Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 223

The group set off at dawn, and they did not meet anyone from the old dynasty on the way, and finally rushed back to Hanshan Town that night.

The members of the rebel army led by a pale teenager did not stay for long and immediately left. They were safely delivered to the gate of the Wen family’s mansion.

When the night-time servants of the Wen family saw that Old Master Wen and Second Master Wen came back, they were as happy as it was New Year’s Eve.

Eldest Master Wen came out immediately when he heard the sound.

It was late at night, and he was still dressed neatly, apparently still worried and didn’t go to bed.

Seeing that Old Master Wen was taken into the house by his family, Gu Yin and the others also went to their house.

However, not long after the carriage turned around, it encountered Mrs. Wang who was looking for her with a lantern.

“Where’s my girl?” Seeing Manager Zhou and Master Yuan sitting on the carriage, Mrs. Wang was so anxious that her voice cracked just like when the old man who saw Second Master Wen fell out of the carriage.

“Mother, I’m here!” After Manager Zhou stopped the carriage, Gu Yin lifted the curtain and stuck her head out.

“Hey! Don’t get down!” Mrs. Wang trotted forward and got into the carriage from the back.

She checked Gu Yin from head to toe, then clenched her hand tightly and said, “You’re back, you’re back!”

Gu Yin’s hand was painfully pinched by her, and she didn’t even know what to do. She just asked Mrs. Wang, “How did you know that we’re back, mother?”

Mrs. Wang explained, “Just across the street, I was talking to Uncle Zhong at the door.”

As for why she stayed at the door of the house so late, she was naturally still waiting for her, for fear that when she would come back someday, Uncle Zhong would be too old to open the door for her in time.

The two families were indeed not far from each other, and the carriage stopped at the gate of the Gu House while they were talking.

Gu Yin, Mrs. Wang and Manager Zhou got off the carriage, while Master Yuan drove the carriage home by himself.

At the entrance of the house, not only Uncle Zhong, Song Shiliu, Wu’an, Gu Ye, Chef Xu and his two young apprentices were there, even Mother Tian and her daughter were waiting there, and they all came out when they heard the sound.

“Mother!”

“Sister-in-law!”

The two little guys rushed over together like two small cannonballs.

Gu Yin opened her arms to catch them, rubbed their heads, then looked at Gu Ye and said with a smile, “Why are you dressed like this?”

Wu’an didn’t change much, he just got taller and thinner, but Gu Ye changed a lot. He was wearing that big black cloak with a hood. If he didn’t talk, Gu Yin might not be able to recognize him at a glance.

“I want to be like my mother,” Gu Ye said in a nasal voice.

Since he had got his mother, he hadn’t been separated from her for such a long time.

Sometimes Gu Ye was also very afraid, afraid that he would forget his mother’s appearance like he couldn’t remember things when he was a child. That was why he insisted on dressing like that.

Did that mean he went to the mountain to find out about her like that before?

When the general saw him like that, would he think that the mother and son were so ugly?

Thinking of it, Gu Yin couldn’t help laughing and when she saw everyone come out to greet her with a smile, her eyes became even wetter, “It’s so crowded, why didn’t everyone sleep?”

“Oh, it’s good that you’re back, it’s good that you’re back,” Chef Xu covered his face and cried like a child.

Although Mother Tian and her daughter had known Gu Yin for less time than the others, they also whimpered and cried together.

“Everyone is back, so why are you crying? Let’s go and talk,” Mrs. Wang instructed everyone to enter.

And she never let go of Gu Yin’s hand from beginning to end, obviously her mood was not as calm as she showed.

Wu’an and Gu Ye were sticking to Gu Yin. When she got to the main hall, she was pressed down by Mrs. Wang to sit down. The two little guys didn’t even look for a place to sit, they leaned on her one from left and the other from right.

Mrs. Wang called Song Shiliu out again, and the two quickly came over from the kitchen, one carrying water, with grapefruit leaves in the a basin, and the other carrying a brazier with charcoal burning.

“Come on, cross the brazier. I forgot when you first came in, so now cross it!”

Although Gu Yin didn’t believe that, she saw Mrs. Wang’s preparations, so she stepped over the brazier according to her words.

Later, Mrs. Wang dipped the grapefruit leaf in water and slapped it on Gu Yin’s head and body, and then handed the leaf to Manager Zhou and asked him to slap it on himself, and finally twisted the handkerchief and handed it to Gu Yin, “Wipe your face first, the water is clean.”²