They helped Cheng Huaijin entirely because of Gu Xin.
One night, Gu Shouxin got up to use the bathroom and heard Gu Xin crying. He thought she was having a nightmare, so he ran over to check and found her asleep, only calling out for Xiaoyu.
He wasn't sure if Gu Xin was thinking about the little fish that leaped over the dragon gate or her friend Xiao Yu, so he asked her the next day. Gu Xin tried her best to hide it, but she still couldn't escape Gu Shouxin's eyes.
As for Lu Zheng, he was even more sensitive to Gu Xin's mood changes. One day, when he went to the fields with Gu's uncle, he passed by the second house and saw Gu Xin sitting alone on the swing. She was neither laughing nor making a fuss, just staring blankly into space. When he came back from the fields, he took the opportunity to quietly ask Gu Xin about it.
Gu Xin confided her feelings to Yuan Yuan, saying that she couldn't bear to part with Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu's parents and brothers had done bad things and wanted to kill their family!
In Gu Xin's heart, Xiao Yu was very important. She was Gu Xin's first friend, even though she couldn't speak or make a sound. It was the first time Gu Xin had held hands and run around with a sister outside her family, and the first time she had a peer to confide in outside her family. She had witnessed the Cheng family members being shackled and taken to prison by the soldiers brought by Lord He. She had also heard people say that the crimes of selling smuggled salt and iron were serious, punishable by confiscation of property and extermination of the entire family. She didn't want Xiao Yu to be implicated.
Lu Zheng's plan at the time was to break the prisoner, abduct the person, send him to a safe place, and secretly take Gu Xin to see him so that Gu Xin could feel at ease.
To his surprise, Gu Shouxin came looking for him the very next day.
After discussing it, the two approached Lord He. With the two imperial jade pendants on the table, Lord He had no choice but to comply, even if he didn't want to. Gu Xin insisted on giving Gu Shouxin the jade pendant; she wouldn't feel comfortable refusing. She didn't know that her Uncle Ye was the Emperor, but last time at the yamen, Lu Zheng was able to use the jade pendant without having to kneel, so she was determined to give it to Gu Shouxin.
Cheng Huaijin and Cheng Huaiyu were only thirteen years old and knew nothing about their family affairs. Moreover, Gu Shouxin was only asking Lu Zheng for a chance to escape, not for them to be taken away directly.
Who knows what life will be like for these two children after they ran away?
Therefore, Lord He agreed, and also indicated that it was only these two people; the other three were impossible. It was Madam Cheng who orchestrated the smuggling of salt. As for Cheng Rui, even without Lord He's agreement, Gu Shouxin would not want to let him go.
And so, this whole thing happened.
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At the end of February, it was time for Mrs. Li to bring over the packaging boxes again.
Besides Gu Nian herself knowing many idioms, the other three sisters in the Gu family learned a lot of idioms related to their names through Madam Li's packaging boxes.
After seeing Madam Li off, Cai Xiaolian was about to turn around and go back into the house when she saw an old man standing at the door.
For a moment she forgot who it was, but felt she had seen it somewhere before.
"Hey, grandpa, it's you! Didn't Brother Yuanyuan say your attendant found you? Why are you in our village again? Did you get lost again?" Gu Xin recognized the man at a glance when she returned from the old house.
Wasn't it the old man they met at the stone tablet at the village entrance when they took their father back from his exam at the beginning of the month?
When she called out, Cai Xiaolian remembered. Oh, right, there was such a thing. The old man hadn't shown up for almost a month. She thought he had stopped showing up!
"Hehehe, little girl, I didn't get lost. I came here specifically to thank you. That day, you went into the village and asked a young man to bring me water, which saved my life. Now that I've recovered, I naturally came to express my gratitude," Grandpa Qin said with a smile to Gu Xin.
Cai Xiaolian: Are you trying to fool a three-year-old? My Xinxin is eleven! She won't let you fool her!
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