The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

She had grown so big that, apart from the annual Dragon Raising Head Day when she ventured beyond the city walls to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and Dragon Mother, and the Plum Blossom Festival of the last two years, she had never left Beijing.

She hardly dared to think about going to the countryside.

Gu Youyou said, "Do you want to visit the place where your father spent his childhood?"

"Of course, I do," Lin Qianqing was so excited she could hardly speak, "Have you been there?" After saying this, she hurriedly added, "You lived there when you were a child; you must have been there."

Whether little Youyou had been there or not, Gu Youyou didn’t know, but she hadn’t, merely saying, "I lived in the neighboring village and haven’t been there since I fell ill. I don’t remember much about my childhood. Your uncle has been serving diligently before the Emperor all these years, only to achieve his current status. I heard that since he entered Beijing, he has never gone back. You... we could think of a way, like going home for an ancestral ritual, perhaps?"

With Gu Youyou’s reminder, Lin Qianqing felt like she had an epiphany, saying, "Yes, an ancestral ritual. If my father can’t leave, we can do it on his behalf, can’t we?"

"Right, but we have to include Shenxing."

Lin Qianqing’s face fell, and she said faintly, "Then... let’s talk about it later."