turned back and went to Luyuan. Because the old man and Miss Chu had a problem with eating out of the same pot, and Chen Ahfu's illness had healed, they wanted to eat at Luyuan.
After returning to Lu Garden, Chen Afu first led a few children and the animal home to "practice martial arts".
It had been a long time since they had practiced martial arts, and they had taken off their heavy cotton robes and only wore small jackets, small cotton skirts or cotton pants. The children jumped around very enthusiastically, making the Chu family's grandparents and everyone else laugh continuously.
After the practice, Lord Chu smiled at Chen Afu and said, "The little girl has been ill for so long. Not only Dabao and Yan'er have lost weight, but even me and Xuan'er have lost weight... They can't eat delicious meals, so they are hungry and thin."
This heavy breathing scared Chen Ahfu, but fortunately the old man recovered. Chu Lingxuan looked normal, as if he didn't understand what he said.
When Chen Ahfu went into the kitchen to cook, the two little ones rushed into the kitchen without paying attention, each holding one leg, and refused to come out no matter how she coaxed them. She had no choice but to let them sit on a small stool by the fire. The small stool was a bit long, and the two little people sat together, their eyes moving in unison with her movements.
These two little things are her sweet little burdens.
Chen Afu started working as a kindergarten teacher again and sometimes worked as a part-time chef.
The days were peaceful and good, and in a blink of an eye it was mid-February.
Fuyuan has taken shape, and the houses have been built. The beams will be put up on the 12th. That day, it was another busy day. Many people from Xiangluo Village and Shangshui Village were invited to dinner. Even Mr. Chu went to give him face. Chen Ahfu did not show up, and Chen Ming and Dabao entertained the guests.
Because of the presence of this important person, the village head, the landlord, Hu Laowu, Chen Ye, Constable Xia and others who were sitting at the same table with him were so excited that they were almost crying.
The furniture and some facilities have been prepared long ago. After the interior decoration and landscaping are completed, the furniture will be moved into the house and a children's playground will be built in the yard. It will probably be ready for move-in by the end of February.
On the 18th, the old marquis was leaving for the capital, saying he would stay there for a while before coming back. He also said he liked it here and couldn't bear to leave Yan'er, Dabao, and... Chen the little girl.
A few days ago, he asked Chen Ahfu for a lot of things, including 40 kilograms of sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice dates and snowball glutinous rice dates, 20 kilograms of biscuits, 20 kilograms of cakes, 40 kilograms of golden silk cakes, 10 cans of spicy cabbage, and 10 cans of fermented glutinous rice. It was enough for several large carts.
Chen Ahfu twitched his lips when he heard this. Was this a blatant solicitation of bribes? But he still prepared it carefully for him.
The day before the old man passed away, that is, on February 17, Chen Afu went to Shili Town. There were 500 acres of fertile land and a farm given to her by Chen Shiying, and she wanted to go and see it, otherwise it would be difficult to go out if she was entangled by the little girl.
The family had bought an ox cart, and Old Man Zeng was driving it, taking Xue Dagui and Zeng Xiaoqing with him. Since Dabao was crying because of the trouble on the road, he and Zhuifeng were also taken along.
The field is in Wangshan Village of Shili Town, less than ten miles southwest of Xiangluo Village. Because the village is next to Daqing Mountain, it is named Wangshan Village.
It is such a coincidence that Wangshan Village is adjacent to Zhaojia Village.
The ox cart took about half an hour to arrive. The manor was a two-courtyard house where Old Man Lin lived with his son and daughter-in-law to manage the fields.
Old man Lin, who was in his fifties, brought his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren to kowtow to Chen Afu and Dabao.
Chen Ahfu said, "Mr. Lin, Uncle Lin, Aunt Lin, please stand up."
Zeng Xiaoqing handed each of them a purse containing two silver ingots.
Their family was bought by Chen Shiying in Jiangnan, and they helped the Chen family look after the farm in Jiangnan.
The land here was bought by Chen Shiying three years ago. Since he trusted Old Man Lin very much, he arranged for him to be here.
Chen Afu thought to himself that this might be Chen Shiying's base for monitoring the Zhao family. No wonder Chen Shiying knew all the evil things done by the former Zhao Lizheng. It turned out that he had already planted people next to Zhaojia Village.
Chen Afu was not afraid that Old Man Lin and his family would help Chen Shiying and sell him out, because a few days ago Chen Shiying specifically asked Chu Lingxuan to bring their family's slave contract to her.
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