As Chen Shuning spoke, he turned to go to the woodshed to get the large wooden basin he usually used for making models, intending to let Gu Xinyi take a good bath to relax.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, Gu Xinyi hugged her from behind, and then she heard Gu Xinyi's slightly tearful voice from behind.
"Shuning, thank you. It's so good to have you here."
Gu Xinyi is usually a carefree and silly girl. She never shed a tear even when she broke up with Gao Hongyuan several times because of Tian Mi. So what's wrong with her today?
Upon hearing this voice, Chen Shuning became somewhat nervous.
Did going back to Shanghai change your personality? Or did you suffer some injustice?
Logically, this shouldn't be the case! Although he and He Chaoyang didn't go to Haishi, they had been keeping track of the situation there. According to He Chaoyang's friend, things had been going smoothly without any obstacles, and most of the Tian family had already been arrested before the Lunar New Year.
Chen Shuning couldn't understand it, and Gu Xinyi was too embarrassed to admit that she was being sentimental, so she quickly wiped away her tears and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I just missed you after being away for so long, and I wanted to eat your noodles with minced meat sauce."
Chen Shuning inherited the original owner's memories, so she also inherited some of the original owner's good cooking skills. As a native of Beijing, she was naturally good at making zha jiang mian (noodles with soybean paste), a dish that almost everyone in Beijing knows how to make.
So when he heard that Gu Xinyi wanted to eat this, he didn't hesitate at all and replied, "Sure, you take a bath first, and I'll make the dough and noodles right away."
"Hmm, I'll go back to my room to take a shower. I see there's hot water in the big pot in my room. If it's not enough, I'll have Hongyuan come and get some from you."
Chen Shuning herself didn't like taking a bath in unfamiliar places, so she didn't insist. After seeing Gu Xinyi off, she started washing her hands and kneading her dough.
Chen Shuning cooked a large pot of noodles, which included portions for Gao Hongyuan and Wang Zhi. After quickly making a meat sauce, she went next door to invite Gu Xinyi and the others to come over for dinner.
Gao Hongyuan and Wang Zhi finished washing up faster than Gu Xinyi, and were already packing their things inside the house.
Hearing Chen Shuning call them to dinner, they quickly replied, "Okay, we're coming right now."
The two left with the gifts they had prepared for Chen Shuning. They really had to thank Chen Shuning and He Chaoyang for their trip to Haishi.
If it weren't for He Chaoyang's friend's help this time, let alone getting rid of the Tian family, they might have all ended up stranded in Haishi.
He truly never imagined that Grandpa Tian, who used to pat his head and talk to him with a smile when he was a child, was actually a villain who committed murder, arson, and all sorts of evil deeds behind the scenes.
Although they already knew their trip to Haishi would be difficult, they never expected it to be this dangerous.
So this time when he came back, he and Wang Zhi really put their hearts into preparing gifts for Chen Shuning and his wife.
Chen Shuning simply called out once and went back to his hut to get the noodles, otherwise soaking them for too long would affect their texture.
Whether it was because they had gone through life and death together or because the Tian family was no longer a threat, Gao Hongyuan and Gu Xinyi went to the brigade early the next morning after returning to Qingshan Brigade to get a certificate, and then went to the town to get their marriage certificate. Their wedding was set for fifteen days later.
According to Gu Xinyi, the reason their wedding was scheduled for fifteen days later was because they had bought a lot of wedding supplies in Shanghai.
Because there were too many items to bring back, they were mailed back, including the couple's wedding clothes and wedding bed sheets and duvet covers.
Gu Xinyi built her own house, so the two of them didn't need to find a new place; they just needed to tidy up Gu Xinyi's room.
The couple's wedding brought a touch of joy to the educated youth settlement, which had recently been embroiled in such a scandal as Yang Wanqiu's death.
Everything in their new room was the latest style from Haishi, with bright red bed sheets and duvet covers embroidered with golden peonies.
Although it seemed a bit tacky to Chen Shuning and Gu Xinyi, the two time travelers, it was considered extremely stylish by the other educated youth and villagers.
What everyone envied most was the radio that the two brought back from Shanghai, which Gu Xinyi complained was ugly and used up batteries very quickly.
When they heard pleasant voices coming from the small wooden box, many adults in the village were curious and wanted to see if there were any little people hiding inside.
This left Gu Xinyi both amused and exasperated. She didn't know if it was because people came to watch the radio every day or if she had some pre-wedding jitters, but Gu Xinyi was feeling rather irritable lately.
Finally, they decided to discuss with Gao Hongyuan about taking the radio to the black market to sell. The reason was simple: batteries were hard to find, and the radio consumed too much power.
Even without the radio, Gu Xinyi still felt upset. The intense longing for her family that she had felt when she first transmigrated had even dampened her joy at getting married.
Unlike Chen Shuning, who lost all her relatives in her previous life but was reunited with her parents and relatives after transmigrating, Chen Shuning is different.
Gu Xinyi, on the other hand, had loving parents, grandparents, and a brother before she transmigrated. But after arriving in this world, she not only became an orphan without parents, but also a pitiful little girl who was tormented by her uncle's family.
Although she later took revenge, the loneliness of not having relatives and the wedding without their blessings still made Gu Xinyi somewhat anxious.
As a result, she suffered from insomnia for several nights in the days leading up to her wedding.
At first, Gao Hongyuan didn't pay much attention, thinking that it was probably because he was nervous about the wedding, since he was also a little nervous.
But it wasn't until Gao Hongyuan saw Gu Xinyi's increasingly poor mental state and dark circles under her eyes that resembled those of a panda that he became anxious. He approached Chen Shuning and asked her to help him find out what was wrong with Gu Xinyi.
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