On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Yun Chang returned to the capital with Chu Yan and Zhong Hui, accompanied by Madam Qi.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when Li Mai and Zhou Quan accompanied Zhou Tao to pay New Year's respects to Madam Qi, they learned that she planned to leave on the fourth day and head to the capital. Li Mai suggested that she travel with Yun Chang and the others on the third day, since there would be more people and they could look after each other along the way.
Upon hearing that Yun Chang and the others were returning to the capital on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Madam Qi immediately decided to leave a day earlier and travel with them. She felt much more at ease about their safety on the road.
This matter was only finalized after Li Mai consulted Yun Chang.
Yun Chang knew that Madam Qi was a good friend of Nan Ling, so she was naturally willing to take her back to the capital with her.
This time, Xu Changhuan did not leave with Yun Chang. She would go back to Xu Family Village with them to help her father build the village. At the same time, Li Mai also helped her to make the words in the wordless book, the Xu Family Incense Scripture, visible.
When Li Mai discovered that the words on Xu's Incense Sutra could be clearly seen in the dark, Li Mai thought that Xu's ancestor might have been a time traveler who wrote the book using fluorescent ink, which could only be seen in complete darkness.
This method was passed down orally from one generation of the Xu family head to the next. However, due to the sudden incident at the time, the method was not passed down, and the old family head only had time to tell his unreliable son, the Xu family head, where the books were stored.
Li Mai didn't intend to take the Xu family's incense manual, and she also told Xu Changhuan to go back and tell her father about it. As for whether the Xu family would continue to operate the incense workshop, Li Mai felt that it was no longer her concern.
After listening to Yun Chang's suggestion, Xu Changhuan decided to go back to her father first.
After Li Mai and Zhou Quan saw them off, they also began a few days of rest.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the family returned to the village to pay New Year's respects to the clan chief and several elders of their branch.
Starting from the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, families working in their workshops brought their children to visit them and offer New Year's greetings. Li Mai gave them lucky money.
Each child received a small silver ingot weighing one tael. By the time they returned to town on the tenth day of the first lunar month, most of the families in the village had already paid their respects to Li Mai and Zhou Quan.
Firstly, to thank the couple, and secondly, to take the children to receive New Year's money. Li Mai also asked everyone to tell each other that she had prepared small silver coins for the children of the families who worked there.
The family that benefited the most was the one that had several children, and naturally, they left Zhou Quan's house with smiles on their faces.
On the ninth day, the four managers returned, along with Chen Yu and his assistant. On the tenth day, the land began to thaw, and they were about to get busy.
Basically, after the 20th day of the first lunar month, small grass sprouts will begin to emerge from the ground, and some flowers should start sowing seedlings around this time.
Li Mai also left the large boxes containing the seeds in the south room of Chen Yu's house, for him to arrange.
Li Mai and Zhou Quan also need to start planting seedlings for some of the flower seeds in the space. They can only plant them in the fields outside after the spring breeze.
They had experimented with the seedlings before, and the two of them were already very skilled, or rather, Zhou Quan was already very skilled.
Thanks to the flowers Zhou Quan planted, Li Mai's home and yard in her space were now beautifully decorated, a riot of color. Nourished by the spiritual energy, the flowers' blooming period was extended considerably, and Li Mai loved her home in the space.
Before they left, they made arrangements for everything in the village, and the managers would keep an eye on things on a daily basis.
When they returned, they received news that Zhou Chun and Zhou Shu had not been sentenced to prison this time, but had instead each received ten strokes of the cane and been released.
Zhou Chun had two children to raise, and so did Zhou Shu. His wife had gone mad, and he had two children and parents to support. The key issue was that they hadn't found any solid evidence regarding their situation. When the constables went to the mountain, they found nothing; it was just a desolate mountain.
In the end, the town magistrate treated them as if they were crazy, so they had no choice but to go back to the village and start living again.
Zhou Chun also stayed in the village. He knelt in front of the clan chief's house and swore that if he did anything wrong again, the clan chief would personally dismember him.
In the end, Zhou Shizhou, for the sake of the children, allowed the family to move back to the village. However, if they wanted that courtyard, they would have to buy it themselves, or rent it for five taels of silver a year if they didn't have the money.
Zhou Chun agreed, determined to work hard and earn money so that his children could have a stable life.
As for Zhou Shu, after returning home, it is said that he has taken his wife's younger sister as a concubine.
He became the envy of the men in his village.
As for Zhou Shu's mentally challenged wife, Xiao Zhao, she remained mentally challenged for several days, and as the year drew to a close, she became even more mentally challenged.
Zhou Shizhou also told Zhou Quan about this, saying that he would keep a close eye on Zhou Chun's situation from now on.
Zhou Quan nodded indifferently. Anyway, his family no longer lived in the village, so he let them do as they pleased. If Zhou Chun could change for the better, he would give him a chance. If he continued to dwell on what happened back then, then he would be narrow-minded.
Now that Zhuzhu is no longer someone they can bully, let's just consider it a blessing for the child in Limai's belly.
On the carriage back to town, Old Man Zhou sighed, "Although we shouldn't abandon any of our clansmen, Zhou Chun is the kind of person who would do anything for money. Sigh, I hope they won't regret it."
Zhao shook her head. "Shizhou is confused, but there's nothing we can say."
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