Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

Zhong Meixian looked around and finally decided to go home first.

They've come to reunite with their relatives, and she's just being inconsiderate by stepping forward at this time. Isn't that just annoying?

Anyway, Luo Tian isn't leaving, and she doesn't eat other people's food, so it won't matter if it's a couple of days late.

Zhong Meixian went out carrying things, and returned a short while later carrying more things.

Gu Yanli was plucking chicken feathers in the yard when he looked up and saw his mother bringing things back again, and his brows furrowed.

Zhong Meixian, however, was not at all guilty and replied confidently, "Don't look at her, your mother isn't that greedy. She just went out for a walk and brought the things back."

"I can't afford to lose that much face."

Gu Yanli wasn't doubting that; he was just afraid that his mother was easily swayed and would agree with what others said, so he hurriedly carried the things home again.

However, Zhong Meixian didn't need Gu Yanli to explain, because she didn't give Gu Yanli a chance to speak at all. She had just witnessed a big piece of gossip and was eager to tell him.

Wen Tang and Chi Yue happened to be in the courtyard, and Zhong Meixian immediately adopted a blackboard-writing posture, "Guess why I didn't give this away?"

Gu Yanli didn't cooperate with her, but someone else did.

Wen Tang and Chi Yue exchanged a glance, knowing that there was some juicy gossip to be had.

So the two of them immediately nodded vigorously.

Seeing that someone was cooperating, Zhong Meixian began to speak animatedly, "That Luo Zhiqing, he seemed like a very generous child, but I didn't expect him to be such a pitiful one..." Then, Zhong Meixian stood in the courtyard and embellished the story.

Upon hearing that the Luo family's biological child was willing to stay in the countryside with Luo Tian, ​​Wen Tang immediately looked at Chi Yue: Your rival in love has arrived too.

Chi Yue: It's alright. There are 360 ​​professions, and every profession has its grooms. If there's no Lin Jingshen, there's Xu Jingshen, He Jingshen. In short, if anyone dares to betray me, I'll leave.

Wen Tang: My dear sister, don't be afraid, you will definitely not be alone on your road to divorce.

Zhong Meixian was unaware that the two women in front of her were plotting a divorce again; she just felt her throat was dry from talking.

Wen Tang noticed and quickly ran in to pour her some water.

Chi Yue went over and took the things from her hands.

After the items were taken from her, Zhong Meixian was surprised to find that she had been standing there carrying them for quite some time.

Gu Yanli had already gone to the kitchen to chop chicken; he wasn't curious about or interested in listening to the gossip outside.

Wen Tang quickly poured water for her, saying, "Mom, have some water." While serving the water, she also asked obsequiously, "Mom, is there any more?"

"What else did they say?"

Zhong Meixian shook her head. "That's all. I saw that the two girls said they didn't want to leave, and their mother agreed, so I didn't stand there anymore and came back first."

After Zhong Meixian finished speaking, she heard the "thump thump" sound from the kitchen and said, "Tangtang, look, Yanli is cooking. Why don't you go and help her?"

Zhong Meixian adopted the best possible attitude. Even if her daughter-in-law was unwilling, she couldn't just grab her hair or kick her in the groin, could she?

In fact, Wen Tang did not. Wen Tang even obediently nodded, "Okay, Mom, I'll go right away."

Wen Tang went to the kitchen to help with cooking, while Chi Yue sat in the courtyard talking to Zhong Meixian.

Chi Yue said to Zhong Meixian, "Grandma, you know, these days, it's not easy for everyone to get a daughter-in-law. There's the bride price, and the number of turns and rings," Chi Yue counted on her fingers for Zhong Meixian.

Zhong Meixian glanced at the kitchen, quickly picked up her teacup, and tactically drank some water.

In the kitchen, Gu Yanli saw Wen Tang enter and, while busy with his work, asked, "Why are you in the kitchen?"

“Mom asked me to come and help you,” Wen Tang told her truthfully.

"No, I can do it on my own."

"Go and go play with Jing Shen's wife!"

Wen Tang sat down under the stove. "I'd better help out, otherwise I'll look like I'm just freeloading."

Gu Yanli glanced at her and felt that she had misspoke.

She didn't just sit around doing nothing; she put in a lot of effort.

There are some things that are hard to say aloud.

“Then you start the fire, and I’ll do the cooking,” Gu Yanli said in a slightly hoarse voice.

"Uh-huh!"

Wen Tang readily agreed, but when he tried to strike the match, he failed several times.

Gu Yanli went over, put his arm around her, took her hand, and with a forceful movement, struck the match.

Enveloped in masculine energy, Wen Tang's voice rang out like a little clip, "Thank you, brother!"

Her words made Gu Yanli's expression become unnatural, and he could only remind her, "Speak properly!"

Wen Tang continued, her tone sharp and sarcastic, "How could they not speak properly!"

Gu Yanli “…”

But Wen Tang quickly changed his tune.

"Ah, help, help!"

"Plop, plop, plop," three ladles of water were poured over the straw, and the fire was finally extinguished.

Zhong Meixian and Chi Yue, who were sitting in the courtyard, rushed to the kitchen when they heard the commotion. The area where firewood was usually stored in the kitchen was now damp.

Gu Yanli held a ladle in one hand, protecting the panicked Wen Tang behind him.

Chi Yue: You did this?

Wen Tang: It wasn't intentional.

Zhong Meixian: I don't even need to look, I know who did it.

Zhong Meixian: I didn't grab her hair, I didn't kick her in the groin, but...

Just then, Gu Jinfeng and the others who had gone to the fields returned. Seeing them all crowded in the kitchen, Gu Jinfeng came over and asked, "What's going on?"

The kitchen smelled strongly of burning firewood. Peeking inside...

Gu Jinfeng looked at her mother: Did she do it?

Zhong Meixian glared at her daughter: "Otherwise, it could be me?"

Putting down the ladle in his hand, Gu Yanli pulled the person aside and carefully checked them over. Once he was sure the person wasn't hurt, he pushed them outside, saying, "Let's go out first!"

Wen Tang thought for a moment and then explained, "I really didn't mean to."

"Okay, go out first, I'll tidy up."

Gu Juyuan and Lin Liansheng also stood at the kitchen door and glanced inside. Then, the father-in-law and son-in-law silently left the kitchen doorway.

They both had only one feeling in their hearts: the new daughter-in-law of the Gu family was truly extraordinary!

The first time I entered the kitchen, I burned it down...

Not only Gu Juyuan and Lin Liansheng thought this way, but Zhong Meixian and Gu Jinfeng also thought this way.

So when Wen Tang said it wasn't intentional, only Gu Yanli and Chi Yue believed her.

Zhong Meixian and the others all believed that this was Wen Tang, their daughter-in-law, trying to intimidate them.

After Wen Tang went to the yard to wash her hands, Zhong Meixian muttered to her daughter in the kitchen, "She's just unhappy that I made her cook, but that doesn't mean she should burn down the kitchen!"

Gu Jinfeng thought for a moment and then said, "Isn't there a saying that a new broom sweeps clean?"

Zhong Meixian: "Hmm?"

She didn't understand how things had suddenly turned into this.

Gu Jinfeng pondered for a moment and said, "A new broom sweeps clean, and she's a new bride, so she can be considered a newly appointed official."

"But Mother, do you think this is the first batch she's ever burned?"

Zhong Meixian "..."

That's it, the sky has really fallen.

"Make way," Gu Yanli said to the two men, carrying a stack of wet firewood.

Zhong Meixian looked at her son, then at the stove still stained with ash. At her age, she felt a little like crying. "When is she going to light the other two fires?"