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

Zhong Meixian didn't want to say a single word to him.

After just this one conversation, Zhong Meixian felt anxious and aged ten years.

She wondered, is it really true that times have changed?

Why do you get married and instead of thinking about living a good life together, you're always thinking about changing partners if this one isn't right?

Won't people talk about this behind my back?

But then she realized that her daughter-in-law wasn't the type to be afraid of what others said!

Zhong Meixian: Oh no, I'm even more anxious now.

The old lady could only knead the dough carefully.

Gu Yanli finished marinating the fish and went out to wash his hands.

It's dark outside.

Gu Jinfeng and the others also returned from the fields. Lin Jingshen also went to the fields today.

Gu Shuhe and Lin Jiaojiao were both at home, so he had no say in anything since he was sitting there. He went to the fields to help with the work.

Oh no, it means I'll have to add another manual point.

When Lin Jingshen returned, the first thing he did was rush into the kitchen.

Lin Jingshen assumed that Chi Yue would cook again tonight, since Chi Yue cooked both last night and at noon today.

So as soon as the shovel was placed down, the person went into the kitchen.

As a result, only Zhong Meixian was rolling out dough in the kitchen.

Upon seeing Zhong Meixian, Lin Jingshen asked, "Grandma, are you cooking today?"

Zhong Meixian didn't even lift her eyelids. "Hmm, otherwise who else would you expect to do it?" Zhong Meixian couldn't control her own son, but she felt that she could easily control her grandson.

"I thought it was Xiaoyue. By the way, where is Xiaoyue? Is she in the main room?"

As soon as Lin Jingshen finished speaking, a voice came from behind him, "Looking for me?"

Lin Jingshen immediately turned around, grinning from ear to ear, "Xiaoyue!"

Then they saw Wen Tang with her arm around Chi Yue's. Lin Jingshen obediently called her "Auntie!"

Wen Tang smiled and nodded, "Good child!"

Lin Jingshen "..."

He felt that he was just calling out to people normally, but for some reason, he always felt that Wen Tang was taking advantage of him.

Wen Tang wasn't so oblivious. When they reached the kitchen door and Lin Jingshen was there, Wen Tang released Chi Yue's arm at the right moment and went into the kitchen first, giving the couple room to make their own way.

Wen Tang entered the kitchen and said to Zhong Meixian, who was rolling out dough, "Mom, are you almost done rolling out the dough?"

Although Zhong Meixian was angry at her son's words, she didn't dare show it to her daughter-in-law. She just nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, it'll be ready soon."

"Are you hungry? The dishes will be ready soon and we can eat."

"Just wait a little longer!"

As she spoke, she leaned out to call Gu Jinfeng, "I'll call your older sister in to help me cook."

Wen Tang quickly spoke up to stop her, "Mom, there's no need to call her eldest sister."

Seeing Zhong Meixian's puzzled expression, Wen Tang told her, "Yueyue said she'll cook the rabbit; she's an expert at cooking rabbit meat. You just need to make the pancakes."

"I'll start the fire."

Zhong Meixian nodded and said, "Okay, I'll be done here."

She took a knife and quickly made a few cuts in the rolled-out dough to make it easier to put in the pot. Then she reached for a ladle. "I'll add some water to the pot, cut some sweet potatoes and put them in to make some soup, so it won't be dry later!"

"Yeah, okay!"

Lin Jingshen, standing at the door, asked Chi Yue, "Xiao Yue, are you here to cook?"

Chi Yue nodded. "Your uncle caught a rabbit. We'll cook the rabbit meat and make pancakes tonight."

When it comes to catching rabbits, Lin Jingshen felt ashamed. He was good at reading and writing since he was a child, but when it came to catching fish, shrimp, or rabbits, he was really no good.

These have always been his uncle's specialties.

So Lin Jingshen scratched his head and said with great shame, "My uncle has been good at these things since he was a child, I... I can't."

Chi Yue looked around; in the darkness, no one approached the kitchen doorway.

Chi Yue suddenly moved closer to Lin Jingshen and said to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "A man can't say he can't do it."

After saying that, Chi Yue smiled at him, turned around and went into the kitchen.

Lin Jingshen was left standing alone at the kitchen door. From initial shock to his face turning bright red after he came to his senses, and then to panting heavily, Lin Jingshen fled in a panic like a sheep that had strayed into a wolf's den.

In the kitchen, Chi Yue chopped two potatoes and a section of lotus root left over from yesterday, then put them all in the pot with the rabbit meat and stir-fried them.

The fragrance traveled for another two miles.

I stir-fried a few pounds of rabbit meat, along with potatoes and lotus root slices, and made two more bowls.

At the dinner table, Lin Jiaojiao held a pancake in her hand, eating rabbit meat with it. While eating with her mouth full of oil, she kept muttering, "Oh no, I don't want to go to school at all now."

Without thinking, Gu Jinfeng replied, "If you don't want to go to school, then go work in the fields."

This time, Lin Jiaojiao shook her head without hesitation, "No, my aunt said I have to study hard."

Upon hearing this, Gu Jinfeng looked at Wen Tang beside Gu Yanli with some surprise. She probably didn't expect that Wen Tang, her sister-in-law who had just entered the family, would say something about studying hard to her niece, Lin Jiaojiao.

Although she hadn't expected it, Gu Jinfeng wasn't someone who couldn't appreciate kindness.

Although many families nowadays don't send their daughters to school, feeling it's better to stay home and earn more work points, the Lin family had few children. When Zhong Meixian and Gu Juyuan were young, no matter how difficult things were, they always found a way to send their children to school.

In particular, she also let her son study, so she didn't think of restricting her daughter's reading.

However, people around her generally disapproved of girls studying, and very few would tell a girl, "You should study hard."

Just that one sentence, "Auntie said to study hard," made Gu Jinfeng remember that no matter how Wen Tang behaved, she was not a bad person.

So Gu Jinfeng said, "Since your aunt has said so, then you should study hard."

"Yes, I know, I'll definitely study hard."

Then the family meal became more and more intimate, and although no one said much, the atmosphere became closer without them even realizing it.

At Gu Xiaogu's house, Gu Jin, unusually, reached out to Xu Ancheng's wife at the dinner table that evening, saying, "I'll hold the child for you."

Xu Ancheng's youngest child is only eight months old, not yet a year old, and is at a stage where he can't sit up and can't walk on his own.

Even adults have to hold her while eating.

But in the past, Xu Ancheng's wife always carried him herself.

If Xu Ancheng finishes eating first, he will hold him.

Gu Jin never offered a helping hand.

If the child is unruly, Gu Jin might even complain that her daughter-in-law doesn't know how to take care of the child.

Thinking back to her past, she also raised three children on her own. Neither her husband nor her mother-in-law helped, and she managed to get through it all by herself.

And it wasn't as difficult as it was for the three daughters-in-law.

In truth, Gu Jin carefully recalled whether her youth was difficult or not, and realized it was indeed quite difficult. However, since everyone went through the same thing, it didn't seem particularly hard on her.

The main problem is that neither her husband nor her mother-in-law cares about her.

Zhang Fen was surprised that her mother-in-law wanted to help her hold the baby. She was holding the baby in one arm and eating with the other, and she had a hard time eating.