After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 1021: One Thousand Chapters and Twenty-One Chapter Restart
Haitang took the jewelry box back to her room and put it back deep in the closet.

But before that, she took out the original triple ginkgo hairpin, held it in her hand, and looked at it over and over again, but in fact she didn't pay any attention to it at all. She was still immersed in her thoughts.

She was feeling a little strange today. When she traveled here, Qiao had already passed away. She only found some old impressions from Haitang's memory. She had lived with her grandfather, grandmother, brother, and even her second uncle's family for a long time, but not her parents. She should not have any deep feelings for her parents in this life, so why was she so obsessed with an ornament that Qiao often wore when she was alive?
Could it be that after living a peaceful life for a long time, she had lived a peaceful and happy life, and gradually she really regarded herself as Haitang? She regarded Haitang's parents as her own parents, and regarded Haitang's feelings as her own feelings, so she felt nostalgic for her deceased mother Qiao?

Is this change in her mentality a good thing?

Haitang wrapped the ginkgo hairpin in a handkerchief and put it into her dressing box. She planned to ask a craftsman to clean the original hairpin and add new beads to it when she prepared her dowry accessories. She could then use it as a daily hair accessory and wear it from time to time.

After putting the hairpin away, she opened the system again, looked at the operation panel that had hardly changed, and fell into deep thought.

Over the years, as most of the system's functions had come to a standstill, she had used it less and less, and apart from drawing flower seeds once a week, she basically just used its storage function.

After their family moved to Beijing, she had a separate courtyard and a separate room, and she didn't have to live with the maids. Vanilla was also very tactful and well-behaved. Without her consent, no one would enter her room without permission, let alone touch her things. This gave her more privacy, and some items that were inconvenient to take out before could be safely stored in the cabinet. In this way, she used the system storage grid less frequently. When she was busy, she was too lazy to even draw the flower seeds once a week.

Now that the system was stuck in a state of malfunction, it was becoming less and less useful to her. Without this extraordinary plug-in, she felt that her life was no different from that of ordinary people in this world. Was her change of mentality also due to this?

Haitang looked at the operation panel and felt that she had more than 20 years of life in her original life, as well as her life as a female official in her previous life, plus her life as Haitang now. As long as she didn't die young in this life, her life span after three lives would not be worse than that of a normal person. The system has been in a state of freezing for many years, and she couldn't contact the headquarters and other colleagues. She had already prepared herself mentally that there might not be another life. In this case, she might as well live a good life in this life and strive to die of old age. She would live longer than a normal long-lived person, right? That's quite a good deal.

In this case, what difference does it make to her whether there is a system or not?

Haitang looked at the system panel in front of her and took a deep breath.

Anyway, she didn't need to use the system at the moment, so she might as well... try it again.

She took out the things in the storage compartment one by one, put them in the cabinet, and saved the flower seeds that would be used. After making sure that there was nothing left, she clicked the restart button.

She wanted to try to restart the system again. This was her only chance. If the system was still frozen after the restart, with no changes, she would give up the idea of ​​contacting the headquarters and just live a good life in peace.

At that time, she really became Haitang.

No one in the Hai family knew what happened in Haitang's room that night. After visiting their in-laws, the Zhuang family, whom they had not seen for several months, Hai Xiya and his wife enthusiastically helped them find doctors and medicine and buy New Year's items so that they could have a good New Year in the capital.

Zhuang Shitong and his son also knew what the Hai family was most concerned about. After settling down, they soon discussed the marriage of their two children with Hai Xiya and his wife. They decided to set the wedding between spring and summer of next year. Although the time was a bit rushed, there were many wedding supplies stores in Beijing, and all the items could be purchased with money, so there was no need to make everything from scratch, which saved a lot of effort. Both the Hai and Zhuang families were middle-class official families, and they had no intention of making their grandchildren's wedding too luxurious. As long as they followed the etiquette, three or four months of preparation time would be enough.

Zhuang Shitong had already contacted his old friends in Beijing, and had also gone to the Ministry of Personnel, and had a quick meeting with Tao Ge Lao, and roughly knew what new official position he would be taking up in the spring. He would still be relatively free in the spring and summer of next year, but he would be busy in the autumn with the provincial examination. His granddaughter was going to get married, and it had to be done before then, otherwise how could he be distracted? Moreover, the weather was warm at that time, but not too hot, and the health of his son and niece, who had always been weak, was also in a relatively ideal period, so they would not fall ill due to being busy, which would add bad luck to the happy event.

The Hai Xiya couple had no objection to the wedding date and were extremely happy.

When they got home, they started discussing whether they should let their grandson Haijiao move to the front yard temporarily, and then renovate and decorate the east wing of the main yard where he currently lived before the wedding? The Zhuang family would definitely want a complete set of furniture as a dowry, and the house would definitely need to be redecorated. Starting the work early would also show their respect for the woman.

Haijiao had just come out of the palace and returned home from the court. Before he could participate in the discussion, he was driven to live in the front yard by his grandparents. He couldn't help but laugh and cry, but he had no intention of objecting at all. He was going to get married, so of course he had to repaint the new house, so that it would be more comfortable to live in, right?

He accepted his grandparents' arrangement with a smile, but secretly sent someone to send a letter to Zhuang Minyi, asking her what she wanted for her future room? What pattern did she want for the window panes? What style did she like for the curtains? Should she install glass windows? Should she plant some pots of flowers and plants outside the window?

He discussed these topics in private correspondence with Zhuang Minyi several times. Only his younger sister Haitang knew a little about them. His grandparents knew nothing about them and were busy preparing for their two children's weddings.

In addition to Haijiao Haitang's wedding, Ma also had to help Fang prepare Hai Baozhu's dowry, and she was busy every day.

Qiao Fu took back the Qiao family's old property and now had two decent houses in Beijing, which were perfect for starting a family. He personally invited Fang and Hai Baozhu to visit the two houses and let them choose one as their future residence and rent out the other.

Fang's mother and daughter chose the house with two entrances and a courtyard, thinking that it would be big enough for the young couple, their mother-in-law, and even the male and female servants. It would be better to rent out the house with three entrances, as it was bigger and could earn more rent. When Qiao Fu and Hai Baozhu had children in the future and there were not enough rooms at home, they could take back the house with three entrances and live there permanently, without much trouble.

After deciding on the house to live in, the next step was to renovate the house and buy furniture. As the year was coming to an end, many craftsmen stopped accepting orders, so Qiao Fu could only wait until the spring to start work, but he was afraid that he would not be able to make it in time. He also discussed the wedding date with Fang several times, but they still could not decide.

Hai Baozhu did not participate in the discussion. She was now happily taking tonic medicine, wanting to take advantage of the time to recuperate so that she could get married in the best condition!

I just realized that I had written an extra "章" in all the chapter numbers recently. I copied and pasted every time and didn't notice it. How careless! It's a pity that I can't change it...