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Chapter 23: The Careless Parents Finally Found Out

In the north, mini houses built with simple materials such as stones and bricks can often be seen in fields and in the shade of hillsides. These small houses are the deity in the eyes of the common people - the God of Land.

When Yu Hongdou saw the small land temple next to her new home, she thought of the level 1 harvest talisman. Good things that can make the land harvest good are always better.

"This is where we are going to live in the future. Hongdou will have her own room in the future. Don't be scared and cry when the time comes~" Yu Sanlang roughly drew a circle and told his daughter the size of the plot of land.

"No way, Dad. How about we plant some flowers inside and outside the courtyard wall?" There are many mosquitoes in the forest. Yu Hongdou thought of planting some flowers and plants that can repel mosquitoes to avoid disaster.

"Of course that's no problem. I'll also plant some fruit trees for us, so you can have fruits to eat every year." Yu Sanlang didn't mind his daughter's little wish, and he agreed readily.

He was certain that he would not live in the village permanently in the future, but the yard could not be left empty, so it would be better to plant more fruit trees so that he would not have to take care of them and could just come back and pick the fruits when the time came.

The father and daughter stayed here and whispered to each other for quite a while, until Yu Hongdou's stomach rumbled, and then they went home contentedly.

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"I'm going to the city to look for a bricklayer tomorrow. Huiru, you two can come with me. First, we can go see Xiaosong so that the four of us can have a good meal. Second, we can also see what we need to buy for our new home. Some furniture needs to be reserved."

Yu Sanlang watched his daughter biting the mung bean cake like a little squirrel, and remembered that his daughter had never left the village at her age, so he suggested that his wife and daughter go to the city with him tomorrow.

Xu nodded without hesitation. When she got married, she brought a few pieces of furniture as a dowry, but they were not made of good wood and had become a bit deteriorating over the years.

If I move to a new house, I'm afraid these furniture won't look good, and I'm afraid I'll have to reorder them, especially for my daughter. A girl's boudoir always needs to be more exquisite, so I have to choose good materials and good styles...

Xu told her husband all these things one by one, and Yu Sanlang nodded, thinking it made sense. The couple then calculated how much money they would need to set aside to buy a house in the county town, and whether they should buy land or a mountain...

Yu Hongdou touched her bulging belly and stared blankly at the night pearl that she had casually placed in the sewing basket.

So her mother took advantage of the time when she and her father were out for half a day to tidy up the house, but never noticed this huge, eye-catching bead?

Should we say that the mother is too generous, or that she trusts and respects her child too much?

Yu Hongdou turned her hopeful gaze towards her father. "Dad, look! There is a pearl that looks valuable. It's perfect as a gift for the county magistrate!"

Unfortunately, the couple missed their daughter's expectant look.

Yu Sanlang took a short rest, and then he dragged his second brother who had come back for lunch break and whispered for a long time, and the two brothers walked out of the house side by side.

Zhang, the eldest wife who came out to feed the chickens, couldn't help but curl her lips and glare when she saw this. When Sun, the second wife, saw this, she spat at him and then went back into the house in shame.

After having eaten and drunk her fill, Yu Hongdou took a short nap. When she woke up, she found that everyone in the family except her father and second uncle had gathered in the yard.

Yu Hongdou thought that the three parties in the second house had already fallen out over debt collection, but at this moment, the three sisters-in-law were actually happily chatting with their mother-in-law, Old Lady Yu.

"Mother, I trust your judgment. Tomorrow I will send Wang Po to the Yao family to propose marriage." Sun's face was full of smiles, and she couldn't hide the joy in her words.

"Mom, I heard someone proposed a marriage to my fourth uncle. Whose family is it? Is it reliable?" Zhang couldn't stand the smug look of the second sister-in-law and quickly changed the subject.

Of course, she asked about her brother-in-law's marriage for a reason. The main reason was that someone came to her and said that she had fallen in love with Yu Silang and promised her a lot of benefits.

"Whether he is reliable or not is none of your business. Don't think I don't know what you are thinking. The fourth brother is as capable and opinionated as the third brother. Eldest brother's wife, I advise you to stay out of trouble." After so many years of relationship as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Yu knew what the eldest brother's wife was going to do just by listening to her voice, and hurriedly warned her.

The eldest brother's family has already offended the second and third brothers. If they offend the fourth brother as well, who will take care of them in the future if something happens?

"Why did I get into trouble, mother? The family I was talking about is really a good one, it's that so-and-so..." Zhang glanced at Xu who seemed like a mute, then looked at Zhang who was stretching her neck, and moved forward to her mother-in-law and whispered a name.

Mrs. Yu frowned at first, then relaxed her brows, stared at her eldest daughter-in-law for a few seconds, and asked uncertainly, "Is it really his family?"

Xu and Sun looked at their mother-in-law and sister-in-law curiously, wondering which family it was, which made their mother-in-law suspicious.

Yu Hongdou, who was standing nearby and watching the whole process, knew that she was coming. The first female supporting role was coming with her generous dowry!

There are three roads around Taoyuan Village, one leads to the county town, and the other two lead to different towns, one prosperous and the other wealthy. The first female supporting role is the girl from the Bai family, a wealthy merchant family in Xingsheng Town.

This girl is also a rather outstanding character. She has twelve cousins ​​in her family, and each of them is a skilled trader. Her family business, from land to water, is growing bigger and bigger.

In the early stage, the family of the female supporting role was impressed by Yu Silang's future, and felt that the Yu family was quite kind, so they wanted to marry the female supporting role to the male protagonist.

The supporting female character actually didn't think much of the leading male character, but she was very ambitious and knew that having more officials in the family would be good for the family business. She didn't expect that the leading male character didn't like her and even made enemies with the Bai family for the leading female character.

In the early stage, the heroine relied on her intelligence and wit to snatch a lot of business from the Bai family. In the later stage, the hero stood behind the heroine, causing the Bai family's business to fail miserably. In the end, they simply moved their family to the coast.

Later, the male protagonist went to the coast to do business, and was nearly killed at sea by the third branch and the Bai family. It was this supporting actress who rescued him. At that time, this supporting actress not only did not get married, but also became the head of the Bai family.

After being rescued, the male protagonist reflected on whether he and the female protagonist had gone too far in their treatment of the Bai family. The female protagonist became jealous, and the couple had a long conflict.

Oh, it’s really exciting to be able to watch a play live.

Yu Hongdou couldn't help rubbing her hands. She really wanted to see if this Miss Bai was as heroic as described in the original novel. The actors in the film and television dramas didn't quite fit the character setting...

It was Xu's turn to have dinner today. Yu Hongdou followed her mother and helped her, but was considered a hindrance. In the end, she had no choice but to come out and beg her father, who was sharpening a sickle, to make her a small slingshot.

"You have to ask your second uncle for this. He's the best at craftsmanship." Yu Sanlang avoided the blade and pointed the sickle handle at his second brother who was sharpening a kitchen knife on the other side.

Yu Hongdou knew the situation and cast a starry eye at the taciturn uncle. She pinched her throat, clasped her hands together and begged her uncle: "Please, uncle, help me make a slingshot~"

Yu Erlang couldn't stand this. He nodded repeatedly with the corners of his mouth that almost never turned up, and promised his niece that if she had a good sleep tonight, a slingshot would be delivered to her tomorrow morning. Then he turned around and went to the back of the house to look for a suitable branch.

"You little rascal!" Yu Sanlang smiled and tapped his daughter's nose, feeling more certain about his second brother's arrangement.

After dinner, the family gathered together for a rare time to talk about their anticipation for spring ploughing and the schedule for planting and collecting herbs, etc. There were no arguments or disputes, and the old man was very happy to see them, so he couldn't help but talk for a while longer.

When Yu Sanlang returned to his room to rest, Yu Hongdou had already gone to bed early.

"What, what is this?" Before going to sleep, Xu habitually went to check on her daughter, but her eyes were attracted by a fluorescent light.

"What...?!" Yu Sanlang had already taken off his clothes and was about to get into bed. When he saw his wife stuttering in shock, he immediately jumped out of the bed in fear. When he saw the direction his wife was pointing, he stayed there.

"Night Pearl?" The couple looked at each other in silence for a moment, and then spoke in unison about their guesses about the object in front of them.

"Is it really a night-shining pearl? And it's so big?" Yu Sanlang raised his hand to open the sewing basket that was half covered with a small handkerchief with five blessings holding longevity as the pattern. He picked up the bead that was twice as big as a longan in disbelief. Is this thing really the legendary night-shining pearl?

"It's probably true..." Like her husband, Xu had never seen a real night-shining pearl, but when she was young, she heard a lot of stories about rare treasures from her father and brother. Although she couldn't be 100% sure, she was 70% to 80% sure.

The couple fell silent again, looked at the sparkling beads in their hands, then looked at their daughter who was sleeping with sweat all over her head, and suddenly smiled in tacit understanding.

"Do you think our daughter is the reincarnation of some virtuous person?" Xu thought of the plays she had heard before, about the carp spirit repaying a favor or the reincarnation of a virtuous person. She didn't want her daughter to be labeled a monster, so she only thought about the future.

Yu Sanlang didn't like to hear about reincarnation or not. Hongdou was their good daughter. He held the night-shining pearl in one hand, blew out the candle, and pulled his wife into bed: "I heard that the darker the sky, the brighter the night-shining pearl will be. Let's see how bright it is today!"

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