A Happy Wife in a Rural Family

Chapter 18: Chapter 18. Gu Qingli’s Plan

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

This was an essential difference from women who did not keep their chastity.

Just take it as the third brother marrying a second wife.

The family had decided on this. Xiao Yunjing planned to tell Gu Qingli when he went to town to pick up the wedding dress tomorrow.

She should be able to understand his intentions.

He hadn’t interacted with Gu Qingli before, and his impression of her was that she was a coward who couldn’t even raise her head in front of others.

Since he met her, Gu Qingli seemed to have changed into a different person. She was strong, calm, intelligent, and full of energy and confidence, so much so that he couldn’t take his eyes off her.

Whenever he heard the people in the village call her a broken shoe, he wanted to take a knife and chop that person up. He tried to tell them loudly that he was the one who turned her into a broken shoe.

There was a reason why he didn’t tell her in the beginning. He would find a chance to say to her in the future. He feared their marriage might be ruined if he told her now.

As for a reason, it was because he had been reborn on the day Niu Ergou came to propose marriage.

It could be considered a previous life, but Xiao Yunjing had died once.

He would never forget what happened in his previous life.

That day, when Gu Qingli found out that she was going to marry Niu Ergou, she ran away.

She had succeeded in escaping, but her ending was lamentable.

A few years later, he also went to the capital and heard about her. He heard that when she returned to the Gu family, her parents doted on her and found a suitable family to be her second home.

After marriage, the man still despised her for being a used shoe, and her life was tough.

As for himself, he had never married or had children because of his guilt. He had just silently protected her.

Ten years later, Gu Qingli passed away from depression.

After he received the news, he once again requested to go to the border, but he didn’t expect the Emperor to have the intention of getting rid of him.

Who asked him to have many troops and high military achievements?

In less than two years, he was poisoned to death by his trusted subordinates. Before he died, he learned that the Emperor had bribed them.

He didn’t expect to be reborn on the day Gu Qingli was betrothed to Niu Ergou by the Hua family, so he quickly snatched her away.

She did stay, but Xiao Yunjing was confused. Gu Qingli already knew about her family background, so why didn’t she leave?

There wasn’t much of a difference between marrying Niu Ergou and him.

Or did Mrs. Wu not tell her?

However, no matter what, he would not let her experience the same fate as her previous life.

He wasn’t going to join the army or become a god of war. He would live an ordinary life here and have children with Gu Qingli.

This was to make up for his mistake.

In her previous life, the two had no children for their entire lives. In this life, they would have a few.

The next day, Xiao Yunjing met Gu Qingli and her two siblings on the road.

“Li-er, morning, Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang.” Xiao Yunjing took a few steps forward and greeted the three warmly.

Gu Qingli felt goosebumps all over her body. ‘Oh my God! A burly man called her Li ‘er in a soft voice. What the hell is this early in the morning?’ she thought.

Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang didn’t feel anything was wrong and greeted him.

Gu Qingli forced a smile and nodded at him.

“Li ‘er, let me tell you something.” Xiao Yunjing said hurriedly when he saw that she was about to leave with the two.

“What is it? Go on.” Gu Qingli turned around.

“That is on the wedding day; we don’t plan to make it a big event. Just our family can have a meal together. Li ‘er, what do you think?” Xiao Yunjing didn’t know why, but his heart was beating fast when he saw Gu Qingli’s calm face.

In the past, he was not careless even when facing thousands of troops.

Gu Qingli said, “It’s up to you. Our family didn’t prepare anything.”

After saying that, she hurriedly left with the two.

Today, Xiao Yunjing was very different, making her feel old.

Xiao Yunjing was a little confused and looked at her back in a hurry. What did she mean? What did he mean by not preparing for anything? Was she not willing to marry him? Or was she leaving after finding out about his background?

Xiao Yunjing’s brain was in a mess, and he didn’t know what he wanted to do today.

Xiao Yunjing absentmindedly retrieved his wedding dress and went up the mountain with his bow on his back, watching from a distance as the three siblings worked hard to dig up the herbs.

On the other side, Gu Changan had brought his four sons and a few strong men from the village to repair the dilapidated house at the foot of the mountain.

There were five taels of silver left from the silver that Er Nizi had given him yesterday.

The original owner of the house had moved to the county. Before he left, he told him someone had bought it for at least twenty taels of silver. Yesterday, when he went to look for them, they said the house had been in disrepair for so many years that it was not worth that much. They also heard about the situation of second brother Gu’s family and only asked for fifteen taels, including the two pieces of land in front and behind the house that were three acres.

The open space was enough to grow vegetables for the family.

That was why he had settled everything in the county office and was left with so much.

Yesterday, Er Nizi also said she did not have enough silver to make up for it. She could only make up for it in the future when she had enough silver.

If she had more than enough, she would get wine for her second Grandpa.

Now that there was so much left, she wouldn’t take it even if he returned it to her, so he could only help their family repair the house quickly.

It was burning to hold so much silver in his hands.

At this moment, Gu Qingli went deeper into the forest with the two of them. More precious herbs were in the woods, and she found a small patch of ginseng and bloodvine.

It was the season for the herbs to ripen, and Gu Qingli wished she could grow three heads and six arms to dig up all the spices.

When the snow started to fall in a few days, many herbs would freeze to death.

Unfortunately, they would die.

These seemingly ordinary grass could save lives in critical moments.

She had no choice but to secretly put some into her space when the two weren’t paying attention.

The three siblings dug until it was morning before they left the mountain.

Gu Changan and the others had just finished their work when they passed by the house, leaving him and his third son, Gu Daping, to clean up the weeds on the ground.

“Second Grandpa, third uncle.” Gu Qingli walked over and called out.

“Ah, it’s you and your brothers.” Gu Changan looked up and saw them.

“Second Grandpa, you don’t have to worry about this. Just help us fix the roof. You’re already so old, but you’re still helping us with this. It’s not necessary. Stop.”

The three siblings quickly pulled the two of them up.

“Ai! You little girl, I don’t have anything to do, so I’m free anyway.” Gu Changan patted the mud off his hands.

Hearing this, Gu Qingli immediately had an idea. She put down the basket and asked Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang to help Gu Changan sit down on a dead tree in the yard.

“Second Grandpa, I don’t care if you’re free. Second Grandpa, help me note down the people who helped me with the work. I’ll pay them when I’m done.”

Gu Changan waved his hand and said with a smile, “There’s no need for that. Xiao Li, I don’t need to be paid for this little work. I still have five taels of silver left from yesterday. I’ll give it to you when I calculate it.