The next day, Li Muyan refused to listen to his unreliable mother and secretly went out on his own.
He doesn't go out often, not because he's sick or ashamed of being seen.
On the contrary, he was in good health and good-looking, and the girls who met him all liked him.
He has one problem, which is said to be due to a sorcerer: he is destined to be unlucky and cannot go out often.
In his courtyard, there was a famous sorcerer who personally set up the altar to bless him with good fortune.
Anyway, every time he sneaks out, strange things happen. For example, a few days ago on the Lantern Festival, he just wanted to go see the lanterns, but he was inexplicably chased by three vicious dogs.
But this time, no matter what, he had to go out and find that girl, even if he was chased by vicious dogs again.
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On the Gu family's side, the land clearing is complete, and they have entered the seed preparation stage.
Other families started preparing for spring plowing after the beginning of spring, but the Gu family started a little later. However, they were not worried because everyone in the family was a strong laborer.
Aside from digging potatoes, Gu Shouxin was constantly watched by his family while he read. Even Zhang Shi would often bring Xiao Renren over to check if Gu Shouxin was reading seriously.
In Zhang's view, the second son was unreliable. Who knew if he was just pretending for several months and was about to act foolish again?
It was very important for the second son to take the imperial examination.
If her second son passes the imperial examination, her daughter Enzi might be able to attend a better school. If her second son does even better, her daughter Renzi will be able to attend an even better school when it's time for her to study.
Now that the second wife's family is earning a lot of money, she no longer worries that the old couple will secretly favor the second wife and give her money.
Anyway, since there was no problem with money, she could still get along well with her second son's family. Although she still felt that the two girls from the second wife's side were no different from her own two girls and not as precious as her two sons, it didn't stop her from hoping that her second son would pass the imperial examination.
She even thought that it would be great if her second son never had a son. She had two sons, and she could give one of them to her second son so that everything in his family would be hers.
She also subtly warned herself that as long as Cai Xiaolian didn't give birth to a son, she must stand on Cai Xiaolian's side. In the future, when the second son achieves success and realizes he has no son, he might want to take a concubine. As the eldest sister-in-law, she must teach the second son a lesson.
The Gu family members were completely unaware of her bizarre idea, and they were all extremely busy.
All the potatoes were dug up. Gu Nian told Lu Zheng to pile them in an empty room in the house, and she would teach him how to plant them in a few days.
Lu Zheng did as instructed and also gave the Gu family and the second wife's family 100 jin of potatoes.
Grandma Gu led Uncle Gu to plant the crops they usually grew, while Gu Nian led Lu Zheng and Uncle Gu Si to prepare to plant sweet potatoes and corn.
Sweet potatoes needed to be cultivated into seedlings, so Gu Nian led them to cultivate seedlings first.
Because of his trust in the Gu family, Lu Zheng brought over all the remaining sweet potato and corn seeds from Master Zhou's place.
Gu Nian planned to intercrop these two crops in the newly cleared wasteland.
Grandpa Gu and Zhang cooked for everyone every day, while Cai Xiaolian and her three other sisters prepared orders from the Li family.
Knowing that the second branch of the family was going to pay her two daughters, Zhang Shi didn't urge the two sisters to work. Every morning, she would have the two sisters go to the second branch to do chores, and she would happily guess in her heart how much the second branch would pay the two girls. In any case, they couldn't be paid too little, or she would make a fuss.
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