Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

New Year’s Eve, stay up all night.

Guoguo might have had a premonition of something, and after eating the New Year's Eve dinner, she stayed on Chen Lang and refused to get off.

In the second half of the night, her eyelids could not be opened, and her little hands were still tightly holding Chen Lang's sleeves and refused to let go.

Chen Lang gently patted his daughter's back and coaxed her to sleep.

After holding on for another half an hour, Guoguo finally couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep.

Chen Lang carefully put her on the bed and covered her with a blanket.

When he turned around, he saw Li Xiuzhi looking at him with tears in her eyes.

Chen Lang walked forward, gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Li Xiuzhi's eyes, and said, "Why are you crying? It's not like you won't be coming back."

"I'll be back in two months at most."

Li Xiuzhi threw herself into Chen Lang's arms, tears streaming down her face.

Chen Lang could also understand Li Xiuzhi's feelings, because in ancient times when transportation was inconvenient, traveling long distances could be equated with the word "separation".

In "Wulin Wai Zhuan", many viewers scolded Xiucai as a scumbag, saying that he fell in love with someone else after only two or three months of Xiao Guo's absence. At that time, Chen Lang also felt that Xiucai's affection was just a character setting.

But at this moment Chen Lang understood Xiucai very well.

Xiao Guo's home is in the capital, and it would take a month to get there even by carriage. For the scholar, once Xiao Guo goes home, he will most likely never come back.

At the same time, after Xiao Guo returned to the capital, he did not ask anyone to pass on any verbal messages, let alone letters. In an era without telephone networks, such a situation basically meant that the two would never see each other again in this life.

He and Li Xiuzhi are the scholar and Xiao Guo with their identities reversed.

It takes half a month to travel from Nanhe County to Qinzhou Prefecture by carriage. The mountains are high and the rivers are long. If something unexpected happens along the way, Chen Lang and Li Xiuzhi will be separated forever.

Even if the journey is safe, if Chen Lang goes to Qinzhou Prefecture and passes the examination to become a scholar, many wealthy families will take the initiative to extend olive branches and invite Chen Lang to be their son-in-law.

Li Xiuzhi even heard that every time the results of the imperial examination were announced, servants from wealthy families would wait in front of the list with sticks. After confirming who ranked first, they would knock the person unconscious with a stick, tie him up and take him home, and force him to spend the wedding night with their daughter, thus making the matter a fait accompli.

When she thought of this, Li Xiuzhi's heart couldn't calm down at all.

In fact, Li Xiuzhi really wanted to go with Chen Lang, but she was afraid that doing so would make others think that she was a jealous woman, thus affecting Chen Lang's future.

So Li Xiuzhi could only pretend that she was unwilling to go.

Now that they were about to part, Li Xiuzhi could no longer pretend. She just wanted to hold her husband like this, forever.

Chen Lang felt a chill on his shoulders. Li Xiuzhi's tears had soaked his clothes.

"Xiuzhi, come with me."

Chen Lang pulled Li Xiuzhi up to the roof and sat on the beam to look at the moon.

"Xiuzhi, let me read a poem to you."

Li Xiuzhi rested her head on Chen Lang's shoulder and hummed softly.

"The thin clouds make tricks, the flying stars spread hatred, and the silver man is far away in darkness. When gold, wind, jade and dew meet, they will defeat countless people in the world.

Tenderness is like water, and the good time is like a dream. I can't help but look back at the Magpie Bridge on the way home. If the love between two people is long-lasting, why should we be together day and night? "

……

Nanhe County, Xu Mansion.

Xu Mengru sat in front of the window, holding her chin with one hand, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and let out an inaudible sigh.

The maid gently put a cloak on her and said softly, "Miss, it's late, go to bed early."

Xu Mengru smiled bitterly and said, "Hong'er, do we women have to get married?"

The maid Hong'er asked, "Miss, is the Third Master urging you to get married again?"

Xu Mengru nodded. "I received a letter today asking me to go to Qinzhou Prefecture. They said they have arranged a marriage for me."

Hong'er frowned and said, "Qinzhou Prefecture? It's so far away. If the young lady marries there...who will take over the business in the county?"

Xu Mengru said: "I retreated again and again, from Qinzhou Prefecture to Guangling Prefecture, and then from Guangling Prefecture to Nanhe County, but they were still not satisfied."

"They always think that women can't manage the household."

"Over the years, they have been introducing men to me, hoping to marry me off and hand over all the business to the men in the family."

"But do they have the ability to do that? They've ruined all the business in Guangling Prefecture, and even less than one in ten of the Xu's cloth shops in other counties remain. Now they're targeting Nanhe County. Where do these bastards want me to retreat to?"

Hong'er quickly said, "Miss, don't be angry. It's not worth it to get yourself hurt."

Xu Mengru closed her eyes, exhaled slowly, and said, "Hong'er, pack my bags for me. I'm going to Qinzhou Prefecture."

Hong'er said, "Miss, if you leave, won't you be handing over the business in Nanhe County to the Third Master's people?"

Xu Mengru said, "I'm not going on a blind date, nor am I going to get married. I'm going to completely draw a line between me and Third Uncle!"

"I, Xu Mengru, don't want this relative anymore!"

Hong'er was shocked, "Miss, are you going to sever ties with our family?"

"This will be criticized."

Xu Mengru said, "Being stabbed in the back is better than being bullied by them for the rest of my life."

"Besides, if even a scoundrel like Chen Lang can do it, am I, Xu Mengru, any worse than him?"

Seeing that the young lady had made up her mind, Hong'er said nothing more and turned around to pack her bags.

Early in the morning, as soon as the rooster crowed, several carriages drove out from the side door of Xu's mansion and headed towards the city gate.

At the same time, a carriage slowly drove out of the Sheng Mansion.

Chen Lang doesn't like being seen off, because farewells are always accompanied by crying, especially Guoguo, who might faint from crying.

Not long after Chen Lang's carriage left, Li Xiuzhi ran to the door barefoot and could only see the back of the carriage.

She opened her mouth and wanted to shout, but in the end, she swallowed the word "Erlang" back and just said silently in her heart: "Erlang, I'll wait for you to come back."

Chen Lang was not alone in taking the exam this time, but brought Xiao Qi with him.

When scholars went to take the imperial examinations, they had to bring a servant with them. In addition to helping with chores, the main reason was that it was too lonely to take the exam alone. With someone accompanying them, at least the journey would not be so boring.

Xiao Qi drove to the city gate, suddenly pulled the reins, turned around and said, "Master, that's the Xu Mansion's carriage in front."

Chen Lang said, "Xiao Qi, don't call me the boss when you go out. You can call me Master or Young Master."

"We are going to take the exam, not to do business."

Xiao Qi nodded: "I understand, sir."

Chen Lang asked, "What did you just say?"

Xiao Qi said, "I said that the carriage in front is from the Xu Mansion."

Chen Lang opened the car window and looked forward. Sure enough, the Xu family's carriage was waiting in line to leave the city.

Chen Lang was very familiar with this carriage, because Chen Erlang had often stopped carriages on the street to express his love.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave the city. Let's find a place to eat first. We'll leave the city after the Xu family's carriage has gone far away." Chen Lang closed the car window and said calmly.

Xiao Qi turned the car around and drove towards the street next to him.