Traveling to ancient times with a sign-in system

Chapter 147: Delayed Return
Gu Mei's face turned pale and blue at this, and she yelled in anger, "Whether he comes back or not is none of my business! What do you mean by welcoming him? Why don't you go? You just open your mouth and order others around!"

"I'm not someone who eats for free! I'm not someone who betrays my own people! If you can do these two things, you can just order me around! If I say anything, I'll make it miserable! Otherwise, you'll be the one who'll be miserable! Nothing will go your way, and you'll never have a peaceful life!"

These words were no different from a curse, because Gu Mei could not do either of these two things. She could only stare at Gu Tang with a murderous look, and her eyes went dark with anger.

Gu Tang spat at her, ignored her, and went back to the house to pack his luggage.

Gu Ping'an in the kitchen had also gathered the meat and vegetables, filling four full backpacks. He carried them all to Gu Tang's house and placed them there temporarily. When he left later, he would find a cart to pull them.

"Just leave your things wherever you like. Go back to your room and clean them up. When I'm done here, I'll come over to help you."

Gu Tang helped put things in place, and then urged him to go back to the house quickly.

Gu Ping'an didn't dare to delay and walked back to the house without stopping.

On the surface, there were a lot of things in Gu Tang's house, including two wide-mouthed water jars and ten narrow-mouthed round-bellied jars.

This was originally intended for pickling vegetables, but her father had previously told her that if she was picky, she should wait until the cabbage and radish that had been frosted were harvested, as the pickled vegetables would taste the best.

Therefore, the matter of pickling vegetables was put on hold for the time being.

Now that it is winter, it is time to harvest the last cabbages and radishes. I will pickle some when I move to my uncle's house, and I don't have to worry about anyone ruining the pickle jar.

Except for the jars and water tanks, other cabinets and other items are basically empty. All of Gu Tang's belongings are in the system backpack, with only some worthless things placed randomly on the surface.

We are moving now, so we need to take out all the things that need to be taken out and pack them one by one.

The two water tanks were too big for her and Gu Ping'an to move, so they left them here and waited for her father to come back.

The jars could be moved, so we moved them all onto a cart and took them all to my third uncle's house.

After packing up her things, Gu Tang closed the door and went to her father's room.

There were even fewer things in her father's room, and the two of them combined didn't have as much stuff as Gu Tang alone.

Gu Ping'an moved quickly. When Gu Tang came in, he had almost finished packing. He was just worried about how to move the belongings in the house.

The furniture in the second room was purchased later by her father. When her father got married, the two elders of the Gu family only put a broken bed in the room and nothing else.

Even after Gu Mei and Gu Laian were born, the two elders of the Gu family were still stingy. Her father had no choice but to ask Gu Dazhu's family for help and bought two beds on credit. Later, he found some work privately and slowly paid back the money he had spent on buying the beds.

The same thing went with Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an. When they separated the house, all the household items in the house were bought on credit by her father shamelessly, and it took a long time for him to pay off the debt.

Now that we are moving, all the things in the house must be moved out.

"We can't move these things just by the two of us. They're so big and heavy, even Dad can't move them. Let's put them aside for now. We'll move the lighter items over first. When Dad comes back, he'll ask some of the tribesmen to help move them."

Gu Ping'an nodded, it was the only way, then he went to the backyard and pulled the cart over.

First, move the light and valuable items onto the cart, such as clothes, bedding, and the four baskets of meat and vegetables.

After loading these up, the small cart was already packed to the brim.

Gu Tang locked both rooms, helped Gu Ping'an, pulled a cart of things out of the yard, and walked straight east.

Seeing Gu Tang and Gu Ping'an really pulling a cart of things away, Gu Mei, who had been sitting still inside the house, suddenly became anxious. She hurriedly opened the door and ran to the gate of the courtyard. Seeing the figures of the siblings, she stamped her feet in anger!

I wanted to shout, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

Just now she had a quarrel with Si Ya and said that she did not want to be adopted. If she lowered her head and followed him now, then in the future, that damn girl Si Ya would probably become even more proud in front of her!

And this will become her weakness, and Si Ya will definitely use it to stab her from time to time!

After standing at the gate of the yard for a while with an angry look on her face, Gu Mei suddenly had an idea and turned back to the house without saying a word.

She knew where her third uncle lived, and after packing up her things, she would move there by herself!

Gu Mei is not the only one who is anxious in this family.

Seeing that Gu Tang was about to move away, the sisters Gu Qing and Gu Lian who went to Wangzhai Village to hire him were nowhere to be seen!

Gu Liansheng was pacing anxiously in the east wing, muttering to himself, "How far is it? It's already this late, and these two damn girls haven't come back yet! Could it be that they were playing around on the way and missed the time?!"

Gu Tianbao, standing by, was assuming the worst, looking anxious: "Could something have happened on the way? My elder and second sisters both have bound feet, so they can't walk fast. If they run into any bad guys on the way, I'm afraid they won't be able to escape!"

"What could possibly happen?!" Gu Liansheng shouted impatiently, "It's only seven or eight miles from Shanghe Village to Wangzhai Village! We're on the official road, and it's not our first time going back. What could possibly happen?"

Gu Liansheng scowled, "Don't even think about it! These two damn girls must be complaining about the pain in their feet, so they must be dragging their feet all the way!"

Her bound feet couldn't walk fast to begin with, and if she continued to delay, she wouldn't be able to get back by then!

Gu Tianbao opened his mouth, wanting to say that it was possible that his aunt and uncle's family were not at home, and his elder and second sisters might be waiting for someone to come back.

But when he looked at his father's face, the words were on the tip of his tongue and he was scared and took them back.

……

Thanks to the cold weather, there was no one else on the way east except the brother and sister.

This made Gu Tang breathe a sigh of relief, as he finally didn't have to face the curiosity of the villagers.

When the news of their second wife's adoption was exposed, the threshold of their family would probably be trampled flat. It was better to leave this matter to her father to deal with, she couldn't bear it.

My third uncle lives in the north near the village entrance. The layout of his house is almost the same as that of the Gu family. It is a courtyard house facing north and south.

The main house has three main rooms and two side rooms, and the wing rooms are three rooms on the east and three rooms on the west. The whole house is built with blue bricks and black tiles.

The courtyard wall is made of stone bricks and is very high, providing good privacy. The courtyard gate is also raised and widened, with a gatehouse inside.

Starting from the courtyard gate, there is a long corridor on each side connecting the side rooms and the main hall. When it rains, you can walk on the corridor without getting wet.

Gu Tang was very surprised. This was the first house of its kind in the village.

Especially this spacious courtyard, which is paved with stone bricks.

Except for the corners near the corridor where there is space left for planting things, the rest of the place is paved.

Gu Tang jumped and stepped on the stone bricks a few times, very satisfied with the stone brick courtyard: "From now on, whether it rains or snows, my feet will no longer be covered in mud."