Xie's mother put the bowl of rice on the bedside table with a fierce look on her face. "If you don't coax me well, I'll punish you. I still have the soles of my shoes that I used to spank you when you were a child! You naughty child..."

Xie Zhenting: “…”

He held his forehead with his hand because of a headache.

That feeling of being abandoned by parents is here again!

What on earth did Gu Nanzhi do to make his mother not even care about her own son who just woke up, and just bombard him?

Did he make her angry?

No, right?

She kicked off the quilt while tossing and turning last night, and he secretly covered her with it!

Mother Xie showed off her feminine power in the east room for a while and then left. After a while, she came back again.

A washed, torn sole was hung on the window frame of the east room.

The soles of the shoes were facing the bed.

Xie Zhenting: “!!!”

Looking at the familiar sole, my whole body feels... numb!

Outside.

Gu Nanzhi's voice came, comforting Xie's mother.

"Mom, please be more cautious! There's only a wall between the front yard and the back yard. If you keep making such a fuss, he'll be exposed sooner or later!"

"Okay, okay! Daughter-in-law, whatever you say is right. I'll keep it to myself..."

Hearing his own mother's voice being so different when she spoke to Gu Nanzhi and when she spoke to him, Xie Zhenting said: "..."

I've heard that when a man marries a wife, he forgets his mother, but he married a wife...

His mother seemed to have forgotten him?

After getting rid of Huo Mingda and Xie Zhenting woke up again, Gu Nanzhi at home was completely relieved. After breakfast, she followed the two elders and Xie Jianbang to the mountains to collect herbs.

It happened to be the rainy season, and with the nourishment of the rain, the medicinal herbs in the mountains grew more vigorously!

In just a short while, the group had collected enough herbs to fill four baskets.

Xie Jianbang was young and strong. Once the baskets were full of herbs, he was responsible for transporting them down the mountain. At noon, Gu Nanzhi went down the mountain and processed the herbs while receiving the neighbors who came to see the doctor.

After the theft incident, Xu Xiangling hasn't done anything naughty these days.

In the afternoon, Wang Wanning came to Gu Nanzhi with a stick to chat. She asked why the small door to the alley was locked. Gu Nanzhi found an excuse to evade the question. Then Wang Wanning mentioned the wedding banquet of Xu Xiangling and Huo Mingda...

"Xu Xiangling sent me an invitation last night. The banquet was scheduled at the state-owned hotel in town. It was said that the Huo family was generous and directly booked the entire hotel. I thought, after all, we have known each other for a while. Even if we can't be friends, I can't be too stingy when she gets married. I gave her a big red envelope, but in the end..."

Too many things have happened recently, and the relationship between Wang Wanning and Xu Xiangling is no longer the same as before. When she mentioned her, she looked depressed, "But she fell in love with my watch. From her words, she wanted me to give it to her as a wedding gift."

"But my watch was a birthday present my grandpa gave me when I was sixteen. Now my grandpa is gone, and I can't bear to give it to her..."

"If you don't want to, then don't send it!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Nanzhi immediately said, "Gifts these days are all about the heart. Is it still popular to order? You are just too good to her, and some people really don't deserve your kindness to them!"

As he spoke, Gu Nanzhi looked at the watch on Wang Wanning's wrist.

In that era, you couldn’t buy imported watches of the Plum brand without connections, and the prices were incredibly high, costing three or four hundred yuan!

Xu Xiangling is really shameless. She asked for such an expensive watch as a wedding gift!

Don’t you even take a look at her wedding banquet and wonder if it can even be set up?

"I also think that I've been too good to her and have made her appetite bigger. And we've already broken up, but she still has the nerve to say that. I'm really..."

Wang Wanning sighed, looking helpless.

She was a person who was always sincere to others and didn't know how to refuse others. Even though she felt that Xu Xiangling's request was excessive last night, she took Xu Xiangling's face into consideration and didn't say anything unpleasant, but just said that she would think about it.

Thinking about it afterwards, she was really angry in her heart, otherwise she would not have found Gu Nanzhi to vent her dissatisfaction.

"Now that you know, put away your bad intentions!"

Seeing this, Gu Nanzhi couldn't help but said, "Wang Zhiqing, you should be more careful! I'm not judging others by my own standards, but Xu Xiangling... you'd better stay away from her in the future, otherwise, I really don't know if I can help you!"

She always kept in mind Wang Wanning's fate in the book.

That's why she would remind her from time to time. Even when she wanted to bring Wang Wanning and Xie Jianbang together, it wasn't because she was too ambitious, but...

These days, life in the countryside for female educated youth is much more difficult than for male educated youth!

Innocence is a shackle!

It will lock up a lot of people!

As far as she knew, the ratio of male to female educated youth returning to the city was very different, and it was because of this...

Wang Wanning comes from a wealthy family and has a gentle personality. It is not surprising at all that such a person would have the same ending as in the book!

Gu Nanzhi wanted to bring her and Xie Jianbang together, maybe he wanted to help her!

In the original book, Xie Jianbang did not stay in the countryside for too long. After Xie Zhenting returned to Beijing, he would take his parents to Beijing to develop. However, by that time, he had already married his second wife. Even though he had made a name for himself in Beijing, his family was not at peace...

In this sense, there is no question of whether they are worthy of each other or not. It just depends on whether the two people can like each other!

According to Gu Nanzhi's observation, Wang Wanning was not completely indifferent to Xie Jianbang, especially when Wang Wanning met Xie Yuanbao when she was leaving, she gave Xie Yuanbao two candies and touched his little head...

This made Gu Nanzhi even more certain of his guess!

Seeing Gu Nanzhi staring at the candy in his hand, Xie Yuanbao hesitated and handed her a piece. "Auntie, do you want to eat it? If you want to eat it, you can only eat one piece. I have to save the remaining piece for my sisters..."

"Be good, Yuanbao! I don't want to eat it!"

Gu Nanzhi came back to her senses and rubbed Yuanbao's head. "Yuanbao knows to share delicious food with his sisters. What a good child! However, next time you take other people's things, remember to ask the adults at home first, and remember to thank them after you take them!"

Xie Yuanbao tilted his head and thought for a while, "Okay! I'll go thank them right away!"

Having said that, Yuanbao turned around and followed the direction Wang Wanning left.

Seeing this, Gu Nanzhi couldn't help but smile.

Yuanbao didn't come back until dinner time. After he came back, he kept talking about how great Wang Zhiqing was and how he taught him to recognize such and such words...

Xie's mother was happy to hear this, and when she saw Xie Jianbang was going to the backyard to deliver food, she snatched the bowl and added two spoonfuls of vegetables on it.

Xie Jianbang looked at the protruding rice bowl and wanted to say that Wang Zhiqing couldn't eat so much, but he didn't say it. At the urging of Xie's mother, he went to the backyard.

Wang Wanning had a small appetite and could not eat so much food. Looking at the leftover food in the bowl, she was very distressed.

Seeing Xie Jianbang eat her leftovers without saying a word, Wang Wanning: “…”

Even more distressed!

That night.

Gu Nanzhi had been hiding in the east room for the whole day and had not entered it. Now it was time to go to bed and her bedding was still in the east room. She had no choice but to go, but...

She didn't expect that when she entered the room, she would see Xie Zhenting, who was dressed neatly and looked like he was about to go out.