Quick travel: The poor little thing in the period novel strikes back

In the end, Gu Zhen was carried back to Gu's house by kind-hearted villagers. At that time, Shi Yan was burning paper for Gu's mother. She was shocked to see Gu Zhen being carried back unconsciously.

She could only ask someone to take Gu Zhen into the house and ask what had happened. When she learned the reason, she felt a little unhappy.

Shi Yan herself didn't know much about Gu Xiang, the person with whom she exchanged.

I just remember that on the day when I returned home, Mrs. Gu Xiang listened to Shi Jiacheng's words and felt that this guy was a little love-sick.

But at this moment, as a girl, it is only natural for her to go home and burn incense. It's not like she lives thousands of miles away and it's inconvenient to go back and forth.

They say they are worried about getting pregnant and it would clash with the funeral, but it is still unknown whether she will get pregnant or not.

And based on Shi Yan's understanding of the development of this world, Gu Xiang had never been pregnant before she died of exhaustion. She had originally planned to recover her supernatural powers and find an opportunity to help her sort out her body.

There is no need for that now. What an ungrateful person. Shi Yan doesn't want to care about him anymore as long as she is guaranteed not to work herself to death like in her previous life.

Shi Yan sat on the edge of the kang, looking at Gu Zhen, who was unconscious but still had a frown on his face, and she was filled with mixed feelings.

Gu Zhen is a sentimental and responsible person, and he is very nice to his younger siblings.

It’s just that the Gu family was too poor before, and they had to spend every penny carefully, so they lived a hard life.

When he learned that his sister had taken the initiative to marry the daughter of the Shi family to him as his wife, he was very disgusted at first and did not want his sister to give up her happiness for the rest of her life.

It was only after Gu Xiang herself said that she had a good impression of Shi Jiacheng that Gu Zhen and Gu's mother agreed.

There is no need to prepare anything for a marriage of exchange, but Gu Zhen still does his best to prepare a dowry for his sister, for fear that she will not be able to stand up straight in her husband's family.

Of course, these words were not said by Gu Zhen to her. They were discovered by Shi Yan herself based on the plot of the original world and her observation of Gu Zhen.

Shi Yan put her hand on Gu Zhen's arm and began to transfer the few special powers in her body to Gu Zhen.

This special ability only made the sleepy Gu Zhen's brows relax slightly, but it could not cure the disease.

After all, she didn't have any extra superpowers to check Gu Zhen's physical condition, so she could only use her superpowers to stimulate Gu Zhen's body's self-protection function and speed up his recovery.

After Shi Yan confirmed that Gu Zhen was no longer in any serious trouble, she returned to the mourning hall to guard over him.

She didn't realize how long she had been guarding before she heard someone knocking on the gate. When she opened the door, she found that it was the suona player hired by Gu Zhen for the funeral, and a young man from the village who came to help carry the coffin.

The Gu family’s earthen stove did not collapse, so Gu Zhen built a temporary stove in the middle of the yard.

Hot water had been boiling in the mornings these past few days, so Shi Yan poured a glass of water for everyone and asked them to sit for a while. Then she quickly took the pot and some food to cook porridge for everyone.

Having lived for several lifetimes, and although someone has always been taking care of her, Shi Yan has the experience and knows a little bit of every skill.

She also knows how to cook, but when she first came to this world, based on the original owner's personality, she didn't know how to cook, so she was very unfamiliar with cooking now.

She didn't give enough water, and she was going to make porridge, but in the end it was neither dry nor watery, and the bottom of the pot was burnt.

However, the meal was given to the people who came to help, and they didn't mind.

Even though it tastes bad, as long as the food fills your stomach, that's enough.

Shi Yan did not stay with the men. Instead, she moved a bench and sat outside her and Gu Zhen's house, eating the sweet potatoes that Gu Zhen had put in when she was making a fire.

Waves of sweet fragrance drifted into the room. Gu Zhen was already remembering something in his mind, and the aroma made his stomach rumble. Gu Zhen, who was still sleepy, was woken up by the greed.

At first he was a little confused as to why he was lying on the kang. He even couldn't help curling his lips when he saw his young wife chewing sweet potatoes with satisfaction through the open door.

When I looked forward again, I saw a person sitting in the yard with his hands tied with white cloth, and I was suddenly awakened.

When he thought about what his sister had done, his brows, which had been relaxed, immediately furrowed into a "川" shape.

Gu Zhen got off the ground and looked at the sky. He knew that he couldn't waste any time, lest he miss his mother's burial.

According to the custom in the village, women are not allowed to go up the mountain to attend funerals, so after waking up, Gu Zhen told Shi Yan and Gu Tao to stay at home, and then called everyone who had finished breakfast to prepare to set off.

Shi Yan was still very worried about Gu Zhen's physical condition. His complexion did not look good at the moment, and he was ready to leave without eating anything.

She had no choice but to peel the half-eaten sweet potato and stuff it into Gu Zhen's mouth.

Finally, the matter of Gu's mother's death came to an end after she was buried, but it was not over for Gu Zhen, Shi Yan, and the village chief.

As the village was busy with the harvest and planting and there was no one available to help, Gu Zhen and Shi Yan had to go to the back mountain to chop trees and carry soil to rebuild the kitchen.

The village chief privately asked around to see if anyone saw who brought straw into the Gu family's house on the day the Gu family's kitchen caught fire.

In this era, unlike in later generations where there are surveillance cameras everywhere, if the village chief wants to know something, he can only rely on asking and word of mouth.

It did take a lot of time to find out who moved the straw, but it was not without results.

After hearing that someone saw Gu Xiang taking straw back to her parents' home that day, the village chief told this directly to Gu Zhen Shiyan. As for how to deal with it next, whether to resolve it privately, or to report it to the police, or to let the village chief be a witness, it was all decided by the Gu family.

Shi Yan never expressed her opinion, but just sat there quietly, accompanying Gu Zhen, who had remained silent ever since he learned that Gu's mother's death might be related to Gu Xiang.

"When I went to Shi's house that day, I had already let her make a choice. To me, he is no longer a family member."

"But I didn't expect that my mother's death was also related to Gu Xiang. No wonder she was so unwilling to come home."

"But when mom was alive, she always asked us brothers and sisters to support each other. I can't send someone to the police station."

Shi Yan just listened to Gu Zhen quietly without expressing any opinion.

"But she was unwilling to apologize in person. I think even if I really kicked her out of the Gu family, my parents wouldn't blame me."