I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Gu Wenxuan's hands were dark, thin and rough. Not only were they not beautiful, they were even a little ugly. But at the moment when Bai Jingzhou held this hand, he felt the same as before, just like when Gu Wenxuan taught him martial arts and they occasionally had physical contact. His heartbeat quickened and his ears turned red.

He let Gu Wenxuan lead him and followed her obediently until Jia Guizhi and Gu Yongming came back with two pheasants and a rabbit. Only then did Gu Wenxuan let go of Bai Jingzhou's hand unnoticeably before his parents saw their extraordinary behavior.

Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi had not expected Bai Jingzhou to be able to hold on for so long. Meeting him and Gu Wenxuan in an unexpected place, Jia Guizhi could not help but smile and said, "It seems that Jingzhou has been practicing martial arts very hard during this period."

If he hadn't already built up his physical fitness, with his small body, he would have collapsed from exhaustion two quarters of an hour ago.

Bai Jingzhou smiled shyly, "It was Sister Wenxuan who taught me well."

Which mother wouldn't like to hear her child praised? Jia Guizhi loved to hear it anyway.

The more she looked at Bai Jingzhou, the more she liked him. He was good-looking, capable, good-tempered, and good at talking. Most importantly, he only cared about her daughter. It would be hard to find such a good future son-in-law even with a lantern.

The satisfied old mother made the decision immediately, "You two must be tired after walking for such a long time. I see there are clean stones ahead. Why don't we take a break before we continue walking."

The four of them then found a stone to sit on beside the mountain road, took out the bamboo tubes they brought with them to drink water, and then each ate a still warm brown sugar cake.

After resting for about a quarter of an hour, the four of them got up and started on their journey again.

In the latter part of the journey, Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi hunted another hare and a pheasant.

The four of them took the prey and the rice and flour in the backpacks to Jia Guizhi's parents' home, treating them as their own food during their temporary stay in Jiajia Village.

Jia Guizhi's parents didn't know that their daughter and son-in-law would come today. Seeing that the weather was good, the old couple simply took Jia Yuelan out hunting.

Like the original owner of Gu Wenxuan's body, Jia Yuelan has been learning hunting and martial arts from her family elders in recent years, but she is only nine years old after all, so no matter what she learns, she is just getting started.

Her grandparents didn't want her to suffer too much, so they taught her to always walk in moderation.

Jia Guizhi was very clear about all of this, so she was not in a hurry even though there was a big lock on the door of her mother's house. She just smiled and asked Gu Yongming, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou to sit on the stone pier in front of her mother's house and wait.

The four of them waited at the gate of the Jia family for half an hour. As Jia Guizhi had said, Jia's father and mother returned to the village with Jia Yuelan before noon.

The three of them carried three wild rabbits, a pheasant and a badger. Jia Yuelan and Jia's mother also had baskets filled with wild fruits and vegetables. They saw Gu Wenxuan's family sitting at the gate of their house from afar, and Jia's father, mother and Jia Yuelan quickened their pace at the same time.

"Dad, Mom, Yuelan."

"Grandma, grandpa, and cousin."

Jia Guizhi and other three went over and greeted Jia's father and mother and Jia Yuelan in turn.

Father and Mother Jia responded with laughter. Jia Yuelan shyly called out "Aunt, Uncle, Cousin", and then the three of them stared at Bai Jingzhou with curiosity at the same time.

Jia Guizhi introduced the three people, "This is Wenxuan's fiancé Jingzhou. Dad, Mom, you should have seen him, right?"

Father Jia nodded, and Mother Jia smiled and said, "Yes, he has seen him. He went to Jiajia Village with his father to see a doctor."

But at that time he had not yet gotten engaged to Gu Wenxuan, and he had not even changed his mind to become the Bai Jingzhou he is today.

As everyone was talking and laughing, Jia's mother took out the key and unlocked the big copper lock on the door. She smiled and waved to everyone, "Come in, everyone."

Unlike the fence wall of the Gu family and the yellow mud wall of Bai Jingzhou's family, the wall of the Jia family is made of stone and looks very solid.

Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou walked towards the Jia family's courtyard while looking around inconspicuously.

The Jia family had three main rooms, three side rooms, two warehouses and a kitchen. Father and Mother Jia and Jia Yuelan lived in the east and west rooms of the main house. Whenever Jia Guizhi came with her husband and children, they would live in the east side room.

This time, Bai Jingzhou was one of the new people traveling with them, so Grandmother Jia arranged for Gu Wenxuan to live with Jia Yuelan in her room.

Gu Wenxuan and Jia Yuelan had no objections. In the past, when Gu Wenxuan's parents brought her two younger brothers along, the two girls had lived together.

After putting away the clothes, Gu Wenxuan and others walked out of the house and took the initiative to help the Jia family with their work.

Jia Guizhi went to help Lady Jia and Jia Yuelan prepare lunch, Gu Yongming went to help his father-in-law deal with the injured or dead pheasants and rabbits, and Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, one chopped firewood and the other put the chopped firewood into the firewood pile by the wall.

At noon, Grandmother Jia cooked four dishes: cold-boiled rabbit cubes, stewed chicken with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with green onions, and stir-fried pork belly with shredded pickles. The staple food was the steamed buns made from Erhe flour that Gu Wenxuan and the others brought.

A group of people sat around, eating with relish, and occasionally chatting with each other. In this rare lively atmosphere, Father and Mother Jia never stopped smiling.

As hunters, they are short of food but not meat, but they don't usually waste money like this. In their family, the meals are only so good during festivals and when their daughter and son-in-law come to visit.

At other times, they would sell the valuable hunting gains immediately, while the pheasants and rabbits would be made into bacon or dried meat, and when they came down the mountain, they would take them all to the town or county to sell.

When everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Jia Guizhi helped Grandmother Jia clean up the dishes while saying to her parents, "Dad, Mom, Yongming and I plan to take the two children to the west tomorrow, so we won't be home for lunch."

Father Jia nodded and said, "Then you should be careful."

Seeing that he didn't say he couldn't go, Gu Yongming knew that there were probably no refugees who had turned to banditry in the nearby mountains.

He glanced at his daughter and thought that the girl must be very happy this time.

Gu Wenxuan was really happy. Deep in the mountains, there must be a lot of valuable medicinal herbs and prey there, right? She really needed some small change!

Jia Yuelan also wanted to go. She had never been to the two mountains in the west since she was a child.

She glanced at her grandfather, but Father Jia was chatting with Gu Yongming at the moment and didn't notice the brief glance Jia Yuelan gave him.

Jia Yuelan pursed her lips and continued to wipe the table with her head down, somewhat disappointed.

Gu Wenxuan sighed secretly in her heart. This little cousin of hers was good in every way to others. No one would feel uncomfortable when getting along with her. However, her overly cautious style of doing things was not very friendly to her.

Of course, she developed this habit because she was not happy in her original family, not because she was born to be so timid and cowardly.

Like her grandparents, Gu Wenxuan was reluctant to scold her for being too cautious or force her to correct her mistakes. They all hoped that she could slowly adapt to a normal family environment and relationships with relatives.

In this way, Gu Wenxuan could only act like the original owner and occasionally serve as Jia Yuelan's mouthpiece.