Seeing the ancestral tablet of his grandfather, Ling Nan was overwheld with grief. He respectfully offered incense to his grandfather and then knelt on the ground, sobbing and intermittently recounting his experiences of the past half year. He told his grandfather to rest assured that he was living very well with the Gu Family, with every mber treating him like family.
Moreover, co September, Great Grandfather was planning to send him to night school.
The Old Clan Leader standing nearby was quite pleased, and the earlier displeasure gradually disappeared like smoke.
Dinner was at the Old Clan Leader’s ho. It was sumptuous, featuring local mountain delicacies.
Many things there, Gu Qiaoqiao had never seen before, let alone tasted.
Gu Qiaoqiao also brought out the candies and gifts she bought for the villagers, leaving so for the Old Clan Leader’s family, and instructed Ling Nan to distribute the rest to each household.
After all, there were only a few dozen households here.
There were so young people.
But not everyone stayed here; so young people ventured out.
There was no school here, only a clan school where an Old Scholar taught so village children to read and write.
Due to the remote location and poor communication, even if the state wanted to establish a school here, it couldn’t be achieved imdiately; it had to be done gradually.
In the middle of the night, Gu Qiaoqiao quietly got up. Xiao Wen was sleeping next to her.
When Gu Qiaoqiao got up, Xiao Wen imdiately noticed and sat up, whispering, "Qiaoqiao, do you want to restore that peach tree branch?"
Gu Qiaoqiao nodded, "Sister Xiao Wen, I want to try..."
"What if it doesn’t work? What will you do tomorrow?"
"Then I will figure out a way. We can’t let the people here burn that young man to death; what they’re doing is illegal!"
"But Qiaoqiao, you may not know, there are clan rules here, and often, in their eyes, clan rules are equivalent to laws."
Gu Qiaoqiao looked at Xiao Wen and said seriously, "Sister Xiao Wen, I understand this rationale, but tis are different now. Ah Ze told that, as long as it’s the land of Huaxia, there’s no place outside the law. If I watched helplessly as a young man, simply for breaking a peach tree branch, gets burned alive here, I don’t deserve to be Ah Ze’s wife."
Xiao Wen fell silent.
In today’s peaceful country, the peace owed much to countless soldiers like Qin Yize, who safeguard the nation’s security.
So she had no standing or qualification to criticize Gu Qiaoqiao.
Xiao Wen whispered, "Don’t alarm Ling Nan. He grew up here, and so deeply ingrained things can’t change imdiately. Let’s go by ourselves."
"Sister Xiao Wen, I can go by myself."
With that, Gu Qiaoqiao stood up and got dressed, while Xiao Wen was already ready. She looked at Gu Qiaoqiao and softly said, "Let’s go together, it’s good to have backup."
Gu Qiaoqiao thought for a mont and then nodded. She then stood in the room and perford a sky-drawing talisman, making two invisibility talismans. Her fingers flicked, and a glow fell on Xiao Wen, while another fell on herself.
In the blink of an eye, the figures of the two gradually faded, like smoke. Then it seed a gust of wind blew the smoke away, leaving nothing in the air.
It was truly magical.
Holding hands, the two quietly went downstairs, then, like the wind, ran towards the center of the village...
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