After a night of silence, the east gradually turned white again.

In the small village, some roosters started to scream first, and the loud roosters rushed to every corner of the village like water waves.

It also fell into Ningxiang's ears.

Open your eyes, it was already lit outside the window.

The farm house that has not lived in for a long time exudes a faint old smell. Ningxiang smelled the inexplicable smell of relief while looking at her home, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of her lips. She turned around and met her younger brother's white and red face. The little guy stayed in her bed last night and asked her to coax her to sleep. When she was sleepy, Ningxiang asked him to return to her bed. Amu closed his eyes and rushed into her arms, insisting that his sister hold him.

Ningxiang kissed her brother and quietly got out of the bed.

There was a chamber pot on the ground. Ningxiang lifted it and walked out, pouring it into the pigpen of my aunt's house. Looking at the closed door of the east courtyard, she knew that the aunt's family had not yet gotten up. Ningxiang stood in front of the pigpen for a while. The two pigs in the pigpen were newly bought piglets after the New Year. After feeding them for half a year, they grew up a lot. At this moment, the two pigs were nesting side by side and sleeping soundly. They only hummed twice when she just came.

Ningxiang wants to buy a pig, too.

She is a girl and can't go out to find work like a man. If she wants to make money, she just raises something except farming. Her pigpen is ready-made and can be used when she cleans up. After autumn, when the family has food, Ningxiang cooks and feeds the pigs by herself, so she doesn't have to bother her aunt.

A rooster crow came from the backyard, and Ningxiang immediately thought of raising chickens again...

After three years in the Marquis' Mansion, I finally became free. The feeling of being able to arrange your home as you please is full of hope.

I took water to wash my face, and washed the clothes that my brother changed last night. I was twisting the water when the sound of the door opening came from the East Courtyard.

"Why did Xiang'er get up so early?" Li yawned and asked unexpectedly.

Ningxiang laughed while drying clothes, "I'm used to getting up early, aunt, what meal should we have in the morning? I'll help you."

Just as Li was about to say no, his eyes swept over the vegetable bed in the yard and smiled, "Sianger picked a few cucumbers and cut them. Let's make scrambled eggs with cucumbers."

Ningxiang laughed and said.

When she cut the cucumber, Xu Qiuer and others also got up. Ningxiang ordered her cousin and said, "Go and call Amu, it's time to have a meal later."

Xu Qiuer agreed to go.

Xu Shouliang and Xu Huai went outside to wash. Ningxiang whispered to the fire to cook porridge with Li, who was cooking porridge with fire, said: "Auntie, I want to buy two pigs. Do you think it's okay? By the way, build a chicken pen in the backyard and buy a few chickens to keep."

Li looked up at her, thought for a while, and said, "Don't worry, the two pigs in our circle can be fertilized in the twelfth lunar month. I will pick two of them tomorrow and move them to your pigpen. The chickens have to go to the town to buy them, but today we have to go to the field to pull weeds, and my aunt will take them to the town to take a walk tomorrow. You just have to add a lot of things to your house, right?"

Ningxiang nodded. She also wanted to buy cloth, but the kang and quilt in the house were too old.

"Then go tomorrow." Li said with a smile, "Xiang'er hasn't been to the town for a long time. Let's have a good time tomorrow."

Just take it as a way to relax with your niece.

After the meal, Xu Shouliang and Xu Huai were going to the field. Ningxiang also wanted to go, but was scolded by Li and asked her to stay at home, for fear that her niece would get thicker and tender hands. There was really no one at home, so the unmarried girl had to work. There were two big men, whether they were niece or daughter, Li couldn't bear to suffer.

"Sister, when are you going to return the money to Brother Lu?" Li was anxious to go to the floor, leaving the work of cleaning the pot to the two girls. Xu Qiuer asked her cousin with a smile while cleaning the table, "You said you had to say that you had borrowed the money from Su Yue that day. If you honestly explain, you can just ask your brother to go to the Xu family."

Ningxiang didn't want her aunt to know that Lu Cheng liked her, so she didn't regret hiding it back then, she was just worried.

"Why don't you help me pay it back?" Ningxiang suddenly came up with an idea, looked at her cousin expectantly, and immediately threw out the bait, "Qiu'er helps her sister, she will make you a new skirt."

Xu Qiuer didn't want to go, "I'm a thirteen-year-old girl after all. My sister doesn't want to go to the Lu family. Do I just want to go? I don't know where the Lu family is. It would be strange if I didn't misunderstand me." After saying that, seeing my cousin's face was depressed, Xu Qiuer burst into laughter, "Sister, don't worry, look at me, once Brother Lu knows that you are back, he will definitely come over to see you immediately."

Ningxiang was afraid that Lu Cheng would come, and she vaguely felt that Lu Cheng might come here today.

"Then I'll give you the purse. If he comes, you come and return it to him." Ningxiang looked at her cousin begging.

Xu Qiuer was puzzled and walked over and said, "Does sister like Brother Lu?"

It was obvious that the situation between the two of them last time was very interesting. Why is my cousin hiding from Lu Cheng like a plague god?

Ningxiang looked at the bowl in her hand and turned her head to her and said, "He likes me, but I really didn't like him. I had misunderstandings before, because I was in a hurry to redeem myself. He happened to be rich, so I... Qiu'er, please help me?"

Xu Qiuer understood. The last time my cousin was willing to let Lu Cheng send it back because it was inconvenient to refuse.

Thinking of this, Lu Cheng seemed a little pitiful.

But my cousin didn't do it on purpose. Fortunately, the wife of the Hou Mansion confiscated her cousin's redeemable silver, otherwise my cousin would have to continue to be perfunctory because of debt. She was awkward. Lu Cheng mistakenly thought that she had hope, and finally he felt even more uncomfortable when he knew the truth.

"Okay, I'll help you pay him back, but don't blame me if you lose it." Xu Qiuer tried hard to liven up the atmosphere.

Ningxiang smiled at her gratefully.

After finishing his work, Ningxiang gave his wallet to his cousin, and then the two sisters sat in the room to embroider. Amu was playing with Dazhuang and a few children on the street. The sounds of the children's chattering came in from time to time. Ningxiang knew that his younger brother had not run away, so she was not worried about something happening to him.

"Anan!"

After embroidering a few needles, Amu suddenly shouted excitedly outside.

Ningxiang tilted the needle in her hand and almost got the piercing.

"It's over, Brother Lu probably came to ask Amu to release the eagle. Will Amu tell him that you are back?" Xu Qiuer said anxiously for her cousin.

"I'll go back to the west yard from the backyard first. If he really comes in, you'll say I'm not at home." Ningxiang put away the sewing basket and was anxious to hide.

"What about Anan?" Xu Qiuer asked after her, knowing that her cousin likes Anan.

Ningxiang felt a little guilty, but she had no other choice. She reminded her cousin again and quietly walked back to her house from the backyard, closed the door, and sat nervously on the kang. The three windows on the south side were opened high because the summer hot windows were hung high. Ningxiang stared at the windows under the windows and looked at them, confirming that no matter how high Lu Cheng stood under the eaves, he could not see inside, so he did not go to the kang to close the windows.

In the yard, Amu had already led Anan into the gate of the East Courtyard. Lu Cheng followed behind with a smile, and the general with dark brown feathers lying on his shoulders. Seeing someone coming out of the kitchen, the general's sharp eyes immediately turned over.

Lu Cheng raised his shoulders, the general continued to lie for a while, suddenly he rose up and flew to the roof of the Xu family to stay.

"Brother Lu is going to release the eagle again?" Xu Qiuer said familiarly. Because she sympathized with the unrequited man, she no longer used her cousin to make fun of him.

Lu Cheng nodded, looked behind her and said, "I wanted to ask Amu to go with me, but I heard that your sister is back home, Anan Africa is looking for her."

In the east room of the west courtyard, Ningxiang heard Lu Cheng's helpless voice and couldn't help biting her lower lip. She was really good at coaxing people. She knew that she was back, and everything she said was like a coincidence. And Mr. Wu, the second manager in the orchard was absent from work every few days, why didn't he care?

"Aunt?" Anan was very good at cooperating with his father. He remembered that someone next to him could not call his mother, so he stretched his neck and went around to look for Ningxiang.

"Let's go, I'll take you there." Amu said enthusiastically, holding Anan and asked Xu Qiuer, "Second sister, where is my sister?"

"She went to the village chief's house to find Song Lan, saying that she had something to ask her." Xu Qiuer answered her cousin to Lu Cheng. Seeing that Lu Cheng's smile was calm, Xu Qiuer was guilty and did not dare to look at him again. She bent down to hug Anan, and coaxed him regretfully: "It's a coincidence that Anan came. Aunt Xiang is not at home. Come and hug Aunt Qiu."

Anan pulled Amu and ran to the side. He didn't understand Xu Qiuer's words, but still shouted, just looking at the two kitchen doors, not knowing where to go.

"When did my sister go? Why didn't I call me?" Amu said aggrievedly. If he had known that my sister would go out, he would have followed him.

"You know how to play, of course I didn't see it." Xu Qiuer quickly responded to her cousin, then walked to Lu Cheng, and whispered: "Brother Lu, the wife of the Hou Mansion confiscated my sister's silver. You happened to be here today, and I happened to return the money to you for my sister, so as not to have to go there again in the future."

As he said that, he handed over the wallet.

Lu Cheng looked at the purse in her hand, smiled, took it and said, "This is a happy event. Your sister is back. Remember to congratulate her on my behalf."

He believed his words and Xu Qiuer breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Cheng said: "I'm a little thirsty all the way. Qiu'er doesn't mind me going to drink water, right?"

Of course Xu Qiuer didn't mind, but before she could ask Lu Cheng to walk in, Lu Cheng actually strode towards the west courtyard.

When Anan saw her, she thought her aunt was there, so she let go of Amu to chase her father. Her body was bumpy and she screamed excitedly.

Xu Qiuer was worried that her cousin would be discovered, so she instinctively stopped her, "Brother Lu, you..."

Lu Cheng said without looking back: "I have been here several times. I haven't seen what Amu's house looks like. Today is a good time."

As he said that, he turned around and picked up his son, and used Anan's small body to cover him, and quietly pointed to the three rooms in the East Courtyard, "My mother is there."

Anan did not doubt his father's words. After being put down by his father, he immediately turned around and walked there. As he walked slowly, he turned his head and reached out to Amu. Amu didn't know what the boy was going to do, so he chased after him in confusion, and then was pulled by Anan and ran eastward.

"Qiu'er, watch them go." Lu Cheng said as he walked forward.

Xu Qiuer didn't understand Lu Cheng's thoughts, and advised in embarrassment: "Brother Lu, sister..."

Lu Cheng refused to listen and went straight to the stove in the west courtyard.

Xu Qiuer chased after a few steps, and suddenly felt that it was okay for the two of them to explain clearly, so she went to take care of the two children.

In the room, Ningxiang wanted to hide back to her aunt's house after hearing the footsteps of Lu Cheng coming here. However, before she could open the door, she heard that Anan Amu had gone east. In this way, she could not escape Lu Cheng or Anan. Being discovered by Anan means that Lu Cheng would come here soon.

Then after hesitating for a while, he heard Lu Cheng step into the kitchen.

Ningxiang's heart beat like a drum, she looked at the empty door beside her, and grabbed her clothes and shrank towards the door panel and the corner of the kang.

Now she can only hope for Lu Cheng's steady character, and she will not enter other people's house without authorization when she thinks there is no one in the house.

Apart from one door, Lu Cheng stood in front of the water tank, looked at the door that was covered in the east and west rooms, and scooped water to drink first.

Ningxiang heard the man's gurgling sound, and soon he put the gourd ladle on the chopping board.

"Miss Xu?"

Lu Cheng called softly, and his body turned to the east house gate one step away.

No one answered.

Lu Cheng didn't shout anymore, looking inside through the crack in the door, the place where he could see was empty.

He looked at the side near the door shaft of the kang again, where there were also seams, and he could see her light pink clothes at a glance.

Lu Cheng gritted his teeth.

When I borrow money, I would be shy and pick him up. Now I don’t need his money anymore, so I just want to break the bridge across the river?

He actually hid!

He glared fiercely at the girl who was found unaware of it. Lu Cheng decided to give her another chance, stood up straight, and said to the crack in the door: "Miss Xu, Qiu'er said you are not at home, but I always feel that you are hiding from me. Did I do something wrong again and make you angry? I really didn't hit you on purpose that day."

Ningxiang lowered her eyes. In fact, even if he did it on purpose, she just hugged her gently, she didn't blame him, she just...

"Are you really not here?" the man outside the door muttered to himself, interrupting her thoughts.

Ningxiang became more and more nervous. When he turned around and walked out, the heart in his chest finally fell.

As it was landing, the north door panel was suddenly pushed open by someone. The next moment, Lu Cheng's tall figure broke in like a wind.
Chapter completed!