Ye Caiping and the others were eager to return home. After eating, they immediately took a carriage and headed home.
Soon, they returned to the village.
As soon as the villagers saw the convoy, they knew it was Ye Caiping returning, and they slowly ran over to watch the excitement: "Caiping's back!"
Ye Caiping looked at the familiar faces and greeted them with a smile.
When the carriage stopped in front of the gate, a group of villagers had already gathered around it.
Granny Zhao jumped forward: "Oh my, I've finally been waiting for Caiping to come back. Ever since you left, I don't know why, but I feel like the whole area around here has become less fun."
Ye Caiping's lips twitched slightly, because she had already corrupted Li Zhiyuan's entire gang, so nothing outrageous had happened yet.
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Thank you, fellow villagers. We have prepared some small gifts, which we will give to you later."
Granny Zhao and the other villagers beamed with joy: "Thank you, Cai Ping!"
Ye Caiping chatted with them for a while longer before the villagers dispersed.
Ye Jin'er suddenly said, "Huh, why does the house seem bigger?"
Grandma Ye said with a smile, "Before your mother left, she gave us a blueprint and told us to find someone to install it."
Ye Caiping coughed lightly. "Isn't this the wedding?"
She wanted to spend more time with her parents in the limited time she had, and the house was too small to accommodate them, so she asked for it to be expanded.
Ye Caiping said, "Come in, everyone, and see if you like it or not."
The group then entered the house.
The original two-courtyard house was expanded to four courtyards with the addition of two more. The right side was widened, extending into the east courtyard. (I can't describe it, see the picture below.) The three maids were pleasantly surprised.
Shen Manman's eyes lit up: "Can I live here too?"
Ye Caiping smiled and said, "Of course. Because of the tight schedule, we only added the east courtyard. We will add a west courtyard next year, so that the three of you can each have your own courtyard."
Construction on the house began a few days after they left Beijing. It was suspended for a month in January and resumed in February. The construction schedule was tight, so only the east wing and the back were added.
Fortunately, we have money. As long as we're willing to spend money to hire people, time isn't an issue.
Ye Caiping said, "You three girls, see how you're going to live. Will you all live together in the third courtyard, or will one of you live in the first courtyard in the east wing?"
Shen Manman said, "We should stay together; it'll be more lively."
Jin'er and Huan'er nodded hurriedly.
Ye Caiping patted her head: "Anything is fine."
Ye Jin'er asked, "Have we moved all our things over there?"
Grandma Ye: "No, they're still here. We'll see how you allocate the rooms."
The three maids excitedly gathered together to discuss the room assignments. In the end, they were assigned according to age: Shen Manman would live in the north room on the left, Jin'er in the right room, and Huan'er in the east wing.
Ye Caiping yawned.
Shen Zhiyan looked at her: "Are you tired? Go back to your room and rest first."
Ye Caiping nodded.
Just as Shen Zhiyan was about to take her hand, Old Man Ye coughed and said, "Son-in-law... although you've already gotten married in the capital, you haven't held a banquet here yet. Manman will stay here, and you'll go back to town first. You can only meet after the 22nd, hahaha."
Shen Zhiyan's handsome face stiffened slightly.
Ye Daquan's eyes lit up: "Father is right!"
A smile flashed in Ye Caiping's eyes: "Hmm...that makes a lot of sense."
She was really... tired of him pestering her these past few days.
Shen Manman's eyes also lit up: "This is the village's rule, Dad, you should go back to town first."
I thought that after my parents got married, I would be able to be with my mother every day.
As a result, after the marriage, they avoided each other every day.
She couldn't even find Ye Caiping to comfort her anymore.
Now that she finally had the chance to kick her heartless father out, Shen Manman was overjoyed.
Ye Caiping, Jin'er, Huan'er, Manman, Old Man Ye, and everyone else were all looking at him with their eyes turned "out".
Shen Zhiyan: "..."
Finally, Shen Zhiyan, along with Duanwu and other servants of the Shen family, rode away on horseback, turning back every few steps.
In the evening, Ye Caiping's whole family gathered together for a belated reunion dinner.
Ye Caiping wanted to see Shen Zhiyan.
After thinking for a moment, he packed a few dishes and had his maid deliver them to Shen Zhiyan.
Ye Er's family—
Ye Erquan and Yinhua both went to Ye Caiping's house for dinner.
The Wei family and Ye Peng couple could not go.
At the dinner table, Mrs. Wei kept grumbling: "What's so great about her... She, she... Humph!"
He wanted to scold Ye Caiping for not being as good as them, but after racking his brains, he couldn't think of any reason why Ye Caiping was inferior to them.
Mrs. Wei was furious: "You're so stingy, you've held a grudge over such a small thing until now."
Ye Peng was also in a bad mood. The thought that Ye Jin'er was living a happy life made him feel uneasy.
Their only hope was Wei Xiaojuan's pregnancy.
If Wei Xiaojuan can give birth to a son and the eldest grandson of the Ye family, then they can finally get their revenge.
......
That evening, Ye Caiping had just finished washing up and was lying in bed.
Changxi came in with a letter: "Madam, it's a letter from Master."
Ye Caiping took it and opened it.
Inside was a handwriting familiar to Shen Zhiyan, saying that the food was very good and that he had eaten it all.
Then came a poem.
After reading it, Ye Caiping felt a sweet warmth in her heart. He truly deserved to be called a great Confucian scholar; his knowledge was inexhaustible!
Whether in the capital or on the ship, even when they were inseparable, he would still write her a poem every day.
Ye Caiping quickly wrote a letter praising him and asked Changxi to send it out the next morning.
The next day, at the Shen family's residence—
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