Mrs. Ke comforted the old man Shu and said, "Guoyi is such a grown man, and we've left him enough money. He can stay at home alone for half a month without any problems. How about... we stay in Ningcheng for two more days?"
“…”
Old Man Shu didn't want to talk, he rolled his eyes at Mrs. Ke.
"If you want to stay in Ningcheng, you can do it yourself. Anyway, I'm going back."
With his hands behind his back, Old Man Shu walked out of the guest room and came to the lobby. At this time, he saw a familiar figure. That person was Tan Er from the same village.
Old Man Shu immediately greeted Tan Er and said, "Second son, why are you here in Ningcheng?"
"It's Uncle Shu. I came to Ningcheng with our young master to prepare for the opening of a Zhiweilou branch. Why are you here too?"
"I?"
Old Man Shu originally wanted to say he was here to see Zhuang Zhenmeng, but he was afraid of making too many mistakes, so he simply changed the subject and said, "I've lived in Guangming Village all my life and never seen a big scene. It's rare that I have nothing else to do during this period, so I'm taking my wife to the capital for a walk."
"Is that so? Uncle Shu, you really know how to enjoy life. Before coming to Ningcheng, I heard from the villagers that your house had a very bad smell. At that time, everyone was worried that something had happened to your family. But now that I see you are in Ningcheng, I guess the smell coming from your house is the stench of dead rats."
“Is… is that so?”
Old Man Shu thought to himself that his son Guoyi was alone at home, so there shouldn't be any dead rats in the house. Even if there were dead rats, Guoyi would have cleared them out of the house, so why was there a bad smell in the house?
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Old Man Shu felt. He couldn't stay any longer, so he hurried to the counter to pay the room fee.
After returning to the guest room, Old Man Shu said to Mrs. Ke, "Old lady, hurry up and pack your things. Let's go home and take a look."
"What's so good about it? Wait until Jane Meng arrives. Then we can decide when to go home."
Mrs. Ke was too lazy to pay attention to Old Man Shu. She leaned against the head of the bed and closed her eyes quietly to rest.
Seeing Ke like this, Old Man Shu said angrily, "Don't sleep. You only have your daughter in your heart, but does your daughter have us in her heart? Every day we wait in the room for her to come. I'm really fed up with this kind of life. I want to go back to see Guo Yi. If I don't go back, I'm worried that something will happen to him."
"What will happen if I go to...Guo Guoyi's house?"
Originally, Old Man Shu wanted to keep it a secret from Ke, but now he probably has to tell it.
Old Man Shu said, "Just now I saw Tan Er from our village in the lobby. Tan Er said that there has been a stench like a dead rat coming out of our house. I am worried that Guo Yi will get into trouble when he is alone at home."
"The smell of a dead mouse is normal. No, Guoyi is home alone. If there really is a dead mouse in the house, the smell shouldn't linger for long. Oh no... Could something have happened to my Guoyi?"
Thinking of this, Mrs. Ke no longer had the heart to wait for Zhuang Zhenmeng. She hurriedly packed her bags, greeted the innkeeper, and asked him to help tell Zhuang Zhenmeng that they were leaving. Old Man Shu and Mrs. Ke came to the post station, and they hired a carriage to rush back to Guangming Village.
The other side
In fact, Zhuang Zhenmeng didn't want to go find his parents, but Zhuang Tianming told her that she would enter the palace tomorrow, so many people would prepare things for her today, and she couldn't go out to see anyone.
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