The whole family traveled through ancient times with their house

Jiang Yan was walking at the back, watching the interaction between the two brothers in front, but she just smiled and said nothing.

When he set out on the road again, Sansheng was much more obedient, and he used the stick in his hand properly, no longer imitating Monkey King.

After walking a little further, they saw Guan, who was panting.

Guan was also tired and sweating, her face flushed.

The moment Guan saw them, she started complaining, "It's so hot it's killing me. I really shouldn't have agreed to let you out then. This scorching weather isn't relaxing at all; it's torture."

Guan was mumbling to herself, and Jiang Yan felt embarrassed not to respond, after all, it was she who initiated today's incident.

Ersheng and Sansheng did not respond either. They did not feel tired and found it quite fun. Most importantly, they had gained something, and it was the meat they had been thinking about so much. They were even distracted thinking that they would come again in a few days.

Yichen couldn't bear to see Aunt Guan nagging in loneliness, so she echoed her in a baby voice.

Guan's nagging finally came to an end, and she came over to help Jiang Yan take off the backpack. She wanted to carry Jiang Yan for the next distance.

Jiang Yan wanted to refuse by saying that she was not tired, but Guan helped her take off the backpack without any explanation.

When the backpack fell into Guan's hands, she felt it was quite heavy, so she reached out and pulled away the green grass covering it.

When Guan saw the pheasants, rabbits and wild duck eggs in the basket, all her fatigue seemed to disappear.

"Oh my god, where did you get all these goodies?"

"Mom, there's a reed marsh over there. There are a lot of wild duck nests in the reed marsh, and there are little wild ducks in the nests."

"Then why didn't you catch any?"

"I didn't let them catch them because I was afraid the little ducks would grow up and fly away, and we wouldn't have raised them in vain."

"True. But these wild duck eggs look good."

"My Aunt Jiang said that wild duck eggs are better to eat with rice when they are pickled into salted eggs."

"Really."

"Well, wild duck eggs are less fishy when they are salted."

"In our area, as long as we can fill our stomachs, no one cares whether it smells fishy or not." Guan thought this was unnecessary.

But Yichen still preferred food with fewer strange flavors, so she quickly expressed her opinion. "I care."

"I care too."

When Sansheng heard sister Chenchen say that she cared, he also shouted that he cared. He wanted to keep in step with sister Chenchen.

"Okay, okay, okay, you are all ancestors." With Jiang Yan's help, Guan put on the backpack and then threw the pot to Jiang Yan.

"The job of pickling duck eggs is all yours. I'll just listen and do what you say."

Jiang Yan liked Guan's straightforwardness and agreed without hesitation.

Thinking of the harvest in the basket, Guan's enthusiasm infected everyone.

Dasheng stood by the river, waiting for his mother and Aunt Jiang to come back.

Sansheng was walking in front, and when he saw his eldest brother, he asked, "Brother, why didn't you come to pick us up?"

Dasheng also wanted to go, but when he thought about his father and Captain Dong going back to the Captain's Office together, he expressed his guess with some concern.

"Maybe, maybe we're going to have a war here."

"Are we really going to fight?" Ersheng's voice was not afraid, but rather a hint of excitement. He was ten years old this year and could also join the youth camp to help.

"I'm not sure either. It was the Captain and Dad who went to Blackrock City."

Jiang Yan knew that they couldn't rush this matter. They were lucky that they could intercept the secret letter and bring it back to the captain in time.

Although she didn't know what was written in the secret letter, she could conclude that it must be very important news.

She didn't understand what happened later. Those required planning and layout by the centurions or thousand-householders, or even higher-level officers. They were professionals and had the final say on whether to defend or fight.

...

Ning sat on a tree stump at the door, her eyes fixed on the other side of the river. The eldest daughter-in-law Yang, along with several younger siblings, would let the two children take a sneak peek from time to time, for fear that the old lady would get too obsessed with something.

The second daughter-in-law of the Ye family secretly approached the eldest sister-in-law and asked in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, is that really Xiaoliu's wife and child?"

"pretty close."

Ye Laosan's wife also tiptoed over, but before she could ask, Ye Dasao nodded first.

"But we are in this situation now. Xiaoliu also died in the battle. I guess..."

"It's normal for them not to recognize us. Just like what my sister-in-law said, Xiaoliu is gone, and we are still exiled. Even if... we can't..."

"Second sister-in-law is the most well-read among us, and she also speaks the longest."

"You, you still want to do this at this time..."

"Yes, even at this point, Second Sister-in-law still speaks half-heartedly."

"You~"

"You what?"

“You guys!!”

"Pfft~"

The three sisters-in-law found joy in the midst of hardship, and this also infected the two women who came out of the west wing.

When Yang saw the two of them, she said with concern, "Fourth sister, fifth sister, why don't you take a rest?"

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law two, sister-in-law three, we have rested enough."

"..." Yang wanted to persuade her two sisters-in-law to be more open-minded. One of them was divorced because of her natal family affairs, and the other asked to be divorced because of her natal family affairs.

But when she was face to face with her two sisters-in-law, she didn't know what to say. She was really afraid that she would accidentally say something she shouldn't.

Several people were suffering in silence when they heard Guan's loud voice coming from the other side of the river, "Sister, you have to do it today. If I do it, this good thing will be wasted."

"Okay, I'll do it."

"Then I'll take care of the chickens and rabbits first."

"I pickled duck eggs."

"Is there not enough salt?"

"It's not enough. I bought a little less salt last time."

"I'll ask the eldest brother to go home and get some more salt."

"Hey, I'll be there right away."

The sound of talking could be heard faintly from the other side of the river. After a while, a young woman carrying a backpack appeared by the river, followed by the child from yesterday.

Seeing the child, Ning's eyes changed. She looked at the child's every move greedily, as if she wanted to engrave it in her mind and memory.

Yichen squatted behind her mother and lowered her voice before speaking to Jiang Yan, "Mom, the old lady across the street has been looking at me."

"Just don't look at her."

"Mom, when did you learn to be an ostrich?"

"Baby, this is a bad deal. We have to act like ostriches."

"That's right. My father died in battle, and those people on the other side still thought he was their child." Yi Chen shook the ahoge on her head, and suddenly a word came to her mind. "But now, that idiom has been truly proven."

"Which idiom?"

"No one can prove his wrongdoing."