To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

On the way back, Lin Qingping reached out her hand to Gu Juncheng.

"What?" Gu Juncheng looked at the slender little hand in front of him, puzzled.

"Where's that red envelope?" Lin Qingping asked coldly.

Gu Juncheng was speechless because he had given the red envelope to his mother-in-law before he left; it contained 80 yuan.

"Hand it over!" Lin Qingping said sternly.

Gu Jun couldn't close the deal...

"I'm talking about all the money you have on you, and your pay slips!" Actually, Gu Juncheng had already handed them over in his previous life. When he returned to his unit after this family visit, he gave her all his possessions.

Upon hearing that it was for this, Gu Juncheng immediately and deftly reached into his pocket and placed all the money he had on him into her hand, saying, "The folder is at home; I didn't bring it with me."

"Okay, pay me back when you get back." Lin Qingping took the money. "Gu Juncheng, I want to make three rules with you."

Gu Juncheng looked at her in surprise.

“You’re in the army most of the time, so this family depends on me. You also have Zhiyuan to support, which costs a lot. Therefore, you have to listen to me in everything at home! You can’t make decisions on your own! Every penny spent must be approved by me!”

Seeing that Gu Juncheng was still silent, Lin Qingping raised her delicate eyebrows and asked, "Do you agree or not?"

"Agreed." Gu Juncheng was always this decisive and efficient when he spoke.

Lin Qingping was satisfied. "Alright, let's go home."

Gu Juncheng visibly breathed a sigh of relief. This meant they weren't going to ask about the red envelope anymore, right?

However, he let out that sigh of relief a little too soon.

It is an indisputable fact that Gu Juncheng married a woman.

Even if Lin Qingping is reborn, her "troublesome" personality will never change. After only a few steps, she started causing trouble again.

She lagged far behind Gu Juncheng, glaring at him as he walked away.

When Gu Juncheng realized that the person was gone again, he waited in the same place as when he came, but Lin Qingping did not follow him as before, and remained standing in the same place.

Gu Juncheng had no choice but to turn back.

Lin Qingping felt a warmth in her heart as she watched the tall, upright figure walking towards her.

He's really good-looking!

With handsome, well-defined features and a sharp, strong profile, how could she have been so blind in her past life to only like those pale-faced scholars...?

"What's wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her.

Her eyes were wet, and she pouted, "My arm hurts, I can't walk anymore..."

She even showed him the area on her arm where she had applied mercurochrome.

Gu Juncheng: ...

He didn't quite understand the causal relationship between his arm pain and his inability to walk, but he still answered anyway!

"Then... I'll walk slower." This was the only solution he could think of.

"I can't leave!" Lin Qingping dragged out her words, stamping her foot, her eyes still wet as she looked at him.

"Then..." He didn't know what to do either.

"Carry me!"

Gu Juncheng was stunned.

"Or, a hug will do!"

Gu Juncheng hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to carry him on his back or hug him.

Lin Qingping was able to lie on his back as she wished, feeling his strong shoulders and back, and she couldn't help but rest her head on his shoulder.

She could sense that Gu Juncheng was avoiding her, though she didn't know why.

Perhaps it was because of her obvious disdain when she first married him...

But it doesn't matter, she was reborn to make amends.

She leaned on his shoulder, and could see more clearly the light stubble on his cheeks, his neatly trimmed sideburns, and his earlobes…

She couldn't help but blow a breath into his earlobe.

Then, I saw his ears turn red quickly.

"Stop fooling around!" came a stern command.

But this didn't frighten Lin Qingping; instead, she laughed out loud on his back.

He carried her all the way back to the village. When they reached the village entrance, they ran into their neighbor, Aunt Chun, who saw them from afar and shouted, "Chengzi, come quick! Your Zhiyuan is fighting with someone! We can't stop him!"

Upon closer inspection, seeing their posture, he was speechless, looking as if he wanted to look but dared not.

Gu Juncheng didn't care about that; his mind was only on the child. Upon hearing this, he put Lin Qingping down and ran away.

Lin Qingping hurriedly followed.

fight……

In his past life, his ambition was ruined by these two words.

The child was very smart, but in an era when rural people didn't value education as much, he didn't receive much formal schooling. After Gu Juncheng's sacrifice, his parents-in-law, now ten years older, had no energy left to care for him. He made a large group of friends, and being a passionate and loyal person, he always stood up for his friends. Later, he finally got into trouble, seriously injuring someone, and ended up in prison himself...

But that's all in the future. Zhiyuan should have been very well-behaved during this period. What happened that made him start fighting now?

Lin Qingping was extremely anxious. She ran all the way to the riverbank and saw Zhiyuan and the village's fat man fighting. Several adults couldn't separate them.

Zhiyuan was only five years old at this time. He was thin and skinny, only half the size of Da Pang, but he was the one who was howling.

As they got closer, they discovered that Zhiyuan was biting Da Pang's shoulder hard, refusing to let go no matter how the adults pulled. Da Pang, on the other hand, was in more and more pain from the adults' pulling and cried loudly.

“Li Zhiyuan!” Gu Juncheng walked over and gave a cold, authoritative shout.

Zhiyuan immediately relented, and amidst Da Pang's wails and the villagers' chatter, Gu Juncheng carried him home.

Li Zhiyuan is quite stubborn at heart; otherwise, he wouldn't have caused such a big trouble later. Right now, his face is covered in claw marks, but he's clenching his teeth and refusing to say why he fought.

Gu Juncheng punished him by making him stand in the corner to reflect on his mistakes.

Zhiyuan remained silent and obediently went back to his room to stand, without saying a word.

Not long after he arrived, the village secretary came to invite Gu Juncheng to discuss the matter of building a dam in the village.

After Gu Juncheng left, Lin Qingping tried to talk to Zhiyuan, but her relationship with Zhiyuan had not been good before, and they ignored each other. Now that she wanted to break the ice, she had to make an effort. Everything has to start somewhere, right?

Lin Qingping brought him a cup of freshly prepared hot milk and handed it to him.

Zhiyuan glanced at it, then turned his head away without saying a word.

“It’s good for kids to drink formula, it helps them grow taller. Don’t you want to grow taller? Taller than Big Fatty.” Lin Qingping brought the rim of her cup to his lips.

Zhiyuan hesitated for a while, then drank it all in one gulp.

Lin Qingping smiled slightly, "That's right. From now on, you have to drink it every day, okay? When I'm not around, just make it for yourself."

For some reason, Zhiyuan's eyes reddened, but children have a strong sense of self-esteem, so he turned his face away and hid his reddened eyes.

"What's wrong?" Lin Qingping asked as gently as possible.

"I...I will leave, you don't have to do this." After all, she was just a child. No matter how stubborn she was or how much she tried to hold back, tears still streamed down her face as she said this.

Lin Qingping didn't know why he would say that, or why he was suddenly leaving. Just as she was about to ask more, a commotion arose outside.