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

As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Yanli pushed the door open and came in.

Gu Yanli stood at the door with a dark expression and called out to her, "Dinner is ready, come and eat!"

Wen Tang "..."

Did the other person hear what she just said?

Wen Tang wanted to ask, but Gu Yanli turned and left after speaking.

Wen Tang had no choice but to obediently follow along.

In the main room of the Gu family, Gu's father, Lin's father, and Zhong Meixian, the mother-in-law, were all seated. Chopsticks were set out, and there were already two dishes on the table, but the rice had not yet been fully served.

Wen Tang obediently ran to the kitchen.

She doesn't know how to cook on a wood-fired stove, but she can help serve the food.

After all, she is someone who needs to eat, and it doesn't make sense for her to expect others to serve her everything.

Wen Tang arrived at the kitchen door and happened to run into Gu Yanli, who was carrying food out of the kitchen.

When Gu Yanli saw her, he asked, "What are you doing in the kitchen?"

"Serve the food."

"No need, please go sit in the main room!"

“Since we’re already here,” Wen Tang pointed to the kitchen behind him and slipped inside.

Gu Yanli waited at the kitchen door.

When Lin Jingshen saw Wen Tang in the kitchen, he immediately turned off the stove and ran outside.

He could never forget the days when Wen Tang besieged and intercepted him.

"Uncle, I'm going to call my mom for dinner," he said as he passed by Gu Yanli.

Wen Tang originally wanted to learn from Gu Yanli and serve three bowls of rice.

However, as it turned out, she found even two bowls too hot to handle, let alone three.

Carrying out a bowl of rice, Wen Tang felt embarrassed, her fingertips delicately gripping the rim of the bowl. Wen Tang blushed and said, "It's too hot."

Gu Yanli wanted to laugh, but fearing that Wen Tang would be angry, he said, "I didn't ask you to serve it."

Wen Tang pouted, "It's my fault for being presumptuous."

Gu Yanli followed behind her, saying, "That's not what I meant."

“I’m on vacation at home, so you can rest,” he added.

Wen Tang then slowed down. "Won't people say I'm lazy?"

“I don’t want to live with them,” Gu Yanli said.

Wen Tang freed one hand to give Gu Yanli a thumbs up. She wanted to say that she liked what the young man said and that he should remember to close the door at night.

Lin Jingshen ran back to his own yard, just as Chi Yue came out of the house.

Gu Jinfeng sat in her own courtyard.

Just as Chi Yue was about to greet them, she saw her little puppy run back from next door.

Upon seeing Chi Yue, Lin Jingshen blushed slightly. "Xiao Yue, dinner is ready. Why don't you go eat next door?"

Then she called out to her mother, "Mom, dinner's ready. Are you still angry with Grandma?"

When asked, Gu Jinfeng began to pour out her resentment, "I'm angry with her, how can I not be angry with her?"

"How can she talk like that?"

"So your uncle is her biological son, and you're not her biological grandson?"

"I know she's biased, but who are you to judge her as an outsider?"

"Is that what she's going to say?"

Lin Jingshen didn't know the specific reason for the disagreement between the two, but he did know one thing: his family lived close to his maternal grandmother's family and they had eaten together over the years. There had been many times when his mother and his maternal grandmother had quarreled.

Anyway, their anger only lasts for one night at most. The next day, as long as they're cricketing together, they're like mother and daughter again.

So Lin Jingshen didn't bother to find out the specifics, and just advised, "That's just how my grandmother is, she didn't mean any harm."

"After all, she's her own daughter. Even if she had bad intentions, she wouldn't do them to you, wouldn't she?"

"Come on, let's go eat. Grandma's waiting for you!"

When Lin Jingshen said, "Grandma is still waiting," Gu Jinfeng became restless.

Zhong Meixian is her biological mother after all, and she is her child. How can she sit here and make her own mother wait?

So even though Gu Jinfeng was angry, she still got up and said, "Hmph, don't expect me to pay any attention to her."

Lin Jingshen just smiled and didn't say anything.

Then they waited for Chi Yue to go next door together.

Chi Yue followed Lin Jingshen and asked, "Did Mom and Grandma have a fight?"

Lin Jingshen nodded.

"Why?"

"It seems to be because of you and your aunt."

“I…” Chi Yue thought of the time when she and Wen Tang were comparing who had a better life.

Chi Yue: Ah, so it was them who stirred things up!

Yeah, the mother-daughter relationship seems a bit fake.

Chi Yue wanted to laugh, but didn't dare.

It's time to eat.

At the dinner table, Zhong Meixian and Gu Jinfeng, mother and daughter, ignored each other and were both sulking.

Wen Tang looked curious, but didn't ask.

Because Chi Yue gave her a wink, indicating that she knew the inside story.

Wen Tang suppressed her curiosity, waiting to chat with her best friend about gossip after dinner.

After finishing her meal, Wen Tang had to wash the dishes.

Chi Yue immediately reached out her hand as well, "Hmph, as if you're the only diligent one."

Wen Tang made a funny face and said, "Hehe, I'm just more diligent than you."

Then the two of them tidied up, one after the other, carrying the bowls and plates to the kitchen, bickering all the way.

Gu Yanli originally wanted to say that he would wash the dishes himself.

But Wen Tang warned him very seriously, "Don't interfere."

Seeing the invisible tension between the two women, Gu Yanli chose to remain silent.

With her daughter-in-law washing the dishes, Gu Jinfeng felt her back straighten up. "Jingshen is so lucky to have married such a hardworking wife."

Zhong Meixian glanced at her, then said to Gu Yanli, "You made the right choice in marrying this woman. She's hardworking, and Mom likes her very much. Just you wait."

The old lady said this and ran back to her room.

He returned shortly afterward, holding a piece of red cloth in his hand.

In front of Gu Jinfeng, he opened the bracelet and showed it to Gu Yanli, saying, "These are a pair of silver bracelets that Mom gave as part of her dowry. Mom didn't give them to anyone else, but to your wife."

"Go and call your wife."

In the kitchen, Wen Tang and Chi Yue finally managed to get together without being separated by the wall. The two immediately started whispering together, "Tell me, tell me, what's going on?" Wen Tang asked.

"It's a long story, but let me tell you the short one," Chi Yue then recounted how Gu Jinfeng and Zhong Meixian's relationship had seemingly been strained by a few words she had uttered.

After hearing this, Wen Tang couldn't help but chuckle, "No way, really?"

Are these two old ladies really that funny?

"Then..."

Before Wen Tang could say anything after that, Gu Yanli's voice rang out from the kitchen doorway, "Wen Tang, come out for a moment."

Wen Tang stopped talking, wiped her hands, and said, "I'm here."

"What's wrong?" Wen Tang asked obediently as she reached the kitchen door.

"Mom has something for you."

"okay."

Before leaving the kitchen, Wen Tang didn't forget to put on a good show, saying, "You can wash yourself, my mother-in-law is calling me."

Chi Yue quickly wiped her hands as well, saying, "If you don't wash them, I won't wash them either."

They both felt that things were about to get interesting.

Sure enough, upon entering the main room, Zhong Meixian proudly handed a pair of silver bracelets wrapped in red cloth to Wen Tang, who had just entered. "Daughter-in-law, here, take these. These are the silver bracelets that came with my dowry. Now that you are Yan Li's wife, they are being passed on to you."

Wen Tang accepted it with delight and praised without reservation, "Wow, Mom, you're so wonderful! You're simply the best mother-in-law in the world. I'm so lucky to have married into your Gu family."

Zhong Meixian, who had been slightly hunched over, straightened up.

He looked at his daughter with particular arrogance.

See, she said it herself, marrying into the Gu family is a blessing, but she still won't admit it.