After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

Murong Jue's mood instantly brightened, and she led Xue Mao and Xue Xiang to wander around Shen Family Village behind the children.

As soon as they leave.

Su Tai hurriedly told the servants to clear the table and prepare tonight's New Year's Eve dinner.

Shen Yi had a headache. "I reckon everyone's too full to eat. We'll stay up all night tonight, so let's eat later! Prepare a few dishes. I'm going to Mr. Zhou's house."

The Zhou family was just about to have their New Year's Eve dinner.

Shen Yi's arrival prompted the whole family to come out to greet him.

Shen Yi glanced at the table and saw that the Zhou family's New Year's Eve dinner included fish and meat. The fish were pomfret and yellow croaker, and the meat was mutton and beef, along with two plates of vegetables. There wasn't a lot of food, but it was enough for the family.

Shen Yi handed the food box to Zhou Ran, clasped his hands in a fist and bowed, "I'm here to apologize on behalf of my son and daughter. Those two children have caused Mr. Zhou a lot of trouble lately, and I really feel bad about it."

Just before the New Year, someone gave me a landscape painting, saying that Mr. Zhou likes landscape paintings, so I brought it along. I hope you'll take a look and see if you like it.

"There's no need for all this trouble!" Mr. Zhou handed the food box to Madam Ye, opened it in front of Shen Yi, and gasped upon seeing the signature, "This is an authentic work by the Hermit of Yunshan! It's genuine."

Shen Yi chuckled awkwardly, "I'm glad Mr. Zhou likes it. In that case, I'll be leaving now so as not to disturb your family reunion."

He doesn't know any of those hermits, like the hermit of Yunshan or the hermit of Xueshan; he just wants to deliver things that touch people's hearts.

After Shen Yi left, Mr. Zhou carefully put away the painting and returned to his study. He felt unsafe no matter where he looked, and after a flurry of activity, he still didn't know where to hide it.

Ye served the braised abalone and boiled shrimp that Shen Yi had given her.

After waiting for a while without seeing Zhou Ran come out, she went over and knocked on the door, which startled Zhou Ran. "What do you want?"

Ye was speechless. "I asked you what you were doing? What were you doing sneaking around in the study? The food's getting cold!"

Zhou Ran frowned, looking exasperated. "I just couldn't find a place to store this! This is a genuine work by the Hermit of Yunshan! If those brats ruin it, I'll really cry my eyes out!"

Mrs. Ye was both amused and exasperated. "Why don't you just lock the study with a lock?"

Zhou Ran's eyes lit up, and he jumped up excitedly, "Madam is so clever! Let's do it this way!"

Just then, Murong Jue and the others, who had been walking with the children all the way to the village school, overheard Zhou Ran's words and all suppressed their laughter.

Shen Yue'an looked dejected. "Brother Zhou Yi, the teacher has locked the study. We can't go in to play anymore!"

“It’s okay, I’ll help you climb through the window!” Zhou Yi winked at her.

Xue Xiang whispered with interest in Murong Jue's ear, "Master, if that Mr. Zhou knew about their plan, wouldn't he be furious?"

Seeing Xue Xiang's nasty demeanor, Murong Jue shook his head helplessly and went over to knock on Mr. Zhou's study.

Mr. Zhou opened the door and was met with Murong Jue's unfamiliar face, his head full of question marks, "Who is this young master looking for?"

Murong Jue said calmly, "I overheard what you said, sir, and I would like to offer you a suggestion: when you lock the door, don't forget to lock the windows."

Zhou Ran subconsciously glanced at Zhou Yi and the others not far away.

Seeing Zhou Yi sneaking away in a guilty conscience, and not understanding anything else, he immediately roared in anger.

The Shen family's New Year's Eve dinner this year was somewhat chaotic due to the forceful intrusion of Murong Jue and his group.

Early on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Su Tai and Shen Yi have accepted the fact that there will be a group of strangers in their home for the New Year.

In order to get rid of them as soon as possible, Su Tai made Chi Sanhua, Chi Zhaodi and others practice their cooking skills and prepare four seafood meals for them every day.

For foodie Xue Mao, the Shen family home was simply paradise. They felt bad about staying there too long.

So Xue Mao and Xue Xiang turned their attention to the twins and insisted on teaching them martial arts.

The more the twins resisted, the more excited they became, chasing them from one end of the village to the other, climbing onto roofs and tearing off tiles, showing remarkable perseverance.

Su Tai then discovered that the twins, who had never been afraid of anyone in their lives, would instinctively dodge Xue Mao and Xue Xiang like mice seeing a cat.

No matter how they ran, they could not escape the Buddha's grasp.

When Shen Yi was about to go to the county government office, the twins had already been forced by Xue Xiang and Xue Mao to practice their basic skills for three days, and he had to admit, he felt it was quite effective.

He immediately shamelessly approached Xue Mao.

"Lord Xue, when do you gentlemen plan to leave the village?"

Xue Mao raised an eyebrow. "What? Does Lord Shen want to send us away?"

"No, no, no," Shen Yi hurriedly explained, "I have a favor to ask. If Lord Xue were to leave the village, could you please take my two troublesome children with you? I would certainly repay you handsomely."

Xue Mao: "."

At Murong Jue's prompting, Xue Mao agreed.

The unfortunate twins had no idea what kind of days were about to come.

As Shen Yi was about to leave, Shen Yuezhang quickly spoke up, "Father, I'll go back to the county town with you. The shop should be opening soon, and we also need to visit Aunt and Xiangxiang at the Lu family's place."

"Alright! Father will take you with him." Shen Yi didn't really want his daughter to get too close to Murong Jue, so he breathed a long sigh of relief at her decision.

Upon learning that Shen Yuezhang was leaving, Murong Jue immediately instructed Xue Mao to prepare to depart as well.

Bring the twins along too.

The twins were secretly delighted when they heard Xue Mao and Shen Yi say goodbye, when Su Tai instructed Yu Xiaoyu, "Go and pack the luggage for the second young master and second young lady. You two should also get ready. We'll be leaving soon."

"Go? Mother, where are we going?" Shen Yue'an asked, looking confused.

Su Tai raised the corners of her mouth meaningfully, "Of course I'm letting you go with Uncle Xue! Martial arts training requires accumulation over time, you can't give up halfway. Good children, I'm rooting for you, go!"

"No! Mother! Am I not your precious darling anymore? You can't do this to us, you can't!" Shen Yue'an cried and wailed. Seeing that Su Tai showed no sign of softening, she gritted her teeth, turned around and ran to Shen Yi for help.

Shen Yi, however, had disappeared somewhere.

The two tried to sneak away, but as soon as they reached the door, Murong Jue grabbed them from either side and locked them in the carriage.

Amidst the twins' wailing and howling, the convoy set off.

Su Tai felt completely relaxed, as if the air around her had become much fresher.

Just then, the portal to time and space seemed to change again.

She rushed back to her room and locked the door from the inside.

When she entered the time-space transfer station, she discovered that the Gold Dimension had been upgraded again.

The upgraded Golden Time and Space now includes a gold jewelry specialty store.

Unlike silver jewelry stores, gold jewelry stores are much larger, filled with glittering gold jewelry. There are extravagant wedding pieces as well as exquisite little ornaments suitable for everyday wear. There are so many items that she was overwhelmed by the sheer number of them.

As she looked at them, she secretly lamented that these magnificent gold ornaments couldn't be sold on the market like silver ones. (End of Chapter)