When Grandma Yin was able to take her free time, it was already three days after Xu Yan and the others came to She Village.

In just three days, Chen Zhu's funeral was held in the village. Although he had lived in the She village for more than ten years, since Grandma Yin had taken the initiative to recognize his existence, the people in the entire village naturally did not dare to object and could only acquiesce.

Xu Yan and the other two attended the funeral, but they were only symbolic. According to the customs in the market, they also donated some money outside their bodies, but it was not worth mentioning. After this incident was over, Xu Yan, who was originally living in Xiaoman's house, finally waited for Grandma Yin's summons.

This was the second time that Xu Yan came to Aunt Yin’s wooden house. The first time he had secretly stayed on the roof. But now it seems that his previous behavior of stalking Xiaoman was obviously seen by Aunt Yin, but the latter should have noticed that he did not have any malice towards Xiaoman, so he did not have any hostility towards him.

Mrs. Yin has no direct descendants. Xu Yan learned about this from Xiaoman in these three days, so she regarded the two sisters Xiaoman, whose parents were no longer in history, as her granddaughter. In addition, Xiaoman also told Xu Yan and the other two without reservation that many stories about Mrs. Yin. For example, the other party was originally the leader of the ancient village of She Township, and it was not until Xiaoman's sister became an adult that she was chosen as the heir to the new patriarch. She took this opportunity to take off the burden on her shoulders and start to enjoy her life in the village and enjoy family.

It was another evening near twilight, but because the weather had cleared up the day before yesterday, a very spectacular fiery red sunset appeared in the sky during this autumn season.

Looking at the scenery of the setting sun from the ancient village of She, which is originally very high, is undoubtedly an extremely rare experience, as if the distant sky is particularly close to you. However, for some reason, if a person stares at the vast scenery for a long time, there will always be a natural awe and fear in his heart. This is true whether it is when he is looking at the sky or the sea.

Xu Yan has experienced the world, so although he is also quite shocked about the scenery that is destined to be at the end of his vision, he will not have any other emotions such as deep in his soul.

He stopped after coming to Aunt Yin's yard, and then he looked at Aunt Yin, who was sitting on the recliner and looked at the sunset, and said slightly: "Senior Yin's yard, are you finally free?"

After hearing the sound, Aunt Yin couldn't help but turn her head to look at him and replied, "Is Mr. Xu so anxious?"

Xu Yan did not hide anything and replied bluntly: "On the way, I and my cousin have stayed too many times. I have to go north to a very far place, so I don't have enough time."

Aunt Yin had already seen Gu Xueqing, so she could naturally see Gu Xueqing's true gender at a glance. She couldn't help but smile and said, "That's because your cousin is almost the same. In front of you, you don't have to do such useless work anymore." She paused and continued to smile, "Besides, since you have to remove the poison for her personally after you are old, you will know her gender sooner or later."

Xu Yan was not surprised by this, but replied: "When you go out and walk as a woman, you have so much inconvenience, so you let her disguise her."

Grandma Yin is not a simple girl like Xiaoman. After hearing Xu Yan's explanation, she said with a hint of sarcasm: "You asked her to dress up as a man, in fact, to prevent people from recognizing you and being chased again!"

Seeing that the other party made the topic clear, Xu Yan couldn't help but look dark.

When Aunt Yin saw him, she looked ugly and didn't care. However, she stopped teasing Xu Yan, but said, "You are not interested in the things you have in your body. You can rest assured. However, after you leave here, I hope you don't mention the existence of our She Village to outsiders, so that you will not bring any disaster to the She Village, nor will you break this rare tranquility that is isolated from the world."

After hearing this, Xu Yan also imitated the other party and replied with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "It may not be really isolated from the world, otherwise how could Xiaoman's sister be so in love with the people outside and be in a mess?"

When Aunt Yin heard Xu Yan take the initiative to mention Zhong Yun, who had been locked up by her, she couldn't help but sigh. She did not cover up Zhong Yun at all and said, "It's true that what happened to her is wrong, but in fact what happened to her can only be regarded as an accident."

Xu Yan didn't care about the dirty past that happened to Zhong Yun. When he mentioned the other party, he just used it to disgust the old woman in front of him. Now that he saw that the other party had no intention of entertainment, he naturally stopped when he saw that he was better and no longer had a stubborn effort.

Xu Yan changed the topic and said, "Senior Yin Gu, please tell me, why you ask me here to talk to you alone."

When Aunt Yin heard this, she couldn't help but look serious in her eyes. She did not answer Xu Yan directly, but said, "Young Master Xu really has a very delicate and delicate heart. If you didn't see your face with your own eyes, you would even think that you are an old guy with rich experience and experiences all kinds of life. But now it seems that you are just an old soul living in your heart."

Xu Yan ignored her seemingly praise but actually sarcastic words, and replied calmly: "Linglongxin is a swearing word. Although I have always been pretty good at face-to-face, why is it not appropriate for Senior Yin Gu to just say bad things about me in person, right?"

Aunt Yin ignored his sarcasm and then asked directly: "This time I asked you to come alone, but I actually want to ask you if you have any thoughts to stay in our village?"

When Xu Yan heard this question, he felt a little confused. He didn't understand what she wanted to express, so he replied in a low tone: "What do you mean by Senior Yin Gu? Are you always joking?"

Aunt Yin replied with a solemn look on her face: "Lao Shen is not joking with you, but is seeking your opinion. Lao Shen tells you the truth. Xiaoman has already fallen in love with you. Of course, Lao Shen has also asked her tentatively in private. Although she did not give me a clear answer on the front, the woman was shy and did not deny it, she would be considered as a default. I am a veteran and would not understand this principle, so I want to ask you if you have the intention to stay in our She village. If there is, Lao Shen will make his own decision and promise Xiaoman to be your wife."

Without waiting for Xu Yan to say anything, Grandma Yin continued: "In addition, Lao Shi has secretly decided to transfer the position of chief of She Village from her sister to her. Therefore, if you are willing to stay in She Village, you will be the husband of the next chief of She Village. But there is one thing that Lao Shi must explain to you, that is, if you want to marry Xiaoman, you must enter our She Village in the form of a marriage. After all, the women in our She Village have never been married."

Xu Yan remained silent when the other party said these words, and after the other party finished speaking, a sentence couldn't help but appear in his mind, "Is this old woman wrong?"

However, although Xu Yan thought so in his heart, he was silent on the surface and replied calmly: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint my senior, I don't have this plan."

Seeing that he didn't even think about it, Aunt Yin refused her proposal, she couldn't help but frown and asked, "Why, do you look down on Xiaoman or don't want to marry into a marriage?"

Xu Yan shook his head and replied bluntly: "Not either, I just didn't plan to stay here. In addition, if Senior Yin Gu calls me alone this time, it's just for this matter, then there's no need to say anything more. I've decided, and I will never be able to stay here."

When Grandma Yin heard this, she was just planning to ask Xiaoman for advice in private, and her face was a little cold. She didn't expect that the next life in front of her was not at all thoughtful.

Seeing that Aunt Yin fell silent and her face was a little unfair, Xu Yan did not retreat at all, and asked directly: "I wonder when Senior Yin Gu can help me touch the insects in her body?"

After hearing this, Aunt Yin replied in a cold tone: "Tomorrow, you can bring her to my house. By the way, call Man Yao to come here together."

...

After Xu Yan left, Aunt Yin went to Zhong Yun, who was being locked up by her.

When Zhong Yun saw her coming, she was undoubtedly a little nervous. She immediately knelt down and said respectfully: "Yun'er has seen Aunt Yin."

After Aunt Yin came to the room, she did not talk too much nonsense and said bluntly: "Yun Yat-tou, I personally use the holy relics of our clan to help outsiders commit crimes and destroy the holy relics. This matter is indeed because you did too much, so Aunt Yin has decided to remove your patriarch and pass it on to your sister Xiaoman. Do you have any objections?"

After hearing this, Zhong Yun replied in a low voice: "Yun'er has no objection."

After seeing this, Aunt Yin nodded, but then sighed and said, "As for Shen Zhu's death, most of the responsibility comes from Aunt Yin. You don't have to blame yourself too much for this. If I hadn't hated the unfaithful man back then and thought that all men in the world were hateful, I wouldn't have let you plant the golden silkworm Gu in the love Gu on Shen Zhu, and he would not have ended up like this now."

Zhong Yun also witnessed the scene of Shen Zhu pleading for her to Xu Yan before her death. Now when she heard Aunt Yin mention him on her own initiative, although she did not have much feelings for him, she still couldn't help feeling a little sad about it, because Shen Zhu was undoubtedly a world of difference compared to her lover who abandoned her cruelly at the last moment and only wanted to escape.

Tears appeared in Zhong Yun's eyes. She led the staff to cry and said, "After thinking about her husband for these two days, Yun'er has decided to stay widowed for him for the rest of her life, and will never have any contact with men in the world, and will be able to do it with Aunt Yin!"

After hearing this, Aunt Yin felt a little embarrassed, but in the end, she still said nothing.

It is hard to say whether this is glory or misfortune by her previous generation, but at least in her own opinion, she and Zhong Yun now have no good results. Therefore, many times, they can only convince themselves that they sacrificed themselves for the quietness of this ancient mountain village independent of the secular world.

Aunt Yin reached out to help Zhong Yun, who was kneeling on the ground, hesitated for a moment before slowly saying: "From now on, Xiaoman... I will rely on you, the sister, to spend more time to take care of her."

When Zhong Yun heard this, she had already guessed the ending, and she couldn't help but burst into tears. She cried and nodded heavily to Aunt Yin, but couldn't say anything.

After seeing this, Aunt Yin held her hand kindly, then patted her back gently on the back of her hand, and finally said, "Stop crying, everything is over."

...

When Xu Yan returned to Xiaoman's residence, the food was already fragrant in the house. If what he expected was not bad, this should be the last dinner he could have in this village.

When Xiaoman saw Xu Yan coming back, he quickly served the last dish in the pot and then served it on the table. She smiled and said, "Young Master Xu is back and it's time to have a meal."

Although she showed a smile, Xu Yan could still see that her eyes were still red and swollen. These days, Chen Zhu's death had a great blow to her, so she was sad and cried.

Xu Yan looked at the smile that the other party showed when he saw him, but he couldn't help but remember what Aunt Yin said to him before. Then he realized that Aunt Yin had not made any illusion for him, but it was indeed impossible to let him stay here.

Xiaoman is very simple and of course very beautiful. She is the kind of girl that makes people feel pleasing to the eye when they first see it. When she smiles, it will give people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze.

After a brief time with each other over the past few days, Xu Yan could clearly feel that her simplicity comes from the primitive purity of the people and things in the world in her values, and has not yet added any secular energy and collective morality, just like those springs flowing in the deep mountains, clear and clean.

Xu Yan looked at Xiaoman who was busy helping him and Gu Xueqing to make food, and said that it was impossible not to like her, because when he first saw her, he felt that he liked her. Although this was mostly from the subjective consciousness of Xujia Village, even if it was the former "Yan", if he still liked a woman in the world, it would be like Xiaoman, not like Bai Bing, even if they were almost the same in appearance.

Xu Yan sighed in his heart, but even if he liked it, he could only be silent.

After Xiaoman served the food, he smiled and asked Xu Yan, "Auntie Yin, has Mrs. Xu been asking Mr. Xu to discuss how to remove the worms in Miss Gu's body?"

Xu Yan reached out to take the rice bowl she handed over, thanked her, nodded and replied, "Well, this is exactly what she is talking about."

"Is that finalized?"

"Senior Yin Gu said that Senior Sister Gu would go to her house tomorrow at four o'clock, and Xiaoman would also go there."

"I'm going too?"

"Well, Senior Yin Gu said that."

“…”

After using up dinner.

Xiaoman began to clean pots and pans, and Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing sat in the patio together, admiring the bright stars in the night sky. Next to them, there were tea prepared by Xiaoman for them, as well as some salted edamame produced in the She village.

Gu Xueqing took a bunch of edamame and ate it in her mouth, and said to Xu Yan: "I didn't expect that there would be so many days in this village in the end."

Xu Yan replied with a smile: "Most plans for the world cannot keep up with changes, and there will always be unpredictable accidents, but it's okay, including tomorrow will only take five days."

After hearing this, Gu Xueqing said, the bullhead was wrong and suddenly sighed and said, "I really feel reluctant to leave here."

Xu Yan did not respond to this because he was unable to be sure whether the other party was talking about him or herself.

...

The next morning.

As soon as the skylight lit up, Xiaoman had already gotten up to cook breakfast for Xu Yan and the others. This reminded him of the figure in his mind again. Xu Yan looked at the charming dark blue outside the window and couldn't help but think: "I don't know if Sister Hong has gotten up to cook now."

But after just imagining for a moment, Xu Yan shook his head, feeling that he was a little too sentimental.

About half an hour later, the sky was already bright, and the morning light was still shining in the mountains and forests.

After Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing finished washing in the yard, they went to the house to enjoy breakfast. After about three o'clock in the morning, the three of them left the house and walked towards Aunt Yin's house.

The journey from Xiaoman's house to Aunt Yin's house is not far away, and it takes a moment to take. Therefore, when the three of them arrived at Aunt Yin's house, it was about four o'clock in the morning.

When Aunt Yin saw them coming, she didn't say much. She just nodded to Xu Yan, then called Gu Xueqing and Xiaoman to go up the second floor together. However, Xu Yan, who was waiting downstairs, didn't know what Xu Yan didn't know. On the second floor, Zhong Yun, who was jealous of Gu Xueqing, was actually there.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was Si Shi. However, Xu Yan, who was waiting, felt that he was living a little like a year because he couldn't understand why it took so long to just take a worm.

So, it was not until the time reached almost noon that footsteps came from the wooden floor upstairs.

After hearing the sound, Xu Yan immediately stood up from the bench. After successfully meeting Gu Xueqing, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He asked, "Why are you the only one going downstairs?"
Chapter completed!