Since Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun are leaving tomorrow morning, everyone worked together tonight to prepare a large feast to send them off.
As Yunhua served the dishes, she said reluctantly, "This food is so delicious. After this meal, I don't know when I'll be able to eat it again."
Lu Chuan joked, "The capital isn't that far from here, what are you afraid of? Whenever you want to eat, you can come back."
At this point, Yunhua sighed, "I probably won't be staying in the capital for long this year. After the new emperor ascends the throne, I'll be wandering around again."
Zhao Yunyun laughed and replied, "It's not as pitiful as you make it out to be. Didn't you travel around a lot in previous years?"
Yunhua shook her head. "This year is different. With the war starting, I'm afraid even if I wanted to come back again, it would be a pipe dream."
Zhao Yunyun thought about it and agreed, so she didn't say anything more.
As for what Yunhua was doing, Xu Han and Lu Chuan had no idea. They only knew that he was very busy, so busy that he didn't even have time to eat.
Moreover, there are often dangers, and the body is constantly covered in injuries, both major and minor. Before the old injuries have healed, new ones are often added.
Logically speaking, Yunhua is a Taoist priest, so he shouldn't be like this. However, neither the Taoist priest nor Yunhua had ever mentioned it, so Xu Han and Lu Chuan wisely refrained from asking.
Everyone has secrets, and Xu Han chose to respect that and not ask.
The two had been curious about Yunhua and the Taoist priest, but they only thought about it and didn't intend to find out the truth. As the saying goes, the more you know, the faster you die.
The atmosphere at the dinner table became heavy for a moment. In the end, the Taoist priest personally poured Yunhua a glass of wine, and then Grandpa Zhao changed the subject, and everyone happily continued eating.
Because we had to get up early tomorrow, everyone consciously refrained from drinking too much today. We stopped short of drinking, so as not to delay tomorrow's schedule.
In the stillness of the night, the oil lamp inside the Taoist priest's room remained lit, and the faint sounds of conversation could be heard from within...
When Lu Chuan got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, he saw that the lights in the backyard were still on. When he came back, he said to Xu Han, who was still half asleep, "It's so late, and the Taoist priest and Yunhua are still not done."
"They probably haven't finished talking yet. Let's go to sleep. These are things we shouldn't know. We should be sensible and just pretend we don't know anything."
The next morning, when Xu Han got up, she found that no one was home, the yard was quiet, and even the family dogs were not there.
He thought to himself, "Didn't we say we were going to send Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun off today? Where are they? Why aren't they home?"
Xu Han went to the backyard for a walk. Apart from Ze'er, who was still asleep, no one else was home. She thought to herself: "Strange, I didn't get up late today! Why is everyone gone?"
Could they have already left? Thinking this, Xu Han immediately went to the woodshed to check the things she had packed yesterday. As soon as she opened the door, she saw that the huge pile of things she had packed yesterday was indeed gone.
Seeing this, Xu Han finally breathed a sigh of relief. She thought to herself, "Thank goodness, I was so scared! There was no one at home, I thought something had happened! It seems they left while I was still asleep."
That's good too. Xu Han is most afraid of parting. Every time she has to part, she feels depressed and extremely sad.
Xu Han stood for a while, adjusted her emotions, and then continued to immerse herself in the busy day.
About half an hour later, the courtyard gate was opened from the outside. Xu Han, holding Ze'er, raised her eyelids slightly and asked indifferently, "Are you gone?"
Grandpa Zhao and the Taoist priest walked in from outside. They were not surprised at all by Xu Han's attitude; it seemed she was angry.
The Taoist priest said awkwardly, "Let's go, that..."
Just as the Taoist priest was about to explain something, Xu Han asked, "Where is Mu'er? I haven't seen him."
Grandpa Zhao explained, "Mu'er went with Xiao Chuan to see them off. Yunhua needs to go to the county town to rent a carriage later, so she left a little early. Xiao Chuan saw that you were still sleeping, so he didn't wake you up."
Xu Han simply gave a faint "hmm" and then went back to doing her own thing.
Actually, Xu Han wasn't angry at all; it's not like they'd never see each other again.
Besides, we already said goodbye yesterday, and everything that needed to be said has been said.
However, Xu Han still acted childishly and threw a little tantrum, thinking that she had to tease the two of them.
Grandpa Zhao and the Taoist priest quickly realized that Xu Han wasn't really angry, so they didn't take it seriously and soon forgot about it.
Seeing that the sun was already high in the sky, the two went to the stream to continue the follow-up work on installing the bridge.
When Lu Chuan returned with Mu'er, it was already past lunchtime. Xu Han took out some of the food she had prepared for lunch from her spatial storage and served it to them...
After the bridge was installed, there was nothing else to do. There wasn't much work to be done in the fields either, so everyone was idle again.
Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest spent their days running into the mountains. When Grandpa Zhao had nothing to do, he would also go fishing or play chess with the Taoist priest, just passing the time.
February has arrived in the blink of an eye. As the temperature rises, winter is over and spring is here, and all things are reviving.
The weeds in the ground are increasing, especially in the orchard, where more and more weeds are sprouting and feeding the soil.
After breakfast that day, Xu Han suggested that since the fields weren't busy at the moment, they should fence off the orchard so that they could raise chickens and ducks there later.
Xu Han's family knew about her large-scale breeding business and were very supportive.
Chickens are raised in the orchard, so they can find insects to eat directly in the orchard, and the orchard is spacious, making it easy for the chickens to roam around.
Chicken droppings can be used as fertilizer for fruit trees, and chickens also eat the weeds in the orchard. This kind of recycling couldn't be more convenient.
Not only does it save the trouble of weeding the orchard, but it also reduces the need to feed the chickens much more, killing two birds with one stone. Everyone is in favor of this idea.
Without further ado, the Taoist priest and Lu Chuan immediately grabbed their tools and went to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo.
In the early stages, you won't have many chickens at home, so you don't need to enclose a very large area. You can expand the enclosure as you raise more chickens later.
The two worked for half a month to build the chicken coop, and also built a new chicken coop in the orchard so that the chickens could take shelter from the rain.
To prevent the chickens in the orchard from being harmed by other things in the mountains, Lu Chuan specially built a doghouse so that his dog could live there and keep watch.
As a result, other small animals dare not approach this area, much less harm the chickens in the house.
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