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She lifted the carriage curtain and saw that she had arrived at the dock, not the Yulong Temple.

"Husband, what are we doing here?"

She looked at Yu Kangjing with a surprised expression.

"Let's go home." Yu Kangjing smiled and took her hand.

"Going home?" Shen Jinzhu had a vague guess in her heart, but she couldn't believe it.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

"Go back to Jiangnan. Take the children and pay New Year's respects to your parents-in-law." Yu Kangjing finally said what he had been holding back all night.

Shen Jinzhu could no longer hold back her tears, which had been welling up in her eyes, and they instantly streamed down her face.

"Why didn't you say so sooner!" She lightly punched Yu Kangjing's chest with her fist.

"I just wanted to give you a surprise." Yu Kangjing chuckled.

He instructed his guards to carry the boxes of luggage onto the ship.

"This boat has been chartered, just for our family. We'll arrive in Hangzhou in ten days. We can even celebrate the Lantern Festival together." Yu Kangjing explained his plan in detail.

"Then what about your job? You're not going to resign, are you?" Shen Jinzhu stared at him nervously.

"Don't worry, I've arranged everything." Yu Kangjing smiled mysteriously.

"After I spend the Lantern Festival with you at the Shen family's house, I will ride as fast as I can to Huzhou Prefecture. My superior has an official document that needs to be retrieved. I volunteered to take on this task. All I need to do is deliver the document back to the capital before the second day of the second lunar month."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jinzhu realized that he had planned all of this long ago.

"You should have told me earlier."

She finally felt relieved.

Yu Kangjing laughed and said, "This matter may not be able to be accomplished, so I didn't tell you. You haven't been back to the Shen family for almost ten years, and your parents-in-law must miss you very much."

Shen Jinzhu stopped crying and started laughing.

At that moment, she knew she hadn't married the wrong person.

……

Life on the ship was boring.

At first, Yu Ningyao was very enthusiastic and kept asking her father to take her fishing and to see the scenery. But after she got tired of playing, she simply ate and slept.

But Yu Ziying couldn't stay still, and insisted on dragging her fishing together.

"Sister, sit down. I'll catch a big fish for you, and we'll make fish soup tonight," Yu Ziying promised, patting her chest.

Yu Ningyao stared at his small frame, wondering if he could pull up a big fish if there really was one.

But she was never one to spoil the fun, so she immediately clapped and cheered, "You're awesome, brother, for catching such a big fish!"

It focuses on maximizing emotional value.

After being encouraged by her, Yu Ziying's eyes instantly revealed a look of mutual appreciation.

Having a younger sister is great; a brother with a younger sister is like a treasure.

The eldest brother only knew how to study, while the second brother would study chess, as long as his younger sister wholeheartedly played with him.

Yu Ningyao nestled obediently in her maid's arms, watching Yu Ziying fish.

But after a full half hour, and with the maidservants who had been carrying her changing two or three times, Yu Ziying still hadn't caught a single fish.

Yu Ningyao yawned, and was about to advise him to pack up his fishing rod and have something else for dinner, and not to hope for a big fish.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, Yu Ziying excitedly pulled on the fishing rod.

"I caught it! I caught it! And it's a big fish!!!"

He pulled hard, but still couldn't pull it up.

"Come help me, it's so heavy, it must be a super, super, super big fish!" Yu Ziying urged the guards on both sides to come over quickly.

The guard obeyed the order, took the fishing rod, and tried to pull it up.

Unexpectedly, they still couldn't get it moving.

The two quickly peeked out and saw a figure that was faintly visible.

"It's not a fish, it's a person!"

Hearing the two exclamations, Yu Ningyao was startled.

Did we catch a dead body?

The guards quickly informed Yu Kangjing of the matter, and Yu Kangjing immediately dispatched guards who were skilled in swimming to retrieve the body.

A woman and a child were pulled out of the water.

"Is he still breathing?" Yu Kangjing asked.

Yu Ziying and Yu Ningyao each grabbed one of his thighs and hid behind him, both curious and afraid.

The guard checked their breathing and shook his head.

Yu Kangjing hadn't expected to encounter such a thing, and said, "If that's the case, then let's stop at the next dock and take the body to the yamen to report the case."

"Cough cough cough."

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman on the ground suddenly coughed, then vomited a puddle of water, and sat up straight.

"Aaaaaah! It's come back to life!"

"Aaaaaah, a ghost!!!"

The maids were so frightened that they scattered in all directions.

The woman ignored them and began to search the child's body.

“!@%……￥&**” she said in a language that no one could understand, her expression extremely anxious.

A short while later, the child also vomited a puddle of water and opened his eyes.

The crowd became even more frightened and kept their distance from them.

Hearing the commotion, Shen Jinzhu, who was in the cabin, came out and asked, "What happened?"

Yu Kangjing hurriedly picked up the child and stepped back with his wife in his arms.

He explained, “Ziying was fishing earlier and caught two people. I ordered Xu Da and Xu Er to pull them out of the water. Xu Da said they were dead, but the woman suddenly sat up. Then, the child also woke up.”

He felt a chill run down his spine after he finished speaking.

This was the first time he had ever encountered something so bizarre in all his years of life.

"Thank you all for saving our lives. We are not ghosts." The woman's face was somewhat pale, but her voice was strong and clear.

Hearing her say that, the group of people who had been trembling with fear felt much more at ease.

"We fishermen are used to fishing, so we can hold our breath longer than most people. I just couldn't catch my breath earlier, which is why I startled you all. I'm so sorry," the woman said again, thanking them.

Seeing that she spoke and acted with composure and without any strangeness, Yu Kangjing breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He couldn't help but ask, "Where are you from? And how did you fall into the water?"

The woman glanced at the child instinctively, but said nothing.

There seems to be something unspeakable.

"Don't get cold, change your clothes first."

Seeing that the two were soaking wet, Shen Jinzhu quickly instructed the maid to bring them dry towels to dry them off, and also gave them each a set of clean clothes.

Then he turned to his head and ordered, "Go and make some ginger soup, so they don't catch a cold."

The two came out after changing their clothes.

The woman placed a plump, round pearl, about the size of a longan, into Shen Jinzhu's hand.

"Thank you so much, Madam, for saving my life."

Shen Jinzhu's family were merchants who dealt in jewelry, so she naturally recognized the value of these beads.

"Is this mermaid tears?" she exclaimed in surprise.

If this thing were on the market, it would be worth at least a thousand taels of silver.

"Yes." The woman nodded.

"This is too valuable, I can't accept it," Shen Jinzhu quickly declined.

"You saved my life and my son's life. This is our token of gratitude. Please accept it." The woman was very firm.

Hearing this, Yu Ningyao, who was standing next to her mother, pouted and looked at her and the child.

Mother and son?

Something's not right.

When her father asked her questions earlier, her first reaction was to read the child's expression and act accordingly; the two seemed to have a superior-subordinate relationship.

How could they be mother and child?