Ruyi frowned. These two people were really weird.

Seeing the dissatisfied voices getting louder, I thought about going forward to ask, but before I could move, I saw that the two people just now sat back in their original seats and waved to order another bowl of noodle soup.

Ruyi scratched her head, not quite understanding their behavior.

"Let's settle the accounts."

"Oh good!"

Ruyi withdrew her gaze and continued to calculate.

"Old man, why did you order another one?"

Mrs. Kong didn't quite understand, she just thought he was crazy. He was already dining for free, so how could he dare to order more?

"There's nothing I can do. I just stood there stupidly for a long time. It would be so embarrassing if someone saw that I didn't have any money."

"Then you can't order another one."

Mrs. Kong was so angry that she wanted to slap him. He couldn't even afford two bowls, and now it became three bowls, which he could not afford even more.

"Don't worry." Master Kong comforted the angry Mrs. Kong, "Eat first. If we don't go back in a while, the people who sent us here will be anxious and come looking for us soon."

"…What if he doesn't come?"

“…”

Confucius was speechless. He looked at the soup noodles that had just been served, took a deep breath, and swallowed, "Eat first."

We’ll talk about this later. I was not satisfied with the previous bowl, so I ordered a new flavor and continued eating.

Mrs. Kong finally put down her raised hand. What else could she say when she met such a greedy and optimistic old man!

I finished my bowl of noodles slowly until the diners around me left one after another.

After a busy peak, the group gradually became free. It was time for them to have dinner, but they looked at each other and no one mentioned anything because there was still a table of diners who had not left.

Apart from the workers who went home for dinner, Ruyi and her friends were the only ones left in the store. The place had been cleaned up and the food for dinner had been prepared. Even though they were starving, they were too embarrassed to ask for dinner.

If some diners haven't left yet, they have to prepare to eat. This feels not good and is like deliberately insulting others, so no one would rather wait a little longer. No one would take the initiative to suggest eating or insult the diners to leave.

Several people gathered together and looked at each other, asking what to do, but in the end all they got was one word: wait.

The crowd in the noodle shop dispersed, and Zhuangzhuang was finally able to come out from the counter. After being approved by Qin Anming, the first thing he did was to stretch his muscles. He walked around the shop again and again, and when he met the two elderly people he had greeted when they came in, he greeted them warmly.

Zhuangzhuang walked around four or five times, shook his head in confusion, and finally joined the crowd. He asked in a crisp voice, "Uncle, why hasn't my mother come back yet?"

After hearing this, Qin Anming looked outside the door worriedly, "Maybe he was delayed in buying something."

"It's been over an hour, why haven't you come back yet?"

Zhuangzhuang stretched out his little hands and counted. He had been counting the time since she left, and it was just less than two hours.

"Hey, Zhuangzhuang misses mom~"

Ruyi came out from the counter, squatted beside him, and gently waved the sesame stick in front of him.

Zhuangzhuang's face turned red, as if his little secret had been discovered. He smiled and took the sesame stick and ate it sweetly.

Linglong and Fu'er found him adorable, so they joined in teasing him. Zhuangzhuang smiled foolishly and accepted their teasing openly without any retort. He felt that liking to cling to his mother was not something to hide, he just liked to stick to his mother.

Seeing him looking like a mama's boy and very proud, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

"What are you talking about? You're so happy."

Xiao Guo had just stopped the donkey cart and heard laughter coming from inside before he even entered the door.

When several people heard the sound, they turned around and looked towards the door.

“Wow!”

Gu Yi: "…What's wrong?"

Xiao Guo walked towards the puzzled people in confusion, then sat down nearby. He glanced at two unfamiliar people in the corner of the wall, thinking they were ordinary diners, so he ignored them.

Zhuangzhuang silently put down his arms that were about to hug her and took a step back silently.

"I'm so tired." Xiaoguo said while pounding his shoulders. He hadn't done any heavy work for a long time, so it was really tiring to do it all of a sudden.

"You went to do hard labor?"

Qin Anming came back to his senses and looked at her in disbelief. Ruyi and the others surrounded her in shock, curious about what she was doing. Wasn't it just installing carriages? Why did it feel like she was making the carriages herself?

"Hard work?" Xiao Guo seemed to have thought of something. He wiped his face with his hand, which was covered with dust. He showed it to them nonchalantly, "This."

“Eh~”

The people surrounding her dispersed, even Zhuangzhuang, who claimed to love her the most, inadvertently took a step back.

Xiao Guo glared at Zhuang Zhuang. She saw it all. "Is it that serious?"

“As for!”

After Ruyi finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement.

Xiaoguo looked at them strangely. They were exaggerating too much. It was just a little dust.

At this time, Qin Anming walked up to her and reached out to take the spider web off her head. "You have entered a spider hole."

Looking at the spider web in his hand, Xiao Guo was stunned for a second, and then subconsciously grabbed it on his head.

"..." Xiao Guo looked quietly at the handful of spider webs in her hand. She really didn't know this. She actually came back with a head full of spider webs and asked why those people on the street kept looking at her. It turned out to be because of this...

The movement here successfully attracted Confucius and the other two. They put down their bowls of noodles, which had been cleaned so well that they could reflect a mirror, and listened to the movement with their ears pricked up.

"Didn't you go to load the carriage?"

Ruyi poured her a glass of water, and Xiaoguo drank it in one gulp.

"I went to load the carriages. On my way back, I wanted to visit Confucius's house..."

Hearing their own names, Mr. and Mrs. Kong blinked in confusion. You know, not many people knew about their return home, so how did that woman know?

Confucius signaled her to keep quiet and continue listening.

Xiao Guo took another sip of water and continued, "When I got there, I found that Kong Fuzi and his friends had already arrived and were moving their luggage at the door. There was only an elderly couple moving their heavy suitcases. I had nothing else to do, so I helped them move."

"Are those old couple Confucius and his wife?"

"No, I thought so at first, but when I asked, I found out that he had come back from the capital with Confucius to serve them. They said that Confucius and his wife got off the carriage and walked around as soon as they entered the county gate."

"Oh~ I'm just moving my luggage, how come I'm touching these spider webs?"

Qin Anming asked as he pulled down a spider web that had fallen behind her.

"You can't touch spider webs when you move luggage. You don't know the situation in the house. The yard is quite clean, but who would have thought that the house is full of dust and spider webs. It looks like no one has lived there for decades. I just followed them to clean up."

Xiaoguo patted the dust off his body and found that it was not clean no matter how hard he patted. He didn't notice it while working, but if he was so dirty, how would he face Confucius in a while?

"Sister Xiaoguo, if Confucius doesn't accept Zhuangzhuang, it would be so unfair to you."

Linglong finished speaking, and Fuer nodded immediately. If she didn't stop Zhuangzhuang in the end, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?

"Hey, I don't care. I'm just being polite. I'm happy that Master Kong gave us a chance to interview. I can't decide whether to do it or not based on the result."

This is what Xiaoguo thought. Even though he gave Zhuangzhuang the interview opportunity out of Jiang Danhe's favor, he did all this just to express his gratitude for the opportunity.

On the other side, Confucius listened to this with his ears tilted up, thought for a while, and then chuckled. It turned out to be them.