"Hehe, I was just being silly! I only realized this now. Enzi learns much better from his second uncle than he does at school. If it weren't for the fact that the second son is preparing for the imperial examinations, I would have stopped Enzi from going to school altogether and saved the money to support his second uncle!" Zhang said with a smile.
Cai Xiaolian shrugged. Saving money is the most important thing, nothing else matters.
...
It was past midnight, and the rain was getting heavier.
Cai Xiaolian told Zhang to take Gu En and Gu Ren to sleep in the guest room. With such heavy rain, even if the old house wasn't far away, they would still get wet if they went back.
Gu Xin and Gu Si were also yawning when Cai Xiaolian told them to go to sleep.
Gu Hui and Gu Nian were older, and they refused to go to sleep, staying with Cai Xiaolian while she waited for people.
Gu Nian's excuse was irrefutable: "Mom, I'm going to sleep. When they come back, will you be able to cook noodles? You won't even be able to roll them into strips, they won't even be called noodles, they'll just be called dough lumps!"
Cai Xiaolian was already immune to this kind of blow, but she still agreed to let the two of them stay.
However, the three women were bored sitting together, so Cai Xiaolian asked Gu Nian if she knew how to play cards.
Gu Nian doesn't know how, but she can learn.
So the three of them made a deck of cards and started playing Landlord.
The top student truly lives up to his name; he even learned to play cards so quickly.
The card counting was so precise that it was practically flawless.
After getting used to it for the first three rounds, Gu Nian finally understood it completely.
They didn't gamble with money, they just posted notes.
Gu Nian had two strips of tape on her ears, which was because she was a farmer and had been implicated by Gu Hui.
She wins every other time.
They fought for more than an hour, until it was already past 3 AM, before the Gu family finally returned.
They all ended up in the second wife's quarters.
Cai Xiaolian, her face pale, went to open the door.
One of the two lanterns at the gate went out, leaving only one.
What appeared before the Gu family was a face covered in white lines that fluttered in the wind.
"Oh my goodness! What is this thing?" Uncle Gu took a step back.
Cai Xiaolian tore off the white slip of paper: "It's me, it's me, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Come in, come in!"
Uncle Gu patted his chest: "Sister-in-law, no matter what you're doing, next time I suggest you put on black strips so they blend in with the night and won't scare people!"
The group entered the house, and Gu Hui took out a dry cloth that she had prepared beforehand.
Of the group, only Grandpa Gu got a little wet; nothing else got soaked.
Everyone else was soaked to the bone.
Soon, Gu Nian brought out a large basin full of hand-pulled noodles with meat, and two fried eggs for each person.
Uncle Gu ate five large bowls, and even Fourth Uncle Gu ate three bowls, which shows that they were really hungry.
Without being asked, Uncle Gu told him what had happened.
It started raining when they left the city.
The road collapsed further ahead of the place Lu Zheng mentioned, but there were no casualties. Lord Su led the yamen runners from the prefectural city to clear the road, and it took them a while to pass through Zhoujia Town.
With Lord Su directing things in the prefectural city and Lu Zheng in Zhoujia Town, things are moving quickly.
"Ah Yuan, are you full? Do you want more? I'll have Niannian go and cook some more!" Cai Xiaolian asked as Lu Zheng was the last to put down his bowl.
"Aunt Lian, you're full. It's getting late, everyone should go to sleep! I think it's going to rain for the next few days, which is perfect for us to thresh the corn," Lu Zheng said.
“Yes, there was a year when Qingzhou also had such heavy rain, and a lot of crops were still unharvested. This year, we farmers will be heartbroken again!” Grandpa Gu said, frowning.
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