The wife of two taels of silver

"mother!"

Gu Zhilan ran out of breath and came over with a smile on her face: "Mom, when will Dad reply to our letter?"

"Ah, reply..." Lin Haitang scratched his head, thinking about how to fool him: "Your father is at war, baby. War is very tiring and dangerous, you know? He may not reply to our letters."

It would be strange if that beast Gu An could reply. He didn't like the original body that much, and he didn't seem to like these two children much either. Lin Haitang didn't think he would reply.

Gu Zhilan's expression became visibly depressed: "Okay."

"Mom, shall we go home tomorrow? I miss Xiaobai so much. I want to go home quickly." Gu Mo looked at Lin Haitang with bright eyes, full of expectation.

"We'll go home early tomorrow morning," Lin Haitang stretched out her body and led the two children out of the space: "Go to bed, it's time to go to bed."

It was late at night and the sound of night watchmen could be heard outside the window.

Lin Haitang lay on the bed, thinking about things in space.

What is the mechanism of space expansion?

Was it because of a change in her thinking, or did she complete certain tasks unintentionally?

She had to try it.

It seems that pregnancy makes you really tired. Not only tired, but also emotionally unstable.

During this period of time, Lin Haitang was inexplicably unhappy, inexplicably irritable, and inexplicably felt that the whole world meant nothing. She was so heartless that she was going crazy.

In winter, there are fewer stalls at the market, fewer people going to the market, and fewer ox carts.

An old man with a red nose from the cold looked at Lin Haitang holding the two children and asked with his hands in his pockets, "Girl, do you want to ride in the ox cart?"

"Sit down and go to Shang'anhe Village." Lin Haitang checked the hats of the two children to make sure there was no air leakage.

"Okay, get in the car and sit tight; we're leaving~" The old man whipped the whip in his hand, and the big yellow ox chewed its lips and slowly pulled the ox cart.

Although the ox cart has a shed, it is not warm and can only block the wind. Because people come and go, people riding the ox cart may bring something with them, so it is not very clean. But this cart is okay, it is clean and there is no peculiar smell or other garbage.

"The girl is just visiting her parents?"

It takes an hour to get from Hua'an County to Shang'anhe Village. The scenery along the way was too boring, so the old man couldn't keep quiet and started chatting with Lin Haitang.

"No, I'm going home. My home is in Shang'anhe Village."

Maybe because she slept well last night, Lin Haitang was in a good mood and started chatting with the old man.

"Are you from Shang'anhe Village? Not really. You look like city people." The old man smiled and whipped the whip in his hand again.

With money, Lin Haitang never wastes herself. She buys a lot of new clothes for herself and her two children, and she chooses good materials. With space to keep them, they look very good.

When he first saw Lin Haitang, the old man thought she was the wife of a wealthy family. If he hadn't seen her looking at the carriage and walking straight towards her, he wouldn't have asked her if she wanted to rent a carriage.

Lin Haitang smiled: "Uncle, how old are you?"

"As for me, I'm fifty-six." The old man patted his chest, feeling very proud.

"I don't think you look like that. You look more like you're in your early forties."

"Hahahahahahahahaha, girl, I, an old man, like you!" The old man laughed heartily.

Lin Haitang touched the two children's hands, which were a little cold. She gathered the two children on her lap and carefully covered them with her cloak.

Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan didn't feel cold at all, they just felt fresh. They wrapped themselves in Lin Haitang's cloak, sometimes shrinking in it, sometimes sticking their heads out, and had a lot of fun.

"Miss, you are from Shang'anhe Village, so you know Mr. Gu An, right?" the old man asked loudly.

Lin Haitang looked strange.

The name Gu An has appeared quite frequently recently.

"Grandpa, that's my father!" Gu Zhilan responded crisply.

The old man was very surprised: "No wonder, the girl is so elegant and the two children are smart and cute, so they are from Gu Xiucai's family."

Lin Haitang didn't answer.

"Miss, you don't know that Mr. Gu once saved my life." The old man didn't care about Lin Haitang and spoke to himself.

"At that time, in order to earn more money, I drove a bullock cart to deliver goods at night. Who knew that the cart overturned into a ditch? I cried out to the sky and the earth, but no one answered me." The old man shook his head, as if he was still scared.

"It was Mr. Gu who passed by there and rescued me. He also called a doctor and let me stay at his house for one night."

The old man sighed: "What a good man, what a good man."

"That's right, alas, good people don't get rewarded... I won't say more... I won't say more..." The old man's voice gradually faded away.

We didn't talk much along the way, and it was almost noon when we arrived at the entrance of Shang'an'anhe Village.

There is not much work to do in the fields now, and the farmers have a rare chance to relax. The women all gather together to bask in the sun, holding baskets filled with thread.

Lin Haitang was in the carport and could see outside through the curtain at the rear of the car, but people outside could not see her clearly. It was just that this old man had been using ox carts to transport goods for many years and was familiar with the people in the village.

"Old Liu, what are you pulling this time?"

The speaker was Aunt Qiao, the famous loudspeaker in the village.

"It's Mr. Gu's family." The old man answered loudly and drove away slowly in the ox cart.

This sentence really made the group of women explode.

"Who did he just say?"

"It is said to be Mr. Gu's family."

"Is it the Gu Xiucai I was thinking of?"

"There are a few Gu scholars in our village, including Lin Haitang at that time!"

"Didn't that woman run away with another man?"

"Yeah, didn't that slut run away with someone?"

"They also ran away with all the money of the old Gu family and took away the two children."

"I guess she's out of money, so she came back." Aunt Qiao said mysteriously, "Gu An sends back three taels of silver every month. How could she not want to accept it?"

"That's three taels of silver!"

The faces of these women showed envy and jealousy, as if the money should have belonged to them.

"Oh, I'm saying this old Gu family, who used to live as well as him, but now he married a woman like this."

"Gu An is not at home all year round. His wife has been slept with by countless men."

"Gu An is also pitiful. He is a good scholar, but he got into that kind of thing, and now he has such a wife."

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Lin Haitang knew nothing about this.

When they arrived at the door, Lin Haitang wanted to give money, but the old man refused to take it.

"Girl, I can't accept this money. You are the boss, but you saved my life." The old man kept waving his hands to refuse.

Lin Haitang said, "Uncle, I can't let you work for nothing. It takes two hours to go back and forth, and the whole morning has already passed. If you don't take the money, I won't be able to sleep well at night."

"I can't accept that. If I wear it out, I, Old Liu, can't even make this little money. I'll have no shame left."

"If you're like this, I'll avoid you next time I see you."

The two of them pushed and shoved each other, and finally, Lao Liu couldn't persuade Lin Haitang and took the money.

As he drove the ox cart back, Old Liu touched his face with his rough palm and muttered softly, "Oh, how embarrassed I am to have accepted money from Mr. Gu's family."