Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

When he saw the quilt spread out beside the bed, his lips twitched, and his face instantly turned liver-colored. His wife wanted to sleep separately from him.

Is she angry because he acted up in the bathroom last night?

What to do now?

Seeing that his wife was really asleep, he had no choice but to blow out the oil lamp and lie down in the quilt that his wife had made for him, feeling stifled.

He now places all his hopes on his daughter, expecting her to wake up and go find her great-grandmother after a short nap.

Then he would take his daughter back to his grandmother, and then he could sleep in the same bed with his wife and hold her while he slept.

Mu Nan tossed and turned in bed for a long time, unable to sleep, unable to sleep at all. He looked at the mother and daughter sleeping in each other's arms by the moonlight.

He looked out the window; it was already past midnight. He wondered why his daughter hadn't woken up yet. That shouldn't be the case.

Several times before, his daughter wanted to sleep with him, but she would start making a fuss around midnight.

Could it be because she's grown up? No, not long ago she went to sleep with her mother, and it seems she woke up around midnight.

As he thought about it, he slowly fell asleep.

At the hour of Yin (3-5 AM), Mu Xiao woke up his two brothers, Zihao and Zixuan. Their older brother hadn't led them in martial arts practice in a long time, so they couldn't be late.

Mu Xiao led the two to the place where they used to practice martial arts, which was a flat area in front of the mountain.

Seeing that their eldest brother hadn't arrived, the three of them started practicing. They practiced until dawn, when Mu Linzihao finally arrived, panting.

They got up a little late and were worried that their older brother would be angry, so they ran all the way here.

Mu Lin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw only his second brother and a few others. Luckily, his eldest brother wasn't there, or he would definitely have been punished.

"Second brother, why are you the only ones here? Where is eldest brother?"

Mu Xiao shrugged and said, "Who knows? He probably won't come. After all, he was putting on an act for Yao'er last night."

"That's true, so should we still practice?" Mu Lin then remembered that the five of them were his little niece's burial offerings.

"Hurry up and practice! You're late and you're slacking off." A voice came from above.

"Oh no, our eldest brother is still here." The group quickly pretended to start practicing.

Mu Nan had just arrived. He didn't know when he had fallen asleep, and when he woke up, he found that it was 1:15 a.m.

He used his lightness skill to arrive at the training ground, and while his younger brothers weren't paying attention, he flew up into a tree and pretended that he had arrived long ago.

Zhou also didn't sleep well all night, waiting for Yao'er to return to her room in the middle of the night, but when she woke up, it was already bright daylight and Yao'er still hadn't returned.

Yao'er slept soundly through the night, but was woken up by the urge to urinate in the morning.

"Mother, mother."

"Well, what happened?"

"I need to pee," Yao'er said, covering her mouth, somewhat embarrassed.

"Oh, okay, then get up quickly, I'll take you to pee."

Wang Qing'er sat up and found that it was already bright outside. The bed next to her was empty. She had slept so well last night that she hadn't even felt anyone lying next to her.

It seems she's been tormented by someone lately; she needs to have a serious talk with him, as her small frame can't take it.

She would talk to him properly that night, and suggest coming every three days. If he didn't agree, she would have her daughter sleep with her every day, so he wouldn't even get a chance to sleep with her.

Wang Qing'er had planned all of this in her mind. After Yao'er finished urinating, she didn't want to sleep anymore. She would get up very early when she slept with Zhou Shi.

Wang Qing'er hadn't gotten up this early in a long time, but she felt pretty good, even a little refreshed.

"Yao'er, would you like to go with your mother to cut aloe vera?"

"Okay." They had been walking along that path a lot lately, and the weeds on both sides had been cleared away, so they weren't worried about the dew getting their clothes and shoes wet.

I'm going to my great-uncle's house today, so I need to get the aloe vera plant back early.

No matter how busy I am, I still make aloe vera gel and soap every day.

In recent days, Mu Xiao and his team have taken several more beehives, and they currently have enough beeswax.

My husband said there are families who specialize in beekeeping, and if we ever ask which family keeps bees, we can buy some beeswax from them.

Even if elm bark is the least of your options, it can still be used as a substitute for beeswax, though it's not as good.

She also made several bottles from elm bark, and it didn't cause any discomfort when applied. However, there isn't much elm bark available right now, and she plans to use it to make mosquito coils.

Speaking of making mosquito coils, the mold she ordered was brought back by Mu Xiao yesterday, so it seems she still needs to find time to make the mosquito coils.

Sigh! There are just too many things to do; I can't possibly finish them all.

As Wang Qing'er walked, she kept thinking about all these things, and her head was starting to spin.

"Mother, look, there's someone on Aloe Mountain, it's Father." Yao'er spotted Father on the mountain with her sharp eyes.

"Oh, it really is." Wang Qing'er looked up and saw her husband.

"Daddy, Daddy!" The little girl had completely forgotten what happened last night and ran towards her father while calling out.

"Yao'er, slow down," Wang Qing'er instructed from behind, quickening her pace to keep up with her daughter.

"Why are you up so early?" Mu Nan asked, looking at the mother and daughter walking towards her.

“If you sleep well at night, you’ll naturally wake up earlier in the morning.” Wang Qing’er said this casually, but it sounded rather harsh to Mu Nan.

Is your wife saying she doesn't sleep well when she sleeps with him? Is she blaming him?

Mu Nan felt inexplicably sad. She forced a smile but said nothing, and started digging for aloe vera again.

This once dense aloe vera forest has now been thinned out considerably.

Wang Qing'er didn't dare dig up the king aloe vera plant and some other large ones, worried that they wouldn't survive, which would be a great pity.

She's only harvesting the larger aloe vera petals every day now; the smaller ones are too difficult to peel, and she doesn't like them yet.

However, after the larger ones are harvested, the smaller ones will still need to be harvested and used, and at that time there will probably still be too few to use.

The two were each doing their own thing, without exchanging words, and the whole atmosphere was somewhat strange.

After breakfast, Zhou took Wang Qing'er to her fourth uncle's house, with Mu Qin and Yao'er following along.

Mu Yan also prepared extra makeup and took Zi Tong and Zi Yuan with her to deliver it.

The group carried the dowry items towards their fourth uncle's house. The dowry items were all packed in a red brocade box.

When they met villagers on the way, Zhou greeted them one by one and introduced her daughter and granddaughter-in-law to them.

Only a few branches of the Mu family knew that Mu Yan had gone missing as a child. The rest of the village did not know and only assumed that Mu Yan had married far away and was brought back to the Mu family after her husband's death.

In fact, Mu Yan and Wang Qing'er are similar. They have been in the village for a long time but have never walked around the village, so they are all unfamiliar faces.

Wang Qing'er could only follow behind Zhou Shi and greet her; she felt her face was going numb from smiling so much.

The homes of several uncles were all located in the very center of the village, with their courtyards connected together.

Back then, the four brothers fled to this place. The second, third, and fourth brothers all took a liking to this piece of land in the village and built three courtyards here.

Mu Nan's grandfather was the eldest son, and his family was not as wealthy as his younger brothers' families, so the house plots in the village were much more expensive.

To save some money, they bought a piece of land on the hillside at the end of the village and built a courtyard there.