Drive a RV and go farming in ancient times.

Xu Huaiyi didn't have much resentment towards his third uncle, but he didn't have much affection for him either, especially since he was willing to be a knife in the hands of the second wife, it was even more impossible for him to get close to him.

So, I refused directly, "I'm really busy that day and can't come back..."

Hearing this, Xu Maobin's expression darkened, and he smiled stiffly and said, "Uncle knows you are busy. You have made a name for yourself now. You do important things all day long, and you meet people of status. Your cousin has no ability, and he has brought shame to you..."

Xu Huaiyi frowned, "Uncle San, I don't mean to look down on anyone. I am just a poor man now. I am not refusing to come back when I said I can't. If you don't believe me, I can't do anything about it."

Xu Maobin looked at him and asked, "If there is a happy event in your uncle's family, will you come back?"

Xu Huaiyi looked at him calmly and said, "I'll come back when I'm free. If I'm not free, I'll just pay a tribute. Uncle is reasonable and won't embarrass me."

Xu Maobin pulled the corner of his mouth in self-mockery, "After all, the relationship between uncle and nephew has become estranged, but uncle does not blame you, it is all your own fault. Back in Xujia Village, uncle watched from the sidelines, never spoke for you, never stepped up for you, how dare you expect you to give me face now? Spring breeze will bring autumn rain, uncle is greedy..."

Xu Huaiyi said calmly, "Third uncle, you are overthinking. It was my nephew who was incompetent at the time. I can't blame anyone else. Helping is a favor, and not helping is my duty. I have never blamed anyone, whether it is you, uncle, or the elders in the clan. I don't blame anyone, and you have never blamed me. It's just that I am not doing my best..."

Xu Maobin was stunned when he heard this, "Then why are you so distant from your uncle now?"

Xu Huaiyi smiled and said, "Don't you know?"

Xu Maobin opened his mouth and was speechless for a moment.

Xu Huaiyi said it more clearly, "I had a falling out with my family a long time ago and severed all ties with them. I wanted to keep my distance, but they obviously didn't want to. I turned a blind eye to the things they did behind my back, not because I was afraid of them, but because it was too much trouble. Uncle knew that they and I couldn't get along, so he never tried to smooth things over. But after you came to Hutian Village, you kept helping them to test me. Don't deny it, no one is a fool. Just like now, why did you come to my house? We both know it in our hearts..."

Xu Maobin felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, his face turned pale.

Xu Huaiyi continued, "You have your concerns and choices, I can't interfere, but I also have my temper and bottom line. Since you are on that side, you can't expect me to respect you without any reservations, right? Sugarcane can't be sweet at both ends. You can't want all the benefits. That's unrealistic..."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the cup and sipped the tea slowly.

Xu Maobin hung his head, his whole body filled with an indescribable gray dejection. After a while, he stood up and said in a hoarse voice, "I am sorry for you, but I have my own difficulties. However, if you are worried, I also have a bottom line..."

Xu Huaiyi frowned as he watched him walk out of the house with a slightly hunched figure. He called Wei Liang in and whispered, "Go check what that family has done again."

Wei Liang took the order and left.

At this time, Gu Huanxi brought in a plate of sliced ​​watermelon, which was chilled and tasted cool and sweet.

Xu Huaiyi poked at it with a toothpick, taking a bite at a time, looking contented, "Where's our daughter?"

Gu Huanxi waved a palm-leaf fan and said casually, "I'm picking peppers in the backyard. Tuanyuan and the others are watching over me..."

"It's such a hot day..."

"Who says it's not true? But your daughter likes to play with those things. No toys are as interesting as the vegetable garden and the crop field. She is also very good at picking peppers. She only picks the ones that are full and dry them in the sun to keep the seeds."

Hearing this, Xu Huaiyi smiled proudly, "As expected of my daughter, she is so smart."

Gu Huanxi thought that it had nothing to do with intelligence, it was a talent that lit up his skills in this area.

She asked about the business, "Uncle San came just now, what's the matter?"

Speaking of this, Xu Huaiyi was in a bad mood. "What else can I do? Ask for information. By the way, I was invited to attend the wedding. I refused. If I really go that day, who knows what will happen to the Xu family and make the whole village laugh at me."

Gu Huanxi asked, "Didn't you remind Uncle San that there was something wrong with this marriage?"

Xu Huaiyi shook his head. "It's too late to remind you now. Even if Third Uncle believed me, Xu Huaihou would have already fallen into their trap and couldn't get out. He might think I have bad intentions. Why should I be the bad guy?"

Gu Huanxi teased, "Aren't you willing to help others? You want to help anyone who is in trouble, but you can just watch Xu Huaihou jump into the fire pit?"

Hearing this, Xu Huaiyi quickly begged for mercy, "Wife, I was wrong. I will definitely stay out of other people's business in the future and never act like a saint. Please let me go..."

Gu Huanxi snorted and laughed, not taking his promise to heart. If he could change, he would not be Xu Huaiyi anymore.

Sure enough, after eating the watermelon, he said that he would go to find Uncle Xu to discuss the matter of setting up a charity hall. He was really eager to spend the 100,000 taels of silver.

Gu Huanxi was too lazy to bully him.

After listening to his ideas and plans, Xu Maoyuan's eyes were red with excitement. "This is good, this is good. This is accumulating virtue and doing good deeds. It will accumulate merits and blessings for our descendants. Good, great..."

Xu Huaiyi advised, "Uncle, let's keep this matter low-key, so as not to make people jealous. People who don't know may think that I don't have enough money to spend, so I'm doing this for charity. I got a windfall, and I feel uneasy if I don't spend it, so I want to help the child."

Xu Maoyuan nodded continuously, "I will listen to you. You are right to worry. We can make a fortune quietly and do good deeds without making them known to everyone. God is watching over us. Everything we do is recorded by God. Only by doing more good deeds can we be rewarded..."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, uncle, to take care of me in the future."

"Do you still need to be polite to me? Besides, this is what my uncle wants most. Don't worry, I will definitely handle this matter well and spend every ounce of silver on the children. Let them grow up safely. It would be best if they can become talented people. Those who don't have any skills can still earn a living..."

"I believe in you. You can do it."

"Uncle tried his best..."

The two of them discussed the charter in general, but as for the details, they would have to gain experience through practice. After all, they had no in-depth experience in charity, so they were just talking about it on paper based on their enthusiasm.

After finishing his business, Xu Huaiyi reminded Xu Huaihou of his marriage, "He was schemed against. He thought he was a hero saving a beautiful girl, but it was actually a trick arranged by others."

Xu Maoyuan became nervous when he heard this. "What should we do? Does your uncle know about this? How about stopping this marriage?"

Xu Huaiyi sighed helplessly, "It's too late. I didn't tell Third Uncle, but with Third Uncle's shrewdness, he might have noticed it. He might have tried to stop it but failed. Huaihou is very stubborn. No one can persuade him once he has made up his mind. He likes that girl, and that girl must have some means to win her over. The two of them are in high spirits right now. If we really separate them, it might cause even bigger trouble."

After hearing this, Xu Maoyuan became anxious and said, "Huaiyi, is there no other way? Can we only watch that kind of troublemaker come in?"

Xu Huaiyi comforted her, "Don't worry, there will be a way. Marry her and she will be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family. No matter what she wants to do, it will be under the eyes of the Xu family. As long as you don't let her be bewitched, she won't be able to cause any trouble."

"Huaihou is easily deceived and has no good intentions. What if..."

"If Third Uncle is smart, he will definitely guard against this."

"Can't you find a way to disrupt this marriage?"

"Uncle, you messed it up this time, can you guarantee there won't be a next time? Flies only target eggs with cracks, we can't prevent them."

After hearing this, Xu Maoyuan's expression suddenly became depressed, "Your Third Uncle and Huaihou were not like this in the past..."

Xu Huaiyi smiled without comment. People change. Some people are reborn in adversity, some become depressed and fall into the mud, and some resort to unscrupulous means after experiencing hardship.

After lunch, the group left. It was too hot to stay, and the children wanted to play in the water, so they wanted to go back.

Sun Yu was also anxious to go home to report the corn yield to his old father, so he rode his horse and went ahead.

The carriage slowly left the village.

Xu Huaili hid in the dark, and only came out after the group of people disappeared. He stared at the wheel tracks, looking thoughtfully. After returning home, he said to Xu Maoshan, "Dad, the third child must have come back for something. Uncle San was fooled by him. Why take the child to play? The city is not as interesting as the countryside. Why did he come here to suffer in such a hot day?"

Xu Maoshan narrowed his eyes and asked, "What did you find?"

Xu Huaili was so excited that he seemed to have caught something incredible. "I don't know what the third brother is transporting. The carriage is covered tightly and there are quite a lot of things. The ruts are very deep."

Xu Maoshan groaned, "Maybe it's luggage, food, or something..."

Xu Huaili interrupted him, "It's impossible. When we moved, we took away all the luggage we could use. If we really left something behind, we wouldn't wait until now to get it. As for the food, it's even more impossible. When the wheat was harvested, we transported several trucks. How could it not be enough? Besides, the food is all in the warehouse on the farm, and it won't be stored in the house here..."

He said with a firm tone and an excited look, "So, it must be something important, that's why they are hiding it like this."

After hearing this, Xu Maoshan also became curious, "What do you think it is?"

Xu Huaili shook his head and said in a hateful voice, "I don't know. I would like to find out, but there are guards guarding the house, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach. I guess there must be something, otherwise, if the third brother's family has left, why would there be several guards left in the old house?"

Xu Maoshan sighed, "What you said makes sense, but we can't find it, so it's all in vain..."

Xu Huaili smiled sinisterly and said, "We can't find it, but the Qiao family can."

"Do you want to tell the Qiao family?"

"Dad, we can't just take advantage of the Qiao family without giving anything in return. We should also give back and let them know how useful we are."

Xu Maoshan thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Xu Huaili immediately packed his bags and went into the city.

So at night, someone came to visit the Gu family. The man was a master and avoided the patrolling guards. However, when he was approaching the main courtyard, he was startled by a restrained wolf howl and was exposed, and almost fell off the roof.

When Xu Huaiyi heard the noise, he immediately put on his clothes and went out to check, but he only caught a glimpse of a figure hurriedly leaving. He was afraid that he had fallen into the other party's trap, so he did not dare to chase after him himself. He called Wei Liang, but due to the delay, even though Wei Liang was skilled, he was unable to catch the man.

"Where do you think the other party came from?"

Wei Liang pondered and said, "He doesn't look like a thief. Judging from the way he escaped, he looked like a secret guard trained by a wealthy family."

"Secret guards?" Xu Huaiyi pondered, "Who would have nothing better to do than to send secret guards to the Gu family? They don't look like they want to kill or rob people, so what are they after?"

Wei Liang naturally didn't know either.

Xu Huaiyi told him to step up his night duty tonight, and then he returned to the bedroom with a heavy heart. Seeing that no one was on the kang, he slipped back into the RV. At this moment, he had already changed his expression, "Nothing to do, go to sleep."

Gu Huanxi glared at him, "Do you think I'm three years old? Why would a wolf howl for no reason? Tell me, what happened outside?"

Xu Huaiyi lay down on the bed, hugged her waist, and said depressedly, "Someone broke into our house, but we didn't catch him. He ran away..."

"Who? A thief?"

"No, Wei Liang guessed that it was probably a secret guard from some family."

"Secret guard? Are you here to assassinate or investigate?"

"I don't know. From what I see, they don't seem to have any bad intentions, but since they came uninvited, they are definitely not friendly forces."

"Who do you think it is?"

Xu Huaiyi smiled bitterly and said, "There are more and more people who are jealous of me now. I really have no idea why. I have offended many people, and they may come to our house to find a way out. I am afraid that my life will be uneasy in the future."

Gu Huanxi reminded, "We just harvested the corn today, and someone came in the evening. Could it be for this?"

Xu Huaiyi's heart moved, "Then his trip was in vain. I have hidden all the corn in the cellar. We are the only two people who can go in."

The next day, Xu Huaiyi found Han Jun at the martial arts training ground and told him what happened last night.

Han Jun was not at home last night. He went to the farm to help Gu Xiaoyu train his staff. When he heard about this, his expression immediately tensed up. "Is he coming for Jin'er?"

Xu Huaiyi had not thought about this before, but now that he heard this, he couldn't help but worry, "Go check it out. If someone really has doubts, we can make plans early."

Han Jun nodded, and seeing that he looked relatively calm, he couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid?"

Xu Huaiyi spread his hands, "What's the use of being afraid? What's going to happen will happen. Besides, there's nothing to be afraid of. Xiaoyu is not the descendant of a criminal. I adopted him and saved his life. Not only am I innocent, but I've also done a great deed."

It’s just that now is not a good time to expose it.

Han Jun said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it. The other party is very likely coming for you. You've offended quite a few people in Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion and the Su family."

Xu Huaiyi laughed dryly, thought for a moment, and added, "It could also be the Qiao family."

"Qiao family? The fourth prince's in-laws?"

"Well, didn't I go back to Hutian Village yesterday? Those brothers in my family are restless and sent someone to test me. Who knows, they might tell the Qiao family about it and exaggerate and say something."

Han Jun looked at him sympathetically, "Then I will focus on investigating the Xu and Qiao families."

Xu Huaiyi was not embarrassed and thanked him with a smile.