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The last time she refused his help to carry things for her was when they bought candied haws for Little Jing Kong.
The familiar picture flashed through his mind. With a slightly heated gaze and quivering eyelashes, Xiao Liulang slowly reached out to hold her hand.
His fingertips were so close to touching her that he could almost feel the warmth on the back of her hand.
"Liulang is back! And JiaoJiao too!"
Aunt Liu suddenly came out of her courtyard and looked at them with a smile.
Xiao Liulang swiftly drew back the hand that was about to touch Gu Jiao's fingertips, and greeted Aunt Liu without changing his expression, "Aunt Liu."
Gu Jiao looked at aunt Liu with bitterness.
Aunt Liu felt a chill on his forehead.
Aiya, what happened to Lady Jiao today?
She doesn’t seem very happy!
Aunt Liu said to Xiao Liulang, "Liulang, you, you ah... Hurry up and coax your wife. Did you upset her by not coming back last night?"
Xiao Liulang was unable to restrain a smile. He pursed his lips hard and it took him a lot of effort to keep his serious expression, "Our office was on duty outside the capital last night."
It was an explanation for Aunt Liu, as well as for Gu Jiao.
Aunt Liu, who had been standing at the door, watched the couple admiringly and had no intention of entering the house at all. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸𝘦𝒷𝑛𝘰𝑣𝘦𝘭.𝑐𝘰𝘮
Xiao Liulang was thin-skinned, prim and proper.
With others watching, holding hands was out of the question.
Gu Jiao walked away with a bitter look on her face.
Two people entered the house.
Gu Changqing and Gu Chengfeng were still here.
The roof of Uncle Zhao's house was damaged due to the rain last night. He intended to ask Gu Jiao to help him repair it, but Gu Jiao went out before dawn for a house visit.
Uncle Zhao came here again just now.
After learning about the situation, Gu Changqing went to repair the roof for him.
Uncle Zhao poked his upper body from atop the wall of his courtyard and said cheerfully, "JiaoJiao’s mother, is that your eldest son? He’s very capable!"
Gu Changqing’s hand reaching for the tile paused.
He restrained himself from looking back.
Behind him came Yao shi's voice which was as light as a breeze and as gentle as water, "Yes."
One shouldn’t air their dirty laundry in public. The relationship between Yao shi and Gu Changqing wasn’t something they could let outsiders know and gossip about.
Gu Changqing knew that Yao shi wasn’t really acknowledging him as her son, but he inwardly breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.
On the other hand, Gu Chengfeng was still applying fertilizer to the vegetable field, and it was a painful and torturous process!
Little Jing Kong was idle. He sat on a small stool with Little Eight in his arms to supervise the work. While overseeing the work, he was stroking Little Eight’s fur.
He still hadn't given up his wish for his bad brother-in-law to become Little Eight. Master said that sincerity worked miracles, so he prayed to Buddha every day before going to bed.
He believed that one day, Buddha would grant his wish and turn his bad brother-in-law into Little Eight!
When he thought of this, his heart was filled with longing and blurted out, "Ah Heng~"
Xiao Liulang who just crossed the threshold: "…"
Xiao Liulang hadn't been shocked by Little Jing Kong for too long. After all, there was the more shocking fertilization master— Gu Chengfeng.
Yao shi asked Xiao Liulang about last night, "…Was it tiring?"
Xiao Liulang evasively said, "It's nothing hard, we just sorted out the library pavilion and did some classification and literature restoration."
She then told him to change his clothes and prepare to eat, and then said to Little Jing Kong, "Jing Kong, call Granduncle to come over for dinner."
"En!" Little Jing Kong put down Little Eight and went away!
Yao shi headed next door and called Gu Changqing.
"Come and have dinner first." She said.
She momentarily paused, as though she realized that her invitation wasn’t in line with her relationship with Gu Changqing. She added, "If you hadn’t repaired Uncle Zhao’s roof early, JiaoJiao would have to fix it later."
She was simply grateful that he lessened Gu Jiao’s work.
"Alright." After Gu Changqing finished repairing and replacing the last tile, he came down from the roof.
Uncle Zhao brought fruits and pickles to express his gratitude.
The pickles were made by themselves, and Yao shi accepted them, but she asked Uncle Zhao to leave the fruits for Zhao Xiaobao to eat.
Seeing how she handled the relationship with her neighbors with ease, Gu Changqing couldn't help but wonder if this would be what his mother would look like if she were still in this world.
……
The next day, Xiao Liulang got up early and went to Hanlin Academy.
Hanlin Academy was very lively today, with congratulations and laughter coming from another row of offices from time to time.
Xiao Liulang had no idea what was going on at first. When Ning Zhiyuan came, he whispered to him that Senior Compiler Yang had been promoted.
It was no secret that Senior Compiler Yang would soon be promoted, but it was supposed to be at the end of the year according to what he heard.
"Do you know how he got promoted?" Ning Zhiyuan asked.
"How?" Xiao Liulang didn't really have much interest in Senior Compiler Yang, it was just to satisfy Ning Zhiyuan's heart to gossip.
"Go, let’s go and talk in your office!" Ning Zhiyuan took Xiao Liulang to the office room with an extraordinary smell.
"Lord Chen was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue early in the morning." Ning Zhiyuan said.
It wasn’t uncommon for the six ministries of the imperial court to transfer people over from Hanlin Academy. Besides, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue had long been wanting Lord Chen to be transferred over to work under him.
And it was precisely because of his transfer that one official position as an Academician reading-in-waiting was vacated, allowing Senior Compiler Yang to be promoted early.
Originally, Lord Chen was supposed to be transferred only after the end of the year, but that was just how it happened.
"I heard that you guys organized the library very well, and several restored books have gained the interest of Grand Secretary Yuan."
Xiao Liulang organized and restored more than half of the books, but not all of them. Senior Compiler Yang, An Junwang and the rest also restored some of them, so Xiao Liulang didn't guess for the time being that the books he restored were the ones noticed by Grand Secretary Yuan.
Even Ning Zhiyuan didn't know.
He just lamented that Senior Compiler Yang's luck was too good. Obviously, he wasn’t a very good person, but how could his fortune as an official be so prosperous?
Ning Zhiyuan sighed, "Lord Han highly praised Senior Compiler Yang. No, he should be called Reader-in-Waiting Yang now, a sixth-rank Academician Reading-in-Waiting! He used to be of the same grade as you, but now he has really climbed over your head."
Xiao Liulang didn't care much about it, "It's not like I just found out today that he's getting promoted."
Whether he was promoted early or promoted later, wasn’t it all the same anyway?
[T/N: Hi guys. I won’t be posting any updates for the next three days at the very least, my grandpa has just passed away and my family will be going to my grandparent’s home to be at my grandpa’s wake for a couple of days. And I might as well take this as an official break so I won’t be compensating for these updates. Sorry and thank you for your understanding.] f(r)eewebn(o)vel.com
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