After the Lunar New Year, there's the Lantern Festival, and on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, he has to go back to his mother's home. Given Wang Xiaoxue's relationship with her mother, it will probably be the same as today. So Lin Chaobei decided to go to the prefectural city to temporarily escape all this commotion.
"OK."
Yue Jiuyue nodded in agreement, and Lin Chaobei breathed a sigh of relief before trying to please his two older brothers.
After all, with him gone, his two older brothers will have to take care of the shop in town, which will be even more tiring for them as they have to travel back and forth.
This was how the brothers got along. Yue Jiuyue didn't care and went back to her room after finishing her meal.
She needs to be more self-aware. If she wanders around after eating and it worsens her cold, Lin Chaonan will definitely not be so accommodating anymore.
Although I didn't find them particularly easy to talk to.
Just in case, after all, she's just an ordinary person. It's normal for ordinary people to get headaches and fevers. She can't be locked in her room drinking herbal medicine every time she gets sick, can she?
She's been drinking herbal decoctions all this time, so how could she possibly have the chance to eat the pills from the store? Those medicines work fast, and while they might only treat the symptoms, they're too bitter!
Lin Chaonan stayed with Yue Jiuyue until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. After the New Year holiday, he went back to work.
Yes, work for Yue Jiuyue and help her earn money.
Lin Chaonan was relieved because Yue Jiuyue's cold had indeed improved; her voice was no longer hoarse, her nose was clear, and she no longer had headaches or dizziness. She was also eating more than before.
Yue Jiuyue's mood improved.
The year has passed, and soon the ice and snow will melt, the spring breeze will blow across the land, the grass will turn green, the fruit trees will sprout, and she can get back to work!
But right now, she wants to go ice skating!
The water in Nanhu Lake was completely frozen over, and the ice was so thick that it was safe to do so. Even if you wanted to break the ice to catch fish, it would take two or three people a lot of effort to make a suitable hole. The ice froze over again the next day, so there was no need to worry about safety at all.
Yue Jiuyue's shoes were naturally not the same pair from the previous two years. Since she wanted to go ice skating, the maids would naturally prepare new ice skates for her.
Standing on the ice, Yue Jiuyue felt completely refreshed.
I'm finally free!
That's the feeling. This winter, especially this December, she's been living a life that's almost unbearable! I never want to get sick again!
"Grandma, I want to play too!"
Xiao Man'er stood on the riverbank and shouted loudly at Yue Jiuyue.
Then, before Yue Jiuyue could react, she ran back.
Little Man went back to get her ice skates, and her little tail, Da Zhuang, followed her.
Yue Jiuyue never expected that Dazhuang, this little rascal, was so young yet so talented; he had even learned to ice skate. He was practically a child prodigy.
Dazhuang is exceptionally good at skating along the edge, even better than Xiaoman'er, and much better than Yue Jiuyue. She's just a complete novice; she can only move a couple of steps at a time and can't possibly display the grace, the freedom, the way she dances in the wind that skating has all about.
She was probably sick for a long time and her body was weak. She was too tired to play for long and had to leave the game.
With servants looking after the kitten and Dazhuang, Yue Jiuyue didn't need to worry. After changing her shoes and returning to the courtyard, she first drank a bowl of ginger soup that the cook had prepared for her. The soup was so spicy that Yue Jiuyue kept panting. She didn't like the taste of ginger soup, or more precisely, she didn't like the taste of ginger.
Yue Jiuyue thought she could just wander around and have fun before spring planting. She never expected that one day, the original owner's relatives would actually come knocking on her door?
Those were the original owner's biological mother, younger brother, and older sister.
They once left without saying goodbye.
Now, they've come uninvited again.
Yue Jiuyue really didn't know what to say to them.
But this world values filial piety, kinship, blood ties, and family. Yue Jiuyue couldn't shut them out, or people would gossip about her. She herself wasn't afraid of being talked about, but she had a son and a grandson, and she couldn't be willful.
She could only invite them in and have them sit down.
There was no good wine, no good tea, no good food, not even a cup of hot water; we just sat there doing nothing.
"What are you doing here?"
Yue Jiuyue frowned and asked.
“My dear daughter, a couple of years ago we heard that a rural woman with the same name as you became some kind of ninth-rank official. At the time, we didn’t believe it, so we didn’t come back.”
Later we heard that she had been promoted again, becoming an eighth-rank official! We didn't even think about it.
Last year, I heard that she had a son named Lin Chaoxi, who was a general! I thought, aren't all your children named something like that? So we discussed coming back, and I never expected that the female official was actually you!
"My dear daughter! I'm your own mother! Jiabao is your own brother! You might forget about us if you become successful! You have to take care of your brother! He's our only son!"
Old Mrs. Yue tearfully pleaded with Yue Jiuyue to help her son, saying she had heard that the emperor had bestowed upon Yue Jiuyue a great deal of money and many fine things! All of those belonged to her son!
In the heart of the old lady of the Yue family, her daughter was her son's daughter, even though Yue Jiuyue herself was married, and even though Yue Jiuyue was a person of the eighth rank, Yu'an, personally appointed by the emperor.
As long as Yue Jiuyue is her daughter, everything Yue Jiuyue owns belongs to her!
She gave birth to her daughter, she gave birth to her daughter, she gave birth to her daughter, without her there would be no daughter, so everything about her daughter belongs to her, and what belongs to her daughter belongs to her son.
“Mom, where have you been all these years? I was worried that your wheat would be ruined if you ran out of water. I was thinking of asking you if you needed to buy some water to irrigate your fields, but when I got there, I found out that your whole village had moved away.”
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