??Chapter 1177: Chapter 1177: Zhe Jue, Where’s Brother Molian?
Chapter 1177: Chapter 1177: Zhe Jue, Where’s Brother Molian?
“Alright then.”
Lu Qiubo had no objections and nodded directly.
As long as it wasn’t wasteful, it was fine by her.
“Granny, Third Aunt, while it’s still light out, I’m going to pick so chestnuts from the mountain. The New Year’s almost here; it’s nice to have a stash of chestnuts to fry and eat,” she said, glancing at the sky and addressing the two.
“You’re heading up the mountain at this hour?”
Lu Qiubo too lifted her gaze to check the ti of day.
However, she didn’t say much, having grown accustod to doing whatever her granddaughter suggested.
“Then off you go, but co back soon. Don’t venture too deep into the mountain; just pick around the edges. It’s dangerous inside.”
…
As dusk just began to fall, Lin Caisang returned from the mountain with a bamboo basket full of spiky chestnuts. When she passed through the village, there were hardly any people on the road.
It was cold; everyone had gone ho for dinner and nobody was out for a stroll.
“I wonder how Brother Molian is…”
As she walked past the courtyard of Ya Molian’s house, Lin Caisang instinctively peered inside, muttering under her breath.
Yet before she could finish her sentence, the sight of a lit lamp in Ya Molian’s room gave her pause, and involuntarily, her steps halted.
“Why is the light on?”
She asked herself, puzzled.
Ever since her Brother Molian had left, his room’s lamp had never been lit. Why would it be on now?
“Could it be…”
Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she blinked rapidly.
Rushing back to her own courtyard, she placed the bamboo basket down and then stepped back out the door.
“Sangsang…”
Lin Changhong had just co out of his room when he saw the familiar shadow in the courtyard. After instinctively calling out her na, he stared in surprise as his sister walked straight out.
“It’s getting dark; where is Sangsang going?”
He walked over and glanced at the spiky chestnuts in the bamboo basket.
Granny ntioned that Sangsang had gone to pick chestnuts in the mountain. He hadn’t expected her to bring back so many. He hadn’t noticed Sangsang being particularly fond of chestnuts before.
“So many! Let
take care of these.”
Picking up the basket, he tipped the spiky chestnuts onto the ground and started to extract the nuts one by one.
“It seems I’ll need to pick more tomorrow; Sangsang definitely likes them.” Otherwise, why would Sangsang pick so many? She must have done so because she likes them, he reasoned.
…
At Ya Molian’s ho.
Zhe Jue carried a wooden basin out of the kitchen, pouring water in the courtyard. Just then, he looked up to see Lin Caisang enter the yard.
“Mistress, have you co over?”
“Zhe Jue, where’s Brother Molian? Is he in his room?”
Both voices rang out simultaneously; Lin Caisang asked urgently.
She hadn’t received any news from Brother Molian for so days now and was quite worried. Yet unexpectedly, it turned out Brother Molian had already set out from Shaohua City to return ho.
It seed she had been worried for nothing all this ti.
Not waiting for Zhe Jue’s response, she walked toward Ya Molian’s room, but then…
“Mistress, the lord left as soon as he arrived and hasn’t returned yet. I don’t know where he has gone,” Zhe Jue called out, stopping her in her tracks.
He had thought the first thing the lord would do upon arriving back in Ya Village was to see the mistress, but it seed that wasn’t the case.
“He left?”
Lin Caisang stopped and looked at Zhe Jue.
She naturally believed that her Brother Molian would definitely co to find her; what could be more important than seeing her?
The next mont, she suddenly turned around and, after stepping out of the courtyard, she walked straight into her own ho.
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