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

While the middle-aged doctor was sighing, Chen Lang slipped away.

"Eh? Where's he?" The middle-aged doctor came to his senses and found that Chen Lang had disappeared. He hurriedly asked the apprentice beside him.

The apprentice pointed to the door and said, "Let's go."

"Why didn't you stop him?" The middle-aged doctor was a little angry. "I've been teaching you for so long, why are you still so tactless?"

The apprentice looked aggrieved.

The middle-aged doctor sighed and stopped blaming the apprentice. After all, he was just a kid in his teens and it was understandable that he didn't understand the ways of the world.

Arriving at the inner courtyard, Xu Fei, the doctor who had previously treated Chen Lang, had just finished cleaning the blood from Master's wound. Seeing his senior brother standing in the courtyard sighing, he asked, "What's wrong, senior brother? Have you encountered a difficult case?"

The middle-aged doctor shook his head and said, "I let my benefactor escape."

He immediately took out his master's jade pendant and recounted what had just happened.

After hearing this, Xu Fei sighed: "These days, people like Brother Chen who do good things without expecting anything in return are becoming increasingly rare."

"Brother just said that he was holding a fish in his hand?"

"How about this? Next time he comes to our clinic, no matter what he has in his hand, we will buy it at double the market price. What do you think?"

The middle-aged doctor said, "Judging from Brother Chen's character, he probably won't accept it."

"How could someone who wouldn't even accept a reward in person accept this kind of help?"

"The only way I can repay him is to charge the lowest price for consultations when anyone in his family is sick and comes to see us."

Xu Fei thought about it and felt that this method was the best. If it was just free medical treatment, given Chen Lang's personality, he would definitely not accept it.

After leaving the clinic, Chen Lang came to Tianshangju and sold all the shrimps and crabs, earning nearly a hundred coins.

With the money, he went to the wine shop and bought a small jar of "Sanlejiang", went to the grocery store to buy some snacks for the children, and finally went to the grain store and bought half a pound of rice noodles.

Rice flour, as the name suggests, is a powder made from white rice. It is specially prepared for infants and young children because many women have insufficient milk after giving birth. Rich families usually hire wet nurses, while ordinary people can only borrow milk from each other.

But it is difficult for rural women to lend to each other because they are not well fed. Most breastfeeding women do not have enough milk to feed their own children, so it is naturally impossible for them to lend to others.

Rice noodles are the best complementary food for infants and young children during this period, but it is not affordable for ordinary people.

The price of half a pound of rice noodles is approximately equal to the price of three pounds of rice.

The money Chen Lang earned today was just enough.

Carrying these things, Chen Lang came to the dock and took a boat to Shanghe Village.

As the saying goes, one day without seeing you feels like three years. It's been almost two days since I last saw Li Xiuzhi and Guoguo, and Chen Lang's longing for them is growing like weeds.

It was almost evening when we arrived at Shanghe Village. The villagers were all rushing home after a busy day's work.

Everyone was surprised to see Chen Lang walking from the village dock carrying a bamboo basket.

The women in the village had asked what Chen Lang had done at Xiaohu's house yesterday, but the results surprised them greatly.

Chen Lang became a good person?

This was even harder for them to believe than Chen Lang becoming the top scorer in the imperial examination.

When I saw Chen Lang again today, I found that he was indeed less aggressive and indifferent than before, and more gentle.

So someone bravely greeted him and said, "Chen Tongsheng, are you here to pick up your wife?"

Chen Lang pointed at the backpack and said with a smile, "I bought some things and came to see them. I'll go home by myself later."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Everyone said that Li Xiuzhi lived a life worse than pigs and dogs in the Chen family, but now it seems that this is not the case at all.

If Chen Lang was really as bad as the rumors said, how could he allow his wife to live in his brother's house?

They should be forcibly taken back home and continue to work like slaves.

Rumor has it that Chen Lang was a spendthrift, but now he has wine and fish in his backpack, and even a lot of snacks for the children.

Can a prodigal son afford these things?

It is true that seeing is believing and hearing is not. Rumors are too unreliable.

This person's reaction also made Chen Lang realize something, so during the rest of the journey, Chen Lang took out all the things in the backpack and carried them in his hands so that the villagers on the road could see them clearly.

In addition, Chen Lang also takes the initiative to greet everyone. If the other party dislikes him and ignores him, Chen Lang will not get angry. But if he meets someone who strikes up a conversation with him, Chen Lang will immediately show 100% enthusiasm and chat with that person.

Why do you do this?

Because a tree lives by its bark and a person lives by his face.

In the past, because she was such a bad boy, Li Xiuzhi was ridiculed and mocked no matter in Hezhong Village or Shanghe Village. Apart from her younger brothers and sisters, Li Xiuzhi had no one to talk to.

Chen Lang had not realized this situation before, but now that he has realized it, he naturally has to make changes.

He wanted Li Xiuzhi to be able to live an upright life in the village, and wanted the villagers to praise her for marrying the right person when they saw her.

He also wanted to prevent Guoguo from being ridiculed by other children of the same age, and to make sure that everyone who saw Guoguo would say, "Your dad is so awesome."

For this goal, what does it matter if you suffer injustice and are looked down upon?

Li Xiuzhi had suffered no less injustice because of me in the past.

Of course, reversing reputation is not something that can be done overnight, but if you don’t take this first step, you will never be able to reverse it.

The several villagers who had chatted with Chen Lang were the media for Chen Lang to reverse his reputation. Chen Lang believed that through their mouths, his reputation in Hezhong Village would gradually turn around.

When we arrived at Li Xiaohu's house, the gate was ajar. The laughter of Guoguo and Lanlan passed through the crack in the door and over the wall like wind chimes, spreading to the vast world outside.

Chen Lang's heart instantly became hot.

He pushed the door open impatiently and called out Guoguo.

Guoguo stood there in a daze as if she was under a spell. After a moment, she turned around and saw that it was her father standing at the door. She immediately spread her legs and ran over, running into Chen Lang's arms.

Chen Lang put down the things in his hand, held Guoguo and turned around several times, laughing and said, "My dear girl, do you miss your daddy?"

Guoguo giggled and said, "I want to!"

After being intimate for a while, Chen Lang put Guoguo down. When he was about to greet Li Xiaohu, he found that the other party was staring at him with a very unfriendly look.

Chen Lang immediately understood that Li Xiaohu had misunderstood.

He must have thought that I was here to pick up Li Xiuzhi, so he quickly explained: "Xiaohu, I just came to see Xiuzhi, I didn't plan to take her back."

Li Xiaohu's expression eased slightly, and he asked doubtfully, "Really?"

Chen Lang nodded vigorously: "Absolutely true!"

"Erlang?"

A gentle voice came from behind him, and Chen Lang's heart melted instantly.

Turning around, he saw the wife he had been thinking about day and night standing behind him, her face full of joy.