After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

The mule cart quickly entered the county town, turned around and entered an alley, and stopped at the door of a house.

The door of this house was wide open, Yanru's aunt Xiao Shi was standing at the gate looking forward to it, when she saw the mule cart arriving, she ran over immediately. "Hey, Yanru is back."

Jiang Erlang carried his little niece out of the car, helped his wife down, and then went out to get presents.

Two bolts of cloth, four boxes of snacks, two jars of wine, and eight rituals, all quite satisfactory, no more, no less.

"Aunt." Yanru blessed her aunt and introduced Yingbao to her, "This is the third uncle's daughter Yingbao, she came to the county with us today, and later she will go to the yamen to meet the officials."

Yingbao bowed to the lady in the inn, "Hello, Auntie."

"Okay." Seeing that Ying Bao's face was smiling like a chrysanthemum, Xiao quickly took her hand and said, "Come in and talk."

"No aunt, we have to go back." Since it was going back home, it must be going back to her mother's house.

Although Yanru's mother has gone, there are still old father and stepmother at home.

Mrs. Xiao didn't hold back either, but whispered: "If you don't save food over there, you can bring your husband and son-in-law to your aunt's side."

"En." Yanru responded in a low voice, and took eight gifts from the mule cart, and went to her mother's house together with Jiang Erlang.

The Lu family was not far from Aunt Xiao's house, only four or five houses were separated.

Ying Bao followed Lu Yanru and Jiang Erlang into the courtyard of the Lu family, and saw several people standing under the eaves of the main house.

Standing in the middle was a bearded man in his 40s with a vicissitudes of life. He was wearing a lake silk tunic gown and a gorgeous silk flower on his head. He was probably Yanru's father.

Standing beside him was a middle-aged woman, wearing a blue linen dress, watching them come in without saying a word, with a cold expression.

Standing beside the woman was a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old. The girl's face was fair, her eyebrows and eyes were three points similar to Yan Ru's, but her lips were slender, with a bit of meanness.

There was also a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, who was acting like a fool, when he saw Jiang Erlang entering the door carrying a few gifts, he shouted loudly, "New brother-in-law, what gifts did you bring? Do you have mine?"

Jiang Erlang didn't say anything, but the bearded man glared at the young man and scolded, "If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb!"

The boy snorted and said nonchalantly, "I'm just asking, why are you staring at me, Dad?"

The man ignored him, looked at Jiang Erlang, and frowned at Yingbao.

Jiang Erlang bowed to Yanru's parents, and Yingbao bowed beside his uncle.

Then the stepmother said in a strange way: "Yo, I can't have a child by myself, and I brought someone else's child to the house. Don't blame me as a stepmother for calling you, Yanru, you will give someone else's life to raise children in your life."

Yanru's face was flushed with anger, and she was about to argue with her stepmother when Jiang Erlang stopped her.

Jiang Erlang said lightly: "Auntie, you misunderstood. This is my niece. We brought her here this time because we have something to do. If we bother you, let's leave immediately."

The stepmother snorted, turned and went back to the house, and the girl beside her followed.

Yingbao only felt that the whole family had some serious illness.

No wonder sister Yanru was so eager to marry herself off. With such a family, staying for one more day would be a waste of life.

Yanru's biological father was also quite alienated from his daughter and son-in-law, leaving the son-in-law to sit alone in the main room, and walked away by himself.

Yingbao and Erbo looked at each other with small eyes and big eyes.

Yanru went back to the house to pack her things, ready to take them away.

After a while, Yanru came out with a big package and said to her husband, "Let's go."

"Okay." Jiang Erlang stood up, took the package from his wife, and asked, "What's in here?"

"I used the old clothes from childhood to adulthood, I took them back to paste the soles of the shoes." Yanru said lightly, "There are also some old things from my mother."

The three of them walked out of Lu's house and went straight to Aunt Xiao's house.

Jiang Erlang put the package on the mule cart, and then walked into the yard of his aunt's house with his wife.

"I'm back." Aunt Xiao smiled and leaned out from the kitchen, "Erlang, sit down first, lunch will be ready soon."

"Okay." Jiang Erlang sat with his niece under the persimmon tree in the yard.

In the kitchen, Xiao's cooking, Yanru helped to light the fire.

"How is the Jiang family treating you?" Xiao asked.

Yanru nodded: "The Jiang family are all very well."

Xiao Shi: "Do Jiang Erlang's sons and daughters treat you respectfully?"

"Erni and Huzi are all very well, don't worry, auntie, they all treat me like their own mother, there is nothing disrespectful"

"That's good." Xiao's heart was relieved, and he sighed softly: "You have finally come to the end of all hardships, and my sister's spirit in heaven is also at ease."

Yanru was silent.

Xiao Shi put a fish into the pot, and there was a sound of oil sizzling.

"Your stepmother wished that you had a bad life. When she met me on the road today, she even flirted with me. Hmph, what the hell!"

"Let my aunt worry about it. You don't have to pay attention to her next time. Anyway, I don't plan to go back after I go back today. I will come to you in the future. Auntie, you are my natal family."

Xiao's tears fell when she heard this.

Wiping her eyes, she choked with sobs and said, "Good boy, from now on, your aunt's place will be your mother's home."

My aunt and niece lost her mother since she was young. If she hadn't been there to take care of her, her stepmother would have tortured her to death. Fortunately, she finally married a good man.

Xiao's cooked a few dishes, went to a stewed vegetable shop to buy some stewed vegetables, and came back, barely cooking a table of noodles.

At this time, Uncle Gao also came back and had a few drinks with his nephew and son-in-law.

After dinner, Yanru stayed to talk to his aunt, while Jiang Erlang took Ying Bao to the county government office.

Weeds are overgrown at the entrance of the county government office, which is a bit more desolate than in winter.

Yingbao jumped off the mule cart and ran to the gatekeeper: "Uncle, I'm here to find Uncle Wu."

The two yamen servants also recognized the little baby, and asked with a smile: "Why do you want to find a senior official?"

Yingbao took out a few yellow apricot stuffings from her small pocket and gave them to the yamen servant, "Give Uncle Wu some apricots to eat."

The yamen servant also teased her, biting apricots while going to the inner hall to spread the message.

After a while, Wu Rui ran out, "Yo! It's Yingbao, come on, come with me, the officials are just free at the moment."

"I also brought some delicious food for Uncle Wu. Uncle Wu, please help move it." Yingbao came to the mule cart, pointed to the bamboo basket and said, "Just this basket."

Jiang Erlang hurriedly got out of the car to greet Wu Rui.

Wu Rui waved his hands with a smile and said, "Both of you come in with me."

So, Jiang Erlang carried the bamboo basket and followed Wu Rui and Ying Bao into the county yamen courtyard.

There is a huge kudzu trellis in the middle of the inner courtyard. The kudzu vines grow lush and lush, and there are countless wisteria flowers hanging there.

Wu Daozi was sitting on the bamboo couch under the rattan trellis, waving a cattail fan and reading a book at the same time.

"Uncle Wu!" Ying Bao jumped and ran over, "Uncle Wu, do you still recognize me?"

Wu Daozi glanced at her and said with a smile, "It's hard not to recognize her. Why do you think of me today?"

Ying Bao smiled, sat down on the small bamboo table next to the bamboo couch, and said in a low voice, "I prepared a good medicine, and I specially came here to give it to Uncle Wu."

"Oh? What good medicine?" Wu Daozi asked, shaking his fan.

Jiang Erlang cautiously stood under the sun with the bamboo basket on his shoulders, neither letting it go nor not.

Wu Rui stepped forward to give him a hand, and carried the bamboo basket under the rattan trellis.

Yingbao took things out of the bamboo basket, and muttered: "My apricots are ripe, I specially made some for you to taste last night, and this bag of golden ears, which I planted myself , cook it for Uncle Wu. Hey, where is my medicine? Oh, so it’s here.”

He dug out a clay pot from the bottom of the basket, carried it out and handed it to Wu Daozi: "This is the pill I gave you, Uncle Wu, you must take it, one pill a day."

Wu Daozi sat up, lifted the lid of the jar, and instantly smelled an indescribable fragrance.

He took a look at one and asked, "What disease can this pill cure?"