"Big sis, what are you really here for today? If you’re suspecting Big Brother, you better leave!"
Mu Dade’s attitude wasn’t pleasant.
He’s already participated in the Lu Ming Banquet, how could it be fake?
Besides, the test papers and the ones he bought clearly matched exactly.
"Big Brother, I wasn’t suspecting you, I just wanted to be sure, you know why not many people ca to visit our family? It’s because your docunts didn’t arrive. If they don’t co, everyone’s going to be just as suspicious as I am!"
Mu Xianxian smiled flatteringly, wearing an ingratiating expression.
At heart, Mu Xianxian was calculating; she had previously thought she’d waive her Big Brother’s fifty taels, now it seed she’d have to reclaim it.
Even if it ant making her parents sell land and fields, she’d have to track it down.
"Alright, you don’t need to worry about this matter!"
Mu Dade didn’t want to speak much to Mu Xianxian, it’s just a docunt; it’d co eventually anyway, so why fret so?
Mu Xianxian was chased out of Mu Dade’s room.
She didn’t actually leave but went to Mu Xiangxiang’s room instead.
Mu Xiangxiang’s room was also a ss this ti, not really viewable.
However, upon seeing Mu Xianxian, Mu Xiangxiang still hurriedly climbed down from the bed.
"Big Sister, why are you here?"
Mu Xiangxiang lived in Mu Xianxian’s house for quite a while and felt closer to this big sister than the second sister.
So naturally, Mu Xiangxiang’s attitude towards Mu Xianxian was good.
"Sweetie, tell , are you having fun here?" Mu Xianxian asked.
"Not fun, Big Sister, take to town, no one’s serving here, look at my room, it’s still ssy."
Mu Xiangxiang pointed at the corner with the chamber pot that hadn’t been emptied yet.
Mu Xianxian realized that when she entered the room, that unpleasant urine sll was coming from there.
Mu Xianxian couldn’t help but turn her head away in disdain.
"By the way, Xiangxiang, have you heard Big Brother say anything? About the imperial exams?"
Mu Xianxian was still uneasy.
If her Big Brother was really lying, then she’d have no status in the Cao Family’s house.
If she weren’t clever, the Cao Family would have arranged a concubine for her husband already.
Mu Xiangxiang spent most days sleeping, where would she know such matters.
But Mu Xiangxiang wasn’t stupid, if she claid ignorance, her big sister definitely wouldn’t treat her well.
So Mu Xiangxiang deliberately put on a nervous face: "Big Sister, I really need to tell you, Big Brother is so not the man he should be, hiding the tiniest things. He only talks secretly with Big Sister-in-law; whenever I try to listen, those two girls guard against like I’m a thief."
Mu Xiangxiang exaggerated and criticized the first branch a bit.
Mu Xianxian’s heart sank instantly.
She thought of the stuff she brought over, and those shoes she brought, at this mont Mu Xianxian just wanted them back.
"Xiangxiang, listen to , Big Brother might not have passed the exams; he’s here tricking us for money!"
Mu Xianxian shared her thoughts with Mu Xiangxiang.
Mu Xiangxiang was Old Mrs. Mu’s favorite daughter, what she said was more reliable than what Mu Xianxian said.
"What? Didn’t pass?" Mu Xiangxiang jumped up in shock.
"Shh, lower your voice; we can’t tell anyone for now. Just observe Big Brother more closely, see what he’s actually up to. If sothing’s off, you tell mom..."
Mu Xianxian handed the plan to Mu Xiangxiang, only then did she feel relieved.
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Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng placed the corn away, not yet having ti to rest, Yu Si Niang ca over, looking troubled as she gazed at Shuangshuang.
Mu Shuangshuang instantly knew there was a matter troubling her.
"Mom, you want to ask about Uncle? He’s fine, getting along well with Aunt Xiao Hua."
Mu Shuangshuang reported good news instead of bad, even though Yu Liulang and Feng Xiaohua’s expressions weren’t quite right.
"Hmm, Mom knows! She just wanted to ask you if we must go there for dinner tonight?"
Now that Mu Dade has returned, people from the third branch hadn’t gone to visit; suddenly going would make it seem like they want to cling to the first branch.
"It’s no trouble, since my aunt sent people over repeatedly inviting us, it’d be unreasonable for us not to go!"
Before Mr. Mu ca twice and didn’t visit, this ti, it demonstrated that the third branch isn’t under anyone’s control, they do as they please!
"Alright then, Mom will get ready!"
Yu Si Niang ant to go to the Old Mu Family’s kitchen to help Mrs. Liu cook when she said she’d prepare.
These chores used to be hers alone, but now it’s Mrs. Liu’s turn.
Seeing the increasingly slim Mrs. Liu, Yu Si Niang felt uneasy.
"Mom, there’s no need for you to go prepare; even without us, Fourth Aunt would still have to cook. If you get used to it, Grandma will often call you over!"
"It’s fine, Fourth Aunt is pitiable, and it’s not like I have ti every day, just today I’m free!"
Saying that, Yu Si Niang went to the Old Mu Family’s house.
Mu Shuangshuang sighed deeply and said to Lu Yuanfeng: "Why is my mom so kind-hearted; even my dad isn’t soft anymore, but she’s still like this, even though she has a tougher personality than my dad!"
Mu Shuangshuang was puzzled, but Lu Yuanfeng comforted her instead.
"Fourth Aunt is a wife; as a wife, she naturally respects the mother-in-law. Uncle Dashan is different; he’s a man, and the responsibilities he carries are heavier than others!"
Mu Shuangshuang nodded in agreent: "That’s true, but my grandma, this mother-in-law..." Mu Shuangshuang shook her head seriously.
Lu Yuanfeng couldn’t help but laugh.
"Then I guess I’ll have dinner with Yuanbao at ho tonight; tomorrow we’ll go finalize the business in the town, then I’ll go dig out the canal for those three acres of rice fields!"
Those three acres from the Old Mu Family are now Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng’s property. After harvest, they only need to give half of it back to the Old Mu Family.
"Great, once these tasks are done, we’ll have to prepare the banquet nu for the feast!"
The feast on September 16th isn’t too close, but it’s not too far either!
Mu Shuangshuang sent Lu Yuanfeng off and also took a look at the chicks in the hills.
In the bamboo forest, the birds chirp cheerily this ti, and the bamboo pipes laying across the forest carried water.
Lu Yuanfeng just needed to fill the pipes with water each morning, and it would suffice for the chicks’ daily needs.
Then there were the feeding troughs, made of wood, filled with herbal dicines Zhang Huai Shu concocted.
These chicks have grown up eating herbs, and not a single one died; besides, Lu Yuanfeng was skilled, having sprinkled sulfur around, there wasn’t even a trace of snakes.
In such a short ti, the chicks had grown thick feathers, although they weren’t as good as the chickens Mu Danian stole from Tie Dao Village, Mu Shuangshuang was very satisfied!
"It’s a sha it’s not the season for bamboo shoots now; co spring, when bamboo shoots are all over the mountains, we’ll have our work cut out for us again!" Mu Shuangshuang sighed.
"No need to wait till spring, there’ll be shoots in winter; winter shoots are tastier than spring shoots!" Lu Yuanfeng comnted.
With such a thought, Mu Shuangshuang looked forward even more!
"Fengzi, do you want to make dinner for you before you go back?"
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