I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Ning Qirui didn't feel anything real but tossed and turned for a long time before falling asleep. He lay next to Bai Jingzhou and had a rare good sleep.

It was not until the next day when the sky brightened that Bai Jingzhou lifted the quilt and got off the kang, and Ning Qirui opened his eyes in a daze.

Bai Jingzhou folded up the quilt he was covering himself with and said, "Please clean yourself up. I'll go find someone to help heat up the buns we had left over from yesterday."

They gave out a total of fifteen thank-you gifts yesterday, which means that there were a total of five pounds of brown sugar and thirty meat buns left in the baskets they carried back.

Gu Wenxuan could finish five or six meat buns as big as an adult man's fist in one meal, and Bai Jingzhou and Ning Qirui could each eat three. Bai Jingzhou planned to take the other dozen home with other things.

Ning Qirui said "hmm" and started to fold the quilt skillfully.

About a quarter of an hour later, he finished washing up and walked out of the house, just in time to run into Bai Jingzhou, who was holding buns and a kettle and raising his hand to knock on Gu Wenxuan's door next door.

Gu Wenxuan had already gotten up. She opened the door, and the three of them had a delicious meal of big, authentic meat buns, with the free boiled water provided by the inn.

After dinner, Gu Wenxuan, accompanied by the waiter assigned by Geng Dongjia, went to a nearby coachman's shop to rent a carriage. Bai Jingzhou took Ning Qirui to buy him new clothes, shoes and socks, and a bamboo tube with a stopper for holding water.

By the way, he also bought some freshly baked brown sugar steamed cakes and red bean paste glutinous rice balls from a street stall, intending to take them back for his family to try.

The three of them returned to the inn one after another, loaded the things deposited in the inn onto the carriage, and then waved goodbye to Geng Dongjia and others.

The coachman waved his whip, and the horses followed his instructions and rushed towards the north gate.

On the way, Bai Jingzhou would chat with Ning Qirui from time to time, on the one hand to give him a general understanding of the current situation of the Ning family, and on the other hand to relieve his nervousness and anxiety.

But even so, as Liulin Town got closer, Ning Qirui became visibly restless.

He hesitated for a moment and then carefully asked the question he was most worried about, "Cousin, you said my parents have been insisting on looking for me. So, what is the attitude of my elder brother and my younger brother?"

Over the years he had been making a living in the state capital, he had seen many families turning against each other over a few ounces of silver or even a few dozen copper coins. He had no confidence that his elder and younger brothers would be happy that their parents always had to spend money to fill the bottomless pit of "finding people".

Bai Jingzhou did not hide it from him, "Your elder brother and your younger brother both support your parents in looking for you. Although one of them is calm and the other is lively, they were both taught to be very sensible and reasonable."

He comforted Ning Qirui, who looked nervous, "As for the two old people, although they have the advantage of seniority, what they did is not right, so they dare not bring this matter to the table and use a tough attitude to stop your parents."

Ning Qirui moved his lips, and after a while he said, "My parents...know that I was deliberately abandoned by that person?"

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "She wanted to lie. When your parents asked her, she said you were kidnapped. She also said she went back to look for you, but as an old woman, she couldn't outrun a young and strong man, so she had no choice but to ask your parents for help first."

Ning Qirui was so angry that his teeth were chattering. Just as he was about to say "she lied", Bai Jingzhou patted his shoulder soothingly.

"Don't be angry, God still has eyes." Facing Ning Qirui's puzzled eyes, Bai Jingzhou asked him, "Do you still remember Grandma Wang next door to your house? The tall and thin old lady who has been at odds with her all her life."

After hearing Bai Jingzhou's last words, Ning Qirui finally vaguely remembered a little bit about the old lady. He asked, "Is it the old lady who quarreled with her every now and then?"

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "Yes, it was Grandma Wang who told your parents that she left you and ran away."

"The old lady saw you being taken away by the human trafficker from afar, so she wanted to send a message to your parents, asking them to immediately call people they knew to chase the human trafficker. Then she happened to hear her lying."

"Thanks to Grandma Wang for providing your parents with the correct information, otherwise they would have definitely gone west to look for you all these years."

Although due to the social environment and family situation, the efforts that Ning Qirui's parents could make in "finding someone" were quite limited, but at least, their direction of looking for someone was always correct.

If Grandma Wang, who was so angry at the vicious woman's nonsense, had not exposed her lies, Ning Qirui's parents might never have known that their child was taken south by human traffickers, and not put into a sack and carried into the deep mountains in the west as the vicious woman said.

Unlike the Ning family including Ning Cuizhi, Bai Jingzhou, who had already seen the evil of human nature in his previous life, did not have any strong emotions such as confusion and resentment towards his grandmother's behavior of abandoning her grandson and running away, and then misleading her son and daughter-in-law.

He despises the other party's meanness and baseness, but he will not spend time and energy holding a grudge against anything.

He said to Ning Qirui, "Don't let hatred dominate you, but don't be shy in front of them because of seniority issues. It's you who was abandoned by your own grandmother, and it's you who suffered so much outside. You have the right to be a little willful and rebellious."

"If they force you to tell lies to save their reputation, you can go to Baijia Village and live with me and your aunt."

His grandmother had no regrets about abandoning her grandson, and his grandfather had been trying to persuade his uncle not to waste money on finding someone.

In their opinion, even without Ning Qirui, they still had the eldest and the third son, and two grandsons. Whether it was to continue the incense family line or to do some hanging pots and banners, it was enough.

People like this should be made notorious so that all the neighbors know their true colors. Otherwise, they will use the word "filial piety" to do things that harm their descendants in the future.

Thinking of this, Bai Jingzhou couldn't help but be thankful that his uncle and his mother did not inherit the selfish nature of the old couple, otherwise Ning Qirui would have been abandoned long ago, and Bai Jingzhou himself would not have the comfortable life with a harmonious family now.

He looked at Ning Qirui, "Did you remember everything I said?"

Ning Qirui nodded, then subconsciously looked at Gu Wenxuan.

Gu Wenxuan was puzzled, "Why are you looking at me?"

Ning Qirui hurriedly shook his head, "No, nothing."

He didn't dare to say "I'm afraid you'll object" because he was afraid that if he said it, the other party would really object. If he had a way out, even if he didn't really go, he would feel more at ease. He couldn't let himself mess things up.