I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

After returning to the Jia family, Bai Jingzhou immediately started working on extracting honey.

He took out the cut honey combs and squeezed them, allowing the honey to slowly flow into a clean wooden basin. He then filtered the honey with a clean cloth to remove impurities. Finally, he put the filtered honey into a washed and dried ceramic jar, covered it with a lid and stored it in a cool and dry place.

The amount of honey they harvested was not much, so Bai Jingzhou specially divided it into three small ceramic jars, leaving one for Father and Mother Jia, one for Gu Wenxuan, and the other for himself.

At first, Grandmother Jia refused to accept it, but after being coaxed by Bai Jingzhou's words, she smiled and no longer remained formal with him.

After finishing the work of extracting honey, Bai Jingzhou also dealt with the medicinal herbs he collected on the way back and forth.

The others were not idle either. Although they did not go into the mountains again, the miscellaneous chores at home were enough to keep them busy for the whole morning.

The women were working and chatting at the same time, and time passed quite quickly. However, as time went by, Grandmother Jia became obviously absent-minded.

Gu Wenxuan and the others understood what she was worried about - whether it was Jia's father and his party, or Gu Yongming and the others, it was already past noon, and they had not yet returned to the village.

No one was very enthusiastic about lunch, and the speed of work in the afternoon was obviously slower. In the end, Jia Mu, Jia Guizhi and Jia Yuelan simply went directly to the village entrance and stared at the mountain road in the distance for a long time.

Gu Wenxuan felt that this was not a solution, so she said to Bai Jingzhou, "I plan to go out and see what's going on."

Bai Jingzhou had expected this, and he said, "Together."

Gu Wenxuan hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and agreed to take him with her.

The two of them simply packed up some necessities, and then went to the village entrance to say hello to Jia Guizhi and the other two.

Jia Guizhi and the other two then realized that they were not able to stay calm, but had decided from the very beginning to go out of the mountain to look for it.

Jia Guizhi said, "I'll go with you too."

Gu Wenxuan shook her head, "No need."

After saying this, without waiting for Jia Guizhi to speak again, Gu Wenxuan quickly slipped away with Bai Jingzhou.

Jia Guizhi couldn't go with them unarmed, so she had no choice but to continue standing at the entrance of the village with an anxious look on her face.

Including Jia Guizhi's fifth cousin, the families of other young and middle-aged men who had left the mountain yesterday also gathered at the entrance of Jiajia Village one after another.

Everyone watched Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou disappear into thin air, and then continued to look at the end of the mountain road with worried looks on their faces.

Gu Wenxuan, who had been stared at by everyone's scorching gazes all the way, was not affected at all. She was the kind of person who could remain calm and think of countermeasures calmly the more critical the situation was.

As she quickened her pace and walked out of the mountain, she said to Bai Jingzhou in a deep voice, "Let's go to Liulin Town first. If we can't find anyone in the town, we'll hire a car to go to the county town early tomorrow morning."

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "When we pass by Baijia Village, let's go back to the village and call more people."

Gu Wenxuan hummed, "If I don't meet my father and grandfather by the time I get to Baijia Village, I'll go back to the village and ask the village head to help me hire someone."

As the two were talking, a convoy slowly emerged from the woods about three miles away from the foot of the mountain.

Because they were quite far away, Gu Wenxuan couldn't tell whether there were people she knew in the convoy, so she called out to Bai Jingzhou, "Look!"

Bai Jingzhou looked in the direction of her finger, "Ox cart?"

Gu Wenxuan, "It should be."

The journey was so slow that a horse-drawn carriage was out of the question. Donkeys and mules had never appeared in the little owner's memory, so there probably weren't these two kinds of creatures nearby.

"Could it be Uncle Gu and the others?"

"I don't know." Gu Wenxuan reached out and pulled Bai Jingzhou, "Let's go, let's run faster."

She wanted to get closer to the convoy as quickly as possible so that she could see clearly whether there were anyone she knew in the convoy.

Bai Jingzhou understood and ran after her without saying a word.

They were walking downhill now, so it was not difficult for them to run.

The two of them ran for a long distance and were almost at the Xun River at the foot of the mountain. Gu Wenxuan finally saw clearly that the first ox cart slowly approaching them was being led by her father himself.

She grabbed Bai Jingzhou who was still running, squinted her eyes to identify him carefully, and soon she saw her grandfather sitting cross-legged on the second ox cart.

Gu Wenxuan breathed a sigh of relief, "My father and grandfather are back!"

Bai Jingzhou was more careful than her. When Gu Wenxuan was identifying her relatives, Bai Jingzhou quickly counted the number of people in the convoy, "The people who followed should have returned, the number is correct."

Gu Wenxuan smiled happily, "Then you wait here for them, I will run back to tell the villagers now."

To go back, they had to walk uphill, which was much more difficult than going down the mountain. Gu Wenxuan was concerned about Bai Jingzhou's small body and was afraid that he would get tired, so she simply didn't let him run faster than her.

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "Okay."

It was just a matter of going back to the village to report a message. With Gu Wenxuan's ability, she would definitely not encounter any danger along the way, so Bai Jingzhou didn't have to follow Gu Wenxuan.

He stood where he was, watching Gu Wenxuan rush out like an arrow from a bow, and then run at an accelerated speed on the winding mountain road.

Bai Jingzhou laughed and shook his head. Her physical condition was indeed much better than at the beginning, otherwise she would not be so energetic.

He turned around and greeted Gu Yongming and the others with a smile, "Uncle Gu, Grandpa, and all the cousins."

Gu Yongming asked him, "That was Wenxuan just now, right? Why was that girl running in such a hurry?"

Bai Jingzhou quickly looked at everyone and saw that no one was injured and their faces matched. He then smiled and explained, "The villagers were worried about you and were standing at the entrance of the village looking down the mountain. When Wenxuan saw that you had returned safely, she immediately ran back to inform everyone."

Gu Yongming slapped his head and said, "I was so happy that I lost my mind."

This time they sold the wild boar and python they hunted for a good price. He was so happy that he forgot the key issue of "time". He didn't even think that the villagers would worry if they came back late.

In fact, it wasn't just him. Everyone else, including Jia's father, was so excited along the way that they didn't think about anything else.

Father Jia felt a little embarrassed. He felt that as an elder, he should be the most stable of all people, but he just got excited along with this group of young people, which was very wrong.

He called out to everyone, "When you get back, quickly explain to your families, and then quickly come to my house to eat meat!"

The meat was bought by Gu Yongming. In order to thank everyone for taking the trouble to accompany him from the town to the farm thirty miles away to deliver live wild boars and rabbits to his important customers, Gu Yongming went to the town to buy flour and pork on his return trip, so that he could prepare two decent dishes to reward everyone when he returned to Jiajia Village.