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Song Yidao looked around and quickly left with his bundle.

The blue-robed man secretly spat on the ground and left the tree with a look of disgust.

Jin Xiaolou followed closely behind with Lin'er in her arms. They walked all the way to the entrance of the Eight Li alley, and only after seeing that person directly enter the house, did he give up.

Zhou Shuli just happened to be returning from Wellhead Village, holding a small sandalwood box in his hand like a treasure. Seeing Jin Xiaolou hurriedly chase up to him with two steps, he passed the box to the front of the building.

Lin'er was the first to turn around, his chubby little hands grabbing the box, raising it up to his mouth.

Jin Xiaolou laughed and took the box out from her mouth that was dripping saliva. Looking at Zhou Shuli's anxious face, she jokingly asked: ”Is this box a gift for your nephew?”

Zhou Shuli presented everything that he was thinking on his face, without concealing anything.

Jin Xiaolou could tell from one look that the box was for Gui Qi, but she couldn't help but want to tease him.

”No, no, no.” Zhou Shuli explained in a hurry, ”My mother specifically asked me to send this to Gui Qi.”

”Then what are you offering me?” Jin Xiaolou smiled as she looked at Zhou Shuli.

Zhou Shuli scratched his head bashfully: ”Help me put it under my Guizhi pillow.”

Jin Xiaolou shook his head: ”I can't help you with this matter.”

With that, he returned the box to Zhou Shuli, pushed open the door and entered the house.

He raised his eyebrows and shouted towards the house: ”Gui Qi, Zhou Shuli has something to tell you.”

Huang Guizhi was in the middle of washing her clothes in the house. She had just put down the soap and rubbed the corner of his hands with the bubbles, but she was too slippery to wipe his hands off, so she quickly ran out.

Seeing Zhou Shuli standing at the entrance with a red face, he went to welcome him, raising his head and fluttering his eyes: ”What, do you have something to tell me?”

Zhou Shuli passed the box to Gui Qi and slowly said: ”My mother said that she has nothing, so she could only carry this kind of thing. Now that I have given it to you, I am only willing … We just want to be safe and sound for the rest of our lives. ”

Gui Zhi stretched out his arm, bent his elbow to catch the box, smiled sweetly, and went back to his room to wash.

”Gui Qi, wait a moment.” Zhou Shuli called out and stopped Gui Zhi. He then took out a white cloth handkerchief and gently unfolded it, revealing three pieces of toasted persimmon.

Zhou Shuli took out a piece of persimmon cake and handed it over to the osmanthus branch with eyes full of anticipation and joy.

With a bite of the osmanthus branch, the rich fragrance of the osmanthus blossoms filled his mouth, followed by the sweet taste of the persimmon.

”This is my mother's osmanthus persimmon cake that she made when she first entered the autumn. She picked it before the rain and marinated it in fresh red persimmon seeds. This year, there's a lot of rain, and the persimmon cake is not easy to make. Most of it is rotten. Only these three pieces are for you.”

Gui Zhi's heart felt even sweeter than a persimmon, after wiping off his clothes, he picked up a piece and fed it to Zhou Shuli.

”If there's sweetness, we'll eat it together.” After saying that, he took the last piece of persimmon cake and entered the house.

Right after entering, he handed the last piece of persimmon cake to Jin Xiaolou.

Jin Xiaolou cut it into 6 portions and sent each of them to taste a bit.

The last bit was stuffed into Lin'er's mouth, causing him to laugh non-stop.

After Jin Xiaolou and Gui Qi washed and dried their clothes, they sat on the side of the bed and watched Gui Zhi open the small sandalwood box.

The box was covered with brocade, and inside was a pair of jade earrings.

From the looks of it, it was not a good jade. The dark green jade body was intermixed with yellow and black stripes. However, it was round and smooth, bright and clean.

What was even more rare was that this earring was carved very well, with great ingenuity and ingenuity, it cut the jade-green jade into the shape of a curly leaf, the vein lines of the leaf could clearly be seen, the yellow black impurities were like brown spots on the leaf itself, from afar, a tender leaf that had just sprouted out was vivid and lifelike.

Jin Xiaolou took out the earring to put on the osmanthus branch. The osmanthus branch was already white and bright under the reflection of the emerald jade, like a new dew on a leaf.

After handing over the Lin'er to Gui Qi to look after, Jin Xiaolou went out alone.

After buying a bag of plums, he sat down at the well to the left of Eight Mile Lane and stared at the alley entrance as he ate.

From time to time, there would be women coming out to wash and cook at the well. When they saw Jin Xiaolou, they were all a little confused, so Jin Xiaolou split the plums, saying that she was here to look for someone, she attracted one or two women with their mouths agape to accompany her. She told them all about the people in the alley.

Just as she was happily talking, Jin Xiaolou saw from afar that the man dressed in blue was carrying a small cloth bag and walking out with his head lowered.

Jin Xiaolou took a plum in her mouth and asked while biting it, ”Do you know who that person is, Aunt?”

The aunt unceremoniously grabbed a handful of plums from Jin Xiaolou's hands and turned to look at him, ”Him, he's Da Chun. ”She's been living here for more than ten years. She has a sick sister in her family who relies entirely on him to work as a waiter in the autumn moon wine house to earn money to buy medicine for his sister and keep her alive. She is an honest and straightforward person.”

”It's a pity that the siblings aren't young anymore. The sisters can't get married, and the elder brother can't get a wife. He can only depend on them for his own life, and is also a poor family.”