I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 317 Peng Xu'an's Marriage 1

Past experiences have made this child subconsciously choose to avoid others. He will not take the initiative to communicate with his teacher or classmates. If he has any academic questions, he always keeps them to himself. Even if his classmates take the initiative to talk to him, he is unable to communicate with them smoothly. This results in him not only failing to keep up with his studies, but also having few friends of the same age.

His performance over the years made Mu Jinyang's family realize that revenge alone was not enough, they also had to show enough patience and care to heal their children's childhood trauma.

But miraculously, the child played with Bai Jingzhou the first time he met him.

Bai Jingzhou smiled at him, and the nervousness that always arose unconsciously when facing strangers disappeared. After the two of them exchanged a few words, the child unknowingly came close to Bai Jingzhou.

Mu Jinyang and his son were both stunned at the time. It was the first time they saw this child take the initiative to get close to people other than his family and a very small number of relatives, especially when he acted so relaxed and happy.

Seeing the shy smile that naturally appeared on the child's face, Mu Jinyang quietly turned his head away to hide his red eyes.

He was surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt it was natural. After all, Bai Jingzhou not only had a gentle smile and pure eyes, making him easy to approach at first glance, but he was also a rare person who treated children equally and sincerely.

Although children are young, they can still sense who has good intentions towards them.

The day after Bai Jingzhou asked Mu Jinyang to deliver something to the Lin family, Peng Xuan'an personally delivered a wedding invitation to Bai Jingzhou.

His father had already arranged a marriage for him. The girl was his second aunt's niece, and the people who acted as matchmakers between him and her were his second uncle and aunt.

Peng Xuan'an wrote a letter to Mu Jingzhi early on. Even after meeting Bai Jingzhou, Mu Jingzhi was still Peng Xuan'an's best friend. Before the wedding invitations were made, he couldn't wait to tell Mu Jingzhi who was far away in the capital.

It’s a pity that the wedding date chosen by the girl is at the end of October, and Mu Jingzhi can’t make it back because he has to study.

Peng Xuan'an had anticipated this, and he wrote to Mu Jingzhi early on, just hoping for the best.

When he really received Mu Jingzhi's letter and learned that Mu Jingzhi really couldn't come back, Peng Xuan'an couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

Although Mu Jingzhi asked someone to send him a generous gift, he still hoped that Mu Jingzhi could attend in person.

Since his best friend couldn't come, Bai Jingzhou, his savior and second best friend, became the person he repeatedly urged to come.

Bai Jingzhou did not refuse. He was in the provincial capital anyway, and it would only take him five or six days to go back to Qingshan County to congratulate. Considering his grades and the favor the gentlemen showed him, it would be easy for him to ask for leave.

He planned to ask for leave together with Bai Jingshan, Gu Wenhai and Gu Wenche, who had also received the wedding invitations, and then the four of them would meet up with Gu Wenxuan, who had brought gifts, in the county town. The five of them would go to the Peng Mansion, which had been newly painted and decorated and was very close to the back door of the county government, to congratulate Peng Xuan.

Yes, although Magistrate Peng and his family lived in the back hall of the county government office all year round, that was only to make it convenient for the diligent and people-loving Magistrate Peng to travel between his home and the office at any time. It did not mean that they did not have other houses in the county town.

The mansion with the sign of Peng Mansion was purchased by Peng Xuan'an's mother. County Magistrate Peng has been maintaining it carefully over the years, waiting for his eldest son to get married. He then gave the mansion that his wife had carefully selected to his eldest son.

Gu Wenxuan, who received the letter from Bai Jingzhou, was busy leading people into the mountains to collect herbs and mountain products. Only Bai Chong, Gu Yongming, Jia Guizhi, the Fang brothers and others were with her. They went to the deep mountains and forests where no one else could go.

As for the low hills on the outskirts, Gu Wenxuan left them to the other people in Baijia Village.

Gu Wenxuan had reminded everyone in the village who had been in the patrol team before not to give up practicing martial arts in the future. Although some people became lazy after the patrol team was disbanded, the vast majority of people still listened to Gu Wenxuan's words.

They have always maintained their personal fighting power, and every year except for spring plowing and harvesting, they would go into the mountains alone or with friends to look for mountain products to supplement their families.

For ordinary people who don't have much extra income, this is also an important way to make money.

Gu Wenxuan didn't want to compete with these people, so she simply went to the deep mountains and old forests that others didn't dare to go to every year. Anyway, the skills of their team were pretty good. Although not everyone could fight wild beasts alone, everyone could move freely in the deep mountains and old forests.

On the afternoon of October 27, Gu Wenxuan put down the work at hand and took a horse carriage to Qingshan County.

Bai Jingzhou and his four companions arrived a little later than her. They set out from the provincial capital early yesterday morning and traveled for two days, getting up early and going to bed late, before finally returning to Qingshan County, exhausted.

Gu Wenxuan waited in the house until the sky was dyed red by the sunset glow, and the carriage carrying Bai Jingzhou and three others was driven into the gate of the house by the coachman.

The servants quickly brought hot water. Bai Jingzhou and the others simply washed their hands and faces, then sat down at the table with Gu Wenxuan to eat.

Gu Wenxuan ordered the food from a restaurant outside. They did not live in the county town permanently, so the kitchen in their house naturally did not always have various condiments, fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs.

Gu Wenxuan came in a hurry this time and had very limited things with her. She thought it was too troublesome to rush out to buy things, so she asked someone to go to the restaurant to buy ready-made things.

Anyway, they will only have dinner today and breakfast tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at home, so there is no need to go out and purchase raw materials.

Everyone sat down at the table, but they were not in a hurry to share their experiences since they last met. Instead, they picked up their chopsticks and comforted their stomachs with delicious food.

Gu Wenxuan was fine, she was just a little hungry at dinner time, but Bai Jingzhou and the other three had already eaten several meals of steamed buns, dumplings, and snacks.

In addition, when they were in the academy, they were all intentionally controlling their food expenses, and most of the time the food they ate was not very oily, so the four of them were even more greedy for meat.

Seeing them eating meat with their mouths full of oil, Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but ask Bai Jingzhou with both amusement and heartache, "Didn't your family give you enough food money?"

In the past, these three families were indeed short of money, but after she and Bai Jingzhou came here, their lives have been getting better day by day. Why do they still look like they haven’t eaten meat for a long time?

Not to mention Bai Jingzhou and her two younger brothers, even Bai Jingshan, as far as she knew, his family was not as short of money as before.