Since they didn't find anything here, they could only go to other villages to do the survey, which is how they missed Sicheng and his group who had just returned.
"Brother, you're back!" Yun Qiao, who was on duty on the lookout tower, saw Si Cheng and the others from afar and quickly ran down to open the door for them.
"Why are you here today? Has Fourth Aunt finally let you come out and do some work?" Wu Yong had been in the village for so long and had sorted out all the interpersonal relationships. He also knew that Fourth Aunt usually wouldn't let her only precious grandson do any work.
“My grandma is the most understanding and reasonable person. As long as you reason with her, she will understand.” Although Yun Qiao is a bit spoiled, he knows that his grandma has always loved him the most, and he also protects his grandma’s reputation in public.
"Then you must keep it up." Si Cheng patted his shoulder, encouraging him. After all, Yun Qiao had changed a lot since the last time he went out with everyone, and Si Cheng also liked his innocent and positive personality.
"Brother, don't worry, I will definitely persevere." Hearing her idol encourage her like this, Yun Qiao felt that no matter how hard it was, it was all worth it.
"Has anything happened in the village these past two days?" Si Cheng asked casually.
"Uncle Zhizhong brought some soldiers over today, apparently saying that more people are coming to our village. Those soldiers left not long ago, didn't you run into them on the way?" Yun Qiao asked, somewhat puzzled. It shouldn't be like this! According to the timing, you should have run into them.
I didn't expect them to get to the village so quickly. I thought they'd have to finish dealing with things in the county before coming down. "I didn't run into anyone on the way back. Maybe they took a detour to another place."
Yun Qiao was even more confused after hearing this. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, where else could she possibly go by taking a detour?
Si Cheng and the others didn't talk to him much. After saying goodbye, they all went home.
"What delicious food are you making now? I can smell the aroma from far away." Si Cheng smelled the aroma of food filling the house as soon as he entered.
"Brother Cheng, you're back. Was the journey smooth?" Yunqi had just finished scooping the food out of the pot, added a spoonful of water, and came over to take his backpack.
"Everything went quite smoothly; we managed to trade all the salt after visiting just two villages." He made no mention of what happened in Xianghe Village.
"Then wash your hands and eat right away." Yun Qi looked outside and, finding no one there, quickly brought out a bowl of steaming hot chicken noodle soup and side dishes from his spatial storage.
Just as Yun's mother picked some scallions from the backyard, she found that her son-in-law had already arrived home. Because she had told Yun Qi about Si Cheng's mother before, she felt less uneasy facing her son-in-law.
"Ah Cheng, you're back. You must have had a long journey."
"It wasn't hard work, it was done in no time." Si Cheng saw that his mother-in-law was in much better condition than a couple of days ago, and couldn't help but look at his wife.
Yunqi gestured for him to calm down, and Sicheng let go of the matter, knowing that Yunqi would tell him about it soon.
When Yunqi told him the whole story that evening, Sicheng suddenly realized why so many people in the village had been giving him strange looks of sympathy. The reason for this was that.
"We still need to settle things with her, otherwise this endless commotion is not a solution." Yunqi wasn't being a saint; he just didn't want her to disturb his parents' lives anymore.
"After this batch of grain is harvested, I'll go to Gaojia Village." Although Si Cheng knew that the other party was a bit of a jerk, he didn't expect him to be so shameless, bringing several women with him. It seemed that he wanted to take advantage of his absence to come to the house and empty it.
"Luckily, the village is under lockdown. Otherwise, it would have been a real problem if they hadn't been allowed in." Although Si Cheng didn't want to portray his birth mother in such a negative light, he still told Yun Qi that he had guessed the other party's purpose.
"No way?" Yunqi had never met his mother-in-law, but she had lived in a big city and her character shouldn't be that bad.
“Why not? Everyone knows we’re going out with a team. What does it mean that she’s bringing a few women to our door? Her purpose is obvious. If we let her into the village, she can use my mother’s identity to make trouble. Even if she moves all our belongings out of the village, the villagers won’t be able to stop her.”
Yun Qi couldn't help but shudder when he heard this. If they were really allowed to come in, and some conflict broke out among the family members, who knew what might happen? Even if the village wanted to intervene, it would be difficult to do so.
"Then let's find some time to go and talk to them. They're not treating Junjun and Lele like their grandchildren." Yunqi couldn't help but feel indignant at this thought.
"From now on, treat her like a stranger. Just do your duty." Si Cheng had long been indifferent to his mother's actions, but this time her actions were completely unexpected.
"You go to sleep first. We've been walking for two days. We can talk about your worries later. I'll go check if those two little rascals are asleep." Ever since I set up a small tent for them in the toy house, the two siblings have been insisting on sleeping in that room. I couldn't persuade them otherwise, so I could only agree to let them sleep there for a few days. I could only go over from time to time to check if they were covered with blankets.
"Don't cover them with too many things, it's still so hot and humid now, be careful they don't get prickly heat." Si Cheng remembered that a while ago his mother-in-law was worried that they would catch a cold, so she covered them with a small blanket, and the next day they were covered in prickly heat.
"I know, you can go to sleep peacefully, I'm not a stepmother." Yunqi said and got up to go out and check on the two little rascals.
"Sometimes even a biological mother can't compare to a stepmother," Si Cheng muttered to himself, thinking about his own unpleasant experiences.
Yunqi glanced back at him, then left without saying anything more. She knew that this man was still hurt inside.
Yunqi couldn't help but feel relieved. Luckily, Sicheng's father had moved to another place. Otherwise, with his father and a stepmother, life would have been even more chaotic.
She didn't know that her remaining sense of relief would soon be gone.
In the days that followed, Pinghe Village became so busy that they had no time to leave the village. They were unaware that a large group of people had arrived on the other side of the lake and were creating a new village there.
According to that leader, "If we don't have fields, we can create them. Didn't people in the past build many terraced fields? We can all imitate that."
This time, the higher-ups have given a strict order: a group of people have been assigned to this area, which will become their home. If they don't start developing it, they will be abandoned.
Therefore, the melodramatic elements in novels are all derived from real life. If Si Cheng were here, he would find familiar figures among them.
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