Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside

Qin Er Lang and Qin San Lang immediately fought back, one attacking Elder Qin's upper body and the other his lower body. After a dozen moves, Elder Qin stopped and nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, your skills have not been neglected and have even improved quite a bit."

The Military Office was not a good place for them, and he had always worried that their skills learned previously would be neglected after they went to the Military Office. Now that he had tested them, he was very satisfied.

Qin Er Lang, looking at Elder Qin, spoke with a gaze as firm as rock: "Rest assured, elder, before my lifelong wish is fulfilled, my skills will only grow, not decline!"

After being reprimanded by Elder Qin several times, the word "revenge" was something Qin Er Lang would no longer speak of lightly.

After saying these words, Qin Er Lang glanced at Qin San Lang and said to Elder Qin, "As for whether some people's lifelong wishes are the same as mine, that remains unknown."

After speaking, he went to wash up on his own, no longer paying attention to Qin San Lang.

Elder Qin, feeling helpless, shook his head and walked into the house, asking Qin San Lang, "What's going on with you and Er Lang again?"

Previously, their relationship was as close as biological brothers, but why had it become so tense?

Qin San Lang said, "Brother knows I am investigating the Zou family's affairs, and he thinks I'm helping Xiao Yu, wasting time, which displeases him. But Brother hasn't considered that the Zou family isn't just targeting Xiao Yu, but several families including the Qin, Gu, and Luotian. Our family is also included."

"So it's about this. Don't bother about him, just continue your investigation," said Elder Qin, who was also dissatisfied with the Zou family. He was pleased to see the Zou family taken down sooner if any dirt could be dug up on them.

He then asked, "How's the investigation going?"

"Not much found. It's quite inconvenient at the Military Office," replied Qin San Lang.

After a pause, he looked at Elder Qin and said, "I might need your help, elder. The person who harmed the Zou Jiang family seems to be connected to the river bandits that Zhang Huzi is now following."

Elder Qin was startled, "Really?"

Qin San Lang nodded, "The wound on Zou Jiang's wrist should have been caused by a Gou He Blade used by river bandits, only the barbs of a Gou He Blade could inflict such fierce wounds. And the reason Zou Jiang can't write is probably due to the hooks on the Gou He Blade damaging his hand's tendons."

The Gou He Blade, created by a great naval commander of the former dynasty, was favored by those on the waterways because wounds inflicted by this blade are difficult to heal.

By the mid-period of the former dynasty, it had become such that anyone involved in the waterway life without a Gou He Blade would be embarrassed to show their face, thus it became the exclusive weapon for people of the waterways.

"If this is true, that County Magistrate Zou is no simple man."

Daring to collude with river bandits, he must be extremely bold.

"How do you want me to help? I heard that those bandits are in Linhe Prefecture, too far from us. I can't possibly go there to investigate." Although he was only busy with minor tasks in the workshop and walking around the village end protecting a few families, if he were to be away from the village for a long time, it would certainly arouse suspicion.

"There's no need to go that far, you just need to keep an eye on Zhang Niu in Yushu Village for me."

Yushu Village is one of the several villages near Da Feng Village, and it would be easy for grandfather to watch Zhang Niu.

Elder Qin nodded, "That should be feasible, but Zhang Huzi has not returned for many years. Is it useful to watch Zhang Niu?"

"It's just that others haven't seen it; we need to focus on what others haven't seen," Qin San Lang confidently said with a laugh, and then turned and left the house, tying up two horses and feeding them some fodder.

The next morning, Qin San Lang went with Elder Qin to help at the workshop. When Gu Jinli saw him, she ran over happily and said, "Brother Qin, you're back. I was worried since it's not the end of the month that you couldn't make it back. When do you leave? Are you staying for a day? If you can only stay for a day, you'll miss the opening of our families' shops."

Seeing her radiant smile, Qin San Lang smiled back: "Uncle Jiang gave us two days off. I'll be here today and tomorrow."

As long as you want to come back, there's always a way to make it happen.

"That's good. After we are done here, come help out at my house, remember the last time we agreed?" Gu Jinli reminded him.

Qin San Lang nodded: "Yeah, I remember. Just tell me what to do when the time comes."

"Okay." Gu Jinli smiled, turned around, and went to help collect money, while Qin San Lang, with his strength, was called by Third Grandpa to move dried tofu.

After everyone busied themselves in the workshop for two hours, they finally went home for breakfast.

After breakfast, Gu Jinli said to Third Grandma, "Third Grandma, today is Brother Qin's birthday. I want to make him some fresh food, I need a basket of eggs."

A whole basket of eggs is quite a lot, and Third Grandma felt a little pained, but after hearing that today was Qin San Lang's birthday, she quickly agreed: "Okay, in the cabinet in the main room, go take them."

"Okay." Gu Jinli carried the basket to the main room cabinet, took a basket of eggs to the courtyard, then went to the kitchen to fetch two clay basins and started cracking the eggs, separating the yolks from the whites.

Brother Cheng squatted on the ground, in front of him was a pile of sand, he was using a little bamboo stick to write on the sand. Seeing Gu Jinli cracking eggs, his curiosity piqued, and he couldn't help but ask, "Second Sister, why are you separating the egg yolks?"

Aren't they usually beaten together?

Gu Jinli replied, "The egg yolks need to be separated when making a cake."

Brother Cheng grew even more curious: "What is a cake? Is it a cake made from eggs?"

"Yes, Brother Cheng is really smart," Gu Jinli continued cracking the eggs while responding to Brother Cheng.

Brother Cheng furrowed his little brow and said: "Not really smart, it's called a cake, so it must be a cake made from eggs."

Gu Jinli: "…"

You have a point.

After a short time, Gu Jinli had separated the egg yolks and whites, and said to Brother Cheng, "Brother Cheng, go call Brother Qin over, it's time for him to work."

"Okay." Brother Cheng put down his bamboo stick, ran to the Qin family's house, and called Qin San Lang.

"Xiao Yu." Qin San Lang walked up to Gu Jinli, frowned looking at the two basins of egg yolks and whites: "What do you need me to do?"

Fry the eggs?

Gu Jinli handed him a pair of chopsticks, pointed at the basin of egg whites, and smiled brightly: "Whip the egg whites, that's your job today."

"Whip the egg whites?" Qin San Lang didn't understand.

Gu Jinli explained: "It means using chopsticks to quickly beat the egg whites, similar to beating eggs before making scrambled eggs, but you need to do it longer than that, you need to beat the egg whites until they look like snowflakes."

While explaining, Gu Jinli beat the egg whites a dozen times with the chopsticks, then handed them to him: "Do you understand now?"

"Got it, it's simple." Qin San Lang took the chopsticks, started to whip the egg whites: "I'll start doing it, if something isn't right, just tell me."

"Sure." Gu Jinli agreed, but she ran away since whipping that big basin of egg whites would take at least two hours, and she didn't need to stay there all the time.

Brother Cheng squatted next to Qin San Lang, occasionally writing, occasionally watching Qin San Lang struggling with the chopsticks and the basin of egg whites. After a while, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Brother San Lang, did you somehow offend my Second Sister?"