Gu Nian’s departing footsteps paused, she pursed her lips, and then exited the room.
Lying in bed, Gu Nian tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
Suddenly, the moonlight outside the window was obscured by something, and the tightly shut window creaked open as a shadow jumped in.
Under the covers, the still-awake Gu Nian widened her eyes in terror, just as she was about to silently hide in space, she heard the intruder say, "Nian, brother is here to pick you up!"
The familiar voice entered her ears, causing Gu Nian to feel both excited and nervous.
After all, she wasn’t really Gu Nian, yet she possessed all of Gu Nian’s memories and emotions!
...
The dark night dew turned to frost.
Dahu and Erhu watched as Lin Sanshui left, driving the ox cart shakily, and quickly followed behind him.
However, due to the ox cart speeding off, they soon lost sight of Lin Sanshui.
Dahu stopped Erhu, "Erhu, stop chasing."
At this speed, even exhausting themselves, they couldn’t possibly catch up.
"Brother, don’t you think father... wouldn’t he be heading to town at this time?" Erhu didn’t want to believe it, but looking at Lin Sanshui’s direction, it was clearly towards town.
Dahu turned away in pain, reluctantly saying, "Go home and take out the ox cart, don’t let mother know, we have to go see what father is doing."
Regardless, he didn’t wish for any change in this always peaceful and warm home.
"Okay." Erhu nodded and ran back home.
When Erhu brought out the ox cart, the brothers chased towards town together.
Near town, they ran into Lin Sanshui who was coming back.
Their ox cart didn’t have a canopy, so Dahu and Erhu noticed clearly that on Lin Sanshui’s side, there was a pair of siblings sitting, the boy was still a child, about Little Hu’s age, and the girl looked about Dahu’s age.
Of course, Lin Sanshui naturally noticed Dahu and Erhu.
Both sides stopped their ox carts, Lin Sanshui spoke first, "What are you two doing heading to town so late at night? Why not rest at home for the night? If you’re worried about the restaurant, just get up early tomorrow morning, it’s much better than traveling in the middle of the night!"
Erhu, unable to hold his tongue, said quickly, "We just followed father out, I want to ask him, what are you doing in town in the middle of the night? And who are these two people?"
Erhu had automatically categorized the girl in the ox cart as a wild fox trying to seduce Lin Sanshui, and Dahu thought the same.
Therefore, their gazes were rather dark.
The girl got a fright, shyly fiddling with her fingers, unsure how she had offended them.
Lin Sanshui followed Erhu’s gaze, looked at the siblings, this one glance contained much regret and sympathy, "This is Jing’er and Cheng, their parents died, father took pity on them and took them in."
"It’s too late now, father is taking them back to the village to meet your mother, are you going back to the village or to the restaurant?" Lin Sanshui asked.
Dahu answered without hesitation, "Back to the village, we were just worried about father and followed along to check, the restaurant’s people are probably resting now, going back would disturb their rest, it’s better to go home first."
"Since you’re going back to the village, then hurry up and go." Lin Sanshui wasn’t oblivious to their little schemes, he just chose not to expose them.