Carrying the little lucky star, leading the villain on the road to exile

Chapter 306. Days
After having an upset stomach and making such a big fuss, the whole family stayed home for several days. Eventually, they couldn't resist anymore, mainly because they were really craving something sweet.

They've been eating nothing but bland soup every day, and they've even run out of dried vegetables, let alone meat. They can't even get a drop of oil out of their stomachs. If they go back empty-handed again today, they're afraid they won't have the strength to go into town tomorrow.

When they got back, they kept thinking about where they had been poisoned. No matter how they reviewed the incident, they couldn't find the cause. In the end, they could only say that they were unlucky that day and had eaten something unclean.

No one expected that the unassuming old nanny sent by the Bai family would be so unassuming.

"All you ever do is eat. What else can you do besides eat?" Gu Baijiang cursed, but still turned and walked towards the market. This time, he dared not give the silver notes to his two sons again, lest the two boys take them and never return them. Sometimes when he asked them to buy something, they would whine and complain.

Thinking that he would finally get to see meat today, he stopped thinking about anything else and quickly followed after them.

"Dad, everyone in the village is smoking meat now, let's get some to take back with us..."

"You can do it?"

“If we don’t know how, we can learn. If it really doesn’t work, we can hire someone to do it. Tian Chunmei and her two daughters were quite capable last time. Actually, we can hire people to do a lot of the work. There’s no need to work ourselves to death.” Gu Kaichen asked tentatively, “Then we don’t need to cultivate the land that was allocated to us, right?”

"No one should say a word about this until the amnesty is issued."

Gu Baijiang suddenly stopped in his tracks. "Does that mean all of us who were exiled this time can go back?"

What about all the suffering he's endured these past few days? Others just sit back and reap the benefits?

But he couldn't express his gratitude; it was all thanks to the Empress Dowager and His Majesty's great favor.

The two brothers said, "...Gu Kaiyuan and the others are just benefiting from our situation."

Gu Kaiyuan, “…” Don’t always think of me, and don’t miss me…

"The Third Prince is really good at scheming," Gu Baijiang was already guessing how much profit Rong Ruiyuan could gain from this.
Although these exiled people could not be reinstated, they all had relatives by marriage who could potentially become a source of assistance.

"Father, does that mean I won't have a chance to be reinstated?" Gu Kaiping took a deep breath and asked the question that had been on his mind.

Gu Baijiang: "Then we'll have to see how the Third Prince handles it."

If we can't reinstate you to your original position, keeping you by my side as a subordinate official would be quite good.

"And what about you, Dad?"

Gu Baijiang grinned, making his scars look even more grotesque. "Me? In my current state, can I still enter the imperial court?"
The family is counting on you now. It would be best if you could raise those two children well so they can register for the imperial examinations next year.

There's no way we'll make it this year, but that doesn't matter. It'll be a good opportunity for the two kids to reflect and mature, and maybe they can achieve great success together.

Now they can only place all their hopes on their two children, so these days they don't let them go out to work and they stay home all day reading and studying.

"I will do my best to teach them," Gu Kaiping suddenly realized that he had made things too comfortable for the two children these past few days and hadn't assigned them much homework. He would have to make up for it when he got back.

Just like Dad said, taking care of the family in the future will depend on the next generation.

“It’s just that your offspring are too few,” Gu Baijiang said with a hint of displeasure. There were only two boys among the three brothers, and they still needed to add more men to the family. “In the future, you two brothers should take more concubines. You must do everything you can to ensure the continuation of the Gu family line.”

“No problem,” Gu Kaichen immediately beamed. “Father, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it right away.”

“Speaking of which,” Gu Kaiping frowned, “what about the Fan sisters?”

Now that Xu Shuanghong is their stepmother, the two sisters have become their stepsisters. Fan Meibao "took a sword for" her father and is now bedridden. She's always acting strangely, causing unrest in the family.

“Fan Meibao is no longer able to have children and can no longer be considered a woman. Considering that she took the sword for her father, she will be kept at home from now on,” Gu Kaichen said nonchalantly. “She can help with some chores at home and make things easier for everyone.”

With money, what kind of woman can't you find?

Moreover, Fan Meibao is such a boring woman. He tried so hard to please her before, but she never gave him a kind look. Now that she can't have children, he's supporting her, so she should be grateful.

Despite the coldness in his words, neither the Gu father nor his son found anything wrong with them.

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Bai Suihe also learned about the situation of the Gu family from the information she obtained from Dongmei and the others.

"You mean they seem to be in a good mood lately?" Bai Suihe looked at Dongmei, "and haven't gone to the fields to clear land?"

Dongmei shook her head. "It's strange. Everyone else is busy in the fields, but this family doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all."

The village chief sent someone to notify them again, but said they weren't in a hurry and that things would be resolved in time.

"The villagers are wondering if they will start hiring people to do chores once they finish their work in the fields?"
Some families are saying that even after finishing their work in the fields, they don't dare to talk to the Gu family. Who knows if getting too close to them will get them involved?

Bai Suihe: "These people are quite clever; that makes sense."

Dongmei covered her mouth and chuckled, "Miss, you've got it wrong. It's not that they're particularly clever, but rather that Chen Dafu's wives have been gossiping about these things with the other women in the village lately."

Because of these things, the Chen family has become very close with many families in the village, and was one of the first to integrate.

Bai Suihe understood immediately. They lived alone at the end of the village, and the Bai family had sent so many people. Even though they were newcomers, the people of Tian Village and the local thugs didn't dare to cause trouble.

The Gu family had long since banded together, and their combined population could even rival that of the original villagers. Therefore, compared to them, the villagers were actually more wary of the Gu family, fearing that over time, they would definitely surpass the original villagers.

Gu Baijiang and his group had troublemakers on their side. Although Chen Dafu had other motives, he didn't dare to get too close. He lived nearby so that he could keep an eye on them at any time, but he didn't want to get too close to them, for fear of being implicated again.

As for the Zhou family and a few other households, Chen Dafu didn't pay them any attention. So the best thing for them was to integrate into the village as soon as possible, and becoming an original inhabitant was the shortcut they could take.

Sending the women of the family out can reduce people's wariness, and the women's everyday gossip is their first choice.

They didn't have many topics to discuss when they first arrived, but everything that happened to the Gu family inspired them. Sure enough, just as they had hoped, these villagers asked a lot of questions about the Gu family.

(End of this chapter)